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6 Cult Japanese Video Games Still Worth Playing [MUO Gaming]

The history of video games is littered with the dead corpses of titles that never quite fulfilled their promise. Not because they sucked - far from it, in fact - but because they didn't sell in anything like the number they deserved to. Critical acclaim didn't result in commercial success. Many of these titles are slow-burners or a little strange, but those gamers who took the time to become fully immersed in their worlds became hooked.

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Make Your Mark On Cultural History With Meme Generator [Mac]

If you’d like to make a meaningful contribution to society and share your expert advice, consider starting a blog; otherwise, make a meme. The Internet loves memes. The humble meme - a term originally coined in 1976 by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins referring to a social behaviour that’s passed on through genetics - has now come to mean a short message overlayed on a familiar graphic.

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Strip Down & Recycle Old Garden Solar Lamps For Tech Projects

Costing just a few dollars each, garden solar lamps are a low-cost solution to night-time illumination – and they might just give you a useful piece of equipment for completing a tech project. Whether you’re looking for a rechargeable battery, an LED or even the solar panel itself, these devices contain a wealth of components that can be repurposed.

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5 Apps For Snapping Self-Portraits On Your Mobile/Tablet [iOS]

Taking a self-portrait with your iPhone or other camera-supported iOS device is probably one of the easiest ways to capture yourself in a photo. Tap the little camera icon in the upper-right side of the camera screen (to activate the front-facing camera), and you're ready to snap a selfie. For a smartphone, the iOS camera is actually very good and powerful out-performing many point-and-shoot cameras.

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The Origins & History Of Mario [Geek History Lessons]

An Italian plumber created by a Japanese artist somehow became one of the most recognizable characters on earth. Featured in over 100 games, it's hard to imagine Nintendo or even video games without this mustachioed man in red. But where did he come from? Our story begins in the early 1980's with a struggling card and toy company - Nintendo.

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Why The Nexus 7 Is Competition For The iPad [Opinion]

Google unveiled the Nexus 7, its long-awaited foray into the burgeoning tablet market, at Google I/O last month. The combination of hardware, design, and price took many by surprise, with all three of these components being about the best we could have hoped for from such a device at this time. I believe the Nexus 7 is competition for the iPad and I feel competition to Apple's stranglehold on the tablet market is exactly what's needed.

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10 Tech Terms That Sound Like Euphemisms

If you pay attention to current affairs, you've probably heard the term "fracking" more than once. Did it ever occur to you that it sounded a little like a euphemism for something else? Yeah, sure it didn't. Even the least corrupted adult mind would draw the connection. In the IT world, there are also a number of words you probably say every day that could be seen as a euphemism.

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6 Interesting & Exciting Workstations From All Over The World

Suppose you have a long thesis paper that you need to write for school, or you have a number of reports that need to be finished for work, or you just have a lot of computer-related activities to do. Would you rather do all of that in a ragged room of splintering walls, chipped paint, and moldy ceilings? Or would you prefer a clean, well-maintained room with proper furniture?

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3 Video Games That Did The Best Job Of Moving From 2D To 3D [MUO Gaming]

Some video games stand the test of time. Sure, they may have started as 2D games, but they were able to evolve and get with the times. There is, and always will be, a place for 2D, but to be successful, a franchise needs to move on and enter the realm of 3D. I am not talking about 3D as in glasses and images popping off the screen. I am talking about a three-dimensional world for the characters in the game.

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Meet Hometalk: An Online Community For Sharing Home Improvement Tips & Tricks

Do you love your home? If you enjoy creating a beautiful living environment with a great atmosphere and if you are interested in Do It Yourself tips for your home and garden, you should have a look at Hometalk, an online home improvement community you will fall in love with. Hometalk is an active community for home owners, renters and professionals to share tips and tricks and ask for help with projects.

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The 3 Best Unofficial NBA Sites To Get That Insider Information

Having just wrapped up the 2011-2012 NBA season (with my home-state Miami Heat winning it all, I should mention), one of the hottest and most active times of the NBA year is upon us - the offseason. Rumors begin to fly, free agency starts going nuts, and the smaller and more niche basketball sites are able to weasel their way up amongst the elite by offering quality information, speculation, and entertainment.

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Liberate Your Gmail Inbox Attachments With Attachments.me

Have you ever received an email from your boss, family member, friend or some other connection with an attachment in it, then saved that email because you wanted to access the attachment later? You probably have, multiple times. The problem with this is you end up with an astronomical amount of attachments floating all over your inbox that you have to hunt down whenever you want them.

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4 Web Domains That Were Bought Before the Owner Could Take Action

Domain names – they’re the real estate of the Internet. Without them, we’d have nowhere to go, and our lives would be spent staring at an empty computer screen (or maybe filled with time spent outside and connecting with real, live, actual people). However, they work a little bit like rental homes and apartments, don’t they? You can never "own" a domain. Eventually, they expire. Sometimes, they just aren’t available.

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3 Online Resources To Learn About Android Application Development

Much like Ryan (who attributed his curiosity with Android app development to his love for his Android handset), I have been on a quest to find out how to make and finish an Android app. This search has included books in the beginning but due to the frequent updates of packages to download to accommodate new Android platform versions, books are usually outdated very quickly.

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From The Web To Jail: 6 Types of Computer Crimes You Can Get Arrested For

Governments across the world have tried to tame the Internet as a tempest of new technology threatens everything from strict government censorship and control over the media to entrenched media conglomerates and old concepts of acceptable speech. Like King Canute commanding the tide to turn back and not disturb him, governments have put up laws against everything from forwarding emails and commenting online in an attempt to stop the inevitable.

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