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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 Minigore, Peggle, Pinball Fantasies and Resident Evil: Degeneration. Read more...

I will admit, I'm a fan of Bing. The site from Microsoft has got me binging more and googling less - especially for specific things. Read more...

Listen up social media lovers, Playstation 3's Firmware 3.10 update is now live. This update brings the rumoured and recently confirmed integration with the social media craze that is Facebook. The firmware update also improves photo browsing and enhances the look of your PSN Friends List Read more...

Assassin's Creed II hit yesterday and it's everything we hoped for and more. I had the chance to talk to the producer of ACII, Sebastien Puel, about the development process and the AC universe. Read more...

Window 7 has been available at retail for a couple of weeks now, so I thought I'd use this post to explore some of the cooler features and functions, cooler to me, at least And, of course, when you select features to profile, a nice round number is always a bonus... Read more...

There is still four months to wait before we'll have a chance to get our hands on God of War III, but what better to tide us over than high-definition versions of the two greatest PS2 action-adventure games of all time? Read more...

Ever wish you could undo a particular driver or application installation? I have, recently in fact when I installed Adobe CS3 on my wife's Windows 7 /XP dual-boot computer. Something happened in that install that pooched the Flash plugin for Internet Explorer. It could have been a bad scene, except for a cool little feature of Windows 7, one that has been a part of the Windows OS since ME (so there was one good thing about ME). Read more...

18+ games aren't for kids... even if it's the Zombie Apocalypse. Read more...

I'm sure we all remember the days of dialup Internet. I'm not going to say "fondly", because no way could I ever go back to those days. I remember getting high speed DSL access at home in 1998-99, and how awesome that was for surfing and email. When I moved to Salt Spring Island, BC in 2000, I was forced back to dial up. Oh the pain. It was another three, long years before we got high speed Internet on Salt Spring. This most isn't about reliving the nightmare of trying to get a dial up connection on Salt Spring, it's how to test the connection you have. Read more...

The Wave tsunami tamed by followers. Microsoft slamming the door on Xbox mods. Apple opening the door to 'enforced advertising'. Twitter timid about ReTweets. Read more...

Less than 100 days until the Olympics roll into Vancouver and the myriad of ways you can wave your support of the games spans every genre of souvenir. There are knapsacks, jackets, tshirts, keychains, waterbottles, flip flops, hats, scarves, pins and memory cards. Read more...

Ah! it's good to be back. My blog writing has been (very) slow and sluggish lately, as I have been substituting keyboard and cameras for diaper changes and baby spit. Well inaugurated into the daddy club, I thought it fitting to share some of junior's first shots, but with a twist. I have been scouring the web for fun, easy-to-use image editors/manipulators that will make you grow a mustache (literally) or send you back to the dazed polaroid days of the 1970s. Read more...

This weekend sees the release of what is certainly the most hotly anticipated Nintendo Wii title of the holiday season, New Super Mario Bros. Wii. As the first 2D Super Mario title to feature multiplayer (the non-super arcade title Mario Bros. doesn't count!) there's a lot to live up to. Read more...

Ah Google's part of take over our computing world is proceeding nicely. Mac users should have a (real) beta of Chrome next month-Chrome for Mac due in December?-and now we hear tell that we could see the first betas of the Linux-powered Google Chrome OS next week-Chrome OS to come within a week? | 9 to 5 Mac-Google Chrome OS To Launch Within A Week? Have the holiday goodies come early to geeks? Read more...

Yep, it's holiday buying season again. So you've been given a vague sort of list from the geek in your life. Scratch that, geeks wouldn't give you a vague sort of list, we'll give you details to the model number and the preferred manufacturing window. So, you've been given a list from someone to get them "a DSLR" or "I'd love a new HDTV" or "You know a Blu-ray player would make movie watching awesome…" you then wander into your electronics retailer of choice (and we know what your choice is…) and are faced with the myriad of choices and the ever-so-helpful associates. Read more...