Green Laser, LED Watch & iPhone 4 Cases
The City of Vancouver doesn't like usage-based playstation move gun billing (UBB) for Internet access; this kind of traffic metering "will act as a tax on innovation, free expression, and empowerment," according to the city council. In addition, metering "discriminates" against high-bandwidth applications like audio and video. Remove the caps!
Yesterday, the Vancouver city council passed a resolution on "Affordable Internet Access in Vancouver" in which it railed against UBB and blasted incumbent Internet providers like Bell Canada for imposing "unjust financial limitations on how many gigabytes of usage their independent competitors can provide to their customers."
Microsoft is starting to feel the holiday cheer, and has announced a Christmastime sale on the Xbox Live Marketplace. The discounts range from bigger titles rolling out as games on demand, like Just Cause 2 and Red Dead Redemption playstation move accessories, to smaller indie games like Comic Jumper and The Undergarden.
The sale includes titles we've raved about in the past, such as the platformer Super Meat Boy and strategy world-building game Carcassonne. There are also a couple of games whose prices we balked at, like Toy Soldiers and Castle Crashers, that now seem a bit more reasonable.
As part of the sale, Microsoft is adding a few more full-size games to its on-demand service, like Red Dead Redemption, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, Just Cause 2, and Ghostbusters. DLC for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Bomberman: Live Battlefest will also be added alongside iPhone 4 Cases a few new arcade games.
Discounts range from 33 to 50 percent and bring prices down to between five and ten dollars. The sale runs from December 21 to December 31, so you'll get a chance to use all those Microsoft points from friends who didn't know what else to get you. Every day of the LED Watch sale a surprise discount will be announced on Major Nelson's blog, so it might be worth keeping an eye out there too.
It's a traveler's nightmare: being in a foreign country surrounded by signs in another language and nothing but a guidebook to help you. If only there was a way to have every sign translated in realtime—perhaps in the form of a mini translator gnome in your pocket—so you wouldn't have to look up each word individually. A new iOS app claims to be that gnome: Word Lens by Quest Visual is a new arrival on the App Store, and already has the Internet abuzz by its apparently magical abilities to translate the written word in realtime.
The app itself is "free" on the App Store—the scare quotes are because you can't actually do any language translations without paying for the add-on word packs. So far, the word packs include Spanish to English and English to Spanish, sold separately for $4.99 apiece until the end of the year, when they'll go up to $10. That may seem steep for in-app purchases for each language (I balked at first too), but Green Laser Word Lens generally does a good enough job that it's worth the money if you're in need of its services.
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