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Friday Fun: If You Dig A Hole Deep Enough Will You Reach China?

Has anyone ever told you that if you keep digging you’ll eventually end up on the opposite side of the world? This Antipodes mapping web-app shows you exactly where you’d end up!

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Google Easter Egg: Do a Barrel Roll – Friday Fun

This week an Easter Egg was discovered for Google Search which allows you to Barrel Roll the entire website.  Just type: do a barrel roll Check out how it works in this video below, or try it out for yourself on Google.com. Note it only works using the Chrome or Firefox. So where did it come from? [...]

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Groovy Gaming News and Deals

Ubisoft hasn’t said a word about its once widely expected  I Am Alive plans for a good year or more now. Despite amazing trailers it showed for the game in 2009, the game’s been in development for way too long. Most gamers figured Ubisoft killed it. But no! Today, maker UbiSoft announced plans to roll [...]

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Change Up the Scenery with these Free Windows 7 Themes – Friday Fun

When you spend as much time in front of the computer as we do, it’s nice to add a little variety to your system. One way to do this is by changing your Windows 7 Theme. A theme is a combination of photos, colors and sounds which are combined to create rotating desktop backgrounds, screen savers and [...]

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Friday Fun – Apple Pleads for the Return of its iPhone 5

I thought it was interesting last year when Apple lost its iPhone 4 and the next thing we know cops were busting down doors and raiding bloggers homes looking for it.  Anyway, it looks like Apple is having hard time keeping track of its new iPhone 5, once again right before the release.  Hmm ….  something [...]

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Friday Fun: Team Fortress 2 is now Free to Play

Over the last few Friday Fun groovyPost’s, we’ve mentioned a few old-school gaming articles, like the Android Nintendo 64 Emulator, our ZSNES article and our tutorial guide to playing old-school DOS games on a Vista or Windows 7 computer. Well if old-schoolin it isn’t your thing, today I’ll explain how-to get a free copy of [...]

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Friday Fun: Use Chrome to Create Fake Screen Captures

Oh, hey dudes check out this totally groovy tweet that President Obama put out this week: Word. Nice to get some recognition for once. Okay, just kidding. That’s totally not real, nor do I think there is such thing as a presidential bookmark. Just having a little bit of Friday fun with Google’s Inspect Element [...]

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Friday Fun – Old-school Flashback Edition: Virtual Gaming that Precedes the Wii and Xbox Kinect By More Than 10 Years

Nintendo, Microsoft, and now even Sony are all investing heavily into the virtual-motion gaming market.  But, is this technology really something new?  The concept certainly isn’t.  Over 10 years ago the first successful virtual-gaming interface was created for a television show that aired on Nickelodeon.  The system didn’t require any controllers or peripherals, but it [...]

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Weekend Fun! – Angry Birds Flies to the Google Chrome App Store

Doesn’t matter if your an iPhone, iPad or Android user, you’ve no doubt heard of the smash hit game Angry Birds.  The game has been so successful over the past year it’s been one of a few which have managed to make the cross over outside the App Store and into other consumer products. Recognizing the [...]

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Friday Fun: Go Old-School for Free With Massive Online RPG, Ultima Online

Before World or Warcraft (WOW) and even before Dark Age of Camelot (DAOC), the MMORPG (Massive Multi-player Online Role-playing Games) that started it all was called Ultima Online or if you’re an old-schooler like me you will refer to it as simply UO. UO was a spin-off of the popular Ultima series which took the [...]

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