2014年2月9日星期日

Angry Birds TV series set to air this autumn

Angry Birds TV series set to air this autumn, will reveal where all that anger comes from

After the success the Angry Birds game series has achieved, it’s only logical to see Rovio try out and push the franchise onto other mediums.

According to Rovio’s chief of animation, Nick Dorra, the Angry Birds characters will star in 52 episodes, each being two-and-a-half to three minutes long.

Unlike the games, the TV series won’t be just about recklessly bashing pigs around. No, according to Dorra, we will find out about the “deeper thoughts, deeper feelings of the characters, such as why are they always angry?”.

The TV series will supposedly be modeled after Disney’s TV productions. On top of that, Dorra let it slip that a full-length Angry Birds flick is in development, although it won’t be released until 2013 or 2014.

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Firefox 4 final version now available for download

Firefox 4 final version now available for download, the official launch is later today

We should see the latest and greatest Mozilla browser launch officially later today. And as the tradition goes the company has made it available for download through its FTP server a day early for the most eager among you.

So if you want to give the final version of Firefox 4 a try you can do that right now. Just follow this link if you are using Windows. Linux users should go this way and those on Mac can find a version for their platform here.

As you probably expected, there isn’t any noticeable difference between the final version and the release candidate that we tried a few weeks ago. However this is still great news for those that have been postponing their update until the completely stable final version becomes available.

Feel free to share how the new browser is working for you in the comments section below.

Acer Aspire One D255 netbook is powered by a dual-core Atom N550

Acer Aspire One D255 netbook is powered by a dual-core Atom N550

The first netbooks with Intel’s dual-core Atom N550 CPU are beginning to appear. The Acer Aspire One D255 is powered by just such a processor. It’s not the first netbook with a dual-core processor (the Asus 1215N has it beat here), but it’s the first with a dual-core Atom intented for netbooks (the 1215N uses a nettop CPU)…

The Intel Atom N550 has two cores, each running at 1.5GHz and with Hyper-Threading, that makes up for 4 threads in total. The N550 has 1MB of L2 cache in total (512KB per core).

Anyhow, that’s slower than the D525 CPU inside the Asus 1215N, but the Acer Aspire One D255 has the advantage when it comes to battery life – D-series Atoms are more power-hungry than their N-series counterparts (it’s a matter of a few watts but it that’s a lot for a CPU that draws under 10W).

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The Acer Aspire One D255 with dual-core Atom N550

Unfortunately, those are all the specs available right now – no GPU info (likely integrated Intel graphics), no RAM, HDD, not even pricing or target availability date.

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