Monthly Archives: July 2010

New DOTA Map 6.68b

Posted on July 31, 2010 by taragis

After months of eager anticipation, the long wait is finally over as Icefrog releases Dota’s latest patch 6.68b with lots of balance changes and additional 4 new heroes namely:   You can download the latest patch/map here. Defense of the … Continue reading →

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Windows 7 Tablets

Posted on July 31, 2010 by taragis

Microsoft is working on a new tablet computer design.  With the early success of the Apple iPad–more than 3 million sales and counting–and a batch of Android tablets scheduled to arrive by the end of the year, Microsoft is coming … Continue reading →

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YouTube Upload Time Boosted to 15 minutes

Posted on July 30, 2010 by taragis

Looking to make room for the 24 hours-plus of videos uploaded to the Website, as well as to protect copyrights for these videos, YouTube has boosted its upload time from 10 minutes to 15 minutes.

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Enhancing image quality, the Adobe way.

Posted on July 29, 2010 by taragis

In this tutorial, we use High Pass Filter of the Adobe Photoshop CS. High Pass filter is one of the obscure Photoshop filters that tries to determine the edges in an image. When you blend the High Pass layer with the … Continue reading →

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Facebook’s “Questions Service” Launched

Posted on July 29, 2010 by taragis

Facebook launched its new “Facebook Questions” service today.  This feature allows users to ask a question and anyone in the Facebook community can take a crack at answering it. A new “Ask Question” button on a users profile is provided … Continue reading →

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Yahoo Japan to adopt Google’s search engine

Posted on July 28, 2010 by taragis

Japan’s largest Internet portal operator will adopt Google’s search engine refusing to follow Yahoo Inc. in choosing Microsoft as a partner. Yahoo Japan, which currently uses Yahoo Inc’s search technology, and Google together would control almost all of the search … Continue reading →

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Jailbreaking mobile phones made it easy

Posted on July 28, 2010 by taragis

Why do people jailbreak phones? Despite how shady and against the rules it sounds, “jailbreaking” mobile phones is now legal in the United States, according to its new government ruling. But why is it? Why people need to jailbreak phones? … Continue reading →

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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has landed

Posted on July 27, 2010 by taragis

Blizzard’s sequel to 1998’s StarCraft went on sale at midnight openings across the country, and with sales expectations of about 7 million copies worldwide in 2010 and pull in revenue of $350 million. Most of that would come from South … Continue reading →

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Android sales in UK up by 350%

Posted on July 27, 2010 by taragis

The HTC Desire and the Samsung Galaxy S boost Android in the UK mobile phone market. GFK Retail and Technology figures show Android’s share in the UK mobile contract market grew from three per cent in the first quarter of … Continue reading →

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Apple to ship iPhone in 17 countries on Jul 30

Posted on July 26, 2010 by taragis

Apple on Monday said that it would launch the iPhone 4 in 17 countries—including Australia, Canada, and Switzerland—on Friday, July 30. At present, the iPhone 4 is available in five countries: the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, and Japan. Also … Continue reading →

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