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My TIME.com Technologizer column for this week is a look at Microsoft’s new beta of Internet Explorer 9. It’s the best version of IE since 1999 or so, with a nicely streamlined interface, good integration with Windows 7, hardware-accelerated graphics, and a heaping helping of HTML5 support.
When it comes to browsers, I’m …
You know what pain is? Pain is having to wait TWO WHOLE YEARS for a game you want in your hands now. In this case, that game is Bioshock Infinite, which marks the return of Ken Levine and the Irrational Games studio to the franchise they created in 2007.
(More on Techland: Irrational Games Announces BioShock Infinite)
Now, fans are …
The once-magic Etch A Sketch meets the now-magical iPad in what can only be termed as a magicsplosion of magicnanimous magicsticism.
The Etch A Sketch iPad Case costs $39, is "made of impact resistant plastic," and comes with retractable kickstand feet. The knobs are there, too, but they’re flattened and create no magic. Magical
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Whether you’re rocking a wired ball-mouse or the latest in ergonomic laser gaming mice, one fact remains: your mouse is only as good as the surface it glides on. Most surfaces are not uniform, thus affecting both the physical motion of a mouse glide and the tracking that relays information from mouse to computer. When a millisecond in …
Here are some comics of note coming out this week. You don’t have to pick them up. I’m just letting you know that this is about to happen. Please plan accordingly.
Fantastic Four #583
The “World’s Greatest Comic Magazine” is going back to the well with another story line about not being four again. Simply titles “Three” this run …
Oh Martha, that’s a lot of storage to go in one pocket. Seagate’s 1.5TB GoFlex hard drive sports a USB 3.0 connection for quick file transfers and is compatible with Seagate’s $130 TV connector dock. It can also be converted into a network- and internet-connected hard drive with the $100 GoFlex Net Media Sharing dock.
How much storage …
Apparently T-Mobile has been blocking some text messages that contain questionable material.
Don’t go apologize to your significant other for that one time you yelled at them for making you wait an hour at the restaurant just yet – plus they could have at least called! It seems the messages in question come from an Ez Texting client, …
The amount of work fans will put into a project such as this is astounding. If only this trailer for a live action Pokémon movie were real. I would actually pay to see this. Props to the folks behind this fan made trailer.
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You might want to stay off of Twitter.com for a while until this all gets sorted out, but apparently plenty of people (myself included) are finding that simply hovering the mouse cursor over links on Twitter’s site is causing random spam-like popups, retweets, and other bad stuff to happen.
“The Twitter
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TL: God forbid this day would ever come, but who would you select to be your successor as Jeopardy host?
AT: Bob Barker! Whoops, I went too far in the opposite direction.
I have no idea. No idea. There are a number of talented young hosts out there who are probably earning a lot more money doing what they’re doing now than they …
