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One Emulator To Rule Them All; Many Pieces Of Software Bind Them

Researchers at Portsmouth University are looking to preserve the history of our software past, by creating an emulator that could read any software dating back to the 70's. Yea, I wish I could get in on some of that research as well. Maybe test some games out, make sure they work. Hey, somebody has to do it.

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World of Warcraft: Wrath Of The Lich King; Everyone Including Your Grandmother Is Playing It

I'd say about 1 in 2 people reading this either play World of Warcraft, know someone that plays it, or has completely lost their lives to it. The reason I know that is because the expansion pack to WoW, Wrath of the Lich King set record numbers for sales its first 24 hours upon release.

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Cosby, A&P lessons, 2 fine video cards, $200 off HP, Fable II and Aerosmith GH - Monday’s deals

It's a Monday, which means you're sitting in your office, cubicle, home or classroom wondering what the heck happened to the weekend.  Here's a few deals to sweeten your inevitable Monday blues.

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Mach Dice is the iPhone RPG die rolling app you’ve been waiting for

Finally!  The die app you role players (or lovers of multi-facted dice) have been waiting for has arrived, from MachWerx.  It's Mach Dice and it's beautiful.  The premise is simple.  You choose the dice, you make the roll.  You can select any type of die you want, up to 100 of them - multiple dice of different sides are available as well.

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Songbird enters Beta! Go and get it!

Songbird, the long in developement ultimate media system for cross platform audio/visual joy has entered Beta!  The new release features a new UI, faster media scanning, drag and drop goodness, a first run wizard (with EULA - is that really a feature?), smart playlists and album art.  Wee!

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Steam’s buy one, get one free with Brothers in Arms, violence, Hold Steady and console games - Friday deals ahoy!

It's Friday!  The world is poised on the edge of a weekend and it's time for some pretty cool deals. The biggest one is from the folks at Valve, but also save on games and music this morning from Amazon.

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Diceshaker - another RPG die rolling app for the iPhone or iPod Touch

Diceshaker is another handy app to have if you're into rolling multiples of d8's on your iPhone or iPod Touch.  It's a bit more flexible than the previous apps I've looked at in that you have more dice / multiples to choose from.

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Ambiance for the iPhone/iPod touch

In my continued quest to find interesting and useful apps from Apple’s App store I came across Ambiance.  It’s a fun coincidence that the two apps I downloaded first ended up #1 (Koi Pond) and #2 at the apps store for paid apps.  Both are $0.99 apps and both aren’t games. I find this trend very [...]

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Koi Pond for the iPhone/iPod Touch

Koi Pond is really very lovely to look at.  The water is done wonderfully, reacts well to touch and has nice splooshy sound effects.  The fish act naturally and will dart around your screen if disturbed, as advertised. As you can see from the screen shots, it's quite beautiful to look at.

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