DotA Guide: Banehallow - Lycanthrope Introduction

DotA is the most popular custom made map for Warcraft III. To give players a better understanding of this complex and sometimes complicated game here is a hero guide. Lycanthrope is a strength hero that can be recruited at the Scourge Strength Tavern. Banehallow was chosen quite often in older maps when he was a bit overpowered. Since then he suffered a lot of changes that made him the hero we all know and love. Learn learn a bit more about what is this hero and where does he come from: "Banehallow is an avatar of bestial fury created by the scourge. For years he has dwelled in the dark forests of the world, hunting innocents that wander therein.  Now he is called to aid his masters. He revels in blood and battle, using his  wolfish...

Read more »

BlackBerry Torch 9860 Hands-On at IFA 2011

About a month ago, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion announced the release of new handsets running under the BlackBerry 7 OS, and the BlackBerry Torch 9860 was one of them.  The company has already made the new device available for purchase in various markets around the world, and also brought it along at IFA 2011 in Berlin, where our editors snapped a few photos of it.  The BlackBerry Torch 9860 smartphone is the successor of RIM's Storm series, featuring the same candybar design with a large touchscreen display on the front.  Unlike the previous devices, the new mobile phone comes with an even larger screen, at 3.7-inches, capable of delivering a 480 x 800 pixels 253ppi high-resoultion.  The screen is powered...

Read more »

Nokia 700 and Nokia 701 Hands-On at IFA 2011

Nokia 700 and Nokia 701, two of the first mobile phones in the world to arrive on shelves with the new Symbian Belle operating system from Nokia, were present on the floor at the IFA 2011 show in Berlin, and we spent a few minutes in their company.  Symbian Belle is the latest OS flavor that Nokia announced to the world, and should be loaded in a series of powerful yet affordable devices, which should help the Finnish giant regain its foothold on the smartphone market.  Packing a 3.2-inch touchscreen AMOLED, ClearBlack display that can deliver a 16:9 nHD (640 x 360 pixels) resolution, the Nokia 700 is one of the phones that should offer users the possibility to enjoy the new Symbian platform release in an affordable form factor.  Not...

Read more »

Nokia 500 Hands-On at IFA 2011

At IFA 2011 in Berlin, We met a series of Symbian-based mobile phones as well, and took the time to play with some of them for a bit, including the Nokia 500 smartphone that was unveiled to the world only recently.  Powered by Nokia's Symbian Anna platform, the Nokia 500 is one of the first devices from the Finnish handset vendor to be launched on shelves with a 1GHz application processor inside.  The new mobile phone packs a rather small touchscreen display that measures 3.2 inches and can deliver a 16:9 nHD (640 x 360 pixels) resolution.  It also comes with 2GB of internal memory, complemented by a microSD memory card slot with support for up to 322GB of additional storage space.  The specs list of Nokia 500 also includes...

Read more »

Free Symbian Anna Mobile OS Upgrade For Nokia E7, N8, C7 And C6-01

Now super popular Indian public-rights activist Anna Hazare has no less than a brand, and realizing the same Nokia seems to have named their latest Symbian OS update on this great activist as - Symbian Anna. Available as a free upgrade for Nokia E7, N8, C7 And C6-01 and as an pre-loaded OS for Nokia X6 and E6 the new software upgrade brings refined user interface, better performance, better battery life and lots of new features and updated applications to your compatible Nokia device. Symbian Anna Official Anna Page >&...

Read more »

Windows 8 – Features and SKUs Not Set in Stone

Windows 8 is still very much still in development and will continue to be for quite some time, Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division, stressed this week.  Microsoft has started sharing more and more details with the public on its upcoming release of the Windows client.  Per the communications strategy for the Windows project, information on the evolution of the operating system is only shared with the public when there’s sufficient confidence that the company would be able to deliver on the promises made to users.  Since the launch of the ‘Building Windows 8’ blog, the software giant has been talking about a range of enhancements, including native ISO and VHD support, Ribbon UI Windows Explorer, USB 3.0, file management improvements, and the Metro UI.  I’d...

Read more »