Archive for: August 30, 2007

guarantee extension or not, the widespread nature of Xbox 360 failures pretty much guaranteed that it was only a matter of moment before a third party stepped forward with a commercial fix. The X-Clamp Fix from Next Generation seems to the be first of these solutions available, although it’s…

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Gadgets, Gaming

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We’ve seen a lot of all-electric cars come and go, but scant few from the major automotive manufacturers — aside from the EV1, of course — so Nissan’s Mixim concept caught our eye with increasingly than just its swoopy lines . The tiny hatchback weighs just 2100 pounds and clocks in at a tiny …

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Gadgets, Transporation

We’re not generally looking to Fujitsu Siemens for leadership in the LCD monitor space, but there’s a lot to like about the new SCALEOVIEW Q22W-1 22-incher. The display has the aspirations of many a young 22-inch display, but additionally manages to integrate a 30fps webcam and dual microphones …

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Displays, Gadgets

We talked to Helio nowadays and confirmed the reports that the MVNO is laying off about a hundred humans from its workforce of about 700. According to Helio, most of the employees being let go were needed during its initial launch period (remember, Helio went official early 2006); about 80 jobs …

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Cellphones, Gadgets

Not that anyone who lives in the fair city of San Francisco was really all that confident that the muni WiFi project would ever assemble it off the ground — even despite Major Gavin Newsom’s best intentions — but now it looks like bad’s gone to worse. As you may have read, yesterday EarthLink …

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Gadgets, Wireless

Not that anyone who lives in the fair city of San Francisco was really all that confident that the muni WiFi project would ever compose it off the ground — even despite Major Gavin Newsom’s best intentions — but now it looks like bad’s gone to worse. As you may have read, yesterday EarthLink l…

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Gadgets, Wireless

whether you’ve been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the sleek little Archos 105 PMP to slide your sweet music and video collection into? Well, that won’t technically get you any closer to ownership, but the folks by at ArchosLounge have put together an enticing choice of photos which should ha…

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Gadgets, Portable Audio, Portable Video

New Medium Enterprises has been trying to get its VMD platform for high def optical discs out the door since late 2004, but we haven’t heard much solid. In the grand tradition of vaporous, cut-rate consumer electronics, NME’s publishing some puffy PR with terms like “The New Definition of High D…

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Gadgets, HDTV, Home Entertainment

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Changes in Maxthon 2 0 3 4552 2007 08 30
Feature
Added Link to Online Favorites Recovery
Added Prompt dialog when switching user
Groups Menu 39 s show hide states will not be determined by whether user has Groups Data
Bug Fix
Press ESC to Stop Loading Page
Last Page can not be closed in v2 0 3 rc
Increased the priority of website white list now it 39 s above global black list
Slow Language Menu when have a lots of languages installed
Modified Table display in Setup Center
Shortcut Key Text duplicate when set Shortcut Keys
Feed Discovery mistakes
Can not unblock content under Block Page Content mode
URL Display error in Up One Level feature
Fixed display problem with default Utilities Added Regedit
Improve several dialog 39 s presentation

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I remember reading some hubbub a few weeks ago over VoIP service Yoomba's supposedly spamming new users' e-mail contact lists. It seems that some new users didn't realize what they were clicking and Yoomba sent e-mail invites out to their entire list of contacts, which can make for an embarrassing situation.

The same thing just happened today to a friend of mine who signed up for GoodReads, the social network for book lovers. My wife learned of the site from PCMag's list of Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites and joined yesterday, and by today our whole group of friends had joined up. One of them, though, got seriously burned by GoodRead's invite policy.

Here's the story, in her own words:

It was so crazy. It had me put in my gmail password as part of signing up, then it linked to all my contacts. I clicked "uncheck all" and went on to the next page, but then somehow got sent back to that contacts page again. When I tried to go the next page that time, it sent the crazy mass email. You can't even believe how many people it got sent to. Seriously, anyone I've ever written an email to: creative directors I was trying to get jobs from, random people I wrote off craigslist, aquaintances from college, even one lady whose bed and breakfast we stayed in in italy (she can't even speak English!). You know, just 200 of my closest friends. I was getting emails from all kinds of people asking who I was, etc (not to mention it got sent to pretty high-up ...