When we talk about consoles the first brands that strike our minds are Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox.  But the real hero is the Nintendo Wii (in terms of sales).

Nintendo has sold more than 35 million Wiis worldwide since it was launched in late 2006.  Now Nintendo's plucky platform has hit a new sales milestone across the Pacific Ocean. Japanese industry-research firm Enterbrain is reporting that Wii sales have exceeded 7 million units in the island nation as of last week. The console's sales were boosted past this latest barrier by the launch of Animal Crossing: City Folk, which sold over 303 000 units during the week of November 17-23, according to Enterbrain's estimates. Its major competitors, the Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3, continue to struggle in Japan despite massive marketing efforts.

There are some myths which are commonplace in photography. For example, megapixels are solely responsible for taking fine photographs. The case sensor, lens, general hardware quality, interface, and controls all have equal importance as the megapixels of the camera. The size and quality of the sensor and the superiority of the lens have equal weight as megapixels. Hardware Secrets explore the truth.

“The sensor is the part of the digital camera that captures light to create an image. It is analogous to the film in non-digital cameras. Similar to the coating of light-sensitive material on photographic film, the sensor of a digital camera has light-sensitive cells. In this tutorial we will teach you everything you need to know about this important component”.

If your PC is having trouble, what do you usually do? Probably, if you are a PC expert, you can fix it of your own but if you’re not, you might need to call up an engineer or an old friend who is tech savvy. Well, the first one is expensive and the second one might cost you an hour of having to listen to his World of Warcraft raid stories! So, the only option left for you is to do it yourself and to do so I’d recommend you to go through these seven PC-diagnostic tips. 

“Symptom: Sluggish response time

Could be: A software problem.

The fix: Run a full antivirus scan to make sure you don't have any malicious software tripping up your computer.

If malware isn't the problem, get into your System Configuration utility and look at whether applications are continuously running in the background that don't have to be, such as an application you rarely use that's constantly looking for updates. Then uncheck it, freeing up resources.” – Computerworld.

I've been expecting this to happen for months and after a long wait, Google has released Google Earth for the iPhone. With this application Google puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your iPhone. All you need to do is to type in a location and the application zooms in to the place. Similar to the desktop version you can view information about the location through Wikipedia and also look at snapshots of the place at ground level. The application may take some time to load and produce the results but it does displays quality output in the end. It really is a beautiful application and free, one that’s worth downloading. Find out more about the application in our videos here.

It seems Microsoft wants to snatch Black Friday fever from its competitors in the console segment. Following the launch of NXE, the company has planned to contribute to Black Friday fun with new price drops on Live Marketplace goodies. They have posted some pretty cool arcade games and add-ons for some of your favorite current games at reduced prices. Beginning on Friday and ending on Sunday, you can get discounts on all sorts of titles from the Live Marketplace. Have a look at the complete list of items, including discounts and savings in Microsoft Points at the official website.