Taken from Acekard’s official website:
“We are proud to announce our latest acekard now fully works on DSi, we call this new product Acekard 2i.
Acekard 2i is completely compatible with Acekard 2, besides, the 2i works on DSi.
Acekard 2i will come up in a very short time, please keep eyes on our website, thank you.”
DX has it in stock and you can order it here.
During Black Friday, i went to Best Buy in the afternoon and noticed that there was still a load of people lining up outside (thank god the line moved fast). There wasn’t much to buy as seeing all of the stuff they offered wasn’t much different than any other days they would sell them… However, I went to GameStop and managed to get a used XBOX 360 (w/wireless cont) and 3 games for roughly 200usd! Thought it isn’t much of a kickass deal, i’m still happy that i ended up getting a 7th generation console x]!
I would love to post pic but unfortunatly, i still haven’t got a camera yet…
My order from last sunday (11-16) has arrived in the morning today! Unfourtunately i don’t have a camera on me atm and i rather not resort to my .3 MP webcam… The order came alot faster than i expected (only took 10days to get from processing shipment to the steps of my front yard!).
I was also disapointed when i found out that the DSTT card that i ordered turned out to be a fake (I opened up and checked the PCB and it matched the fake example on the NDSTT site). I’ve filed a ticket to DX about this (I’m sure they are already aware of this situation). On the bright side, this will be a good way to see how well DX’s customer support handles these things 
. I’ll try to keep you guys updated if anything comes up.
As i was whoring through the new release section on DX, I found that they’ve recently added the nintendo DSi at $253.00. Of course, this is NOT the english version since its imported from japan. I’m sure these won’t be in stock for long seeing how its the only genuine console DX is selling atm. For those interested in getting one, check out the link below (Automaticaly upgrades the shipment to EMS for free!):
As tempted as i am right now, i don’t think i’ll be getting it (mostly because i can’t read japanese..> >;) until they release it in states.
LONDON (AFP) – A new voice-recognition search tool for the iPhone has problems understanding British accents, leading to some bizarre answers to spoken queries, a newspaper report and users said Wednesday.
The free application, which allows iPhone owners to use the Google search engine with their voice, mistook the word “iPhone” variously for “sex,” “Einstein” and “kitchen sink,” said the Daily Telegraph.
Comments left by users on the application’s website seemed to confirm the problem. “Awesome job google. only problem is every time I say the word ‘fish’ it registers as ’sex’,” wrote one, identified as Kevin.
A video demonstration of the Google Mobile App on the online giant’s website shows an American engineer successfully asking for pictures of the Golden Gate as well as cinema timetables and temperature conversions.
The website also includes a link to a video showing people with Irish, British and Chinese accents asking for relatively complicated searches, with apparent success.
But British iPhone owners had less luck when speaking the word “iPhone” into the application — a Scottish user was offered a porn website after it mistook his search for “sex,” the Telegraph reported.
A user from Surrey, south of London, had his request mistaken for “myspace” and “Einstein” was another option offered for “iPhone” spoken with a Kent accent, it said.
The only British accent which correctly understood the request was for a user from Yorkshire, northern England, although he was also offered “bonfire.”
A Welsh accent gave the suggestions “gorillas” and “kitchen sink.”
“I’ve got a traditional Kentish accent and the thing kept on spitting back ridiculous things,” said Roger Ellinson, 26, from Maidstone in Kent, southeastern England.
“I asked it to find my nearest pizza take away and it came back with something about volcanoes,” he added.
“I asked it to find my nearest pub and it gave me a link to some kind of weird dating website,” said Ellinson. “I’ll have to try to put on my best American accent to get it to work.”
On its website, Google points out that the new voice search system “is currently available only in U.S. English.”
One British user, Edward Parsons, says on the site’s comments board: “This is fantastic, except for the North American accent bias.
“It actually works pretty well, but I have to disguise my (North London) accent with a terrible folksy Texan tourist voice to get results. I can see this is going to be the source of much amusement and confusion.”
Source taken from Yahoo! News
Feeling the pains of your monthly utilities a bit more in these troubled economic times? You might want to think about switching off your gaming system every so often. According to a new study issued by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Americans are taking a huge energy hit from consoles that are left on while not in use.
“If you leave your Xbox 360 or Sony Play Station 3 on all the time, you can cut your electric bill by as much as $100 a year simply by turning it off when you are finished playing,” said NRDC’s Noah Horowitz. “With so many struggling in today’s economy-it’s important to realize there are simple steps gamers can take to lower their energy costs. And if manufacturers make future systems more energy efficient, they’ll be doing the right thing for consumers’ pockets, for our clean energy future, and for the environment.”
According to the organization, power saving features implemented by the big three–Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft–could save consumers some $1 billion a year, reducing greenhouse pollution by a rate equivalent to the yearly output of all the cars in San Jose, California.
