Archive for: November 12, 2007

Developer ZodTTD has released version 0.04 of gpSPhone, a homebrew GBA emulator for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. gpSPhone version 0.04 is a few minor steps up from version 0.01, which exhibited a few crucial bugs that did not permit the trial of the emulator’s primary functions. That’s been solved…

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Apple

There used to be a time when you had to take your cherished family photographs to a print shop to get holiday cards printed with the photos. This was expensive and time consuming, and there was always the danger that you'd never see your original photos again. But the Web has made it possible to do this from home. Moo, a site that specializes in do-it-yourself publishing, makes it easy for you to design your cards using your own photos, send in an order, and kick back until your holiday cards arrive in the mail.

Moo accepts media from virtually any online source: uploads from Flickr, Livejournal, Vox, Photobucker, Second Life, Facebook, and more. You can pull images from those services if you like, or upload you own digital photos directly to your Moo account. Once your media is uploaded, choose between a number of products to turn your photos into, design something that fits your specific needs or just suits your taste, and order as much as you like of it.

Moo specializes in custom greeting cards, postcards, minicards, and minicard holders. The service just started offering stickerbooks. You can use the wedding photos you uploaded to Flickr to customize your thank-you cards after the big day, or make stickers out of your favorite Facebook photos of all of your friends. If you don't want to use your own photos, you can use artwork already uploaded to Moo by designers that the site partners with. If you're even lazier and just looking for something quick, you can browse the ready-made section ...

Motionbox, a video sharing site we’ve been tracking for increasingly than a year, is officially exiting its freebie trial period on Tuesday with an optional paid, premium service, and adding a really cute way to view your videos offline.

The offline viewer: Paper flipbooks. All you have to do …

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Web

Filed under: GPS, Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable VideoAlthough Windows Mobile generally gets all the attention, a whole spectrum of PMPs and GPS units run Windows CE (also known as Windows Embedded) with great results, so the feature list for Windows CE 6.0 R2 is a little sneak peek at what we …

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Gadgets

Filed under: Displays
Samsung’s already claimed the title of first announced display to sport a DisplayPort connector, but it looks like Dell’s about to enter the game with an upcoming 30-inch panel, the 3008WFP. The update to the much-loved 3007WFP will apparently feature the same 2560 x 1600 resol…

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Gadgets

The all-knowing database gods of the FCC had already tipped us off to Panasonic’s newest US-bound Toughbooks, but they’ve just gotten the official press treatment, total with beauty shots and — most importantly — spec sheets. All models check out with WiFi, Bluetooth, 1GB of RAM, 80Gb of stora…

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Gadgets, Laptops

It’s already been available — and hacked — for a a few days now, but iPhone firmware 1.1.2 has finally reached iTunes, the natural domestic of all things iPhone. We honestly haven’t noticed much increasingly new since we started poking around — the .m4r ringtone hack seems to be back, and cus…

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Cellphones, Gadgets

Social.fm (formerly Mercora) has a new music sharing widget for social networking users that’s got a few tricks up its sleeve. For one thing, it’ll scour your profile (on the Facebook version) to figure out your musical tastes, and soon after do its best to serve up a playlist of those same artists,…

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We’ve resisted the temptation to map the next-gen format war to Greek tragedy that expanded, but whether Sony CEO Howard Stringer keeps giving speeches calling the clash a “stalemate” and “a matter of prestige,” we’re not going to be able to hold off much longer. Speaking in Manhattan, Stringer sa…

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Gadgets, HDTV, Home Entertainment

Google’s Android software gives Sun Microsystems’ Java technology a starring role–but not the version of Java the rest of the mobile phone industry has been developing since the 1990s.

Instead, Google struck off on its own in an attempt to improve performance and openness for the software …

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I just finished meeting with a few folks from the newly launched social networking site, The Point. Sadly, the site had little to do with the Harry Nilsson record of the same name that's been playing on loop in my brain since the meeting was first scheduled a couple of weeks back. To their credit, they did reference my favorite Mr. Show sketch, "Blow up the Moon," in reference to their product, so I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

The pitch behind The Point is as follows: Sometimes it takes a large group of people to make a difference. Unfortunately, the more potentially controversial an issue is, the more difficult it is to get the ball rolling with those first few volunteers. The Point is a bit like an online petition, gathering folks together to benefit the greater good, only no one involved is beholden to anything until the minimum number of users have signed on.

Say, for instance, you'd like to boycott a major clothing company, because of its unfair labor practices. Committing oneself to said cause is much more difficult, without knowing that enough folks are joining in alongside you to make a difference.

If the cause is more personal, like, say, trying to get better benefits at work, the list's creator can choose to make usernames anonymous until the goal is reached. This means that if you're one of only two or three users who actually signed on, you can't be singled out.

It's an intriguing model, to be sure. There are still plenty of bugs to work through, being that the app was just released ...

I don't know what I'm going to do for the next couple of months without new episodes of my favorite shows, due to the writers' strike. Perhaps I'll fill up my free time by playing Namco Networks' Scene It? TV Edition for mobile phones. Now available for mobile download, the game is based on the popular Scene It? DVD games from Screenlife Games (I own the Movie edition, but it's so hard; I don't know that many movies!), with more than 10 million DVD games already sold.

The mobile edition consists of more than a thousand questions, including real television clips, trivia questions, on-screen challenges, and puzzlers—with each question in text, audio or video. Players are quizzed on their knowledge of classics such as "Happy Days," "Miami Vice" and "Alf," as well as today's hits, like "Heroes," "Grey's Anatomy," and "American Idol." And what would a TV trivia game be without having you try to identify theme show songs and ad slogans?

Each question is followed by a behind-the-scenes production note with fun facts about the shows. And through Scene It? Miniseries games, players can compete against others across the country by comparing their scores in the same games.

Every time you connect to the game, fresh content from new TV shows downloads automatically. Scene It? TV Edition is available today on AT&T, Metro PCS, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless. (Sorry, Sprint customers.)