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There are many iPhone and iPod touch games out there and working out which are worth the money is a challenge, so here I am again with another round-up of reviews, weighing in on Puzzlebreaker, Ghosts 'N Goblins Gold Knights, Eliminate Pro , and Let's Golf. Read more...

A few interesting things are leaving the online environment soon, IE6 (with help from Google) some Gmail Labs candidates, and Windows 7 RC beta... Read more...

Still using the Windows 7 Release Candidate beta? You've got less than a week to make the move to the best operating system Microsoft has ever released. Time is running out - here's a quick guide to what you'll need to do for a smooth transition. Read more...

I didn't know this until last night, but it turns out that Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) can open compressed files on the fly and return them to their compressed state when finished. Unfortunately I guess that mere mortal users can't get access to this feature unless you get a little help. And help is here, for free. Read more...

Apple has raised the ire of developers with its tight control on iPhone apps. This week Apple was pulling explicit or adult oriented apps from the App Store, but the question is should a phone developer have that kind of control over apps on its phones? Read more...

This week I was invited by National Public Relations to get a tour of the Samsung pavilion at Live City Yaletown to tale a look at Samsung's new mobile phones. While we in Vancouver can't turn around without seeing an ad for the Samsung Omnia II, what turned out to be more exciting was what Samsung is bringing out later this year. Read more...

Today Nintendo held their Media Summit in San Francisco and unveiled a smorgasbord of announcements to whet the appetite of Wii and Nintendo DS gamers hungry for more news. At the event the company revealed a deluge of release dates, trailers, and updates on the Nintendo DSi XL, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Metroid: Other M, and many other games expected to drop in the first half of 2010. Read more...

While at the PMA I had a chance to meet with Nikon for an overview of their new pocket camera lineup. Read more...

Clik Elite produces some of the most innovative outdoor and adventure camera bags I have seen. Mind you, I haven't seen them all, but never the less their bags are very clever. Read more...

Back in the day on the PC, Mac, and even Amiga was a cool and sarcastic little exploraton and exploitation game called Spaceward Ho! Today, you can download a Mac and Palm OS version of the game from the developer's site, which is cool if you've got those platforms. But what if your portable gaming device is an iPhone? Read more...

While talking with Sigma about their new cameras, I also had the chance to see the new lenses announced by Sigma at this year's PMA. Read more...

I had a chance to meet with Sigma during the PMA show to talk about their new cameras just announced. Read more...

Yesterday, I had a chance to meet up with Pentax during the PMA to talk about their new camera lineup. Read more...

This is a follow up to the previous post on Sony's exciting announcement of inclusion of HD video in their Alpha DSLRs, and brand new mirror-less, interchangeable lens camera. Read more...

Stopped by Sony's PMA booth yesterday for a walk through of some of their new, exciting cameras. Read more...

Now on to the really cool bit: Fuji's 3D technology as showcased at their PMA booth. Read more...

Second camera demoed at Fuji's PMA booth was the *tough* XP10. Read more...

Yesterday I stopped by Fuji's PMA booth. First camera up was the new 30x manual (!) zoom camera, the HS10. Read more...

Returning to Rapture is no easy task; the city Andrew Ryan built lies at the bottom of the ocean, and in the events of Bioshock 2 it has been ravaged by the seas that envelope it. Can Bioshock 2 match the style and sophistication of its progenitor? Read more...

Warner Animation and DC Comics team up to bring us one massive Blu-ray disc full of content with Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. With literally hours of content, Crisis delivers a lot of bang for your entertainment buck. Read more...

EA have announced that their upcoming squad-based, first-person shooter video game Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has reached a significant milestone: the demo on PS3 and Xbox 360 has been downloaded a whopping 3.5 million times since it's release. Read more...

"Yo listen up here's a story, about a little guy that lives in a blue world," begins Eiffel 65's absolutely awful novelty hit Blue (Da Ba Dee), which is only in my head right now because today is the release of the new Wii title Endless Ocean: Blue World. Read more...

Yesterday I got a chance to have Panasonic demo their new ZS7 camera with built-in GPS. Read more...

Sony revealed a new mirrorless, interchangeable lens type camera at the PMA yesterday. Read more...

The GF1 is Panasonic's version of the new mirrorless, interchangeable lens cameras. Read more...

The new rangefinder type cameras with no mirrors but the ability to change lenses are quickly becoming my favorite cameras displayed here at PMA. Read more...

Brief demo of HP's websmart printer. Who said printers couldn't have apps? Read more...

Apple broke new ground with their iPhone app store. Suddenly the "there's an app for that..." wasn't just a slogan it became a selling point for people deciding if an iPhone was for them. BlackBerry has their app store (I tried it on my Curve and I'm not a fan), but I see Android-based phones as the real competitor to the iPhone. There is an Android app store, not locked down like Apple's is, but it seems that Android apps aren't getting as much attention as iPhone (or even BlackBerry) apps are. Read more...

Back when TV was new, watching TV was a family event -- not the ubiquitous always-on attention sink it is now. Families made plans to gather before the small glowing box and be entertained in a new way. It seems that everything old is new again as 3DTV technology begins hitting the marketplace. Read more...

Meet the world's longest mega-zoom, the Olympus SP800UZ. Read more...

Boy, that's one though camera. Read more...

I came across these really cool and stylish bags for female photographers. Read more...

Samsung's new EVIL (electronic viewfinder interchangeable lens) camera, the NX10, demoed at PM. Read more...

The TL500 is Samsung's first compact camera aimed at the serious photo enthusiast. Read more...

Samsung's newest dual screen fun. Read more...

Well knew that Google's Linux-based Android OS was important in the larger phone landscape, but I think now we're seeing something that is even more interesting: Firefox on a phone. Read more...

And I thought bloggers lead complicated lives. So get this, IDG (they publish ComputerWorld) had a journalist by the name of Randall C. Kennedy who often wrote about Windows and cited benchmark and other data from "Devil's Mountain Software". Okay, not a problem. The spokesman for DMS was Craig Barth, CTO of the company. All good right? Yeah not so much. Turns out that Barth doesn't exist. Barth is Kennedy. This might be just "bad" if this was a recent thing, unfortunately Kennedy has been doing this for, oh a decade. Read more...

Skimming through my feeds this morning, not expecting much since Sunday is a pretty slow news day, I found this post on some of OS X's default settings—Why Apple doesn’t have Mouse Right Click enabled by default. | Macgasm—which at the end posed the idea that Apple knows best (essentially)... Read more...

Google recovers on Buzz, Apple bans stuff, and Microsoft is all about Windows 7 Mobile. Read more...