Apple Aperture 3 Brings a Little Bit of iPhoto to Pro Photos With Faces and Places [Apple]

It's been a long time coming, but Apple's latest pro photo software, Aperture 3, is here. Apple's claiming over 200 new features, pulling in iPhoto stalwarts like Faces and Places, and new slideshows with HD video. Faces and Places work just like iPhoto, using face detection and tagging, so you can organize photos by people or by where you took them, though now you can actually drag-and-drop photos onto a map. Brushes brings fresh painting effects to Aperture, with 15 Quick Brushes for effects l...

http://gizmodo.com/5467543/apple-aperture-3-brings-a-little-bit-of-iphoto-to-pro-photos-with-faces-a

New Mass Effect 2 DLC armor, shotgun available tomorrow

A post on the Bioware forums has revealed that two new bits of DLC will be coming to Mass Effect 2's Cerberus Network tomorrow, February 9. Players will be able to download both a new set of armor and a new shotgun for free via the game's DLC pipe. The Cerberus Armor ups heavy weapon ammo capacity, shields, and health by 10 percent each, and the M-22a Eviscerator Shotgun is "a longer-range shotgun with armor-piercing loads" that "also violates several intergalactic weapons treaties." But those "...

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/08/new-mass-effect-2-dlc-armor-shotgun-available-tomorrow/

Cerberus Ups Your Mass Effect 2 Arsenal Tomorrow [Free DLC]

Registered Cerberus Network members will be receiving a special treat tomorrow, when the Cerberus Assault Armor and M-22a Eviscerator Shotgun become available for free download. According to a post in the BioWare community forums, the two new pieces of equipment will be available to download free for Xbox 360 and PC players tomorrow at noon Mountain time. All that's required is an active membership in the Cerberus Network, which you should have, unless you somehow picked up a copy used, in which...

http://kotaku.com/5467039/cerberus-ups-your-mass-effect-2-arsenal-tomorrow

Nook Review

My wife bought me a Nook for Christmas. Now that I've been using it for a while, I thought our readers might be interested in a review. The Nook, if you're not aware of it, is an e-reader, equivalent to a Kindle, that is sold by Barnes Noble. Briefly, I love it. I do a lot of reading in bed and on airplanes, and the Nook is actually better than a paper book under those conditions. It's light, takes up hardly any space in a briefcase, and can easily be held in one hand. You can turn pages with on...

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/02/025545.php

Five Best Podcast Managers [Hive Five]

Podcasts offer a fantastic way to catch up news, listen to radio shows, and get great media delivered right to your computer (they're like newsreaders for media). Check out these five popular podcast managers and let the entertainment come to you.Last week we asked you to share your favorite tool for managing your podcast subscriptions. (The term for downloading a podcast is actually podcatching, and a podcast manager is a podcatcher mdash;the more you know!) We rounded up the top five nominatio...

http://lifehacker.com/5465842/five-best-podcast-managers