Archive for: July 24, 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Wearables
Just as Mr. Adams wrote of the summer of ‘69, some heralded pop star decades from now will pen a smash hit recalling the summer of two-thousand and eight. extraordinarily sufficient, the tune will likely focus on the revitalization of the Nintendo Entertainment System,…

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Filed under: Ask Engadget, Cellphones We know, we know — that one’s going to be a doozie, but it’s something that just has to be done. For folks out there too far from the reaches of GSM or simply unwilling to cough up the requisite dough to pay for AT&T’s comparatively pricey plans, we figure …

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People have been saying for some moment that operating systems will eventually just become windows to the “cloud” (essentially browsers) and everyone will just use web applications, but now a company called CherryPal is really doing it. Plus, the CherryPal uses only 2 Watts of capability.Original po…

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Filed under: Storage
Nothing too fancy from Kingston Technology nowadays, just a couple of more capacious flash drives and an all new one for good degree. For starters, the DataTraveler 400 with MigoSync software and the DT100 are both now available in roomy 16GB flavors. Meanwhile, the DT101 arrive…

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Filed under: Desktops, Peripherals
You think your liquid-cooled rig is pretty snazzy, don’t you? After Purdue researchers get their technology on the streets, that stuff will seriously look like old hat. The team is working on a “miniature refrigeration system small decent to fit inside laptops and …

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Filed under: LaptopsBad news, Atom fans. That dual-core nugget of netbook-powering goodness that you were so looking forward to seeing in Q3 won’t start shipping until Q4. According to some notes picked up by Fudzilla, the Atom 330 will only be debuting in Q3 (September 21st, to be precise), but it …

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Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret (allthingsd.com) consider the new App Store “the separate best feature in Apple’s moment generation iPhone 3G.” The “easy availability of so many programs,” they say, “makes the iPhone a true computing platform, like a pocket-sized Windows or Macintosh…

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“Better than the original in nearly every way,” iPhone 3G “is an endless source of entertainment — as well as a platform for useful trade applications that convert it from a cute gadget into a true hand-held computer,” suggests Mike Himowitz (baltimoresun.com). Original post by donotreply@…

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
We’re not fairly certain how the pitch session went with that one, but it looks like the US Army was so impressed by toymaker Lund and Company’s Hydrogen Fuel Rocket that it decided to recruit the company to build a decidedly more deadly version of it. The new system, dubb…

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Thanks to a “dramatic overtake,” Aperture 2, “Apple’s all-in-one photography tool, overtakes Adobe’s Lightroom,” reports Alex Singleton (macworld.co.uk). “Much faster than its predecessor,” Aperture 2 has “a new user interface [that] makes it more appealing to first-time users, an…

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Most of my Gmail inbox consists of random banter with friends, dreaded updated statements from American Express, and daily newsletters from which I'm too lazy to unsubscribe.

For those of you with more sensitive data sitting in your Gmail or Google Apps accounts, Google announced today that users will have the option to keep their e-mail and documents encrypted 24-7.

This will be done via https, which keeps e-mail encrypted as it travels between your web browser and servers and is mostly used for things like banks and credit card company Web sites. At this point, Google only uses https during the sign-in process to keep e-mail passwords private, but it ditches this path once you're inside Gmail because https tends to slow down your mailbox.

So how do you encrypt your files?

Secure Gmail sessions are available now by visiting https://mail.google.com rather than http://mail.google.com at sign-in, but rather than forcing users to remember that extra "s" a new browser connection option in the Settings section will soon let users select between always using https or not.

Google is in the process of rolling this out to all Gmail and Google Apps users, Ariel Rideout, a Gmail engineer, said in a blog post.

"Google Apps Premier Edition admins will also be able to select SSL connections for their users via a new preference in the control panel we'll be rolling out shortly," Rideout wrote.

Some products that connect to Gmail, like Google Toolbar or the Gmail mobile app are not yet compatible with https. Rideout suggested visiting the product's Help Center if you encounter problems after enabling the https setting.

Earlier this month, Gmail unveiled a remote log out ...

Has Yahoo! learned nothing from Microsoft?

Several months after the Microsoft MSN Music Store snafu, Yahoo! announced Wednesday night that support for the Yahoo! Music Store will shut down as of Sept. 30, 2008.

"After the Store closes, Yahoo! will no longer be able to support the retrieval of license keys for music purchased from Yahoo! Music Unlimited, and Yahoo! will no longer be able to authorize song playback on additional computers," the company said in a Thursday e-mail to customers.

Yahoo! announced in February that its Music Unlimited customers would be migrated to Rhapsody via a "simple click-through process that will automatically recreate the user's library within a new Rhapsody account."

According to Wednesday's e-mail, however, after Sept. 30, "you will not be able to transfer songs to unauthorized computers or re-license these songs after changing operating systems."

What does this mean for your music?

Songs purchased through Yahoo! Music will "generally" continue to play on existing authorized computers, but what if you get a new computer or update your operating system? Goodbye music. The only other option is to burn the music to a CD and re-upload them to your new computer to play on Rhapsody.

Microsoft pulled a similar move in April when it announced that it would delete its MSN Music license servers on Aug. 31, so music purchased from the now-defunct Music Store would be accessible only via the five computers you authorized to play the tunes.

The news prompted user backlash and a call from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to issue refunds for the lost music. As a result, Microsoft backtracked and decided to allow access until the end of ...