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Apple Rolls Out First iPad Commerical On Oscar Night
Apple decided it would take Oscar night as its opportunity to unveil its first official iPad commercial for the world, for their sake, to hopefully covet. There is little question Apple certainly knows how to dress up a product sexy but with the harsh criticism the iPad has gotten in the press during this pre-launch [...]
Hey, you got your BioShock in my Doom 2!
Professional level designer J.P. LeBreton’s creativity can’t just be contained by the BioShock franchise which his work has appeared in for the last three years. So, he recently exercised his craft in a fairly peculiar way — by designing a Doom 2 map modeled after the two areas on which he served as lead designer [...]
Newegg Ships Fake Intel Chips; Supplier Threatens Journalists For Reporting It
You know what's even better than weird news? Weird news well-flavored with legal stupididy, that's what. Our saga today starts with a shipping oddity; specifically the fact that Overclockers.com forum member Dreadrok ordered a Core i7 920 from Newegg and received a completely fake processor. It's a good fake, too—if it weren't for a few [...]
Sceptre Introduces 27" 1080p LCD Monitor For Just $399
Here's a name you haven't heard in awhile: Sceptre. The company has been making LCDs, TVs and other monitors for years now, but it has definitely been awhile since it was able to product something to take on the offerings out now from Dell, Samsung, Sharp and the rest of the gang. Making a play [...]
Tableau Public Brings Your Boring Data to Life [Downloads]
Windows only: Free application Tableau Public creates beautiful visualizations from your data and lets you publish them to the web, where uses can interact with your charts and graphs with live updates.
The video above provides a great overview of how the tool works. Essentially, you import your data into the desktop Windows application, then play [...]
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