Need For Speed – Shift

Need for Speed : Shift is now available (demo) for the PC, as the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the demo will be released in early October. The demo will include the BMW M3, Dodge Viper SRT-10, Lotus Elise 111R, Nissan GT-R, and the Pagani Zonda. Will Forza be pushed aside? Get your steering wheels and gaming set-ups ready.

Check out a review of the game below.

Happy Eid to everyone.

Are You An iPhone Addict?

Here are the top 5 signs that you are addicted to your iPhone. Plus an added one from me. You gotta love that iPhone.

1. You find that you go into a massive depression and have panic attacks when you get the 20% battery pop up warning.

2. You check the weather on your iPhone instead of looking out the window.

3. You’ve experienced deeply religious “Thank God” moments after finding your iPhone in your other pocket.

4. You just spent the last 4 hours on Facebook.

5. Your partner, husband, or wife bans any mobile phone usage at restaurants, bars and cafes in the presence of your friends and family.

* You start emailing your friends links of yourself singing rap songs using the “I am T-Pain” app.

You can also find a list of the top 10 signs you are addicted to gaming here.

Random Information of the Day : President Obama getting in on the Kanye-Bashing bandwagon by calling him a “jackass”. Check it out on update 2 at the bottom of this post.

United Networks vs Qnet vs Kems

So it is this little culprit that is always giving me trouble.

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The Rebirth of Auto-Tune

After N posted a while back about Jay-Z and auto-tune, iTunes have come back with an app to make sure it remains a major player with vocalists, the consumer vocalists at least. I am T-Pain.

T-Pain burst on the auto-tune scene with his Buy You A Drink song, constantly repeating his name and every other line in the song using auto-tune. Now, you can do it yourself with this application. Available for $2.99 in the iTunes App Store, you can boast  in front of your friends, spitting lyrics out in the auto-tuned T-Pain style voice. You can select from a number of his songs which have karaoke-style lyrics strip at the bottom, and his music in the background, or you can freestyle any song you want. Obviously, I have heard many renditions of T-Pain’s song using this application, but the funniest by far must have been a “Tash ma Tash” one I heard this weekend performed by a 5 year old kid. After done recording you can email it to a friend. Very enjoyable app and worth the $3.00.

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Random Information of the Day : if you hadn’t heard of Serena Williams getting penalised at match point and losing the semi-final of the US Open to comeback queen Kim Clijsters for a rant at the line judge, here is a snippet:

“I swear to God, I’ll f— take this ball and shove it down your f— throat,”

Very ghetto-suave. link

Don’t Lose Hope – Fix it Yourself

Ever dropped your cell phone in water? Ever had to replace an iPod because of battery problems? How about spilling liquid on a laptop? These, and many other everyday nuisances occur to us all the time. And we usually end up fully replacing the ‘defected’ object. But wait, I read this article on MSN and it seemed very helpful for alot of these problems. Even stuff like reviving a stuck LCD panel are included. Check out the article right here.

Random Information of the Day : So there was the dotcom bubble, then in Kuwait we had the Sushi bubble and currently we are experiencing the cupcake/cookie bubble. But did you know that our last “bubble” (sushi and sashimi) is in the top 5 list of most foods to contain parasites? Some foods to ponder over here.

PS3 Slim For 69KD

The PS3 slim is being sold for 69KD by the official dealer in Kuwait (Supplying Store Company) at their Avenues branch only while supplies last.

This must be a PAL system with 120GB HDD, that can play all PS3 games and most Bluray movies. But it wont play your existing DVD collection or region locked Bluray movies.

This is a great buy if you want the system for playing games mainly.

via Frankom

The Rejects

have you always wondered which iPhones app never made it to the app store, or made it and then got booted out? What were the reasons for Apple not accepting them? From third party copy right infringment, to being defamatory to a public figure, to even “causing confusion to another app”. Most of the apps rejected would not be of interest to most of us either way. Baby shaking, George W. Bush and Google… this list has got them all.

You can find in the link below the top 20 most notorious apps which got rejected from the iTunes Apps store.

http://tech.msn.com/products/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=21124345&GT1=40000

Random Information of the day : “Spotify have released both their iPhone and Android mobile apps, a little over a week after Apple approved it in late August. Premium subscribers to the streaming music service will now be able to access Spotify’s catalog on their iPhone, iPod touch, or any of the Android devices currently available. It looks to have just gone live in Europe where you can now have access to over 6 million songs on your iPhone for roughly $20 a month.” Taken from here and here.

iPhone/iPod Docking Station – Juice Packs

Are you an owner of alot of iPhones/iPods/iPod touches? Or are you part of a household or dewaniya that is? No need to fight over the charger ever again. Behold the Griffin Powerdock 4!

If you like it you can purchase it from Amazon by clcking here.

Also, for charging on the go see what you like from below…

This rechargeable juice pack is like a skin for the iPhone/iPod Touch. You can get it from Amazon.com by clicking here.

Check this out to help you stay connected all day and night. Kensington Dock.

Random Information of the day : AT&T have confirmed that MMS will be available for its subscribers in the US from September 25th.

App of the Week

Its that time again when we bring you the app of the week as we search for the best apps of 2009 on the various platforms. This time we take a stroll into the world of augmented reality.  Welcome to the future.

The application is called Wikitude World Browser.

So what is augmented reality exactly?  According to Wikipedia… Continue Reading

Do You Have What it Takes?

Are you good enough to be an officer in the Swedish military?

These tests do not have a scientific basis – they are simply inspired by parts of the Swedish Armed Forces’ recruitment tests.

Click on the link below to see how well you do in some of the tests inspired by the recruitment process of military officers in Sweden. Make sure you have headphones or your volume up on your speakers.

http://forsvar.fileflat.com/english/index_test.php

*Random thought for the day : Why is it that Microsoft update their Windows for free, but you have to pay for the latest Snow Leopard which is basically the equivalent of a windows update? Why is it that many apps will stop working on the new Snow Leopard? Check them out here.