iPhone Halloween App Gets You A Last Minute Halloween Costume

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Happy Halloween! Oh, you forgot to get a costume? No worries, there is an app for that on your iPhone. The Halloween Costume Generator app for the iPhone generates a virtual costume for you complete with theme song. The Halloween Costume Generator sells for $1.99 on iTunes.

There are tons of other iPhone Halloween apps that will get you into a Halloween party without being all dressed up as an elf or what not. Read more

Posted on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:27:23 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

72-Hour Halloween Sale Going On At NewEgg

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Halloween is not only scary, but retailers also use it to offer up some sales over the Halloween Weekend. Electronics retailer NewEgg just announced their 72-Hour Halloween Sales special.

Deals include a $449.99 Acer Aspire Windows 7 Notebook with AMD X2 CPU, 4GB RAM, and 15.6-inch screen, Asus Eee Seashell 1005HA-PU17-BK Netbook for $379.99 and 500GB Seagate FreeAgent Go for $89.99. Read more

Posted on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Last Minute Halloween Costume Deals Available

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If you haven't got your Halloween costume by now, you are late. The good news is that you can still get costumes and now they're heavily discounted. So if you just found out that Halloween is this weekend or just got invited to a Halloween party, you should order a costume now.
For inspiration check out our Halloween Costume Choices For Geeks or go directly to BuyCostumes.com.
The costume in the photo is of course for your girlfriend - Star Trek Movie (2009) red dress makes a sexy crew member of Star Fleet - you know.
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Posted on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:21:17 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Kohjinsha PA: Half Tablet, Half Netbook, All Awesome

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Tablets are all well and good, but sometimes you want a real keyboard and the increased utility of a netbook. And netbooks are fantastic, but sometimes you'd like to be able to just navigate on the fly with a touch of your fingers. If only there were some sort of portable gadget that could bridge the gap between netbook and tablet PC. Oh wait, what's this? According to Pocketables, there is!

Japanese manufacturer Kohjinsha has just announced the release of their PA series of netbook/tablets. These nifty little gadgets feature a 4.8" WSVGA touchscreen, 1.33 GHz Atom CPU, 512 MB of RAM, and a 32 GB SSD. The battery life for this sweet tabletbook is listed at an impressive 7.5 hours, and it features an SD slot and 1.3 MP webcam. Altogether, the Kohjinsha PA looks like one of the more impressive gadgets we've seen.

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Posted on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:24:23 CDT | by Robert Evans

Freaky Fotos iPhone Halloween App Makes Ghosts Appear In Your Photos

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Halloween is coming up in a couple of weeks and of course there are going to be Halloween apps for the iPhone. We just got a tip about a new Halloween app for the iPhone called Freaky Fotos, which is not approved yet, but should appear next week on iTunes.
Freaky Fotos is a fun way to scare your friends by inserting creepy ghost images into photos as you take them on the iPhone.

You can move and resize the ghost images on top of the live iPhone camera feed. Read more

Posted on Fri, 9 Oct 2009 00:58:57 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Halloween Costume Deals And Halloween Sale on Amazon

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If you still need to buy a Halloween costume or need other Halloween Gear Amazon has launched their Halloween deals.
If you spend $50 on qualifying Halloween costume items with one of the sellers indicated on the site you will get $10 off the total cost of your order at checkout. More details on this Amazon page.

If you still need a cool costume for Halloween check out our 2009 Halloween Costume Choices For Geeks.
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Posted on Thu, 8 Oct 2009 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

2009 Halloween Costume Choices For Geeks

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Halloween 2009 is just a month away. Like every year we take a look at the new Halloween Costumes and pick our favorites for geeks. Last year the clear choice was the cool Halo 3 Costume. This year I have a heard time to identify the overall coolest Halloween costume for 2009.
There have been several cool sci-fi movie releases this year and you can choose for instance to dress as GI Joe Cobra Commander, The Joker from Dark Knight, A Star Fleet Member from the New Star Trek Movie, or as Transformers Optimus Prime. Read more

Posted on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:24:51 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Halloween Costumes And Halloween Gear On Sale on Walmart

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Halloween is about a month away. Walmart has special deals on Halloween Costumes and decor in their online store.
Next week we will present our pick for the hottest geek Halloween Costume 2009. Last year it was Halo 3 Halloween Costume.

On Walmart you find everything you need to make your house scary as hell, like funny Airblown pumkins or a shaking animated Mummy Cocoon Man. Read more

Posted on Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Netflix $1m Prize Winners Announced And New $1m Challenge Called Out

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Netflix announces the winners of the $1 million Netflix Prize and kicks of new challenge that also has a $1 million cash prize.

Since the launch of the Netflix Prize in 2006 40,000 teams from 186 countries have submitted their solutions to achieve the competition's goal of a 10 percent improvement over the accuracy of the Netflix movie recommendation system. Read more

Posted on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:34:44 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Halo 3 ODST Reviews

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The new game release in the Xbox 360 Halo francise - Halo 3 ODST is going to be released in two days on September 22nd. The Halo 3 ODST review embargo got lifted over the weekend and some of the major gaming sites released their in-depth reviews of Halo 3 ODST.
IGN gives Halo 3 ODST an 9 out of 10 rating highlighting the new Firefight. The 4-player co-op "Firefight" mode offers a whole new way to play Halo with friends both via system link and over Xbox LIVE.
IGN says Halo 3 ODST is not a true sequel, but it is more than a standard expansion. Halo 3 ODST is all about multi-player.
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Posted on Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

HAL Exoskeleton: One Step Closer to Iron Man

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On its own, HAL is not the best name to give an incredibly strong robot suit. But that's not the worst of it; the manufacturer of this robo-body is actually called Cyberdyne. Seriously, guys, are we just begging for the robot apocalypse to hit now?

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Posted on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:31:12 CDT | by Robert Evans

Jabra Launches Halo Bluetooth Stereo Headset

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Jabra makes all kinds of Bluetooth headsets for mobile phone users and it has unveiled a new stereo Bluetooth headset called the Halo. The Halo is designed for streaming music wirelessly from all sorts of multimedia devices including smartphones like the iPhone and Blackberry devices.

The Halo can connect to two Bluetooth phones at one time and it can connect to devices like TVs, game consoles, and laptops as well. The device is available today in Best Buy stereos around the country. Read more

Posted on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Mega Bloks Gives Away 10,000 Halo Wars Figures

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Mega Bloks is giving away some cool and limited edition Halo Wars figures for fans that are collecting the Halo Wars edition building kits that the company makes. The 10K characters will be given away on a first come, first serve basis.

There will be 9,900 Limited Edition UNSC Steel Spartans along with 100 ultra rare randomly inserted UNSC Active Camo Spartan figures sent to lucky fans. Each of the figures is 1.75-inches tall and will include its own weapon and camouflage effect block. Read more

Posted on Mon, 3 Aug 2009 07:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Half Of New Smartphone Buyers Want iPhones

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We're in the midst of a painful recession, but you'd never know it by looking at Apple. After news of record-breaking revenue and the massive success of the iPhone 3GS, it looks like even more good news is coming Cupertino's way. Apple's marketing has succeeded; close to half of prospective smartphone customers intend to buy an iPhone.

A study conducted by ChangeWave showed that 14% of customers planned to buy a smartphone within the next 90 days. 44% of those looking to buy a smartphone said that they wanted an iPhone. The majority of them (86%) want a 3GS, not the cheaper 3G model. This is fantastic news for Apple, and really bad news for RIM. The demand for their BlackBerry smartphones fell by roughly the same amount that iPhone demand rose.

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Posted on Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:15:00 CDT | by Robert Evans

Project Natal To Hit With Halo Reach, August 2010?

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Halo is probably the signature Xbox series, as well as one of the most popular video game series of all time. On September 22nd the next installment in the franchise, Halo 3: ODST will hit stores. Barring miracles or magic, there's no way we'll see Natal come out in time for Halo 3. But the next Halo game in the line-up, Halo: Reach, is scheduled for August of 2010, and it looks like we can expect to see it released as a Natal game.

This isn't just idle fan speculation either. Bungie has announced that they are looking at the possibility of making Reach work with Natal. At E3 this year Bungie attended a super-secret Project Natal briefing, and they emerged impressed with the technology. Bungie President Harold Ryan has even said that,

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Posted on Wed, 1 Jul 2009 10:55:00 CDT | by Robert Evans

Intel Nehalem-EX Octal-Core CPU gets detailed

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Hothardware reports that Intel just held a press conference in which Intel spoke about its next-generation server processor, currently code-named Nehalem-EX.
The Intel Nehalem-EX is based on the Nehalem microarchitecture which debuted with Xeon 5500 and Core i7 series processors.
The Nehalem-EX series however, will be decidedly more high-end in terms of specifications and performance. Read more

Posted on Wed, 27 May 2009 15:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Over Half of US Phone Users Access Mobile Content Weekly

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A new study released by Frank N. Magid Associates has shown that in the US 51% of all mobile phone users access some sort of mobile content on a weekly basis. According to the study, users spend more time accessing mobile content each week than the average user spends sending text messages. Each week 39 minutes are spent on mobile content with 38 minutes spent texting.

The study shows that users spend an average of 44 minutes talking on their phone each week. Most of the mobile content accessed is mobile games, music, and social networking. The study shows that 80% of mobile social networking is done by 12 to 34 year olds while news consumption is mostly used by 18-54 year olds. Read more

Posted on Fri, 15 May 2009 10:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Apple Halts Expansion. Is it Desperation or Genius?

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It's recently come in through the grapevine that Apple has cut back on new store openings this year. They've also stopped hiring new retail workers and cut back on hours, all part of a new cost-saving initiative in line with the recent drop in retail store profits.

While Apple still has yet to close a single store, this move may be a sign that Apple has hit the extent of how widely they can expand their retail empire. While Apple profits are the highest they've ever been their retail division isn't doing so well. Even Apple fanatics are looking to the Internet to buy their new gear. As the economic pinch continues, this trend is certain to increase across the board.

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Posted on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:05:00 CDT | by Robert Evans

Development of The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf Halted

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Fans of the PC game The Witcher who were anxiously waiting for the PS3 and Xbox version called The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf will be sorry to hear that the development of the game has been stopped.

The French company developing the game, Widescreen Games, was building the title under an agreement with Atari. Game development was halted due to poor finances for the developer and the company is attempting to resolve the financial problems. Read more

Posted on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Jabra Unveils the Halo Music Headset

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Jabra has announced a new headset for Bluetooth enabled DAPs that can also be used on corded music devices. The new headset is called the Halo and offers high sound quality according to Jabra. The headset can connect to TVs, laptops, mobile phones, and DAPs.

The headset can be controlled by touch sensitive buttons located on one side of the headset and the headset fades out to incoming calls when used for listening to music. Halo is compatible with any Bluetooth device using A2DP technology and all devices with 3.5mm headphone jacks. Read more

Posted on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Microsoft Hiring for New Halo Project

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A Microsoft job posting on CareerBuilder for a software development engineer revealed Microsoft’s plans to take “the current Halo community and online gaming support system and bring it to the next level.”

What that means specifically is not stated in the job post. Though, as quoted in the posting, the goal of the project is to “blend console, web, and mobile to create an immersive Halo world that follows the dedicated Halo fan wherever they go.”

Could this be a multi-platform Halo experience combining the XBOX 360, PC, and Windows Mobile-enabled phones? According to an Edge report last month, Microsoft has been actively pursuing content deals with major game publishers, including EA and Gameloft. The post also stresses that Microsoft is looking to build a scalable online infrastructure, suggesting users would be able to access it in multiple ways.

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Posted on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:50:00 CDT | by James Douglas