You CAN Skype on an iPhone in Canada!

Use Skype on your iPhone in Canada

A collective moan swept across the Great White North as Canadian iPhone users quickly discovered Skype was not being released for the iPhone in Canada. Well wipe those tears away because you friends at The Review Crew did a bit of digging only to find out it’s quite easy to get Skype working on your iPhone, even if you live north of the border!

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Circuit City offloads consoles stuffed with your credit card numbers, homemade porn

When Circuit City folded up shop, they still had quite of stock of traded-in consoles like the PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. A tipster, working for a small refurbishment centre who bought up some of those consoles, found that all manner of data had been left on the consoles. Read More »

Too drunk to drive? Just take the chair!

Drive the bar home

A man in Ohio had the right intentions, just the wrong idea. Kile Wygle was charged with DUI and driving under a suspended license after police found him at the wreckage of a motorized bar stool. That’s right… he drove his bar stool home.

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Sony drops PS2 price to $99

No joke... it's under a hundy.

This is the big announcement we’ve been waiting for? As of tomorrow, April 1st, Sony will drop the price of its legacy console from $129.99 to $99 in North America and Europe. This is good news for recession-laden gamers looking to get their hands on a console that plays DVDs and has a library of almost 1,900 games with more still on the way for the 10 year-old machine.

In what can be construed as a kind of cruel joke/April Fool’s prank, the only region not receiving a price cut is the U.K., in which Sony has “no plans to cut the price of the PS2”. Oh well… at least they still have the only house in the world that has a giant penis painted on the roof.

[Via Gamespot]

Netflix raises rates for Blu-ray rentals

Netflix customers who rent Blu-ray movies are in a bit if a tizzy today after the company announced it will soon hike the rates for renting the HD discs.

Here’s what VP of Marketing, Jessie Becker had to say on the company’s blog:

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Hotelicopter grounded…nothing but a hoax

Too bad so sad...Hotelicopter is nothing but a viral marketing campaign

Well it sure sounded cool! Too bad it’s not real. The Hotelicopter has been outed as a fake! Apparently the 18 room flying 5 star hotel complete with spa treatments, yoga classes, gaming and a tea garden was just a viral advertising campaign for the “stay-at-the-airport” hotel company Yotel. Good job guys, you pulled a fast one! Now if only someone could come up with a real Hotelicopter.

New method to detect Conficker

Hours before it’s set to become active, IT experts have discovered a new way to detect Conficker on a networked computer.

“What we’ve found is pretty cool: Conficker actually changes what Windows looks like on the network, and this change can be detected remotely, anonymously, and very, very quickly. You can literally ask a server if it’s infected with Conficker, and it will tell you… Read More »

Unboxed: Tonium Pacemaker 2

Look what the courier dragged in. Tonium has sent us its Pacemaker 2 to test out. This is the latest edition of Tonium’s pocket DJ equipment to hit the street. The packaging and the unit itself looks the same but the device supposedly has a better user interface than the first version and a new auto-beatmatch feature. Official release date is May1st. We’re all over it and will have a full review posted soon.

Action games may improve your eyesight

Action games: good for your balls

If you’re sick of everyone saying that games are bad for you, then there is finally good news. A group of New York researchers have found that playing action games can improve your CSF (contrast sensitivity function) and improve your ability to detect subtle grayscale differences.

While this same group of researchers proved that peripheral vision and visual acuity were improved while playing games, they also found that CSF levels improved more when playing games like Call Of Duty or Unreal Tournament as opposed to The Sims. The results last for months after playing games and also significant is the fact that there has been no known way to improve your CSF without glasses or surgery before now.

So go get Granny and plug her into the latest shooter… she’ll thank you for it!

Via Gamespot

Best business card ever!

How cool is this! All new Lego employees get their business cards printed on…Lego people! The only downside, going to a convention and having to lug around dozens of these in your pocket to hand out!

[Via Guardian]