Nintendo Wii U's TVii Is Out Tomorrow—But with Some Major Missing Pieces

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We've been waiting for the Wii U's cable box/television-controlling TVii features to make it since the system launched late last month. As of tomorrow, it'll finally be here. But without a few key components.

The big omission is DVR capabilities through TiVo. That's the only way to use the Wii U as a DVR, so it's still not all the way there as a multimedia center. The other missing piece is Netflix, though that's slightly less of a concern since the Wii U's had Amazon Instant Video and Hulu Plus since last month.

What is arriving, though, is the cable box functionality as a whole. The default TV remote feature is nice and effective for controlling your television's inputs, or volume, but the wheel-like control panel for TVii makes actually picking the channels much easier, along with other functions. There's also some social network stuff built in. We'll give you a full review once we've had some time to play with it. [Nintendo]

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Earlier today, a new Google Drive extension was released to the Chrome Web Store. This productivity tool provides users with a new way to capture and store web-based content. By clicking the extension's icon, you can save a copy of a webpage, its HTML source code, or a web archive. You can also save items by right-clicking photos or file links. In addition, Google has introduced new scrolling, fit to page and 100 percent image viewing options, along with the ability to comment on selected areas of pictures saved to your Drive. Whether you're looking for a replacement for Skitch, or an easy way to collect snippets of the web, this extension just might be what the doctor ordered.

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