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Ten shooters that will make you forget about Master Chief

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Look, we liked Halo 3. No wait, that’s understatement. We loved Halo 3 and gave it a ten out of ten. But that doesn’t mean Master Chief’s latest adventure has everything we want in a first-person shooter. In fact, whether you’re talking about single player, multiplayer, premise, or plot, we think there are a ton of games that have – and will – best Halo 3. No, we’re not joking. Here are ten games that should make you forget about Master Chief.

Talking about Half-Life 2, Portal, team fortress 2, Bioshock, Crysis, Left 4 Dead, Quakewars, Haze, COD 4, and UT3. All nice and all but all of thee you have to buy how about some free shooters.

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Itunes makes a Major Mistake!!

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The mistake was has not been made public by Apple but caused quite a bit of uproar among hardcore fans of the show. In an attempt to set things straight, Apple offered the actual season premiere and $2 iTunes credit to all the Stargate Atlantis fans who accidentally downloaded episode 4.

Oh my gosh I wonder how many people have downloaded it and why they didn’t want to admit to this. Too Funny. Go check out the full article and decide for yourself.

ASUS Motherboard Ships With Embedded Linux, Web Browser

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The good folks over at ASUS have sent over the P5E3 Deluxe, which is based upon Intel’s new X38 Chipset and continues in the usual ASUS fashion of pushing new (and often unexpected) innovations onto the motherboard. Without spoiling the review of this motherboard that will be published shortly, the ASUS P5E3 Deluxe is one of the most innovative motherboards we have seen to date and it packs one very exciting and unusual feature. Embedded onto the P5E3 Deluxe is a Linux environment that features a Firefox-rebranded web browser and the Skype VoIP client! Within five seconds of turning on this $360 USD gaming/enthusiast motherboard, you can be using Linux and surfing the Internet. On this motherboard the feature is known as ASUS Express Gate, which is powered by something called SplashTop. SplashTop is an instant-on Linux desktop being created by DeviceVM. SplashTop isn’t even launching for a few more days (October 10), but in this article we have more details on this embedded Linux environment as well as screenshots and our thoughts with what will hopefully come next for this Linux environment.

I wonder if they will ever make a Laptop version of this. It would be useful trips not to have to boot up the system to do some of the minor things

Wi-Fi Signal Status for You and the World!

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Here at ThinkGeek we’re pretty lazy when it comes to technology. We expect our gadgets to do all the busywork while we focus on the high level important tasks like reading blogs. That’s why we hate to have to crack open our laptops just to see if there is any wi-fi internet access about… and keychain wi-fi detectors, we would have to actually remove them from our pockets to look at them. But now thanks to the ingenious ThinkGeek robot monkeys you can display the current wi-fi signal strength to yourself and everyone around you with this stylish Wi-Fi Detector Shirt. The glowing bars on the front of the shirt dynamically change as the surrounding wi-fi signal strength fluctuates. Finally you can get the attention you deserve as others bow to you as their reverential wi-fi god, while geeky chicks swoon at your presence. You can thank us later.

I might have to buy one myself. These look cool, go check out the picture at Thinkgeek.com