Archive for: April 20, 2008

Filed under: Home Entertainment
For those of you lucky, lucky folks in Europe (or the UK, more specifically), it looks like your wait for the PlayTV rollout is coming to a shut. According to Amazon’s British wing, you can now pre-order the PlayStation 3 add-on for £59.99 ($120) with an expecte…

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I finally watched the DVR'ed season finale of ABC's "Miss Guided" (starring the awesome Judy Greer, about a high-school guidance counselor and her misadventures with the students and faculty) the other day, when I happened to catch that the magazine principal Phil Huffy (played by Earl Billings) was reading was none other than PC Magazine. Of course, it wasn't that easy to spot, since our logo was covered. Still, I knew it looked familiar to me, and I realized that it was PC Mag's June 2007 issue, "Supercharge Your PC."

See, even principals are geeks!

Not only can your Apple iPhone serve as your music player, note taker, or guitar tutor, it can additionally serve you the latest RSS and Atom feeds from your Google Reader. Developer 424f keeps you updated on-the-go with the homebrew application iPhone Google Reader beta version 0.2.1.iPhone Google…

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Filed under: Laptops
The OLPC XO — it’s all rainbows, hugging, and laser beams of learning, right? possibly not, kind reader. Apparently, users of the the diminutive, educationally themed laptop are experiencing a rash of “stuck key” issues which are causing tons of headaches (and possibly some hea…

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The Professor is a new micro-feature wherein we roundup a handful of interesting and informative gadget-related science stories from the week and present them to you, the reader, in an easily digestible liquid anatomy.

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Finally, Engadget editor Paul Miller’s prayers have been answered — in the scheme of a homebrew SNES emulator for the Wii. It’s no secret that Paul is eerily obsessed with the SNES, and now he can get access to all his favorites (import or otherwise) with another Wii tweak. A hacker named Rober…

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DVDFab Platinum is all you need to backup DVDs DVDFab Platinum 3 is brand new is completely rewritten is based on 5 years of DVD copy software development
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Filed under: Cellphones
Apparently, HTC is having a little trouble keeping folks with cameras out of its offices, as evidenced by that totally great spy shot of a what appears to be a bunch of (or two) new phones. We’re familiar with fairly of few of these devices, like the TyTn II, Touch Cruise, an…

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Filed under: Laptops
Oh, poor Eee PC 900. You haven’t even made it into most people’s hands, and already you’re getting dissected and inappropriately inspected. Honestly, we didn’t mean for that to rhyme. Regardless, the folks by at bit-tech have gone to all the hassle of cracking the little dude op…

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Geek.com is running an opinion piece on the extensive reliance of programmers nowadays on languages like Java and .NET. The author lambastes the performance penalties that are associated with running cipher inside virtualised environments, like Java’s and .NET’s. “It increases the compute burden on …

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Have you ever been annoyed by Linux’ lack of a coherent graphical boot process? Graphics hardware causing problems during sleep/wake cycles? Problematic virtual terminal switches? Kernel-based mode-setting, a new feature of Xorg still in heavy development aims to solve many of these problems by movi…

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