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Watching TV Doggy Style

The family dog, Wallace, likes to watch TV. Well at least it’s only a big old CRT and not a more delicate flat screen. Anyway, what better way to showcase his doggy style TV watching than with the trailer for Hotel for Dogs?! Sound will most definitely enhance this video.

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Plants vs Zombies comes to iPhone and iPod Touch (and iPad)

Finally!  After several short delays in 2009, and increasing excitement by many fans of the game – Plants vs Zombies is finally released in the iTunes store. This is going to be great on the iPad ! A superbly balanced easy-to-play-and-get-addicted-to tower defense / strategy game mixed with the expected polish from Popcap, masters of [...]

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Northern Lights at the End of a Tunnel

The best way of tackling The Baltic art gallery is to go straight up to the 5th Floor and admire the view of the Millennium Bridge and The Sage. Unless you’re very lucky, this is likely to be the best art you’ll see all day. From the fifth floor you can also look down onto [...]

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Google is Black – Energy Awareness – Earth Hour

Today, in case you hadn’t already noticed, Google is black. Black Google, symbolising Earth Hour 2008 This is to symbolise ‘Earth Hour’, which aims to help make people more aware of the energy they use on a daily basis, by asking them to turn out their lights between 8pm and 9pm (in their time-zone) tonight, [...]

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Colossal Squid, Bigger than the Giant Squid. Largest Eyes in the Animal Kingdom

Colossal Squids (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) are larger than the more well-known Giant Squid. The species was first discovered in 1925, realised from tentacles found in the stomach of a Sperm Whale. There have only been eight specimens of Colossal Squid recovered since their discovery.

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Adobe Software Costs 60% More in the UK. Director 11 is $640 Cheaper in the US.

Adobe’s multimedia authoring environment, Adobe® Director® 11 software has been over four years in development. However, despite the extra years that they have had over Adobe’s Flash development team to update and improve it’s features, it is unfortunately looking like just a patch

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