Filed under: OS, Software, How-tos, Leopard, Snow LeopardI always thought it would be cool if you could customize the background image of the Mac's login screen. That's the image you see behind the login panel when you turn your Mac on (if you have disabled Automatic Login in System Preferences).
Now, we’ll prefix this with a huge disclaimer that it’s 99.9-percent fake, and we’re only pointing to it because – as concept videos go – it’s a pretty slick one.
Most agree that the original TomTom iPhone app is a tad overpriced at $99 for just the app. That doesn't include the $119 windshield mount. Esspecially now that Google has made its mark on the GPS market with the free Google Maps Navigation app. And so that brings us to the latest TomTom GPS app.
Fusion Garage chief Chandrasekhar Rathakrishnan in an interview published today has provided details of how the Joojoo tablet's performance as well as its future plans.
Despite the fact that you'd have to be a stupid idiot to still text and drive, plenty of teens in the U.S. still text and drive. “By the time [the police] pull you over, the chances are you are going to be done with your text anyway so they can't exactly prove that you were texting.”
T-Mobile is considering the possibility of dropping part of its special HotSpot@Home calling service, a source said today. The carrier is supposedly disappointed with its fixed service, which uses two SIM cards to create a local network for phones, and may drop the feature "soon."
Short Version: Looking for a solidly-built gun accessory for the Wii? This is it right here. Looking for a gun controller accessory that grants you easy access to the D-pad, 1, 2, +, –, and Home buttons on the Wii remote? Keep on moving.
Filed under: Tips and tricks, TUAW Tips, iPhoneAs a seasoned world traveler and Apple geek, I'm always fascinated to see how others in the Mac and iPhone community make lemonade from lemons when they encounter difficulties on the road.
Sprint today in a brief Twitter update confirmed that its versions of the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment will both be updated to Android 2.0. While the company doesn't have an exact release window, it plans for both to be upgraded within the first half of 2010. Both currently run Android 1.5....
There’s always a moment of letdown when you get that brand new 1TB drive formatted and find it’s only got 930GB available. What the hell, right? But that’s just the way it is.
So on Wednesday when I left work, I locked up my laptop so I didn’t have to try to carry it through blizzard-type winds and blowing snow on crutches. Which worked out beautifully right up until I got home to find that my desktop decided it no longer felt like recognizing its OS.
Verizon’s chief executive on Friday dispelled rumors about the telecommunications company’s interest in buying satellite TV provider DirecTV. Ivan Seidenberg believes his company has no need for DirecTV as Verizon already offers its own HDTV service, FiOS TV….
Dell may be having trouble fulfilling orders due to inherent problems with its delivery system, according to multiple anecdotal reports. Those who’ve ordered say their orders have been delayed as many as four times and in many cases have been pushed back to January.
It’s the first really cold weekend in many parts of the country, and we’ve got the perfect gift for the many snowbound weekends to come. The Northern Brewer Starter Kit comes with everything you need to start brewing your own beer at home, keeping you busy during those frigid indoor months.
A bunch of cloned phones exist around the world, usually being created in the same country. The next on the list is called MyTough 3G that is built to look just like a MyTouch 3G.
The active noise cancelling earphone market is dominated by a few big name manufacturers, and that generally keeps prices for effective systems relatively high.
Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone, App Store Want to check the charge on your electric car? There's going to be an app for that -- our friends at Engadget report that the upcoming Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid electric car will have an iPhone app that goes along with it.
Near and dear to Core77's heart, the Graduate Industrial Design Thesis Presentations will be taking place on the Brooklyn campus this afternoon. The projects look great, so if you're in the neighborhood (and who isn't in that neighborhood these days?!)
Section: Communications, Cellular Providers In an effort to simplify the process of purchasing Android apps, T-Mobile is adding an option to post Android Market purchases to a customer’s monthly bill.
Tom Cruise used gesture sensing in the movie Minority Report. Now, you too might be able to do so very shortly if the researchers at MITs Media Lab manage to commercialize their latest gesture sensing display technology.
Nokia seem determined to fill in every possible gap in their line-up with different variants of otherwise identical handsets, and latest to the fore is the Nokia 5235 Comes With Music.
Filed under: Rumors, Apple Over the past few days, several patent applications by Apple have been unearthed -- here's a recap.Universal Dock Apple flied a patent for a more "universal" dock for iPods and iPhones.
HP readying a new HP Mini netbook series called the Mini 210. No official specs unveiled so far but HP Mini 210 is expected to be released this January at CES. Arrive with 10-inch display like the HP Mini 110, Mini 210 packs a better processor which is an Intel Atom N450 dual-core processor.