Good news for all Xbox lovers, Microsoft will launch a new Xbox controller, with a fantastic new d-pad, if you’re waiting to get your hands on one of these you will not be able to until later this year when it comes out in the UK and Europe.

The launch of the new pad which is said to be on October 24 will be optimized for Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer game rather than be an update for all users.

Microsoft told gaming website Eurogamer that “The new limited-edition green wireless controller offers enhancements to d-Pad functionality, which will add to the experience of playing games where the d-Pad is the primary control mechanism”

Looks like the Uk is one step ahead of the U.S. in getting their hands on this bright green limited addition controller, it’s said we will be getting it along side Latin America and Asia.

Of course we will be here on hand to give you the latest on its release date in the U.S.

Source: Pocket-lint

If you are looking for an IP Address’s geolocation, the best site with a good database would be IP2Location. They can be used for many purposes such as to reverse and translate IP address. You can find a lot of information about visitor’s IP addresses that would be useful for you. They can be from either web servers and network connections.

The information that is given from these sites range from where the country of the original IP is from, the state, city, latitude, longitude, their zip code, the time zone, the net speed that they are running with, their internet service provider, their domain name and the IDD code/ Area Code.

If you check out their website, they nave a new launch: DB15-DB18 packages, that has the IDD code, weather station name & code along with the area code. There is even a free demo that you can check out at their site. Do not forget to have a look at their free Web-master Tools section of their demo page. These tools would be very useful for your site, they range from showing your visitor their IP addresses to mini IP address look-ups.

Here is a pretty cool tool free from their site:

When freelancing there are a lot of hard times that they start off with. Simply because there are a lot of difficult clients and so on. It takes time to get through this but the reward in the end is the best! Perseverance is always needed.

Finally it’s here. Sony has announced the PSP-3000 at the Leipzig Games Convention Yeah it has the PlayStation logo button there as rumored before. It is pretty much the same like the PSP-2000. The new features, which says “improved screen that’s better outside with no glare” and a built-in mic. This new PSP is expected to hit Europe on the October 15th at €199 ($291). More pictures after the break.

[via Engadget]

Tags: psp, playstation portable, psp-3000,

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There’s obviously no shortage of content online for web designers, but the offline content is frequently overlooked. There are a number of print publications that cover various topics that are relevant to web and graphic designers. Here is a look at 12 magazines that may interest you.

.net Magazine

“.net delivers cutting edge practical advice on the full range of topics essential for today’s web builders: design, development, sales, marketing, usability and accessibility, information architecture, security, copywriting, advertising and more. It is read by people who are serious about the commercial application of the internet.”

Web Designer

“Web Designer is the only serious tutorial-driven monthly publication dedicated to online creativity available in the UK. Each issue boasts over 25 pages of regular Dreamweaver, Flash, and Photoshop walkthroughs across a wide range of topics and disciplines from some of the country’s most knowledgeable technology writers.”

Computer Arts

Computer Arts is a magazine that includes tutorials on a variety of design-related topics, “covering everything from manipulating photographs with Photoshop to creating amazing vector illustrations with Illustrator. You’ll also find tonnes of tips and tricks for web design, typography, 3D, animation, motion graphics and multimedia. It’s the one-stop shop for professional advice.”

Computer Arts Projects

“Computer Arts Projects is the successful monthly spin-off of Computer Arts magazine. Each issue gives you an in-depth guide to a different creative subject, and recent issues have covered themes such as print design, web design, Photoshop, typography, packaging, creative advertising, and how to start your own design business. Inside every edition, you’ll find great step-by-step tutorials and tips from the best digital artists in the business, showcases and profiles of up-and-coming talent and established creatives, as well as explorative features on the subject in hand.”

PRINT Magazine

A general graphic design magazine, PRINT “is a bimonthly magazine about visual culture and design. Covering a field as broad as communication itself, PRINT documents and critiques commercial, social, and environmental design from every angle.”

How Magazine

“HOW strives to serve the business, technological and creative needs of graphic-design professionals. The magazine provides a practical mix of essential business information, up-to-date technological tips, the creative whys and hows behind noteworthy projects, and profiles of professionals who are influencing design.”

CMYK Magazine

CMYK Magazine is where aspiring creatives showcase their talents to an industry driven by inspiration and new ways of creative problem solving. At the same time, CMYK Magazine is where creative directors, agency principals and art buyers recruit students and recent graduates at today’s top art-design schools: art directors, copywriters, designers, photographers and illustrators.

Communication Arts

“Communication Arts magazine is the leading trade journal for visual communications. It’s the largest creative magazine in the world and showcases the top work in graphic design, advertising, illustration, photography and interactive design. Since 1959, more graphic designers, art directors, creative directors, commercial photographers and illustrators have turned to Communication Arts for ideas and inspiration than to any other creative publication. What makes Communication Arts so special? Our unique combination of respected juried Annuals, in-depth profiles in our multi-topic issues and numerous informative columns makes Communication Arts the premier publication to cover all aspects of visual communications.”

Design Edge

“Design Edge Canada print magazine, launched with a March/April 2006 issue, is published six times per year… The magazine has the highest circulation to professional graphic designers of any publication in Canada. Regular departments include News on Design, Trendspotting, Case Study, Design for Print, Tool Tips, Newsmakers and New Releases.”

Eye Magazine

Eye Magazine is “the quarterly print magazine for everyone involved in graphic design and visual culture.”

Graphic Design USA

“Graphic Design USA is a monthly news and information magazine for and about the professional design community including graphic design firms, corporate and publishing inhouse departments, advertising agencies, institutions and non-profits, and other creative businesses and organizations. The magazine is free to creative professionals within the United States. This includes art, design and production titles at graphic design firms, advertising agencies, corporate and publishing inhouse design departments, and more. For those who do not qualify as working creative professionals or for international subscribers, paid subscriptions are available.”

Website Magazine

“Website Magazine is the one magazine to focus exclusively on the business of running a website: tips for successful websites, solutions for enhancing website traffic, the latest Internet industry trends and statistics, as well as news analysis on the Internet industry.”

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James Strickland has today been appointed the director of product and technology development of Freesat, the UK’s free-to-air digital satellite TV service.

James will be joining Freesat from Cisco, where he was director of IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) Business Development for Europe and emerging markets. James has extensive experience in product marketing, management and business development, working for companies such as OpenTV and Pace Micro Technology.

At Freesat, James will play a key role in developing, implementing and managing Freesat’s digital receiver product strategy and will lead the delivery of the organisation’s innovation objectives.

Commenting on the new appointment of James Strickland, Emma Scott, Freesat’s MD said; “James brings a wealth of experience from a range of fields, and is well-placed to help Freesat in the next stages of its development.”

Strickland will take up his post in the Autumn.

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You know what they always say: "if you get tapped to do a quick stealth-mode project, you might as well do it while lounging around the River Seine." Thanks to some adept coding work by Ryan Grove and UED design work by Tom Chi and Jeremy Hubert — voilà, we now have Yahoo! Search for iPhone!

For more information, check out Ryan's more detailed writeup. There's also a pretty slideshow of iPhone SRP screenshots, for those of us who live in technological squalor and still don't have an iPhone.

Evan Goer
Yahoo! SearchMonkey Team

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Back in February of last year we posted information about a laptop that took a bullet and saved a soldier’s life. This was a massive story at the time and even made it to the homepage of Digg.

Today we have heard directly from SGT Steven W. Clark of the 101st Airborne. You can read what he sent in to us below.

The Toughbook belong to a member of the 101st Airborne (Air Assault)…Me…. I am sick of this story getting messed up. It was hit in the back of my M998 HMMWV in Mosul, IZ on 9 June 2003. It was hit in the hard drive by a 7.62 x 54R round from a PKC belt fed machine gun from a distance of 250 meters. I took a round in the shoulder. All the info from the hard drive was recovered, placed on a new hard drive and sent back too me by October 2003. The round went trough two boxes of MRE’s and the carrying case before being stopped by the thick disk, non-removable hard drive. Whoever this 82nd guy is full of it. This computer is sitting in the Ft. Huachuca, AZ Military Intel Museum with my name and “101st Airborne Screaming Eagles” next to it!!!