Archive for: February 16, 2008

February 16, 2008

Future third-party iPhone and iPod touch applications to be hosted on iTunes?

Filed under: Review - 16 Feb 2008

Word of the wise to those who prefer using third-party iPhone programs: there’s a opportunity that Apple itself will host third-party iPhone and iPod touch software written with the upcoming Software Developer’s Kit through its very own iTunes store courtesy of Tiny cipher. Tiny cipher is a develope…

University of Michigan formulates most intense laser in the universe

Filed under: Review - 16 Feb 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Rest assured, we’ve seen some wicked frickin’ lasers in our day, but apparently, even the two-kilowatt rendition that heats coffee in mere seconds can’t hold a candle ray of light to HERCULES. Intentionally named in all caps by University of Michigan gurus in order to high…

Exploiting QuickTime flaws in ‘moment Life’

Filed under: Review - 16 Feb 2008

WASHINGTON–Researchers Charlie Miller of Independent protection Evaluators, and Dino Dai Zovi, turned their attention to Second Life during a Saturday AM presentation at ShmooCon, an East Coast computer hacking conference. The researchers didn’t exploit a flaw within Linden Labs’ Second Life, but w…

Asus’ Z7S WS Skulltrail motherboard gets pictured

Filed under: Review - 16 Feb 2008

Tired of lookin’ at that stock motherboard that supports Intel’s latest and greatest gaming platform? Yeah, us too, so we’re fairly stoked that HotHardware has rounded up a few snapshots of Asus’ upcoming Z7S WS. Said mobo will reportedly feature “dual LGA771 sockets that support Intel Xeon 5000…

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Quickorder app would keep iPod touch owners hooked on Starbucks

Filed under: Review - 16 Feb 2008

You’re already well aware that Apple and Starbucks are buddy-buddy on at least some level, but that application would really cement their friendship. Quickorder, as you can probably assume, would enable iPod touch users to swing by their local Starbucks, order up their favorite drink and avoid a…

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Humanoid acts out your dreams, encourages insomnia

Filed under: Review - 16 Feb 2008

Forget controlling your dreams — after all, isn’t the concept of having a mechanical buddy act out whatever your off-kilter brain thought up final night much more appealing? In an interesting endeavor, Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns have teamed up to design a humanoid that actually tak…

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Design Your Own Desktop with Xfce 4.4, Part 2

Filed under: Review - 16 Feb 2008

“By popular demand, I decided to push the limits of Xfce’s customisability even further. that instance, I would assemble it look like Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. that task proved more difficult than trying to invent it look like Windows Vista. Though I haven’t achieved the same degree of perfection as I …

Concept Alienware Android phone makes our brain, hands hurt

Filed under: Review - 16 Feb 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
There’s a reason phones don’t remotely resemble PC cases, and we think that mockup does a fabulous job demonstrating why that is. Okay, look, we’re totally cool with Dell and Alienware producing an Alienware-branded handset — particularly whether it runs Android, …

ClickFree HD700 removes the “one-touch” from one-touch backups

Filed under: Review - 16 Feb 2008

Filed under: Storage
We’ll be honest with you — it can’t get a whole lot easier than one-touch backup, but that hasn’t stopped ClickFree from serving up an alternative that fairly literally removes the whole “one-touch” requirement from backing up your input. Similar to other devices we’ve seen in …

GameJackal Pro v3.0.0.5 Final

GameJackal is a product that has been designed to remove the need of having to always use your CD DVD to play your games I can here the cry going up quot Have you never heard of Virtual Drives quot Well yes I have The difference here though is about 700mb of disk space GameJackal make a small profile as small as 30kb up to 40mb which it uses to run the game instead of using the entire image like a virtual drive does

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Hydrogen fuel cell-powered MOTOSLVR L7 prototype gets pictured

Filed under: Review - 16 Feb 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
Right around a month ago, we heard that Angstrom ability had managed to stuff some of its sophisticated hydrogen fuel cells into a MOTOSLVR L7. That prototype, friends, is what you see about. Unfortunately, we’re no closer to realizing when that stuff will actually escape th…

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