Something which started as a ‘show off’ project, Ana-5000’s NES HTPC mod sure hit the PC modding community by storm.
The Finnish enthusiast picked up a broken NES at a thrift store, gutted it and filled it with an ASUS AT3IONT-I Deluxe motherboard with an Intel Atom 330 dual-core processor, 4GB or RAM and an NVIDIA Ion GPU. He also threw in a 120GB hard drive. The HTPC has support for HDMI and VGA, six USB ports, optical and RCA audio connections, 802.11b/g/n wireless, Gigabit Ethernet, and Bluetooth. A 50mm fan chills the system, and the white paint job is sprayed on with spray-paint. Read more…
We Dare, a sexy, quirky, party game from Ubisoft for Nintendo Wii, that offers a large variety of hilarious, innovative and physical, sometimes kinky, challenges. The more friends you invite to party, the spicier the play!
We know that Android is going to invade many other platforms besides smartphones and tablets, and the vehicle infotainment system is a very potential platform. However, it comes to our surprise that the first OEM infotainment system that will be powered by Android is actually going to come from Saab, of all others. I’d actually expect companies like Renault-Nissan or the Germans. Still, it’s interesting how they actually implement it.
What’s iMovie? Some app to watch movie on your iPhone and iPad? No, according to Apple “iMovie makes it easy to turn your home videos into your all-time favorite films. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll watch them over and over again. And you’ll share them with everyone.” Now, the laughter and the tears will be heading to your iPad 2 on March 11.
The new and magical second-generation iPad is not the only thing being announced at the Apple event last night. There’s one new and tiny device, and that’s Digital AV Adapter. It’s a HDMI and USB combo dongle for your new and upcoming iPad, but apparently buying this dongle for $39 isn’t really worth it if it only works on the new iPad. Thankfully, it’s also compatible with some of the newer iOS devices before the iPad 2, including the iPhone 4, fourth-generation iPod touch, and even the first-generation iPad. Great news there right?
Well, following Apple’s trend and history, here’s something that’s getting a slight update from the effect of Apple’s announcement of the ‘magical’ second-generation iPad. Apple has released iTunes 10.2 so that it could play along with the brand new iPad when it’s launched in March 11. It brings with it support for iOS 4.3, and promises “improved Home Sharing” when browsing and playing your iTunes libraries on your iOS 4.3-equipped devices. Well, frankly besides the support for the new iOS and new iPad there’s not much change to it really.
No wonder Apple has so much confidence to go shopping for IPS screens and NAND chips in such a large volume, and claiming to gear up to 20 or 30 million iPads. And their source of confidence? Well, Apple’s been having one record quarter after another, and the numbers are staggering.
At the iPad event that just concluded last night, Steve Jobs revealed that the company recently shipped its 100 millionth iPhone, and that it sold 15 million ‘magical’ iPads in 2010, a figure he points out is “more than every tablet PC ever sold”. The iPad alone provided Apple with $9.5 billion of revenue in just nine months, which is more than just staggering, it’s mind-boggling. Jobs also noted that there are now 65,000 apps specifically for the iPad compared to just 100 for Honeycomb tablets (somebody please tell him Honeycomb is just launched this month). Though, I can’t deny his claim of the iPad being revolutionary.
Shortly after we posted Motorola Xoom’s price at PC World in UK, the page was taken down. Now, this actually made some speculations on the Internet, saying that the price of £450 may be the reason why the page was taken down, and indeed it is, because the pre-order button didn’t work back then too. Now the site is back, but the price is also changed. The Motorola Xoom tablet is now in PC World’s pre-order system but priced at £500, which is not very pleasing to some, especially since the new iPad 2 is just announced. Then again, the price is justified by the more superior Honeycomb OS, so it’s still up to you. Launch is scheduled for the first week of April, and PC World has a tentative April 9th delivery date, or you could get the ‘magical’ iPad 2 at March 11.
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