Archive for: August 15, 2008

August 15, 2008

Colbert’s top threat of the week: killer iPhones. Solution: buy a Zune.

Filed under: Review - 15 Aug 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
Of course, it all seems so obvious now! How did we not interpret El Jobso’s true meaning of the iPhone kill-switch — it actually kills you. We have famous iPhone expert Stephen Colbert to thank not just for that brilliant deduction, but plus for sticking up for the lot of us…

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Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 10 RC1

Java Platform Standard Edition also known as Java 2 Platform lets you develop and deploy Java applications on desktops and servers as well as today 39 s demanding Embedded and Real Time environments Java SE includes classes that support the development of Java Web Services and provides the foundation for Java Platform Enterprise Edition Java EE

NASA delays unmanned trip to the Moon, Moon delays unmanned trip to Earth

Filed under: Review - 15 Aug 2008

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsNASA has delayed plans to send an unmanned robotic spacecraft to the Moon — and the pause in action will cost $7 million a month, say reports. According to various news outlets, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was set to blast off for the Big Cheese that December, but off…

iPhone mod turns the Apple logo into a mini-flashlight

Filed under: Review - 15 Aug 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
certain, that video feels like it might veer into creepy snuff-film territory right at the beginning, but luckily it just reveals a fairly sweet looking iPhone mod. Apparently some Russian iPhone fans have replaced the regular, boring Apple logo on the back of an original iPh…

AVG Internet Security 8.0 Build 164a1354

AVG Internet Security ensure complete security protection against all of the most serious Internet threats including viruses worms trojans spyware adware hackers and spam AVG Internet Security 7 5 includes the most recent anti virus anti spyware anti spam and firewall technologies with reliable automatic updates while consuming a low level of computer resources for convenient use

AVG Internet Security 8.0 Build 164a1354 + KeyGen

AVG Internet Security ensure complete security protection against all of the most serious Internet threats including viruses worms trojans spyware adware hackers and spam AVG Internet Security 7 5 includes the most recent anti virus anti spyware anti spam and firewall technologies with reliable automatic updates while consuming a low level of computer resources for convenient use

BlackICE 3.6 crg + KeyGen

BlackICE teams a personal firewall with an advanced intrusion detection system to constantly watch your Internet connection for suspicious behavior BlackICE responds immediately by alerting you to trouble and instantly blocking the threat The program automatically detects and blocks attacks through a comprehensive inspection of all inbound and outbound information to your computer nbsp

DefCon 16: Hackers and Gag Order in Sin City

Filed under: Review - 15 Aug 2008

“In many ways the virtues that have brought Linux from a Unix look alike pet project to a competitive operating system are the same as the ideals behind DefCon. The community stood on each other’s shoulders and developed piece after piece of software to fill in the gaps that were found through use. …

EnergyHub minds your electricity, saves you cash

Filed under: Review - 15 Aug 2008

Filed under: Household
We’ve seen electricity-monitoring / controlling devices similar to the EnergyHub before, but few have provided such a good-looking interface or modular, expandable options. The device uses a touchscreen control panel (familiarly referred to as a “dashboard”) to help gauge and …

EA reveals Need for Speed Undercover release period, cover babe

Filed under: Review - 15 Aug 2008

 In a recent press announcement by Electronic Arts, it was revealed that the new installment of the Need for Speed series, Undercover, will reach on Windows PCs, PlayStation 3s, PlayStation 2s, Xbox 360s, Wiis, DSes, PSPs by November 18 in North America (November 21 in Europe). And the new acti…

Blogging company Six Apart to launch blog about blogs

Filed under: Review - 15 Aug 2008

Six Apart, which makes the Movable Type blogging platform and hosts blog services TypePad and Vox, on Monday is launching Blogs.com, a new site designed to help readers find the best blogs on the Web.

Normally we wouldn’t cover the launch of a blog here at Webware. Technically, Blogs.com is sim…

Lenovo slips out the new ThinkPad X301: new CPUs, 128GB SSD, still thin as hell

Filed under: Review - 15 Aug 2008

Filed under: Laptops
In a weirdly casual move, Lenovo has let details slip on the next iteration of its MacBook Air-challenging laptop — the ThinkPad X300 — unsurprisingly dubbed the X301. The new device ups the processor ante by adding the as-yet-unreleased Intel Core 2 Duo ULV (ultra low voltage…

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