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Naked guy. Click. Naked guy.

Between the rude, the nude and the whack jobs also looking to chat online

Apps We Love

An app that takes you back

The greatest library in the world means nothing without the card catalog to make sense of it all

Controller Freak

Halo Legends premieres in San Francisco

Microsoft’s new collection of seven short anime films about the Halo Universe won’t be for everyone, but it does provide a few juicy morsels of mythology for hardcore fans

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A scene from Bioshock 2, rated Mature: The original Big Daddy is back.
Gaming

Bioshock 2: Brainy and moving, with exemplary action

The very first Big Daddy is back and is on a mission to exert his free will

Google researcher T.V. Raman works on the Android Phone software with his colleagues on an application for disabled people that uses a smartphone's built-in capabilities.

Mobile

Google, Apple pile pressure on phone world

Nokia, world’s biggest handset maker, opts to skip annual Mobile World Congress

Internet

From Search to Buzz, the steps on Google’s path to world domination

With its latest shot across the bows – at Facebook – is it possible Google is having a Microsoft moment?

Hardware

Accessory makers, app developers have high hopes for Apple's iPad

Market created for iPod, iPhone add-ons now firmly focused on tablet device

Life

Flirty texts have a long memory

Toronto mayoral hopeful Adam Giambrone joins the ranks of public figures embarrassed by flirtatious texting

Live Better

How to break free and use data in the cloud

Our guide to your life: This week, four ways to take advantage of cloud-based computing for storing data

Computer whiz kid becomes Balkan celebrity at age 9

Without support, Marko Calasan doesn’t have much of a future in Macedonia

Study

Is blogging losing its lustre with youth?

Number of young bloggers in decline as communication habits change, Pew study finds

Dave McGinn's Mr. Miser

Why do phone companies not reward customer loyalty?

I figured I should be able to parlay my years of loyalty into a free iPhone. I was so wrong.

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Gagdets
Speakers for the budget-conscious audiophile

Speakers offer top quality acoustics at a fraction of premium name-brand systems

Accessories
Laptop totes for fashion-conscious bagaholics

There has been an explosion of gear sacks sporting funky colours and feminine shapes

Life online
Blogger arranges his whole life through Craigslist

Some university graduates do a year in Europe. Jason Paul, 22, is doing 9 months of living through Craiglist.

Jason Paul is devoting nine months of his life to an experiment where he lives through Craigslist.
Gaming
Mass Effect 2 gives you hope for the future of gaming
(oh, and humanity, too)

3.5 Stars

Second entry in BioWare’s sci-fi saga has a narrative so complex, the game will prove unique to every player

Apps We Love
An app to keep Xbox Live living

360 Live, and independently developed mobile app for the iPhone/iPod Touch, lets you connect with your buddies away from the console

A screencapture of tktkt's 360Live app for the iPhone/iPod Touch
A Twitter app for nOObs

We also take a look at a search engine for Internet radio and a handy app that lets you compare two Photoshop files

Screengrab from www.seesmic.com
Exer-gaming
Me and my (anatomically perfect) shadow

Your Shape game lets you and your avatar star alongside each other on your home TV

The Nintendo Wii game Your Shape lets you see yourself working out onscreen beside an anatomically perfect virtual trainer.
WonderQuest
Microwaving plastics 101

Do the recycle numbers assigned to plastic containers indicate if they are safe to use for heating food in a microwave oven?

A microwave-safe TV dinner tray.
Viral
The iPad: Our shiny new ball and chain

Within a couple of months, there will be no physical position in which we won’t be able piss away time on the Internet