Kojima: Metal Gear Acid for PSN ‘possible’
Filed under: Sony PSP, Action, Strategy
As our stack of thick, leather bound binders filled from end to end with valuable Pokémon cards will attest, we’re suckers for collectible card games. You could probably also tell from our proclivity to creep around the local Wal-Mart with a black bandana crudely wrapped around our greasy mullets that we’re also diehard fans of stealth action. As such, it would seem logical to assume we’re big supporters of the PSP-exclusive Metal Gear Acid titles — unfortunately, one look at our barren ludological library will show that we possess a powerful, unnatural fear of video game packaging.
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Amazon Confirms Student Version Of Kindle
Amazon confirmed our speculation that they are planning to target colleges and universities with a new version of the Kindle, reports the Seattle PI. Textbooks are a $5.5 billion annual market, and most publishers now offer electronic versions of their textbooks. McGraw-Hill Education, for example, publishes 95% of their books electronically as well as in print. But there is no compelling device to read them on. The new Kindle will likely be a large screen version of the original, which is much better suited for textbooks.
Amazon also downplayed our estimates that 240,000 Kindles have been shipped since launching last November. Citi analyst Mark Mahaney later increased his sales estimates as well.
Amazon officials gave McAdams Wright Ragen analysts the impression that high-end estimates on Kindle sales reported by TechCrunch and a Citigroup analyst are not reasonable. (See a previous blog post on the topic here and here.)
Amazon managers “told us that the Kindle is definitely selling very well, but they also said the analysts and reporters giving out these extremely high estimates ‘did not run them by company,’” Bueneman wrote
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Despite the wealth of information a Google search box puts at our fingertips, good old-fashioned note-taking is still one of the best ways to build a personal knowledge database. The only sensible solution used to be pen and paper, but computers have introduced a handful of excellent alternatives for capturing notes in computer-friendly digital form. On Tuesday you shared your favorite note-taking tools, and today we’re back with the five most popular answers. Keep reading for a look at the five best note-taking tools, then cast a ballot for the note-taking tool you prefer…..
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Google Calendar Adds CalDAV Support, Enabling iCal Sync [Google Calendar]
Google Calendar has added support for the CalDAV standard, opening up a realm of syncing possibilities for business users and webapps. Right now it’s somewhat limited, with a few known issues, but the big news is that it’s now possible to sync your iCal and Google Calendars without any third-party software. As the Google Operating System notes, however, it’s not an entirely simple process to hook the two up, so a free option like recently-made-free CalGoo might still be the best option for anyone who doesn’t enjoy fiddling. Hit the link below for details on GCal’s CalDAV options.
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Need to know how many folks coming to your big bash prefer beer, wine, or soda? Poll Everywhere offers a free polling service that lets you send up to 30 SMS messages with simple reply instructions to gather opinions. You can also send a link to your polling page by email, Twitter, or whatever service you’d like, but the convenience of having to text less than 10 characters back likely boosts your return rate. Poll Everywhere’s free plan doesn’t let you see who exactly voted for what, but it could come in handy when you need a small group’s opinion.
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Access Mac drives from Windows
Reading and writing to a Mac formatted drive from Windows couldn’t be any easier than selecting the samba file sharing option in Leopard. This works great if you have 2 physical computers but what if you only have a Mac running Boot Camp? Since Leopard isn’t running getting to that document on the Mac partition from Windows would be difficult unless you installed MacDrive.
Once installed, Windows Explorer is able to mount the Mac drives right along side your standard Windows formatted drives. You are free to access them like any other drive.
If you’re worried that you may accidentally delete files off your Mac partition just tick the option to mount the drives in “read only” mode, thus preventing any accidents. MacDrive’s options can be access by double clicking it’s icon in the system tray. But once you have tailored it to your work flow you’ll rarely have a need to access the options.
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The Treo Pro makes its video debut, inches towards launch
Now that the Treo Pro’s been uncovered, the sleek black handset just can’t stay out of the spotlight — it’s popped up today in several more high-res shots, a quick hands-on video, and even what looks like official press photography. Specs are still up in the air — we’re hearing there’s a 400MHz processor and 128MB of RAM behind that 320 x 320 screen and original Xbox-looking exterior, but we won’t know for sure until this thing gets official, which we’re guessing will happen within the week. Video after the break.
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Looks like Sony wasn’t foolin’ when it said that the new PSP-3000 has a noticeably improved screen from the PSP-2000 — check out this comparison shot of the new rig vs. the old. Man, our first-gen unit is starting to look like a real clunker — anyone else feeling the need to upgrade?
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