Winamp 5.5 takes on iTunes

WIRED is reporting that Winamp will celebrate their 10th birthday by releasing Winamp 5.5 on 10/10 at 10:10am (it's been 10 years you see). The new version is, supposedly, much more iTunes like in that it is all contained in a single window, focuses on a users Library and allows you to manage your music ...

Reminder: win the ultimate Halo 3 setup from X3F

Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, Joyswag There are now less than eight days between you and the end of a long, hard intergalactic war. We're talking of course about Halo 3. Do you have an Xbox 360? Wait ... do you even have a television? Regardless of your answers to these vital ...

Life Imitates Art: Mushiking Fans Threaten Real Beetles With Extinction

Mushiking's a big hit in Japan. How big? Kids don't just want to collect digital bugs, they want real bugs. Even ones that don't live in Japan, and cost a ton of money to import. And it's driving one species to the brink of extinction. A rare stag beetle, which is only found in Turkey's Amanos Mountains, ...

The Orange Box gets 99 achievements, 1000 points

Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters Normally we're not that interested in the litany of Xbox 360 achievements uncovered by that community's strange, gaming junkies, but every once in a while something shiny grabs our attention and we become fixated on it. And so it was when we spotted ...

See Geometry Wars: Waves from Project Gotham Racing 4

Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Driving As you probably expected, as you fire up your copy of Project Gotham Racing 4, lurking inside will be a new evolution of the Geometry Wars series called Geometry Wars: Waves. This new video offers a sneak peek of what you can expect and as you can ...

The Engineer tells his tale in Team Fortress 2 trailer

Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters The Engineer tells how he solves "practical problems" in the continuing series of trailers about the psychopathic characters from Team Fortress 2. If for some strange reason you've missed The Heavy and The Soldier trailers, ...

Free Stuff: Get Yer New New New New Wii-Straps For Free

For those still flailing wildly during Wii Sports, good news. Nintendo has released the fourth version of its Wii-mote strap and giving them away. For free! Remember, these have little lock thingy that keeps the strap from loosening. Nintendo's packaging the updated straps with its products and is also ...

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Metareview -- Lair (PS3)

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Action, Metareviews On paper, Factor 5's Lair does so many things right: Beautiful graphics and sound making full use of all the blue rays, cells and bumpy maps the PlayStation 3 has to offer. Majestic dragons flapping their leathery wings, swooping down on hapless soldiers ...

Whiskerino 2007 Approaches

The next Whiskerino is roughly 2 months away. I had grand plans to have the site in development starting in February and that didn't pan out.. at all. So, here I am with 2 months to design, build and test a site that I am very excited to launch. The last Whiskerino was mind blowing in terms of participation ...

Lego Assembly Line

"A machine made of Lego assembles Lego cars. Now we just need a Lego machine to build Lego assembly lines." Uploaded Today 78 likes .

Health: Track Your Workouts with the Weight Training Workout Sheet

The Weight Training Workout Sheet (WTWS) is a printout for tracking your progress at the gym. Record the details about what exercises you did, the amount of weight you lifted and sets you completed with WTWS. The sheet is specifically created for weightlifters—sorry cardio freaks. One sheet accommodates ...

Shopping: Organize Your Receipts at Shoeboxed.com

Track and manage purchase receipts from off and online shopping excursions using the new webapp Shoeboxed.com. At first glance an online receipt organizer may seem unnecessary, but tracking expenses your company will reimburse alone is a pain in the butt that Shoeboxed can ease. Here's how it works: ...

Cheat Sheets: Complete Mac Character Key Reference

Need to type the symbol for copyright, trademark or Euro on your Mac? How about e acute or an em dash? Design blog liquidicity offers a complete Mac character key cheat sheet in jpg and PDF form for quick reference or printing out and tacking to your bulletin board. Oh, and the infinity sign? Get it ...

Launch: Microsoft Launches Snazzy New Search Engine Tafiti

Microsoft just launched a new search engine tool called Tafiti built on their Flash competitor, Silverlight. Tafiti provides a dynamic and attractive interface for searching the web, photos, news, RSS feeds and books. The search tool is big on style, but doesn't provide much new in substance. However, ...

Gc07: Go!Messenger, PSP Video Conferencing

newVideoPlayer("GoMessenger_gawker.flv", 475, 376); Of all Sony's recent PSP announcements, this is really the only one that could directly impact American consumers in the near future...and long distance relationships everywhere. [Kotaku]

Dolphin Olympics 2 - Flash Game

A sequel to the popular flash game where you as a dolphin perform various tricks. Link - via Jay is Games

I Can’t Even Title This Post

I’ve spent all morning trying to come up with a post title, and I failed. There are no words that even come close to the sheer brick wall of mixed emotions I experienced after watching this. I think this manages to cover every category, from Incredible to Horrifying… Link

Clips: Korea Does Street Fighter II

Somehow never saw/heard about this before, but it's some old Korean live-action Street Fighter II...thing. Some of the actors are a hit (Zangief!), some a miss (Balrog?), while others, like Blanka, are simply FANTASTIC. Oh, and no. You can not have that eight minutes back. Videos: A host of Street Fighter ...

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