SlashGear Week in Review – Week 24 2009
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After Palm’s big moment last weekend, Apple once again seized the headlines with their WWDC 2009 keynote on Monday morning.
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Talkcast tonight: 10pm post-WWDC wrap-up
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Filed under: TUAW Business, Podcasts Last week the TUAW Talkcast was jam-packed with pre-WWDC excitement! Michael Rose, newcomer Michael Jones, and myself talked rumors, expectations and took calls from the beautiful people in web-radioland.
Mac laptop glossy screens hazardous to your posture?
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Filed under: Hardware, Bad Apple, Macbook Pro, MacBook, MacBook AirWell, we're still not sure our iPhones are safe to use, and now comes word from Australia that our brand spanking new glossy screens might be hurting us as well, through bad ergonomics.An HR advisory from Queensland University of...
Recuperating on Sunday
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It’s been an awfully long time since I babysat, particularly for a child under the age of two. I think I’m more tired than if I’d worked all day!
CrunchDeals: 37-inch 720p LCD TV for $398
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Here’s a big TV for under $400. Best Buy is selling its house brand 37-inch Insignia 720p LCD TV for just $398, down from $600.
Microsoft Zune HD – coming this Fall
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While style is usually an Apple trait and is typically last on Microsoft’s mind, they seem to have got it right on this one - the Zune HD. This is the latest in the line of Zune players and is beautifully angular to fit in with the modern world.
Arduino Oscilloscope
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This Arduino Oscilloscope project is a great idea. For people that are getting into electronics having a meter is good but having a scope is great.
Samsung has a new Blu-ray player: What’s the point?
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Section: Video, DVD/DVR/Blu-ray, Gadgets / Other Samsung’s latest offering into the Blu-ray market is the SD-P4600. Very glossy and streamlined in appearance, but when are they going to give up attempts into the Blu-ray foray? I just don’t see Blu-ray making it.
Retromags found Game Informer issue one!
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Some good news for your Sunday, your day of rest. Retromags, a Web site that scans and archives old (up till 1999) video game magazines, has got its hands on the very first issue of Game Informer. Let us celebrate!
The latest 21st century profession: the digital smuggler (currently very active in Iran)
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The Guardian News blog reports on how Iranian people are turning into digital smugglers to spread their message, despite depleted phone and internet services. "In days gone by, crushing a revolution was a lot easier.
Review: HUGlight adjustable, wearable 4-LED flashlight
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Short Version: The HUGlight is a flexible foam rubber flashlight-type apparatus that can be worn around your neck. It can also be bended and positioned to illuminate hard-to-reach areas, making it more useful than just a simple wearable flashlight.
Pre devs can get root, play NES
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Section: Communications, Cellphones, Smartphones We’re just over a week removed from the launch of the Palm Pre and it looks to be shaping up as a fairly hacker friendly device. Within a few days users had figured out that the famous Konami code...
Palm Pre gets a NES emulator!
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Got a Pre? Like Nintendo? If you fit in the overlapping intersection of that particular Venn diagram, then have I got some good news for you. Some enterprising individuals over at the Pre Dev Wiki have gotten a NES emulator up and running on the Palm Pre.
Samsung E1107 Crest Solar Mobile Phone
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Just a few days ago Samsung officially joined the “Go Green” team and launched their first and Cheap Solar Powered Mobile Phone.
Gadgets you might have missed
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Zepto Znote G15a Notebook launched in the UK Archos 10s Ultra Slim Netbook Lenovo ThinkPad SL400 on Special Archos 9 PC Tablet with DVB-T TV iRiver NV Classic PMP Bose SoundDock Portable Digital Music System iRiver P35 32GB Version gets Shipped Victorinox Swiss...
Archos 3 Vision- Looks like a promising Touch PMP
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Archos Just launched it’s Archos 10s Internet Tablet Device and is now flash a Touch Portable Media Player in front our eyes.
CrunchDeals: Asus Eee 900 for $170
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Newegg.com is selling the Asus Eee PC 900 for just $170 with free shipping. That’s for a new unit, too, not a refurbished one. The specs won’t blow your toupee off your head but, hey, the price is right.
Sony VAIO P gets updated with built-in WiMax
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Remember some while back I told you guys about the new version of the Sony Vaio P ultra portable computer, well Sony is giving the Vaio P an upgrade.
Archos 13 Ultra-Mobile PC
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Other than the Archos 10s and the Archos 9 the company also announced the Archos 13 which is a 13-inch Notebook that sports a 13.3-inch backlit LED screen with a 1280×800 pixel resolution. The new Archos Notebook is powered by an Intel Ultra Low Voltage Processor with a 120GB Sata Hard Drive.
WWDC Live: Jon Gotow of St. Clair Software
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Filed under: Software, WWDC, DeveloperI was excited to speak with Jon Gotow of St. Clair Software, creator of Default Folder X, which is an invaluable tool to me.
Apple 3G S Pre-orders already sold out
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We have got some sad news for those iPhone lovers who were planning on pre-ordering the Apple 3G S to avoid the store line-up the night before the launch.
AT&T warns that iPhone pre-orders may not do you much good
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Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Smartphones Pretty much like has happened the past couple of years, it looks like those folks pre-ordering the iPhone 3G S probably aren’t going to get their phone on the launch date. Due to major sell-outs, anyone pre-ordering...
Amazon Kindle DX Sold Out
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It didn’t happen as fast as the first Kindle did but the Kindle DX is now officially sold out. Just two days after it became available to eager consumers, critics are saying that this fast sell out of the big screen e-reader was done intentionally by Amazon to create a buzz around the...
Palm Pre Easily Jailbroken?
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The claim that it’s easy to open up the Palm Pre to third-party software should attract some interest—or raise complaints about its lack of security.
GUNNAR Optiks review
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I have received a pair of GUNNAR Optiks for reviewing them. I’ve tested the glasses for 3 days and in his post I will share my experience with you. The pair I got is GUNNAR Optiks ROCKET – see the image below.
Bang & Olufsen 103-inch Plasma HDTV
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Bang & Olufsen have launched their new very top-of-the-line plasma HDTV coming in with a screen size of 103-inches, making it one of the biggest on the market today and with Bang & Olufsen you know you’re getting quality… and that you’re going to have to pay through the...
