What are you expecting from this? Any announcements beyond dates and prices?
Written by: Kyran Morrison
Written by: Mike Glubish
iPhone-In many ways, the 3GS is a mirror image of the iPhone 3G; externally there's no difference. It's inside where all the changes have happened, with Apple issuing a beefed-up CPU, new internal compass, larger capacities for storage, and improved optics for its camera. More to the point, the release of the 3GS coincides with the launch of iPhone OS 3.0, a major jump from previous versions of the system software featuring highly sought after features like cut, copy, and paste, stereo Bluetooth, MMS, tethering, video recording, landscape keyboard options for more applications, and an iPhone version of Spotlight. It's important to remember that real-world use will be a better judge of the iPhone 3GS' endurance. The large color display, frequently switching between different applications, and heavy 3G or GPS use will drain the battery faster than just making a call. As it's difficult to develop an accurate benchmark for testing battery life while multitasking, your experience will vary widely depending on how you use your iPhone 3GS. There are quite a few things you can do to maximize battery life, but we recommend using Wi-Fi over 3G whenever possible, limiting GPS use, and dimming your display's brightness. The 3Gs is the first iPhone to show the percentage of battery charge on the Home screen.
Moto Milestone 2- Like its previous incarnations, the Milestone 2 is a bit of a handful at 116x61x14mm and 169g. The front is dominated by the 3.7-inch, 480x854 pixel capacitive touchscreen which has a sliver of touch sensitive buttons beneath it in standard Android style: menu, home, back and search. Around the sides are volume rocker, shutter button and uncovered mini USB power/sync port. On top there's a 3.5mm headphone jack and a power/screen lock button. It's running the very latest 2.2 version of Android, which adds a few style and functionality tweaks including the ability to turn the handset into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot for use with up to five other devices (included here, but it kills the battery). There are seven home screens on the Milestone 2 version, each of which can be populated with widgets and shortcuts in the usual Android way. There's also a neat little bar at the bottom of the screen which displays a series of dots to show you which screen you're on. We were impressed by Motoblur when it first appeared on the DEXT, with its ability to pull together all our Facebook, Twitter and email alerts into a single stream and hold them in the cloud so they could be accessed anywhere. But we were perplexed when it was unaccountably left off the original Milestone, for reasons best known to Motorola.
It is really wonderful that we can enjoy our movies and music with smart portable players anytime and anywhere. But you may also get confused with the problem: how to get movies and music into your favorite portable players?
Now I will introduce you an all in one solution. Only one program will help you solve all your questions, that is Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite. This program consists of two wonderful software: Nidesoft DVD Ripper and Nidesoft Video Converter. Nidesoft DVD Ripper is an excellent software with powerful functions that can convert DVD files to almost all popular video and audio formats including MP4, MP3, AVI,WMV, 3GP, AVC, AAC,etc. Nidesoft Video Converter can convert between almost all popular video and audio formats so that you can get movies and music from any format files. The quality is high and the speed is super fast. Also it is easy to use, only a few clicks were needed.
You can free download the Nidesoft DVD Ripper and Video Converter from this link:
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Then I will introduce you how to get movies and music from DVD and other video files with this powerful program.
How to get movies and music from DVD?
Step 1: you may open the Nidesoft DVD Ripper and load DVD movies first.
a.Open the Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite you have just downloaded, click “DVD Ripper”, then you may get the software Nidesoft DVD Ripper.
b.Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive
c.Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie and open it.
After add your movie, you can click any title or chapter to preview it in the preview window on the right. Then you can choose any titles or chapters you want to convert by click the check boxes before them. In this way, you can choose to convert DVD with the entire movie or just convert one or several chapters.
Step 2:Nidesoft DVD Ripper has powerful functions that enable you edit your video during conversion. You may use the functions below to make your perfect video.
Merge:A regular DVD movie has several chapters, you can convert several chapters into one by click the blank box before merge into one file. Click the check box before any chapter you want and merge them into one file.
Crop:you can cut off the black edges of the DVD movie to watch in full screen by click the crop button. A window will be opened and you can customize the size of screen by your will.
Effect:Click the Effect button you can set special effect including gray effect and negative effect.
You can also set the brightness, contrast, saturation and volume.
Trim:as you have selected the clips to convert, you can trim any segment of the clips by clicking the trim button. You can move the slide below the screen or set the start time and end time to trim any segment.
Step 3: you may customize the output video with its full functions.
Audio Track: Select an audio track from the available audio tracks of your DVD movie.
Subtitle:Common DVD movies have several subtitles such as English, Chinese, French, etc. You can choose one language you prefer or select “None” to delete subtitle.
Profile: Click the button and show the list of profiles, you can select the profiles you want. For example, if you want to convert your DVD movies to your iPod video player, click the “iPod video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”.
Note: If you don’t know which format to convert, you may choose the profile according to your portable player. For example, if your portable player is PSP, choose the profile “PSP Video MPEG-4 (*mp4)”
Step 4: now you can start your conversion.
After the settings finished, you can just click the convert button to start the conversion. You can view the conversion speed at the bottom. The conversion will be completed in few minutes.
How to convert video or audio files to some formats which your player supports?
You can free download the Nidesoft Video Converter from this link:
Nidesoft Video Converter:Convert video mp4, avi, MPEG, WMV each other
For example, you have downloaded a file from YouTube is in “flv” format and you may follow the way below to convert the flv files or other video files in your computer into your portable player.
Step 1:open the Nidesoft Video Converter and load files.
a. Open the Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite you have just downloaded, click “Video Converter”, you may get the software Nidesoft Video Converter.
b. click "add Files" button and import the videos from your computer. Nidesoft video converter supports batch conversion so you can import multiple files at one time.
c. EDIT the video with the function button:
Crop, Effect, Trim, Options
(1) Crop: Remove the undesired area or just convert part of the video area from your video file by dragging the frame around the video or setting the crop values: Top, Button, Left and Right.
(2) Effect: You can select gray effect or Negative effect from Special Effect or tune the Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Volume to get special effect movie.
(3) Trim: To get your favorite segment by setting the “Start Time” and “End Time” or dragging the Start Time slider to set the start time and dragging the End Time slider to set the finish time.
(4)Options:
Set video Resolution, video Bitrate, Audio Channels, and Audio Bitrate to customize the output video's quality.
Note: You could click the white box besides "Merge into one file" to merge your selected titles into one video before starting the conversion.
d. Select the out file format
Click the “format” drop-down list to select the output format. If you don’t know what formats your device supports, you can just select the format according to the device name.
e. Click the "Convert" button and start the conversion. Please wait a few minutes before the conversion succeeds!
Ok, now you have got music from videos and next what you need to do is enjoying it. At last, we strongly recommend to to try Nidesoft Blu Ray Ripper,which could convert Blu-Ray disc to many video and audio formats. And, if you have any questions, please visit Nidesoft Studio homepage to get more details information of the products.
This is the list of Rock Band Country Track Pack 2 Game:
Billy Currington – “That’s How Country Boys Roll”
Chely Wright – “Single White Female”
Darius Rucker – “Alright”
Darryl Worley – “Awful Beautiful Life”
Dierks Bentley – “Sideways”
Dwight Yoakam – “Intentional Heartache”
Gary Allan – “Man of Me”
George Strait – “Twang”
Jason Aldean – “Crazy Town”
Johnny Cash – “Ring of Fire”
Justin Moore – “Backwoods”
Keith Urban – “Kiss a Girl”
Lady Antebellum – “Perfect Day”
Laura Bell Bundy – “Giddy On Up”
Luke Bryan – “Rain Is a Good Thing”
Merle Haggard – “Mama Tried”
Rascal Flatts – “Summer Nights”
Reba McEntire – “The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia”
Shania Twain – “Party for Two (With Billy Currington)”
Sugarland – “Settlin’”
Trace Adkins – “Ride”
This is the Trailer of the Nintendo Wiiware game Liight
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LAS VEGAS, NV – January 20, 2011 – GarageGames, LLC, a newly-formed subsidiary of Graham Software Development, LLC (GSD), announced that it has acquired the assets relating to the Torque software division of InstantAction, Inc., and will be relaunching the Torque business under the GarageGames® banner.
The resurrection of the GarageGames brand highlights the new Company's focus on the independent game developer community. To celebrate the relaunch and return to its "indie" roots, GarageGames has reduced pricing across all its Torque on-line products to $99 each for a limited time.
"The Torque community and our internal team expressed a desire for a return to our original mission – providing affordable tools for independent game developers and game education communities," said Eric Preisz, CEO of GarageGames. "As Torque enthusiasts themselves, our new parent company shares this vision. Their support, as well as a return to a singular focus on our line of Torque engine products, puts us in a great position to expand, hire great talent and better meet the needs of our community."
GarageGames' Torque products provide developers, regardless of size or experience level, an affordable way to create high quality games. The Torque line of products includes 2D and 3D solutions for the PC/Macintosh, iOS, Xbox 360 and Wii. Torque solutions offer features such as robust editing, advanced rendering, a streamlined art pipeline, Web publishing, award-winning multiplayer networking, and several state-of-the-art add-on tools.
With a combined 30 years of game development and Torque experience, Preisz and GarageGames COO Dexter Chow understand the challenges that face independent and aspiring developers.
"Relaunching GarageGames provides us with a unique opportunity to redouble our efforts into art, execution and customer service," said Chow. "The team is committed to bringing a new level of quality to Torque which will make the product easier to use, more stable and intuitive. We're energized by our new direction and hope to attract top level, like-minded talent that can help us realize our goals."
The Torque community boasts more than 160,000 members of the development, small business and game education communities; and plays an integral part in the refinement and evolution of the Torque technologies. Additionally, Torque technology is an industry standard offered in more than 200 universities and schools for computer science and game design curricula.
"Ten years ago, GarageGames literally created the game engine market for independent game developers – that's a fantastic heritage to inherit as new owners," said Erik Graham of Graham Software. "Our new pricing should demonstrate to the Torque community that we intend to honor that heritage. After a decade, GarageGames is still the only provider of a full-source-code solution at a price indies and enthusiasts can afford. We have great hopes for GarageGames and are confident that Eric, Dexter and their whole team can take the Company to new heights with the right resources, attention and focus."
About GarageGames, LLC:
Based in the Summerlin community of Las Vegas, Nevada, GarageGames is an independent developer and provider of the full-featured Torque product line that enables independent developers, beginners, and hobbyists to create games for platforms including iOS, PC/Mac, and Xbox. GarageGames is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Graham Software Development. For more information, visit www.garagegames.com.
About Graham Software Development, LLC:
Graham Software Development is an investment and holding company focused on emerging technologies – particularly video game development and related technologies. GSD funds original technology development and partners with publishers, distributors and game studios on individual titles. GSD also considers the funding or acquisition of orphaned game properties and related intellectual property that need capital to finalize a title for commercial release.
GarageGames® and Torque Game Engine® are registered trademarks of GarageGames, LLC. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective companies.
on Jan 24th 2011 7:10PM
Despite a number six debut on December's NPD charts, Epic Mickey apparently can't save Junction Point Studios from post-launch staff cuts. Sources speaking with Joystiq confirm that Disney Interactive issued layoffs at the Warren Spector-helmed studio today, though exact numbers are unknown -- we've contacted Disney for comment, but we imagine those plans for sequels to Epic Mickey aren't looking so solid right now. Following last week's closure of Disney Interactive-owned Propaganda Games, today's layoffs represent further steps back for the publisher in terms of "core" game development endeavors, and, we fear, may not be the last of Disney's cuts. Disney also owns Split/Second developer Black Rock Studios, and most recently acquired social game developer Playdom.
Update: Layoffs hit entire Disney Interactive division.
[Image credit: Flickr user 'junctionpoint']
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