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RECAP: Launch Tour 07!

2007-02-12T00:03:00Z

Finally, I am back home after a nice 4 hours drive. Chicago was as I expected to be, so much better than Wisconsin I wanted to stay. On the road from Wisconsin to Chicago there's several tolls you need to pay to enter the ea. state all together it ended up costing for toll charges $5.00, glad to know the money is not going towards the roads that were in really bad conditions. As I expected there was plenty of farms around Wisconsin, quite interesting since I am not used to farms. You can tell when you are finally in Illinois it's the end of the farms, at least in the part of Illinois.

The next day aprox. 6:30 am the event starter. I was surprised with the number of people that showed up to this event. Majority men, not surprised about that. We started off slow in the ask the experts booth, since most people were around checking out the setup partner companies had and the keynotes.

Finally we had a few people that asked us questions, such as...

Q. Will my drivers be compatible with Vista?

A. I would assume all major manufacturers’ have or will have in the future Vista compatible drivers. So I suggest to first check with the manufacturer’s website and search for Vista drivers there. Then go check Windows Update thru Vista and you may find Vista drivers or newer versions (which might not be listed on the manufacturer’s website).

Q. What was the security improvement in Vista?

A. There's new anti-malware features such as Windows Firewall, if this properly configured, it can stop many kinds of malware before they can infect your computer or other computers in your network. Windows Update, User Account Control in Windows Vista you can create a seperate account for each of the family and control which websites, programs, and games each person is allowed to use and install on the computer. IE7 protected mode prevents new applications, modify user or system files and setting without the consent of the user. Windows defender it's an antispyware feature that helps you protect your PC from getting infect with spyware by constantly scanning your PC. The one that is not included is an anti-virus protection software that you will need to purchase, if you don't already have one?

Q. Why isn't there a public list of all the softwares that are compatible to Vista?

A. I took this person to our nice set-up and showed him this nice list here.

Among other questions that were quite interesting. I had several people that were basically out to tarnish the Microsoft name by finding the most minimun flaws that Vista has. Which yes in deed, Vista is not completelly 100% perfect, but name me any other OS that is?

Overall the event was a blast, I had a great time. It was nice meeting some of the individuals from Microsoft that had very good knowledge in computers. As well as it was a pleasure meeting Cyber from GTR, who secretly tried to sneak into the auto show, ha! Too bad I was too tired to attend the cocktail party and since I was in Chicago for such short period of time my batteries died and I couldn't take many pictures.. :( I would recommend anyone who is interested in getting some good grasp of information of the new features in Office to attend this event. We all did get to take home a free shirt along with a free copy of MS Office 2007 Pro, thank you MS!

[ Windows Vista Launch Tour | Windows Vista Security | Windows Updates ]

$10,000+ worth of games!

2007-02-12T00:02:00Z

Well it's official we have made it to $10,000+ worth of games, according to 1up's collection. Today we decided to make a trip to Best Buy since pay day was this week. We got some new titles and some older titles that we missed out when they were released. And bumped us up to more games, funny thing about is that we don't have the games organized in one specific place.

Wow! - The New Windows Vista Ad...

2007-02-04T23:55:00Z

I have never heard "WOW" so many times. Wow, even Lebron it's in the ad, ha!

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Splinter Cell Double Agent getting the females skins?

2007-02-03T23:53:00Z

Yep you heard me right. Over at the Ubisoft's forums a post by Rhoulette, Ubisoft Community Manager, confirmed for us that there will be a downloadable content for the skins. Too bad we didn't get much about when will it be available.

This feature is already planned to be included in the PS3 version of the game. Now why wasn't it initally included on the 360 version? who knows...I wonder if it's going to cost us some MS points, hmmm...

via UBI Forums

Windows Vista Launch Event @ McCormick Place!

2007-02-02T23:51:00Z

Well I guess I am off to a road trip next week and finally will get to see Chicago. It's funny how much time I have spent (flight delays) in their airport and never have actually been outside of it. And the best part of the trip is that I will get to see more areas around the dairy state. I heard there's a lot farms, ha!

Then Wednesday, February 07, 2007 we will be attending the Windows Vista launch event being hosted at the McCormick Place in Chicago, as well as a cocktail party. Also, Cyber from GTR will be there, not drinking of course. I will try to bring back some nice photos of this.

The xBot

2007-02-01T23:48:00Z

I can see why some us would go out of our ways to unlock as many achievements as possible, afterall you do get bragging rights when you have a top gamerscore. Plus, it doesn't help that some of the achievements are almost inpossible for the average adult that has a real job to obtain, that will actually try to achieve all of them without the help of their kids, wives, husbands, etc.

Well David Harr sensed our frustration, so he decided to put in sometime and effort on a robotic button smasher, good for using it to obtain Perfect Dark Zero's achievement of 1,000 Deathmatch and DarkOps games, which would honestly take up a good share of time to achieve. So is using an robotic device to get an achievement unfair? hmmm...don't forget it took him 10 hrs to design this device, so that's the least he should get. Make sure to check some of his other projects, you might learn something!

via DKNYTE.COM | VIDEO

YouTube Plans to Pay Video Creators?

2007-01-28T19:08:00Z

YouTube CEO Chad Hurley, share with us about a reward opportunity that it's in plans for video directors that are members of YouTube who provide original content to the popular site. But is not just going to be a reward, they are working on building up a community out of this involving video creators who truly want to be there -so fake people interested in just money for once do something good for humanity, keep away from this, is not meant to be for you!

I am pretty sure plenty questions have been drawn for this already. Such as, how will they monitor it's originality of the video? Per Hurley who did not really going into too much detail about this, they in process of working in some kind of technology that is to be able to determine whether it was made by it's original creator that submitted the video or not, so no cheating, sounds interesting. Among others that will be answer in the near future, since no further details about these plans were released by Hurley. YouTube who was announced in October of last year that got purchased by Google and has gone thru copyright issues in the past year, it's going into some risky path. I hope the outcome of this will turn into something good.

via PODCASTING NEWS | Credits to my buddy GODFREE, who provided me this interesting news!

Heavy Weapon Video Review!

2007-01-28T19:04:00Z

Pink Sage and Godfree sat down to give us a few pointers about the arcade title that was recently release on the Xbox Live Arcade. Both will share with us what seems to be all big deal about Heavy Weapons, that both have been glued to their 360 all day playing, freaks I tell you... more like Godfree is the freak. Pink Sage it's cool. [ WATCH VIDEO ]

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Crackdown: Clarification on Halo 3 Beta?

2007-01-27T19:07:00Z

Chris Paladino who is part of the Microsoft Xbox Community team from Gamerscoreblog.com, just recently clarified a very important concern some us had in regards to this intersting opportunity for the public that wants in on the Halo 3 Beta. Who wasn't able to get thru the Beta at it's initial Phase 1 nor was able to register on time for it.

"The initial shipment of Crackdown at retail will include access to the Halo 3 beta. The "initial shipment" is pretty huge, so there will be enough to go around.

For those Halo 3 fans who are STILL losing sleep over this, you can guarantee entrance into the Halo 3 Beta by purchasing a copy of Crackdown when it launches Feb. 20th."

via GAMERSCOREBLOG.COM | MORE INFO HERE

Xbox 360: Crackdown Demo Impressions!

2007-01-24T07:16:00Z

Today the demo was out. I wasn't very happy that it took a lifetime to download and the 1.2 GB file size was interesting... I had my friend Godfree waiting for me so that we can play co-op online (btw, I am not much of a co-op player). It was quite hilarious that we had such a hard time trying to make a match and invite each other. I understand that demos aren't always 100% perfect. But for some strange reason when you go to "Host a match" it takes you into the list of the rest of matches that random players can join. Then I had to go search for a match, fulfilling the same options that Godfree had set to the match, so that I could find him. After a few mins of re-search the matches available, his name finally appeared on the list of players. So watch out you will not be able to host private co-op matches (at least in the demo).

Once the game started, it was a different story. The controls were easy to get used to. You click your left trigger to auto aim and you'll be good to go, in case you have a hard time shooting while your running around. Now the voice in the background giving pointers on what to do sounded so much like "Robert Stack" from Unsolved Mysteries. So it was kind of funny hearing his voice from time to time, it brought back memories of the show. The missions that we had to do were pretty straight forward fight gang members and kill the main boss; no doubt it was a blast. There was also some racing missions that you played against the other player and whoever makes it first into the checkpoints wins the race. Another thing that caught my attention was, that when I felt like I was almost running out of amo. I managed to get some again. And friendly fire was always on (nice), I guess some people might not enjoy that.

So the big question, is it worth 1.2 GB long download? Yes it is, because I suggest you at least try it before you buy it or not choose to buy. Plus, the Halo 3 Beta code, is a plus too. Because after playing demo, it sure gave me a different feeling about the game, perhaps when it's released in February that will be my next game to get.

Xbox 360: Halo Theme!

2007-01-24T06:29:00Z

We almost made the mistake of throwing away the code that was included when you purchase the Halo faceplate. So watch out when purchase these accessories...

Windows Vista: GTR Feeds on your desktops!

2007-01-24T06:28:00Z

[ Windows Vista | Windows Vista Sidebar | GTR Feeds ]
With just a click away you can add the GTR Feeds on your desktop's sidebar. And get the the latest shows on your desktop along with other feeds from various websites and of course MSN.

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Limited Signature Edition // DVD-ROM

2007-01-21T09:07:00Z

Microsoft will be releasing yet another version of Windows Vista. The only difference with this one and the other copies that is signed by Bill gates and each box contains a unique number indicating which out of 20,000 you got! As it's a upgrade edition of Windows Vista, you will need an existing genuine copy of Windows XP to make use it, such as Windows Vista / XP Professional / XP Home Edition and Microsoft XP Media Center Edition. This will be released on Jan. 30, 2007.

So how much? only $259 available on Amazon.com

CES07: Last Days!

2007-01-12T10:52:00Z

Well I decided to work on this blog until Thursday. This will first cover what we did on Wednesday and our last day at CES. :(

The day started off really nice, disregarding the Wisconish weather that was going on Vegas. Our first stop was the Microsoft Press tend we need to plan now what we where going to do around the floor since these past days, we have walked around so much.

I decided to go on a wild goose chase searching for Nintendo. They weren’t listed in the exhibitor’s list but hey, someone had to have some Nintendo accessories or may the hard to get Wii, hmmm…After 30 mins of searching around, we found a third party exhibitor displaying Nintendo Wii and DS accessories. Unfortunately no Wii’s, come on Nintendo, what they couldn’t afford a booth or they just weren’t interested. Seriously, that’s pretty disappointing that they didn’t bother to invest in this event.

Next we decided to go on our HD adventure. Some of the TVs that caught my attention again, of course, Sharp’s 108” LCD HD TV by we tried to get a shot of the back to see what kind of wirings were going on back there, sorry to say they chose to cover it (now that’s naughty), I guess they want to disclose that yet to the public. LG’s worlds first full HD 100”LDC, full 1080p. LG has been getting involved with a wide variety of home appliances, mobile phones, computer and commercial products, in addition TV, audio and videos. I am really curious to see what’s next for them. I fell in love with the monitors that were attached to each other; I wouldn’t mind upgrading my 19” flat to that. Somehow, we managed to get lost in HD heaven for a few hours.

After that we met up with my brother in law who was there as a buyer for the Electronics portion of CES. Now for this one, I had a nice plan. I really wanted to expose someone who is really not into video games at all, I always love doing that, brainwash new gamers. We decided to go easy on him so we introduced him to Hellgate, he really enjoyed the game, couldn’t believe how much improvement graphics have made. We did our best to get him on Halo 2 but it was too crowded, perhaps one my home visits. Then we made our ways to the Intel booth were they had the official BMW Sauber, running an F1 powered by Intel’s Core 2 using a Logitech steering wheel, only one of us got to play it. I wasn’t to thrill to hear that I need to remove my shoes to get in.

Some of the exhibitors were really touchy about not allowing pictures of their products; they had a bunch of signs that you could take pictures. At first it didn’t really make sense to not allow people to take pictures but I guess if its products that are not yet out in the market they don’t want their competitors to get a good glance at it.

We ended the day by stopping by the Venetian, were we decided to go on a nice romantic ride on the gondola. It was a bit interesting ride, unfortunately since the weather wasn’t so great; we had to settle to an indoor ride.

For Thursday, we walked the floor for a while. By that time we were out of fuel, we browse thru some booths that at first were a bit busy. We decided to check out the Logitech booth. They had some pretty cool keyboards on display, too bad all them were wireless. I guess one when I decide to retire my Eclipse, I am going to have to go wireless. We also checkout the HP booth they had all their offering kind of crammed up together. They did have some laptops running of course Vista. After that we decided to the end our day at CES and walk around Vegas.

Overall, I had a great time at CES. The food was of course overprized and really bad quality (not surprised, something about events choosing the wrong caters). I really enjoyed getting pushed around and people running into me, since half the time they were looking the opposite direction. CES is definitely in my agenda already for next year, can’t wait…

CES07: Day Two!

2007-01-10T20:24:00Z

Well today, I am already exhausted and it is barely my second day at CES, yesterday I walked more than I had planned to. I wasn’t feeling while I was walking but now it’s hitting me. Today I decided to see what Sony had to demonstrated, Microsoft proof to be the leaders in software in the event.

My first thing I wanted to see at the Sony booth was definitely this holiday hard to get gadget the Playstation 3. Some of the games that were demonstrated on the floor were Motor Storm (an off road racer that you get to drive dirt bikes, ATVs, sand rails, rally cars, monster trucks, and everything in between), Lair (a Playstation 3 exlusive title where you get to wonder off in the skies using a dragon) and a trailer of Gran Turismo HD that really caught a lot of people’s attention. No doubt their booth was packed with people, just like majority of the major company’s booth. I ran into one of the representatives from Fox News, who was a bit intimidated about trying out the games. So instead he decided to watch us play and was amazed oh how much improvement video games have made, of course. They some pretty hip looking notebooks out on the floor. Somehow, that’s were Sony shines all the time, they seem to manage to make things look trendy from the outside, excluding the PS3, I don’t know what happened there.

While we were making our way back to the Microsoft tent, since I needed to upload more pictures. We couldn’t help but noticed that 3 Doors Down was doing a live show with their hi song Kryptonite over at the ESPN booth. For being live they actually sound much better than a lot of the musicians out there, they really rocked the ESPN booth.

We decided to wonder off and check out what else CES had to offer around the event. We saw more Games for Windows titles such as Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (an MMO that looked like a combination of WoW and Oblivion), Hellgate London (really made me feel like I was playing Guild Wars, different story lines in games just the feel was so easy to get used to), Rail Simulator (how fun is that to drive around freely a train), Lord of the Rings Online – Shadows of Angmar (That’s right another one, perhaps they will hitch me on this one). So watch console gamers, this upcoming year there’s a lot of great titles coming up on PC, finally, I am getting tired of seeing the old great games in the shelves. Games for Windows seems to be stepping into the right direction, can’t wait to see outcome of the hard work the developers have put in.

The highlight of today was running into Godfree’s twin playing Halo 2. That was strange seeing the twin of my buddy that I wish could’ve made it. So watch out Godfree, we might consider replacing you if you annoy us, ha! As well as seeing 3 Doors Down live was a plus. After the show we decided to relax for this night and see what Vegas had to offer. So we decided to go see the Blue Man Group over at the Venetian. Sad enough they don’t allow you to take pictures of their performance, so I was only able to bring back home a mental memory of the show. But may I say it was a great show, the combination comedy and paint just was an amazing performance. Unfortunately, after this we headed back to our hotel, so no Zune Part, we didn't have enough energy to stick around for the midnight party.

CES07: Day One!

2007-01-09T19:13:00Z

I was very excited to be at CES for my first time, I was expecting to run into masses of people, I think the brochure that they mailed was pretty clear about it. Yeah, perhaps some people that I know will call it "Nerd Fest" and no I am not a nerd, geek, etc. nor do I want to be one, I am simply an average human being who enjoys shopping for fun hardware and software. I hate it how people right off hand relate technology with geeks, it’s pretty sad when people fall that low to right off hand conclude that enjoying technology equals being a geek. Oh well, this is another topic that I rather not write a whole story about.

I was one of the lucky community members to get into the Microsoft Press tent and may I say the security was tight. Even with a pass, we still managed to get harassed by the cyborg guarding it. As bad as having to confirm that we indeed were allowed in there and the guy still didn't accept it, wow! Inside of the tent there was a wide variety of press working very hard to distribute information about the event to websites, newspapers, etc... Inside the Xbox Community room the MS community crew did a great job in providing us such a comfortable quiet place to relax and post up news about CES. They even put up a 360 with Gears of Wars so that we actually had something to escape from for a while, nice job guys. I hope to see this done more often at events, it's great to see Microsoft Community members actually caring about providing us the indie sites that travel around events, a place to keep up to date with our sites.

The first booth that I stopped by was, “of course”, the Microsoft booth, where it consisted more of PC games than Xbox 360 games. Didn't bother me a bit, instead that's a great thing. Give some shine of light to Games for Windows. Some people haven't exposed yet to this. Halo 2 for Windows, was the first game that I had get my hands on, I gave it shot with the keyboard but as a console user, it's more comfortable to move around with the controller. The game was running smoothly and the graphics where as equally good as they are in the Xbox/Xbox 360. The 360 titles that where available to play Lost Planet, Guitar Hero II, MLG Baseball 2k7, Icon, Viva Pinata and the arcades titles where Castlevenia, Ms Packman (packman with a bow), Worms and others. They also had some Voodoo PC on the floor that unfortunately we weren’t able to obtain much information from the demonstrator, since he didn’t know much detail about the product. Now why there wasn’t an Xbox 360 customized car? At least somewhere, come on…

At the Intel Booth the first thing that caught my attention was of course the multiply yourself skid they had going. Where you go do a few moves and get multiplied by this person editing the video. There was a huge line for this, even the popular gamers had to wait to get multiplied into a video, by no means was anyone getting any special treatment. In addition to that they had demonstrations of games using Intel’s most advanced processor “Core 2” their product is supposed to deliver to the power of four. They also had some racing cars that we decided to save for another to test drive them.

Over at the World Series of Video Games tent there was a competition of beating Team 3d (I was probably at the Microsoft booth at this time) which was supposedly going to be televised on G4. I guess I won’t get to see it since I never seem to tune into G4, I think the Men Show really gave me a bad impression about them. The tent had some really nice computers running games like Halo 2 (of course) was the game that caught my attention, wow I think the keynote brainwashed me. Other titles where Rainbow Six Vegas, Counter Strike and more…

Zune booth was way to sociable for me, in better words one it looked cool and hip, almost to make you feel like you where not surrounded by the masses of groups of people that where all over the floor at CES. I really love the colors they chose the bizarre combination of brown and pink together are not that bad. They had some really comfortable couches that made seemed like a hangout place, I thought that was really cool. I did hear that they were selling some Zune’s at CES for $20.00 less then the retail value, darn too bad I was broke. I guess Cesar brainwashed me with his pink Zune and no I am not even thinking about going out of my way to find a pink one (I hate pink) but without a doubt I’ll be an owner of one pretty Zune.

Overall it took me a lifetime to get from booth to booth, majority of the booths I visit it was almost impossible to even get a shot of what was being demonstrated. All around the convention I saw plenty of 360's that were being used with various games like Kameo, Project Gotham Racing 3 along with the Xbox 360 wireless wheel, etc...No Wii's, what's up with that Nintendo? Some of the gadgets that caught my attention were the world's largest flat TV 108" by Panasonic. I really wish that I could have one of those in my living room, then again how do I make it fit thru my door? Also, saw Hyundai's line of LCD TVs and yes the same Hyundai that makes cars. Speaking of cars, I saw some really interesting customized vehicles with TV in areas you wouldn't even think about actually adding a TV to. I did glance over the Sony booth but decided to save it the next day.

Walking around the convention floor I wonder why the event lacked females, disregarding some that where promoting products at the booths. Come on ladies, we are setting a bad example, I know there's techy females out there so step out and show your face around. Well I have been asking myself that same question ever since I stepped door into my first programming class, sad enough I was the one of the only girl out 20 guys that we had in our class, just sad. Normally I don't pay attention to these kinds of things, but come on. It almost seemed like the requirement to be at CES was if you are a guy you're in.

After CES, we ended the night by attending this special event Microsoft had done over the Venetian with their famous water show. Where we got to enjoy a show with a puzzle water show, that sad enough I couldn't solve but wasn't alone on this one others weren't able to either. Followed by this we headed over to Pure Nightclub located inside of the Caesars Palace for Windows Vista party. Surprisingly the food was great, they had a good share of appetizers, variety of sea food and meat sticks. Sadly, I had to settle for chardonnay, somehow Vegas clubs only believe in two types of wines. The guys really enjoyed this one, the stage by the middle of the night got a performance of the Pussycat dolls, and I am still laughing out of this one. It's always entertaining just seeing how silly men look when they are going crazy over girls, ha! Too bad they didn't have some kind of PCs running games inside of this, I guess perhaps the club didn't allow it. After this we headed back to our hotel to get prepare for our next day.

Coming up the rest of the days @ CES 2007!

[ CES Day One: Photos | CES Gamerscore Coverage | Xbox.com CES Coverage | Vision’s Experience ]

CES07: Bill Gates Keynote!

2007-01-09T18:36:00Z

This took place in the Ballroom at the Palazzio inside the Venetian. The security was really tight you where either allowed earlier to walk in if you where press or exhibitor. We finally got a shot at walking into the ballroom hall. Where they served us complimentary drinks on the house and we got to stand for about a few minutes outside the hall before we where able to actually find our way to our seats. I would say there were around 3,000+ press/vip people waiting to go into the Palazzio seat. Once we finally where allowed inside the ballroom they entertained us with various hip music. Which I wasn’t surprised, practically every event that I have attended they try to get as hip as possible, nothing wrong with that. :)

The keynote was introduced by Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive officer of Consumer Electronics association. He introduced us with a video clip of Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates and Microsoft Entertainment, from previous times he had attended the event as well as it included some videos of Gates being goofy and funny.

For me the highlight of the show was their new products and services that will be available for "Windows Vista", which was demonstrated by Justin Hutchinson, group product manager for Microsoft Corporation. Some of the new options that where demonstrated that impressed the audience very well was an option called shadow copying which it's used to restore files that are saved in the wrong folders, organizing files in a more easier way, virtual 3d map of the world provided by Windows Live, media center, new device called sports lounge, which provides you real time scoreboards, etc. you will also be able to see on demand video services and the photo gallery is used to store your pictures (of course) where you can use editing pictures without the need to use a graphics software (ie. Photoshop) this is included in Windows Vista Ultimate.

Although Microsoft has been very quiet with Live Anywhere, we got to see some demonstrations of Uno being used via Vista. Some of the titles that are going to be available are Uno, Shadowrun, Microsoft Games Studios and Halo 2 for Windows Vista and hopefully more right away. But these will the first titles that will facilitate gamers to connect via LIVE network with their friends on the Xbox 360. So finally console players will get to face the PC players (it's on PC gamers).

From the gaming we stepped into the future in technology such as Virtual signatures from the comfort of your cell phones. How you will be able to accept package from without the need to be home. Also, we got a demo of the kitchen of the future, Gates using a projector as a cook book that that recognizes the condiments that you put down on the table and match them up with different recipes.

Overall the keynote was quite entertaining, some of the negative ignorant comments that came from the back or inappropriate members of the press falling asleep the entire keynote was really not necessary. It would’ve been nice if some more gamers and actual people who are interested in technology could’ve attended the event. Some of the press that we ran into the keynote was actually their first time they had a glance at the Xbox 360, wow...seriously! They had no idea what in the world Halo 2 was nor did they know the Microsoft actually has an online service called Xbox Live, wow, just wow.... So great advertisement for Microsoft to introduce a new crowd that is not well in touch with gaming portion of Microsoft.

~~- NO PICTURES SOMEONE FORGOT TO TAKE PHOTOS-~~

Later, we attended the Games for Windows social gathering. It was pretty relaxing I had a few drinks after the craziness from the keynote, but who wouldn’t, seriously. The people that attended this gathering were majority Microsoft people such as Xbox community guys, John, Tony, Chris from gamerscoreblog.com, also saw Peter Moore, and a few more that I can’t name. The appetizers that they servicing were pretty decent, servers kept up with you, almost spoiling you with food. Then after we headed back to our hotel to get prepared to what was coming

[ More Keynote Photos | Vision's Pre-CES: Gates Keynote | Gamerscore CES Photos ]

Win a FREE Windows Vista Press kit!

2007-01-09T02:56:00Z

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Xbox 360 - Wireless Wheel Review!

2007-01-04T06:58:00Z

Introduction

So long to those endless hours of driving around with your Xbox 360 controller, now you can test your true driving skills with the wireless wheel. Microsoft was kind enough to provide us with this fun interactive product and so far they have delivered to us plenty of accessories for our console. They truly want us to go wireless all the way. The new sleek designed wireless wheel is there to take you a step closer to reality with your racing games. So pay good attention to this racing fans’, because this one is for you.

The Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel is consistent with the rest of Microsoft’s wireless peripherals that are on the market today. The device was designed to function wirelessly, since it doesn’t get plugged into your console. But if you want to get the full sensory rumble and force feedback experience, a power adapter is required so now you are tied to the wall instead of the console.

So what do we get for $149? Don’t worry Microsoft made sure that you got your money’s worth out of this one. The large package includes:

Full copy of Project Gotham Racing 3
Wireless Racing Wheel
Table Mount
Power Adapter
RJ11 Cable
2 AA Batteries
Instructional Manual

[ View the rest of this review... ]

Getting Ready for CES 2007!

2007-01-02T04:07:00Z

My first event for this year will be CES which stands for "Consumer Electronics Show". This is the largest tradeshow for consumers in the world. With more than 140,000 attendees from over 130 countries are expected to attend this event. They showcase the hottest technology from 2,700 exhitors, such as Audio, Digital Imaging, Emerging Technology, Gaming, High-performance Audio and Home Theater, Home Networking, Home Theater and Video, Mobile Electronics and wireless. So where is this immense event going to be located at? In the coolest city of the US, Las Vegas, the event will held at the Sands Expo and Convention Center/The Venetian, the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas Hilton and Renaissance Las Vegas.

Some of the booths that I have in mind to check out would be of course Microsoft Windows Vista, Intel Corp, Motorola, NVIDIA Corp, Sony Electronics, Skype, among others...I will do my best to check out everything that is being showcase. So it’s going to be a very interesting week. And without a doubt I will be hitting up the slots machines, who knows maybe my bad luck will change and come back as a millionaire (ha, not!!!).