The James Logan Courier

By Martha McKay
The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT)

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Few gadgets are as much fun as a digital picture frame.

It frees your pictures from the tyranny of storage on a PC or camera memory card. And having one on your desk makes you feel a tiny bit like you're living in Bill Gates' house.

A lot of companies have jumped into the business of digital picture frames, but it made sense to take a close look at Smartparts, a leading manufacturer that's based in New Jersey.

The company is the brainchild of Stefan Guelpen, originally from Cologne, Germany, who spent years working as a manufacturers' representative selling digital camera gear before starting his own company a little more than two years ago.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

"NINJA GAIDEN SIGMA"
For: Playstation 3
From: Team Ninja/Tecmo
ESRB Rating: Mature (blood and gore, intense violence, suggestive themes)

The list of recently-released games in dire need of a do-over is long enough to comprise its own 10-volume encyclopedia.

It's funny, then, that a game that oozed quality its first time out is now experiencing its third go-around in slightly more than three years. Someone's really determined to get this one right.