October 16th 2008
Say what you want about Steve Ballmer, but whenever he opens his mouth, good stuff comes out. Like that Microsoft is sorta kinda at peace with people skipping Vista for Windows 7: “If people want to…
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Tags: Good Stuff, Lot, Microsoft, Peace, People, Steve Ballmer, Vista
October 16th 2008
SouthWing and AT&T have paired up to offer a Bluetooth headset specifically catering to news junkies and evasive people. If your SouthWing SH241 earpiece is connected to an AT&T phone, it’ll pipe the…
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Tags: Amp, Catering, Earpiece, Junkies, People, Southwing Bluetooth Headset
October 15th 2008
This beautiful blue email notification light recalls how people imagined e-mail would be before it became widespread, when its instantaneous nature was so exciting we didn’t quite realize the consequences of it being free of charge to send them.
In this vision, one would receive an electronic message from a friend or colleague once in [...]
October 15th 2008
Kongregate is a site dedicated to offering Flash games for people to play. Game developers can earn money by uploading their game to the site and Kongregate are always looking for new content to keep their players happy and returning for more.
As a way of encouraging more developers to try their hand at game development, [...]
October 14th 2008
This beautiful blue email notification light recalls how people imagined e-mail would be before it became widespread, when its instantaneous nature was so exciting we didn’t quite realize the consequences of it being free of charge to send them.
In this vision, one would receive an electronic message from a friend or colleague once in [...]
October 13th 2008
Most people agree that one of the most annoying features of Windows Vista is User Account Control (UAC). Being locked out of your own machine, having the screen go dark, and being forced to agree to simple actions such as running a program or allowing Windows to install an update does tend to annoy after [...]
October 12th 2008
We have seen the big buzz over the first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1. We heard the stories about the difficulty getting a pre-shipment order in to T-Mobile. The only thing we could assume was that Google, HTC and T-Mobile were making as many G1s as they could because the orders were flying fast and [...]
October 10th 2008
Is Apple getting ready to cash in on the newest Netbook craze? Rumors have been flying all day about Apple getting ready to release a new, tiny notebook - their first sub-$1000 model ever!
This rumor comes from multiple sources, citing that Apple retail stores have received shipping information and a 12 point price list, [...]
October 10th 2008
Up until now, I had never heard of Aussie indy-rocker Josh Pyke. However, sailing the seas on a giant guitar is something that tends to get people noticed. The boat is prominently featured in the…
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Tags: Giant Guitar, Guitar Boat, Josh Pyke, People, Rock Guitar, Sailing
October 10th 2008
Ars Technica did an in-depth investigation into the numbers behind the war against piracy and found that Congress might as well be telling people counterfeit goods cost the economy eleventy billion…
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Tags: Congress, Counterfeit Goods, Depth Investigation, Economy, People, Piracy
October 9th 2008
LG’s reported slim slider phone with a whopping 8 Megapixel camera has arrived. Thursday LG unveiled the KC780, a dazzling phone and camera that is sure to turn heads.
The Camera on board is a Schneider-Kreuznach lens, which is said to enhance the clarity and sharpness of the images it captures. With it’s advanced face and [...]
October 9th 2008
The official announcement of the Blackberry Storm for the Verizon and Vodafone networks confirmed the phone’s lack of WiFi. This has some folks condemning RIM’s decision to exclude WiFi as a connectivity option on the phone with some even saying it’s a deal-breaker. This got me to thinking about WiFi on phones in general and [...]
October 9th 2008
The sound chips used in toys turn recorded voices into incomprehensible babble. It’s the result of making them as cheaply as possible, and it sometimes gets manufacturers in trouble. Why? Because people love to be upset and angry: combine paranoia and pattern recognition, and you get wonders like people believing a Fisher Price doll really [...]
October 8th 2008
The sound chips used in toys turn recorded voices into incomprehensible babble. It’s the result of making them as cheaply as possible, and it sometimes gets manufacturers in trouble. Why? Because people love to be upset and angry: combine paranoia and pattern recognition, and you get wonders like people believing a Fisher Price doll really [...]
October 7th 2008
The BlackBerry syncing situation on Macs is, to put it lightly, abysmal (from RIM anyway). But it looks they’re finally realizing people who own Blackberrys might just use a Mac too! Boy Genius…
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Tags: Boy Genius, Mac, People, Rim Blackberry
October 6th 2008
Whether people were holding out for 3G, the $199 pricepoint or just for their damn contracts to run out, in a market where carriers are pretty much forced to steal customers from each other, the…
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Tags: 3g, Carrier, Contracts, Iphone, People, Pricepoint, Verizon
October 6th 2008
It’s not something you would expect to hear from an employee of a security vendor, but David Peterson, consumer segment director at Trend Micro, is recommending people don’t buy any anti-virus products from any security company selling them.
The reason for stating such a fact is not because he doesn’t want people to have protection on [...]
October 5th 2008
The Linux edition of MSI’s Wind is returned four times as often as the Windows version. In an interview with Laptop mag, MSI’s director of U.S. sales, Andy Tung, says that buyers just don’t want to learn how to use it.
Our internal research has shown that the return of netbooks is higher than regular notebooks, [...]
October 4th 2008
Tthe Linux edition of MSI’s Wind is returned four times as often as the Windows version. In an interview with Laptop mag, MSI’s director of U.S. sales, Andy Tung, says that buyers just don’t want to learn how to use it.
Our internal research has shown that the return of netbooks is higher than regular notebooks, [...]
October 3rd 2008
The people at the Fark forums have run a Photoshop contest on HAL 9000, twisting the ominous red eye of the psychopath mainframe into all sorts of funny variations. From HAL 9000 to PAL 9000 to HEIL…
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Tags: All Sorts, Changing Faces, Fark, Forums, Funny, Hal 9000, Mainframe, Pal, People, Psychopath, Red Eye, Scream, Variations