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By Brian Lam Mark Rudiger taught me the basics of celestial navigation during the many passages that he and I sailed together. Navigation is a skill passed on, navigator to navigator. Especially celestial navigation. Mark and I sailed and won two Transpacs together in 2001 and 2003. Mark, this record at...

By Ben Parr There were also some insightful and useful resources that got people’s attention this week. If you’re interested in gorgeous Twitter visualizations or how to get retweeted on Twitter, social media provided the answer. Here are this week’s top 11 social media stories: Tags: social media

By Brian For the people who have yet to secure a home theater system of their own, here is one from the familiar brand Sony. The system is the Sony BDVIS100 5.1 CH Blu-ray disc/ DVD home theater system. In includes a S-Air Wireless Surround and Air Station ready. It also boasts of the following features: N...

By Josh Catone Pandora (Free) – Unlimited custom radio stations. Need we say more? The Pandora iPhone app + headphones = hours of silent bliss during long car rides (just stay out of 3G deadzones!). What other applications do your kids enjoy? Let us know in the comments.

By Martin New Folder Wizard is a portable software program for the Windows operating system. It requires the Microsoft .net Framework 2.0, runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the operating system and can be downloaded directly from the developer’s homepage. The software itself comes with a se...

The game looks fantastic, with some great detail put into the main character, enemies, as well as the areas. The level of detail in some of these areas you will be doing damage will truly showcase the power of the PS3 and the other next-gen console, the Xbox 360.

By Paul Miller Don't worry, everybody, your iPhone baking itself to a crisp is no cause for panic, now that Apple has found the culprit: the weather and your heartless negligence. Apparently you've been leaving your brand new iPhone 3GS in a hot car, and the warm sensation you feel any time you hold the pho...

By Rene Ritchie Chris’ Pick: iTunes Movie Rentals I was just out in the field, and my hotel didn’t have a TV or anything. Luckilly I had planned in advance and rented some movies through iTunes, so I was able to watch them on my iPhone while in the hotel room. [Variable - iTunes link]

I want to get a XM Satellite Radio on amazon this is it... http://www.amazon.com/Audiovox-XMCK5P-XPRESS-EZ-Satellite-Receiver/dp/B000RYN1MS/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1246735701&sr=8-14 Im buying it for my BF and i want to know how it works all i know i...

By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) a fascinating portrait of Aaron Burr, who lived out his long life partly as a suspected traitor and partly as one of the most heroic and colorful of the founding fathers. A fictional memoir based on actual facts, Burr describes the early struggles and endless intrigues of the United States....

By Joseph L. Flatley Heads up, Meizu fanboys! We just got a sneak peak at the M8's new UI (said to be dropping in August when the handset gets its firmware update) and you know what? It looks like a UI. Pretty k-rad, right? Check out the other two face-melting pics after the break, if you dare.

Nintendo released a Wii Firmware update, version 4.1 today in Japan. A bug fix to Wii Sports Resort, in which after playing a WiiWare/VC game off the SD card, and then playing Wii Sports Resort afterward, you would be forced to watch the how-to Wii Motion Plus video that normally plays only on...

By Brian Crecente 1. Ghostbusters: The Video Game for Xbox 360 3. Grand Theft Auto IV for Xbox 360 4. Guitar Hero: Smash Hits for Xbox 360 5. Guitar Hero: Smash Hits for Wii 6. Mario Super Sluggers for Wii 7. EA Sports Active for Wii 8. Wii Play for Wii 9. Haze for PS3 10. Ghostbusters: The Video Game for Wii.

By John Herrman This Week's App News on Giz: • Facebook 3.0 for iPhone Adds Events and Photo Albums, But No Push (Yet) • iPhone OS 3.1 Features: Better Video Editing, Voice Control Over Bluetooth, And More • A Whole Lotta Quake Will Be Blowing Up Your iPhone

By Lockergnome Q: I have a Sony VAIO running Windows Vista and a Mac laptop. I have an iTunes library on both computers but want to transfer all songs from the Sony to the Mac iTunes library. How is this done? – Michael There are a few details of your question that can have an impact on my [...]

By Simon Sage Rumors Samsung Gravity 2 Passes FCC TerreStar’s Windows Mobile Satellite Phone Counting Down to Launch Four Low-End Samsung Phones Revealed Sony Ericsson T715: 3.2 megapixels and not much else Rogers Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 and C510a Now Available US Cellular launches Samsung Axle

By Dwight In fact, Microsoft has apparently removed the Windows Vista Ultimate Team Blog, which once contained both promises of goodies to come and apologies for the failure to deliver them. But was the promise of the Ultimate Extras a factor in your purchase? If so, how do you feel about the way Micr...

As the iPhone Dev Team delayed the release of jailbreak tools, the original iPhone hacker George Hotz jumped the gun and released his own iPhone 3GS jailbreaking tools today dubbed purplera1n. Purplera1n is currently only available on Windows. This ja...

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3CX)): Windows IP PBX / VOIP Phone system  * ((4PSA VoipNow|4PSA VoipNow)): Hosted PBX software for service providers and enterprises, accelerating SaaS deployment. It runs on Linux environments (RHEL, SuSE Linux, CentOS, Fedora) on x86 and Power PC architecture based servers.  * [ht...

By Michael McWhertor This is Momiji in action, looking far more detailed than her appearance in Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword for the Nintendo DS. All that smooth upper thigh rendered by the Cell processor will absolutely ensure that Ninja Gaiden Sigma II will be far sexier, less bloodier than its Xbox 360 predece...

By Michael McWhertor How about porting some of your Wii misses to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, hoping for high-definition hits? That's what Marvelous is considering, according to a financial presentation poked at by Siliconera. That means Wii up-ports and a renewed focus on Microsoft and Sony's now-gen p...

By Victor Agreda, Jr. Filed under: iPhone iPhone facing potential trademark issues in China? Yeah, who'd have thunk there would be a trademark dispute over the name iPhone in China, right? Funny thing is, Apple has a trademark on iPhone in China... just not on mobile phones. Oops.

By news@ilounge.com (Charles Starrett) A slew of new Apple patent applications have been published, revealing the company’s research into a number of iPod and iPhone enhancements. Of the iPhone- and iPod touch-specific patents, two deal with the usability of touchscreen-based devices. One patent outlines haptic display te...

By Samir Balwani Reviews: Facebook, Twitter Tags: brands, business, gucci, luxury, mercedes, social media Examples of Luxury Campaigns Gucci On Facebook Mercedes Benz Social Network More social media resources for brands: Reviews: Facebook, Twitter

By John Herrman A superquick recap: Psystar releases the OpenMac, a $400 desktop Mac clone; people debate if this is possible, technically or legally, and if Psystar is a scam; the hackintoshes turn out to be real; they ship; Apple gets upset; Psystar grandstands; Apple continues to be upset; Psystar g...

Credit: Wikipedia) Apple rejected a fully licensed emulator of the venerable Commodore 64 (C64) based on the SDK rules that specifically prohibit interpreted or executable code. Manomio's application, also called C64 ( c64iphone.com ), allowed users to play classic C64 games, run app...

By Nathaniel I was thinking about this in regards to Twitter earlier today.  I use Twitter and in general find a degree of enjoyment in said use.  Ultimately though, Twitter is not a necessity in my life, because it really has failed to offer much more than a look at brief snippets of other people’s lives as...

By Wilson Rothman neoHD employs several proprietary audio technologies. Users can take advantage of Yamaha's popular Cinema DSP programs, such as Movie, Music, Entertainment and All Channel Stereo, to optimize movie, TV and sports viewing experiences in systems with 5.1 speaker configurations. Yamah...

By Paul Miller Put down that bowl of homemade granola and take heed, citizens of Portland: you're about to get a first crack at Comcast's High-Speed 2go service, and we don't want any of your excuses about "taking a tech sabbatical" or "getting lost in the wilderness" to keep you away from sweet, sweet br...

By Brian Crecente But the Wii-exclusive first-person shooter hopes to win gamers over not with its plot and known voice talent, but its nuanced controls and solid multiplayer gaming. With the ability to tweak every control in the game, from HUD layout to motion controls, High Voltage Software seems to be g...

By Kyle Design While the 8520 Gemini is one of the newest devices to be released by RIM, the only thing truly new about it is the design. The 8520 is slated as an introductory Curve model and comes with a 3.4” screen which sits above a full QWERTY keyboard. Two convenience keys adorn either side and a simp...

By Gwyneth Llewelyn But at least I have to share with you something. Great changes are ahead for the SL client (and hopefully for the simulator software too). We’re not going to see much yet about those, because 2009 is still a “stability” year for Linden Lab, which means that most of their teams are focusing on ma...

By Jan(jzlendich@comcast.net) Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in the Negro Leagues. Through dogged detective work, award-winning author and journalist Larry Tye has tracked down the truth about this majestic and enigmatic pitcher, interviewing more than two hundred Negro Leaguers and M...

By smoothspan Hinton, Diller, & Co. would only be right if the real value of newspapers and the other media was in the content, and that said content was scarce and controlled almost entirely by them.   Do you believe that these Old School media have the monopoly on the content?  Do they even produce...

By John Herrman Sluggishness was a consistent gripe with two prior versions of the MacBook Air, especially compared to the rest of the MacBook line. The latest version has speedier processor options, but according to recent benchmarks, might have gotten slower. Huh?

By news@ilounge.com (Charles Starrett) Apple has more than doubled its stake in U.K.-based Imagination Technologies, a new regulatory statement has revealed. The Street reports that Apple is boosting its ownership share in Imagination—which designs the PowerVR graphics chips found in the iPhone and iPod touch—from 3.6% to 9.5...

Microsoft on Thursday announced pricing for its Windows 7 operating system, which is set to be released on Oct. 22. Prices are about 10 percent lower than Microsoft's launch prices for Windows Vista. "Overall, customers will be paying less and getting more with Windows 7," wrote Brandon Le...

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By Craig Erskine Are you a designer looking for a new and quicker way to prototype and create for the Web? Or are you perhaps a web developer who finds most design tools to be overly complex for what you need to get done? In either case, productivity is key, and Fireworks is Adobe's Creative Suite web producti...

 Hong Kong In addition to selecting Alvarion for its market-leading WiMAX platform, Open Range will rely on Alvarion's industry leadership and experience for the end-to-end integration of the Open Range network solution, creating a best-of-breed 4G network in ...

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While the immediate charge on a Mac notebook's battery has been available for years, Mac OS X Snow Leopard now tells owners when their batteries are nearing the end of their useful lifespans.

By The How-To Geek Linux only: If you've ever wondered what is thrashing your hard drive but can't figure out which process it is, you can use the iotop utility to help. Installing iotop on recent versions of Ubuntu or Debian is as simple as typing sudo apt-get install iotop at a terminal prompt—for other dist...

TechCrunch People can use Boku to pay for these items - which appear on social networking sites like Facebook and in online games like Puzzle Pirates and Second Life - and get charged on their mobile phone bills. The company said today it raised the $13 million ...

 MA Google's new Chrome browser also has some capabilities, including video tags, derived from the HTML 5 specification. And Microsoft has several HTML 5 features in Internet Explorer 8, such as local storage, AJAX navigation, and mutable DOM prototypes.

The Sprint Cup Series is headed to Infineon Raceway for the first road course race of the season. Live television coverage of the race will be held on TNT beginning at 4:30 pm EST on Sunday, June 21. PRN and Sirius Satellite radio will provide live ...

By Nilay Patel Well, well -- what's this? Amazon's Kindle DX just arrived a little earlier than we expected, looking every bit like the big brother to the Kindle 2 it did at launch. Seriously -- apart from new, less comfortable keyboard, externally you're just looking at a Kindle 2 with a bigger screen. Tur...

Can Nokia's pricey flagship smartphone, the N97, compete with Apple's iphone 3G, now priced at $99, or the Palm Pre, which retails for $299? ... iphone 3G S vs Palm Pre vs Nokia N97 vs Toshiba TG01 vs HTC Magic ...Tech Digest 700 for Nokia's new phone. Are they nuts?CNET News

tomtom: Finally, turn-by-turn navigation comes to the iphone. tomtom's software will arrive this summer, and will turn iphones into GPS devices. There will be spoken directions, and a new set of accessories that will suction-mount the phone to the ...