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Bawls Guarana Exxtra 16oz.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Bawls' guarana beverages have been an underground favorite for LAN gamers for many years. Their highly-caffeinated beverages have been rather successful, despite their limited distribution channels. Previously you had to order a case online, but now Bawls is now starting to show up in convenience stores and major department stores like Target.
If you've read our other Bawls Guarana articles, then you know a little bit about the interesting taste of guarana, and how the ingredient is starting to show up in energy drinks targeted towards today's hip young whipper-snappers. Even gamers need to watch their figures (we don't just get the chicks with our M4D 5KiLL5), so there is increasing demand for a sugar-free energy drink that still lets you game all night.
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Viking: Battle for Asgard Review (PS3, Xbox 360)
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Viking: Battle for Asgard is an interesting combination of a third-person Oblivion and God of War. As an avid fan of both of these games, Viking is a welcome alternative to all of the lame horror and action games released lately. Add into the mix a bit of Age of Empires, and woah….can I have a minute alone?
It’s hard for me not to be excited over Viking: Battle for Asgard. The story is great, graphics are amazing, battle system is awesome, and soundtrack is to die for. It is rare that I pick up a game and am this easily impressed. Viking takes place in Midgard, which is at the mercy of a fight between two Norse Gods: Odin and Hel. Hel has defied Odin, and as punishment, has been banished.
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How to Recover Windows that Disappear
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
David Copperfield may be able to make an entire house disappear, but missing windows are an event that nearly everyone has encountered. This occurs more frequently with laptops, as they frequently change profiles that have different video outputs (especially if you use a docking station). Some programs save their last window positions, so if you opened a program when you were docked, then the program may open off-screen when you are undocked.
Your program windows are still on your desktop; but you just can't see them. Most people have gotten so dependant on their OS's graphic user interface, that they can't understand how to interact with something that cannot be seen. Never fear, because I am here to gift you with second sight: how to see what cannot be seen.
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Condemned 2: BloodShot Review
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Condemned 2: Bloodshot is the sequel to a game commonly found for ten bucks in the game store sale bin. Many reviewers love Condemned 2, but to me, it is just another title that will eventually end up like its predecessor. Maybe I’m not interested in the story, or maybe the genre throws me off, but to me, Condemned 2 is a forgettable title.
You are Ethan Thomas, who after leaving his job as a SCU agent, has found his way into a state of continuously drunken stupor. Ethan has become a raging alcoholic, which has interesting ramifications, but not interesting enough to improve the bland story line. Ethan decides to go on a wild goose chase after his friend Van Horn. Along the way he fights both real and supernatural demons (that mostly look like meth addicts), generally as a result of his drunken state.
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Novus Professional Scratch Remover 
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Any consumer of computer gear, gadgets, or home theater equipment knows that their stuff starts to look a little worn after a while. It doesn't take long at all before your shiny new iPod gets a few unsightly scratches, diminishing its value and distracting from the gadget's coolness. PC enthusiasts can carve deep gouges in their cases during the course of system maintenance. Let us not forget that scratches can also destroy data on those new BluRay and DVD discs. All of these minor scrapes and scratches not only make your equipment look dated, but lowers its value.
There are a few plastic polish products out there (usually marketed as a CD restorer), but from my experience they just don't work. If you want to completely eliminate any trace of a scratch, then you need a professional product. Novus makes a 3-step plastic polish, which is sold direclty to plastic fabrication shops, and claims to restore plastic, lucite, plexiglass, acrylic, and just about any other plastic polymer to its original finish.
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Grand Theft Auto IV Review
Thursday, May 01, 2008
This is it: the Grand Theft Auto die-hard fans have been waiting for. Rockstar has attempted to pacify us with other crappy Grand Theft Auto games while waiting for this edition, but those games simply pass the time. Prepare to be engaged, disgusted, amazed, and best of all…stimulated…
Welcome back to Liberty City. It’s different than we remember; the graphics are better, we have a new character, and the city is massive. Yet it is not so different; keep your head low or receive a knuckle sandwich, stay away from the cops, and relax with a hooker on your lap. Ah yes, Liberty City is just as dark and dirty as any other GTA environment, but still has so much more to offer.
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Survey Identifies Most Useless Gadgets
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Useless gadgets have been given the thumbs down in a new survey, which found electric nail files to be the most pointless product of all time.
The file, which supposedly gives ‘technician’ results to give a perfect shape and smooth finish, topped the poll of the top 20 most useless household gadgets.
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MarioKart Wii Review
Monday, April 28, 2008
A mixture of new and familiar is waiting in the Wii Mario Kart release, and now I have enough material to keep me stimulated until…well…at least until my friends join in…. If you’ve ever played a Mario Kart, you will be satisfied with this new addition. Building on old ideas, tracks, and multiplayer levels, Mario Kart brings back all of the fun in the older versions and makes them sexier, shinier, and more fun than even I imagined. For Mario Kart vets, the characters will be familiar to you. Baby versions of Peach and Mario are available, as well as Luigi’s arch-nemesis: Waluigi. Nintendo has hinted at loads of unlockables, but new characters, tracks, and battlefields are still awaiting discovery.
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Web 2.0: The New Frontier
Friday, April 25, 2008
If you ever have a chance to read some of the PR for PR sake pieces on Web 2.0 you'd swear we now have a new frontier that is tailor made for PR people. A whole new virgin territory that is our to own. A whole new brave frontier where PR will lead and the world will willingly follow. Feels like a great chance for a lot of people -- mobs even -- to take us to the cleaners. We'd like to suggest a better option...lurk, learn, listen, help.
Marketing and communications “experts” like to tell us how the Internet and Web 2.0 have opened up new opportunities for the industry to reach out to and influence people in new, exciting, more effective ways.
Instant information web sites, Tens of thousands of ready for your news bloggers, almost free social networks in which you can embed your news. Unique opportunities for the company to tap directly into the consumer before he/she makes a purchase.
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Ultra m998 Case Review
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Computer enthusiasts want their computer gear to look tough. Tough enough to go into your man-cave. Your case should steal the milk money from wimpy cases, and date their moms. Your case should look like it was made from the parts of lesser cases to form one uber-case. Your case should be a badass.
What could possibly be more manly than the Humvee; one of the biggest and baddest of all-terrain vehicles? Would you be intrigued to learn of a PC case modelled after one of these marvels of mechanical engineering? Ultra thinks so, and they've created their m998 case to complement your masculinity.
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A-Data C702 16GB Flash Drive Review
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
I used to carry around several 4-gigabyte sticks because as a technology and graphics professional I need my files with me at all times. I had one stick for portable applications, one for photoshop files and fonts I use all the time, and of course one to hold all my Atari 2600 and Nintendo emulator ROMs...
Now I can replace all of these sticks with a single USB drive thanks to A-Data's C702 16GB Flash drive. Not only does it cram 4 DVDs-worth of storage into a little nugget, but is has features to make it ultra-portable and ultra-useful.
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Ready or Not, HDTV is Mandatory!
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
HDTV is a big entertainment train coming at the consumer 100 MPH. In the US it took a bunch of years to transition viewing from B&W to color. Now the government has said everything/everyone will go from SD to HD in less than three years and that finish line is next February. Networks and stations are moving to beat the deadline and they're well on their way. Set manufacturers can't wait for every household to make the transition even if the sets aren't as big (expensive as they would like). Content pipelines? Well sure, kinda. Ok so the squeeze the shows a little hard so it fuzzes up the quality of HD...sssooo?? The consumer? Sure! Right!! How much???
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Test New Vista Shells Without Rebooting
Friday, April 18, 2008
There are a few shell and desktop enhancements for Windows Vista. These third-party shells run in place of Explorer, which sometimes require registry edits or other tweaks to get working. Did you know what you can kill Explorer and test a new shell without rebooting Vista?
Many people just to go Task Manager and kill explorer.exe, but if you do this then Explorer may start up automatically again. There is also a quick and dirty way of exiting Explorer, allowing you to test a few shells before deciding which one to install.
This tip can also be handy if your system is just acting "wonky". If a file copy is hung, or your network is slow, then a reset of Explorer may be just what the doctor ordered.
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Optimize USB Drive Performance in Vista
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Another one of our articles shows you how to speed up SATA hard drive performance in Windows Vista by enabling advanced write caching. A similar performance tweak can increase USB drive performance, by using more system memory as a write cache, which significantly increases performance when writing to the disk.
Flash-based USB devices can benefit greatly from this tweak, as many of these drives peak at a 6 or 7-megabyte per second write speed. The storage capacities of today's flash drives are measured by the gigabyte, so filling up an 8GB or 16GB drive can be a long process. This tweak won't magically make the silicon in the drive work faster, so copying 8GB of MP3s will take just as long from start to finish with or without this tweak. Relative drive performance improves by making the device available sooner for other processes, like when you're using portable applications on the device or transferring small batches of files.
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Baroque (Wii) Review
Monday, April 14, 2008
Baroque is a great game for those who are in love with anime art. For those in love with gameplay or RPGs in general: I’m sad to report that this game sucks. In fact, it plays so badly that a thousand tiny voices cry out every time the game is turned on. Or that could just be my neurons suffocating from the lack of stimuli. Flash! Bang! Boom! The game starts like a 60's Batman episode with anime characters. And then a split second later, the excitement is over.
What happened Baroque? Why are you such a piece of crap? So promising, and yet, such a disappointment.
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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Preview (PC, Wii)
Friday, April 11, 2008
I feel a great disturbance in the Force... as if a million voices cried out in laughter... and peed their pants a little.
That's right... it appears that a game based on the Internet cult cartoon, "Homestar Runner" is coming for the PC and Nintendo Wii.
The games will be released as episodic content and delivered via the Internet. TellTale games is developing the games, and they have great experience with making successful episodic content, as they revived the adventure PC genre with their "Sam & Max" serials, which wraps up their Second Season.
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S&M S2 Finale: What's New Beelzebub?
Friday, April 11, 2008
The Sam and Max saga continues into the fiery pits of Hell. After dropping through the Bermuda triangle with Bosco's corpse, Sam and Max find that they must take a train into Hell to retrieve Bosco's soul. Using their typical crime-solving tactics, the twosome must find a token to catch the next soul train to the pits of Satan's Lair.
But getting in much easier than getting back out. Not only do the crime fighters find it hard to escape the grips of Beelzebub, but they find themselves surrounded by the people who they themselves sent to Hell. Now Sam and Max are trapped in a world where it's always Monday and it's always just before quitting time. It would almost feel like real life if not for the fact that the guy in charge is Satan himself. Actually, I guess this is pretty close to real life.
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The Issues with Internet TV
Friday, April 11, 2008
Sounds great for the networks, stations and pipe-to-the-home providers. That’s because in the good old days, television ruled.
Now they have competition – serious competition. More screens, more content options. The option that gets VC’s hearts a pumpin right now is mobile video. Big question is whether it is simply an oddity or people will be satisfied with a diet of content that is about the equivalent of watching a miniature VHS image. Only 5% of Europeans said they wanted TV on their mobile screens.
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Army of Two Review (Xbox 360, PS3)
Thursday, April 10, 2008
After an extremely long waiting period, EA has finally released Army of Two. Originally hyped during last summer as a hot Christmas title, Army of Two missed the holiday season and was slated for a spring release date. This highly anticipated co-op shooter has finally arrived… was it worth waiting for? You bet your sweet ass it was…
Army of Two is an innovative shooter that requires the use of a partner to complete the missions. If you don’t have a friend, Xbox Live, or Sony Home, you can play by yourself and the computer assumes the other player. Utilizing two-man strategies is essential to completing the missions and earning some cash. Not only are these tactics awesome, but they can save your skin if your timing is good.
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Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath Review
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
I am a big fan of the Command and Conquer series and was thrilled when the series returned to form with the release of Command and Conquer 3. The previous releases in the series, Generals, did not work for me, as I missed the GDI and Nod conflicts as well as the full motion video that had been a staple of the franchise from the start. Thankfully the series not only returned to form, but took the series in a bold new direction by combining all of the classic elements of the series with the latest in 3D graphics and a dynamic story told from the point of three factions including the brand new alien Scrin faction.
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