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Select Player Episode 3

In this post-E3 episode we talk about the Wii U (obviously) and Luigi’s Mansion 2 for the 3DS Continue reading

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Select Player Episode 2

In this episode we discuss the Pokémon Dream World and LA Noire. Continue reading

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Select Player Episode 1

In the very first episode of Select Player Antonia and David have a chat about Portal 2 co-op mode and Zelda: OOT for the 3DS Continue reading

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Nintendo are finally learning about social

Prior to the Nintendo 3DS, each game would generate its own ‘Friend Code’ which you had to share with others (and vice-versa) in order to become ‘friends’. There was no ‘Such and such has added you’, and each game would … Continue reading

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Nintendo 3DS and DS games: The truth

Update: I can now confirm that if you want to play DS games on a 3DS in the best possible quality, you should definitely get a Nintendo 3DS XL and play DS games in ‘native’ mode (see below). This will … Continue reading

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Twitter: Let us use t.co so we can get rid of short URLs

If you use Twitterfall (and why wouldn’t you!) you might notice that sometimes tweets in your timeline contain URLs that wouldn’t fit in a tweet (and you hadn’t hovered over it to automatically expand it). How does that work? That’s … Continue reading

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Twitter ditches whitelisting, tells developers to deal with it

Twitter’s Ryan Sarver (@rsarver) sent out an email a couple of days ago to the Twitter API Announcement list stating that they will no longer grant whitelisting requests for the REST API, meaning developers who aren’t already whitelisted will have … Continue reading

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Why you shouldn’t use target=_blank, and what to use instead

Update: It’s been pointed out to me (by x5315) that HTML5 didn’t actually deprecate the target attribute, so this is largely irrelevant; although it’s removed from XHTML 1.1, the ‘data-‘ style attributes are HTML5, not XHTML. The only advantage is … Continue reading

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Sparrow and Twitterrific move to the App Store, and what happened to consistent UI?

Sparrow, the Tweetie Twitter inspired (G)mail client for OS X, and Twitterrific (watch for that double ‘r’) the Tweetie Twitter alternative Twitter client have both released new versions today (Twitterrific should be live tomorrow) exclusively on the new Mac App … Continue reading

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Forget Mozy, use BackBlaze

Everyone should backup, but most people don’t. The plethora of new online backup solutions are making it a lot easier for people to backup and keep their data safe. Mozy and BackBlaze are two such services. Mozy recently announced that … Continue reading

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