Installation was less than 20 minutes. I’ll be reviewing Windows 7 for Blast. Stay tuned.
I’m installing Windows 7 right now on my desktop. Note #1: If you downgraded to Windows XP (like I did recently), then the joke’s on you. You can’t upgrade XP to Windows 7. You have to manually backup your files and then re-install all your old programs. Gulp.
Last week’s profile of a race car driver for The Boston Globe was my first sports article (not counting news for Blast’s defunct sports section). There was some networking here. After the story was published, Skipper Hull and I spoke again about him doing some car stories for Blast. We just started an automotive section. [...]
Blast recently awarded the Atari-published game N+ the best handheld game of E3. The game’s developer, SilverBirch Studios, put out a press release thanking us and GamingExcellence, which gave N+ an award for best PSP game. “This is obviously a great honor for us,” said Wojtek Kawczynski, Senior Vice President, SilverBirch Studios. “Winning two awards [...]
There was no E3 sketchbook on Penny Arcade this year. There needed not be an E3 sketchbook, because the webcomic geniuses at PA summed up the entire three and a half days in one simple comic. And then they finished the job in their single E3 blog post: No doubt the proprietors of Ladies’ Home [...]
Don’t miss this special report in Time Magazine on the changing shape and the new rulers of the Internet.
In my third review of a LapWorks laptop stand, I took a look at their active-cooling Attache Stand. Take a look!
Thanks to Engadget for blogging about our recent article about a Pyramid-shaped surge protector!
Matt Peckham wrote an excellent post Friday which touches on the status of this country, our stance on violence, video games and sexuality, citing Tom Brokaw’s remarks that video games and blogs were “cancerous.” Talking to radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, Brokaw reacted to the shooting at the Nebraska mall in a way that [...]
I’ve been reporting a lot on Atari lately, including recommending that they release some of their classic games on Xbox Live Arcade and make new versions of some of them. Atari released this today: Atari, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATAR), one of the world’s most recognized brands and a third-party video game publisher, today announced that Asteroids(R) and [...]