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The Power Geeks #15
by DarthMolen on Sep.11, 2009, under Tech News
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What We Are Playing
Steven – I’m a sucker, just like my wife. WOW and COD4 (boring I know)
Jeremy – Civ Revolutions (a little, not enough time to really get into it.) LeMans from 1982 on C64 Emulator on my iPhone
(got pulled again, but I have it! and for anyone else out there who got it, the hack that caused Apple to pull it again… works 
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Cole – I’m playing the role of busy grad student
Tech,Gaming, and Geek News
- Palm to release Pixi Smartphone (Social networking emphasis-intuitive simple)
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Geared towards younger consumers- longer, slimmer design than original Pre smartphone
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Smaller multitiouch screen, full keyboard, 2 megapixel camera, 8GB memory/GPS
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New FB app, integration of LinkedIn & Yahoo contacts, calendar and IM
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Price not revealed yet, but it will be less than the Pre, available by the holiday season (Pre smartphone also dropping in price to $150 with a 2 year service agreement and rebates)
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- Faction Changing Now Available in WoW
- $30, Change from Alliance to Horde and Vice Versa
- HUUUGE feature people are polarized over (server balance the biggest complaint + not wanting the other side
) - I would change my ally mage but my name’s already taken on the server I play on
- Tons of rules about mount changes, achievements, etc so read the fine print before taking advantage
- PS3 sales in Japan Blow Through Roof
- 153,000 console sales( highest EVER in Japans history)
- Almost double of launch week (88,000)
- 1000% increase in UK Sales
- 104% increase in US Sales
- $299 apparently a huge hit
- Confirmed Cases of Swine Flu at PAX
- Pax is a huge geek gaming mecca / convention
- Its what happens when you get a few hundred thousand ppl together in tight quarters
- Ppl joke a lot about the “body odors” and lack of sanitary habits at some conventions…
- Enough confirmed cases that the Department of Publish Health got involved
- If you feel the symptoms, please go get checked out
- We include a link to their site with the confirmed cases and their flights in case you were on one
- Wil Wheaton who attended PAX tweeted about coming down with the flew after he flew back to LA
- Nano gets Camera + Price Updates for all the IPod Line
- 8GB or 16GB version, 2.2″ 240 x 376 screen
- 640×480 resolution on video, Not HD but priced cheaper than similar SD Flip
- iPod Touch (still no camera) $199 for 8GB, 32 and 64 avail ($299 and $399)
- iPod shuffle – 2 GB down to $59 and 4GB $79
- iPod Classic 160GB $249
- Also they said a bunch of new colors
- iTunes 9 and iPhone 3.1 also hit today
- app organization through iTunes [about dang time] and a genius for the app store plus more
- and Most importantly Steve Jobs made the stage… thanked the kid who died in the car crash that Steve got his liver,
- and this was the perfect event for Steve to return at… not too important or big of an announcement that his return would over shadow the news…
- everyone will still report the price drops and new features… but him being there won’t take away from such a simple set of announcements
- (Steven) Heard through the twitter-sphere that the ITunes 9 is a bit buggy
Geek-Speak
- China looking to restrict rare metals
- Why is this important? A lot of our high tech is based upon rare metals. China supplies 95% of the worlds rare metals
- A toyota prius takes about 25lb. of rare metals to create (mostly the batteries)
- China basically ran out of the market in the mid-90′s by dropping their prices on rare metals through the floor, now they are running out
- Motherboards, circuitry, energy saving bulbs, batteries, IPods, mobile phones, blackberries all use these metals
- (erbium, dysprosium, yttrium, thulium, and lutetium, neodymium, europium, cerium, and lanthanum)
- Danny Devito Joins Facebook, Welcome Vid is AWESOME!
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- This video takes the cake because he is “TOPLESS” and goes on to talk about his boring life, its GREAT!
- This comes fresh on the heels of him making his Twitter picture of him shirtless as well, this guy must really love the web alot
- Why are celebs soooo big in the social networking spaces?
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- Star Wars Mod for COD4
- Totally looks like star wars yet the action is eerily COD4 (complete with scope)
- Non-Profit total conversion that started with just a blaster model
- “Our plan is to release a first version of the mod in October. It’s planned to integrate three player models on each side (Rebels vs. Stormtroopers. The “playground” will be Tatooine, and Endor with Bespin following on a bit later. “
- JP – I am praying and keeping my fingers crossed that LucasFilms/Lucas Arts and Activision and Treyarch take notice…
- I am sure that this if made as a complete game would be one of the greatest sellers in gaming history..
- More translated info
- Windows 7 Launch Party “contest”
- Microsoft is trying to get people to host a Launch Party to celebrate the release of Windows 7 (party must be held between Oct 22 – 29)
- some themes to choose from, ease of set up, social networking, photo palooza, etc
- they’ll supply some party favors and you get entered in a contest to win a $750.00 PC and a special edition of Windows 7
- Does anyone else think this sounds kinda lame? I’m a geek and all…
- but are you really going to invite friends and family over to demo Windows 7 for them and try to convince them to go buy it?
Product Reviews:
- Flickr App for iPhone arrives
- (Steven – I’ll intro this and then you can talk about it)
- I just got this yesterday so I have not had too much time with it. Initial impression:
- Not too impressed so far, no multiple image upload that I have found yet and it seems pretty slow compared to other image upload apps…
- iGo My Way
- (Same here)
iGO My way™ 2009 is a complete door-to-door, turn-by-turn 3D GPS navigation solution for iPhone - Quarterly map updates are absolutely FREE until December 2010.
- Loving this thing, it actually saved my Bacon 2 weeks ago while I was out East…
- It also narc’ed on my father in law for speeding… (don’t worry you can turn that off!)
- This is what Apps for smart phones should be like! When Smartphones 1st started to come out, these are the types of things we all envisioned them doing, turn by turn directions, taking us back to whereever we parked in the mall parking lot, giving us helpful information at the touch of a button… This does all that and more…
- Overall I would rate this a 4 out of 5, close but not perfect yet..
- It’s missing Stopover support (but the dev’s say that is coming a future enhancement as well as announcing the street names and controlling your music from within the interface, and more)
- Overall I would rate this a 4 out of 5, close but not perfect yet..
- (Same here)
Deal of the Week
- KOTOR on Steam and Direct2Drive for $10 (Steven)
- Announced at PAX along with the unveil of Coruscant for MMORPG (The old Republic)
Contest
Must have an iPhone and a US iTunes account to redeem the Code for the game.
Intarweb Goldmine
- Kick your WoW habit with ReSTART
- Washington State based, rehab clinic geared at helping ppl kick their WoW addiction
- catch? only $14,000 for their service
- Oh, they have outpatient programs
- Collection announcement – JP
- 2 guys walk intoa Philly area hospital and walk out 2 minutes later…
- With an 800 pound ATM and 96,000 bucks in cash.
- Video after the jump, great explanation of how they were able to do it.
- Mitnick wrote about this type of thing in his book “The Art of Deception”
- how if you look the part and act like you belong, few will question it.
- My company gets hired to do security audits all the time, and you would be amazed at how often something like this will work… and the places it will work.
Doghouse Systems
- New System – Under $1000 – Still handcrafted with care
DoghouseSystems VS
DoghouseSystems VS
-Performance in WoW is still great: 40 Frames / sec @ 1920 x 1280
-Don’t forget their laptop which has 2 graphics card built in, the mobius, at a mid-line desktop price
-If you want all the bells and whistles, they can handcraft that too, just call them up during normal business hours, they’ll talk with you, find out your needs, and recommend the system that you need (not the one that costs the most)
-877-DHS-DHS2 (347-3472)
-Don’t forget their laptop which has 2 graphics card built in, the mobius, at a mid-line desktop price
-If you want all the bells and whistles, they can handcraft that too, just call them up during normal business hours, they’ll talk with you, find out your needs, and recommend the system that you need (not the one that costs the most)
-877-DHS-DHS2 (347-3472)
Jinx
- Lifestyle apparel for your inner-geek
- Men’s, Women’s, all sizes
- Specific Collections? They got them,
- World of Warcraft – Home is where the hearthstone is, Baby-T = “My other stroller is [Epic]“, Tanks, Your Welcome
- New T-Shirt (JP)
- They even have hats – Quest-giver hat
- Stickers, Patches, Pins
- Go online jinx.com or call them @ 1-888-JINX-COM - 888.546.9266
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