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The Geeks are total transforming themselves. We have seen nearly every thing geeky but i never expected them to have cufflinks with logo of their favorite gadgets. Recently, i came across some interesting gadget for Atari lovers i.e Atari Logo Design cuff links. So next time when you have to show your love for Atari, don’t forget to wear their sterling silver made cufflinks while going out on geeks party.

The Atari Logo Shaped cufflinks are available for $40 from ETSY store.

I just came across these images of a laptop in an X-Ray machine and found them interesting so thought to share them with our readers.

The images was captured by Nick Veasey who uses X-Rays to capture the inner photographs of everyday objects like a city bus, an iPod, his shoes, the remote of a TV and even a full-size Boeing 777 jet. Click here to see the complete collection in a PDF file

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has launched $134 million marketing campaign for their new version of PlayStation 3 titled PS3 Slim. The new campaign is set for the upcoming Christmas season to rival Xbox360 and Nintendo Wii. Even Sony has decided to part ways with its previous style of ads and the new ads are more straight forward and bright that focus on the capabilities of the PS3 instead of games only.

According to GamaSutra:

The TV portion of the campaign is breaking away from the abstract nature of earlier PS3 ads in Europe, instead going for a more straightforward, bright approach that explains the game console’s home entertainment capabilities, according to a report in the Guaurdian. The TBWA agency handled the TV ads, which debut this evening.

It will be the first major PS3 ad campaign in Europe since Sony launched the original PS3 two years ago, the report said.

“Two years after launch, PlayStation 3 is realizing its full potential. The console is moving beyond gaming and gaming is moving beyond discs,” said Alan Duncan, UK marketing director for SCEE.

The new ad campaign comes a week after Sony announced a redesigned PlayStation 3 that is both cheaper for customers, and cheaper for Sony to build. The new console dropped to £250 ($408) from £299 ($488) in the UK, where SCEE is committing £6 million ($9.8 million) towards marketing.

According to Guardian story, the forecasts for gaming industry as as following:

SCEE is desperate to win the Christmas sales battles against Nintendo and Microsoft this year. The campaign comes on the heels of a price-cut announcement at the European games trade show Gamescom.

Screen Digest has forecast that Sony will sell 4.3m PS3 consoles in Europe this year and a total of 11.16m across the lifetime of the product to date.

Nintendo’s Wii will sell 7.5m consoles in Europe this year, bringing its total sales to date for the region to more than 21m, according to Screen Digest. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 will hit just below 3m this year, a total to date of just under 11m across Europe since the console went on sale.

Google Maps keeps adding new things to its world class mapping software “Google Maps”. I never imagined that Google will integrate so many things into it that it will eventually become the world best detailed map. It has added so many features that it is hard to count them.

Today, Google has announced on its site an addition of a new feature i.e Traffic conditions on the back roads. Back Roads are generally the alternative roads which you can take to avoid the highways. Since highways tend to get the major chunk of the traffic, you can take the back roads to avoid it. Google will aid you in this by providing you with the traffic situation on those back roads.  This software can really come handy since its available on the mobile version of Google Maps.

The 100 million dollars question is that how Google collect this data? It seems Google has shared a bit of the answer to this questions as i found out on a blog post by Leena Rao on TechCrunch. Below is what she added:

Google says that this feature can also be accessed on Google Maps for Mobile, which is particularly useful when trying to figure out the best route on the go. Google also shed a little bit of light as to how they crowdsource traffic info via Google Maps on mobile phones. When you enable Google Maps with My Location, the phone sends anonymous bits of data back to Google describing how fast you’re moving. When Google combines your speed with the speed of other phones on the road, across thousands of phones moving around a city at any given time, they can get an idea of traffic live conditions. They continuously combine this data and send it back to you for free in the Google Maps traffic layers.

Google assures users that they only use anonymous speed and location information to calculate traffic conditions, and only do so when the user has opted to enable location services on his or her phone.

International students or Foreign students as they are known, are no more interested in US universities, as revealed by a recent survey. According to the survey, 3% decrease has been witnessed in students coming to the US universities.

According to Business Week,

The 3% average decline is the first in five years and would have been far worse if not for increases in China and the Middle East. Educators are now worried about foreign student enrollment this fall and diversity in graduate programs in years to come. Depending on how many accepted students actually show up on campus in coming weeks, international enrollments could stay level or plunge. “The declines this year were steeper than I expected,” says Nathan Bell, the author of the report and the council’s director of research and policy analysis. “It is very unlikely that we will see any increase at all in first-time enrollment of international students this fall, and that will be a shift from what we’ve seen.”

Though the report found a 4% increase in international applications, the total number of international applications received this year is still below 2003 application levels at many of the 253 schools that responded to the survey.

The findings come a time when international students are increasingly getting cold feet about coming to study in U.S. graduate schools. Many are worried about their job prospects and the daunting challenges associated with obtaining an H-1B visa to work in the U.S. after graduation. A number have had trouble securing financing to study in the U.S., a problem exacerbated this year when many graduate schools lost the contracts for the co-signer loan programs on which many international students had depended, and had to scramble to find replacements

Image by Spierzchala on Flickr

The TechCrunch, a famous technology blog also terms it an alarming situation and call it a result of Xenophobic behavior shown by American officials towards the people from developing world. That is one reason evident from the huge decrease in number of applicants from India and South Korea.

Sarah Lacy is particularly concerned about the impact of this latest trend on the future of Silicon Valley and says the following in her blog post:

It’s happening: Lou Dobbs’ dream come true and Silicon Valley’s worst nightmare. We’re already seeing the reverse brain drain as smart immigrants take their US educations and experience building companies and creating technology back to their home countries. But now, xenophobia and the lack of any sensible H-1B visa policy is keeping the world’s brightest minds from coming to the U.S. in the first place.

She further ads the following in her concluding remarks,

You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the bulk of it was built by people who came to America from somewhere else, not people born American. We have no birthright or natural lock on these things. Money and talent are fungible assets that flowed to the U.S.—and specifically the Valley—because that is where they were supported and rewarded.

Some people have blithely dismissed growth in markets like China and India saying Silicon Valley will always be the hub for tech; that everyone will come to us. Wake up: Because the numbers are showing money and talent is increasingly going elsewhere.

Indeed, very well said Sarah, we all agree that America has traditionally benefited from its policies of welcoming merit and not color, religion and race but alas that is no more the case and its impact will soon be evident.

I am obviously waiting for the MW2 beta , and there is lots and lots of weird news on the internet, like there won’t be any beta. Digging in hard, i found an official word on the status of the Public beta on the Infinity ward forum; so listen to this – they are still working on testing the beta internally and after that stage , they would love to release the public beta;

I wanted to clarify the supposed “news” coming out of GameCom this morning regarding no MW2 Beta.

First, nothing has technically changed by this news. As I’ve told you many times in the past, expect no Public Beta unless we announce otherwise. That is still the case. We would never say something as definitive as “No Beta Ever!” as that’s simply not how we work. We’ll do an internal beta, if we feel a public one is needed, we’ll explore that route as well.

It is true that we have not announced a Public Beta for MW2, and that remains true unless I announce otherwise.

However, while no Public Beta is currently announced we do plan on running an extensive Closed Beta among Infinity Ward, Activision, and possibly 1st party partners worldwide. The internal beta will allow us all the benefits of a public beta test without the impact it takes on the time required to prep, distribute, & manage a public beta during this crucial time in development.

Remember, Multiplayer has been in development since Day 1 of working on Modern Warfare 2, and this is the essential run up to launch when we’re playing everyday, hammering away on it to make sure it’s as polished as can be by launch. As always, our internal QA team has daily multiplayer tests in addition to company-wide nightly MP tests we hold from the moment MP is in a running state throughout development.

Once the internal beta is completed, if for any reason we feel we didn’t receive the feedback, address the issues, or have the result we expect. We would consider pushing forward with a public one, however at this point only an internal Closed Beta is planned.

That said, any fears that no Public Beta will result in any quality loss in the final multiplayer game is completely unfounded; Multiplayer has always been and will always remain a major focus for the team at Infinity Ward and we would never ship a product we didn’t feel lived up to the high standards we hold ourselves to.

While we love public betas for all the obvious reasons, an internal Closed Beta allows us the extra freedom and flexibility to give the entire multiplayer a chance to be widely beta tested without requiring excess development time simply to prep the game for public release instead of an internal beta test which is ran on dev kits / test kits. That fact alone, allows us to have a smoother and faster process of iteration when addressing issues and pushing fixes out to beta participants.

This decision allows us to deliver a more polished experience, which in the end, is what we all want.

Stay informed on Multiplayer

We’ll be filming plenty of Multiplayer videos for you to get a glimpse of new perks, features, killstreak rewards, and other additions you can look forward to in Modern Warfare 2’s Multiplayer. Keep an eye on our Twitter feed (@fourzerotwo) for when we post new videos and subscribe to the Official Infinity Ward YouTube channel.

In addition to the official multiplayer videos and features we release, we’ll be doing more and more multiplayer press from now until launch so you can get your fill of intel before jumping online day 1.

Google and Blackberry have finally come together to offer integration of the Google Apps messaging suite with BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) which will allow the users to access Google apps, contacts, e mails and calender directly from their Blackberry devices.  This step was long expected and will surely benefit both parties. Google got its access into the Blackberry devices, which now form a major portion of global smart phones while Blackberry will facilitate its users who frequently use Google products on their laptops.

The details features as announced by Google are listed below, thanks to AT:

* Messages sent to your Gmail inbox are pushed to your BlackBerry within 60 seconds.
* Emails read/deleted on your BlackBerry are marked as read/deleted in Gmail, and vice-versa.
* Emails archived/starred on your BlackBerry are archived/starred in Gmail, and vice-versa.
* BlackBerry folders are synchronized with labels in Gmail.
* You can search for contact information of coworkers from the global address list on your BlackBerry.
* Contacts in Gmail are automatically synchronized with your BlackBerry address book.
* You can view your Google Calendar schedule with the native BlackBerry application, with one-way synchronization from Google Calendar to your BlackBerry device. Two-way calendar sync with the ability to accept, decline and schedule meetings from your BlackBerry device is not available with this release but we are working on it.
* Administrators can use the management and security tools that are part of BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

Click here to view detail PDF file and click here to view Google Apps site

We all know how Nokia N97 made the headlines across the globe before its actual launch and i am sure you all are also aware that N97 was somehow not able to stay on top of headlines after its actual launch.

However, Nokia has now come forward with its new headline catcher Nokia N86 which feature an 8 Megapixel camera as well. The Nokia N86 has been designed in such a manner that its unique double side slider makes it different to the crowd while its 8 megapixel camera makes it compete with the upcoming high end camera phones by other rivals in the market. The detail specifications and features of Nokai N86 are give below:
Dimensions of N86
Form: 2-way slider
Dimensions: 103.4 x 51.4 x 16.5-18.5 mm
Weight (with battery): 149 g
Volume: 84 cc
Additional size and shape information: 2-way slider with spring assistance mechanism, Kick-stand

Keys and Input Method of N86
Numeric keypad
Cover keys (S60 keys, Menu key, Send/End keys, Clear key)
Short slide keys (media control/zoom/gaming)
Dedicated media/zoom/game keys
Dedicated camera and volume keys
Keypad lock switch
Voice commands
Charging indicator LED, breathing menu key

Memory
microSD memory card slot, hot swappable, max. 16 GB
Internal memory 8GB
ROM 77.0, RAM 74.7

Data Network
CSD
HSCSD, maximum speed 43.2 kbps
GPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 107/64.2 kbps (DL/UL)
WCDMA 900/2100, maximum speed PS 384/384 kbps (UL/DL)
HSDPA, maximum speed 3.6 Mbps (DL)
WLAN 802.11b, 802.11g
WLAN Security: WPA2-Enterprise, WPA2-Personal, WPA-Enterprise, WPA-Personal, WEP
WLAN Quality of Service: WMM, U-APSD
WLAN wizard
TCP/IP support
Capability to serve as data modem
Support for MS Outlook synchronisation of contacts, calendar and notes

Display and User Interface
Size: 2.6?
Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)
Up to 16.7 million colours
Active Matrix OLED technology
Brightness control
Orientation sensor
Ambient light detector

Power Management
BL-5K 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery
Talk time (maximum): GSM up to 6.9 h, WCDMA up to 4.5 h, VoIP over WLAN up to 11 h
Standby time (maximum): GSM up to 363 h, WCDMA up to 363 h
Browsing time with packet data (maximum): Up to 7 h
Video playback time (maximum): VGA 30fps up to 7.0 h, QCIF 15fps up to 5.5 h
Video recording time (maximum): up to 3 h
Video call time (maximum): 3.2 h
Music playback time (maximum): up to 30 h
Music playback time via FM transmitter (maximum): Up to 18 h

Operating Frequency
Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900
Automatic switching between GSM bands
Flight mode

Connectivity
Bluetooth version 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate.
Bluetooth profiles:
Dial Up Networking Profile (Gateway)
Object Push Profile (Server and Client)
File Transfer Profile (Server)
Hands Free Profile (Audio Gateway)
Headset Profile (Audio Gateway)
Basic Imaging Profile (Image Push Responder and Initiator)
Remote SIM Access Profile (Server)
Device Identification Profile
Phone Book Access Profile (Server)
Stereo Audio Streaming:
Generic Audio/Video Distribution Profile
Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (A/V Remote Control Target)
Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (Audio Source)
Add-on solutions enable integration into enterprise private branch exchange (PBX) infrastructure
Digital Home support
UPnP support
MTP (Mobile Transfer Protocol) support
TV out (PAL) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U, in box inclusion may vary based on sales package configuration) or WLAN/UPnP
Support for local and remote SyncML synchronisation
Micro-USB connector with mass storage class support, High-Speed USB 2.0
3.5 mm AV connector

Pros of Nokia N86
Excellent camera
Well above average speakers
Stylish, compact form factor

Cons of Nokia N86
OLED screen is poor in direct sunlight
Lacks adequate picture sharing options
T9 makes for difficult messaging

Price of Nokia N86

The Preorder Price is $499.99. You can click here to place a preorder.

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Video Promo of Nokia N86

Battle of Little Bighorn…Tannenberg…Antietam, these are just a few of humanity’s darkest days. This hour-long demo lets players experience unrivaled carnage in two time-frames and experience what it is like to use futuristic weapons in period settings. See what happens when you alter history while fighting against hundreds of enemies during some of man’s greatest struggles in History! So here we have the  game demo for you to download and play;

File Size : 741 MB

TO Download: Click Here

Now you can download torrents on your iPhone or iPod touch through the Torrentula app by Sunburst.  The app is only available through Cydia so therefore you have to jail break your iPhone or iPod Touch and don’t worry jailbreak is now so common that no iPhone user can live without it. You can found Torrentula on Cydia under BigBoss and PlanetiPhones repository in the Utilities Section. Do note that Torrentula requires newest Jiggy Runtime.  How to install Jiggy Runtime and Torrentula, Sunburst says the following:

If you haven’t downloaded and installed Jiggy yet, then you need to do so and you can check out how here. Once you have it installed, just add the source http://itouch.rockt.es/repo.xml to your iPhone Installer.

Once installed, just follow these steps outlined below, courtesy of sunburst:

Download .torrent files to your device with the HistoryDL.app (recommended) or the Safari Download Plugin into the mobile (or root)/Downloads folder. The program will scan your mobile (or root)/Downloads folder for new torrent files, and will import any valid torrent files regardless of their filename or extension. When a torrent has finished downloading from peers it will be automatically moved to mobile (or root)/Media/Downloads when selected. Note: Torrents continue downloading even when program is closed. A device restart can often activate/fix stubborn torrents.

The Torrentula app lets you search torrents from the best torrents site on the net like Mininova and Demonoid from its built in web browser. The app will keep downloading the torrents while staying in the background even if its not opened. There is also a negative side to it in case you forgot to put a hold on the download of a big redundant file. So do cancel the torrents that you want to stop downloading. Simply closing the app will not result in stopping the download process.

[via QJnet]

I am sure you all are aware of the strange sounds that come out from your speakers if you place your cell phone near to it. I find them very distracting since i mostly place my cell phone next to the car stereo system and hence i have to hear the annoying buzz that comes out of the car.

However, now you don’t need to worry about it as i just came across a simple technique to get rid of that sound. I would like to share it with our readers so that they can also lessen their problem.   According to IM;

Why not just use an everyday anti-static bag? Also known as electrostatic bags, anti-static bags are those shiny metallic-coated bags that your graphics cards, RAM sticks and hard drives come packaged in. You’ve probably thrown away more of these electrostatic bags than you know. But, you probably didn’t know that anti-static bag could finally eliminate that speaker buzz!

Simply sitting your mobile phone in top of an anti-static bag will squash all magnetic interference. The next time your speakers start buzzing because your homies are blowin’ up the cellie, just find that shiny silver bag and place it over the cellphone.

Below is the video demonstration of it.

Stop That BUZZING from Speakers Because of Your Cell Phone – More bloopers are a click away

[via IntoMobile]

Having a Symbian phone and looking for some twitter client? Here, I have tried to put all the popular available twitter clients for s60 devices. I remember when i required one twitter client for my symbian phone, i did lots of googling to find a good client. Since i tried almost all of them so i thought to put a blogpost.

Currently there are some good apps dedicated purely for twitter, then there are apps that include twitter as a widget or as an additional feature. Apart from installing native twitter apps you can also log on to web services that offer tweeting. So here you go with all the details:

TWITTER APPLICATIONS FOR S60: (The order below does not show any preference for being best)

1. Gravity:

Gravity is a popular native Twitter client for the S60 platform with support for S60v3 and S60v5. It has everything that you can imagine and see in a desktop client like twitter search, trending topics, support for multiple accounts, Laconica, Ping.fm, posting of your images via MobyPicture & TwitPic and on top of everything it has a clean looking interface and comes with two themes.

The newer version also provides support for facebook where you can ‘like’ or ‘comment’ on news feeds and statuses coming from friends. The best thing is uploading your images right from your media gallery to TwitPic. So any time you an action going around that can become a hot story, just take a snap and TwitPic it creating waves right from your twitter.

All in all, Gravity gives you all twitter functions including tweet, reply, retweet, DM, follow & unfollow, block, create favourites, search, auto-update and with many other great features. Gravity is not free but you can try a 10 day demo (with all features) for free. You can download and see more details here.

2. Twittix:

Twittix is another mobile resident Twitter client for S60 by Mojos Mobile. Twittix is more simpler as compared to Gravity but has more or less same functionality. It supports Symbian S60v3 and v5 so you have all N and E series phones covered. It provides all twitter functions like Tweet, Reply, Direct Message, ReTweet, Follow and Unfollow. Since tabbed view has become a trademark of all twitter apps, therefore it is also followed by our friends at Mojos Studios.  It also provides support for multiple accounts and image uploading like Gravity. The application comes with support for English and German languages.

This app also supports portrait and landscape modes so you can have a bit of ease with more horizontal space when you are in landscape mode. Twittix is not free and costs 4.95 EUR. You can see more details and download the trial version here

3. Tweets60:

A relatively simpler app that comes free of cost. Same like above two it also supports S60v3 and v5. It offers basic tweeting features like Tweet, Reply, Direct Message, ReTweet and Follow. It does not provides support for multiple accounts neither gives the search functionality. We can understand that since its a free client, it can not offer everything thus image uploading is not supported. But being free does not mean that you’ll be kept deprived of basic yet important features like opening links from within the tweets.

You can download the free version of TweetS60 here.

4. Iamdoing:

This Twitter client for S60 phones is free for use. Even though it is still in alpha stage but i have faith that it will come good in future and may turn out to be a most popular choice. The most interesting thing is an auto support for generating tiny URLs. Yes, put any URL and it will be converted using http://is.gd service which i did not find even in Gravity. I mean the interesting thing is that you can not expect such things in a FREE client! So be more surprised that it also gives support for splitting a long message into several 140 char messages, adding “…” and using the proper order for presenting the pieces

Obviously it offers all basic tweeting functions. You can download this light piece of software here.

5. Fring

Fring basically being an IM client has added support for twitter with its latest add-on. Its twitter functionality lets you perform basic twitter functions. You can view others’ profiles, check-out your followers and see who’s following you. It also provides searching for keywords or hashtags used by tweeple.

Like other clients above, you have the option here in Fring to open tinyURLs from all incoming tweets. Currently it does not offer uploading images or have multiple accounts but since it is free and provides all basic features with a value add of IMs, i would always like to have it in my symbian phone.

You can download and seek more info on Twitter add-on for Fring at this link.

6. Twibble mobile

Twibble is a free Twitter utility for Java enabled smartphones. You have access to all features like tweet, retweet, follow and unfollow, send reply, DM, open a link, mark a tweet as favorite, search users or hashtags from within the tweets, image browser to select and tweet images through twitpic and mobypicture, auto-connect to fetch latest tweets, configure it for notifications so it tells you when you have a tweet, and and and… have i missed anything?

This is all feature rich free java app for twitter and comes neat with couple of themes and looks even cool with full screen functionality. Even though it does not offer using multiple accounts but still has lot to offer. If you’re not in mood to spend bucks and can compromise on multiple accounts then this should be your real choice.

You can download and see full feature list at this link.

7. Snaptu

I downloaded Snaptu to keep myself updated with cricket scores from the mighty cricinfo. After installation i found out there was much more to offer from Snaptu including Twittwer. Even though it is a discussion of twitter clients but still i would like to mention that it offers some good and fun selection of fun apps like twitter, facebook, picassa, google calander, accuweather updates, cricinfo scors, rss readers and much much more. A must have app!

Coming to its twitter functionality, its not that fancy and you can perform only basic features like tweet, re-tweet, reply, open links and follow/unfollow a user.

Find info on download and features at this link.

8. Twim

Twim is a mobile twitter client developed by Tommi Laukkanen. It is a java application and runs on Java MIDP 2.0 profile phones. You should not expect this free app to have a catchy interface as Gravity or other paid apps but it still has good features. You can tweet, reply, retweet, mark a tweet as favorite, send direct message, open link in phone browser, search for tweets and upload image through twitpic (and more). Inclusion of Mobypicture service means you can also share videos.

It does not offer multiple accounts, configureable notifications and auto refresh to fetch new tweets. You can download this light twitter client here.

9. Jibjib

Jibjib is a simple and free J2ME client for twitter. This open source java build requires CLDC 1.0 and MIDP 1.0 to run on your phones. It is all a basic twitter application and does not have very much to offer but since it is out there, i have just mentioned it as “another twitter client” :p

web based:

10. m.slandr.net:

m.slandr.net is mobile web app where you can use twitter in an easy way. After you log in, you see the time line. All the basic functions are there with tweet, re-tweet, mentions (all replies mentioning you with @), direct messages and search. You can view a user profile and then follow or unfollow him/her. Its ‘Geo’ function saves your location and takes it as reference for its ‘Local’ function where it shows all the tweets coming in within 5 miles of your location. This whole function makes it real interesting.

Its Search also has versatility where you can not only search for a given term find tweets from a user using “from:quotations”, find tweets to a user using “to:technama”, find tweets referencing a user: “@technama”, find tweets containing a hashtag: “#technology” and also find tweets with an attitude like or :p. This kind of search is no exception but having it in a free web app means something good!

You can access it here from your mobile or i would suggest it works even better than twitter on web: m.slandr.net

11. dabr.co.uk

Dabr is an open source mobile web interface to Twitter’s API similar to slandr.net. Loaded with all features, it makes your life easier if you have not installed any app and still use twitter. You can reply to any tweet, mark it as favorite, re-tweet it or send a direct message to tweeple of that tweet. You can see replies mentioning you, see DMs for you, make a search, browse favorite tweets, browse friends or followers and then follow/unfollow and block/unblock them.

Interestingly it also offers twitpicing your images from your media gallery. So thumbs up adding this feature.

12. m.twitter.com

Similar to its web version, the mobile is no good too. You can only send your updates or follow a user, open links, view replies where you have been mentioned with @.

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I am sure there would be many more out there…if you’re using a different way to tweet from s60 then do write for us and our readers in the comments area. I will also make a comparative chart comparing all of above but i will do that after a break .

A side note is that you can follow technama on twitter as well: @technama which pulls all the latest blog posts. Apart from that my personal account on twitter is @rmansoo

The top 20 gaming list for july, 2009 has been released by NPD and i just came across it so thought to share it with our readers. The interesting thing about the list is that EA and Nintendo games got the maximum hits.  According to Gamasutra:

As previously revealed, Nintendo and Electronic Arts dominated the top 10 with six and four titles, respectively, and that strength continued throughout the expanded list.

On the Wii, Nintendo’s mini-game and peripheral combo, Wii Play, took the #11 spot and its update to the classic boxing game, Punch-Out!!, claimed #15. EA’s Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 for the Wii ranked 12th when sales of the standalone game and Wii MotionPlus bundle were combined.

In addition, Nintendo’s The Legendary Starfy for the DS returned to the chart for a second month in precisely the same slot, #19.

Two more EA titles made the list: Fight Night Round 4 for Sony’s PlayStation 3 at 13th and NCAA Football 10 for the PlayStation 2 at 20th, the ninth iteration of that series on Sony’s older console.

Other than EA and Nintendo, the publishers THQ, Activision Blizzard, and Take-Two Interactive filled out the remainder of the top 20 list.

Elsehwere, THQ’s hit brawler, UFC 2009: Undisputed for the Xbox 360, made the top 20 for its third consecutive month, this time at position 14.

Activision Blizzard’s movie-tie in game, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – Autobots, slipped in at #16 while Prototype for the Xbox 360 dropped from the #1 spot in June to #17 in July. Finally, Take-Two’s baseball sim Major League Baesball 2K9 (also for the Xbox 360) finished the month at 18th.

Nintendo platforms dominated with 12 titles in the top 20. Five titles on the chart were for Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Sony’s PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 each claimed 1 and 2 titles respectively.

The detail list is below:

Myvu is the leading name in the eye wear industry and we have already seen many of their famous products earlier. Today, i came across their latest offering i.e Myvu Crystal EV Video eye wear. The product is amazing and has considerably improved over it predecessors. It offers loads of features to its users.  You can watch movies while being on the move in car, bus or in airplane. Not only this, you will also not get the attention of others towards the screen and can even avoid being caught watching naughty stuff. The detail features are listed below:

Features of Myvu Crystal EV

•Features patented SolidOptex® technology – exclusively from Myvu – for high quality optics in a durable, lightweight design.

•Full VGA quality delivers 640 X 480 resolution with our widest field of view and a big-screen feeling.

•Features worldclass display technology for the highest pixel density and sharpest resolution for DVD-like quality.

•Superb sound with noise reduction from included stereo earphones.

•Compact and elegant design that’s comfortable to wear.

•USB-rechargeable battery lasts up to 4 hours of viewing.

•USB charge cable included.

•Handheld pendant control for volume, contrast and brightness.

Not only this, the latest edition of Myvu crystal is also compatible with portable media players and cellular phones, including all Apple iPod with video models, Apple iPhone, Zune, Nokia N series phones, Motorola ZN5 phone and others.

Price

The Myvu Crustal EV price starts from $299 and goes till $325. I think the price is very reasonable considering the product you are getting with it. I will surely opt for one. The product can be purchased from Myvu website.

Pictures

[via PR]

Geek toys have always been attractive and few of the geeks love them like anything. They would love it if their next birthday or Christmas present is in the form of such geek toys or replicas. Stargate F-302 is one such awesome addition to geeks replicas.

Features

* 1/129th scale replica of the Stargate F-302
* Built directly from the CG files for Stargate SG-1
* 9 inches by 6 inches
* Limited edition, exceptional quality art-piece

Price

The price of Stargate F-302 is $59.99 and available at TG

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