If you are fan of Google’s Chrome browser you can now get it as an app for both the iPhone and iPad and it’s just been updated to version 23.0.1271.100.
Browse fast with Chrome, now available on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Sign in to sync your personalized Chrome experience from your computer, and bring it with you anywhere you go.
What’s New in Version 23.0.1271.100
Fixes for audio bugs
Have you tried it yet? Be sure and let us know by leaving a comment below.
There has been some official information provided about the next Borderlands 2 DLC – this one is called Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt.
Danger! Excitement! Mustaches! It’s time for another episode of Vault Hunter Adventures, featuring Sir Hammerlock! In this week’s tale, our hard-boiled heroes travel to the savage continent of Aegrus! Their goal? To uncover the most exotic creatures Pandora has to offer, and give ’em the old one-two!
The new piece of DLC will be available January 15th 2013 for the Xbox, PS3 and PC.
Ubisoft have released a trailer for the iPad version of their game Might of Magic Dual of Champions.
Might & Magic Duel of Champions is an online strategy card game set in the fantastic Might & Magic universe. Choose a hero and build his army with Creatures, Spells and Destiny cards to defeat your opponents in epic battles. The unique Battleground of Duel of Champions creates an action-filled gameplay that fits any style of players. Enter tournaments, measure your strength against top players, earn gold and get new boosters for your deck!
Here is the launch trailer:
We also spoke with Stephane Jankowski, the producer of Might of Magic Dual of Champions a few months ago about the game.
And here is Stephane to introduce the game and give us a little taster:
Here are some images from the game:
The game is free-to-play and looks like it could be quite fun – we will be checking it in more detail soon.
What do you think of Might of Magic Dual of Champions? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
As we near to the end of 2012, the Kickstarter for Elite: Dangerous has already hit £829,691 towards the total of £1,250,000 so far, and there are new videos.
“Elite: Dangerous” is the latest instalment of a long series of epic space games, starting with “Elite” – one of the most successful games of the 1980s.
Fight, trade, hunt your way across a giant galaxy of billions of star systems, starting with a basic starship and a few credits. You can make money from trading goods between the many star systems, by destroying pirate ships (and collecting bounty), or even by attacking traders and collecting their cargo (which in turn will get a bounty on your head!). There will be missions too, and exploration. Most people will do some combination of these things. Upgrade your ship and specialise in one activity – have a trader with a huge cargo bay, or use the space for weapons and manoeuvrability.
Real Freedom – Go where you like, be what you like – pirate, bounty hunter, trader, assassin, or some mix of all of these.
Trade – Buy low, cross dangerous space lanes, evade or destroy pirates en route, then sell high, if you make the journey!
Fight – Take on the pirates or be one yourself
Progress – Get your pilot rating all the way from “Harmless” to “Elite”
Explore – Head out to the far reaches of space and discover amazing sights
And the best part – you can do all this online with your friends, or other “Elite” pilots like yourself, or even alone. The choice is yours…
Borderlands 2 is currently a single player experience. Mac to Mac co-op multiplayer and Game Center support for Borderlands 2 are due in early 2013 with a free app update.
One really cool thing is that co-op multiplayer will be cross-platform so Mac owners can play with PC owners.
Exclusive to the Mac App Store version of Borderlands 2, enjoy the new Fired Up skins along with a unique head for each vault hunter. Oh and they threw in a Contraband Sky Rocket Grenade mod too. Now go have some fun!
Are you going to buy it? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
Ubisoft have released the new Trials Evolution Riders of Doom DLC pack.
The new DLC pack (400 Xbox Live points) features 40 new tracks, including 20 new Trials tracks, 10 new Skill Games, 5 new Supercross tracks and 5 new Tournament tracks.
And here is the launch trailer:
Have you got it yet? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
Microsoft have released an update to their Mail, Calendar, People and Messaging app for Windows 8/RT.
Release notes
Group email messages by conversation to keep your inbox organised.
Respond to meeting invitations directly from your inbox.
Get things done more quickly with faster performance in all apps.
Experience better reliability and usability based on feedback from customers like you.
Adobe Reader is the free global standard for reliably viewing and sharing PDF documents across platforms and devices. Easily and efficiently access the widest range of PDF file types—including PDF Portfolios, password-protected PDF documents and Adobe LiveCycle rights-managed PDF files. Now available for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, Adobe Reader offers fast, high-quality interaction with PDF.
View PDF files
• Quickly open PDF files from email , the Web or any application that supports “Open In…”
• View PDF Portfolios, PDF Packages, annotations and drawing markups
• Read text annotations such as Sticky Notes
Access encrypted PDF files • Open and view password-protected PDF files
• Access files secured by Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management, which helps protect sensitive documents
• Supports the highest grade of PDF encryption, up to AES256
Interact with PDF files
• Search text to find specific information
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• Easily zoom in on text or images for a closer view
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• Select and copy text from a PDF file to the clipboard
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A few weeks back, I picked up a Sony NSZ-GS7 Google TV unit. Here is the review!
Sony’s entrant to the Google TV market is the NSZ-GS7 Internet Player with Google TV. I recently had two first-generation Apple TV’s die on me (the power supply seems to have failed in both) and I wanted to try out Sony’s answer to the Google TV when replacing one of them. The main draw to me was the prospect of integrating an improved channel guide and universal remote capabilities with my 6 year old Sony 60” TV and my DIRECTV receiver, as well as to open up some Android apps such as the IP camera viewer and Chrome. Before we get into how this is working out in my home network, let’s see what Sony says about this product.
TV will never be the same.
What’s on TV? It’s completely up to you. Find what you’re craving with instant access to shows on live TV, streaming content, made-for-TV apps and Google Chrome™. Take control of your entertainment with an intuitive new remote that features a touchpad and backlit keyboard for easy operation. One box, unlimited entertainment.
Enjoy live TV, movies and more.
The TV & Movies app is the easiest way to find the best entertainment available. Choose what you want to watch exactly when you want to watch it—comedy or drama, live or streaming, right now or this Friday night. Devour the content you crave, from broadcast shows to cat videos and everything in between.
More apps, more choices.
A host of made-for-TV apps like Netflix®, Pandora® and Twitter® are pre-installed on your Google TV right out of the box. Want more? Download an endless variety of apps in the Google Play Store™. You’ll find video, music, games, social networking and news apps—just like the ones on your smartphone. Very convenient.
Remote control like no other.
You’ve never seen a remote quite like this. With a large touchpad on one side and a full keyboard on the other, it’s optimized for ease of use. The clickable touchpad works just like the one on your laptop, with one-handed operation plus pinch-and-pull for zoom control. Flip it over and you’ll find a backlit QWERTY keyboard. There’s also a 3-Axis motion sensor for gaming.
Find content quickly and easily.
Browse everything that’s playing right now—whether it’s on live TV, or available through an online service like Netflix. With Google search built right into your TV, you can cross-search results from your cable provider, the internet, apps and more to instantly find the content you crave.
Browse the web on the big screen.
Experience your favorite websites on a grand scale with the built-in Google Chrome™ browser designed for speed, simplicity and efficiency. And because it features a Flash Media Player, you can view Flash-based video sites for endless video content and engaging interactivity. Auto updates ensure added security.
And watch this video overview.
And now onto the review!
Hardware
The Sony Google TV is based on a Honeycomb build of Android, so this is running and ARM processor, similar to the Apple TV. It is a small box that connects between your cable/satellite box and your TV or receiver. This is nice as it does not take up an HDMI slot, and since it passes the receiver signal through the box, the receiver can operate with the Sony Google TV powered off. There is a small power supply that hangs off of the back, and this unit supports Wi-Fi as well as ethernet connections. I connected this device to my network via both Wi-Fi and ethernet, but left it connected to ethernet for general use as I had an extra port behind the TV. It measures (W x H x D) : 8 x 1.3 x 5.1 in (204 x 35 x 130mm) and weighs about 1.3 pounds, very small. It stacked on top of my DIRECTV receiver and looks right at home in my home entertainment center.
The remote is pretty confusing to use, and even though it is backlit, the buttons on the back side are hard to read in the dark.
ASUSTOR rolled out several new apps and updated some current ones for their NAS line of products. Read on for details.
ASUSTOR rolled out several new apps and updated some current ones for their NAS line of products. Here is the press release:
ASUSTOR Unveils New Apps and Enhancements
Expands App lineup with Symantec Backup Exec’s RALUS, Dropbox and DVBLink TV Server while releasing updates and enhancements for Download Center and Surveillance Center
Taipei, Taiwan, December 17th, 2012 – ASUSTOR Inc., a leading innovator and provider of network storage solutions, today announced the release of three new NAS Apps for its well-received AS 6 Series NAS devices. These new Apps consist of Symantec Backup Exec’s RALUS, an acclaimed backup solution, Dropbox, a popular cloud storage and sync service and DVBLink TV Server, a digital television App. Additionally, two of ASUSTOR’s existing Apps are being upgraded with advanced features and enhancements. Download Center now features the new and convenient Smart Download Folder function. Its mobile App, AiDownload, has added a push notification function and is now available for both iOS and Android. Not to be outdone, the Surveillance Center App now boasts added Daylight Saving Time adjustments along with full compatibility with Panasonic’s BB and BL camera lines. Interested users may begin enjoying these new Apps and upgrades by downloading them through ASUSTOR’s App Central.
ASUSTOR NAS is the world’s first App-based NAS. In addition to its full featured pre-installed Apps, users can use ASUSTOR’s App Central to download a host of supplementary Apps. Whether a user’s interests lie in business, website construction or home entertainment, App Central is able to provide the large variety of applications required to satisfy users’ digital lifestyle needs. “App Central empowers users with the ability to create a customized NAS with endless possibilities,” said James Su, Product Manager at ASUSTOR. “Presently, App Central contains over 80 unique Apps for users to choose from. We are constantly working with third party developers and the open source communities to expand our App lineup in order to meet the demands of all kinds of different users.”
The newly released Apps are summarized as follows:
RALUS: RALUS is the remote agent used with Linux/Unix clients for Symantec’s Backup Exec. Backup Exec is an acclaimed backup and restoration software that provides users with easy to use data protection functions for business and personal use. After installing RALUS through App Central, users will be able to remotely backup and restore their NAS devices. RALUS effectively provides users with a complete disaster recovery solution.
Dropbox: Dropbox provides users with a cloud storage and file syncing service. After installing this App, users will be able to sync files between Dropbox, their ASUSTOR NAS and their PC, which provides for convenient file storage and sharing. The Dropbox App also supports multiple users which means that all user accounts on the NAS will be able to use the service simultaneously.
DVBLink TV Server: Once users install this App and a compatible TV tuner onto their NAS, they will be able to watch and record digital television programs. Digital TV content may be streamed to UPnP compatible devices and to mobile devices running iOS, Android and Windows Phone. Furthermore, with its complete electronic program guide listings, DVBLink TV Server will ensure that users never miss a moment of their favorite shows. DVBLink TV Server is compatible with DVB-T, DVB-T2 and DVB-S2 digital TV broadcast standards.
The newly updated Apps are summarized as follows:
Download Center: The latest version of Download Center features the new Smart Download function. Users can upload their torrent files to a specified folder and then automatically have their NAS add the torrent as a download task and begin downloading. In addition to the AiDownload mobile App for iOS, AiDownload for Android can now be downloaded from Google Play. Now both iOS and Android users can manage their download tasks from the convenience of their mobile devices.
Surveillance Center: The new version of Surveillance Center offers an optimized visual display along with complete Daylight Saving Time handling for recording and playback. The newly compatible Panasonic BB and BL series cameras offer users more options and flexibility for surveillance deployment.
If you are running a NAS from ASUSTOR, go ahead and get your updated and new apps now! And check out my hands-on of the AS-602T 2-bay unit here.
Last week brought you information and screenshots for NAMCO BANDAI’s forthcoming game Dark Souls II. Now we bring you the trailer. Currently in development at FromSoftware in Tokyo, Japan, for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. Dark Souls II will continue a legacy of presenting its passionate fans with the kind of unrelenting challenges that have become a hallmark of the series, while presenting devilish new obstacles for players to overcome.
Built upon the foundation established by Souls series creator and Dark Souls II Supervisor, Hidetaka Miyazaki, with development helmed by FromSoftware Director Tomohiro Shibuya, Dark Souls II will feature a new hero, a new storyline, and an unfamiliar world for players to survive in, while delivering the uncompromising challenge and ultimate sense of empowerment that players hunger for. Epic battles with gruesome enemies and blood-thirsty bosses await adventurers as they traverse and conquer a devastated world filled with death and despair. Players will also discover a revamped server based multiplayer experience that will put a distinct Dark Souls II twist on the concept of playing and sharing with others. For those with enough tenacity and sheer force of will, great rewards await.
Here is the trailer:
More details surrounding Dark Souls II will become available in the months leading to its release. Begin your Dark Souls II journey at www.DarkSoulsII.com or join the Dark Souls II conversation on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/DARKSOULS.
Are you interested in Dark Souls II? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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