Archive for: March 1, 2008

March 1, 2008

Complicated fix for overworked Rock Band drums

Filed under: Review - 01 Mar 2008

Filed under: Gaming
It’s no secret that Rock Band hardware has experienced its fair share of failures, and while the kick pedal has caused the lion’s share of grief on the drums, we’re pretty certain at least some of you out there have thoroughly ruined those heads. whether so, the similarly bummed …

Apple hundreds short of 1,000 film promise

Filed under: Review - 01 Mar 2008

Filed under: Home Entertainment
Ruh ruh, Macworld ran one final pop quiz as the month of February expired yesterday and found that opposite to Apple’s claim that there would be by 1,000 movies for download by March, iTunes and the Apple TV have hundreds fewer flicks available than anticipated. The 9…

How Open Source Has Influenced Windows Server 2008

Filed under: Review - 01 Mar 2008

Microsoft’s Sam Ramji explains how open source influenced Windows Server 2008. “Overall, we’ve learned and continue to memorize from open source development principles. These are making their way into the mindset, development practices, and ultimately into the products we bring to market.”Original p…

Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring RC1 Released

Filed under: Review - 01 Mar 2008

The fourth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. that pre-release includes the all-new artwork for the 2008 Spring release, further improvements to the Mandriva software management tools, WPA-EAP support in the network configuration tools, KDE 3.5.9 and available 4.0.1, some new default…

Developing Rails Applications on Mac OS X Leopard

Filed under: Review - 01 Mar 2008

“Ruby on Rails is a popular and vigorous open source web framework for rapidly creating high-quality web applications to help you keep up with the speed of the Web. Rails is thriving on Mac OS X, and Leopard comes pre-installed with Ruby, Rails, Mongrel, Capistrano, Subversion, and other tools that …

Covad rejuvinates Silicon Valley muni-WiFi project

Filed under: Review - 01 Mar 2008

Filed under: WirelessWe know, you’re already rolling your eyes, but that moment it’s really for real. At least that’s what Covad Communications wants us to believe. Reportedly, said outfit is jump-starting a gigantic municipal WiFi project to blanket Silicon Valley that fell apart after upstart Azul…

Select AT&T stores selling refurbished iPhones?

Filed under: Review - 01 Mar 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
Oh certain, Apple’s been offering up a couple of refurbished iPhones on its own web store for some date now, but actually finding one in stock has proven to be fairly a challenge. Nevertheless, a purported internal memo has explained that choose AT&T stores in the New En…

Intel’s Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale gets tested

Filed under: Review - 01 Mar 2008

Filed under: Desktops
whether you’ll recall, we already eyewitnessed a pre-production Wolfdale CPU outpace its competition back in August of final year, but the real deal has finally arrived. by at Hot Hardware, the folks were able to crack open a retail Core 2 Duo E8500 processor, which comes in at…

Samsung execs called for questioning in continuing corruption probe

Filed under: Review - 01 Mar 2008

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWe haven’t heard too much lately about the South Korean government’s probe into the Samsung Group’s alleged corruption and influence in the government, but the AP is now reporting those bribes were emanating from a $213 million slush fund the company supposedly set for use …

Apple to gatekeep SDK app distribution by iTunes

Filed under: Review - 01 Mar 2008

The plan to allow third-party software development for the iPod Touch and the iPhone using the SDK devkit are in full swing. However, developers will have to be serious about their craft whether they want their apps to compose it to the iTunes servers.According to an Apple Insider report, Apple Inc….

i-mate’s US outpost implodes, most laid off

Filed under: Review - 01 Mar 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
We’ve caught wind from a number of employees — or ex-employees, as the case may be — that i-mate’s US division in Redmond, Washington has all but disintegrated after a Friday massacre that saw the entire engineering, QA, and tech writing departments laid off, amo…

Weekend Webware: The periodic table of the elements 2.0

Filed under: Review - 01 Mar 2008

Science can produce some very cool things on the Web. One of them being that ridiculously useful Web version of the periodic table of the elements–a staple for chemists and scientists at large. The chart, found at Ptable.com, is totally dynamic, letting you adjust nearly every aspect of the input t…

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