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	<title>Technobabble</title>
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	<description>Musings on DVDs, video games, the Web and other techno-stuff</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Technobabble has moved</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/08/18/technobabble-has-moved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Salas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Techno chatter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Technobabble has moved. If you&#8217;ve arrived here by following a bookmark, please update it to www.startribune.com/technobabble. This blog will remain active as a searchable archive for old posts and comments, but please check out the new neighborhood for the latest news. Thanks.
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		<title>Video-game sales down for 5th straight month</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/08/13/video-game-sales-down-for-5th-straight-month/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/08/13/video-game-sales-down-for-5th-straight-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Salas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Video games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just got the latest monthly report on video-game sales from the NPD Group. Sales were down for the fifth straight month in July, according to the industry tracking firm, off by 14 percent through the same period last year. That puts year-to-date sales at $8.16 billion, NPD says.
&#8220;In order for the industry to come in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you ready for some (more Madden) football?</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/08/13/are-you-ready-for-some-more-madden-football/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/08/13/are-you-ready-for-some-more-madden-football/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Salas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Video games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight&#8217;s the night. Madden NFL 10, the latest release in one of the most popular video-game series, comes out at midnight. And it will be hard not to know about it, because an advertising blitz for the game will accompany tonight&#8217;s season premiere of Monday Night Football (yes, even though it&#8217;s Thursday night).
Really, I don&#8217;t get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You are here, not there</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/08/12/you-are-here-not-there/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/08/12/you-are-here-not-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Salas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Techno chatter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I heard from many readers after my recent write-up on the mapping company NAVTEQ, a column that ran while I was on an extended vacation. Based on the many voice mails and e-mails that awaited my return, the readers think I can do something about their street or home being mislocated on a GPS or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My iPod Touch is now good to go</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/08/11/my-ipod-touch-is-now-good-to-go/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/08/11/my-ipod-touch-is-now-good-to-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Salas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve finally found a reliable case for my iPod Touch. That was a happy result of my recent two-week trip to Orlando, where I put Otterbox&#8217;s Defender to the test.
Previous cases from other makers were a disappointment &#8212; too flimsy, not protective enough or a poor fit for my second-generation 32GB Touch. (Many retailers sell cases designed to fit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Buy sells Blu-rays for $10-$13</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/08/10/best-buy-sells-blu-rays-for-10-13/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/08/10/best-buy-sells-blu-rays-for-10-13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Salas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[DVDs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How low must Blu-ray disc prices go before you buy in? How about $10 to $13?
Blu-ray deals come and go online. You can track them through sites such as High-Def Digest. But now they&#8217;re starting to pop up in brick-and-mortar stores, too &#8212; and not just in after-Thanksgiving sales. Best Buy (via Dealnews) has a bunch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help stop first-person-shooter disease</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/07/13/help-stop-first-person-shooter-disease/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/07/13/help-stop-first-person-shooter-disease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Salas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Video games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having spent more than five hours Saturday night playing Left 4 Dead with my friend Eric (aka Louis), I found this YouTube video (via Boing Boing) to be pretty funny.




I don&#8217;t suffer from first-person-shooter disease, but I did have a creepy feeling recently while visiting Washington, D.C. I couldn&#8217;t help but get a strange sense of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An HDTV antenna out of a coat hanger?</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/07/10/an-hdtv-antenna-out-of-a-coat-hanger/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/07/10/an-hdtv-antenna-out-of-a-coat-hanger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Salas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[DTV switchover]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gadgets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re having trouble with digital-TV reception, maybe you should try a coat hanger.
One thing that came out of the DTV switch is that an antenna is really important for over-the-air reception. This seems reasonable, but it came as a surprise to many viewers, who found that their previous antenna setup no longer was effective. Many people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have a love child &#8212; the easy way</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/07/09/have-a-love-child-the-easy-way/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/07/09/have-a-love-child-the-easy-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Salas</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest cleverly named iPhone app, iMated, lets you quickly combine photos of two people to see what their love child would look like. It was created by three Minneapolis developers.
Just take a photo of two subject or browse for stored images. Center the images, following guides. And then mate &#8216;em up. The results will vary widely, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United breaks guitars on YouTube</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/07/08/united-breaks-guitars-on-youtube/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/technobabble/2009/07/08/united-breaks-guitars-on-youtube/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Salas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[YouTube]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Don&#8217;t fly United,&#8221; is the musical message from a musician who says the airline broke his guitar. After nine months of red tape, run-arounds and inaction, Dave Carroll decided to get revenge by making three music videos to publicize the experience. The first one hit YouTube yesterday and has already received more than 100,000 views. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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