April 2009
269 posts
BlackBerry App World now live →
As expected, the BlackBerry App World has just launched for US, Canada and the UK. If your software’s updated to 4.2 and you’ve got a trackball / touch screen and PayPal account, head on…
Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay →
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Ugh. April fools is going to make the The Internet suck tomorrow.
The deal, worth over $13 billion (10 billion euros) came about after the recent performance at the Pirate Bay
iPhone 3.0 beta 2 is available to developers →
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Its SO much better!!
Filed under: Software, Developer, iPhone, SDK
Earlier today, iPhone OS 3.0 beta 2 was released to developers. The big news is that push…
Baby Bjorn Original Baby Carrier for $40 + $5... →
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Grace and I opted not to get these due to the crotch pressurizing issues. Looking out for the boys.
The BabyBjörn Original Baby Carrier in Pop Green costs $39.99 at Albee…
Husband Caught Cheating by Google Street View,... →
Filed under: Google, Web
Since its inception, Google Street View, which gives viewers a 360-degree, street-level view of certain desired locations, has provided numerous, disturbing…
March 2009
221 posts
SelfControl Blocks Internet Distractions with... →
Mac OS X only: Feel like you waste too much time on Facebook, Twitter, or some other internet time sink? Free application SelfControl is serious about blocking those distractions when you…
Breaking: Internet Explorer 8.1 Eagle Eyes Leaked →
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why didn’t MS just wait until this was ready? it’s not like the world was clamoring for IE8.
Smashing Magazine tries to be at the forefront of new and exciting developments in…
Who Is This Sassy Lauren, She Of the Cheap HP? →
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booo, would’ve been nicer if it were a regular person.
Lauren AKA the girl from the Windows commercial is really Lauren De Long, a SAG-eligble actor with special skills…
Video Games Improve Your Eyesight, Mothers in... →
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i already thought this was common knowledge. I heard this was true when I was 12. Maybe that’s why, despite being almost 30, and spending 8-12hours a day in front of some sort of…
Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapters now available... →
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strange, i just picked up a few adapters from monoprice yesterday. Great place to buy cables.
Got a Mini DisplayPort equipped laptop or video card and need to…
Samsung shows off new HT-WS1 soundbar →
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that is pretty cheap
In addition to that new AS730 HTIB, Samsung’s kicking around a new soundbar audio system, which packages a 260W 2.1 setup (capable of virtual…
Sony drops price on the wrong PlayStation →
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haha, the blog post title is hilarious
While the buzz at GDC was about a possible price break on the PlayStation 3, today all the rumors about a Sony price drop have…
Microsoft To Shutter Encarta, Read All About It On... →
Microsoft is preparing to shut down Encarta, the digital encyclopedia it first launched in 1993 as a direct competitor to old reference standbys like Encyclopedia Britannica. The encyclopedia,…
Netflix raising rates for Blu-ray subscribers by... →
Ruh roh. In a move that will undoubtedly cause an incredibly raucous stir, only to fade away as movie renters realize that Netflix is still the best deal going, America’s most adored…
Save Your Back and Some Cash with a DIY Standing... →
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We had to combine our bedroom and office to make room for the kids, and we opted to have standing height desks also. coupled with bar stools/chairs, you can stand or sit.
…
DirecTV beams down iPhone app →
Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Long rumored and eagerly awaited, DirecTV has finally posted their free iPhone app for finding and recording content. The DirecTV app [App…
Thief Busted Thanks to Facebook Message Blast →
Filed under: Web
Al Chapman never saw a need for Facebook, until it helped to nab the thief who had robbed him. Now Chapman, owner of a moving company in Brunswick, Georgia,…
3M Boss Held Hostage By French Strikers →
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More and more of these occurrences in western civilizations
3M Boss Held Hostage By French Strikers - The Huffington Post
Piezoelectric nanowires could lead to... →
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it would be nice that simply running would power my ipod. last week it went dead on me mid-workout.
You know what’ll be awesome? Actual end products resulting from this…
Skype for iPhone Officially Official →
Are you prepared to have your mind blown? As expected, Skype for iPhone will appear “sometime Tuesday” and allow you to make VoIP calls to friends and family all over the world, a move that…
Jeff Bezos vs. Bailout CEOs →
Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer and founder of Amazon, is a proponent of a Japanese philosophy called kaizen — which loosely translated means continuous improvement. As part of this…
Searching For Sonny: first feature film shot on a... →
What’s the world coming too, really? Not only did we see the first official presidential portrait shot with a DSLR this year, but we’re also seeing the first feature film to be entirely…
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Tools for a Free Online... →
PushButton Game Engine →
Personal MBA - Best Business Book List →
Top 10 Tools for a Free Online Education... →
It’s easy to forget these days that the internet started out as a place for academics and researchers to trade data and knowledge. Recapture the web’s brain-expanding potential with these free…
Synergy-Plus Controls Multiple Systems from a... →
Windows only: We took a strong liking to controlling multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse nearly two years ago, and the concept’s still cool, but the software hasn’t updated….
Consider Room Size When Choosing an HDTV →
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i’ve been saying this forever people. Don’t buy a TV that’s TOO big for your room.
Filed under: Audio/Video, Advice, TV, Home Video, Televisions, Tech Tips
Soy tu Aire, interactive Flash song visualization →
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gorgeous
worth the loading time [via]
ASUS announces Eee PC E1004DN with optical drive,... →
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hackintosh this, and you got yourself a halfpriced, early 08 macbook.
In a bombshell of moderate proportions, the gang at DigiTimes have reported that ASUS will be…
Microsoft's new ad shows how people shop for... →
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it’s honestly not a bad commercial
Microsoft’s latest ad — a companion-piece to its new “Laptop Hunters” website — stars “real person” Lauren. Lauren’s a little…
Synergy-Plus Controls Multiple Systems from a... →
Windows only: We took a strong liking to controlling multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse nearly two years ago, and the concept’s still cool, but the software hasn’t updated….
Google Docs Gets Full Find & Replace, Drawing... →
Google Docs takes another step toward becoming a proper document tool, adding a full-fledged find and replace toolbar, as well as a browser-based SVG drawing tool. Docs had a kind of…
California May Ban Black Cars →
The California legislature is considering regulating the color of cars and reflectivity of paint to reduce the energy requirements to cool them. A presentation on the proposed legislation by…
Armstrong Beat - SoundManager 2: Javascript Sound... →
www.benjoffe.com →
Star Trek prequel coming to the iPhone →
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awesome
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Multimedia, Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
I have no idea how much of this is…
Apple’s iPhone App Refund Policies Could Bankrupt... →
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uh… not cool
We reported yesterday about Apple’s alleged delay in payments to iPhone app developers, but there is more alarming news from iPhone developers about…
EcoDrain heat exchanger makes good use of warm... →
File this one directly in the “why didn’t I think of that?” folder. As the bathroom gets more and more eco-friendly, the EcoDrain is stepping in to take advantage of all the hot water…
PowerShelf charging stations →
If making a charging station (like we recommended earlier this morning) isn’t up your alley, then we know of a product that might interest you. One of our Twitter followers tipped us off to The…
Tesla Model S official shots unofficially unveiled →
Kevin Rose has some Tesla Model S imagery up on his Flickr account, including the first unshrouded pictures of the car, along with a rather wild interior shot. The all-electric sedan is…
Sophos video shows Mac trojan caught in the act →
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I knew this day would inevitably come. When I have to consider anti-virus for my macs. sigh
Filed under: Enterprise, Security, Found Footage
Apple Mac…
Google Docs Gets Full Find & Replace, Drawing... →
Google Docs takes another step toward becoming a proper document tool, adding a full-fledged find and replace toolbar, as well as a browser-based SVG drawing tool. Docs had a kind of…
YouTube - Iron Man vs Bruce Lee →
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hilarious
The Big Takeover : Rolling Stone →
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man, this is rough
It’s over — we’re officially, royally fucked. No empire can
survive being rendered a…
John Carmack releases open-source Wolfenstein 3D... →
his detailed design notes explain his gameplay changes
Man Follows GPS ... to the Edge of a Cliff →
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is it only in the UK where this kind of stuff happens? Every GPS idiot report I’ve read in the last 3 years always started with “A British man…”
Filed under: Car Tech
Academic Earth Aggregates Lectures from MIT,... →
Web site Academic Earth is like Hulu for academic lectures, pulling free lectures from Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale into one attractive, easy to navigate site. It’s…
Google Voice to Allow Number Porting [Google... →
We’ve been very excited about Google Voice ever since we gave it a closer look, but our biggest cause for hesitation (and the biggest complaint of many of our readers) is that you have…
Peek Pronto: Push E-mail, Exchange Support,... →
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for people who dislike all-in-one mobile communications. not a bad device honestly.
Filed under: Cell Phones, Handheld Devices
Boy, Peek wasn’t kidding when it…