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SimCity Could Have Been Offline, But EA Doesn’t Want To

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Fans of Maxis’ SimCity are furious after hearing it out from EA’s Maxis General Manager Lucy Bradshaw that the game is offline-capable but left the always-connected gameplay as is. They accuse her of lying for initially pointing to security concern as the main reason for the Always-On DRM feature. Now she wants to convince them that the feature is really the ultimate vision of the developer and that the game is indeed offline-capable.

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The ridiculous feature has been met with strong criticisms in the wild especially with the technical problems continuing to unleash its fury on the game through network outages, saving problems, and connectivity issues. Some even urge players to discontinue playing the game until the issues are resolved. The game ended as Always-online because the developers envisioned it as a multiplayer game where sharing of resources and characters helping one another is possible. That could have been understandable if the offline-capable thing is not uttered.

Now that the lies are spreading like a wildfire, EA and Maxis can expect a backlash despite their insistence that thousands of gamers prefer the game to be always online and in multi-player mode. Issues such as delayed updating and cloud-based errors continue to hound the gameplay to the disappointment of fans from all four corners. The opposing statements notwithstanding, the feature could also be a response to the lingering piracy issue that has befallen the industry for quite some time.

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Apple Has Been “Completely Blown Away” by iPhone 5 Demand

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“If you snooze, you lose,” was never as true as it was overnight, as those who decided it was more important to get a good nights rest than to snag an iPhone 5 on pre-order have waken up to find that the pre-order cupboard was bare.

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Late-sleeping early adopters may be unhappy to hear that pre-order inventory of its new iPhone 5 has been depleted, but Apple’s pretty happy with the level of demand it’s seeing. “Pre-orders for iPhone 5 have been incredible,” Apple spokeswoman Nat Kerris told AllThingsD. “We’ve been completely blown away by the customer response.” As one might expect, considering ship time estimates slipped to two weeks just an hour after the iPhone 5 became available for pre-order.

It took iPhone 4S pre-orders about 22 hours to sell out last year. iPhone 5 pre-orders were gone in about an hour.

Those who missed the early shift can still order online, but the Apple Store online now shows an estimated delivery date of “2-3 weeks,” Verizon’s advertised ship date has slipped to Sept. 26 delivery, and AT&T is saying new orders would ship within two to three weeks. Sprint, however, still shows Sept. 21 for 32GB and 64GB models.

Of course, if you’re a “people person”, you can always get up early on the 21st and hang out with all the others who thought a few hours sleep were worth more than an iPhone 5. Don’t worry, some of the Apple Stores will have free coffee. And you’ll have fun chatting with all the early-morning cleaning people and the mall-walkers.

Seriously people! Where WERE your priorities?

Of course, I guess not all is lost. If you’re willing to settle for a Timex, instead of a Rolex, I hear there are plenty of Android phones available at all the carriers.

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Apple Has Been “Completely Blown Away” by iPhone 5 Demand

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64f22 iPhone 5 Official Thumb 3 Apple Has Been “Completely Blown Away” by iPhone 5 Demand

“If you snooze, you lose,” was never as true as it was overnight, as those who decided it was more important to get a good nights rest than to snag an iPhone 5 on pre-order have waken up to find that the pre-order cupboard was bare.

82a61 iPhone 5 availability Apple Has Been “Completely Blown Away” by iPhone 5 DemandAllThingsD:

Late-sleeping early adopters may be unhappy to hear that pre-order inventory of its new iPhone 5 has been depleted, but Apple’s pretty happy with the level of demand it’s seeing. “Pre-orders for iPhone 5 have been incredible,” Apple spokeswoman Nat Kerris told AllThingsD. “We’ve been completely blown away by the customer response.” As one might expect, considering ship time estimates slipped to two weeks just an hour after the iPhone 5 became available for pre-order.

It took iPhone 4S pre-orders about 22 hours to sell out last year. iPhone 5 pre-orders were gone in about an hour.

Those who missed the early shift can still order online, but the Apple Store online now shows an estimated delivery date of “2-3 weeks,” Verizon’s advertised ship date has slipped to Sept. 26 delivery, and AT&T is saying new orders would ship within two to three weeks. Sprint, however, still shows Sept. 21 for 32GB and 64GB models.

Of course, if you’re a “people person”, you can always get up early on the 21st and hang out with all the others who thought a few hours sleep were worth more than an iPhone 5. Don’t worry, some of the Apple Stores will have free coffee. And you’ll have fun chatting with all the early-morning cleaning people and the mall-walkers.

Seriously people! Where WERE your priorities?

Of course, I guess not all is lost. If you’re willing to settle for a Timex, instead of a Rolex, I hear there are plenty of Android phones available at all the carriers.

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DXLP9 ICS 4.0.4 update has been released for Galaxy Note N7000

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Samsung Galaxy Note running out with an official DXLP9 ICS update, Samsung Electronics has regularly started updating Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 with latest firmwares. Now this time DXLP9 is an Android ICS 4.0.3 firmware version update. This update has been officially rolled out via KIES on selected countries, but those countries who are not in the list can manually update this official firmware version with our guide.

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Disclaimer: This DXLP9 ICS update is only compatible with Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 not for simple Galaxy Note or any other version. Neither Tips4tech nor developers are responsible for any error occurred while updating firmware from our procedure. But don’t worry if any issues occur we are committed to help you in solving the same.

With this version of firmware you don’t have to root your device because it is an official version of firmware.

Fixes:

  • fixes the touch pen issue
  • The camera issues fixes.

Pre-Requisites for updating DXLP9 Rom:

1. Backup all your data properly, so that after applying this firmware you can restore all your data back to its own place. You can take help from this Titanium Backup tool

2. Charge your battery at least 80% so that no power interruption during the process.

3. Enable the USB Debugging in your Galaxy Note N7000 from the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging”. The USB Debugging option should be ticked.

4. Disable all security programs like antivirus and firewall. Also disable Kies for Samsung.

5. Download the DXLP9 Firmware Package.

6. Download the Odin.

Step by step guide to install DXLP9Rom on Samsung Galaxy Note N7000:

Step1. First Extract the downloaded Odin tool, and start it in your PC.

Step2. Now reboot your Note so as to enter in Download Mode. Download mode can be entered by pressing  Volume Down Key + OK button, and holding both simultaneously press the Power Button. Now, a Warning message will be shown when you need to press the Volume Up key to continue entering the Download Mode.

 Step3. Connect your Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 into your PC with the help of original USB cable.

Step4. The ID: Com section in Odin (Odin: which you have already opened it in your PC) gets turn yellow that means all drivers of your phone in PC are correctly installed.

If ID: Com section doesn’t turn yellow then you have to install drivers of your phone with the help of Kies application of Samsung.

Step5. Now click on PDA section on Odin and select the N7000DXLP9_N7000OLBLP6_N7000DXLP5_HOME.tar.md5” and click on “Start” to start the process of firmware update.

Step6. When update will be finished the device will be turned on.

Step7. Now again reboot your device so as to enter in Recovery mode. In Galaxy Note enter by pressing Volume Down Key + OK button, and holding both simultaneously press the Power Button. Now, a Warning message will be shown when you need to press the Volume Down key to continue entering the Recovery Mode.

Step8. On Recovery Mode select Wipe data/factory reset and also you need to select Wipe Cache partition and then reboot your device by selecting reboot system now with the help of Volume rocker keys.

That’s it now your device after restart land on new Custom rom.

Note: If the firmware update interrupts between the middle of the process.  Then you need to reinsert the battery and apply the update again by following the steps again from the start. Don’t forget to restore the backup which you have taken in the initial steps:

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Facebook App For iPad Has Been Full Considering that Could, Developer Quits In Aggravation

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A new report from Organization Insider claims that Facebook’s iPad app has been feature comprehensive given that Could, with Facebook engineer Jeff Verkoeyen acquiring quit and taken a job at Google since Facebook by no means released the app.

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Facebook has supposedly been functioning on a native Facebook app for really some time, and the iPad app was even embedded and hidden in a prior release of Facebook for iPhone & iPod touch, as was discovered by MG Siegler when he unlocked it on a jailbroken iPad. According to Verkoeyet, Facebook continually delayed the release of the app a bit at a time, and he’s not confident the app will ever be released.

It appears strange for Facebook not to release the iPad app, which numerous observed seemed to function pretty nicely when the embedded version was uncovered in July. Business Insider suspects that the app isn’t being released due to disagreements amongst Apple and Facebook.

A last note comes from Robert Scoble, who suggests that Facebook is merely saving its new iPad app for Apple’s announcement on October 4th, when the iPhone 5 and iOS 5 are anticipated to be announced.

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