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- Video: Sesame Street spoofs iPod ads
- PSX4Droid PlayStation emulator hits Android phones
- We’re 10 Facebook fans away from a prize-giving! What do you want from our Facebook page?
- BlackBerry Pearl 3G: Ultimate tips for festival goers
- Sanyo Xacti CA100: 14MP waterproof HD camcorder hits the UK
- Paul McKenna iPhone apps: possibly terrifying, definitely expensive
- HMV Digital: “We are not waging war with iTunes”
- Nokia C5 review: Ultimate buyer’s guide
- New iMac and Mac Pro incoming? Stock shortages say yes!
- Daily Star apologises for GTA Raoul Moat fiction
| Video: Sesame Street spoofs iPod ads Posted: 26 Jul 2010 09:25 AM PDT 
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| PSX4Droid PlayStation emulator hits Android phones Posted: 26 Jul 2010 09:01 AM PDT 
Unlike the more restrictive Apple App Store, Android phones have a number of emulators available on the Android Market, such as SNESoid and C64 emulator Frodo. A PlayStation emulator has been many a ‘droid user’s holy grail and there have been rumours circulating that ZodTTD and yongzh – two coders responsible for Dr Pocket SNES and SNESoid respectively – have been working on one. Well, it’s real and it has just been released. PSX4Droid can play most PlayStation ROMS and is reportedly pretty smooth on all but a few titles. Sound quality is variable, but key titles like Final Fantasy VII and Wip3out have been confirmed as working. There is a slight elephant in the room – you need to own both ROM files and a PlayStation BIOS file. While ROMs could be easily made from original disks, that BIOS file is something you are probably only going to get from the more dodgy corners of the interwebs. The legality of playing PlayStation games on your phone is somewhat controversial. Assuming you own the originals, and can play with a relatively clear conscience, you should be aware that the emulator is intended for higher-end Android phones like the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S. There is no free ‘Lite’ version available to test if your phone can cope, so this may be a leap of faith for many users. Available now | $5.99 | Android Market (via Engadget) Related posts:
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| We’re 10 Facebook fans away from a prize-giving! What do you want from our Facebook page? Posted: 26 Jul 2010 08:52 AM PDT 
Now, with just 10 fans to go before we dish out an incredibly rare Electricpig mug and some digicash vouchers, we want to know what you'd like from our Facebook page. Before you do that though, hit that Facebook share button to the left, and let your mates know if they join now, they could be lucky and nab a prize!
If you're not yet an Electricpig fan on Facebook, just head to our Facebook page and hit the "like" button – we'll be dishing out regular, random prizes as well as prizes for fans at landmark moments too – tell your friends!
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| BlackBerry Pearl 3G: Ultimate tips for festival goers Posted: 26 Jul 2010 08:12 AM PDT 
Want to share updates from the field (pun intended) with a wider audience? Twitter for BlackBery will let you do just that, flinging photos and text to your followers so they can live vicariously through your festival antics. Read more about BlackBerry Messenger and Twitter for BlackBerry.
Check out our list of keyboard shortcuts and you'll soon be batting out missives quicker than you can find an overpriced burger van! Read more about BlackBerry Messenger shortcuts.
Forget fumbling for paper itineraries, or trying to remember where to meet your mates and when, automatic calendar syncing means you'll never put a foot wrong and full web browsing means in a pinch you can always track down information to put you back on track! Read more about sharing calendars and the BlackBerry web browser.
Once you've loaded the BlackBerry Pearl 3G up with songs, follow our tips on turbo charging the BlackBerry music player and squeezing the most out of those tracks. Read more about loading the BlackBerry Pearl 3G with music, and tips when playing back tracks
Even better, since you'll both be using BlackBerry handsets, you can chat instantly and for free using BlackBerry Messenger! Check out more BlackBerry Pearl 3G hints and tips. Related posts:
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| Sanyo Xacti CA100: 14MP waterproof HD camcorder hits the UK Posted: 26 Jul 2010 08:08 AM PDT 
Waterproof to a depth of 3m, the Sanyo Xacti CA100 will shoot 1080i HD footage at up to 60fps and grab 14MP still images. It's rocking the familiar pistol-grip design we've seen on previous Sanyo video cameras with a 5x optical zoom (12x digital). It comes in shocking pink and yellow versions as well as a sedate black option. The Sanyo Xacti CA100 records to SD and SDXC card and is compatible with Eye-Fi cards so you can fling your snaps straight up to the web via Wi-Fi. YouTube and Facebook uploading is helped by the fact that the camera grabs its clips in MP4. There's also HDMI out to watch your mini-masterpieces on your HD TV. Snapping still 14MP gives the Sanyo Xacti CA100 one up on its rivals the Kodak Playsport and Toshiba Camileo BW100 but both those cameras will give capture 1080p HD video. The Sanyo Xacti CA100 is out now for the slightly pricey sum of £349 but you're bound to be able to get a more palatable price if you shop around. Out now | £349 | Sanyo Related posts:
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| Paul McKenna iPhone apps: possibly terrifying, definitely expensive Posted: 26 Jul 2010 08:02 AM PDT 
McKenna’s iPhone app for confidence features, among other things, a panic button, and a 'confidence trance', which is, for the uninitiated, "a mind-programming hypnotic trance". Perfect for when you're on the go. Ok, so we're expecting all of you who've used McKenna’s multimedia hypnosis products to tell us about how it ‘really works’. But aside from McKenna's mad hypno-skillz, is the iPhone app worth it? Is the app well built? And most importantly, how effective is this 'confidence trance'? We'd really like to know, but are just not feeling, well, confident enough, to sacrifice the cost of our Monday night pints… Related posts:
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| HMV Digital: “We are not waging war with iTunes” Posted: 26 Jul 2010 07:35 AM PDT 
The service is powered by 7Digital, 50 per cent of which is owned by HMV, since last year. The service has 10 million tracks available, (it passed our litmus test for content) and quality ranges from 320kbps for most major new releases, to 192kbps for more obscure artists, meaning that often, for major artists at least, HMV Digital beats iTunes, whose standard bit rate is 256kbps. Jonathan Southall, marketing manager at 7Digital, said: "75 per cent of our tracks are at 256kbps or 320kbps. Anything below this is largely due to historical hangovers, as we've been ingesting content for seven years. We're ingesting new content and upgrading quality all the time." To use HMV Digital, the user purchases a 'locker' which stores tracks in the cloud that are accessible through any computer, or on the go. Will you use HMV Digital or stick to iTunes? Does the service have any key advantages for you? Related posts:
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| Nokia C5 review: Ultimate buyer’s guide Posted: 26 Jul 2010 07:34 AM PDT 
Read the rest of our Nokia C5 review Nokia C5 review Best for early adopters If you just want to get your hands on a Nokia C5 without having to sign up for a new contract or SIM then Expansys and others are selling it in black, unlocked & SIM-free for just £149.99. If you want a little bit more of a bargain and don’t mind a change in colour, you can get the white version of the phone on the same site for a tenner less – although you may have to wait for stocks to come in, whereas the black edition is available for next-day delivery. Best for data hogs The C5 doesn’t do wifi, which keeps the cost of the handset down but does mean that a decent data tariff is a must. We can’t imagine many of you will be using the tiny 2.2 inch screen for serious web browsing, but for lighter use and emails, etc. we think you could do worse than sign up for a T-mobile plan for £15/month and use the free flexible booster to get unlimited internet. If you want a reasonable amount of talk time that will mean 24 months worth of contract for 300 minutes/300 texts but by paying a fiver more you can get the same deal for 18 months instead. Best for chatterboxes If you don’t mind slogging through a potential lengthy cashback process, Into Mobile Phones have two good deals – one for T-Mobile at £28.33 for 1200 minutes, + 500 texts the other for Vodafone at £29.72 for 1200 minutes + unlimited texts. If that sounds like too much work, you can get the same deal on T-Mobile for £40 for 18 months. Best overall deal This 18-month T-Mobile deal gives you a good balance of minutes (600) and texts (500) plus a flexible booster pack that will let you choose unlimited data, cheap overseas calls or something more useful to you. £25 quid to you, mate. Read the rest of our Nokia C5 review Nokia C5 review Related posts:
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| New iMac and Mac Pro incoming? Stock shortages say yes! Posted: 26 Jul 2010 06:32 AM PDT 
Reports suggest that although the Apple Store online is still showing the iMac and Mac Pro shipping "within 24 hours", the trickle of stock to real bricks and mortar stores is starting to be reduced. Whispers from non-Apple stores which stock the iMac suggest they've been struggling to get their hands on fresh supplies. The iMac last got a refresh in October. Our 27in iMac review declared it the best all-in-one computer out there. So what might Apple do to enhance a new iMac? Whispers suggest we could see a dual-core Intel Core i5 model added to the line up along with a more affordable option packing an Intel Core i3 processor. The new iMac will apparently see the arrival of USB 3.0 to Apple desktops. The perennial rumours that a touchscreen iMac is on the way are also doing the round again as well as suggestions that the Bluetooth multitouch Magic Slate trackpad will break cover at the same time. If you're waiting to upgrade, what features do you want to see added by Apple in the new iMac and Mac Pro? And can you see yourself snapping up a Magic Slate if Apple waves its wand and reveals it at the same time? Out TBC | £TBC | Apple (via Mac Rumors) Related posts:
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| Daily Star apologises for GTA Raoul Moat fiction Posted: 26 Jul 2010 05:55 AM PDT 
We reported last week that Daily Star journalist Jerry Lawton was unrepentant about his made-up scoop and went on the (even more) offensive on Facebook. He may be a little less bolshy now his bosses have issued a substantial apology to GTA creator Rockstar Games and paid substantial damages. The paper says: "It is now accepted that there were never any plans by Rockstar Games to publish such a game and that the story was false. We apologise for publishing the story using a mock-up of the game cover, our own comments on the matter and soliciting critical comments from a grieving family member." The most telling part of The Daily Star's apology is this: "We made no attempt to check the accuracy of the story before publication and did not contact Rockstar Games prior to publishing the story. We also did not question why a best selling and critically acclaimed fictional games series would choose to base one of their most popular games on this horrifying real crime event." Rockstar’s army of lawyers clearly gave The Daily Star quite a going over. One good thing has come out of the tawdry affair though: it has donated the damages it received from the paper to charity. If you want to read the apology in its entirety, follow the link below but remember that does mean giving The Daily Star more attention. Maybe just read our Red Dead Redemption review instead. Related posts:
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Apple spoofs are nothing new, but when Sesame Street does them, well let’s just say they’re more warm and fuzzy than snarky and sarcastic. Check out this video of Big Bird, Elmo and pals dancing along with white earbuds, and… what are those… D-Pods?… see the video after the break.
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