Microsoft unveiled the world’s largest Windows Phone yesterday at NYC’s Herald Square, and it stands a massive 55-feet tall. This behemoth is comprised of “enormous tiles [that] display video feeds transmitted from a control room, and move out of place to accommodate live stage performances.”
Set for release on November 13th, is Nintendo’s long-awaited Super Mario 3D Land for the 3DS. This game “might best be described as a hybrid of New Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Galaxy; while you have freedom to move around in 3-D space, the levels are laid out in a linear fashion and you often view the action from the side.” Product page. Videos after the break.
While some levels take a more non-linear approach and play with the camera angles, this happens gradually as you play through the game; clearly, Nintendo is trying to ease the casual players into the more complicated gameplay styles.
There’s no denying that the Kardashian’s are extremely famous, with their faces plastered almost everywhere you turn. Kim, in particular, has been even more so in the spotlight with her recent wedding and honeymoon being reported by every news outlet and blog. It seems that not all exposure is good, because a new poll from Parade Magazine has named Kim Kardashian the Most Annoying Celebrity around. Out of 60,000 people polled, she earned a whopping 29% of the votes.
Charlie Sheen was a close second with 27% of the votes.
1. Kim Kardashian 29%
2. Charlie Sheen 27%
3. Snooki 21%
4. Lindsay Lohan 16%
5. Donald Trump 5%
6. Brad Womack 1%
First released by iD Software on December 10, 1993, “Doom was played by an estimated 10 million people within two years of its release, popularizing the mode of gameplay and spawning a gaming subculture.”
You’ve seen what the offices of Blizzard and Google look like, now here’s a sneak peak at some parts of Microsoft’s Redmond campus. The “grounds comprise over 300 acres, with about 40 buildings housing nearly 14,000 offices.” Videos after the break.
OS X Lion Ultimatum has hit iOS devices, but unfortunately, this version is just “a theme, but it goes beyond skins and icons — it has a working Menu Bar, working Finder windows with the ability to drag windows and have multiple windows open [and] a scrollable dock.”
…the Dashboard and its widgets (which ironically are really only useful in a portable device like the iPhone and iPod Touch), a lock screen with phone, mail and SMS notifications and more.
[via Technabob]
Sometimes keeping track of website pages can be a pain. Maybe you want to monitor a certain section of a webpage, such as the price of an item on Amazon. Page Monitor for Google Chrome lets you do exactly that, and does so intelligently.
Using this extension you get a lot of control over any page. You can specify the interval you want it monitored at, which parts of the page you want tracked, and much more. It also ignores things like code changes so that you’re not frequently getting notified for things that don’t matter.
Here’s a rundown of the features:
Before posting or sharing photos you might like the piece of mind knowing that there isn’t any identifiable information stored in the metadata of your images. For example, if you’ve taken a photo using your cellphone there is a good chance that the image was also tagged with the GPS location where it was shot.
The free FileMind QuickFix tool removes all GPS location data, EXIF tags (stores date/time the photo was taken, camera type, and more), Iptc and XMP tags (stores descriptive metadata such as copyright). It will also chop out any embedded previews that are saved in the image.
This is a pretty nice tool since it only takes a single click to remove the data, and the interface is about as simple as it gets. If you’re worried about the “hidden” data stored in your images I highly recommend downloading this app.
FileMind QuickFix Homepage (Windows only; Freeware)
I’m sure most of us have used a Lorem Ipsum generator for some filler text at one point or another. If you want to spice things up a little bit we have a few alternative text generators that will throw a little something different into your projects.
When I’ve had to compare two files in the past I’ve always used the free WinMerge. There is no arguing that this is an awesome free app, but there is one feature it has always lacked that the developers say they won’t add. That feature is a way to view only the lines that are different between two text files. Here is what the WinMerge FAQs say:
Can I hide similar lines in a file comparison, so that only different lines are visible?
No, you can’t. Many users have requested this feature but we don’t have any plans to implement it. We don’t believe it would really improve usability.
There is another free app called DiffMerge that does have this feature though. The two documents that I’m comparing in the screenshot above with DiffMerge are 50 lines in total, but only the different lines are shown.
One thing to note is that the option to view only the differences will be disabled until you switch to the bottom tab labeled Referenced View. After you do that you should be able to switch to the Differences Only view.
I really wish that WinMerge had this feature, but at least there is a free alternative available that can do it. And here are some of the other features that DiffMerge offers:
DiffMerge Homepage (Windows/Mac/Linux; Freeware)
