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Guitar Praise - The Christian Rockband Review

Guitar Praise is the latest game from a small software developer called Digital Praise. It is basically a Christian version of popular music games like Guitar Hero and Rockband. Digital Praise is well known for a computer dance game called Dance Praise 2 as well as a host of other games including VeggieTales and Adventure in Odyssey based games. Digital Praise’s track record is very good so when they announced Guitar Praise, I was eager to see the final product. After all, faith based music is a thriving segment of the entertainment industry and it has been all but shunned by the makers of popular music games. Now saying all of that, ‘Christian’ games tend to not to live up to what they try to mimic for one reason or another.

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New Apple Macbook Pro Laptop Pictures 2009

Engadget found an image from the MacRumors forum of the New Macbook Pro Laptop design structure. It looks very real and well designed.

The photo depicts what could be the left-hand side of a 15- or 17-inch MacBook Pro with a new speaker grill design and keyboard cutout that matches the one already employed by the company’s 13-inch MacBook Air.

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D-Link wants to do their part for the environment with a new range of Wi-Fi routers that are actually smart enough to help you save up to 40% in power usage - this is made possible as the routers are capable of detecting cable length as well as link status, adjusting power accordingly instead of running at full steam all the time as most of the other routers currently do. Heck, the routers can also be programmed to shut down the Wi-Fi radio when it is not in use so that power can be saved.

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Tennessee school systems will get vouchers for Microsoft software, about $16.40 for each student, from a settlement of an unlawful trade practices lawsuit against the technology company, state education officials said Monday.

The Tennessee Department of Education will distribute a total of $15.3 million in software vouchers to school systems.

The class action lawsuit contended that Microsoft Corp. used unlawful trade practices to maintain a monopoly and overcharge Tennessee consumers.

“We are pleased that the outcome will allow Tennessee school systems to upgrade technology for the benefit of their students and allow additional resources to be directed toward improving teaching and learning,” Education Commissioner Lana Seivers said.

Each school district will receive about $16.40 per student according to the districts average daily membership (ADM) at the end of the 2005-06 school year.

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There is now a new method of female protection that just hit the safety market. It does not require carrying around a bottle of pepper spray, a taser or a small handgun in your purse. Did you ever think that a safety device could become a fashion statement? Well… meet the No-Contact Electric Safety Jacket!

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NEW YORK (AP) - It was the high-tech key to a massive, illegal gambling kingdom: a laptop computer that authorities say was owned by a professional poker player named James Giordano.

Giordano, who rarely let the computer out of his sight, unknowingly took a gamble earlier this year by leaving it behind while attending a wedding ceremony, police said Wednesday.

But in the three hours he and his wife were away from their Long Island hotel room, New York Police Department investigators armed with a search warrant and computer expertise sneaked in, found the laptop on a desk and made a digital copy of the hard drive before the couple returned.

The covert operation on June 15 helped unlock a sophisticated billion-dollar-a-year gambling scheme that rivaled casino sports books, authorities said at a news conference announcing charges against Giordano and 26 other defendants.

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The lawsuit against Apple claimed that the inverter board on the 17″ Studio LCD Display Monitor was faulty, causing the gradient dimming of the top or bottom half of the screen of the Display and a power light to constantly blink on and off in a short-short-long pattern to signal a problem. Apple has denied all allegations against them and has asserted many different defenses. The settlement they claim is is not an admission of wrong doing or an indication that any law was violated.

Any US nationals who purchased the problem monitor are classed as being a member of the Class Action Settlement and are automatically included in the settlement unless a valid request for exclusion is mailed to Class Counsel postmarked on or before January 19, 2007.

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