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In a recent interview that OXM had with Peter Moore, the Xbox 360’s worldwide head of marketing, acknowledged the statement of the shortage of the 360 in the US, and went on to say that it will most likely be the same for the UK.
Certainly here in the US a lot of retailers have held [...]

It seems that someone was inspired to create a cool animated gif to show how a person would hold the PS3 controller. It clearly shows the way in which you’re supposed to hold it and the way that people have imagined to hold it. Whether it would really be like this in realy life or [...]

After lots of testing the folk at Mozilla have released Firefox 1.5 officially. I can’t see any majoy changes between the final version and the Release Candidate 3 I had but there are most likely lots of bug fixes and other stuff. So if your still using that archaic Firefox 1.0.7 or below then upgrade [...]

Now that I have had some spare time I decided to redecorate the blog to suit Christmas which is drawing closer. I hope you like it and any feedback would be very helpful, just post a comment.

Mac Desktop for Thuesday 29th November 2005. I decided to get into the holiday spirit so I now have flashing lights around my desktop and a Futurama background. The flashing lights is done by a program called MacLampsX, it’s free and you can change what lights / snow flakes / holly (isn’t that the same [...]

I was actually surprised of how much detail Paul goes into, so this is truly a very interesting read. As well as giving helpfull information about System Profiler, Command-Option-Escape (the Ctr-Alt-Del for mac) and Software Updater it also has a list of simple shortcuts that you can use almost system wide to do things. There [...]

Many people were quite dissapointed in May at Nintendo’s press cconference when everyone thought that they were going to be unveiling the Revolution. Which they didn’t but since have released information and images about the much rumored controller. Now it looks like it will be unleased in all its glory at next years E3 (Electronics [...]

It looks like that the analysist’s report of Europe only getting around 300,000 Xbox 360’s was confirmed by Chris Lewis from Microsoft.
Xbox 360s sold out in many U.S. stores after the launch there on November 22 and are still in short supply, with the console selling at a premium to its $400 retail price on [...]

I saw this on Engadget and I just had to laugh. All the cleaners at a Slovenian casino were fired because two of them used vacuum cleaners to steal around $500,000 from the slot machines.
Apparently the two ladies used industrial vacuums to steal the loot at night over several months, although casino officials cannot actually [...]

Even as the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) is collaborating with Mumbai Police to observe Cyber Safety Week, DNA takes a look at the top 10 hacking incidents of all time — instances where some of the most seemingly secure computer networks were compromised
Really not much to explain here. It is interesting [...]