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Deals of the Week / New Releases

• Stream for Mac releasing tomorrow
  • Portal will the be the first “valve” game available with 1 to come every week thereafter

• Humble indie Bundle does over 1 Million in sales in just 7 days (JP)
  • They also added another game… I got an email since I had already purchased it, and got the new addition thrown in.

• Show your female geek love with iPhone chocolates (iKDR)
  • iChocolates are a 20-piece gourmet chocolates assortment resembling iPhone and iPad app icons, boxed in a luxury iPhone-like package.

• MacBuzzer.com bundle now up to 24.95 but still a good deal… and they added two more apps as well! (JP)
  • Now you get 11 Apps for your mac worth over 300 bucks

• My Status Monkey from the guys over at iWkiPhone for 99Cents, update multiple social media accounts from one place on your iphone and iTouch
  • Update Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Bebo, MySpace, Tuenti and iWikiPhone all from one place.

• DVD Day from Topless Robot (iKDR)
  • Daria: The Complete Animated Series (ask me for my best impression)
  • Daybreakers
  • M
  • Legion

Geek Speak

• Some of the statements made in this amazing video:
  • over 50% of the world’s population is under 30
  • 96% of millennials (Generation Y born between 1978 and 1994) have joined social networks
  • Social Media is more popular than porno
  • Years to reach 50 million: Radio took 38 years, TV took 13 years, Internet took 4 years and FB surpased 200 Million in less than 1 year
  • Wikipedia has over 15 million articles and said to be more accurate than Brittanica
  • “Will nolonger need to search for news, products, services…they will find us”
• one of my fav videos -> i have some interesting view points as i was a “new media developer” for my last job and was involved in national orgs trying to teach insurance companies why they need to be involved online (iKDR)

• FB used to be a place to share photos & thoughts with frie3nds & family; but now everyone including your crazy aunt & that jerkface from your old job is friend requesting you
• Then FB decided to turn “your” profile page into your identity online — there’s money & power in being the place where people define themselves.
• And to do that, the folks at Facebook had to make sure that the information you give it was public.
• This spring Facebook took that even further:
  • All the items you list as things you like must become public and linked to public profile pages.
  • If you don’t want them linked and made public, then you don’t get them — though Facebook nicely hangs onto them in its database in order to let advertisers target you
  • This includes your music preferences, employment information, reading preferences, schools, etc.
• Simultaneously, the company began shipping your profile information off pre-emptively to Yelp, Pandora and Microsoft — so that if you show up there while already logged into Facebook, the sites can “personalize” your experience when you show up
• No wonder 14 privacy groups filed a unfair-trade complaint with the FTC against Facebook on Wednesday.

Tech,Gaming, and Geek News

• Google Android Outsells IPhone in Q1 (SM)
  • 28% for Android
  • 36% for Blackberry
  • 21% for IPhone
  • Verizon was doing a buy one get one free promotion w/ droid and Droid Eris along w/ the blackberry being hard drivers

• Drifting satellite threatens cable programming (Cinemax, Encore, ESPN, Fox News, HBO, Starz & SyFy) (JP)
  • Intelsat says it lost ability to control Galaxy 15 satellite last month
  • possibly because the satellite’s systems were knocked out by a solar storm.
  • Intelsat cannot remotely steer the satellite to remain in its orbit, so Galaxy 15 is creeping toward the adjacent path of another TV communications satellite that serves U.S. cable companies.
  • Galaxy 15 continues to receive and transmit satellite signals, and they will probably interfere with the second satellite, known as AMC 11, if Galaxy 15 drifts into its orbit as expected around May 23, according to AMC 11′s owner, SES World Skies.

• TomTom unveils StarWars Voices FTW! (iKDR)
  • Now Vader, C3P0, Yoda and Han can help you navigate your journey
  • *plays sample*
    • I want I want I want I want I want (JP) ’nuff said

• EA Intros 1-time online pass for sports games (SM)
  • One time code comes with the game and once activated, can’t be used again
  • Will be for “online” play as well as some other free things?
  • If you buy the game the next year used from gamestop? $10 for another key
  • Inexplicably Gamestop is supporting this push by EA:
  • “GameStop is excited to partner with such a forward-thinking publisher as Electronic Arts,” DeMatteo (CEO of Gamstop) said. “This relationship allows us to capitalize on our investments to market and sell downloadable content online, as well as through our network of stores worldwide.”

• Windows 7 Upgrade advisor Trojan horse (JP)
  • BitDefender has spotted a new email making the rounds claiming to be an upgrade advisor for Windows 7
    • Instead of the promised compatibility checking tool, the zip file hides Trojan.Generic.3783603. This piece of malware contains malicious or potentially unwanted software which it drops and installs on the system. Frequently, it installs a backdoor which allows remote, clandestine access to the infected system. This backdoor may then be used by cybercriminals to upload and install additional malicious or potentially unwanted software on the captured system.
  • so… Beware!

• First USB 3.0 Portable Drives Hit Market (iKDR)
  • A majority of laptops come with USB 2.0 ports, but HP will bring USB 3.0 to a majority of its high-performance and business laptops later this year.
  • USB 3.0 increases bandwidth and transfers data close to 10 times faster than USB 2.0
  • The USB 3.0 interface can offer a transfer rate of 5G bps (bits per second) compared to 480M bps per second for USB 2.0
  • Super Talent is offering three USB 3.0 flash drives with capacities up to 256GB under the SuperCrypt, Raiddrive and Express Drive brands
  • Samsung announced a Samsung Story Station family of USB 3.0 external hard drives, which are available in capacities ranging from 1TB to 2TB.
  • Western Digital offers the My Book external hard drives, priced at $199.99 for 1TB and $279.99 for 2GB capacity.

• Office 2010 online version for free (SM)
  • M$, driven by Google Docs, will be delivering an online version of the 2010 suite 4 free
  • a third of M$ sales comes from Office ($19 billion of 58 billion) – $12 billion in profits
  • Docs for Facebook (M$), www.docs.com (M$)
  • Will be ad-supported, Google Docs has no plans to include ads
  • M$ new tagline, “Embrace the cloud”

• Where’d All My Followers Go?? (iKDR)
  • On Monday, as Twitter attempted to fix an embarrassing bug that allowed anyone to force other Twitter users to follow his or her account, follower lists suddenly disappeared
  • “Follow count display is set to 0 and follow/unfollow is temporarily offline while we fix a bug,” Twitter’s own Twitter account reported at 1:02 p.m., confirming that everyone, from Ashton Kutcher to Justin Bieber bloggers, was affected.
  • Gizmodo noted that the auto-follow was exploitable in Twitter’s Web interface, not on third-party apps.
  • By 2:15 p.m. ET, follower lists were restored

• Consumer Electronic Spending Up for 2010 (JP)
  • 25 CE products in an average household, up from 23
  • $631 for women (up $72), $969 for men (up $67)
  • Video was the #1 CE for a household, 65% of households in U.S. own at least 1 HDTV (up 13%)
  • 86% households own a computer, netbooks (13%) and laptops (58%) are also helping in that category (TV’s and DVD players are 1 and 2)
  • Don’t forget the million units of IPad sold… and thats only in the U.S.

• Liquid Cooling coming to servers (SM)
  • Hardcore Computers has been doing personal computers for a bit now (we talked about them all the way back on “Power of Information”
  • fully immersed video cards, Motherboards, memory, hard drives, everything
  • Now they’re bringing it to server blades and targeting render farms
  • They’re guaranteeing that you won’t need the rack fans or specialized air conditioning for a farm if you use their blades
  • Dual proc with the capability to add a discrete video card and fully immersed in clear dielectric fluid that is odorless and biodegradable
  • They talk about 60% reduction in cooling costs 1,350x better than air

• Do Want: AmpliTube iRig Turns Your iPhone Into A Guitar Amp (iKDR)
  • IK Multimedia has introduced AmpliTube iRig – a combination of an easy-to-use instrument interface adapter and guitar and bass tone mobile software.
  • With AmpliTube iRig, you plug your guitar into your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad and can jam anywhere.
  • The free version will include 2 stompboxes, 1 amp+cabinet, 2 microphones.
  • The LE version will include 4 stompboxes, 1 amp+cabinet, 2 microphones for $2.99 / €2.39. More gear can be added to FREE and LE through an in-app purchase of a-la-carte models with stompboxes costing $2.99 / €2.39 each and amplifiers+cabinets for $4.99 / €3.99 each.
  • AmpliTube FULL will include the entire collection of available gear with 10 stompboxes, 5 amps+cabinets and 2 microphones for $19.99 / €15.99.

• LBP2 Announced (JP)
  • Create you own game type (top-down, platformer, 8 bit, etc)
  • More in-depth editors that include the ability to craft complex AI
  • Ability to add controls to anything
  • Build your own website and populate your world, advert your worlds with the link
  • oh, and there’s a grappling hook “whee”!

• History Channel greenlights Stan Lee-hosted series (iKDR)

• • the “X-Men” creator will co-host “Stan Lee’s Superhumans,” which will find people who have remarkable abilities because of being genetically different.
  • Daniel Browning Smith, dubbed the world’s most flexible man, will host the series with Lee.
  • “Superhumans” will debut on the network during the third quarter

• Entire StarWars Trilogy Told in 3 minutes… with LEGOS (iKDR)
  • The kid behind this video has one hell of a Lego collection. And a knack for efficiency

• Beer thwarts robbery, gets man shot (JP)
  • Virgina truck stop was being robbed by a man with a gun, when a customer bashed him over the head with a beer bottle… (well two actually)
  • Then the customer wrestled with the man getting shot… repeatedly, before getting the gun away from him. (non life threatening wounds)

• Homeless Man caught driving under his 50 Year Suspension (iKDR)
  • A 50-year driving suspension wasn’t enough to stop a 32-year-old homeless man from stealing a Kawasaki motorcycle and ripping recklessly through Langley on Tuesday.
  • Police followed the driver as he sped “excessively”, pulled illegal U-turns and failed to stop for red lights and stop signs.
  • His record of 13 criminal convictions for dangerous driving and driving while suspended got him a 50-year driving suspension in 2005, which means he will be 77 when the suspension expires
  • um…where the eff did he have to go in that big of a hurry, or do homeless men like to peel-out like everyone else??

• MW2 Mapathy Commercial
• Most useless IPhone Mod
• Fake Science
• Cool: Detailed Metal Sculpture Art

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