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  1. Sony officials said at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that the game player will hit U.S. stores in March.

    Sony executive Howard Stringer said the console will sell for less than $200.

    Sony hopes U.S. demand will be strong for the black-and-silver console, which also plays music and movies. Stores in Japan sold out of the 200,000 PSPs they had in stock within hours of its debut Dec. 12.

    Sony officials said the company shipped 510,000 units of the PSP in Japan as of Dec. 31, exceeding its 2004 target by 10,000.

    Sony's PSP is being pitted against Japanese rival Nintendo's new DS portable game player. It sells for $150 and hit the the U.S. market Nov. 21, in time for the holiday shopping season.

    "The price is such a bargain I don't think anyone is going to be put off," Stringer said of the PSP. "I don't think all the consumer electronics stores had a great Christmas.

    "With this price point, the reaction will be the same as in Japan."

    Sony, famous for its PlayStation and PlayStation2 consoles, trails Nintendo in the handheld game player market. In addition to DS, Nintendo makes the GameBoy line.

    The PSP also is known as the PlayStation Portable.

    Nintendo officials said last month the company expected to ship more than 2.8 million units of its dual-screen Nintendo DS console, which is strictly a gaming device with wireless capabilities, in the United States and Japan by the end of 2004.

    News source: r0x0rz via GameShout

  2. Posted it on my blog:

    As you see, Some of you might of gotten Half-Life 2 already and some might get it today or some might not even get it at all. In this thread, You may:

    • Post any cool screen shots you took
    • Ask for assistance (if your having any trouble on any level).
    • General Chit-Chat on it

    Remember, Don't post any Spoilers because you will ruin the fun then ;-).

    Note: There is a Half Life 2 channel @ irc://irc.quakenet.org/halflife2 (Warning: That channel is really big and people spam so It's going to be hard for you all people to catch up with the messages.)

    For the latest Half-Life 2 news, Please visit: http://halflife2.net/.

    -Blueshadowz

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    Ever wonder where some users get that c00l Gmail Signatures? Well now you can create one yourself. You can generate signature at http://Gizmo967.MGS3.org/Gmail/. You have 3 images that you can use, as you can see.

    If you would like to use this image as forum signature all you need to do is:

    1. Enter username and click the 'Create' button

    2. Right-click the image and click 'Save Image As'

    3. Upload to your server, then link to it.

    4. Done!

    f you would like to host gmail signature generator on your own host, you can download script at playtime.unic.cc or just click link below.

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    globe.gif News source: Windowsbeta

  4. Hello everybody,

    today, I decided to make an exception to my usual no-public-beta policy and released a beta version of the forthcoming Messenger Plus! 3.40. There are two reasons for that: first, I'm going to France tomorrow to attend a special MSN Event. If Microsoft France takes this opportunity to tide me up and wash my brain by forcing me to look at XWindows for several hours, at least, I'll have left something useful to my users. The second reason is that I'm planning several things for Messenger Plus! 3.40 and I don't know when I'll be able to release the final version. By releasing a beta today, I'm sure that some of you won't keep waiting for Messenger Plus! to try out the new Messenger version when it becomes publicly available.

    The beta version will be available for download on this page only. The download link will change from time to time and you are strictly forbidden to redistribute this version directly (no exception). If you want to link to the beta, please link to this page. Why am I doing that? again for two reasons (I'm a complicated man) : there are many things to improve and fix in this beta before it's suitable for the general public and I want everyone who download the beta to read the following important message:

    Note to official MSN Messenger 7 Beta Testers: the MSN Messenger Team is counting on you to beta test their product. This version of Messenger Plus! being a beta itself, it is imperative to follow a simple procedure before reporting any bug to Microsoft. If you think you found something to report, close Messenger, kill MsgPlus.exe (or uninstall it; reinstalling Plus! will just takes 10 seconds), restart Messenger and check if the bug still occurs. You must not report anything that has not been tested without Messenger Plus! running. Being a developer myself, I know how frustrating it would be for the Messenger Team not to be able to differentiate bugs coming from their software with bugs coming from a third party plugin. Thank you for your cooperation.

    So, what can you expect in this beta? almost nothing except good ol' Plus! . However, to spice things up a little, I did add a nice improvement in this beta: contact names are displayed with their colors and formatting attributes almost everywhere in Messenger, including in the contact list and in the toast popups. The feature is not complete yet but it seems to work pretty well already so I left it in the beta (note that there will be an option in the preferences panel of the final version to disable this feature). Apart from that, I added an enlarge button on the sponsor agreement window for people who want to take a closer look (I have nothing to hide), you can set auto-messages while being online, the creation of new contacts on desktop is more friendly and richedit controls all have a nice themed border when you run Windows XP (I'll release the code of that improvement on CodeGuru later this month for the two of you who may be interested).

    Here is a list of known bugs/limitations in Messenger Plus! 3.40 Beta. Bug reports are always welcomed (mplus@patchou.com) but first, be sure that your bug is not listed here. If you want to help but can't download Messenger 7 for now, you should know that it is as important for me to know that the new version works as well with older versions (4, 5, 6) than it works with the new one.

        * The "Hide advertisement banner" is not available in MSN Messenger 7 anymore. The reason is not entirely technical, I just felt this option had not its place in Messenger Plus! anymore, thank you for understanding.

        * Some people in your contact list may be displayed with a different font than usual. This is due to the new "name multi-format" feature and it will be fixed in the final version. You can disable that feature to remove the bug by setting "ContactListMultiFormat" to 0 in the preferences registry key.

        * No Plus! Enhanced Icon in the contact list for now, I'm working on a solution that will integrate nicely in the new Messenger 7 interface.

        * The POP3 E-Mail feature will display popups for new emails but won't update the email count in the contact list (will be fixed too, somehow).

        * and... that's it! everything else is supposed to work as well as before. I know it sounds natural for all of you, which is just sad for me as a lot of work was required for some features to be back and you'll never see it .

    News source: Msgplus! Forums

    Download: Messenger Plus 3.40 BETA

  5. Wallop is a research project of the Social Computing Group at Microsoft Research, exploring how people share media and build conversations in the context of social networks. We are currently conducting a small, real world trial of Wallop with small friendship groups. Therefore, membership in Wallop is limited to study participants until the trial is over. For more information about our research projects, please go to our Social Computing web site.

    Please include this if your wanting a invite:

    Name:

    Email:

    Description (Don't need a Description but would be better because you have a betetr chance of someone inviting you 8-| )

    -Xero_Cool

    Its official site is @ http://www.mywallop.com!

  6. Today, I was browsing around the net and found out that Microsoft is putting up a new help And Support site soon!

    The new Microsoft Help and Support site makes it easier than ever to find solutions to your product questions. Product-specific troubleshooting and assisted support, personalization, and improved search are some of the highlights of the new site.

    To view the video, Please select your connection:

    streaming.gifBroadband/T1/LAN connections

    streaming.gifDial-up or ISDN connections

    icondownload.gifHigh-quality offline download for local computer playback (38 MB)

    Note: Windows Media Player is needed.

    News Source: Microsoft

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