May 2009
199 posts
Packwhiz Streamlines Packing for Your Trip... →
Always have the sneaking suspicion you’ve forgotten something when you’re ready to head out the door on a trip? Web-based packing list generator Packwhiz aims to ensure that never happens…
Flickr Hit Hard by Yahoo Layoffs →
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boo. Sad day for flickr.
Updated: Yahoo layoffs have started and they seem to have hit the Flickr team. Many engineers from the service have been either laid off or are…
LEGO iMac G4 Junior is iMac G4's smaller,... →
We tend to go a little weak in the knees for anything in miniature, so this iMac G4 “Junior” made with a 7-inch digital photo frame and a bunch of LEGOs sent us into…
Amazon to charge per megabyte to send personal... →
So far, sending files to your Kindle cost a flat fee — one dime per document for conversion and download over Whispernet. Looks like that honeymoon is over, as Amazon’s announced that…
Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 impressions,... →
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I’m very excited.
As you may or may not know, Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 has been officially handed out to MSDN and TechNet subscribers today, and there are…
New Phishing Attack Spreading On Facebook. This... →
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i already got spam from someone who had their fb account hijacked. sucks.
Yesterday a phishing scam spread across Facebook in the form of a message form a friend asking…
Disney Buys Into Hulu. YouTube Should Be Worried. →
As Hulu continues its spectacular rise (it is the No. 3 video site in the U.S. and is closing in on No. 2), it just got major buy-in from yet another major media company. Disney is now an…
FeedDemon 3.0 Beta Syncs to Google Reader... →
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i want a google reader sync’d native app for mac os x. someone get on it.
Windows: The Big Showdown between Google Reader’s web-based convenience and FeedDemon’s…
Simplify Media update, take 2 →
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iphone users. This is a fantastic way to have access to your desktop library while you’re on the go.
Filed under: Software Update, iPhone, App Store
Earlier today…
April 2009
269 posts
Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day [Dealhacker] →
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wow, that universal laptop adapter is unbelievably cheap.
We’ve got headphones, power adapters, cheap batteries, and free romance novels—one of these things is not like the…
Palm Eos: super-thin, 3G, and headed to AT&T? →
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if it runs webos, then we might have a winner
Liked that blurry photo of a new Palm webOS phone we saw earlier? Well how about some specs, a name, and a better look…
Flipping Typical Compares and Previews Installed... →
Web application Flipping Typical detects and previews installed fonts on your system with any text you want. The application aims to determine every font you have installed on your…
Even More Details On Mini-Pre/Palm Pixie: Specs... →
It looks like all it took for details of Palm’s post-Pre phone to begin spilling out was for us to break the news of it yesterday. Just hours after, a blurry shot of the handset was out….
New Facebook Phishing Scam Will Hijack Your... →
If you recently got a message in your Facebook inbox with links to FBAction.net, we hope you didn’t follow them. If you did, we hope you at least didn’t fall for the fake log-in screen…
T-Mobile's connected Cameo digiframe plummets... →
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This is actually a great deal. $2/mo is completely doable.
Man, that was fast. Really fast. Not like we’re shocked at all to hear that T-Mobile customers weren’t…
NES gamepad mouse is the most amazing piece of... →
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RS@Yong: Holy awesome. AWESOME!
Apparently as of right now, this stunning piece of high art is just a foam model mock-up, but listen to us, mouse manufacturers of…
JK Rowling and Other Big Name Authors Holding Out... →
We’ve give the e-book trend plenty of coverage, and, as we’ve stated before, there are still major hurdles in front of the emerging format. One of the highest is the absence of many…
Keep Your Grocery Bill Low by Avoiding These... →
Selling eggs and milk isn’t the most profitable venture in the world, so supermarkets employ crafty tactics to ensure you buy pricier goods to pad their bottom lines. Avoid overpaying with these…
Super Monkey Kong crams 14k of Jumpman excellence... →
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wow, i wish I had this guy’s skills. his coding and creative use of an 8x8 led board as a display is astounding.
Like we said at the outset, the incredibly inventive…
"Pirate Google" sets sail to show... →
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in light of the news of the Judges affiliation with copyright agencies, whom also the prosecuting lawyers are a part of, i have a feeling the pirate bay guys will get off.
Flashbake Automates Version Control for (Nerdy)... →
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For digital creatives (photo, design, writing, music) this seriously is pretty cool. Auto-backup and versioning if your work, plus ambient contextual information.
Save…
Cutest funding move ever? Adopt a line of Miro... →
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wow, that is a cute funding move. I’m almost inclined to adopt a line of code.
Those behind the open source Internet video player Miro have launched a new adoption…
Find a Future Date from the Shell [Terminal Tip] →
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in mac terminal the command is date -v +3w for getting the date 3 weeks later
Have you ever needed the exact date a certain number of days in the future? The…
Kickstarter Launches! →
I’m very happy to announce that Kickstarter is live! I first mentioned the project back in September, and have been privileged to sit on the board and advise their development for the last ten…
Five Reasons Why Designers Developers are... →
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i love Macs, but I do not hate PCs. in Fact I’m a big fan of Windows. In my opinion, no one ever switched to mac because they were frustrated with Windows (unless it was…
Best Deals For Wednesday 4/29/09 →
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Why do these deals always have women’s shoes?
By Paul Michael NEW FEATURE - WISEBUY: Look for the happy pig, he’ll indicate a killer deal of the day.
Today’s …
MacGourmet improves upon a winner →
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for all the mac loving chefs in the hizzie
Filed under: Software
Let me tell you about the fly paper storage method.
I spent my youth in a shoebox-shaped house in…
Windows 7 Will Include "Windows XP Mode"... →
Windows 7 wants to be your trusted upgrade from Windows XP—so much so that the Redmond giant will offer a virtualized “Windows XP Mode” in Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate editions when…
Farbs' resignation letter to 2K Australia →
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A very creative way to resign from a job
best resignation ever, from the creator of ROM CHECK FAIL, who’s gone full indie
Video: MOTO Lab's multitouch display scalable up... →
When the heads over at the MOTO Development Group aren’t busy outfitting E-Ink devices with Android, they can often be found looking for bigger, better, and cheaper ways to build…
Senseg: Amazing Haptic Technology That Could Be... →
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very interesting
Senseg.com is a haptic interface company based in Helsinki, Finland. I met with the CEO, Ville Makinen, who showed us two simple implementations of the…
Office 2010 Screenshots Preview What's to Come... →
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just looking at the interface is giving me a headache. For mockup purposes, they really could’ve done without the purple text.
Microsoft just pushed out Office 2007…
Surprise! The American Cable Association favors... →
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When will they stop? Sometimes capitalism makes people crazy.
Guess what everybody? Time Warner Cable isn’t the only one who thinks tiered broadband is the future —…
2K Australia developer quits job with the help of... →
If done correctly, quitting your job can be the absolute coolest thing you could ever do. When else do you get to air out hostilities you’ve harbored for countless years, impress cohorts…
Dumb Underage Drinkers Out Themsleves to Cops With... →
Two Nebraska youngsters who used Facebook to hype an unsupervised house party as “History Making,” instead made headlines when police officers busted the underage fiesta. Christopher…
Exterior, Pedestrian-Friendly Airbags Under... →
In America, we worry extensively about crash-test ratings for cars, which determine how likely automobile passengers are to survive a given impact, but in Europe that concern is…
Best Deals For Tuesday 4/28/09 →
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The Blank DVD’s are a good deal
By Paul Michael 1. FREE Leapfrog Learning Rhymes CD
The Learning Rhythms CD features 15 songs to get children ages 0 to 3…
Why We Don’t Believe Rumors of an Apple/Verizon... →
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as much I want to believe that the iPhone would be on Verizon’s gloriously solid network, i too have my doubts. Especially about the point “Verizon Doesn’t Share”. Verizon thinks…
Honda Insight's immersive ad on Vimeo →
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I’ve seen the ad before, but not like this.
it caught me by surprise
FreeProxy Helps You Circumvent Restrictive... →
Windows only: Corporate firewall got you down? No Facebook behind your school’s filter? FreeProxy is a simple proxy tool for routing your browsing through your home computer. At the computer…
Road Tested: Why the hackb00k is a fail →
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Hacks, Odds and ends, Road Tested
A tweet this afternoon pointed me to a post by Dave “MacSparky” Sparks titled The Netbook…
Have Kindle, Will Travel — And Stay Up-To-Date... →
I used to think the Kindle was stupid. Then I bought one and realized I was wrong. It’s still way too expensive, but it’s great at what it does. And what it does keeps on expanding. Now, it…
mypressi TWIST gives espresso addicts an easier... →
You know the story — your daily craving for a shot of espresso hits right around 7:30AM local time, and if you don’t have it in your grasp by 0800 hours, you’re likely visiting the…
Windows 7 Will Include "Windows XP Mode"... →
Windows 7 wants to be your trusted upgrade from Windows XP—so much so that the Redmond giant will offer a virtualized “Windows XP Mode” in Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate editions when…
Shadow Physics gameplay demo →
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pretty innovative
also: Miegakure, an experimental game in four dimensions [via]
BookArmy: Social Networking for Avid Readers →
In order for e-books to really take off it’s going to take more than just the Kindle. To reach a breaking point, it’s going to take social networking (and probably file sharing) for…
Firefox 3.0.10 Released, Fixes Major Stability... →
Firefox may have updated to 3.0.9 just last week with a few critical security fixes, but the folks at Mozilla are already pushing out 3.0.10—this time fixing a major stability issue and one…
Firefox 3.0.10 Released, Fixes Major Stability... →
Firefox may have updated to 3.0.9 just last week with a few critical security fixes, but the folks at Mozilla are already pushing out 3.0.10—this time fixing a major stability issue and one…
IBM Supercomputer Hopes to Compete on Jeopardy →
Filed under: Computers, TV, Visionaries
Years after building a computer called Deep Blue that gave chess champion Garry Kasparov a run for his money, IBM is now taking aim…
Seagate Replica does automatic, incremental backup... →
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i still think you’re better off with Mozy, Carbonite, or Back something… forgot that one…
Seagate’s new Replica drive aims to be for PC users what Time Machine…