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Engadget has crazy fans who bake

Engadget Alienware cakeI am both delighted and alarmed by the winners of Engadget's birthday cake contest. In case you hadn't heard, Engadget has been celebrating its 2nd birthday and ran a contest for the prize was a really sweet Alienware PC. The challenge was to bake the coolest gadget-themed birthday cake. I knew they'd get a lot of entries, but I had no idea the lengths Engadget's crazy readers would go to. I don't want to spoil it for you, but the grand prize winner has a screen. That works. Now I'm hungry for cake.

Filed under: Hardware, Windows, Macintosh, Apple, Microsoft

Windows XP boots on Intel Mac for realz

Windows XP on Intel Mac

You read that right. Colin Nederkoorn, the guy who's had $13,000 burning a hole in his pocket has handed the cash over to narf2006, having verified that his solution to getting Windows XP to dual-boot on an Intel Mac is authentic. Nederkoorn says that the solution will be posted shortly and that all further donations will go "into an account to sustain the open source project that will be launched with the initial solution." The dual-boot solution reportedly works on 17" and 20" iMacs, Mac Minis, and MacBook Pros.

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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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