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  • Bioware Announces Another Mass Effect N7 Weekend

    The weekend before last, Bioware held its first N7 challenge for Mass Effect 3 multiplayer fans, Operation: Goliath. Players jumped on board in droves, smashing the community goal of killing a million brutes by taking down over three million.

    They followed up this past weekend with Operation: Fortress. Players were rewarded an addition 25% experience for playing over the weekend.

    Bioware is returning to victory and commendation pack rewards this weekend with Operation: Raptor.

    The goal this weekend is to promote as many characters as possible. Victory packs will be given to all players who participate in promoting 150,000 characters total. Individual commendation packs will be given to players that successfully promote two characters over the weekend.

    For those of you who don’t know, “promote” means to achieve the maximum level (lvl 20) for a particular character. This may prove the most challenging weekend of all. Maxing out your characters takes a lot of game time, and many have already achieved this for all their characters, meaning they would have to reset to be able to participate.

    So far the operation is still not available for the Playstation 3, though Bioware says they are still trying to work out the details, and expect to have an answer by the end of the week. “We are continuing to work with Sony to enable these types of Operations on the PlayStation 3 platform. We appreciate your patience, and we expect an update later this week regarding Operation Raptor and the PlayStation 3.”

    Like before, players need to set “Upload Gameplay Feedback” to “ON” to participate.

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    Rob Keyes    I’m in(visible as an Infiltrator)! ‘Mass Effect 3’ Operation Raptor N7 Bounty Weekend Details http://t.co/IW36NX3t 17 minutes ago via TweetDeck ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

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    Darren Keen    @UchihaMiek @thekingofnothin Next N7 weekend http://t.co/IxNHTI3e I would have called it a challenge, but it’s really not. 5 minutes ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

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    Morwen Lagann    @Northern_Goblin Hoping it lives to the weekend; this weekend’s N7 challenge would be good for us to drag @Sakaane along for. :3 23 minutes ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

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    Chris Buckley    This weekend’s #N7 challenge http://t.co/QbDGhO7U promote 2 characters past level 20 🙁 31 minutes ago via TweetDeck ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

  • Google Chrome Becomes Number One Browser… For a Day

    While there’s no denying the increase in popularity alternative browsers are experiencing in relation to Internet Explorer, none have unseated Microsoft’s ubiquitous tool as the top browser in use. In fact, while these other browsers have taken chunks out of IE’s marketshare, they haven’t been able to unseat the king, until recently that is. That’s right, Internet Explorer was knocked off the top of the hill by Google’s Chrome browser.

    For a day.

    According to StatCounter, Chrome became the king of the browsers on Sunday, March 18. In order to gain such a position, statistics from India, Russia, and Brazil were considered. It should be noted that, after Chrome’s high water mark, things receded back to normal, finding Internet Explorer once again on top of the browser pile. That being said, from StatCounter’s perspective, Chrome’s one-day rule is notable:

    “While it is only one day, this is a milestone,” commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. He added that Chrome still faces a battle to unseat its main rivals including IE and Firefox in many regions. Chrome remains in 2nd or 3rd place in China, United States and Germany, for example.

    “Whether Chrome can take the lead in the browser wars in the long term remains to be seen, however the trend towards Chrome usage at weekends is undeniable. [Emphasis added]

    StatCounter’s data supports the weekend trend idea concerning Google Chrome, making the next question inevitable: Is Chrome a weekend lover kind of browser? Is it something people use when they are in the privacy of their own home with no co-workers around? If so, why all the secrecy? StatCounter’s graph reflecting this kind of Chrome usage:

    Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Browser Market Share


    It should also be noted that while alternative browsers are making dents in IE’s market share, in the North America region, Microsoft’s browser is still king. Noticeably so:

    Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Browser Market Share


    Considering the shift away from home computing to mobile web browsing, do these numbers even matter? Would it be more pertinent to include the data for mobile browsers? With that in mind, it’s clearly a two-man race as iOS and Android fight it out for mobile browsing supremacy:

    Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Mobile Browser Market Share


    With all of this in mind, what is your browsing tool of choice? Are you chained to a home-bound computer or do you do your browsing on the go with your smartphone?

  • Enjoy These 5 Mobile Apps This Labor Day Weekend

    Family reunions and quick getaways have become a Labor Day tradition for most people, but which apps work best for taking holiday trips? Grip’d.com spent several months testing various apps on each platform to see which ones make Gripd.com’s top five travel apps. If you have an iPhone, Blackberry or Android phone, here’s a quick rundown of the best 5 travel apps:

    Weatherbug – The simplicity of Apple’s Weather app, but with a few extras for your phone. It’s the largest network of professional weather stations in the US and is the only source for truly live, local weather (as taken from their site).

    BePut – enables users to share their whereabouts with people they want to find them. Users simply use the application to locate their exact position and with a touch of a button, have the opportunity to send an email or text message to the desired recipient with their exact location. The recipient gets a special FindMe Key which is secure. The only guaranteed way to not get lost.

    Car Care & Roadside Emergencies – I don’t know about you, but I absolutely hate it when things don’t go according to the plan. You have this important presentation, and you end up with a flat tire in an express way. Or maybe you are trying to get home from a concert, and your car doesn’t start up. These situations happen all the time, and they usually tend to happen when you expect them the least. Now some of us have a knack for breaking and fixing things as far as cars are concerned.

    Waze – Waze is a social mobile application that enables drivers to build and use real-time road intelligence. The service includes constantly-updated road maps, alerts on traffic and accidents, and data providing users with the fastest route to get to wherever they need to go. Map and traffic updates are automatically collected and generated as users drive with Waze activated, but drivers can also actively report and update other users with what’s happening on the road.

    Shazam – In the car for hours and can’t figure out the song playing on the radio? When you hear a song and wonder what it is, Shazam is there with the answer. Hold your iPhone to the music and within seconds Shazam will tell you the artist and track name. You can even download the song through iTunes on your iPhone.

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