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SNES Mario Kart power slides onto (non-jailbroken) iPad?

By melissa | Published: April 7, 2010
You're looking at Super Mario Kart, running on the Apple iPad, courtesy of emulation guru ZodTTD . When do you get to play it, faithful reader? Hard to tell. If, say, the iPad had already been jailbroken , all you'd need to do is wait for a suitably safe jailbreak method, download RockApp or Cydia, grab the snes4iphone emulator you see running above, and fire up the ROM
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Nook firmware 1.2 ready for download now (Update: video!)

By admin | Published: February 5, 2010
Keeping up a fine tradition , Barnes & Noble has today let slip an internal memo that discusses a forthcoming version 1.2 firmware update for the Nook. There's not much in the way of info on fresh new features or optimizations, but we do know that B&N retail locations will be getting the update "this week" alongside new units shipping with v1.2 preloaded onto them. We're also told that the update would be an effortless side-loading affair via USB, but the bit about "prior to the software being released to customers" suggests that perhaps we won't all be riding the latest software by this weekend. Let's just be patient and do what we usually do: fantasize about what the future may hold.
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