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  • WoW: Cataclysm – Guild Leveling and Talents

    Hi everyone, Following up from my post on World of Warcraft: Cataclysm being announced, I thought I’d expand on some of the new guild features. In this post, I’ll specifically be touching on the subject of Guild Leveling and Talent Points. Guilds will level up similar to the way players... (more...)

  • Ulduar: Flame Leviathan Easy Mode.

    Since the release of Ulduar back in World of Warcraft patch 3.1, I’ve come across a lot of people, both in Guilds, and in PUGS, that don’t know you can activate Flame Leviathan in “Easy Mode” (that is, starting it so you don’t need to destroy all the towers to disable them). These... (more...)

  • World of Warcraft: Cataclysm announced!

    Blizzard have announced their next exciting World of Warcraft expansion pack – “World of Warcraft: Cataclysm” packed full of exciting new content! From new zones, to new raid encounters, to reworks of the classic zones, including Flying in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms and a full... (more...)

  • Burger King “Mens Fragrance”

    Fast food chain Burger King has released a men’s fragrance with a scent of meat. The fragrance, called “Flame” is described by the company as “the scent of seduction, with a hint of flame-broiled meat” The fragrance is on sale in New York for $3.99 (£2.65) or is available... (more...)

  • Youtube moves to widescreen!

    Youtube recently announced they would be changing the size and aspect ratio of the standard video player on their site. We’re expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you create and the screens that you use to watch them. This new, wider player is in... (more...)

8GB and 10GB Nanos coming this summer!

Jamie On April - 22 - 2006

It appears that this summer, Apple will be releasing two new versions of their iPod nano, one with 8GB storage and one with 10GB storage.
Munster’s reasoning is that, as the touchscreen iPod will likely not now appear until next year, Apple needs to launch something eye-catching in time for the lucrative run-up to Christmas – [...]

Categories: General

Well, it seems as though some Mac enthusiasts have discovered that the Radeon x1600 video card in the MacBook Pros are actually severely underclocked, from 470MHz/470MHz to a pathetic 310MHz / 278MHz. Now, don’t get me wrong, it is still an amazing video card, however with a video card so powerful, why let it under [...]

Categories: General

Stream your iTunes Music to your PSP

Jamie On April - 18 - 2006

Sahas over at Skatter Tech has posted a guide on his blog on how to stream music from your iTunes library onto your PSP, using it’s built in Wi-Fi.
Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a very popular device and has sold a few million units, but when compared to Apple’s iPod, the PSP lacks storage space. [...]

Categories: General

Happy Easter!

Jamie On April - 16 - 2006

I just wanted to wish all of you a Happy Easter! Get off of the computer and spend time with your family!
In other news, TTO is now a part of D3 Networks! This doesn’t really mean anything to the viewers, but a lot to me. It’s just a network of sites, networking IntelliForums, [...]

Categories: General

Two days ago, Yahoo! released the first publicly available consistent collection of satellite photos for the entire US at 1-meter resolution. Here’s your new chance to see your house. If you don’t know what this means, it means that Yahoo! completely retook the imagery of the whole continental United States, with a 1-meter/pixel resolution. Go [...]

Categories: General

According to BBC News, Google makes 12 cents every time you place a search using their search engine. Considering that over 27 billion searches were performed in January of 2006, that’s a lot of money. If my math is correct, which it usually isn’t (which explains my F in algebra last semester), they made $32,400,000 [...]

Categories: General

Introducing Bootcamp

Jamie On April - 8 - 2006

Apple has released Bootcamp, a program for OSX that will repartition your drive without formatting OSX and allow you to then natively install Windows XP, with full driver support.
In order to run Bootcamp, you will need a few things. Obviously (and most importantly) you need an Intel powered Mac, such as an iMac, or a [...]

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OSX 10.4.6 Released

Jamie On April - 3 - 2006

Apple has released OSX Tiger 10.4.6 today, which basically contains the usual slight improvements and fixes. It includes recent apple security updates, along with a lot of fixes for various apple programs, system related stuff, and much much more. I guess this is Apple’s present to us for their 30th anniversary?

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Apples 30th Anniversary

Jamie On April - 1 - 2006

Today marks the 30th Anniversary of Apple Computer! On April 1st, 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak filed partnership forms to build the very first Apple Computer. With recent inventions like the iPod and OSX, they are in the best financial state they have been in a long time. Receiving nearly 14 billion for its [...]

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New Google Interface

Jamie On March - 29 - 2006

Many people think that Google should resdesign their site, in order to stay in the competition between other better looking engines, such as live. Well, they did, and it’s looking great! The new interface is currently unavailable to the public, unless you enter this cool little hack.
To do this, go to the Google homepage. From [...]

Categories: General