True Story Archive

  • Remember the college iPad ban? Yeah, not so much

    Remember the college iPad ban? Yeah, not so much

    Posted on April 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Steve “The Animal” Wildstrom posted a follow-up to the story that colleges were banning the iPad because of some problem with connectivity? Well, they aren’t. They’re “examining” the iPad and telling students that they may not work under their networks, but they’re not banning them outright. Steve writes: As the story made the rounds, problems became outright [...]

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  • Battlefield: Bad Company 2 fixes a-comin’ this week

    Battlefield: Bad Company 2 fixes a-comin’ this week

    Posted on April 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Be on the lookout for a Battlefield: Bad Company 2 update sometime this week, probably by Wednesday. Most of the changes affect the multi-portion of the game, something that I’ve participated in for, oh, 18 seconds before dying, cursing, then never playing again. True story!

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  • StuffBuff Social Bidding System Hits Beta And You Can Try It Here (You Can Also Get a PS3 For Cheap)

    StuffBuff Social Bidding System Hits Beta And You Can Try It Here (You Can Also Get a PS3 For Cheap)

    Posted on February 15, 2010 | No Comments
    StuffBuff, a TC50 company, has officially launched bringing with it social, embeddable auctions for the masses. What is StuffBuff? It's basically an auction site with a social bent. Instead of wading into a mess of used sleeping bags and broken Nintendo DSes on eBay (true story!), you head over to StuffBuff and set up an auction. You can then embed the auction into your FaceBuzzBookTwit page. Unlock "entertainment auction" sites like Swoopo, this is a straight up auction service with two little additions.

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  • Review: Viliv S7 Premium

    Review: Viliv S7 Premium

    Posted on December 15, 2009 | No Comments
    True story: About two months back I was walking through my house with the then-new Viliv S7 convertible netbook. I started babbling to my wife while she was tending to the kids about how much I loved this little netbook. Even though she clearly couldn’t care less, I went on to proclaim that if Apple would have gotten in [...]

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  • False alarm: The RIAA doesn’t think DRM is dead after all!

    False alarm: The RIAA doesn’t think DRM is dead after all!

    Posted on July 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Remember yesterday when I noted, by way of TorrentFreak, that the RIAA had all but considered DRM to be dead? Not true! Not true at all.

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  • Apple Begged Microsoft to Stop Running ‘Laptop Hunter’ Ads

    Apple Begged Microsoft to Stop Running ‘Laptop Hunter’ Ads

    Posted on July 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Microsoft has finally worked out how to push Apple’s buttons. According to Microsoft COO Kevin Turner, the company got a call from Apple asking it to stop running the Laptop Hunter ads after the recent price drop on the Mac product line. These ads, you will remember, show “real” people who want to buy Macs [...]

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  • Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360)

    Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360)

    Posted on July 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Movie licensed games have generally sucked something fierce. Very rarely are any of them ever any good, and the same goes for movies based on videogames. Something gets lost in translation. Development is typically rushed to coincide with simultaneous launches, and gamers are the ones who suffer the most. There are a few diamonds in the rough (X-Men Origins: Wolverine was pretty good), but they’re few and far between. Activision and Luxoflux’s adaption of the second Transformers cinematic masterpiece falls somewhere in between.

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  • Giganews gives 50 percent off for newly Usenet-less AT&T customers

    Giganews gives 50 percent off for newly Usenet-less AT&T customers

    Posted on July 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Ladies and germs! If you're an AT&T Broadband customer you should know that your ISP is shutting off access to Usenet at the end of the month. Why? Yup, it's related to that whole smear campaign from last year. Some nonsense about illegal content that may or may not be there. Anyway, Giganews has a little sale for you guys: 50 percent off three months of the Diamond Plan and 20 percent off other Giganews plans.

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  • Let’s guess each other’s Social Security Numbers, for fun

    Let’s guess each other’s Social Security Numbers, for fun

    Posted on July 7, 2009 | No Comments
    True story: I didn't even know my Social Security Number until my freshman year of college, when it was used as my dorm building's PIN. Type in the PIN, and the little gate would open. It seemed a little odd at the time, yes, and today's news that, with a little elbow grease, someone can guess a person's Social Security Number quite easily, well, that doesn't exactly fill me with confidence vis-à-vis “the system.”

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  • Headline: Afore you go shopping, get thee to the iPhone widget

    Headline: Afore you go shopping, get thee to the iPhone widget

    Posted on June 29, 2009 | No Comments

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  • Study: DRM turns normal people into pirates out of necessity

    Study: DRM turns normal people into pirates out of necessity

    Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments
    We're all pirates because of DRM. That's the conclusion of a new UK study—and it's a long one, coming in at 200+ pages—. The idea here is that the DRM schemes imposed by rights owners do just as good a job at restricting people who have legitimate claims to the material as it does restricting those without any claim at all.

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