Archive for February, 2009
Student’s Kindle coming soon
By John Biggs Amazon’s Kindle 2. That much we know. However, rumors that they are working on a larger-sized touchscreen makes us think they are now ramping up production of the “student’s Kindle” we talked about last year. This Kindle will have a larger screen and more research-oriented features – Wi-Fi, anyone? While one line [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Google adds user generated photos to Street View
By Brad Linder Google Street View lets you see photographs of city streets and their surroundings taken by Google cameras attached to vehicles that have been driving along major city streets in the US and other countries including Japan, Australia, and Spain. And now you can also find photos taken by amateur photographers as well. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )MicroPlaza Is a Link-Catcher For Twitter (100 Invites)
By Erick Schonfeld It used to be that if a link was worth sharing, people would bookmark it for all to see on del.icio.us. Now, they just Twitter it (with a shortened URL). Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to separate out all the Tweets with links in them, and sort them by time [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Facebook Pages Redesign Coming
By Jason Kincaid Facebook launched Facebook Ads in November 2007 to give brands and businesses a way to create a presence on Facebook and interact with users. Starting next week, says a source with knowledge of the new product, those pages will be substantially redesigned. Today there are countless pages (example) that highlight brands. These [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )JPG Magazine Has Been Acquired, Lives Anew
By Jason Kincaid JPG Magazine, the innovative photography magazine that was composed of user-submitted photographs and shut down last month, has been revived. The magazine’s assets have been acquired by a group of investors who will also continue to employ some of the magazine’s staff, we’ve confirmed with a source with knowledge of the deal. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )AIM for iPhone grows up, gets paid version
By Jeremy Kessel While there may still be a lot of confusion surrounding the future of AOL, that didn’t stop the folks in Northern Virginia from recently overhauling their popular AIM instant messaging app for iPhone (and iPod touch). Available in two tasty flavors, free (”AIM Free”) and paid (”AIM Paid”), AIM 2.0 for iPhone [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Wi-Fi BeBook to launch in March
By Amy-Mae Elliott Dutch company Endless Ideas has revealed it is to launch its next-gen BeBook reader at the CeBIT tech show in early March. According to Endless Ideas, the new BeBook model will include “wireless connectivity, a new touch screen, and ePub DRM standard will also be implemented within the next few weeks”. With [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Amazon agrees to cripple Kindle 2
By Gordon Finlayson In a victory for neo-Luddites the Author’s Guild, Amazon has announced its intention to disable the speech to text function its new Kindle 2 ebook reader. Amazon announced its intention to selectively disable the device following criticism from the Author’s Guild President Roy Blount Jnr. that the Kindle 2 would undermine the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Music recommendation site Mufin releases desktop player
By Lee Mathews Back in October of 2008, our own Christina Warren snagged some beta invites for Mufin‘s web-based service for our readers. Now their crew has now released a public beta version of their desktop player for Windows. Once you install the player and show it the way to your stash of audio files, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How would you change Apple’s Rev. B MacBook Air?
By Darren Murph Generally speaking, we wouldn’t bother asking you how you’d change the second iteration of something, but Apple’s MacBook Air is a different beast. Given how Apple maintained a lot of those severe limitations the second go round (see: single USB port, non-removable battery, etc.), we’re extra curious to see how you want [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )MSI readying updated Wind U123 for April release
By Donald Melanson MSI’s Wind U120 has only been available for a little over a month, and already received a minor update of its own, but it looks like the company is already planning on adding a few more digits to the Wind line, with its upgraded Wind U123 apparently on track for a release [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Nokia E55 blushes red for the camera
By Ross Miller We doubt you need a translation to figure out what’s going on here, but to summarize: the crew at mobile@mail.ru managed to get what they’re saying is an exclusive hands-on with a red Nokia E55. It’s the same compact QWERTY phone you’ve grown to love vicariously through photos and video, only now [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Amazon sorta capitulates, will let publishers decide text-to-speech availability
By Ross Miller While affirming its stance on the legality of Kindle 2‘s text-to-speech feature — and in fact stating it’ll actually get more customers interested in buying audiobooks — Amazon‘s announced that it’ll now let the books’ rights holders decide on a title-by-title basis whether or not they’ll let TTS be enabled. No word [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Fugly Friday: RogerART
By Victor Agreda, Jr I would be remiss in continuing this series without a stop at RogerART.com — a throwback on the web in so many ways. Run by Earth Citizen Roger Drowne, the site is all text and GIF’s, they way HTML 1.0 intended. Roger’s message is pure, I’ll give him that. He revels [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Psion responds to “netbook” challengers, says it does so still sell the NetBook Pro
By Donald Melanson Well, it looks like the dust up between Psion and those using the “netbook” name to describe, um, netbooks, isn’t showing any signs of going away anytime soon, with Psion now responding to Intel and Dell’s latest charges by saying that, contrary to their claims, it does indeed still sell its NetBook [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )NTT DoCoMo’s overheating BlackBerry Bold not caused by battery, says RIM
By Ross Miller While RIM and Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo still don’t know why their BlackBerry Bold is feeling a little toasty around the keyboard, the duo has ruled out a likely culprit, the battery, as its unwelcome heat source. Word on the street is an estimated 30 people have issued complaints about the mobile [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Hey Wizard is low-color, magical platformer fun – Time Waster
By Lee Mathews Hey Wizard is fun little Flash Time Waster, though getting a decent screencap was a bit tricky. You’ll need both hands to work the controls, which led to several untimely deaths as I tried to snag an action shot. As you already guessed, you control the short bearded fellow with the wand [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Facebook Now Growing By Over 700,000 Users A Day
By Nick O’Neill Facebook’s growth does not appear to be slowing by any means. Appearing for an interview on the Today show in a bold red tie earlier today, Mark Zuckerberg told Matt Lauer that the site is growing by more than 5 million users a week globally and more than one million a week [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Speed read RSS news feeds with Spreed:News
By Lee Mathews Looking to catch up on top news items in a flash? Head over to Spreed:News, and have articles fed to you in easy-to-digest little chunks. For now, you’re limited to reading the feeds Spreed provides. Fear not, most of your favorites are likely included in the list: BoingBoing, CNet, GigaOm, Slashdot, TUAW, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )HP Upline file backup service goes Offline
By Brad Linder Less than a year after launching an online backup solution called Upline, HP is discontinuing the service. HP hasn’t given any official reason for killing Upline, but in an email sent to customers, the company says that it stop accepting uploads yesterday and will cease operations altogether on March 31st, meaning if [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )5 ways to enhance your Wikipedia experience
By Jay Hathaway Wikipedia is one of the most-visited sites on the Internet, for very good reason. If you’re like me, and Wikipedia is your starting point for research on any topic — and your starting and stopping point for quick facts — then you might be interested in a handful of ways to make [...]
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