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While we’re still
struggling a little to figure out how PointyRemote does what it does, won’t ever deny the why in a
VNC-like remote desktop control solution for your DS. Apparently the A button zooms your view and you can use your
stylus as an input device, even send text through your handheld. Elegant? Eh, probably not as much so as it could be,
but it’s a freaking DS, people, learn to love it.

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Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds

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While we’re still struggling a little to figure out how PointyRemote does what it does, won’t ever deny the
why in a VNC-like remote desktop control solution for your DS. Apparently the A button zooms your view and you
can use your stylus as an input device, even send text through your handheld. Elegant? Eh, probably not so much as
it could be, but it’s a freaking DS, people, learn to love it.

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Victorian police are expected to charge a Numurkah man after he reversed his car 48 kilometres along the Hume Highway between Wangaratta and Benalla last week.

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An anonymous reader writes to tell us CNet is reporting that HP will not be bringing 3G support to any of their new ’smart phones’ until at least 2007. From the article: “[HP] cites the costs associated with the service, coupled with the fact that 3G’s killer app — TV and video streaming — isn’t yet viable on mobile phones as the primary reasons for its decision. ‘3G is still only occupying 3% of the world pie,’ HP’s Vice-President for Consumer Products and Mobile Business Group in the Asia-Pacific region, Chin-Teik SEE, told CNET.com.au at the company’s ‘magical mobility launch’ event in Hong Kong last week.”

Many of you are aware of the fact that I’m a huge Treasure fan. Well, I was very excited to stumble upon this little project while I was researching something on Google.
A little website named Vanit Studios has been working on a solid English trans…

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The New Zealand-based team of sound editors who won two sets of Oscars for King Kong on March 5 became a bit miffed backstage when some international press tried creating a competition between the New Zealanders and the Australians.

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