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An unannounced third-party game is apparently in development for Wii U. The supposed project will launch in 2014 and exclusively on Nintendo’s console, according to Nico Wav of French gaming website Gameblog. The title is said to be somewhat similar to Platinum Games‘ upcoming Wii U exclusiveBayonetta 2, although it isn’t related to the franchise.

Editing is crucial for me and I often put myself through the process of narrowing my shots to find the ones that really work – my blog helps with that. I take about 10,000 photos every year. I shared about a thousand with you in 2013.  As the old year closes, I thought I would take a minute to post the shots that stood out for me.

10. Orange Stairs 

I shot this in an architectural salvage store in Chicago. The color captivated me. It was a great day of shooting and shopping, but this is my favorite shot of my time in the Windy City.

9. One WayI actually shot this on my last evening in Chicago. I used my fast 50 and it let me get lots of detail even late at night. This year I challenged myself to try things to find the limits of my equipment.

Deleting browsing history is one of the many recommendations that Information Technology experts give to the computer users all around the globe. The sort of pressure these IT professionals exert on the cleaning the browsing history suggests the importance of it. A number of benefits are linked to history cleaning. But, deleting history is quite annoying sort of task and a large majority of computer users does not give much of an attention towards it. If you are one of those computer users that do always forget to clean the browsing history. To help those kind of computer users, you can download software History Clean through which you can automate the task of cleaning history. The reasons that you need to keep your browsing history clear are given below.

Interfering People

One of the major reasons to delete history is not to allow interfering people to sneak your browsing that…

The dropping of the ball on Times Square is a tradition that goes back more than a 100 years, and every year, millions of people from all around the world turn in to watch it live. Of course it’s on TV, but you can also tune in without cable, or without a TV at all, for that matter. Here’s where you can watch the Time Square New Year’s party live online, on your phone and on Roku boxes:

The official webcast of the part is starting at 5:55pm ET, and lasting more than six hours, until 12:15am ET, to be precise. The commercial-free webcast will once again be hosted by Allison Hagendorf.

Official iPhone and Android apps make it possible to also watch all the action on the go.

Roku owners can watch the action live through the Livestream channel on their device.

Twitter’s Vine team will be sharing the…

Tick Tock, Tick Tock! We’re hours away the clock striking 12 and the beginning of a new year. YEA!!! Glittery NYE nails are a must. I placed a call to friend and fab nail artist Karen G. to help me create Van Gogh inspired, Starry Night-like glitter ombre nails. Starry Night + Glitter + NYE… I was really feeling inspired.

Karen is a true nail art professional, working with such celebs as Selena Gomez and Gisele Bündchen, but she taught me an ombre technique that’s so simple I just had to share with you! It can easily be done at home in whatever color/ glitter combo you desire.

You’ll need three colors to create the ombre effect. I used my current favorite color After School Boy Blazer plus Hors D’oeuvres and On A Silver Platter (all by Essie).

First apply your base color. I love, love

Next week at this time my colleague and co-host Kevin Tofel will be fighting the hordes at the Consumer Electronics Show and reporting back on the cool widgets and gadgets that he finds. But before he takes off, we discussed a bit of what he’s expecting to see, including voice controls for the internet of things, presence awareness and smarter algorithms that will turn the smart home from something people have to program into the anticipatory home, that will react to you.

And because Kevin and I aren’t exactly consumer electronics industry insiders, my guest this week is Chet J. Pipkin, the CEO of Belkin, the maker of the WeMo line of connected devices. Belkin will have a smart home setup at CES (so will SmartThings) and while Pipkin declined to scoop his own company’s news, we discussed the big trends ahead for the smart home. So listen up as…

The NSA developed a tool 6 years ago to let it attack the then-new iPhone(s aapl), according to documents from that time, revealed on Monday by journalist Jacob Appelbaum and Der Spiegel. The tool, DROPOUTJEEP, gave the agency “the ability to remotely push/pull files from the device, SMS retrieval, contact list retrieval, voicemail, geolocation, hot mic, camera capture, cell tower location, etc.” Other documents also published on Monday describe software implants for extracting phonebook, SMS, call log and geolocation information from SIM cards, as well as for targeting the now-defunct Windows(s msft) Mobile OS. Der Spiegelsaid in September that the NSA could hack into iPhones, as well as Android(s goog) and BlackBerry(s bbry) devices.

Super Smash Bros director Masahiro Sakurai has talked in depth about the importance of balance in his feature column in this week’s edition of Famitsu. Sakurai has reiterated that he is extremely careful about finding the right balance between the characters and delivering a game that ultimately lives up to the fans expectations.

“Now that Sunday’s day off is past, I’m currently working on the character adjustment for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.At the moment, Bowser is very strong. He’s really strong. Fans of Smash Bros. probably never saw him as too much of a strong character, but this time, his ability to knock others out is very strong!”

“Doing things like simply ‘lowering the performance’ can make games lose its fun. Additionally, making a strong attack weaker can take away from the ‘good feeling’. By making adjustments that get rid of all advantages and disadvantages, it can turn a game…