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Sunday, November 26, 2006

Show #5 - 11.26.2006



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News
  • MySpace.com/Fox - Full Throttle Player
  • Apple Creative on album pricing
  • Space Elevator - Deadly Radiation
  • Sun Opens Java Under the GPL
  • The Web Turned 16 on November 13th
  • Female bloggers moving to TV

Software / Hardware / Power Web Picks

Penny Pinchers
  • Winamp (Oldversion.com)
  • iTunes
  • Windows Media Player

Gamer's Corner
  • Girl gamers - the industry is out of touch
    • Some characters just don't work
    • Laura Croft (example that does work)
    • Games like WoW often put female characters in support roles
    • Stop stereotyping, games without a male lead
  • XBox 360 having problems rendering HD content for games, Activision Call of Duty 3 and Tony Hawk Project 8
  • Gamestop has more preorders than they will have Playstation 3 systems shipped to them
    • They did this with the XBox 360

 Editorial ("Power Up") - Digital Photography [Cont.]
  • The "Half-Press"
  • Camera Modes
    • Green Square
    • P - Professional
    • Tv - Time (Shutter Speed) Priority
    • Av - Aperature Priority
  • Next week: Photo touch-up techniques

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I'm excited that we're already here, tell us what fun techno-gadgets you want for Christmas or those that you're getting for others!

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