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oops: upgrading your mac’s os to snow leopard downgrades your flash player

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If you’ve upgraded to Apple’s much-hyped and well-received Snow Leopard, I recommend that you update your system’s Adobe Flash player – even if you already had the latest version prior to the installation. That’s because in the process of installing Snow Leopard, your current Flash player will be replaced by version 10.0.23.1. Both Adobe and…

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September 4th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing technology

computer repair book educates through the power of flowcharts

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Let it be known that on this great and blindingly sunny morning I accomplished yet another first here at technabob: I got dibs on the word flowchart. As unbelievable as that sounds this is indeed the first post here that contains that superficially geeky word. But a flowchart itself, if used by masters like Morris…

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September 1st, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing gadgets geek art + craft strange + wonderful technology

fable 2 broken up into episodes for download on xbox live

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If you missed Fable II or perhaps unloaded the game and wish you hadn’t, you’ll have a new and different shot at the game, in the form of downloadable episodes. Best part? The first one is free. It’s like a demo, but extended, made better, and served with ice cream. Except without actual ice cream, of…

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August 21st, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: technology video games

new windows 7 build on torrent sites! there’s a new wallpaper zomg!

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Okay so maybe I shouldn’t be so sarcastic; the new build sports significant changes as well. Or should I say “builds”. But I’m getting ahead of myself: Build 7232 of Windows 7 was leaked yesterday, bringing with it improved driver support and application compatibility. Oh and a new wallpaper. Because that’s what everybody wants from…

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June 19th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing future tech technology

trash panic: ps3 gomibako finally gets a u.s. release

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A while back, I told you guys about a strange little PS3 puzzle game out of Japan called Gomibako. At the time, there was no indication that the oddball trash-stacking game would ever have any hope of making it stateside. So I was grinning from ear-to-ear when I got a message from Sony today that…

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June 7th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: strange + wonderful video games

torrent2exe makes torrenting almost idiotproof

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If you can surf the Internet and install software without asking for help, then I’m sure downloading torrents is also a piece of cake for you. But of course there are other aspects of downloading torrents that require more knowledge and tweaking, like bandwidth settings or port forwarding. If you don’t want to deal with…

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May 29th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing technology

download a very early build of google’s chrome browser for intel macs

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A blogger/developer has compiled a very very early build of Google’s browser, Chrome that runs on a Mac. I tested it myself a couple of days ago and it’s fast alright.

It’s so fast that it left most of a browser’s functions at Google’s labs: plug-ins don’t work so it can’t play Flash videos. There’s…

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April 10th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing technology

nintendo’s dsiware service may include gameboy and gba games

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Saddened over the loss of the GBA slot in Nintendo’s new DSi? Fret not, young gamer; if this particular rumor bears sweet, juicy fruit, you just may be able to download all those old Nintendo handheld games via the DSiWare service–or at least some of them.

The rumor surfaced at a recent preview event held at…

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March 24th, 2009 comments (5) stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: retro technology video games

mini phantasy star heading to little dsi download service

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If you were wondering what other kinds of games might come to the new Nintendo DSi’s download service, beyond simple applications like flipbooks, then rest assured that DSiWare looks awesome. How awesome? Phantasy Star awesome.

The DSiWare title, called Phantasy Star Zero Mini (no, really), is apparently some sort of companion to Phantasy Star Zero for the DS…

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March 18th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: technology video games

can’t please everyone: amazon offers $10 casual games, game developers pissed off

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Amazon’s always looking to please customers. And make money. Realizing that video games are a hot commodity nowadays, the Seattle-based e-commerce company is now selling hundreds of casual games on its site. Customers can download a game at a very attractive price of $9.99, possibly less if it’s an old one. Everybody happy right? People…

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February 21st, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: video games

what’s kraken: knitted cthulhu penguin

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Below the thunders of the upper deep; far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, his ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep, The Cthulhu Penguin sleepeth:

There hath he lain for ages and lay battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep, until Ravelry member Carly Zimmerman created a pattern and shared it for all to knit and see; then once again…

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December 9th, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun

rock band on your ipod, sorta.

Rock Band on iTunes

Now you’ll notice that I didn’t say you could PLAY Rock Band on your iPod. But if you’re willing to shell out some serious dough, you can now pick up the entire library of tracks from the hit game over in the Apple iTunes store.

There are currently 74 tracks available in the collection, and at…

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February 15th, 2008 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: media players video games

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