Buying a New Computer?

If you’re planning on getting a new pc and you’re from down under, wait! Dell Australia has a lucky draw kinda thing running till mid-July and if you sign up you’ll be in a chance to win either a Dell XPS M1530 laptop + 24 inch widescreen monitor OR a Dell XPS 630 Desktop + 24 inch widescreen (You get to choose the prize!).

Also, there will be weekly draw for a 24 inch monitor. So if you’re a student like me (well, technically I’m still a student since my final paper is on Wednesday), and if you’re dead bored from studying for your exams, why not sign up for a chance to win one of these (OK, I know it’s not that easy since there will be thousands of people signed up but if you never try you’ll never know!).

Click here to sign up!

P/S: I’m a sucker for free stuff even though I don’t really get them often :P

Diablo 3 To Be Announced Soon?

1) Blizzard.com displays a mysterious splash page. Blizzard has previously done the same mystery style announcement for Starcraft 2. So what announcement could this be?

2) Diablo3.com was just snapped up by Blizzard as recent as FEW DAYS AGO! Previously, this was a fan page and now the ownership of this domain name belongs to Blizzard.

1 + 2 = Diablo 3

Looks like good news for Diablo fans soon.

Spore Creature Creator Hands On

The trial version of Spore Creature Creator has been released recently and I just played with it for a while and I got to say, it’s been a while since I’ve been impressed with a game that is both highly intuitive and brings great fun. While the creature creator is just a small part of a huge game that is to be released (I think September), it provides an insight of what to expect.

Spore Creature Creator trial version is available for download here for both Mac and PC. The full version is available for purchase at 9.99 USD. On the other hand, the full game will be available for 49.95 USD pre-order (you can download it off the net when it releases).

I’m looking forward to the full game and pit my creature to battle with other creations.

Adium Unofficial Beta Brings Back MSN Personal Messages

… and also brings back much needed daily dose of emo entertaining messages.

warning: this is an UNOFFICIAL build so if you’re using Adium for really, really important stuff (which I doubt so), don’t use it.

download it from this forum thread (scroll down and find a post by Dimmuxx, 4th post from last) or try this direct link.

credits go to Dimmuxx at Cocoaforge forums

USB Dongle Allows Retail OS X Installation On PC

Amazing, apparently a device called EFI-X has been crafted to allow you to install Mac OS X on your PC right from the retail discs. Check out the demo video here. I wonder if Apple lawyers are gonna threaten the creators of this device (I hope not).

My only questions are

- how much will this device cost
- do we need this device attached to boot OS X
- can it be installed on AMD computers
- do the creators of this device plan on providing drivers for hardware that are non-standard on Apple computers

Looks like we’ll know more on the release date, 23rd of June.