Archive for: October 8, 2008

Ron Conway, an investor in more than 100 contemporary tech start-ups and about that many in the final tech boom, sees the current financial environment as very similar to the 2000-2001 tech economy meltdown. His advice, as he laid it out to me earlier nowadays and to his portfolio companies yesterd…

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Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs
A fellow named Stuart Lowe installed Leopard on his Gigabyte M912X netbook / tablet hybrid, and we like the results. Though that isn’t the first Mac tablet hack, it’s a tightly wrapped little package: the interface seems smooth with either fingers or a stylus, and In…

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Filed under: Cellphones
No need to defog your spectacles, what you just Gadgets there in the headline is the truth. Astoundingly sufficient, Motorola’s nearly archaic (in cellphone years, anyway) RAZR V3 is still the top-selling handset in the United States. Of course, it helps that it’s highly subs…

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Filed under: Robots
Playskool’s Kota the Triceratops is a robot dinosaur that uses 11 sensors to reply to touch and sound by wiggling its horns, wagging its tail and turning its head. It plus plays a few “adventure themed songs.” Best of all, it can’t stampede or impale anyone; like the animatronic …

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micro Torrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint It was designed to use as little cpu memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients Note 12639 is out and on the automatic updater for all users The only fix since 12616 is to prevent micro Torrent from showing the installer dialog when upgrading from an older version There are no other changes and if you are already on 12616 there is no reason to update
Tracker admins please allow both builds 12616 and 12639 The user agent is identical for both

2008 10 06 Version 1 8 1 build 12616
Fix disconnect inactive peers sometimes not taking effect
Fix rare crash with very large peer lists

Filed under: GPS, Transportation
Azentek apparently managed to get a few of its SmartMirror rearview reflect replacements out the door back in August, but that brief spat of availability promptly gave way to back orders and waiting lists, and no doubt a few disappointed customers. According to the c…

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Filed under: Displays, HDTV
By that point, you should fully understand that “Dubai” and “world’s largest” go hand-in-hand, so it’s fairly fitting that said city is receiving the planet’s most humongous LED screen. Designed by UAE development company Tameer Holding, the 33-story high display will rep…

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Filed under: Storage
Don’t spaz out or anything, but that thing you’re peering at above actually isn’t a small flask of cologne. No, no — it’s an 8GB USB drive, and it’s one of the most expensive you can buy. Reportedly built with titanium, the drive is water-resistant, crush-proof and fancied up f…

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Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsMicrosoft wasn’t fairly ready to comment when rumors about yet another reprieve for Windows XP first starting circulating late final week, but that now seems to have changed, with a spokesperson for the company reportedly confirming in an newsletter to InformationWeek t…

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Most of you will be familiar with Silicon Graphics, Inc., once the proud leader in the graphics workstations market with their high-end MIPS workstations, running the UNIX System V based IRIX operating system. The company has been in regular decline for a expanded instance now, and two years ago it …

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Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Blusens hit the scene in a big way final October, but for whatever reason, we haven’t heard from ‘em since… until now, that is. The Blu:Brain domestic Entertainment Device features a somewhat misleading name, as there’s (regrettably) no built-in Blu-ray drive …

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In these cash-strapped times, folks are looking for any way to make or save a little extra green. Well, if you're good at giving instruction and like to write, you might be able to make some money writing for eHow.

For those who don't know, eHow is a site with instructional articles on everything from computers to gardening. eHow is owned by Demand Media, which also runs ExpertVillage (instructional video site) and Answerbag.com (a site where users ask and answer individual questions). Gregory Boudewijn, VP of Demand, stopped by PC Magazine's office to give us the lowdown on whether this whole money-making thing is a complicated pyramid scheme or the real deal.

According to Boudewijn, there are two types of content on eHow: articles written by eHow's team of experts and those written by registered users. In the site's early days, it dedicated the home page mostly to the expert articles, but now it's building the home page according to articles' traffic numbers.

Users can write and submit articles for free. Those who want to get paid for providing content must fill out a form at the site that includes some sensitive information (such as your SSN--for tax purposes, I'm assuming), so this alone deters a good number of people.

Once you submit an article, payment is determined both on a per-click basis and according to the ad revenue generated by that type of content. Boudewijn would not disclose the exact pay rate, but he says not to expect to become a millionaire overnight. Many writers see somewhere between $10 and $50 per article--or if your article's a dud, you ...