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Snow business

September 28th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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Neat fact: about a third of Boing Boing readers use Macs, and of those, 21.28 percent have already upgraded to Snow Leopard. For reference, BBG is at 35.31 percent, Offworld at 27.92 percent, Daring Fireball is at about 60 percent and Macworld reports just over 50 percent.

gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/09/28/snow-busine

ATI Radeon HD 5870 X2, HD 5850 X2 spotted

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The ATI Radeon HD 5870 x2 and a new 5850 X2 graphics card have been spotted in photos recently. The former has been leaked earlier, and should be out on the market sometime in October.

www.electronista.com

QNAP gets in on the network media player game

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Section: Video, DVD/DVR/Blu-ray A few of us adventurous types have hooked up a computer to our living room television set up. However navigating with a keyboard and mouse in a living room is less than ideal. There are other ways to access your home video library and web content on your...

www.gadgetell.com

Microsoft Courier Interesting Tablet Computer

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Microsoft seems to have shifted into another gear recently. I don’t know what that is about, but someone seems to be cracking the whip and trying to turn the ship around. The Microsoft Courier tablet computer is the latest addition.

Warranty-Voiding Teardown Reveals PSPgo’s Internals

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The PSPgo isn’t even in stores yet, and the hardware mavens at iFixit have already stripped it down to its logic board.

Apple announces 2 billion downloads, 85,000 apps from the App Store

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Filed under: Apple, iPhone, App Store, SDK, iPod touchJust after reaching 1 billion downloads five months ago, Apple announced this morning that the iPhone App Store has reached 2 billion downloads since its launch in July 2008.

i-Toc: One very cool watch

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The i-Toc is really what you would call a “mystery watch.” It has two overlapping disks that are graduated from light to dark and the point of absolute black – or whatever color you’ve bought – marks the hour and minutes hand. Pretty sly, right?

www.wristwatchreview.com

First Look: Zipcar app for iPhone hits the road

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Filed under: Cool tools, iPhone, First Look, App ReviewThe company's teaser page still says "coming soon," but eagle-eyed reader Jason spotted the free Zipcar app [iTunes link] in the store today. We've been waiting for this app for quite a while, and it's exciting to see it in action.

NVIDIA shows Ion accelerating 720p Flash video

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NVIDIA at a recent presentation showed its Ion chipset accelerating HD video on a netbook. While the hardware can already process HD already on the system, the new demo shows YouTube's HD video smoothly with Ion's full decoding enabled where the same footage stutters when it has to rely mostly on...

www.electronista.com

Panasonic intros 50″ 3D plasma, active shutter glasses

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Panasonic on Monday announced it has developed a 50-inch plasma display panel and the associated active shutter glasses that work with the company's 3D HD system introduced at CES in January.

www.electronista.com

Review: MSI X-Slim X600

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The MSI X-Slim X600 tries so hard – so very hard – to be a full-size, Windows MacBook Air. It has the looks, it has the specs, hell, it even has the same shape. But one huge flaw keeps will keep it from becoming the de facto slim Windows notebook: the trackpad. It’s that bad.

www.crunchgear.com

Viliv X70EX Will Be Available Stateside

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The Viliv X70EX navigation system will be available in the US market. Available in 16GB or 32GB SSD model, the gadget comes with a host of connectivity options including WLAN 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, GPS and WWAN 3G HSPA.

www.techfresh.net/viliv-x70ex-will-be-availab

Researcher: 350GB Approximate Needed to Store Entire Life Experience

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According to Gordon Bell, a researcher from Microsoft, the average human’s life requires approximately 350GB worth of data storage. This estimate was made during a Q&A as part of an article featuring his work, which basically involves storing every waking moment for digital posterity.

www.everyjoe.com

HTC’s Android-based, Verizon-bound Desire arrives at FCC

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HTC's Desire (also known as the Predator) was discovered today in an FCC testing entry. Most information remains secret, but the Android-based smartphone has appeared with CDMA and should support EVDO-based 3G as a result. The news supports notions that the phone is destined for Verizon....

www.electronista.com

Moleskine myDetour San Francisco closes on October 1st

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Moleskine myDetour is an international project that encourages creative thinkers to sketch, write and draw in their Moleskines, sharing their creations with other enthusiasts around the world.

New Zealand law poised to ban GPS, e-mail, etc. on in-car cellphones

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A well-meaning law, yes, but one that just misses the mark. I refer to, of course (as if you have any idea what I'm talking about), the Road User Amendment Rule 2009 in New Zealand. It would make it illegal to use a cellphone as a navigation device while inside a car.

www.crunchgear.com

DIY Game of Life Build using a PIC 12F683

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Droky sent in a great DIY Game of Life Build that uses a PIC 12F683. There are lots of details and he also provides the board layout and the PIC code so you could make your own. The capacitive sensors are a nice touch, the board also looks very well done!

hackedgadgets.com

Geology app puts mountains of info in the palm of your hand

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Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App ReviewI always loved geology and geography when I was in school and have kept up my interest over the years.

Emil Jacobs’ innovative airplane interior layouts, part 2

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Here are a couple more configurations of inventor Emil Jacob's Flex-Seat designs for airplane interior layouts. The Business-Flex 2 configuration is a tweak on the first set-up we showed you that allows for longer beds and does incorporate some overhead storage.

Save the Garment District!

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images by Damon Winter via NYTimes New York City's Garment District is in danger of becoming another manufacturing-community-turned-commercial-district, threatened by Mayor Bloomberg's plan to consolidate the garment manufacturers that operate there to just one building, potentially eliminating...

Report: Wii video distribution service comes to North America in 2010

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In Japan, Nintendo has been experimenting with offering content other than just games for quite a while now. Japanese DS owners have been able to download anime movies and digital manga for over a year.

www.crunchgear.com

iPhone no longer exclusive to O2 in the UK, heads to Orange ‘later this year’

September 28th, 2009 link to (permalink)

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Some pretty big iPhone news to share with y'all this morning: the iPhone will no longer be exclusive to O2 over in the UK, becoming available on Orange “later this year.”

www.crunchgear.com

Dallas Cowboys HD Scoreboard Is World’s Largest High-Definition Video Display

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Recently debuting to the world at large, literally, the Dallas Cowboys HD scoreboard has been officially given the title of World’s Largest High-Definition Video Display from the Guinness Book of World Records.

www.gadgetizer.com

Acer Android A1 Handset Pre-Orders

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While rumors were abounding that the Acer Android A1 phone would be here sometime in September 2009, we actually stumbled upon a pre-order page for all you France and Germany residents.

www.gadgetizer.com

No Games On Casio Cubic Puzzle Watch?!

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15 years ago

We have no idea why Casio took the time to make their new Cubic Puzzle Watch and no include some built-in gaming. All the Casio Cubic Puzzle Watch is is basically a watch that does all that you expect from a time-telling gadget, umm, tell time.

www.gadgetizer.com

Dallas Cowboy stadium gets into Guinness record book

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If you are a fan of the Dallas Cowboys, NFL football, or sweet and massive big screen TVs you may have heard about the new stadium the Cowboys are playing in this year. The stadium has a massive 11,393 square-feet of TV screen space.

www.slashgear.com

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