Archive for: June 23, 2008

June 23, 2008

John Lewis’ final kitchen combo includes compulsory LCD TV

Filed under: Review - 23 Jun 2008

Filed under: Displays, Household
While those of us here in America puff our chests out each day we waltz by that LCD-equipped centralpark Connection refrigerator, folks in the UK can get additional prideful courtesy of John Lewis. Although the integrated coffee machine, electric oven, steam oven and…

D-Link introduces DIR-628 sub-$100 5GHz-capable 802.11n router

Filed under: Review - 23 Jun 2008

Filed under: WirelessIf you haven’t made the leap to 802.11n (or, even better, 5GHz 802.11n), you might want to start holding on to that loose change — you’ll probably have suitable by the end of the week to pick up D-Link’s new DIR-628 router, which has an official MSRP of $119, but will sell at B…

CentOS 5.2

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Readybot cleans a living room, our hearts continue to flutter

Filed under: Review - 23 Jun 2008

Filed under: Household, Robots
We were already ga-ga by the hobbyist-built ReadyBot cleaning bot when it was scrubbing down a kitchen, but that latest video of the all-white droid picking up a living room cluttered with kid’s toys has us solidly past crush and into dangerous obsession territory. Of …

Broadcom cofounder Henry Samueli reaches plea agreement, admits he lied to SEC

Filed under: Review - 23 Jun 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Broadcom’s former management team is still in a heap of trouble by falsified financial statements, but it looks like cofounder Henry Samueli has managed to reach a plea deal with the Feds that’ll keep him out of jail — he’s admitted that he misstated Broadcom’s finances a…

Kohjinsha SX-series convertible tablet edges out of UMPC territory

Filed under: Review - 23 Jun 2008

Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs
Kohjinsha’s cranked out some interesting convertible UMPCs, but the new SX-series pushes the definition about as far as it can go with its chunky looks and packed feature set — that naughty boy is probably even too loaded / expensive to be properly called a netbook….

Five Undisclosed Features of Apple’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Filed under: Review - 23 Jun 2008

Although Apple is marketing Mac OS X Snow Leopard as an operating system update with “no new features,” under the hood improvements will actually translate into a slew of new enhancements, five of which are described herein.Original post by donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru)

D-Link updates DNS-323 NAS unit with BitTorrent client

Filed under: Review - 23 Jun 2008

Filed under: Storage, NetworkingD-Link’s DNS-323 is already a pretty capable unit with FTP, UPnP AV, iTunes, and print server support, but it’s getting even more flexible nowadays with the addition of an official BitTorrent client that’ll run independently of your computer. It’s certainly not the fi…

Nuvation shows off air hockey-playing robot

Filed under: Review - 23 Jun 2008

Filed under: Robots
While robots are still fairly a ways absent from being able to challenge humans in sports like soccer, it looks like at least one company has managed to create a robot that’s able to prevail in one somewhat athletic activity: air hockey. According to Nuvation, its otherwise unass…

Portable Gaming Solutions offers Xbox 360 laptops to the daring

Filed under: Review - 23 Jun 2008

Filed under: Gaming
So you’re hankering for a little Halo on the go but you’re not willing to put your skills to the tryout and build an Xbox 360 laptop yourself? Never fear — we’ve got just the sketchy web store for you. For just $550, a one-man shop in Kansas called Portable Gaming Solutions prom…

Psystar’s Open Computer: the Alterna-Mac

Filed under: Review - 23 Jun 2008

PsyStar introduced its Mac clone to much media attention back in April, causing many discussions about the company’s legal status, the validity of the Mac OS X EULA, and even PsyStar’s very existence. It soon turned out PsyStar was a real company, and was actually shipping the OpenComputer Mac Clone…

DIY Yahoo Resignation Letter, Re: Get Bent, Asshat

Filed under: Review, cool_web_sites - 23 Jun 2008
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At last someone has combined all of the fun of Mad Libs with the excitement of resigning your post at Yahoo! The DIY Yahoo! Resignation Tool (Yahoo! Rezinr) is the cool new Web 2.0 way of telling the company's head, Jerry Yang (who, incidentally, hasn't been heard from in a few weeks) to take your job and re-staff it. That's an act that more and more people are likely considering, in light of both the company's questionable decisions over the past few years and Yang's recent deflections of Steve Ballmer's advances.

Choose from a handful of drop-down menus, click Submit, and the program will generate a letter to be sent directly to Yang, complete with the lovingly crafted subject line, "Get bent, asshat."

Now if only there were a similar form for applying to Google...

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