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UFC Fighter Mike Swick uses a MacBook to relax before fight night
In the prelude to UFC 99 in Cologne, Germany, UFC Fighter Mike “Quick” Swick followed Dana White’s lead and released a video blog. Towards the end, Swick is relaxing in his hotel room before fight night and can be seen using his trusty MacBook to tweet and play a little online poker. For the record, […]
Continue reading...Gameloft poised to drop “Real Tennis 2009” for the iPhone
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Point blank, some sports work better as video games than others. Basketball video games, for instance, have yet to fully capture the fun and exhilaration of actually playing the game in real life, no matter how good the graphics may be. But one sport which typically makes the video game transition with ease, and often […]
Continue reading...Volleyball playing robot, Mac Style [Video]
Monday, June 1, 2009
Check out this video of a robot playing Volleyball, well sort of. While the robot doesn’t exactly have the talent to play along with Tom Cruise in Top Gun, or even with Screech in those summer beach house episodes of Saved By The Bell, it uses an iSight camera and a Mac mini to get […]
Continue reading...I’m getting a Palm Pre because of the exclusive Nascar content
Monday, May 25, 2009
Check out this screenshot from a leaked Palm Pre launch guide which lists all the ways the Palm Pre “smokes the competition.” The Palm Pre looks cool, but this chart sure as hell won’t help convince people to jump on over to Sprint.
Continue reading...New Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf game for the iPhone looks pretty sweet
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Not a huge golfer, but the game play on EA’s new Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf game looks pretty slick and very intuitive. And at $9.99, it better be! Check out some of the gameplay footage below. via TouchArcade
Continue reading...MLB iPhone app nears $1 Million in Revenue
Monday, April 27, 2009
BusinessInsider reports that the MLB At Bat iPhone app has sold over 130,000 copies thus far. At $10 a pop, that’s $1.3 Million in gross revenue, with $390,000 going to Apple and $910,000 to MLB. $10 for an app is definitely on the high-end, but the popularity of MLB At Bat clearly shows that people […]
Continue reading...Why MLB.Com dumped Silverlight and returned to Flash
Thursday, April 9, 2009
After a series of glitches and complaints from MLB subscribers, MLB.com announced a while back that it would stop using Microsoft’s Silverlight to stream baseball games to users. Now, more details are emerging which help explain some of the factors that led to that decision. Baseball never detailed the reasons for dropping Silverlight but sources […]
Continue reading...Early Tuesday Morning Link Roundup
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Apple axing iPhone Emoji Apps – The iPod Observer Apple tops Fortune’s “most admired list” once again – Fortune Van Morrison Pulling Out of iTunes “Very Soon” – Cult of Mac iPod helps Manchester United win the Carling Cup – TUAW Photo history of every iPod released by Apple – Network World
Continue reading...Twitter goes Mainstream: Discussed on ESPN’s Pardon The Interruption
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Twitter, everyone’s favorite microblogging service, is extremely popular. So popular, in fact, that it recently raised over $35 million in funding, while also seeing the number of users who actively use the site increase by 900% in just one year. Not too shabby Twitter, though, isn’t only a province for the technologically inclined as a […]
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
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