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Super Mario Galaxy 2 to come with tutorial DVD

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I read an excellent piece on Half-Life 2 the other day over at Action Button that compared its learning curve to Super Mario Bros. The idea was that all the gameplay mechanics are presented and demonstrated naturally to the player, in a way that is both informative and fun.

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TEAC R-4iDNT DAB Radio / iPod Dock

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TEAC R-4iDNT DAB Radio / iPod Dock

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Dell Latitude 2110 For Educational Market

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Dell is expected to announce the successor of the Latitude 2100 netbook this month. As a successor of Latitude 2100 which was launched more than a year ago, Dell Latitude 2110 also targeting the education market.

SVA MFA Designer As Author Carnival

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The first year students of the School of Visual Arts MFA Designer As Author Program are putting on a "Candy-Coated Carnival of Controversy" opening on May 10th in New York City. Oh my! The spectacle will include "games of skill and chance, feats of strength and design marvels!"

Space Shuttle Launch (and Tweetup) Set for May 14

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After passing the rigorous Flight Readiness Review (FRR) that precedes every launch, the Space Shuttle Atlantis was cleared today for a scheduled liftoff at May 14 at 2:20 p.m. ET.

Roku Unveils New Netflix Channel Design and Adds Plenty of Features [Video]

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Looks like the time for much needed upgrades is upon us, because Roku has just let us know that their Netflix Channel will be getting a major face lift here soon.

Survey marks AT&T as worst for dropped calls

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In spite of ongoing network upgrades, dropped calls are only getting worse on AT&T's cellular network, a study by ChangeWave claims. Having polled 4,040 North Americans in March, the research group says that an average of 4.5 percent of calls made within the previous 90 days were dropped.

Motorola leaning towards own OS in possible Azingo takeover

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Motorola may have taken some of its first steps away from depending on other operating systems through word of a possible buyout.

Cupidtino will help you meet your iSweetie

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Filed under: Cult of Mac I'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner -- Cupidtino is a brand new site that promises to hook you up with a fellow Cult of Mac member for romantic entanglements.

New solar cells printed on paper

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Everyone loves the idea of solar energy. The three big challenges are that solar cells are expensive to produce, they’re not very efficient, and you need some means to store the energy collected.

Fujifilm FinePix F80EXR Reviewed

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Photography Blog has managed to do a lengthy review of the Fujifilm FinePix F80EXR point and shoot digital camera.The F80EXR has a 12 megapixel sensor along with a 3 inch active matrix TFT colour LCD display.

FCC to reclassify Internet after all, enforce neutrality

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The FCC has quietly made the decision today to reclassify Internet access as a telecommunication service that would be subject to tougher net neutrality rules.

Enchiper 7-Inch Android Tablet

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Enchiper release its 7-inch tablet PC. Running Android 1.6, this Enchiper tablet packs a a 400MHz VIA 8505 processor, 512MB of RAM and a 16GB of storage. Its 7-inch touchscreen display has a 800 x 480 pixel resolution.

Black Nintendo Wii Shows up Early in Canadian Best Buy

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It must be May 9th, right? Surely it is, because that’s the only reason we’d be seeing a fully boxed, still shiny, Nintendo Wii in black at a retail store, right?

Barnes & Noble and HP join forces to launch specially branded online bookstore

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Some Barnes & Noble nook news for your Wednesday afternoon. The giant bookstore has teamed up with HP (you know, the guys who now own Palm) to bring us the HP B&N Bookstore. It just makes things a little easier for HP folk to browse and buy B&N wares. So what’s up?

Motorola Droid Solves a Rubik’s Cube Thanks to LEGO Robot [Video]

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While some robots are made to teach you something, or even go easy on your pocket book, this little do it yourself LEGO robot is just about the coolest thing we’ve seen today.

Crush the Castle for iPhone free today only

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Filed under: iPhoneI'm not much of a gamer but I adore Crush the Castle. It's a medieval themed game where you use a trebuchet to knock down your enemies who inhabit an increasingly difficult arrangement of fortifications.

Google’s new results page carries over to Android, iPhone

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Google as part of a major overhaul of its search results page changed the layout for its Android and iPhone search pages as well. While it will still show just the results in the main view, a new button will show the filter sidebar that now appears on the desktop.

Seagate planning a 3TB SAS Constellation ES drive?

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Storage media maker Seagate is said to be working on a 3TB Constellation ES disk drive that is expected to arrive in stores later this year, according to unnamed sources speaking to TheRegister.

NEC adds 27-inch pro MultiSync display

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NEC had released its second professional display monitor after the initial MultiSync PA241W with the 27-inch MultiSync PA271W. The new display has a 10-bit p-IPS panel with a resolution of 2560x1440, along with internal 14-bit programmable 3D lookup tables.

OCZ Enyo Features Ridiculous Good Looks and USB 3.0

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How can you be expected to not buy things for your computer, when the internals are starting to look as good as OCZ’s brand new SSD, the Enyo? When OCZ talked about this solid state drive back at CES this year, we were waiting in utter anticipation to get our eyes on one.

TUAW TV Live: the all-Mac episode

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Filed under: WIN BusinessAs we promised earlier today, TUAW TV Live is all about Macs this week. If you've been weary of all the talk about iPads and iPhones, we hope that today's show will be a splash of refreshing and juicy Macness.

OCZ rolls out Enyo external SSD with USB 3.0

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Memory and storage media maker OCZ has revealed its latest external drive, the Enyo Portable SSD, with the new high-speed USB 3.0 interface. The device is deliberately much sleeker than the usual external drive and matches this with the faster USB 3.0 interface, which is rated at 5Gbps.

Scope Watch is Geeky Sci-Fi Cool

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The guys over at Yanko Design say that this watch looks a lot like the one that Harrison Ford wore in Blade Runner. I can’t say that I recall the watch nearly as much as I recall all the robots getting shot.

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Zoom Q3 Handy Video Recorder Now $199

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Camcorders have become much simpler in the last few years. They used to all be rather large devices but with the advent of YouTube and its raging popularity there is now a huge market for simple and compact video cameras like the Zoom Q3.

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