It’s no secret I am nuts about Guitar Hero. So you can imagine that I am pretty excited about the upcoming “Guitar Hero on Tour” game set to be released for the Nintendo DS handheld later this year. Today, I got even more excited after seeing the new Guitar Grip accessory that will be included with [...]

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I just got back from the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, TX, this week. As with CES 2008, the big gimmick for attracting visitors to your booth was Guitar Hero III. I saw at least four booths with GHIII running and, being a nut about Rock Band and Guitar Hero (as Tigger Two [...]

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HDTVs have been one of the hottest consumer electronics categories for the past several years; however, you don’t need to invest in an HDTV to get HDTV content. Pinnacle has created the PCTV HD Pro Stick to turn your desktop or laptop into an HDTV. Considering that the resolution of most newer PC monitors is equal [...]

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The guitar that came in our Rock Band bundle suffered from the downward strum issue that many people have reported online. Either the strum bar on the guitar doesn’t recognize a downward strum at all or it will recognize each downward strum twice. Not the best situation to be in when playing a rhythm-based game. EA [...]

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The Apple MacBook Air is the current poster-child for the effective combination of design and engineering. Apple should be commended for how well the Air is built. But I still cannot figure out who would actually want to buy and own a MacBook Air.

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Yesterday, Apple announced that it was upgrading many of the components (processor, hard drive, video card, etc.) in its MacBook and MacBook Pro line of laptops. After the launch of the MacBook Air in January, many hoped that Apple would announce a completely revamped MacBook lineup. Many in the blogosphere are disappointed that Apple [...]

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I love taking digital photos; however, I hate the process of transferring them to my PC. I am constantly searching for the cable to connect the camera to my PC. And with more than one person in our house using the camera, it is very easy for photos to get deleted before they are [...]

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Well, all of us who have been speculating about when HD-DVD would be a dead format have our answer — right now. Reuters is reporting that Toshiba, HD-DVD’s biggest supporter, will stop manufacturing HD-DVD hardware. At least the death of HD-DVD was relatively quick. It took just about six weeks from Warner Bros’ announcement at CES [...]

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It’s 3:00pm, do you know where your TiVo remote is? I do… thanks to the new Loc8tor Lite, a credit card size remote control that helps you find things like your keys or your cellphone or your kids (as long as they haven’t wandered more than 400ft away). The Loc8tor Lite can track up to 4 [...]

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As if you needed one more sign that points to HD-DVD being dead, here it is. Netflix announced this morning that it will phase out HD-DVD and go exclusively Blu-ray. So, for those keeping score at home, 4 of the 6 major studios have gone exclusively Blu-ray. Blockbuster rents only Blu-ray in its stores (it still [...]

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