WoW Insider "covers" the costumes of BlizzCon (3)
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Filed under: Fan stuff, Virtual selves, RP, BlizzCon The best part of coming to a convention like BlizzCon? Sure, the news is great, and it's fun to meet the devs and fellow WoW players, but let's be serious: everyone comes to see the costumes.If you didn't make it to Anaheim, here's the best part of the convention for you. We'll be updating this gallery all weekend long with all of the costumes we see on ...
Overheard at BlizzCon 2008: A real, live Blue (1)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, WoW Social Conventions, Blizzard, Humor, BlizzCon Scene: Just outside the BlizzCon badge pickup area, the Thursday before BlizzCon, 10 minutes before 4pm badge pickup.Crowd: (Mills around, is huge, waits patiently, talks occasionally about everything from the Protoss to the weather. Throws out a random "WoW Insider rocks!" yell as we pass by -- thanks for that!)BlizzCon Employee: (Steps out of Convention Center to address the crowd) Hi everyone! ...
Andrew Serff shared as favorite Creating a ringtone using only iTunes (13)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, How-tos, Tips and tricks, Odds and ends, Freeware, iTunes, iPhone Remember the days when getting a ringtone up on the iPhone was about as hard as, say, fixing the economy? There were all kinds of programs you had to mess around with, and sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't, and most of the time, it just wasn't worth the trouble. Cut ahead a year from those days of ...
Tigole: Blizz wants to bring BGs back, baby (1)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Guilds, Blizzard, PvP, Leveling, BattlegroundsReader Thomas pointed us to this forum post by Tigole, which contains some fun news for battleground fans, even if it is a little early in the design process to really expect anything yet. Tiggy basically says that while Arenas have gained some station in the world of PvP, the focus will eventually shift back to battlegrounds -- Blizzard would like to make BG content that ...
Rumor: Nvidia-powered MacBooks on October 14th (11)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Rumors, Apple, MacBook TUAW is hearing from various sources that new MacBooks are right around the corner, and that they might even have some extra Nvidia power in them. A source tells us that Nvidia is showing off new MacBooks to their employees, and word is going around that the new versions will be released as soon as October 14th.Of course these are all rumors, so don't be surprised ...
Apple to show off THQ's De Blob at Apple Stores (2)
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Filed under: Gaming, Retail, Software, Odds and ends, Apple The good folks at THQ just dropped us a note that they've signed a pretty big deal with Apple -- their game, De Blob, which I played at E3 and previewed for Joystiq (and talked with the creator for TUAW), will be installed on in-store iPhones as a demo game. They say that the game's use of the accelerometer and solid 3D graphics (you use the ...
Behind the scenes on the Comcast bandwidth limit (1)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Blizzard, EconomyOur friends at BigDownload have a long but interesting feature up about that Comcast bandwidth limit and how it might affect PC gamers like us. Even though they chat with a lot of people higher up in both the ISP and gaming industry, the bottom line hasn't really changed: most people won't be affected by the limit, and if you are, there are things you can ...
38 Studios buys WoW newsletter (2)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, News items, Economy, Guides, Making moneyHere's a strange little story -- 38 Studios is the MMO/entertainment company owned by baseball player Curt Schilling (who is himself a very big WoW fan). They're working on a secret project codenamed Copernicus (which our sister site Massively has been covering closely), but apparently they have other interests as well -- they've picked up a company called Mentor Media, whose main product is ...
No Blu-ray on Macs... and no one cares (12)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Multimedia, Apple, MacBook, Mac ProDanny Gorog at APC Magazine has written a really nice analysis of something that's rather strange when you think about it -- why aren't there any high definition DVD drives on Macs yet? It has been asked for by a few folks, but by and large, Apple has pretty much ignored the whole high definition debate. And even now, when we supposedly have a winner ...
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Totally agree. My prediction? We completely skip the next-gen disc format and go right to all-digital delivery. Things are looking good already, my ISP just upped my bandwidth to 15Mbps.
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Bill said:
Well, erm, scaling up *is* good enough for most folk, but, whatever.
Stainless: Another attempt at Chrome for OS X (5)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Freeware, Internet Tools, DeveloperAt this rate, Google won't even have to release Chrome for Mac OS X -- our devs will have done it all already themselves. We've already reported about CrossOver putting their own port of Google's web browser together just to show they could do it, and now word has come in about Stainless, another attempt to bring Google's Chromium kit over to our favorite ...
GotGame tries to bring a browser and social networking inside Azeroth (1)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, News items, Screenshots The folks at GotGame kindly sent us a note about their new service -- they're running a "closed beta" (which just means you have to sign up for it, but they're increasing the number of people in it each week) of some software that will let you actually crack open a web browser ingame, with some social networking services attached (so you ...
Freeverse has a 30% off sale, cuts prices of iPhone apps (1)
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Filed under: Gaming, Software, Video, Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touch Our good friends at Freeverse are having a 30% off sale, one of their biggest lately, this week on almost everything in their catalog, from the tower defense game Horde of Orcs to the award-winning Lineform. The sale lasts through October 7th, and to get the discount, just put "MONTYMAIL" in as a coupon code during checkout. If you've been thinking about picking up ...
Realm Status plugin for Firefox (2)
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Filed under: Fan stuff, Realm Status, AddOns, Instances The realms are back up now, but we've all been through that wait before -- you've got things to do in Azeroth, but Blizzard is doing their updating, so you're stuck browsing around WoW Insider in Firefox. And here's a handy little tool to help you get back in the game as soon as possible -- the Realm Status Tool Firefox plugin will let you see the ...
Flickr Find: TUAW is the word (1)
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Filed under: Humor, TUAW Business, Flickr FindRob H. was playing Wurdle on his iPhone when he came across what we'll appropriately call a bug -- apparently the program doesn't actually recognize us as a word (maybe it needs the accent mark over the U?). But we appreciate him trying anyway. Maybe we'll contact the SOWPODS people and see if we can't work this thing out.And by the way, this is the perfect time to show ...
Life.Lab's Colony brings location-specific art controller to the iPhone (1)
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Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, Freeware, Developer, Graphic DesignColony is a new free application that showed up on the iPhone App Store just recently, but it won't do much of anything if you download it -- unless you're hooked up to the WiFi at the Life.Lab building in Digital Harbour in Melbourne, Australia. The app is actually part of an art installation by an artist named Troy Innocent, and was developed by Stewart Haines ...
Clips updated to 1.1 (1)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Developer Clips is a relatively new application (designed by our friend Nicholas Penree and his cohorts at Conceited Software, who also sell Linkinus) designed to kick your clipboard into overdrive -- it'll let you keep track of any and all clips even across applications, Spaces, and even different Macs. The screencast gives a pretty good idea of just how capable it is, and while it seems just a tad ...
App Store loses "All Free Apps" link (3)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Freeware, Apple, iPhoneApple's made some strange changes to the App Store lately. While the reviews change was a good one, this latest update is just confusing: they removed all of the "See all" links from the sidebar of the main App Store page, including the much-visited "All Free Apps" that many of our readers used to browse the new free stuff in there. Now, all that's there is a bunch ...
Apple's ugly YouTube channel (1)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Video, Apple, iPod nano, iPod touchApple has designed some beautiful stuff over the years, from the ][e (hey, I think it looks good) to the iPod, but you can take the new OfficialApple YouTube channel off that list -- it's hideous. The glaringly huge sidebar ads got squished and crunched, and managed to make even the new nanos and iPod touches look ugly.On the plus side, the channel offers lots ...
iYo Yo-Yo almost certainly doesn't work (5)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Odds and ends, iPhone Seriously? I have to say: I don't buy it. I really don't believe that you could pull enough power to charge an iPhone out of an inducting yo-yo, but that is apparently exactly what the iYo Yo-Yo claims to be. It's not actually in production yet (or even produced, singular -- there's a demo of a rendered unit running on the site), so I'm as ...
