Archive for: January 19, 2008

January 19, 2008

iPod touch users to pay US 20 for software upgrade

Filed under: Review - 19 Jan 2008

Both Apple TV and the iPhone received free goodies recently, with the Apple TV getting new DVD film rental software, and the iPhone getting its latest firmware update. But how about the iPod Touch? It’s getting its share of new goodies, alright, but it won’t be free.The iPod Touch will be getting ne…

Researchers craft new analyzing device to detect early Alzheimer’s

Filed under: Review - 19 Jan 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
We’ve heard that the “gold standard” pen and paper tryout seems to work fairly well at detecting the earliest stage of Alzheimer’s disease, but gurus from Georgia Tech and Emory University have teamed up to develop a much quicker method for accomplishing the same. The ten-…

Wii Fit shipping Stateside Q2 2008, says Nintendo

Filed under: Review - 19 Jan 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
Alright America, you’ve got yourself some prep work to do: Nintendo’s about to foist that whole nefarious “exercise” paradigm on you, in the style of the Wii Fit, and we know how you fell for that whole “Wii” fad a year or so back. The thing has a 300 pound weight li…

Exploding ThinkPad attacks man, burns through bed

Filed under: Review - 19 Jan 2008

Filed under: Laptops
We’re fairly assured that BoringTrash fellow’s statement that his IBM ThinkPad R50e “tried to kill” him is a bit unfair — it appears to us that the R50e was merely attempting to get him out of the way so that it could totally devour his bed. The best part of it all is that the …

Mac OS X and the lost Probes

Filed under: Review - 19 Jan 2008

One of the three authors of Sun’s DTrace, Adam Leventhal, has discvored something very interesting using DTrace on Mac OS X. “As has been thoroughly recorded, Apple has included DTrace in Mac OS X. I’ve been using it as often as I have the opportunity, and it’s a delight to be able to use the fruits…

The Secret Military History of Silicon Valley

Filed under: Review - 19 Jan 2008

“When you think about Silicon Valley you think about contemporary tech giants like Google, Yahoo and others, but did you know that that high-tech center of the Universe owes its existence to secret government cooperation dating back four decades? It certainly seems outlandish, but in a seminar given…

DLO’s iBoom JukeBox slightingly resembles an igloo

Filed under: Review - 19 Jan 2008

Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio
Yeah, the whole igloo comparison loses some steam once you peek that thing from the side, but when glancing it head-on, we can’t help but be overcome with imagery of our childhood days spent in the plains of Greenland. Unfortunately, that thing’s ability to c…

Hackers reportedly targeting cities’ capability systems

Filed under: Review - 19 Jan 2008

We know, hackers tend to get a pretty naughty rap these days, but with some of ‘em out there creating ginormous gridlocks in Los Angeles and shutting down networks in enemy territories, we sort of understand the sentiment. Most recently, it seems that hackers are being blamed for “penetrating ca…

Weekend Webware: LOLinator

Filed under: Review - 19 Jan 2008


News.com’s new design.

In the grand spirit of the Swedish Chef translators that popped up on the Net several years ago (see The Dialectizer and even Google’s “Bork” translation), the Malevolent Design company has released LOLinator. that service will take nearly any Web site and not only change i…

Palm’s Vista-compatible Desktop 6.2 arrives woefully late

Filed under: Review - 19 Jan 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
C’mon — hop in that nifty date machine here and drift with us back to December of 2006. That month, friends, is when Palm initially stated that it was cooking up a Vista-savvy iteration of its Desktop synchronization software, and yet, here we are some 13 months later wonde…

Palm’s Vista-compatible Desktop arrives woefully late

Filed under: Review - 19 Jan 2008

C’mon — hop in that nifty moment machine here and drift with us back to December of 2006. That month, friends, is when Palm initially stated that it was cooking up a Vista-savvy iteration of its Desktop synchronization software, and yet, here we are some 13 months later wondering what took so t…

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Inventec’s UMPC 7-A and 5-D get pictured

Filed under: Review - 19 Jan 2008

Filed under: Handhelds, Tablet PCs
Our eyes may still be slightly out of focus from the total lack of sleep obtained while at CES, but the two Inventec UMPCs purportedly going by 7-A / 5-D certain look a heck of a lot different than the model we peeked in Vegas. As you can glean from the image above…

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