Archive for: April 30, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
Ready to have your brain blown out through the top of your head? Look above — you’re staring at the heretofore unseen BlackBerry clamshell, the Kickstart. The Boy Genius snagged a handful of photos of the device (which apparently he’s known about for “a while”), and has deci…

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Gadgets

SiSoftware Sandra the System ANalyser Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant is an information amp diagnostic utility It should provide most of the information including undocumented you need to know about your hardware software and other devices whether hardware or software

Filed under: Portable Audio, Wireless
whether you’ve done anything other than mash F5 (or similar) at Hercules’ website the past few seasons, you’ve likely forgotten all about that sub-$100 Mobile DJ MP3 that surfaced over a year ago. For whatever reason, the thing is just now shipping, but we suppo…

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Gadgets

Security consultant Howard Fosdick has contributed the latest entry in the 2008 OSNews write-up Contest: a highly detailed examination of defense and privacy on the Windows platform, and how to use free software tools and a little knowledge to protect your privacy online. Read more on that exclusive…

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OS

It rains every day and the birds won’t shut up — yeah, spring’s here, and Samsung’s celebrating by dressing up the T10 in that fetching black and purple floral number. Details are scarce, as the “La Fleur Special Edition” of the well-regarded PMP isn’t official yet, but we’d expect to see it po…

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Portable Audio, Portable Video

Personally, we can only suppose what a $300,000 speaker setup sounds like. But you — we know you’re keen to pick up the Epilogue Speaker System (previous edition shown) and rub it in the faces of everyone else, right? Regardless of whether you answered that truthfully or not, Goldmund (those sa…

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Home Entertainment

Polls Boutique, which is a play on words from the 1989 Beastie Boys album, is a free polling service that’s great for creating simple polls with statistical depth and a great sense of community. Like Polldaddy, which we use extensively on Webware and used for Webware 100 voting that year, and more r…

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Web

whether you’re itching to give your Apple iPhone the 2.0 makeover, imagine 2.0 is right up your alley. The most recent release of that homebrew application from secretmrx, imagine 2.0 version 1.4, promises to assemble your iPhone software look like the upcoming 2.0 update.To better explain, here’s …

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Apple

Something’s really wrong with the world whether more than a few months pass by without a new iPod alarm clock from iLuv, so we suppose everyone’s a-okay for a few more months now. Announced nowadays, the firm has introduced its first pair of HD Radio clocks, and certain sufficient, one of ‘e…

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Gadgets, Peripherals, Portable Audio

We’re still hearing reports of MacBook Air overheating woe, well after an EFI update in April that was meant to address some of those problems. While hot computers are nothing new, the MacBook Air starts shutting down cores and offloading processes when things get naughty, which means users are …

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Gadgets, Laptops

We already had some early benchmarks of Western Digital’s speedy new VelociRaptor tough drive the day it was announced, but the folks at Extreme Tech have now had a bit more duration to spend with the drive, and they’ve churned out a full review of it for those that still haven’t made up their…

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Gadgets, Storage

The HIV/AIDS epidemic is very real and affects millions of people worldwide every day, but there are a number of misconceptions and stereotypes about people who have the disease. Together with MTV and the Kaiser Family Foundation, celebrity musicians and icons like Fall Out Boy, Wyclef Jean, Perez Hilton, Will.i.am, Atmosphere, and Rise Against are launching Pos or Not, a Web game that forces you to examine those misconceptions.

Pos or Not shows you real photos of real people and forces you to choose whether the person pictured has HIV/AIDS or not based mostly on their photo. Once you make your selection, you find out the truth and learn a little about the person pictured and their life--with or without HIV/AIDS.

25 years after the first HIV/AIDS cases started cropping up in America, it's remarkable how many people still think that people affected by the disease look a certain way or are of a certain ethnicity or social group. In fact, the core message of Pos Or Not is that people with HIV/AIDS look just like everyone else, and whether you have the disease or not everyone has a story to tell about how HIV/AIDS has touched their lives.

The game itself is simple; you're presented with a photo and some very basic information about the person pictured, and you choose whether the person in the photo is HIV positive or HIV negative. Once you make your selection, you're taken to a page that shows you whether that person is actually HIV positive or negative and reveals a little ...