@CMay: I can hear it now:

@WasabiJoe: Might have been the original "Alone in the Dark"?

For me, it has to be the original Doom. I remember downloading it off a local BBS (2400bps FTW!) and playing it on our old 486/33mhz machine in college and scaring the shit out of me. I eventually got good, and after college had a roommate who hooked up a LAN in our townhouse - old coax stuff, just direct linked the…

That's a shame, that was honestly one of the best fatalities I'd ever seen. Brutal, not cartoony and unrealistic (like someone turning into a dragon and chomping the other guy in half). Just flat out brutal, and funny as hell to top it off.

@snowmoon: ING Direct is tough, but it will work. It took me a few tries for it to finally make the handshake work, but once it did it works flawlessly. Hassle in setup, but it works going forward. It's something particular about ING's method of signing in and with all the various secret questions and answers to…

@AlexPDL: Mint is shinier. Yodlee had more features earlier, and they also have the ability to track non-cash things like rewards points - always nice to see at a glance how many Marriott points I have, or my Discover cashback award.

Agreed with BinaryTB. A few years back, my credit union in NC stopped doing Quicken importing and when I called them on it they told me that it was simply too expensive for them to continue with the Quicken functionality. They offered a manual download that could then be imported into Quicken, but in the next release…

It's not unusual to see the hard-core yard-salers out and about as early as 6:30am. When we used to have yard sales, I'd get up and put the signs out and there would be people driving up the street before I even got back. Generally we were done by 11am with a severely decluttered house and a fistfull of dollars.

Probably one of the better covers in the GH series, but still doesn't match up with the original. Eric Johnson is hard to imitate.

Awesome song, but I have to agree that video was bad. Air guitar, I get. Air drums? I can go with that too. But Air keyboard? Jonathan Cain looks like he's pawing the ground like a lol cat, sorry, I just don't buy it.

Telekinesis gun is all fine and dandy, but it can't measure up to a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning.

I like the "Create a character" things, but typically features like that seem to be left off of Wii ports of the game. Best example would be the EA Sports series, like Tiger Woods in particular. The PS3 and 360 versions of that title had great character customization, while the Wii and even the PC/Mac versions got…

Vote: Yodlee

With as much as some carriers are charging for going over SMS plan limits (doesn't the iPhone plan have a 200-SMS limit, what data is unlimited), doesn't it make more sense to just use the web for some of these tools? I mean, the Google SMS - I could just open the web and go to Google and get the same information, as…

I just switched my wife over to a new iMac from a Dell Dimension that was crawling along. We found that one of the applications she needs to use is only in Windows, and the Mac alternative doesn't suit her needs, so I popped Parallels and XP Pro on there for her to use that app. With only 512MB RAM assigned to the…

Also, no Steam if you're on a Mac... obviously no where close to the rest of world population you have there, but becoming a larger number every day.

I have sworn off the Amazon preorder since they screwed up the Guitar Hero III Wii preorders. I did a preorder for it about two months ahead of time (birthday money), and when the release date came around they pushed the shipping date out another month. I grabbed a copy at the WalMart down the street (which had a…