Show #5 - 11.26.2006

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News

• MySpace.com/Fox - Full Throttle Player
• Apple Creative on album pricing
  
• Space Elevator - Deadly Radiation
  
• Sun Opens Java Under the GPL
• The Web Turned 16 on November 13th
• Female bloggers moving to TV
  

Software / Hardware / Power Web Picks

• Last.FM
• Shoutcast Directory
• Pandora

Penny Pinchers

• Winamp (Oldversion.com)
  
• iTunes
• Windows Media Player
  

Gamer's Corner

• Girl gamers - the industry is out of touch
• Some characters just don't work
  
• Laura Croft (example that does work)
  
• Games like WoW often put female characters in support roles
• Stop stereotyping, games without a male lead
  
• XBox 360 having problems rendering HD content for games, Activision Call of Duty 3 and Tony Hawk Project 8
• Gamestop has more preorders than they will have Playstation 3 systems shipped to them
• They did this with the XBox 360
  

Editorial ("Power Up") - Digital Photography [Cont.]

• The "Half-Press"
• Camera Modes
• Green Square
• P - Professional
  
• Tv - Time (Shutter Speed) Priority
  
• Av - Aperature Priority
  
• Next week: Photo touch-up techniques
  

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