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Come back, Need For Speed, all is forgiven. I know we cast you and your shiny wheels out into the wilderness because you lost the plot. But we love you again…
Forgive us for being a bit emotional but having grown up with the series (from the heady days of Hot Pursuit 2 and Most Wanted to the tired and dreary ProStreet and Undercover), our relationship with Need For Speed has been a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows.No doubt about it, drafting in British developers Slightly Mad Studios has revitalised the series and turned it into a serious contender. Of course, it helps that Need For Speed: Shift has clearly used last year’s king of the road, Codemaster’s brilliant Race Driver: Grid, as its benchmark.
Gone are the police. So too are the illegal street racing undertones, obsessions with extensive visual modifications (although bodykits, vinyls and paintjobs can still be tweaked) as well as any daft attempt at a storyline or bit-part glamour models squawking mission objectives at you Read the rest of this entry »
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Putting it frankly, Assassin’s Creed II embarrasses the original. The long-awaited sequel to the flawed but brilliant 2007 Crusade makes such leaps in scope, presentation and yes – gameplay variety – that in comparison its predecessor is left looking… well, a bit simple.
Assassin’s II kicks off exactly where it left you; locked in the evil Templar corporation, Abstergo staring at a group of glyphs so complex that only this feature could possibly crack them. Quickly you’re thrust into a high speed pursuit through the sterile hallways of the sinister HQ, dodging security guards and madly hammering door panels like a scene out of the Matrix.What a contrast this action-packed opening is to the first Assassin’s boring chatter fest, which invited you to have a jolly good time flicking through the camera angles while a flat-faced man talked about genos and Read the rest of this entry »
Today tip will help you to increase the performance of your computer by eliminating the needless visual effects. By default windows XP gives you many options in the graphics fields to enjoy maximum graphics. For example, you can add pictures on folders and drop shadow on icon to give you better look but it will effect on the performance of your computer, especially on an older computer. Window XP has many default graphics which is not so useful for a common user, if you re-adjust these graphics then there is less effect on the user activities but the performance of computer will be increase tremendously. Here I will tell you how to choose:
To edit these settings, first you should log onto your computer with administrative rights.
Click Start button and type sysdm.cpl in Run box then press Ok button for Read the rest of this entry »
Today tip will help you to secure your computer from the access of professional hackers. There are some hacker’s breaks into your computer without using any impressive programming skills but trying to find words to guess as your password. Normally people use their name, house number, mobile number and word “password” as a password. If you have very simple password then a hacker can hack your computer very easily. To safe your computer from hackers there is a best way to create a tricky password. Here I will tell you some different type of tricks to make your password that can’t guess easily by any body.
Use the maximum characters in your password.
Always set the password using maximum characters length, because it is simple method, if your password is longer then it is very difficult to guess.
Use the combination of lower-case and upper case letters in your password.
Normally computer users use the lower case in password selection but it is best practice to use the combination of both (lower-case and upper case). So using different cases in your password makes it Read the rest of this entry »
Cowon’s latest entrant into the MP3 player arena is the iAudio 9 — an iPod nano-sized effort with touch-sensitive controls, a 51mm (2-inch) LCD display, but few compelling reasons to look twice at it.
This is what we call a boring player, but not in a don’t-buy-it way. It’s like that dull kid at the party: he shows up in boring clothes, has nothing interesting to say, but he’s perfectly pleasant to talk to and perfectly nice to have around. But he could leave and no-one would notice or give a damn if they did.
In terms of specs it’s above average. Our tests confirmed it plays MP3, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WAV, WMA, WMA Lossless and APE audio formats, and WMV and XviD video files up to 640×480 pixels. It wouldn’t play Apple Lossless, AIFF, MusePack or Real audio files though, or H.264 or even MPEG-4 SP videos.
That’s not going to keep us awake at night, since the screen is Read the rest of this entry »
Mozilla, determined to release Firefox 3.6 before year’s end, is also determined to squeeze as many features as possible into the new browser.
The latest example: support for the File interface that adds more sophistication to uploading and some other chores.
Support for the feature is one of the 133 changes that arrived in Firefox 3.6 beta 4, which the Mozilla project released Thursday for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
The File API (application programming interface), a draft standard at the World Wide Web consortium, lets browsers handle files better. Among its abilities are uploading multiple files at once, showing thumbnail previews of images that have been selected for upload, breaking a long video upload up into chunks to protect against network interruption problems, and integrating with drag-and-drop Web applications.
While many software projects use beta testing periods to shake down their code, Mozilla isn’t afraid to add new features as it goes. That can mean new ideas arrive sooner, of course, but it also can delay the completion date of the new version. What was to have been a quick Firefox 3.1 release was pushed back months as new features were added and Read the rest of this entry »
Nintendo seems ready to resume its dominance over its video game console competitors, Microsoft and Sony, and to shake off several tepid months of sales, an analyst suggested Monday. Those comments came after Nintendo put out a press release boasting that it had sold 550,000 Wiis in the U.S. during Thanksgiving week, leading Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter to estimate that the company may have sold about 1.1 million of the consoles for all of November. Analyst Michael Pachter thinks the Wii is ready to resume its dominance over its rivals. (Credit: Nintendo) Last November, Nintendo moved 2.04 million Wiis, so if Pachter is correct about this month’s data–his estimate was based on a formula in which November sales numbers are equal to roughly double the Thanksgiving week sales figures–the company sold only a little Read the rest of this entry »