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Bit-Tech is taking a look the mod of the year. "bit-tech has a long history of case modding - it was the entire premise for the site being set up back in 2000. This year, for the first time, we are taking the chance to formally honour some of the top modders in the bit-tech community with this, our first Mod of the Year contest."
From Matt: According to TheAge China is clamping down on online games. "China is tightening controls on its booming online game industry, requiring distributors to closely monitor game contents after some were found that included forbidden religious or political material, a state news agency said Tuesday. Distributors must obtain approval to release new games and submit monthly monitoring reports confirming that operators haven't added forbidden content, the Xinhua News Agency said. It cited a notice by the Press and Publication Administration."
From Komodo: According to APC magazine pirates have cracked the Vista activation server. "Pirates have released another ingenious workaround to Vista's copy protection: a hacked copy of Microsoft's yet-to-be-released volume licencing activation server, running in VMware. Volume Activation 2.0 is one of the more controversial features of Vista: it means that every copy of Vista has to be activated, even the Business/Enterprise volume licenced editions."
Tweaktown has an "easy guide" for playing DIVX and XVID content on your Xbox 360. "Microsoft’s Xbox 360 gaming console is one of the most popular ever. It’s great for sitting around and playing games with friends and you can even play DVD’s and music CD’s on the console. While this isn’t terribly exciting, if you have a system that is running Windows Media Center (MCE) or Vista Ultimate Edition, you can stream Windows Media Video (WMV) movies to your 360 console over the network. The down side is that you are forced to use one of these operating systems and the WMV codec isn’t all that good – compression is not that great and although it’s becoming more popular these days, DivX and Xvid are preferred “DVD backup” choice codec’s, shall we say?"
From Yonas: Somebody has replicated New York City in the game Sim City. It is remarkable how much detail he has been able to replicate within the game.
Tweaktown has a holiday shopping guide for building a gaming PC. "Christmas and New Year holidays... this is the season to be jolly, they say. We say it’s a time to ignore your budget and go out and build yourself a kick-ass new high-end gaming PC. Besides eating too much and avoiding confrontations with your family, what else will you do during the holidays? Play games and try and make your fast PC even faster!"
Technibble takes a look at processor codenames and where they come from. "In the computer industry there are plenty of buzzwords that get slung about when talking about the next generation of computer hardware and CPU codenames are quite possibly the hardest to keep track of due to the sheer amount of them. We have put together this list with the codename of each of the existing AMD and Intel processors."
From Yonas: The EETimes has some coverage of the high definition format war. "Internet discussions on Sony's Blu-ray show a general dislike for the high-definition format that's a key component in the company's overall strategy for grabbing a big share of the high-definition consumer electronics market, a research firm says. A Cymfony Inc. analysis of comments on 323 blogs, discussion boards, and other social media show that positive comments on Blu-ray's rival HD DVD, backed by Toshiba and other tech companies, are 46% higher. In addition, 2.5 times more posts discussed being impressed with HD DVD than with Blu-ray."
OCModShop takes a look at Mobile Phones and how many features we really need.
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