Archive for: March 23, 2008

Filed under: HDTV
Hitachi’s in-plane switching technology’s been making the rounds of late, and LG Taiwan’s the latest to pick it up for use in future LCD HDTVs. Doubling frame-rate, providing a wider field of view, and supposedly upping durability (among other things), apparently we can start to se…

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Alex’ homebrew game PuzzleManiak for the iPhone is finally updated with another bug fix (previous update here), and that duration it addresses the crashing bug that occurs in the Daily Challenge mode. And it’s fairly the fundamental bug fix, since Daily Challenge is PuzzleManiak’s game mode that let…

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Filed under: Cellphones, Transportation, WirelessChrysler’s added a few features to get geeks’ motors running by the years, but World Wide Web access is definitely a fresh direction. Apparently cars rolling off the line that and next year will have some kind of cellular documents access (we’re not y…

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Filed under: Transportation
Sometimes even the plugged-in Engadget reader needs to pick up and head out for more relaxing climes. Well, for our fourth birthday that month we’re treating six lucky humans to two round trip tickets destined for anywhere Virgin America flies. We wouldn’t want you travel…

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“When Windows 7 launches sometime after the start of 2010, the desktop OS will be Microsoft’s most ‘modular’ yet. Having never really been comfortable with the notion of a loner, monolithic desktop OS offering, Microsoft has offered multiple desktop OSes in the marketplace ever since the days of Win…

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Awesome 2.2 has been released. “Awesome is a floating and tiling window manager initialy based on a dwm cipher rewriting. It’s extremely fast, small, dynamic and awesome. Windows can be managed in several layouts: tiled, maximized, dwindle, spiral, floating… Each layout can be applied on the fly, …

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Josh and I spent a day working the Under the Radar conference final week (see all stories). Actually, Josh was working; I was on stage hustling startups on and off the stage. We saw about 40 business-related Web 2.0 companies. Most of them were very early-stage, so you might not want to entru…

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Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsXP may not EOL until that June, but that doesn’t mean it’s not in need of the same kind of tender lovin’ update packs as OSes of every variety occasionally get. And according to CRN, the lengthy awaited XP SP3 could be due out as early as tomorrow, or possibly later tha…

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
So we’ve had a SanDisk Sansa Fuze hanging around the office for a few days and already we can tell you that fans of the Sansa line will find it a welcome addition to the line. The interface feels pretty snappy and it’s got all the geeky things you’re after…

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The eBay boycott marches on, and frustrated buyers and sellers are looking for alternative markets to sell and buy items. There are more than a few eBay alternatives, but every now and again one appears that's particularly interesting. SilkFair, a Web marketplace aimed at handmade crafts, antiques, jewelry, and other products, is one of those sites. The site is beautifully designed and has a large community of buyers and sellers. You get a custom storefront with your own blog and store setup, you can upload videos to show off your products, and accept payment via PayPal, Google Checkout, and more.

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SilkFair looks gorgeous and sports a clean and elegant design, but its beauty is more than skin-deep. The site features a lot of handmade arts and crafts, such as jewelry and notebooks that crafters sell to make some extra money; but the community at SilkFair has been growing substantially, and its product categories are expanding with new items. The site has categories for everything from antiques to books to tools and hardware to consumer electronics. Unfortunately, not all of those categories have items in them, but at least the site is ready for the growth it'll inevitably experience.

Featured items for sale at SilkFair live on the front page, where you can see a photo of the item along with a link to the product description and the price, if you're interested in buying it. Because many of the items at SilkFair are either homemade arts and crafts or secondhand items, the prices are low ...

Filed under: Peripherals
We’re still a little hazy as to precisely what ASUS’s new Splendid HD1 “video enhance card” actually does differently than most other 2D-enhanced devices, but the company claims it ratchets up 1080p video quality on both digital and analog outputs, and it’ll fit in right alo…

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LG Taiwan is promoting In-Plane Switching (IPS) and double frame rate technology in the LCD panels used in its ultra-thin full HD LCD TVs, and the company aims to ship more than 100,000 LCD TVs in the local Taiwan market in 2008. While LCD TV panels plays a decisive role in the quality of…

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