Monthly Archives: January 2011

Japanese retailer JTT has already proven itself to be a fan of tiny cameras, but it’s truly outdone itself with its latest offering: the Chobi Cam One. At last you’ll be able to carry a DSLR in your pocket, with … Continue reading →

It’s easy to forget just how different the customs of other nations are. While Americans carry dogs around in handbags, Koreans eat them. In England, we gurn; and in Spain, they throw tomatoes. We’re a world of completely disparate customs … Continue reading →

This week’s series of tips will be focusing on handy little features for Microsoft Excel and Word. To see the previous tips, check our Tips index. While earlier this week I’ve shown you how to keep the Ribbon from getting … Continue reading →

It’s Saturday. You should be doing nothing. But if you’re reading this, you’re probably engaged win a marathon session with your RSS reader. That’s why you need to rest, if only for two minutes. Just click this link. More » Source: … Continue reading →

Mobile body area network (MBAN) technology has the potential to be a boon to the healthcare system of the future by enabling remote patient monitoring through disposable wireless devices — meaning fewer doctor visits for everyone and great news for … Continue reading →

As promised, it seems that T-Mobile’s version of the Vibrant is getting Froyo today after a brutally long wait. The good news is that you won’t need to wait for a staggered rollout, apparently — but the bad news is … Continue reading →

Mobile body area network (MBAN) technology has the potential to be a boon to the healthcare system of the future by enabling remote patient monitoring through disposable wireless devices — meaning less doctor visits for everyone and great news for … Continue reading →

Porn lord Hugh Hefner has just announced, via Twitter, that the recently-digitized entire Playboy catalog will be coming to the iPad. Interestingly, though, he also says that new Playboy content will be coming to the iPad, which suggests it will … Continue reading →

Spikes Tend to Kill You has got to be one of the nicest games I’ve played in a while. It’s an old-school platformer, and it is very well made. You’re just a cube, and the graphics are retro. But the … Continue reading →

Qt, come the end of 2011, is to become a standard component of Ubuntu 11.10. Ubuntu currently, and in the upcoming 11.04 Natty Narwhal distribution, uses Gtk+, a competing toolkit maintained by the GNOME Foundation. When Canonical announced Ubuntu’s shift … Continue reading →

Shazam and Spotify have announced a new partnership, and the result is a new feature in the Shazam premium apps for iOS and Android. Once Shazam has identified that song for you, you’ll be able to tap to listen to … Continue reading →

While paying for goods from your phone my be common elsewhere in the world, it’s been slow to catch on here in North America. Starbucks, however, may well have gotten the ball rolling, with the release of a pair of … Continue reading →

In a small apartment Crystal, Minnesota, a history teacher spent his nights dreaming up ways to bring his subjects to life. It wasn’t until his two math teacher roommates helped turn his ideas into code that Oregon Trail was born. … Continue reading →

We’re not sure how we missed this concept tablet at CES a few weeks ago — oh right, there were over 40 something tablets hanging around! — but MSI’s projector-equipped Windows 7 slate sure is an interesting one. Yep, in … Continue reading →

Like John Brownlee at Cult of Mac, the Shuffle just doesn’t fit with how I like to listen to music. Give me Tusk—in its entirety! So then, Matthew Irvine Brown‘s album written just for the Shuffle intrigues. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/PUimUyPlUrE/an-album-written-for-the-most-annoying-of-the-ipods-the-shuffle … Continue reading →

Dear Lifehacker,Lately it seems like my high speed connection is bogged down, and I’m getting a creepy feeling that someone’s stealing my bandwidth on my Wi-Fi network. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/bh0e2ZQxp8U/how-can-i-find-out-if-someones-using-my-wireless-network Nii Holdings Nikon Nintendo Nokia

This week’s series of tips will be focusing on handy little features for Microsoft Excel and Word. To see the previous tips, check our Tips index. The new Ribbon interface on Office 2007 and 2010 is quite fancy, and once … Continue reading →

The rules for Hanger are quite simple: You’ve got to reach the end of each level merely by swinging back and forth and grappling with your rope. You use LEFT and RIGHT to swing back and forth; once you gather … Continue reading →

Eric—it’s been great. We’re going to miss you as CEO of one of history’s most important and influential companies. But we’ll also miss you for the strange, creepy, absurd, and downright dumb things you’ve uttered. Below, our favorites: More » Source: … Continue reading →

Deloitte, the multi-faceted professional services company that’s perhaps best known for its annual Football Money League study, says that 2011 will be the year that computers stop being computers. The agency says that more than 50 percent of all ?computing … Continue reading →

Over the years, I have tried/reviewed many bluetooth headsets designed to free you from the hassle of having to hold your cellphone to your ear. Since they first came on the market, bluetooth headset technology, capabilities, and reliability have come … Continue reading →

Nokia has to do something big if it wants to crack the US smartphone market. We can agree on that, right? And believe us, Nokia wants this — nothing will make the mighty Finns (and the company’s global investors) prouder … Continue reading →

Everybody knows how the dinosaurs became extinct – you know, the big meteor and everything. But did it really have to happen? How would things have gone had you been there, dressed up as a huge dinosaur with a jet-pack … Continue reading →

SkyDrive is a fantastic cloud storage option that many people still don’t know about. With 25GB of free space for your synced files, Hotmail attachments, and Office Web docs, it’s worth signing up for an account (if you don’t already … Continue reading →

Like the Sony A560 DSLR but need a few million more pixels at your disposal? That’s basically what you get with the A580, a successor to the A550 and doing basically everything the A560 does — but with a 16.2 … Continue reading →

The most popular home screen and ‘app drawer’ replacement app for Android is LauncherPro — but I’m not sure why. I mean, sure, it gives you a scrolling dock, and up to seven home screens — big whoop. Maybe I’m … Continue reading →

In sad and lamentable news, it turns out that mobile users are three times more likely than desktop users to give up their personal details to phishing websites. Even worse, despite only making up 26% of the US smartphone market, … Continue reading →

There are plenty of free tools out there that allow you to mount disc images as virtual drives, but Passmark’s OSFMount offers a bit of additional functionality. Apart from being able to mount everything from ISOs to raw DD (a … Continue reading →

We’ve seen IBM and ARM team up before, but this week both companies announced a new joint initiative to develop chips measuring 14nm. That’s significantly smaller than the ridiculously tiny 20nm SoCs ARM hopes to create in partnership with TSMC, … Continue reading →

After Google’s announcement last week that it would be dropping H.264 HTML5 video support, the tech world exploded. As the dust settled — as the fragments of brainless bile drifted slowly back to the tech blog morass — it became … Continue reading →

Remember those awesome four and five finger multi-touch gestures we saw when we first used the iOS 4.3 Beta on our iPads? Turns out that they won’t be available when iOS 4.3 goes public: More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Rcdlr4l3pbc/the-new-ipad-multi+touch-gestures-wont-be-enabled-when-ios-43-goes-public Syntax-Brillian Synopsys Synnex … Continue reading →

Apps for consuming web content on the iPad have largely shaken down into two categories: dedicated apps for individual sites and RSS readers populated with a users’ selected feeds. DesignScene is something else entirely: a prepackaged bundle of all-things design. … Continue reading →

If 3D and tablets are the two unstoppable forces of modern consumer electronics, doesn’t it make sense to meld them into one, fearsome, trendsetting device? LG’s T-Mobile-bound G-Slate might be doing exactly that, we’re hearing, as a pair of different … Continue reading →

Public benches are great. You get to sit back, take it easy, and survey sights and sounds that might escape you otherwise. Also great: spiral staircases, privacy, and watching things from above. These elevated benches give you ALL THAT. More » … Continue reading →

The popular Firefox download manager DownThemAll has finally hit version 2.0, and the new release brings a number of important changes. Not least among them is out-of-the-box support for Firefox 4, which is currently slated for a February 2011 release. … Continue reading →

Designer Gas Cans Are Haute Couture, Haute Octane LittleBigPlanet 2 Review Round-Up: Pretty Much Universal Acclaim Ekocase: Ecologically Sound iPad Cases For All (Plus A Contest) The Steve Jobs Action Figure, Now With More Ninja Action! Concept USB Drive/Battery Is … Continue reading →

Here’s an interesting little note from Apple’s record-breaking Q1 2011 financial sales call: according to CFO Peter Oppenheimer and acting CEO / COO Tim Cook, the company’s made a two-year, $3.9 billion deal with three suppliers to secure a “very … Continue reading →

It looks like your luxury extra-national seafaring utopia just got one step closer to reality. The Ocean Empire Life Support Vessel is a 144-foot Catamaran Superyacht manufactured by Sauter Carbon Offset Design, and it features not only “all of the … Continue reading →

Android Central forums member ItsAllAndroid brings up some really good questions — which root method (temporary or permanent) is easier, and what are the advantages of permanently rooting your phone?  For some of us, the obvious answer is to perma-root … Continue reading →

It’s nothing that runs counter to the ongoing whispers we’ve heard so far, but according to Bloomberg and its pair of sources, Sony Computer Entertainment’s Tokyo event on January 27th is indeed the platform from which it’ll unveil the next … Continue reading →

Among the changes slated for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal was the replacement of another long-time default application. With recent releases, we’ve seen Empathy take over instant messaging duties and Shotwell inserted to handle photo management. It’s also been discussed for … Continue reading →

Good things, and better prices, come to those who wait. Buy your furniture now, laptops in April, appliances in September, and make other better-timed purchases with our buying guide, and you’ll save a few bucks with off-season, inventory-moving prices. More » … Continue reading →

Well, here’s something of a surprise — Microsoft has just brought its OneNote app to the iPhone, and it’s made it available as a free download “for a limited time” to boot. As with the Windows Phone 7 app (previously … Continue reading →

While the Mac is rarely targeted for security exploits and viruses, it’s no stranger to software piracy—likely because Mac apps are pretty easy to crack. Here’s how it can be done and how to prevent it. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/VzCV0kjpAfo/how-to-crack-just-about-any-mac-app-and-how-to-prevent-it Eastman … Continue reading →

Apple’s iPad is a hit. The company sold 7.3 million iPads in the December quarter of 2010, a 75 percent increase from the previous quarter. But judging from all the Android tablets announced at CES, it is about to face … Continue reading →

Good things, and better prices, come to those who wait. Buy your furniture now, laptops in April, appliances in September, and make other better-timed purchases with our buying guide, and you’ll save a few bucks with off-season, inventory-moving prices. More » … Continue reading →

Users of the iShred Live iOS app (no relation to this thing) now have a pedal board to do the job of, well, a pedal board. Up until recently, the app allowed players to connect their electric guitars to an … Continue reading →