You have to go to the website and read the story. This is a trip!
Digg: “Zach Feinstein is the dark horse in this years NBA Draft, the dark
horse because he’s managed to register himself despite having no
serious basketball playing experience. “The short story is that I,
Zachary Feinstein, have declared for the 2008 NBA Draft. As a 5′8″ 130
pound Caucasian, I am the perfect candidate…”
“Windows only: Freeware application Advanced Run is a replacement for
the traditional Windows Run dialog that can run any program as another
user without logging you out of your account. Aside from that, Advanced
Run does all the same things your regular Run dialog does, and Advanced
Run will launch in place of it whenever you hit Windows-R or Start
-> Run. It also adds a Run As option to your right-click dialog, so
you can launch any program on your desktop as another user. Advanced
Run is freeware, Windows only (go to the Downloads tab to download).”
“Mac OS X only: Free, open source application PandoraBoy pulls the
popular streaming internet radio site Pandora out of your browser and
integrates it with your Mac desktop. With features like global hotkeys,
support for your Apple Remote, and even integration with Growl,
PandoraBoy looks to be the ultimate Pandora companion for OS X.
PandoraBoy is free, Mac OS X only. Windows users looking for a similar
solution, check out PandoraBrowse or our bevy of other ways to get more from Pandora.
“Now
you can truly see why our commenters dubbed Python the programming
language that “can do anything.” One intrepid (and hungry) hacker,
possibly named Nick Jensen, put together a small script that tracks
Domino’s Pizza orders from phone call to door bell ring. Download and
launch the script (with instructions at the link), plug in your phone
number, and you don’t have to get up until that cheese-covered saucer
is at the door. It’s just another true sign of how life-changing the
command line can really be.”
“Oh yes - Rapture for real will be quite the sight to behold.
Oh no - It’s to be directed and produced by Gore ‘Pirates of the
Caribbean’ Verbinski. Well, the first film was loads of fun, but even
discounting those sequels, high seas hi-jinks seems an
unusual pedigree for undersea rumination upon the nature of man. But
hey, both have water and zombies.”
Engadget: “Although NVIDIA’s pledged to simplify its lineup
for consumers and ATI’s been getting better, the current state of the
graphics card market is still a pretty wild alphabet soup of model
numbers and specs lists, so the crew over at The Tech Report decided to
break things down using the only stat that matters: price. While the
results aren’t exactly shocking (surprise: more dollars equals more
FPS), what’s interesting is that multi-GPU rigs are really quite
cost-effective, delivering performance on par with higher-end cards at
significantly lower prices. For example, two Radeon HD 3850s run nearly
as fast as a single Radeon HD 3870 X2, even though they cost a fair bit
less, and two GeForce 9600 GTs can potentially outgun a GeForce 8800
Ultra. That’s always been the promise of SLI and CrossFire, and it
looks like it’s paying off — any system-builders out there care to
share their experiences?”
Hmmm…a Battlefield-type game with swords and axes…me wantey…
Rock, Paper, Shotgun:
“Lord Of The Rings: Conquest is a Battlefield/front type game set in the
Tolkien universe currently under development by Pandemic Studios. “Our
experience creating massive, rich, action-packed games means that The
Lord of the Rings: Conquest will give fans exactly what they want: full
control of the blade, bow and magic to fight its epic battles any way
they want – even if they choose to play from the evil side,” said
Pandemic’s Josh Resnick. And who wouldn’t play
as a orck (yes, I’m going with a franchise-neutral spelling from now
on), that’s what I want to know. Anyway, more details and screens after
the jump.”
“Looks like our parent company NBC has brushed aside iTunes for its
online iPhone viewing, and gone directly to the people. If you navigate
to NBC.com on your iPhone’s Safari browser, you can now watch full episodes of 30 Rock and The Office using the iPhone’s QuickTime player. How does it look? We tested it over Wi-Fi and the dog-slow EDGE network on our iPhone.”
Digg: “The title sold about 3.6 million units on April 29, its opening day,
bringing in roughly $310 million (€200.91 million). This is $10 million
(€6.48 million) more than what Microsoft Corp.’s “Halo 3,” another
blockbuster game, took in during its first week last fall.”
Free wifi at Starbucks, which are everywhere…
“We’re not exactly sure what was going on with that whole on-again / off-again love affair with iPhones having gratis access to AT&T WiFi hotspots,
but we’re content with letting bygones be bygones. On the slightly
tweaked iPhone “Plans” page, the carrier now lists “Access to AT&T
WiFi hotspots” as an included feature along with call forwarding, 3-way
calling and Caller ID. Sure, it’s not a bona fide press release, but
same difference, right?”
[Via MacRumors]
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