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Screen/film protectors get axed on Apple’s official sales channels.
by
Mike
Posted March 17th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
One of my biggest gripes with touchscreen phones is the vulnerability and finger smudges that plague the massive piece of glass (or plastic) on the device. No matter how tough a company claims their proprietary screen is, at some point a small scratch always developers. So it's up to 3rd party screen protectors to save the day, right? Wrong...that is if you plan on purchasing said accessory at an Apple Store -- physical or digital -- from here on out. For so far unknown reasons, finding a sc...
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RIM promises great things for BBM this week. Get’s all pushy with 3rd party apps.
by
Mike
Posted March 17th, 2010 at 9:30 am
Not one, but two morsels of information for BlackBerry users today are ready for your consumption. First up, BlackBerry Messenger. According to RIM, within the next few days, "exciting new things" are coming to the Canadian based platform's "in-house" IM client. For BBM junkies, this is reason to celebrate as BBM isn't exactly the most often updated BlackBerry app, routinely going months upon months between updates. Good stuff.
On a wider scale, RIM has also announced that push services a...
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New Macbook Air, Pro/Mac Pro pricing details leaked? “Bag of hurt” with new pricing? [Update]
by
Mike
Posted March 17th, 2010 at 7:18 am
Is your drool cup full after weeks of waiting for any new news regarding Core i5/i7 updated Macbook Air/Pros and Mac Pros? I just as much as anyone love a well put together computer with beastly internals to match. But a $400 premium for Intel's "latest" Core i5/i7 chips? Ya, no thank you. The image above was captured from Austrailian site, PC Authority. Whether the prices listed are USD or not I'm not sure, which could explain the price discrepancy. If these are an early look at the new p...
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Solar road way prototypes pictured. Drool forming in 3..2…
by
Mike
Posted March 17th, 2010 at 6:07 am
Is it possible to get excited over a roadway? If the roadway in question is a materialized version of the various concepts that have wandered past my eyes in the last few years, then yes. The prototype above is the work of Solar Roadways and shows just how sweet the concept really is. I know it's weird, but I can't wait until i start driving on these roads. We've still got a few years though :(
Besides looking helluva cool, there are some actual real-world uses such as (obviously) better ...
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The new age Lava Lamp comes with LED’s, void of liquidy goo…
by
Mike
Posted March 17th, 2010 at 5:59 am
I remember when I was a kid I had some strange fascination with lava lamps. At my worst point, I had amassed a total of 13 lava lamps -- all going at the same time. Ya, it was pretty hectic. But more technological times have come and gone since then, resulting in some pretty cool changes, particularly in how the old Lava Lamp works. Nowadays, the new hotness in illumination technology is LEDs. Naturally, the Lava Lamp has received an update with said technology.
The LED Tube Lamp isn't ...
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And the consumer nets another sudo win… EA removes SecuROM DRM from Battlefield: Bad Company 2
by
Mike
Posted March 16th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Like DRM? Of course not. No one does. Yet somehow it supposedly makes the world a better place. The last couple of years, especially the last year in particular, game developers have been downright nazi-like in their determination and affinity for this digital cancer that plagues so many digitized services and devices. EA's SecuROM DRM in particular is a pretty big PITA as it it requires a net connection to "validate" your game each and every time you fire it up. No net connection = no gam...
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Windows Phone 7 fail # *insert number here*: No copy & paste at launch.
by
Mike
Posted March 16th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
When people complain that Microsoft is trying too hard to mimic Apple, they're weren't kidding. In recent Q&A's with the WinPhone 7 team, it was made pretty darn clear that at least at launch, copy&paste wouldn't be anywhere near the OS. Did Microsoft seriously live in a cave during the last 2 years Apple played this stupid game?! Geeze, I just gave M some praise earlier for the progess they seem to be making. And now they go and do something stupid stuff like this. There's no excuse -- not...
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SpeakLike for Wordpress: Reliable, human-based translations allow you to yak it up no matter where you live.
by
Mike
Posted March 16th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Go to the local county fair and walk around listening to the various languages and dialects you hear. Depending on where you live, the scope of spoken languages can actually be pretty expansive. Then think that no matter how many languages you think you are hearing in your little corner of the globe, it is but a tiny, minuscule drop in the bucket. Now take second to think about the millions of conversations that go on over the internet each and every day, on a much larger scale than your typi...
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Is IE9 the first Microsoft browser (in a long, long time) worth using?
by
Mike
Posted March 16th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Microsoft is certainly finding every last duck and throwing them into line aren't they? I mean, WinPhone 7 is shaping up to be quite the mobile OS savior. Windows 7 is right up their with 10.6 as far as desktop OS's go (subjective, I know). And now, one of the most criticized Microsoft products, Internet Explorer, is shaping up to be quite the looker even it's extremely early preview stage. The biggest news on the IE 9 front is the move to a webkit-based rendering engine. This change will f...
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Fallen soldier slowly regaining eyesight with…tongue? [BrainPort]
by
Mike
Posted March 16th, 2010 at 11:29 am
If you ever find yourself looking at modern medical tech and thinking "This is it?", take a gander at the "BrainPort" device fitted to Craig Lundberg's tongue. Craig was tragically wounded when a grenade exploded near him, rending his eyesight null and void. But the BrainPort is bringing it all back. Slowly at first, but with time and development, could be the next big thing for those with little-to-no eyesight.
The BrainPort at first sounds pretty odd -- a camera mounted on the person sends...
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Actual shocker: Moto DROID outsells iPhone in first 74 days on sale.
by
Mike
Posted March 16th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Alright, why 74 days as a benchmark? It's a bid odd for sure. The iPhone took 74 days to hit 1 million units sold, so it's an easy benchmark to go by for other phones. In the case of the DROID, it's met and surpassed the iPhone's once thought unbeatable number by roughly half a million -- no small feat I'd say. Margin of error is claimed to be pretty low since Flurry's (the company doing the analytics grunt work) analytics tools are on over 80% of all the devices highlighted above.
I knew...
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AirStash uses WiFi to spruce up the otherwise “common” flash drive.
by
Mike
Posted March 16th, 2010 at 9:47 am
Take any assortment of flash drives you see at your typical electronics store. Besides the storage capacity and drive design, there really isn't anything all too different about them. Sure, some will perform better (read: faster) than others. But overall, a flash drive is a flash drive. It's only when manufacturers get "creative" do we see anything and everything underneath the sun USB-ified. But every now and then, something truly unique comes along. The AirStash is one such drive, incorp...
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The ultimate self sustaining, ultra mobile network medium — the human skin.
by
Mike
Posted March 16th, 2010 at 7:30 am
Generally speaking, when someone talks about jamming things into one's skin, disgust follows along with various "brain doctors". But hold back those feelings of uneasiness when witnessing someone jamming network cables into the arms. Why you ask? Japanese researchers have figured out a way to turn the human dermis into a living transmission highway, allowing plug-n-play installation of your typical network cable. Weird? You bet.
You may be surprised at how works -- low level electromagneti...
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The biggest flash drive in the whole universe: The Moserbaer USB Flash Drive….Truck
by
Mike
Posted March 15th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
128GB flash drives -- psh. They don't have anything on the Moserbaer USB flash drive truck...yes, truck. Seems the clever marketing team behind Moserbaer truly know how to get some attention, for it was them who whipped up this little semi mod you see above. So a typical high capacity flash drive such as the Corsair GT 128 GB behemoth is "the king" if you will. Just imagine how many of those Corsair GT's you could cram into the back of this semi. Ya, that's a lot of storage.
According ...
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WinPhone 7 and the disappearing background apps…
by
Mike
Posted March 15th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
So what do you think? Generally it's good practice to ask the mind bending, cortex tickling question at the end. You know, saving the best for last. But I figured I'd switch it up. WinPhone 7 is a dramatic departure from Windows Mobile in every way. It's appearance, functionality, features, and overall usability have all been given huge boosts. So much so that even I, a long time WinMo hater have seen the light at the end of Microsoft's tunnel. It's not all happy endings though. As the ti...
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Destination unknown: Simplify discontinuing music streaming apps, changing direction.
by
Mike
Posted March 15th, 2010 at 9:25 am
Here's quite a shoker: Popular WiFi and 3G streaming app, Simplify, will be no more in its current form. Per a post on the Simplify company blog, Simplify as we have come to know it will be discontinued and the company as a whole changing direction. What direction are they going exactly? For that, we'll have to play the "wait and see" game with Simplify stopping short of describing any immediate goals on the linked post above. Support for their current apps will continue on for "at least 3 m...
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