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.