http://www.compucated.net Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:57:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What games do you think are missing from the Wii Virtual Console? Sound off here! WiiWare Strong Bad Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free (Telltale Games, 1,000 Wii points): The Homestar Runner characters are back in the second episode of the WiiWare series. This time, Strong Bad is faced with ... http://www.compucated.net/index.php/2010/09/04/wiiware-and-virtual-console-releases-for-this-week/ Asus is the latest manufacturer to take advantage of the technology with the announcement of these two new monitors, the VW223B and the VW202B. The VW223B is a 22-inch monitor available now with a native resolution of 1680x1050 and a contrast ratio of 3000:1 (it'll be interesting to see ... http://www.compucated.net/index.php/2010/08/29/asus-announces-displaylink-monitors/ Firefox 3 obviously works fine with both Flash and Java, assuming they are already installed. But, if you try to view a web page that requires either plugin, clicking the "Install Missing Plugins" button (shown below) doesn't work, at least on four Windows machines that I tested. Unlike many ... http://www.compucated.net/index.php/2010/08/24/firefox-3-gotcha-installing-flash-and-java/ In the U.S. declines are sharper he said: digital SLR sales will drop 7 percent to 2.4 million cameras from 2008 to 2009, while the overall market should decrease 10 percent to 36 million units. The overall market should continue its decline by another 1 percent to about 128 million from ... http://www.compucated.net/index.php/2010/08/23/study-camera-market-slump-to-hit-slrs-too/ I didn't pay much attention to VirtualBox when Sun Microsystems first acquired Innotek, but RedMonk's Michael Coté just posted an interview and demo of the software, and it's very cool. In a few clicks, you can see VirtualBox create a Vista instance and run it on the Mac. There are many ... http://www.compucated.net/index.php/2010/08/23/suns-virtualbox-hits-5-million-downloads/ Note that all of the projects are prototypes, and Microsoft collects "usage metrics" in an attempt to enhance them, though you can opt out of sending any data to the company. I don't know about the other Office Labs projects, but Search Commands is an add-on I expect will save ... http://www.compucated.net/index.php/2010/08/23/new-office-2007-add-on-makes-commands-easier-to-fi/ Short attention span syndrome strikes again. This practice, of trying to get people to install your software through coy tactics, has been going on for years. All the major IM vendors have tried it at one point or another. Yahoo faced an outrage in 2005 over the fact that ... http://www.compucated.net/index.php/2010/08/23/think-before-you-install/ Last year I ranted about how Classmates.com nickels-and-dimes its users. While every other social networking site (at least that I've seen) doesn't charge its members to read messages, Classmates.com does. If you have a free membership (as I did), and some long lost high school friend decides to contact you, ... http://www.compucated.net/index.php/2010/08/23/classmates-com-does-it-again-and-not-in-a-good-wa/ Still viable technology? Protoypes of batteries that convert kinetic energy--motion--to stored electricity. (Credit: M2E Power) There are still researchers developing technologies to convert motion into usable energy, but M2E Power had had to restructure. Executives at M2E Power told Earth2Tech last month that it was no longer developing a human-powered charger and ... http://www.compucated.net/index.php/2010/08/23/new-owner-for-motion-power-tech/ The infobox incorrectly asserts that the NSA can review "[s]ites visited and searches conducted" without a warrant. "According to current and former intelligence officials, the spy agency now monitors huge volumes of records of ... Internet searches." "The [NSA's] haul can include ... records of Internet browsing." To the contrary, ... http://www.compucated.net/index.php/2010/08/23/nsa-shifts-to-e-mail-web-data-mining-dragnet/