Well, today is the 14th soo…according to the EA page Crysis is out.
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Yeah, there a family friendly version of the Xbox 360 now. It comes with a wireless controller, and, as you can see in the picture above, a new low price: $279.
Key Note: It doesn’t come with a hard drive, just 256 MB of storage. It does come with 5 family-oriented games, including, "PAC-MAN Championship Edition," Luxor 2" and "Uno."
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Here’s some good news for all the people that still use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer! That “Click to Activate” button at the top of your browsing window… is now gone! “YAY!” says Admin. Oh wait, I don’t use firefox. W/E
Microsoft announced that it has licensed technology from Eolas that allows this to occur automatically, and thus, the new patch eliminates the “Extra Step”.
According to CNET and the IE Blog, this will be available with the Internet Explorer Automatic Component Activation Preview Patch (available on Microsoft download site in early December), and when the IE Cumulative Update releases in April 2008.
Key Note: The update will not affect the way pages work, nor will developers and designers need to make any adjustment to the way they build their pages
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This was announced in 2006… and Microsoft is still making their users wait…yay for ms
Customize your mouse to meet your performance and comfort needs.
Doesn’t that sound nice? Could this finally be a mouse that give comfort and performance, in which both and be modified for your individual needs? Quite possibly. The Logitech G9 Gaming Mouse has got interchangable grips for comfort, and a 3200 dpi laser engine with full-speed USB (up to 1000 reports per second) for performance. Heres an overview ripped right off of Logitech.
Performance
- Interchangeable Grips: Use the included Wide Load and Precision grips to get a fit and feel that’s best for your playing style. The satin texture and fuller shape of Wide Load add extra comfort while the DryGrip technology plus compact shape of the Precision grip give you unmatched fingertip control.
- 3200 dpi laser engine with Full-Speed USB: Get uncompromising speed and accuracy from a high-performance Gaming-Grade laser engine—plus instant cursor response with Full-Speed USB (up to 1000 reports/second).
- Game settings to go: Take your personal mouse preferences with you. The G9 saves mouse settings in onboard memory—store up to 5 profiles (including keyboard macros, dpi settings, and LED color) on the mouse and play your way—without additional software installation*—on any computer.
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Control
- MicroGear™ Precision Scroll Wheel: Use Logitech’s exclusive MicroGear™ scrolling technology for precise, click-to-click scrolling—perfect for quick weapon selection. Or switch modes for frictionless, hyper-fast scrolling.
- Adjustable sensitivity: Shift from pixel-precise targeting to lightning-fast maneuvers without pausing the action. The G9 gives you instant access to multiple sensitivity levels between 200 and 3200 dpi, without driver installation.
- Weight tuning system: Prefer a heavier or lighter mouse? Use the weight cartridge and up to 28 grams of metal weights to customize your G9 for just the right feel.
- Polytetrafluoroethylene feet: Super-slick feet glide effortlessly across almost any surface.
Comfort and Convenience
- Custom-color LEDs: A color LED display indicates the current sensitivity level and profile settings. Personalize the color LED display by choosing from hundreds of colors.
More grip styles: Swap out your grip for a new look and feel. In addition to the provided Wide Load and Precision grips, other grip styles are available for purchase.
Its got weights, great dpi for fps gamers, a bit of bling with the lights, and the unheard of interchangeable grips. Finally, maybe I can get a mouse that “fills up” my entire hand! But… I guess we’ll have to wait until sometime in September for this to come out. If you are really psyched about this mouse coming out, you can use this link to sign up for Logitech’s notification service. They’ll email you when the mouse comes out!
Thanks for reading, next up either the new g15 keyboard, or Microsoft’s awesome new Sidewinder mouse!
Microsoft has now announced that there will be a DirectX 10.1 preview (demo) availiable for download, as well as XAudio2, Microsoft’s replacement for DirectSound.
According to Microsoft’s website…
Direct3D 10.1 is an incremental, side-by-side update to Direct3D 10.0 that provides a series of new rendering features that will be available in an upcoming generation of graphics hardware.
- TextureCube Arrays which are dynamically indexable in shader code.
- An updated shader model (shader model 4.1).
- The ability to select the MSAA sample pattern for a resource from a palette of patterns, and retrieve the corresponding sample positions.
- The ability to render to block-compressed textures.
- More flexibility with respect to copying of resources.
- Support for blending on all unorm and snorm formats.
This tech preview provides an early look at these features and the handful of new APIs that support them. The August 2007 Direct3D 10.1 Tech Preview requires the Windows Vista SP1 Beta which will be available to MSDN subscribers once it is publicly released.
So, I guess those of us that have already bought DX10 cards do not need to fret, 10.1 is just gonna be another download.
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Hey! So, Omnamo.com needs a new header. I’m not a photoshop expert, but I guess I know how to use it. Below is a download link to a RAR file containing all the header that I have made for this site. Now, I just need help choosing one.
Please download the file, extract it, and vote here (in a comment), on which one you think is best. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
THANKS!
Download HERE
Gainward released their 8600GT today, and packed with it, 1GB of DDR3 ram. As awesome as this might sound to many of readers, 1GB on an 8600 is just pointless. The clock speed is still too slow to really run new DX10 games at respectable settings. (If you are looking to get an 8600, buy the 8600GTS OC. ) The 1gb of ram is really just a selling point to the ill-advised consumer. Only in the future, if developers really decide to implement higher resolution objects into their games, would it actually help. It may be a great investment for the future DX10 games. In my opinion, a big gigabyte of slow 128bit memory- interface is only good for one thing, producing heat.
Here are the official specifications off the Gainward website:
GPU Clockspeed: 600 MHz
Memory: 1024MB 2,0ns DDR2
Memory Clockspeed: 1000 MHz
Now I can’t wait for someone to say that their 1gb 8600 is faster than someone else’s 8800GTX with 760mb of ram.
NOTE: Updated article at http://omnamo.com/?p=47
According to an article published on the Inquirer…
At the SIGGRAPH event, Microsoft spoke about the upcoming new installment to the DirectX line, DirectX 10.1. The new software is to be released with the Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1). This may be exciting and all, especially for all of us out there who have spent money already to procure a DirectX 10 card, but bad news may potentially lie ahead. Rumor has it that this new software will require new hardware along with it, meaning users will have to spend more money to get what they thought could be obtained with a free update. Basically, just like you need new hardware to get from DX 9 to DX 10, you may need new software to get from DX 10 to DX 10.1. However, at this point in time, none of this has been announced officially by Microsoft. With that in mind, and change possible, here is some good news: (ARTICLE UPDATE AT http://omnamo.com/?p=47
But these gamers shouldn’t fret too much - 10.1 adds virtually nothing that they will care about and, more to the point, adds almost nothing that developers are likely to care about. The spec revision basically makes a number of things that are optional in DX10 compulsory under the new standard - such as 32-bit floating point filtering, as opposed to the 16-bit current. 4xAA is a compulsory standard to support in 10.1, whereas graphics vendors can pick and choose their anti-aliasing support currently.
DX 10.1 will supposedly need Vista SP1 and new hardware, the two things that most users will not have, and will not want to spend their time and money to get. Of course, developer implementation will also be needed for it to be used. Surely, with this being the case, the new update will be minuscule, and will not affect gamers who have already spent their money on top of the line DX 10 cards.
With developers struggling to justify including DX10 features in their games (see the recent comments by John Carmack and Mark Rein), they’re going to be about as likely to further limit their product’s market as they are to start developing NES games again. This is especially true given the incredibly limited benefits 10.1 is bringing to the party
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41577
ARTICLE UPDATE–> http://omnamo.com/?p=47
Today, Bill Gates revealed his latest creation - The Microsoft Surface. With its five special motion-detecting cameras, the Surface responds to the user’s touch, allowing someone to manipulate objects on screen with more freedom than ever before.
What makes this any different from a giant touchscreen? Well, not only can the Surface interact with humans, but it can work with other devices as well. Take a few pictures with a digital camera, and just place it onto the Surface. It’ll read the pictures from the camera, where it’ll load them on screen, allowing anyone to manipulate and edit the pictures with simple hand movements.
The Surface shows many promising applications. It can be used in restaurants, where diners can scroll through an electronic menu, dragging items they want into an ordering “pile” in the center of the screen. After the meal is finished, just throw your credit card onto the Surface and it’ll complete the transaction for you. They’ll be found in department stores, where the placement of an item onto the screen will cause data of the item to be displayed in an interactive menu. Look out for them in hotels and tourists attractions too, where they’ll be showing road directions, tourist hotspots, and more.
The Surface is planned to be available to various businesses by November of this year. If you’d like your hands on it, be ready to wait at least three years for a consumer version. At least this’ll give you plenty of time to save up the $5,000-$10,000 that you’ll have to pay.
Link: Microsoft Surface
The important stuff:
Apple launched its DRM-free music tracks from EMI’s digital catalog on its iTunes Plus site Wednesday, keeping its promise that it would offer the music files in the month of May.
The DRM-free songs, which feature high quality 256 kbps AAC encoding, are offered at $1.29 per song; iTunes will continue to offer its five million-plus songs in 128 kbps AAC encoding at 99 cents a song. Consumers can upgrade previously purchased EMI songs to iTunes Plus tracks for 30 cents a song and about $3 for an album.
Apple noted that iTunes Plus songs can be played on iPods, Mac and Windows computers, and widescreen TVs outfitted with Apple TV technology. The company said the songs can also be played on the Apple iPhone, which is scheduled to launch in late June.
This is great news for Itunes users like me who currently have to take “a long way around” to bypass DRM and play their files on other platforms. Sure its a bit more money, but I may end up buying a couple and see if its really worth it.
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