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Music and browsing mashup Songbird has kicked the remnants of its shell to the curb, and the programs main emphasis as a music browser couldnt be more clear.

Music and browsing mashup Songbird has kicked the remnants of its shell to the curb, and the programs main emphasis as a music browser couldnt be more clear.

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Given the close working relationship between the Prince of Persia team and Jade Raymond's Assassin's Creed group at Ubisoft Montreal, our first thought upon hearing this news was that Ubisoft included a Jade Raymond skin for Elika in the latest PoP. It actually turns out to be - as Destructoid has discovered - a freebie that "tranforms" the Prince's sidekick into Jade, the lead character from the underrated platformer Beyond Good & Evil.

The Jade skin is obtained simply by finishing the game, which goes on sale today. Creating an account on Ubisoft's site and registering your copy also provides an unlock for the Prince's previously revealed Altaïr (Assassin's Creed) costume. Considering that we've seen neither hide nor hair swine of Ubi's BG&E sequel since it was announced earlier this year, we'll consider this a consolation gift for the delay. (And, hopefully, proof that Ubisoft hasn't forgotten about the game.)

Princess of Persia plays dress-up as Jade from Beyond Good & Evil originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 

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BKIS, a Vietnamese security center, recently demonstrated that face-recognition security programs found in Toshiba, Asus and Lenovo laptops can be bypassed with a special photo. To enroll in the...

Or something... :bleh:

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Donnie Walsh won't say how long Stephon Marbury will be gone before he's gone for good.

div style="FLOAT: right"img title="Dreamy Tina USB Flash Drive For The Missus" alt="Dreamy Tina USB Flash Drive For The Missus" hspace="5" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/12/dreamy-tina.jpg" vspace="5" border="0" //div pAre you in a tight spot of not knowing what to get the missus as a form of saying sorry? Well, let us help you out. If she's tech-savvy to a certain extent, it certainly won't hurt for you to pick up the Dreamy Tina USB flash drive. This lilac USB stick will feature a smiling girl with a shiny silver skipping rope. On the downside, Dreamy Tina will set you back by a whopping pound;102 for a mere 2GB, which is nothing short of online robbery, but if bling is what you're after without regard to price, then Dreamy Tina really is your girl when Swarovski releases her to the adoring masses next March./p pPermalink: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/12/dreamy_tina_usb_flash_drive_for_the_missus.html"Dreamy Tina USB Flash Drive For The Missus/a from Ubergizmo (a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"US/a, a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/fr"FR/a) | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a | Hot: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/blackberry_storm_review.html"Storm Review/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081202175530" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081202175530?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081202175530" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081202175530amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F12%2Fdreamy_tina_usb_flash_drive_for_the_missus.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/VKXrY5Yl2DkjVhV4UYt8s6fEX8I/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/VKXrY5Yl2DkjVhV4UYt8s6fEX8I/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=zW3Ar64s"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=I87bAAT7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=I87bAAT7" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=xsnJdHUD"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=dzkNtrzZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=dzkNtrzZ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=gEahc0gv"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=gEahc0gv" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ubergizmo/~4/QXsJAJOoPAE" height="1" width="1"/

When the 2008 Google Zeitgeist report of top search terms is published next week, the top of the list will be US President-elect Barack Obama. The result is in stark...

centerimg title="Gmail Gadget Now Official" style="MARGIN: 0px" alt="Gmail Gadget Now Official" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/12/gmail-gadget.jpg" border="0" //centerbr / pGoogle has released its official Gmail gadget for its Google Desktop product line, offering users the choice to run a gamut of various Gmail accounts as standalone gadgets simultaneously. This tool will introduce a bunch of useful Gmail features including keyboard shortcuts, mail, and contact search, and the indispensable option to award your messages with a star. Not only that, users are able to compose emails in small pop-out windows that does away with the need to launch a browser. This is a Windows-only application at this point in time and will require Google Desktop version 5 or higher to run, so Mac and Linux users are out of luck at this point in time./p pPermalink: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/12/gmail_gadget_now_official.html"Gmail Gadget Now Official/a from Ubergizmo (a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"US/a, a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/fr"FR/a) | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a | Hot: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/blackberry_storm_review.html"Storm Review/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081202175120" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081202175120?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081202175120" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081202175120amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F12%2Fgmail_gadget_now_official.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/BWyRQSICEgL2JVSgAgnnRmXWyx4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/BWyRQSICEgL2JVSgAgnnRmXWyx4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=iqnCvrqw"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=pHQ4IPIL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=pHQ4IPIL" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=rVqDueYg"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=Hlmu6i9g"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=Hlmu6i9g" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=E4ynQ5bs"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=E4ynQ5bs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ubergizmo/~4/Nv37iNp7sbU" height="1" width="1"/

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We've featured crazy ass Christmas lights on here before, and seeing as it's officially past Thanksgiving, it's time to show them off again. This Xmas light display, which is in its second year...

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Knicks president Donnie Walsh said that Stephon Marbury's banishment is not a punishment.

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So today I was booting up my MBA. It got stuck on the grey screen with the Apple logo and the little spinning thing under it. I restart a few times, tried the option + command + P + R thing, and still got the same thing. That was a few hours ago. Now, when I boot up, I get a blue screen where all i can do is move the cursor. Tried restarting again, now it shows a grey screen, then boots into windows which won't work. It says "Windows failed to load because the system registry file is missing, or corrupt". Does anybody have any idea what's going on?:confused:

Our friends at Palit, who usually aren't happy with the reference design of video cards anyway, have come up with a new version of the HD 4870 X2, with two fans blowing on a pair of heatpipe coolers to cool off those cookin' GPUs. Taking up three expansion slots, this may be the largest gaming video card ever built. Billed by Palit as "the first custom designed HD 4870 X2", the card not only sports custom cooling, but also a Palit-designed PCB, and four different output interfaces. In addition, they have overclocked the 2 gigs of GDDR5 memory. Read on as we check out the Palit Revolution 700 Deluxe!
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I can't seem to find the answer to my question any where. I was needing to know if the hd in the WD 500gb My Passport essential is 9.5mm or if it is too large to go into a 2.16ghz black macbook. According to the western digital website the casing measurements of both the 500gb and the 320gb are the same, but I cannot find anywhere the exact model number of the hd within the casing. Any help would be great, thanks.

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a href=http://www.fleshmap.com/listen/music.htmlimg src=http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/resource/_fleshmap3.png alt=fleshmap3.png border=0 width=219 height=124 style=float:left;margin-right:5px;/ /a In this unusual a href=http://www.fleshmap.com/listen/music.htmlvisualization/a, artists a href=http://www.fernandaviegas.com/Fernanda Viégas/a and a href=http://www.bewitched.com/Martin Wattenberg/a have analyzed the lyrics of 10,000 songs looking for the words that describe body parts and have plotted the results as a function of 11 music genres. The resulting chart highlights the differences in lyric content between the various genres. Its an interesting graphic (but be warned, some parts of the graph - especially the Hip Hop genre - are not safe for work).