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Much ado is being made about a recent change on the Public Test Realm (PTR) in regards to the Shaman class in World of Warcraft (WoW). In short, Shamans have the ability to apply a single weapon enchant to any of their weapons, and one of these enchants, Flametongue Weapon, now applies a healing debuff [...]

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Regarding World of Warcraft (WoW), would-be Chief Social Engineer Tobold recently exclaimed:

Now maybe Blizzard *wants* PvP to be the most popular activity in WoW. Having a strong PvP in WoW diminishes the competitive advantage of upcoming MMORPGs, which are mostly PvP-centric. And the earlier PvP weakness of WoW clashed somewhat with the lore [...]

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Over at MMOG Nation, Michael claimed that Wrath of the Lich King (WotLK) could see the light of day by summer, and even though he later acknowledged that this tentative date was indeed likely early, I’m still going to take this time to proclaim that estimates of a WotLK release by end-of-summer are dead wrong. [...]

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As I’m now in a prolonged struggle against the forces of The Alliance evil on multiple fronts, it’s become fantastically apparent that players with significantly more time allotted to grinding honour than myself are mysteriously without a clue as to how to win a Battleground (BG) in World of Warcraft (WoW), which all the more [...]

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Znodis at the The Mystic Hunter brought up choice versus diversity as it relates to Hunter pets in World of Warcraft (WoW). However, the balancing argument for pets as compared to classes is apples and oranges; class balancing is a necessity as it relates to both PvE synergy as well as PvP combat. Neither of [...]

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On the recent, certain demise of HD-DVD as a video protocol, TUAW blogger Mike Schramm ponders the future of Apple products and Blu-Ray, wondering whether Blu-Ray gear will hit the Apple lineup soon. In pondering these thoughts, it immediately became evident that, as Schramm himself notes, the MacBook Air is without a drive, and if [...]

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In late November, I complained about reaching end-game late compared to many World of Warcraft (WoW) players. This follows not only from me picking up Burning Crusade (BC) a handful of weeks after it was released, but also by the fact that I didn’t bring my pre-BC endgame characters out of retirement, and instead rolled [...]

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Mac users ought be familiar with MacHeist, an annual “holiday bundle” of applications that are sold for much cheaper than the sum of their individual parts. This past holiday season marked the second annual MacHeist bundle, sold for $49 that contained a good number of applications, a handful of which are very useful (some even [...]

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When version 1.1.2 of the iPhone’s firmware was announced, there was nothing worthwhile in the patch, and when 1.1.3 came along, none of the great new features were that appealing given that they were already duplicated on my 1.1.1 iPhone via third-party applications. Nonetheless, after a curious inability to stay asleep at 04:00 AM this [...]

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While Microsoft may not have had any success yet with their acquisition of Yahoo!, their sights elsewhere have proven deadly: Microsoft has acquired Danger, the company responsible for the Danger OS, which is seen on Sidekick and Hiptop devices as made famous by Paris Hilton and other Generation-Y celebrities. The move is interesting given Danger’s [...]

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When I read on Daring Fireball that Starbucks was dropping T-Mobile as the carrier behind their hotspot service, I was overcome with annoyance, as this meant that the bundled hotspot service I get with my T-Mobile data plan would be next-to-worthless, and put me squarely back in a position of having to pay $20 per [...]

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Macworld recently brought up MediaLink, an application by Nullsoft that allows streaming of multimedia files from one’s Mac to one’s television by way of a PS3. This is very similar to their other application, Connect360, which works by way of an XBox 360 instead of a PS3, and is an application that we thoroughly stand [...]

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Admittedly, I’m intrigued by the buzzwords used by those describing Chyrp, who claim that it is “lightweight” and “quick” and “uncomplicated”. Chyrp is a cross between a micro-blogging platform and a normal blogging platform, yet the available plugins already offer users a substantial base of features. While Chyrp doesn’t have the large community and extendability [...]

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Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is nothing new to us at mendax.org. In fact, we incorporated RSS into the site a whole five years ago, even though we didn’t always get the draw of the technology. Nonetheless, we even went and got us a Feedburner feed, just in case our out-of-box WordPress feed wasn’t good enough.
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In late 1999, mendax.org hosted a brief history of the Starshield gaming project, but after moving to WordPress long ago, this was an article lost from the site’s online archive. Well, we found a local copy of this post, which you can now find back online. Hopefully in the near future, we’ll get around to [...]

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We’re not shy about our love for OS X, and don’t hesitate to declare it superior to Windows in practically every way, shape, and form. However, as with every OS, third party applications are a necessity, and there’s only so much that Apple can package alongside OS X. To fill the gaps present, we share [...]

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I’ve been following Daring Fireball for some time now via RSS, and most of John Gruber’s observations and commentary are spot on. That said, I’m a little confused about his love for MarsEdit, the desktop blogging application for OS X. I’m not confused as to why someone would enjoy using MarsEdit, but merely that someone [...]

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