iPhone: Opinion: This Week's Best iPhone Apps
Original at Gizmodo
• Fri, Nov 20
By John Herrman Voices: There are a few voice modulation apps on the shelves of the App Store, but none has captured Jesus' heart like Voices: Zosh is a $3 app that allows you to sign attached documents on your iPhone. Basically, you forward the emailed document to Zosh from the iPhone's mail app, then you op...
Xbox 360: Serious Sam HD Arrives on PC Next Week, Xbox 360 in December (Updated)
Original at Shacknews
• Fri, Nov 20
Update: Devolver has issued forth a new trailer for Serious Sam HD (embedded below), which concludes with word that the downloadable Xbox 360 edition will hit in December. Original: Croteam's modern day revamp of Serious Sam: The First Encounter will hit PC on Tuesday, November 24, prod...
Web 2.0: Three Great Light Blogging Tools Compared
Original at Read/WriteWeb
• Fri, Nov 20
By Dana Oshiro Posterous: Posterous is the original email publishing microblog. Users can email posts, publish them via the web editor or upload them from the PicPosterous iPhone app. The service allows users to set up auto posting to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, Vimeo, Tumblr, Blogge...
Xbox 360: Yes, Mass: We Pray Was More Dante's Inferno Schtick [Marketing]
Original at Kotaku
• Fri, Nov 20
By Michael McWhertor Mass: We Pray ties into the Heresy circle of Dante Alighieri's version of Hell—and the level of the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PSP game—but also lets Facebook users "damn" their friends and acquaintances. But that's not a very nice thing to do.
VOIP: Interop New York 2009 VideosOriginal at Tehrani.com
• Fri, Nov 20
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Apple: How smoking can ruin your Mac
Original at CNET News.com
• Fri, Nov 20
According to a report, AppleCare warranties can be voided if Apple deems the damage was caused by secondhand smoke. Appeals to Steve Jobs have, apparently, not succeeded.
iPod: Steve Jobs to Developer: Name Change ‘Not That Big of a Deal’
Original at Wired
• Fri, Nov 20
By Brian X. Chen Steve Apple is mighty protective of its iPod trademark, and if you violate it, you’ll get no sympathy from Steve Jobs. Apple recently sent a letter to software company Little App Factory, requesting that it change the name of its most successful applications: “iPodRip,” an app that enabl...
Palm Treo: UNLOCK YOUR PALM TREO PHONE NOW - CHEAP (Tacoma-Southcenter) $18
Original at craigslist seattle
• Fri, Nov 20
get your Palm Treo phone unlock now why unlock? well, after unlocking, you can now use with with other GSM carrier tmobile, att, suncom, fido, roger, claro, 02, orange, telcel, TIM, vonadone and MORE i can do the following models treo 650, treo 680, treo centro the price is 18 dollars
Vista: Ballmer Says Windows 7 Sales Double Those of Vista
Original at Sci-Tech Today
• Fri, Nov 20
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer isn't talking turkey when it comes to the software giant's newest operating system. At a shareholder meeting Thursday in Bellevue, Wash., Ballmer told investors that Windows 7 sold double the number of copies in one month as its previous Windows Vista operati...
BlackBerry: So Hot Right Now: Top 10 Gadgetell posts for the week of November 15, 2009
Original at Gadgetell
• Fri, Nov 20
By NEWS ” As of this morning, the BlackBerry Bold 9700 is now available with T-Mobile. Price wise, the Bold 9700 will set you back $199.99 on a two-year agreement. Of course, T-Mobile also has the new Even More…” MORE »Simple Mobile launches, offers cheap voice on any GSM phone
Amazon Kindle: Amazon Preparing Better Kindle Ebook Management System in 2010 [Kindle]
Original at Gizmodo
• Fri, Nov 20
By Sean Fallon As many Kindle owners already know, keeping a large number of books on the device can get a bit unruly—so this would be a welcome update. It's also good news for people on the fence about whether or not to get a Kindle or a Nook over the holidays. It appears that the Kindle is going to be the only gam...
iPod: Google's Strange and Shiny New OS
Original at TechNewsWorld
• Fri, Nov 20
By Paul Hartsock Google just keeps invading new territories, and its latest target is your computer's operating system. It's officially released the open source code for its Chrome OS, an operating system that will turn up in third-party vendors' netbooks. Those devices should start selling next year. W...
iPhone: News: TomTom intros separate Car Kit for iPod touch
Original at iLounge
• Fri, Nov 20
• 9 related articles
By news@ilounge.com (Charles Starrett) Following the release of its updated turn-by-turn navigation app that added support for the original iPhone and iPod touch, TomTom has revealed that first-, second-, and third-generation iPod touch users wanting to purchase a TomTom-branded GPS solution will need to buy a separate c...
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Adobe Photoshop: Lightroom 3 Beta help posted
Original at imaging resource
• Thu, Nov 19
Documentation is now available for Adobe's beta release of Photoshop Lightroom 3, according to the company's "Phosphors" blog. The documentation can be accessed by pressing F1 from inside the Lightroom 3 Beta application, or using a web browser on Adobe's support website. The help docs...
iPod: Opinion: Gifts for Angry, Rant-Prone Apple Haters
Original at Gizmodo
• Thu, Nov 19
By Dan Nosowitz Motorola Droid: Sure, Matt may have called the Droid "the second best smartphone you can buy," the best being the iPhone 3GS, but Apple haters will find plenty to love about the Droid—and plenty to loathe about the iPhone. I won't rehash our review (or Verizon's intimidating "Droid Does" a...
Apple: Opinion: Gifts for Angry, Rant-Prone Apple Haters
Original at Gizmodo
• Thu, Nov 19
By Dan Nosowitz Motorola Droid: Sure, Matt may have called the Droid "the second best smartphone you can buy," the best being the iPhone 3GS, but Apple haters will find plenty to love about the Droid—and plenty to loathe about the iPhone. I won't rehash our review (or Verizon's intimidating "Droid Does" a...
Zune: Opinion: Gifts for Angry, Rant-Prone Apple Haters
Original at Gizmodo
• Thu, Nov 19
By Dan Nosowitz Zune HD + ZunePass and HD Dock: If your Apple hater is in the market for a PMP, there's no better option than the Zune HD—in terms of media capabilities, it kicks the iPod Touch's standard-def ass with HD radio, 720p video output, a killer OLED screen and a gorgeous, media-centric UI. It'll pl...
Wii: Monster Hunter Tri Preview: Army of Four
Original at Kotaku
• Thu, Nov 19
By AJ Glasser What We Saw I played three missions during the University event using both the Wii Remote/Nunchuck configuration and the Classic Controller Pro because they had one handy. Note: It's unconfirmed if the Classic Controller Pro will be brought to the US along with Monster Hunter Tri.
Adobe Photoshop: Macro Tutorials
Original at nycgraphix (WordPress)
• Thu, Nov 19
By nycgraphix Digital Photography Tutorials Each digital photography tutorial is short, can be read in one sitting… Digital Photography Articles The Sahara Desert Macro Photography Digital Photography Tutorials Each digital photography tutorial is short, can be read in one sitting
BlackBerry: Opinion: My on-going thoughts on the HTC Hero
Original at palmaddict.typepad.com
• Thu, Nov 19
By sam mcloughln Firstly, it is important to remember that rather than running Windows Mobile OS, HTC have adopted Google’s Android OS and the HTC/Android team is a great mix and straight away, my impression of HTC devices being more for business than pleasure went straight out the window.
Xbox 360: Opinion: Why Facebook, Twitter on Game Consoles Miss The PointOriginal at Wired
• Thu, Nov 19
By Gus Mastrapa Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm for Xbox 360 Go LivePlay PSP Games Online, Through Your PlayStation 3Netflix Streaming to PlayStation 3 in NovemberRumor: Thinner, Lighter PlayStation 3 Shipping JulyFallout 3 DLC Coming to PlayStation 3
Vista: Opinion: Fishbowl for Facebook Using the Windows 7 Taskbar for Extra Spice
Original at The Windows
• Thu, Nov 19
By Yochay Kiriaty As a WPF application, Fishbowl runs on multiple Windows versions, including Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, and it integrates with the Windows 7 Taskbar and Multitouch. One of the main ideas behind the Taskbar is to provide users with quick and easy access to their content and he...
Windows Mobile: Windows Mobile 7 Shown in Secret, Impressions Leak
Original at IntoMobile - Mobile Phone News and Reviews
• Thu, Nov 19
By Simon Sage Microsoft building Windows Mobile 7 from the ground upInternet Explorer Mobile 6 to be available on new WM 6.1 smartphones!A look into the Windows Mobile 7 design directionWindows Mobile 7 features demonstrated on video?Nokia CEO: Windows Mobile who? Try S60 Touch in 2H 2008
ASUS Eee PC: Quanta Android Smartbook hands-on plus Qualcomm tablet prototype [Video]Original at SlashGear
• Thu, Nov 19
By Chris Davies As for the concept Smartbook/Tablet hybrid, Qualcomm have demonstrated it before but say they’ve been surprised by the ongoing positive feedback. The idea is to have a touchscreen display panel with integrated stand that can be used with a wireless keyboard/mouse peripheral on the de...
Home cinema: Holiday Special - Home Theater-In-A-Box Systems
Original at About - News & Issues
• Thu, Nov 19
Looking for the perfect gift to get that special someone started in home theater without all the hassle of buying everything and figuring out how to install it? Then a home theater-in-a-box system may be just the perfect gift to give this holiday season. These systems come packaged with ev...
Wii: Review: New Super Mario Bros. Wii Is Nostalgic, Chaotic
Original at Wired
• Tue, Nov 17
By Chris Kohler Miyamoto: New Mario Tests Your Hard-Core Gaming ChopsHands-On: New Super Mario Bros. Wii Shows No MercyMiyamoto: Why I Spiked Mario Galaxy 2’s StorySuper Mario Galaxy Makes Wii Sing, Donkey Kong: Barrel BlastNew Mario Is Best DS Game EverWeekend Thrifting: ‘New’ Super Mario Bros.
TiVo: Is a new TiVo imminent?
Original at Engadget
• Tue, Nov 17
By Ben Drawbaugh Here are the facts. TiVo hasn't released a new DVR since the TiVo HD in the Summer of 2007. The last major TiVo announcement was September of 2008 when a new DirecTV HD TiVo was revealed. The chip that makes the TiVo magic happen just got a big upgrade when Broadcom announced the super feature ric...
Ajax: Build a Web presentation application using Ajax technology, Part 2: Make the Web presentation editable
Original at ibm.com
• Mon, Nov 16
• 4 related articles
Web 2.0 allows the development of robust functionality with a minimum of coding by reusing existing components rather than reinventing them. Part 1 of this series discussed using an Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) framework to create a Web application to create slideshow presen...
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Xbox 360: Podcast: Xbox 360 Fancast 143 -- Modern Podfare
Original at Joystiq
• Mon, Nov 16
By Richard Mitchell Yep, you guessed it, this week is about Modern Warfare 2. We throw some news in there, and even squeeze in one fan mail after the break, but the bulk is Modern Warfare 2. In the first half of the show, we break down our impressions of the game. In the second half, we tackle the controversial "No Russ...
Vista: How To Get Years of Good Use Out of Your Existing Tape Backup Setup with Server 2008
Original at Redmond Channel Partner
• Mon, Nov 16
Discover how the BackupAssist™ tape backup solution provides ongoing viability for existing tape hardware on Server 2008. This Whitepaper explains how to continue using tape for data archival backup while delivering cost-efficiency and labor savings with Windows Server 2008, Wind...
Palm Treo: Palm Treo 650 Running Android | Android Mobile Device
Original at Android Mobile Device
• Mon, Nov 16
• 5 related articles
By Android Dev I was once a happy Palm user, more specifically a happy Treo 650 user. That is of course after I upgraded from the Treo 600. That said, I guess it was the Treo.
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BlackBerry: BlackBerry Curve 8520, LG Shine II coming to AT&T
Original at Engadget
• Mon, Nov 16
By Chris Ziegler That successor to AT&T's wildly popular LG Shine that we spied back in August has finally popped official today, becoming the Shine II (surprise, surprise). It's a very evolutionary set -- if you squint, you can't see much difference from the original -- but this might be a situation w...
Second Life: Esquire AR Issue Hits Newstands
Original at Advertising Lab
• Mon, Nov 16
By noreply@blogger.com (Ilya Vedrashko) I still have a bunch of copies of their eInk issue from last year, although the screens have long ran out of power. If you watch the intro video, you'll see that the copy behind their chief editor is dead, too. And yes, AR is the new Second Life (+part II)
Zune: Linkpost | 11.16.2009
Original at Houston Chronicle
• Mon, Nov 16
By Dwight • Is it OK to use OEM Windows on your own PC? Don't ask Microsoft - Microsoft used to say that you could use OEM versions of Windows on a homebuilt PC, but that language has been removed from official Microsoft documents. Ed Bott looks at how confusing the situation really is.
Windows Mobile: Opinion: How To: Make Windows 7 Play Nice With All Your Gadgets
Original at Gizmodo
• Sat, Nov 14
By John Herrman Your Phone Windows Mobile: To sync with your Windows Mobile phone in Windows 7, you're going to need Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1. Just like in Vista! Except this time around, Windows is savvy enough to autoinstall the suite, which saves a little time and potentially a lot of Googling. (J...
Bang & Olufsen: Bang & Olufsen BeoVision 7 hits 55 inches
Original at Ubergizmo
• Wed, Nov 11
Bang & Olufsen's BeoVision 7 has now hit the magical 55" mark, where its previous effort managed just 40" for folks in North America. This flagship LCD video system's enlarged viewing area will offer customers more options and enhanced picture quality, where the BeoVision 7-55 inte...
BlackBerry: Walmart offering $100 gift card with any BlackBerry purchase (but only next week)
Original at Engadget
• Wed, Nov 11
By Darren Murph We're onto you, Wally World. Granted, you already confessed that you'd be dishing out a deal a week until sometime in the future, but hey, we'll feign surprise without thinking twice. Next week's bargain is a good one for those in the market for one of RIM's handsets, as Walmart shoppers will...
Zune: 3D gaming comes to the Zune HD
Original at ZDNet Blogs
• Wed, Nov 11
• 2 related articles
By Matthew Miller This past weekend I mentioned the Zune HD firmware 4.3 update that added predictive text and a better browsing experience. As part of that update, Microsoft announced that support for 3D games and apps was added as well and it didn't take long for them to deliver as we now have six new games in t...
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T-Mobile G1: Google Navigation hacked onto T-Mobile G1
Original at Engadget Mobile
• Tue, Nov 10
By Thomas Ricker It's always a good sign when a device-specific product release becomes the focal point of the XDA development community: it means you've got a winner on your hands. Not that anyone ever doubted the intense demand for Google's new turn-by-turn Navigation introduced exclusively on Motor...
Windows Mobile: HTC HD2 first impressions: The Windows Mobile phone we've been waiting for?
Original at Crave
• Wed, Nov 4
The HTC HD2 has done what we thought was impossible -- gotten us all hot and bothered about a Windows Mobile phone. Here are our first hands-on impressions
Vista: Windows Vista Rated More Secure Than Windows XP
Original at Sci-Tech Today
• Mon, Nov 2
For browser-based attacks on PCs running Windows XP, Microsoft vulnerabilities accounted for 56.4 percent of the total. By contrast, Microsoft vulnerabilities accounted for just 15.5 percent on Windows Vista-based machines, the report said.
Adobe Photoshop: How To: Create a dramatic poster from a photo
Original at The Photoshop Roadmap
• Mon, Oct 26
• 43 related articles
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to turn a random picture to an amazing cinematic poster. I'll use Photoshop CS4 and this whole tutorial will depend greatly on layers and Layers mode.
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MacBook: More Apple teardowns: Fall 2009 iMac & Magic Mouse
Original at ZDNet Blogs
• Thu, Oct 22
• 2 related articles
By Jason D. O'Grady The crack engineers at iFixIt are at it again. Yesterday I posted their teardown of the new "unibody" (a.k.a. poly) MacBook which revealed a relocated Bluetooth antenna and a larger 60 watt-hour battery. Today's installment includes teardowns of the new Fall 2009 iMac and the mysterious Mag...
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VOIP: Sprint offers PIN VoIP service using SIP for cost savings
Original at FierceVoIP
• Mon, Oct 12
By Mike Dolan Sprint announced the availability of the Partner Interexchange Network (PIN) for its business customers. The Sprint PIN service creates a community of partners to exchange VoIP service between each other while operating on Sprint’s global Tier 1 IP network. Because the service involv...
Social Media: Social tagging in the life sciences: characterizing a new metadata resource for bioinformatics
Original at biomedcentral.com
• Tue, Oct 6
By bindonlane Benjamin M Good, Joseph T Tennis, and Mark D WilkinsonBMC Bioinformatics 10 (1), 313 (25 Sep 2009)info:doi/10.1186/1471-2105-10-313Posted by bindonlane and 3 others to tagging MeSH indexing social bookmarking on Tue Oct 06 2009 at 19:09 UTC | info | related Posted by bindonlane and 3 o...
TiVo: The Hurt Keeps Coming: Dish And EchoStar Ordered To Pay TiVo Another $200 Million
Original at Techcrunch
• Fri, Sep 4
By Jason Kincaid The battle between Dish and TiVo rages on. As reported by Bloomberg, a judge has ruled that Dish and EchoStar must pay TiVo around $200 million for continuing to provide DVR service to its customers after being told to stop because it was violating TiVo’s patents. Dish and EchoStar plan to ap...
XM: PaidContent.org: Sirius' XM Debt Sale Attracts Strong Demand; Subs Get Hit With Royalty Rate Hike
Original at Forbes
• Thu, Jun 25
WiMAX: Open Range contracts Alvarion for WiMAX rollout
Original at TeleGeography
• Wed, Jun 17
Israeli WiMAX equipment manufacturer Alvarion has been awarded a contract by US-based telco Open Range to deploy WiMAX networks across 17 states. The contract, worth up to USD100 million, outlines a five-year plan that aims to reach over six million customers in 546 rural communities. T...
Sirius: Quick Hits: Lil Wayne, 311, Usher, Paul mccartney, Blur, Incubus ...
Original at FMQB
• Mon, Jun 15
NJ Sirius XM Radio said today that E Street Radio, the exclusive channel dedicated to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, has extended its broadcast run. This is the third time the popular music channel's limited run has been extended due to ...