iRetrophone dresses your iPhone in classic garb, for a price.

iPhone docks and cases are a dime a dozen. It takes an increasing amount of creativity and uniqueness to even get me to notice a “new” case/dock these days. The iRetrophone Dock is one such dock.

Results are in, quad-SLI GTX 480′s waste of money. (Side benefit: heater)

It would be pretty accurate to go on and say that the reception of Nvidia’s GTX 4xx series cards has been pretty mild so far. You have your standard allotment of die hard fanboys and loyalists who will buy up any and all hardware Nvidia puts out. And then you have more cautious consumers who really scrutinize the cost-to-benefit ratio of their potential purchases.

So let’s get to the point, with all the hubub about price and heat output aside, can (4) of the top end GTX 480′s conquer the planet?

WiFi syncing comes to iPod/iPhone…”unofficially”

One of the Zune’s more prominent boasting points over the iPod is it’s WiFi-syncing ability — cutting the cords and making life easier. With each revision of the iPod hardware and firmware, I’ve seen plenty of consumers cry out for such a feature from Apple. But alas, here we are in 2010 without WiFi-syncing anywhere in sight.

Well, it wasn’t in sight until developer “Greg” whipped up a simple app that allows your iPod/iPhone wireless connect and sync with iTunes. Awesome! Welcome to the 90′s!

Google Checkout haters rejoice! PayPal now an option for Android Market purchases.

Those of you toting around a familiar green friend and not so keen on Google Checkout (or geographically can’t) as your only payment option can now breathe a sigh of relief. PayPal mobile payments are finally here on the Android platform. For myself, I’m fine using Google Checkout. But to others, using anything but PayPal is like asking them to give up their fist of kin. Pretty extreme stuff.

Now that you’ve got the option, feel free to hit up that market and make your credit card weep. For curiosities sake, has anyone really held off on Android Market purchases or Android altogether because of the Google Checkout requirement?

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Chigagoans: No WiFi equipped Metra rides for the foreseeable future…

In order to start Monday with some good news, we’ll get the bad out of the way early tonight.

Plenty of mass transit commuters in big cities know that riding taxis, buses, and trains to work results in a fair amount of lost productivity. But a recent wave of tech madness has been sweeping trains and buses, with WiFi access becoming almost common place. Focusing on trains/subway rail lines in particular, the task of getting an outside connection can be quite the challenge. Usually the WiFi is provided via cellular signals. Such signals are hard to come by in many of the environments trains and subways travel through, hence the challenge.

Unfortunately for Chicagoans, talks of Metra getting the WiFi fix are null and void for the time being.

If iPad can, iPhone can too: Landscape springboard officially coming to iPhone 4.0?

iPhone users/hopefuls: Think of a few of the “must have” features you’d like to see in iPhone OS 4.0 when it is finally given the final seal of approval and shipped out. Is it the multitasking? Perhaps more RAM? Let’s not forget the more rugged physical appearance. Or could it be something as simple as a landscape springboard?

DRM at its finest: New Avatar DRM causing playback woes on Blu-ray players. Only legal purchases affected.

It never ceases to amaze me how uterly retarded, stupid, and incompetent the movie studios and “the old Hollywood” in general really are.

Todays fluster cluck of DRM spotlight features Avatar and the unplayable disc. I’m seeing reports all over the web (Consumerist in particular) of new Avatar customers unwrapping their new gift only to find it unplayable in their Blu-ray players. Effective DRM, huh?