October 15th 2008
Yesterday, the Mozilla Blog announced availability of the first Firefox 3.1 beta version and while some shy away from beta builds, I seem to be drawn to them like a magnet. I just installed the browser after reading the release notes first and I’m already liking one of the few new features. Control-Tab quickly moves [...]
October 15th 2008
Well, the age of people like me is slowly coming to an end.
Bandai corp unveiled the at the Japan Robo Fair.
NetTansorWeb is made for home use and is controlled remotely via WiFi and comes equipped with cameras and motion sensors to avoid obstacles.
It can be used for surveillance and it can even send the video [...]
October 15th 2008
• Engadget – Standard blog post, reverse chronological, with pictures. Does not autorefresh.
• Gizmodo – Auto-refreshing web page with pictures.
• MacRumors – A Twitter feed.
• Ars Technica – A regular blog post.
• Macworld – A regular blog post. Macworld’s post-mortems tends to be very well written.
• Technologizer – A regular blog post. I’ve never followed [...]
October 14th 2008
• Engadget – Standard blog post, reverse chronological, with pictures. Does not autorefresh.
• Gizmodo – Auto-refreshing web page with pictures.
• MacRumors – A Twitter feed.
• Ars Technica – A regular blog post.
• Macworld – A regular blog post. Macworld’s post-mortems tends to be very well written.
• Technologizer – A regular blog post. I’ve never followed [...]
October 13th 2008
Here we were, thinking Windows 7 was simply a codename (and a fairly boring one at that—where’s Longhorn? Whistler?). Now, on the official Windows Vista Blog, MS has came out and declared “Windows 7″…
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Tags: Blog, Code Name, Longhorn, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Official Name, Quot, Whistler, Windows Vista
October 13th 2008
The official Playstation blog has dropped details of the upcoming PS3 2.50 firmware update, which finally includes an auto shut-down power saving feature for connected wireless controllers and the…
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Tags: Auto Shut Down, Blog, Firmware Sony, Firmware Update, Playstation, Ps3, Psp, Psp 5, Sony, Sony Playstation, Wireless Controllers
October 12th 2008
Chinese blog MacX is showing some very legit looking pics of what they allege is the MacBook Pro casing today. We will have to wait for the MacBook 2008 event this week to see if it is real or not,…
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Tags: Aluminum Case, Blog, Case Photos, Legit, Macbook, Macx
October 9th 2008
Taiwanese blog Apple.Pro has put out a couple more pictures that could be related to the upcoming Macbook Pro. We’re not sure if they’re real or not, but there are enough photos out there to at least…
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Tags: Anonymous, Apple Laptop, Blog, Photos, Taiwanese
October 8th 2008
The video above gives an example of the new AdSense for Games service Google is starting to offer in their typical beta form.
The advertising platform is very limited in its usage right now, but shows that Google are expanding their advertising to incorporate the growing popularity of playing games in a browser. The AdSense blog [...]
October 8th 2008
Remember Nicholas Ciarelli, the precocious tween who started a successful Apple rumor blog, only to have it shuttered by the company’s legal team? He’s now posting on the DailyBeast, and he’s got…
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Tags: Apple Rumor, Blog, Legal Team
October 4th 2008
After creating the “Puti Puti”, a keychain that recreated the first-world joy of popping bubble wrap, Bandai has followed up with the “Peri Peri”, a keychain that gives you the ecstatic frisson of tearing open a shipping envelope sans any real pleasure from finding something inside. It’ll cost the Japanese, to whom it will be [...]
October 3rd 2008
After creating the “Puti Puti”, a keychain that recreated the first-world joy of popping bubble wrap, Bandai has followed up with the “Peri Peri”, a keychain that gives you the ecstatic frisson of tearing open a shipping envelope sans any real pleasure from finding something inside. It’ll cost the Japanese, to whom it will be [...]
October 3rd 2008
German netbook blog EeePCNews has photographs of a prototype 9-cell battery that they claim will be released in November, juicing an MSI Wind or Medion Akoya for up to 10 hours.
It’s chunky, no doubt, but this pushes the MSI Wind back into the game for the prize of being my long delayed first netbook [...]
October 2nd 2008
German netbook blog EeePCNews has photographs of a prototype 9-cell battery that they claim will be released in November, juicing an MSI Wind or Medion Akoya for up to 10 hours.
It’s chunky, no doubt, but this pushes the MSI Wind back into the game for the prize of being my long delayed first netbook [...]
September 24th 2008
Sure, I might whine when behind on RSS feeds, but somehow that never seems to stop me from reading everything I can on personal and mobile technology. Another outlet for my obsession hit my radar today, and it’s appropriately named Obsessable. The personal tech site offers traditional news and blog content on everything from cell [...]
September 23rd 2008
Being sucked at the speed of light in a head-on, face-first collision with every speck of matter on Earth will have to wait: a large helium leak on Friday has shut down the LHC (which I guess we’re now supposed to call “Halo”) for two months… two months not required to fix the leak, but [...]
September 21st 2008
Being sucked at the speed of light in a head-on, face-first collision with every speck of matter on Earth will have to wait: a large helium leak on Friday has shut down the LHC (which I guess we’re now supposed to call “Halo”) for two months… two months not required to fix the leak, but [...]
September 17th 2008
The Mobile Gadgeteer has long been on my daily must-read list of mobile blogs and not just because Matt Miller is our MobileTechRoundup co-host. We’ve long given Matt a hard time about going through so many phones but it looks like his phone fickleness is paying off. Matt blogs today that the Mobile Gadgeteer is [...]
September 17th 2008
I’m a daily reader of Matt Miller’s Mobile Gadgeteer blog and today he announced that due to popular demand, he’s branching it off into two different blogs. The Mobile Gadgeteer blog will now cover everything but phones and his new Smartphones and Cell Phones blog will focus on phones, software and accessories.
If you’re not [...]
September 17th 2008
My new favorite blog du jour: the Concept Ships blog, stuffed up the port thrusters with fantastic science-fiction ship designs of our coming FTL future. I couldn’t pick just one to share, so here is an emerald space jalopy by GraphMac, an interdimensional jumper by Gonzalo Golpe and some deconstructing spiderbots by Dan Blomberg. Add [...]