Fun, games, language learning.

Small game consoles can now more: The mobile Daddelgeräte the current generation also want to translators, language trainer or his mobile travel guide. ONLINE blogs shows which extensions are worthwhile.
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The handheld Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable are mainly used for games there. Thanks to the GPS receiver, Internet browser and translation software, they can do even more. Playing music, for example.
The MP3 player is on the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance Micro compatible. In contrast to the label on the package works but also the player with the first version of the GBA and the GBA SP together.
He fed on an SD memory card with music, and the docking module on the GBA slot on. Because it is larger than traditional modules, it is a good piece about.
Unfortunately, no headphones and no SD card included. The operation is very hakelig despite touchscreen and playlists can not create.
The sound is on the loudspeakers of the portable consoles, very bad. Also, the headphone output provides hardly a better result. When the headphones to the extra output of the MP3 player module, the sound sounds surprisingly good.
The MP3 player for the Nintendo DS and GBA all models will cost about 20 euros. With an additional software, you can even incidentally, the DS to the electronic musical instrument to expand.
Nintendo, in cooperation with Opera Internet browser designed for the DS. In addition to the DS module requires more memory for the GBA slot, this is included.
The DS does have two screens, one touch, intuitive operation is but at no time, because the screens too small for adequate representation and that the processor and wireless performance of the DS to poor. Unfortunately, the DS supports only the insecure WEP encryption, which is for many a knock-out criterion is likely to occur.
GAME CONSOLES: THE LATEST GENERATIONWiiobs / Nintendo of Europ eDer small competitor can, in contrast to the rival consoles, not high-resolution graphics, but delivers traditional TV resolution. Nevertheless, the device is so popular that the manufacturer has not announced prices. In the United States overtook the Wii in July 2008 Microsoft's Xbox 360, what the sales figures are concerned. The console features a motion controller and bewegungssensitiven-oriented accessories, such as the "Balance Board" from. With simple sports and fun games, it has for the industry, captured new audiences. Wii a detailed test to find hier.Playstation 3DDPDer direct competitor to Microsoft's Xbox 360 - the two consoles to compete with the hardcore gamers who are also prepared for high-resolution graphics to a TV buy. In March 2007, the console on the market in Europe. In July 2008, there were either 40 or 60 GB hard drive - will also soon have a version with 80 GB on the market. It is the mo!
st expensive among the current models and gives a high-resolution video via an HDMI output from. As the only game currently available, it contains a Blu-ray drive, which is also high-resolution Blu-ray discs can play. A ausführlichenTest the PS3 see hier.Xbox 360Microsofts high-definition console is of the three longest current competitors on the market, namely since the end of 2005. Microsoft has repeatedly screwed on price and features. The 360 has a normal DVD drive in its basic version, but no hard drive. In July 2008, there were a model without a hard drive, a 20 gigabyte model and the black "elite" with 120 GB hard drive. The latest models of HD images on an HDMI output from. A detailed review of the Xbox 360 can be found here. Sony Playstation Portable PSPDie on the market since 2005, is Sony's first attempt, which traditionally Nintendo ( "Game Boy") dominated the market for mobile games a piece abzuzwacken. Since 2007, there is a slightly thinner version named Sli!
m and Lite. The mobile console games can not only display but !
also mov
ies and music. Moreover, it can be via W-LAN to the Internet. Movie downloads and other content can be from the PS3 to the PSP will be postponed, and the console via a mobile Internet as a kind of remote control for the PS3 to be used. The PSP is in the market for mobile games second rear Nintendo DS. One of the PSP ausführlichenTest see hier.Nintendo DSDer Nintendo DS is since 2005 in a first version on the market since 2006 in an edition called slimmer DS Lite (pictured). DS stands for "dual screen". The console has a normal and in the bottom half of a touch-screen. Games are on buttons or a stylus, with the touch screen is processed, played. The DS is the PSP via Wi-Fi to the Internet, including online games and gimmicks such as pictures chat are possible. With games like "Nintendogs" and "Dr. Kawashimas brain jogging" tapped the DS new target for mobile consoles. The DS is currently the best-selling mobile gaming. A test report on the first version of the Nintendo DS, s!
ee hier.Der Opera browser for the DS will cost around 35 euros.
It might be better because the new version of the DS, the DSI make. Of DSI is WPA encryption support, and has the browser in a revised version already installed. The surf with the browser is expected to bigger screens and more memory and CPU power failure pleasant. Also of DSI provides a slot for SD cards, also on the MP3s can be played.
Of DSI is already available in Japan, as the deadline for Europe is only the year 2009.

Race to 80th Level

Most players of "World Of Warcraft" can be time to make the enlargement "Wrath Of The Lich King" to fully enjoy. And that's good. Because who as quickly as possible from Level 70 to Level 80 will come, not only fighting against orcs, dwarves and the clock? but also against itself
  This is the story of the Troll Mage Candyman, named after a song by Sammy Davis Jr., not after the horror movies. The good Candyman is my avatar in "World Of Warcraft", the most successful virtual world in the world. With him I want to play in the new expansion "Wrath Of The Lich King reach Level 80? and as the first ever. I start with level 70, like most. I have nothing more than to play like the most. It is a race without any ifs and buts, the wage of the winner is eternal glory. This is my story.
* Level 70 *
The "Lich King" spins a few days before the publication of me. While others are still on the delivery of an Internet service or sending the heads at night sales drive, I enter on Thursday, 17 November at midnight point to the new continent of Northrend. A crowd of well Privileged here has gathered in the start area, the port of retaliation. Some of them jumping around impatiently. "How many days their estimates for Level 80?", Asked Druid in the round. "As little as possible, I want the first one," I reply.

Fifteen seconds in which to present a scornful look at my modest equipment seem to throw. "ROFL" echoes across the screen. I must admit I'm a little tense. Indeed, in comparison with the martial Orcs, Tauren and undead around him Candyman acts like a man who has forgotten his Gehwagen. In addition, ten Level not chicken. Ten Level: That is more than 16 million experience points, which I must collect. When I display a narrow, horizontal bar, which in 20 sections and is slowly fills with color as an old mercury thermometer. The killing of a monster is about 1000 points rewarded? I must say more? To clock 00.15 pour me fresh coffee and movie, I get to work. Golden exclamation mark on the minds of green figures show that orders to me that I can take. In the jargon they are called RPG quests. I let myself to some one. Superficially, I read the task through, then I give my Reitdinosaurier the spores. In the coming hours, I feed a dog meat with crows, accumulate in a ship wreck co!
ntainer with liquid and burn infected corpses of fallen warriors.
FOUND IN ... GEELove For Games 2008InhaltsverzeichnisAktuelles December Issue bestellenwww.geemag.deIch am relieved when I after work experience points per 20,000 Quest finished skim. So it should go on. And so it goes on: On a bat riding I throw poison bombs seekranke sailors and then kill 15 of its comrades. But the mercury crawls slowly. Still, none of the players on the server level managed to jump, but I must hurry me. On it goes after Quälheim. There, I massacre on behalf of a bunch of fat monstrosity Viking ulkigen beings with names like Ulf Aderlasser. I ignite their homes and their leaders meuchle. For a few more experience points, I also had their children taken away and sold to slave traders.
To 3:42 clock I collected 752,222 points, pour me on the supposed number schnaps a glass of red wine and let the rugged cliffs of the Howling Fjord quickly behind me? otherwise I still devices in the throng of the stragglers from the midnight sales.
On the back of a large turtle ferry do I control a new port. The turtle is in accordance with the principle driven donkey: Two carrots commute to an Angel before their nose, they strampelt and strampelt, but they will reach the root vegetables never. I feel sorry for the turtle, because it is her as me: "World Of Warcraft" keeps me always the best carrot in front of the nose and makes me even bite off a piece of times, so I come to the taste. But I always stay hungry, and this hunger for the tangible Middle pushes me. So I strampele and strampele without ever having to feel tired at some point will be allowed.
Blizzard's logic is that not every animal is killed for meat, some quests required return, but instead of heavy armor with spell damage may drop. I retting an entire herd of fallow deer, which is two minutes later, again from nothing materialized. 4:34 clock to kill me "by the Bodo Hermann Klause, a dachshund with Killerwal name. A half an hour to set the twilight one. I look after the game and was appalled to note that now about a dozen players already at Level 71 are. My incipient fatigue and my innate bad conscience, a sunrise before bedtime to do, give me the rest are still at Level 70, meanwhile 1,048,098 experience points, I throw myself at six clock in the pillow. And wild dream.

The December bursting with good games.

"Little Big Planet" makes players designers, "Prince of Persia" jumps in a fairytale land, "Dead Space" schockt even tough guys. Furthermore: "Professor Layton" wonders, "Shaun White" is snowboarding king, Lara Croft is back and "Valkyria Chronicles" think strategically. The games of the month - this time in special sizes.
 
"Little Big Planet" from Sony:
For creative hop

Apple assigns the magician.

iBook, iMac, iPhone - when Steve Jobs opened the Macworld Expo, Apple was the world to his lips. From now on so that he hears, will promptly about his health and future of the Group of speculation, the stock crashes. ONLINE blogs shows what the keynote shows so legendary made.
  "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated": Steve Jobs showed humor when he was in September at an Apple show in San Francisco occurred. Reports about his death were somewhat exaggerated, was on the monitor wall behind him to read. A set of Mark Twain. The joke caught, the audience laughed - finally had days earlier the Bloomberg news agency accidentally watching an obituary for the CEO published.
REUTERS Jobs at Apple Show: Again and again, rumors of serious illness

Just over four years had jobs to pancreatic cancer in September that he saw gaunt from - yet hagerer than in June, when he was the new-generation iPhone and had presented the first rumors about a new cancer had arisen. Therefore also made some in the scene continued worries about his health. In October blogging a citizen journalist with CNN, Jobs had suffered a heart attack. A duck. At the next Apple event a few days later was the CEO behind Show: "110/70 - Steve's blood pressure."
One must know this history to understand why now this Wednesday at the same new disease rumors arose when Apple had: On the important Apple Macworld Expo trade show in January 2009, Jobs does not occur. He can be explained by its Vice President Philip Schiller represented.
Why, the group is not justified, but made it clear: The Macworld Expo last January was the last been on the job in his keynote by Neuankündigungen led the group.
Share on Wall Street crashes
Indeed, Apple wants anyway after 2009 entirely from the fair retreat, because you are on distribution channels like the Internet would like to concentrate. But that was the Apple scene is not from the shock of Jobs' decision distracted. Prompt came new concerns - about his personal future and also on the company. Finally, both are closely linked. Like hardly any other company stands jobs for the success of Apple. The share of the group on Wall Street crashes at this time Wednesday at more than seven percent.
  Suddenly, the room in question: What will happen to Apple, where Jobs is no longer - even if the rumors of a disease are nonsense again and he is only from the operating business of the company wants to pull back.
"This is totally unexpected," said Gene Munster, analyst at Piper Jaffray. "It is meaningless, that Apple itself from the Macworld retires - but it is important that Steve Jobs does not hold his final keynote." Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group research firm in San Jose suspects at least a "problem of any kind." Jim Goldman of CNBC reported with reference to insiders, the decision had more to politics than to do with cancer. Health problem that again retreat behind the stand was unlikely.
The end of Jobs' keynotes at the Macworld Expo shocked by the scene so much because they undisputed highlight of the year, Apple. Not only because of the new products, which it times out of the bag, sometimes under a cloth, and times from a postal envelope moved house.
Even his accuracy has always been praised - with Apple managers participating in the Chiefs suffered their perfectionism, the preparations began months before the show. Who during the patzte several samples had to reckon even at the last minute from the program to be thrown, reported a few years ago, a former Apple employees.
blogs ONLINE looks back on the highlights, which Jobs' keynotes made so legendary - eleven years in time-lapse:

Creaking and popping for consoles.

Sports equipment, VCRs, translators: game consoles are no longer just for playing there. Besides Bizarre as cookware for the Wii, there are also lots of useful accessories, from headset to the controller-charger. Our Christmas overview separates the wheat from the chaff.
  Folded Shotguns, headsets with and without cable, stand scales and Maraca controller - for the current generation of game consoles, there are a multitude of more or less useful additions and expansions.
The following is an overview for stationary and mobile consoles, we show that what is really worthwhile.

This notebook can show's.

Instead of a mouse and keyboard should we Toshiba Qosmio F50 notebook via hand signals can control. Faster, better and easier to be the go. Whether the multimedia Brummer can redeem that pledge, Matthias Kremp tested.
  As "Tigerhai elegant design with silver stripes look" means the optics of the Toshiba F50. Well, tiger sharks have a striped back, the Qosmio also. So are the similarities but also off. Indeed, while the stripe camouflage the predator should serve them in notebooks to attract attention. It is totally superfluous. Attention reaps the F50 enough - when its owners built the gesture control is used.
Photo: video blogs ONLINE: sacWer tried, it is hard to overlook, because the concentrated fist against the screen herumschwenken order the unit to elicit a response. It is precisely this function but Toshiba extols as one of the main features of the F50.
The remote control is one gesture, thanks to control the future under the sofa can lie. A few movements with the hand-collected should be sufficient, for example, a DVD to start the volume change or a scene to skip.
Mach prefer the light on
And it goes like this: Once you look into his fist into the display panel of leading integrated Webcam, you can control. If you move the hand up, follows the cursor in this direction, it moves to the right moves, the mouse pointer in this direction on the screen. A movement with your thumb to simulate a click the left mouse button, which raised palm replaced the right mouse button.
So far the theory.
In practice, but the system still suffers under some burden. Problem number one: The contrast. Works best the gesture recognition in a bright, well-lit room. In a cozy living room illuminated recognizes the camera is not enough differences, like hand and background hardly differentiate. Immediately darkened cinema film evenings can thus be forgotten.
Muscle
Longer Surftouren by gesture control should also refrain. Because this is the second problem: What was intended as a simplification, is in truth difficult. The Herumrühren standing in front of the Webcam tired arm faster than you think. Finally, one must constantly fist concentrated within sight of the camera.

This is mainly because the gesture control is not so loose fluffy works, how you might wish. That is the fact that the blue circle at the gesture control acts as a cursor replacement, herumwabert constantly, just do not want to stand still. So that the mouse pointer on a normal Windows icon to place, is laborious.
True, it is funny when you try to click. A movement of the thumb is a click the left mouse button to create, raising his hand right click. Really works reliably but not. Settling after some time you learn how to use the computer must give hand signals so he also learned to what he wants, at least rudimentary.
Specialty chip with Playstation past
Even if it is limited to only the Media Center of Windows Vista via pointer to control the error is still much too high. These are the symbols in the Media Center has beautiful large, comparatively easy to meet. Yet one often achieved only at the third or fourth attempt the targeted goal. With the remote control, the faster.
But perhaps the gesture control is nothing other than a beautifully striking figurehead for the possibilities that the F50 built-in multimedia processor quad-core Toshiba HD offers. The is an offshoot of the Cell chip, among other things, the Playstation 3 as a drive serve. With its four computing cores, he has plenty of power, but only for a few specific applications - such as gesture recognition - can use.
Television pictures nicer
Fortunately, there are those few applications but also useful for the HD-chip. For example, upscaling. This is the technique that helps, standard TV programs on DVDs or high-resolution screens to make bearable. The image will be projected by him extra pixels added. What color the individual pixels get and how bright they shine, will be dependent on the surrounding pixels - and that's a lot of computing work.
But Toshiba does specialty processor in the F50 wonderful, ensures that about a DVD movie even looks good when it is on a large HD TV screen. The Qosmio is dedicated with an HDMI connector for flat screen televisions and projectors equipped.
HDTV: High-SHORTCUTS WIRRWARRHDTVAACSHDCP HDMIDVIHDTV stands for High Definition Television. According to the manufacturers of consumer electronics will be the old TV standards like PAL (576 visible lines) and NTSC (USA, 480 lines) and replace with higher resolution and more stable image to make the home beautiful. HDTV content can be made with 720 lines in progressive-scan display method (720p), which means that each image is at each passage completely rebuilt. The alternative is called 1080i, has more lines to offer (namely 1080), but each of them alternately pass only every second will be redrawn (interlaced procedures, hence the 'i'). The Advanced Access Content System is a copy protection system, especially at the request of the film studios in Hollywood in all drives will be assembled, the HD content can play. We AACS is without any high-resolution films can play. Copies will be only with explicit permission of the author can be made that one, for example, could pick !
up online. Only in this way could also be a film about a Media Center or on mobile devices to stream. The originator but copies may also prohibit or require a fee. To AACS, there were long wrangling - because there are not many devices that the system is absolutely support it. An interim solution is the copy protection so toothless now begin to make - even on analog outputs will be even HD movies, although the studios prefer the issue to digital outputs would be limited, with a further protection called HDCP are. High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection is a kind of copy protection hardware. He also aims to prevent high-resolution material can be easily recorded. HDCP must be in the sending device, so the player or the graphics card, just as inserted in the receiver, so the monitor or TV. While TV, the "HD Ready" logo, HDCP capable, to have many monitors and graphics cards but not yet. An HDMI interface can also HDCP, a DVI interface does not notwendigerweise.Das High Defi!
nition Multimedia Interface, according to the desire of produc!
ers the
general interface of the future, for music, movies and even the connection between the computer and monitor. It is equipped with HDCP by default - an output device with HDMI interface and a TV with the "HD Ready" logo should work together so in any case, high-resolution movies represent können.Digital video interface - the first digital interface for video content, but It is already, of HDMI to be replaced. Some DVI outputs are also equipped with HDCP, others do not. Especially for many graphics cards missing copy of the hardware yet - leading to problems when playing copy-protected high definition movies might lead. ->
Another application possibility, Toshiba is to movies from the processor into a sequence of individual images to decompose, which is then in a kind of quick visual hangeln can pass through. A lovely idea, but little practical use.
Annoying is that the Quad-HD-chip seems to be plenty hot when it is properly called. When the F50 expressed by the fan anspringt regularly to the excess heat from the housing to blow. That is not bad, but annoying.
HD without Blu-ray
PER-TEXTS RSS FEEDAngefasst - Technology Test Click on the icon. The browser allows you to the RSS feed to add. Otherwise, to help ... but the Qosmio F50 is fine to use, in terms of its equipment is no room for complaints. Two 250-gigabyte disks store data, movies and photos. If this is not enough, you can easily record a major retrofit. Only a screw must be resolved in order to attend the installation of the storage place to go. DVDs land in a multi-format DVD burner. A Blu-ray drive for high-resolution movies there is not. Since the HD DVD format war has lost adheres Toshiba high-resolution film formats away.
Even so, it is sufficient that the 15.4-inch widescreen display 1440 times 900 pixel display and so far removed from Full HD remains. The 720p HD format but fits perfectly pointed. So that the pictures do not come into Ruckeln, is a fairly fixed graphics card with 512 megabytes of video memory installed, including many current games still respectable performance brings.
Back to the remote?
Drive serves as a processor from Intel's Core 2 Duo series, the four-gigabyte memory side. Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Bluetooth and a 1.3 megapixel Webcam complete the package. As Windows Vista operating system is installed. A hybrid TV tuner ensures that the device with both analog and digital television can receive programs - and that makes it good.
On television, but you should then again maybe the remote under the sofa vorholen. The reliable and works mainly casual than the gesture control. Until the really fun, the developers must still some time in the refinement of the system stuck. In its current version but is it just a silver lining on the horizon, which shows how in future we will deal with multimedia. Maybe.
Toshiba Qosmio F50

Processor 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P8400

Graphics card nVidia GeForce 9600M GT (512 MB)

4 gigabytes of RAM

HDD 2 x 250 GB SATA

Optical drive Super Multi DVD burner

Wireless interfaces W-LAN (802.11a/b/g/n), Bluetooth

4 x USB ports, 1 x eSATA, HDMI, Firewire, LAN, VGA, headphone, microphone, antenna, modem

OS Windows Vista Home Premium

Dimensions 368.5 x 278 x 38 (front) / 47 (rear) mm

Weight from 2.9 kilograms

Screen size 15.4 inch

Screen resolution 1440 x 900 pixels

5-in particularities-1-card reader, ExpressCard slot

Price from Euro 1349

Street Fighter is back.

The mother of all fighting games is next year in the third dimension. There is a preliminary but now a high-resolution 2-D version for the Xbox 360 and PS3. That the classic "Street Fighter" was dead but never show fan ambitious projects on the Internet.
  The original from 1987 knows a little. The fight game "Street Fighter" was only the second part in the annals of videogame history. Game developer Capcom defined with the game a whole new genre: "Beat em up" games. Here, two fighters against each other and beharken itself until the energy bar a player up. The beat-em-up was actually pioneered by Konami "Ýîé Ar Kung-Fu" from 1985, the same year was also "Way of the Exploding Fist" which so many from the C64 days should know. Successful but was "Street Fighter II", mainly because of the balanced game balance and control of the catchy, which later was often copied. About combinations such as below, right, blow dissolve special attacks like the "Hadouken fire ball" from.
Photo: CapcomVideo: rhoDas game, there are dozens of variations. At the speed screw has been turned, new fighters were introduced. Even sequels, in which approximately one against Marvel heroes can muster, belong to the portfolio.
The latest version is called "Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix" and is available as download version for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 are available. During gameplay mechanics and remains - thankfully - (almost) everything the old, and the fighters still move in only two dimensions.
The press loves the game. In the rankings of the best games on the U.S. Aggregatorseite "Metacritic.com" is the Playstation-3-version in the Top Ten.
Beautifully and not just for joypad-acrobats
As the name suggests additional HD, finds the whole thing now with a resolution up to 1920x1080 pixels in 16:9 instead. That was all the character models and backgrounds of the "Street Fighter" comic-signatories "Udon Entertainment" redesigned. That looks pretty, even if the angular aesthetics of the predecessor something lost. Who on "Old School", can in the Options menu, the traditional 2D sprites, and play in the 4:3 format.
Even the soundtrack has been restored. Now you can call it even for free and legally download.
The control is less prone to error, so that some special moves easier to do - what delight beginners, old veterans, but is expected to rile. Just as the changing control of the Special Moves of the character Fei Long. The control of the other characters remains the same, on the balance of fights (s) but was strongly gefeilt.
Against the rest of the world
For fans but not the polished look in the foreground, but the online mode. For the first time can be a "Street Fighter" game online against the whole world. And it works properly.
That is not obvious, because in a beat em up on it at a fraction of a second. To latencies while playing to avoid continued Capcom specialists, a special networking technology in the game fittings.
Street Fighter universe
Classics such as "Street Fighter" does not come without Merchandizing - and ideally, bring a lively show fan culture. There are, besides action figures also excursions into the puzzle genre (Super Puzzle Fighter), manga, comics and also a movie called "Street Fighter? The decisive battle" with Jean-Claude Van Damme, but not because you must have seen . Beginning 2009, in North America, the second film "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" in the cinemas come.
ON-LINE TO blogs photo line: Street Fighter HDEuropastart shines in the Playstation 3: The clown prince is flat (18.01.2007) mandatory for all fans: The English Project "Street Fighter: The Later Years", produced by the US-fun - Platform college humor. The U.S.-series format Asked consequences show how the once glorious fighters in real life come to the edge - namely, none. They talk with casual jobs on water and sink into self-doubt. Sun sells the Army veteran hot dogs Guile, M. Bison boss sits in a wheelchair and the blonde Schönling Ken is working with Great Wall of hair and red headscarf during the game developer Capcom.
Street Fighter are real but not for normal life, they want to fight - always. To do the former counterparty back together in order to organize a tournament and their determination to be fair.
But not only moving to give the fans big trouble, even in the paintings are true works of art and hobby Schneider to run at peak performance. The costumes are then called Cosplay on video games or comic fairs to show.
Soon in 2.5 D
The current "Street Fighter" for download is actually just a foretaste of the official continuation of "Street Fighter IV", which is already in Japan since July 2008 in the Gambling can play. An implementation for Xbox 360 and PS3 will follow in February 2009, the PC version a month later. These are the characters and fighting arenas in 3D modeling. So that the aesthetics of 2D predecessor is not entirely lost, the characters in cel-shading style that looks like a comic-drawing seems. The expectation is high, first preview versions of the trade but positively.
The game mechanics remain the 2-D faithful to the original. Even in the latest "Street Fighter" There are only two directions: left and right.

Project projector.

What do I want for Christmas, what I can give at Christmas? For example, a projector. HD home theater projector with canvas and has now become affordable. Especially attractive bundle offers.
  Christmas time is TV time. Sounds silly, but it's unfortunately true. For Christians Festival is not only much watched television, there are also many TVs sold particularly. But not only. Also projectors, which can be residential or nursery for mini-cinema can do, are increasingly popular - and increasingly affordable.

Not a new trick to find a way under the Christmas trees on motorways, try some manufacturers by using their photograph throwers with other multimedia products to be priced bundles of Christmas tempting lace. Benq has approximately verbandelt with Microsoft, currently offers the SVGA projector MP512 ST bundled with the Xbox 360 game console for 629 euros.
Epson tried it with another gift, submit to the home theater projectors EH-DM2 in the Christmas of a digital picture frame when Agfaphoto. The photos can not only show but also as a good digital clock, calendar and alarm clock. In the 128-MB memory, up to 500 photos fit, which can run as a slideshow. 649 euro is the total package cost as much as the projector alone cost so far. According to Epson saves you so 100 euros.
But more important are the data of the projector. With its 854 times 480 pixels, it can certainly not Heimcineasten behind hervorlocken oven, but nevertheless in a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9. This is exactly the right small-technikscheue cinema for movie fans. Besides bulb and lens is in the device is also a DVD player, even DivX movies from the Internet will play. Not even speaker must be connected because the already incorporated. A cord and a bright wall is sufficient to compact projectors into operation.
And parents who wonder why their children no longer see them after this movie gift children have, nevertheless remains the digital picture frame - with photos of the kids love.
Acer, Sanyo, Panasonic - blogs ONLINE projectors for all shows, full-HD up fully portable.

Apple disciples throw treason against Obama.

Barack Obama has an iPod. That informed a spokesman for the nominee for U.S. president with. Seriously. The reason for the clarification was a report, which the makers hope with a Zune, the unit of Apple rival Microsoft, had been seen. A storm of outrage was the result.
  What the president stuck in their ears, interested in the American people for quite some time. As George W. Bush in 2005, betrayed what songs on his iPod playlist are a huge murmur went through the global fan base. A representative of the "Rolling Stone" exposes parts of Bush's taste in music was a "really dirty" - as he referred to "My Sharona" by The Knack, because it inter alia there is talk that a "sweet little" the "motor" the speakers' running brings. "
That the President ever owns an iPod, was not surprised - after Apple's music players dominate the U.S. market for many years in almost monopolistic manner. Last week the message now cared for riots, the engine of the President in special might be from one device from Microsoft driven. A storm of outrage was the result.
Pacman as campaign forged instrument?
Bush's designated successor, Barack Obama was repeatedly during the election campaign with Apple computers folding sighted (see photo gallery above), which Mac fans and probably Steve Jobs happy. Once Obama appeared even a picture with a device that is beside the Apple icon Pacman still a sticker under consideration, what was the heart of the gamer community was beat.
ON TO ONLINE mobile blogs: bending displays for mobile phones with touchscreen (06.12.2008) iPod fan of Bush: Schweinkram in the mix (12.04.2005) U.S. policy: How Obama with the network wants to govern (19.11.2008) Obama's election victory : How the Internet celebrates its champion (05.11.2008) U.S. election: Barack Obama advertises in the crash videogame (14.10.2008) BlackBerry surrender: U.S. media fear Obama offline (17.11.2008) Soon thereafter, however, appeared to doubt the Story - a perspective from other picture showed Although the Apple logo, but not the digital pill eater. Wahlkampfdienlicher a case of image manipulation, then? The battle for the minds today is also quite evident in the sector of digital lifestyle out, sometimes perhaps even with unclean methods. And now das.
One such Obama, but that could not be otherwise, listen to music with white iPod headphones as otherwise please. It was all the more dismayed now recorded as the message through blogs swept the U.S., the future president had turned the enemy: He was in sports in a gym in Philadelphia with a Zune sightings have been reported to a local journalist in his blog - that is, with a MP3 player of the Microsoft Corporation. And, although it the "Rolling Stone" ever had betrayed everything on his iPod is?
"Now Obama is damnably"
The reaction was fast, and very many-violently. "What if his whole campaign was a lie?", Ask Matt Buchanan in the tech-blog "Gizmodo" - not quite seriously. In the "Wall Street Journal" - the venerable Wirtschaftsblatt spoke of "ZuneGate" - commented a reader under the name "Steve Jobs": "Now is Obama horribly. Apple and iPod are the only things in life have a role to play."
Hundreds of blog entries and newspaper articles on the subject were published within a few days, many simply refused, the bad news to believe.
A Twitter search with the words "Zune" and "Obama" raises until today hit out en masse - the community is divided on Zune-iPod fans and admirers, Obama supporters and Obama-enemies. "I've been for some time been a proud Zune users," twitterte one, "but if Obama has one, I must perhaps rethink." A blog commentator at Gizmodo rightly noted that "Ähh, hello. It IS but the candidate for change."
Well, it turns out: Everything a big misunderstanding. A spokesman of the future most powerful man in the world was against the "Wall Street Journal is now clear - false alarm:" The President-designate uses an iPod. " The Zune on the treadmill entertainment was perhaps only borrowed, the originator of the rumors discrediting itself clear.
Obama's sneakers, only for the sake of completeness, are on the photo from training Incidentally, as models of the brand Asics to see his T-shirt wears a Nike logo. Not been informed what the president wore socks, and whether his underwear from American Apparel or it came from Calvin Klein.
But until the inauguration are still a few weeks time.

Male raus!.

Christmas season is approaching and so the time to love junior finally got back from the "World of Warcraft" to liberate. That is not easy, but worth it: There are board games and which also can irritate generation Xbox. We have a few tips.
  Computer games are great, but board games are better, you always work, encourage the much communicate directly than any MMORPG and ensure that family and friends closer together. With all the attention, the PC and video games now reap, you quickly forget that even the developer of board games and a lot of creative, fun games have to offer - about immortal classics like "Man annoyed you" or "Monopoly" beyond .
We present here new titles for different age groups, which also and especially for the generation Xbox to be attractive - because some make PC and console in more ways than one direct competitor: You can actually play alone, if you want. Should we did not.
For strategists: Quarto!
A properly beautiful duel for two players who play in the wood "quarto" loses, is himself to blame. Unfortunately.
Because here the player will decide himself what his opponent stone as the next must determine - and perhaps to shovel his own grave.
Finally, any train of the counterparty always overlooked. It does this beautifully crafted strategy game at first glance as harmless and peaceful. Nobody would come at the sight of the wooden panel and the 16 different characters on the idea that the game a certain potential aggression awakens.

The goal: Four wooden figurines with the same character in a series or a block together and "quarto" exclaim. Whether brown or beige is not a matter of concern. Difficult is only the challenger to manipulate so that it actually the Stein to the desired position brings. Does not sound easy, is not easy. High re-play value.

Beyond MP3.

Listen to music, watching movies, and perhaps also at times on Web pages look: Current multimedia player are nearly universal entertainment machines, but really good, they can usually only one thing. ONLINE blogs compares six new devices.
  Real MP3 player you can find nowadays barely. And if they do, then almost exclusively on the Grabbeltisch in the electrical department. Because what were once simple Musikabspieler after the model of the Walkman, are now multi-functional multimedia player. At least, photos and movies play to be heard now on good sound when the electronic sub-keepers alone.
Often enough, but the developers also still a long way out. And so, the multimedia player, sometimes with their own TV receivers provide. For digital DVB-T course, the analog television is turned off so rapidly. Where no more space for an internal receiver, there is additional modules, with which devices to connect to a TV. From the player, a recorder.
But even while some manufacturers want it does not leave, planted the devices or WLAN modules. Gepimpt so they are finally to little brothers and sisters of the home computer. Via wireless network and DSL provide their users with Internet radio, portable serve as a surf or can be sent by additional program even seemingly very different devices to be reprogrammed. For example, mobile game consoles and remotes.
On the following pages: More than just music and video - Six current multimedia player, which can be a bit more.

Multimedia hard drive instead of VCR.

VCR was yesterday - today serve as a living room multimedia disks video archive. Faster, smaller, more versatile and they should be so easy to use as a DVD player. Their skills but differ vastly.
  A self-stretchable knitted sweater? Tickets for a concert? Ten to wash the dishes? Such gifts are becoming increasingly rare. Instead, technology is in vogue. On behalf of the Bitkom industry federation asked the opinion research institute Forsa 1000 German citizens according to their plans for Christmas gifts. The clear result: Nearly 40 percent of Germans want for Christmas computers, entertainment software, or buy.
High on the list are expected, apart from televisions and computer games, DVD players and recorders are available. However, rare multimedia disks. It was precisely this new category of consumer electronics lot to offer. With capacities of up to one terabyte (1000 gigabytes), they offer plenty of space for music, movies and videos.
Some video fan might like it, his DVD collection to the plate umzulagern. So are the favorite movies quickly retrieved ready, not one each time through the wall would have to dig shelf. The only problem: movies with copy protection can be, at least by legal means, not by the DVD to the hard drive.
But good multimedia disks can be much more. Playing music, for example. The necessary space to Zigtausende incorporated as MP3 CDs, they have all. Annoying is just that, through such huge media collections to be able to navigate, often must turn on the TV. But also there are already alternatives.
On the following pages: multimedia disks, the practical film, music and photo archives for the living room.
HDTV: High-SHORTCUTS WIRRWARRHDTVAACSHDCP HDMIDVIHDTV stands for High Definition Television. According to the manufacturers of consumer electronics will be the old TV standards like PAL (576 visible lines) and NTSC (USA, 480 lines) and replace with higher resolution and more stable image to make the home beautiful. HDTV content can be made with 720 lines in progressive-scan display method (720p), which means that each image is at each passage completely rebuilt. The alternative is called 1080i, has more lines to offer (namely 1080), but each of them alternately pass only every second will be redrawn (interlaced procedures, hence the 'i'). The Advanced Access Content System is a copy protection system, especially at the request of the film studios in Hollywood in all drives will be assembled, the HD content can play. We AACS is without any high-resolution films can play. Copies will be only with explicit permission of the author can be made that one, for example, could pick !
up online. Only in this way could also be a film about a Media Center or on mobile devices to stream. The originator but copies may also prohibit or require a fee. To AACS, there were long wrangling - because there are not many devices that the system is absolutely support it. An interim solution is the copy protection so toothless now begin to make - even on analog outputs will be even HD movies, although the studios prefer the issue to digital outputs would be limited, with a further protection called HDCP are. High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection is a kind of copy protection hardware. He also aims to prevent high-resolution material can be easily recorded. HDCP must be in the sending device, so the player or the graphics card, just as inserted in the receiver, so the monitor or TV. While TV, the "HD Ready" logo, HDCP capable, to have many monitors and graphics cards but not yet. An HDMI interface can also HDCP, a DVI interface does not notwendigerweise.Das High Defi!
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general interface of the future, for music, movies and even the connection between the computer and monitor. It is equipped with HDCP by default - an output device with HDMI interface and a TV with the "HD Ready" logo should work together so in any case, high-resolution movies represent können.Digital video interface - the first digital interface for video content, but It is already, of HDMI to be replaced. Some DVI outputs are also equipped with HDCP, others do not. Especially for many graphics cards missing copy of the hardware yet - leading to problems when playing copy-protected high definition movies might lead. ->

Christmas Apocalypse in Pittsburgh.

It's that time again: In all the world stretch for miles as homeowners cable and garlands, construction, hundreds of thousands of light bulbs and directed radio that the matching soundtrack deliver. The Christmas lighting season has begun - and the records purzeln.
  The illumination Apocalypse decreasing every year more extreme forms. When it goes around Christmas, knows an upright American homeowners do not change and no energy-saving lamps, as is his electricity bill regardless of the night and sleep the neighbors: It must blink, twinkle and shine, in rhythm as schauerlicher Christmas Muzak.

The now legendary "Griswold House", at the sound of the instrumentals "Wizard of Winter" was the Lichtlein dance, and its creator, or better lighting Carson Williams briefly famous, was only the beginning.
Today there are in the USA, a nationwide competition between private individuals, an animated country from incandescent lights, inflatable Santa Claus, animated reindeer and, of course, want to create garlands.
ON THE INTERNET mirror of the Carson-video competition for Carson: Christmas light shows are also found in Kissimmee, Florida still a "Christmas Lights" SongAlternativer website: the mistaken American flickering HausDer-first "Griswold" link to blogs ONLINE: collapsed under the crush same reader House, another song: "Jingle Bells" Guide: How to get its house in a gigantic light organ verwandeltSnopes: The Internet myths demystify confirm the authenticity of the "Griswold House" blogs ONLINE is not responsible for the content of external internet Seiten.Zwei Beleuchterszene the stars of this year are Robert Cox and his wife Raquel. Cox is an electrical engineer, and one sees his current work at Christmas. The couple from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with body and soul to the thing, and not just since yesterday. Already two years ago betrayed Cox, the local newspaper "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette", the first verbal expression of his then three-year-old daughters was once Chen's "Wow !
whee" was - at the sight of your own home with full electric, of course.
At that time, 2006, Cox had only 75,000 Birnchen installed. In 2008 there are 200.000, connected with nine kilometers of cable and enriched with "about 27" inflatable Weihachtsdekorationsstücken how the family on its Web page notifying "the final count is still outstanding."
So that the neighbors of the hour music program that accompanies the light show, not slowly but surely be kirre, Cox sends it on a dedicated FM frequency, which only in the impasse in which the house stands, be received. This method is in the lighting professionals in the U.S. have been commonplace for several years.
Of course, even in Germany lit and decorated, and here too the trend tend to second and third as a garland to Advent Saving energy with flute music and candlelight - as well as a call to the readers of blogs online a few years ago, more than made clear (see pictures route above). Electric extremists such as Cox and Williams are here but still sparsely gesäht - and perhaps this is also quite good.

Digital picture frames.

A nice photo for Christmas? Or rather two, or three or a thousand? What in the analog age already for logistical reasons failed to make electronic picture frames would be easily possible. Matthias Kremp gives an overview of current models.
  Digital picture frames are among the winners of the Christmas season. That is at least the result of a visitor analysis of the product search engine Twenga.de. Thus, for example, digital cameras and flat-screen televisions throughout the year asked for digital picture frames but are now, just before Christmas, popular as ever. According Twenga took appropriate query since November by 43 percent.

The reason is easy to understand: Previously you did beautifully framed family photos and handmade photo calendar away, in the era of Digitalknipsen has little meaning. Finally, we have the photos to print out only once or by a service provider can print, they would have in a frame clamp or leaves on a calendar stick.
How much more comfortable because it is such a mini-screen. Fills it via the PC, memory card or wirelessly via radio with a record favorite pictures and off you go. You might want even an automated slideshow make of it, so the picture at regular intervals to rotate. With printed photos would be disproportionately expensive.
That's not enough are also some digital picture frame or otherwise use. Thus, for example, Kodak offers wireless picture frames, which are on the online service Flickr images with photos can provide. Hamas "high end" devices to receive mobile phone photos directly from the phone and Samsung picture frame "H" series not only show pictures but also play MP3 music on their small loud speakers.
There are many possibilities, a digital picture frame to use. An overview of current models can be found on the following pages.

From Game Boy to Teachboy.

Mobile gaming consoles such as stationary parents were once seen as devices with which children just fritter their time. Today also play the parents - and discover the apparatuses as a handy training and learning aids. Nintendo has ambitions, now the education sector to conquer.
  Previously, the Game Boy among parents is not particularly popular. Mothers and fathers simply could not understand why her offspring for hours fascinated by buttons and pad kneads to his Pokémon to train. But at least since the Nintendo DS appeared, now include children and adults target. Diligently to train their brains, practice mental arithmetic and timpani English vocabulary.
The world should be over 80 million devices sold, and now appear even more learning and training programs for children. The advantages are obvious: The exercise units are also suitable for fast times in between, the children move back and thus absolve so voluntarily to one or another Lesson, there's no keyboard tray as a major barrier, a cumbersome installation as the PC comes anyway away - and the batteries hold forever.

No utopia: mobile games
"Children have their DS always there," says Axel Ruske of the firm Brain Game, with the "English buddy" (50,000 copies sold in the German speaking area alone, 100,000 in Europe) hit a veritable have landed. Ruske: "Playful learning in the back in the car, in school, under the blanket or together with friends on the lawn or at home? All that goes with a PC is not. The DS has already playful component alone by his handling incorporated. "
This is not marketing talk, but describes the situation: software, based on the PC always been popular among parents than with the target audience seems to portable consoles actually work. News is already sold two years since English-learning program still ranks 12 of the most popular DS games at Amazon - for an educational software is remarkable.
Once again demonstrates the versatility vision in the development of the game: This includes the built-in microphone and with the stylus writable touchscreen. An argument that the Klett Verlag convinced. "From didactic perspective, I think that the handwriting recognition in Nintendo DS profitable for the languages to learn," says Elizabeth Webster, managing director of Velcro languages, the title plans. "Through the combination of hand movement and the brain is quite obviously learning and learning reinforced."
Now come the textbook publishers
FOUND IN ... Familie.deDie family Internetwww.familie.deBerührungsängste side in a game with as Lernvermittler Webster knows not. "By leisure equipment such as Nintendo DS for educational use, we get the kids there, where they are: fun and motivation needed to be connected to learning."
On the whole home Velcro products are languages, English and mathematics are planned. Even the Berlin Cornelsen is in the design phase for English and math titles. Carsten Kindermann, where business development department manager Digital Media, is enthusiastic: "Nintendo has with the DS creates a platform for the first time on a portable console for high-quality educational software necessary forms of interaction possible. And, with its own titles still equally demonstrated that with the NDS also practically trained and learned. When the high penetration of the NDS in children and adolescents is for us a new and promising platform for our digital learning. "
If textbook publishers now engage in a game, but the idea is obvious that the NDS, with its high penetration figures soon his triumphant in the schools could muster.
DS in the classroom?
"On the afternoon market, we aim naturally anyway," says Sebastian Weber, head of publishing for self-learning PONS, also on "English buddy" was involved, "but the withdrawal of the DS in schools is anything but utopian. We are working with out these doors to open. "
First approaches to schools worldwide, there are already. In Tokyo, the use of the DS in mathematics teaching with great success tested in westjapanischen Yawata practice so that the children every morning for ten minutes vocabulary. A study from Scotland certifies 600 primary school pupils, very good learning experience with the pocket console to have made.
Also in Vienna, there are already model experiments, and even in Germany preliminary discussions with schools and teachers instead. Although Nintendo would never announced officially, with their consoles, the school already difficult market to conquer want, but something about the Japanese certainly have not.
Nintendo, there are modest
"The Nintendo DS is not primarily for use in schools designed," says Lea Trees of Nintendo. "Through its technical facilities? The touch screen, built-in microphone? But he is very good for adapting school content, such as mathematics and language learning. Our experience in dealing with schools is that teachers much better than we can estimate How the Nintendo DS or Wii in the classroom can be integrated. Here they are clearly the experts, not us. "
There is no doubt that Nintendo's console as a pedagogical knowledge broker wants to establish. Only thus can the presence of the Japanese group at the Frankfurt Book Fair explained. Even an appearance at the next Education Fair is planned. For one so obviously increases the acceptance of the device, on the other hand, come more and more learning and reference provider to the idea that their content for the DS aufzubreiten. Nintendo has in any case something like this, finally, this is primarily a platform for profitable licensing business.
BTW: With the Nintendo DS in the school would also cheat and spiking on a new dimension. Because the students can easily via Wi-Fi exchange.