Posts Tagged ‘App’

RSS Digest #117

August 8th, 2009 by mattatobin | Comments Off | Filed in General

RSS Digest for Saturday, Augest 8th, 2009:

Facebook jealousy sparks relationship woes: study
What Is The Real Reason Dell Is Discontinuing 12-inch Netbooks?
AP Mobile for iPhone still a dog for many
App Store Thaw? Apple Accepts A Gmail Push Application
Report: Apple, Google agreed not to poach each other’s workers
Panasonic adds Amazon VOD to Blu-ray players
Google: Unify the Phone Numbers and All Else Follows – NYTimes.com
LG Chocolate Touch and Samsung Omnia 2 slated for August 23rd, according to supposed Best Buy leak
Best Buy in 3D Needs to Go Back to the 2D Drawing Board [Augmented Reality]
Week in Apple: mystery Apple product, keyboard and SMS exploits, 10.5.8
Job bank for women in technology
Poor Passwords A Worse Problem Than Poor Antivirus
Blu-ray support coming with iTunes 9?
British military encouraged to get online
XP Mode vs. Med-V
Energy saving search engine
Downloaded Child Porn? Blame Your Kitty Cat [Wrongmodo]
The Web Cycle: The faster you pedal, the faster your porn downloads
Six-Month-Long Camera Exposure Shows Both Winter and Summer Solstices [Photography]
Some Basic Truths About Broadband (Economics)
Week in tech: USB 3.0, gay slurs, and Chrome syncing in the cloud
NSFW: Ice-T tears apart a Powerbook, wants to be in Gears of War 3
Plantronics Discover 925 Bluetooth Headset – $42.99
Week in Microsoft: Windows 7 RTM starts trickling out
LG GD900 Crystal submerged in a fish tank
Debian & Android Together on G1
Nintendo sells 600,000 copies of Wii Sports Resort in Europe
Contributing To a Project With a Reclusive Maintainer?
Fixing XML
Planet Mozilla Interns: Aaron Train: Totally hip, totally rad Mozilla QA Companion 1.0

- Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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RSS Digest #113 and #114: These combo posts have to stop… someone slap me!

August 6th, 2009 by mattatobin | Comments Off | Filed in RSS Digest

RSS Digest for Wednesday, Augest 5th, 2009:

Verizon-branded Touch Pro2 plays ’spot the difference’ with previous spy shot
Hitachi’s 2TB 7200RPM HDD is world’s first
‘We’re Working on It Right Now’
A not-so-deeper look at OS X 10.5.8
Google Buys On2
Uber-nano nanolasers could lead to faster computers, reliable internet, neverending list of awesome things
You are SO unfollowed!
Apple fixes hole with Mac OS X image viewing
Comcast adopts DNS hijacking, imposes irritating opt-out
Celebrity Mac Chick Sighting: Erin Andrews
Mac OS X 10.5.8 chock full of security, reliability fixes
Alienware back to school sale
Preview the Office 2007 Ribbon-Like UI Floated For OpenOffice.Org
How to Spread a Tweet with Tweetmeme
The Mozilla Blog: Mozilla Service Week: A little help from our Friends
URL shortener Trim takes a tumble
Say Hello to a New GooglePhone: The T-Mobile MyTouch
Chargers’ Twitter cops bust Cromartie for tweet – NFL – Yahoo! Sports
News: App Mix: TomTom, Pac-Man, Q*Bert, GoPayment
Microsoft admits that it feels threatened by Linux
Win your way to TechEd AU with a WinMo application
Nintendo DS pirate gets jail time
David Eaves: 5 Ways to get to the Next Million Mozillians
Amazon slashes 160GB PS3 price
Free culture or “digital barbarism”? A novelist on copyright
App Store Mercenaries

RSS Digest for Tuesday, Augest 4th, 2009:

Deciphering Windows 7 Upgrades: The Official Chart
Fiber gets nimble: small telcos weaving fiber web
29 vs 20,000
Virtualization Finally Gets Real
Is Facebook Pulling an Apple With Its Ad Guidelines?
HTC Hero for Sprint confirmed?
Updated FiOS Twitter and Facebook widgets add onscreen keyboard, not friends or followers
Yahoo has escape clause in Microsoft search deal
5 tips for blogging your way to success
Intel introduces distributed computing to Facebook
Office for Mac SP2 causes incompatibility with PC XML files
Wi-Fi Services Hot Again: Startup WeFi Raises More Money
User Account Control Data Redirection
Samsung Omnia II 8000 Review at PhoneArena
WTF is up with Palm’s creepy Pre ads?
New petition demands an end to Kindle DRM, faces long odds
Bandwidth.com’s investment in FreePBX paying dividends
HTML 5 Canvas and Audio Experiment
‘Sexting’ craze on the rise among British teens
Facebook Is Now the Fourth Largest Site In The World
about:mozilla: about:mozilla – One billion, Theora, add-ons tour, Chocolate Factory, Mozilla.org, Bugzilla, and more…
FBI Nabs Chicago Transit Authority Radio Hacker
Microsoft trademark reveals Microsoft Store logo
Solve an iChat login issue on certain routers
Microsoft’s Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000: ready for Windows 7, just like your haggard Vista PC
News: Grantwood intros RunWallet for iPod shuffle
Windows XP Mode RC Now Available
News: Apple launches iTunes Music Store in Mexico
Android Applications Soon To Run On MIPS32 Chips
Redesigning Your Own Site
Yahoo Shuts Bix Down. Did Anyone Notice?
ROFL: WET Shot at Love viral video
Super speed: a brief history of USB 3.0, 2007-2018

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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RSS Digest #104

July 9th, 2009 by mattatobin | Comments Off | Filed in General, RSS Digest

RSS Digest for Thursday, July 9th, 2009:

Rumor: Windows 7 Family Pack Will Offer Three Licenses for $137 [Windows 7]
How Much Computer Memory Does Windows Need?
Facebook, MySpace: A race/class divide?
Apple Pushes Snow Leopard Build 10A402 to Developers
HP Mini 110 netbook gets 1366 x 768 display option
VMware’s CEO says x86 is junk silicon, not good for mobile
Quicken for Mac lives—and is coming in February of 2010
Bossa Nova Prime-8 Robot Walks Runs on His Hands, Smashes Aibos to Bits [Robots
OCZ's Sabre OLED gaming keyboard now shipping, priced at $135
Review: Yamaha PDX-30 Portable Player Dock for iPhone
US Seeks Volunteers To Review Broadband Grant Applications
Report: demand for Macs, iPhones on the rise
Netflix to stream movies to Sony Bravia TVs - BusinessWeek
Will the stars align for space-based solar power?
The problem with Qik and the App Store: will Apple gamble away the iPhone’s coolest-ever killer app?
Sprint Will Pay Ericsson $5B to Run Its Network
Starbucks offers free ice cream through Facebook
When It Comes to Links, Color Matters
Review: iASUS Concepts 500K Series Headset for iPhone
Sony PlayStation3 – 80 GB – $ 339 shipped
Coding Q+A
Intel and Qualcomm Are Dueling With Dollars
Review: Wellcomm iConnplus Case With Battery for iPhone 3G
Sony Bravia Connected HDTVs Finally Land Netflix Streaming [Sony]
Twittruth Tells The Truth About How You Really Use Twitter
How Would It Be to Live on the Moon [Space]
Student HP Ad Shows Beautiful Alternate Universe Where Printers Are Fast, Predictable, Musical [Advertising]

- The Constently late, Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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RSS Weekly Digest – #4

April 29th, 2009 by kteck | Comments Off | Filed in RSS Digest

Here are my news picks for the week…

Sorry for them being late but i had a busy start of week.

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

The story of the PlayStation
SlingPlayer for iPhone getting closer to release?
Apple may hear Verizon now
Google makes their own Digg, lets users pop stories
Will Oracle kill MySQL? Who cares?
Skype Cuts Prices On SkypeOut Service
Qualcomm, Broadcom reach $891 million settlement
Essential Tips to Get the Best from iTunes
Virus begins to attack PCs
First Android Netbook will cost $250?
Flip Video Ultra HD makes its unofficial debut, gets unboxed
Apple loses patent suit, will have to pay $19M
NVIDIA’s GT300 specs outed — is this the cGPU we’ve been waiting for?
FBI accuses Twitter user of massacre threats
Windows 7 – Gold – As Early as July?
Download Wall-E for just $62,000 Now!
Billionth iPhone App is a Freebie!
Review – Twitter Desktop Clients for Mac, Dual Review
Chalk Drawing Depicts Epic Browser War (With A Touch of Conan) [Browser War]

Saturday, April 25th, 2009yep

Steve Jobs On The Value Of Stock Options
German book publishers want Rapidshare blocked
Former AOL Exec Mike Jones To Become No. 2 At MySpace
Video: Recording analog audio to a floppy disk
New Snow Leopard beta build includes screen recording capabilities, a certain je ne sais quoi
Windows 7 reveals XP mode AKA the IT guy’s wet dream
21 Eye Catchy Collection Of Free Textures
Samsung plays catch-up with 32GB P3
Why AT&T Wants To Keep the iPhone Away From Verizon
Windows 7 Release Candidate 1’s Best Surprise New Features
Conficker virus begins to attack computers
Somniloquy external networking card lets PCS “sleep talk” essential connectivity functions
Microsoft training video reveals older prototype of Windows 7 “superbar”
Bugs Aside – Ubuntu 9.04 Is Pretty Slick

Friday, April 24th, 2009

It’s official: Windows 7 Release candidate available for download May 5th
No, This Dancing Building’s Bricks Are Not Falling Like Tetris [Art]
Hollywood attacks RealDVD in court
Model 2+ production seen as “unlikely,” says OQO exec
Coming Soon: Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC
Analysis: App Store now $1 million a day business, cloud mobile apps the next big thing
Windows 7 RC build 7100 leaked
Windows 7 Release Candidate Update
Microsoft axes Live Search Product Upload
Apple Loses Patent Lawsuit from Opti Inc on “Predictive Snooping”
Internet Explorer 8 Security
Irish reject e-voting, go back to paper
Microsoft Surface First-Run Experience
Geocities to close after 15 years of aesthetic “awesomeness”
Android-Based G1 Phone Sells One Million Units
News: Bump is billionth app downloaded, 13-year-old wins prizes

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Apple Questioned Again About a Mac Netbook
Jaunty Jackalope hops onto scene with GNOME 2.26, new features
Consuming the Contents of Windows 7 Libraries
iPhone OS devices continue to dominate mobile traffic

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

iSuppli: Kindle 2 costs twice as much to buy as it does to make
Apple iPhone & iPod Touch sales pass 37 million
Steve Riley on Windows 7 Security
Apple with “No Plans” to Change AT&T iPhone Exclusivity and Other Notes
Pixelpipe adds drag-and-drop uploading to Firefox
Make your own solid state drive with a CF card
Second Life gives users ability to filter Mature, X-rated content
Apple WWDC rumors: MacBook speed bumps, pro application upgrades (but where’s the netbook?)
Congress wants new probe into P2P file-sharing snafus
The EagleTec USB Nano flash drive: it doesn’t get much smaller
Panasonic makes school runs more cinematic with its in-dash Blu-ray player
OLPC waves goodbye to AMD for new XO laptop, adopts VIA chip
Face recognition comes to Flickr
MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and Pro Apps to See Updates at WWDC?

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

iTunes Price Hikes Hurt Some Track Rankings
Amazon Video on Demand goes high definition
Apple preparing to release new Snow Leopard beta build
From Mingebag To Gmod Activist
DiggBar Changes Live Today
Why Time Capsule Is Doomed to Suck
Rumor smash: Windows 7 will keep 6.1 versioning
Sony Pictures is on YouTube, Hulu, but not Joost anymore
Nvidia gives developers OpenCL driver and SDK support
Bluetooth “high speed” technology becomes official with 3.0 spec
GamePark Wiz app store coming this summer
VMware’s Cloud OS Is Compelling, But Closed
Google joins effort for 3D Web standard with new plugin, API
Windows 7 Starter Edition Only Runs 3 Applications at Once
End to End Trust and Windows 7
The iPhone app that ran the Boston Marathon
Xbox 360 ‘Game Of The Year’ bundle ships in May
A Peek Inside Windows 8: Coming in 2011 [Windows 8]
LEGO Rock Band officially announced, coming just in time for the holidays
Study: Illegal music downloaders buy 10 times as much legal music as non-illegal downloaders
Google links students, projects in Summer of Code
Windows 7 could change our perception of PCs
More Details of iPhone OS 3.0 ‘Voice Control’ Emerge
Gmail can now suggest recipients for you
AT&T plans to double its 3G network capacity
Google serves up brace of slightly skewed search tools
SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone. What’s the deal?
Video: Sharp’s Mebius LCD trackpad
Fujitsu’s 10.1-inch LOOX M netbook looks good, positively average
OLED displays coming to half of all mobile phones in the next five years

Monday, April 20th, 2009

PSP firmware updated to v5.50
The ESA are fans of Pirate Bay decision
Jonathan DiCarlo: Do We Still Need Bookmarks?
Apple Launches Movie Downloads in German iTunes Store
Windows 7 security enhancements
Blu-ray in every home? Backers aim for $99 players
Windows 7 Starter Won’t Open Any Doors for Android or Linux
ISP Download Caps Not Dead, But Ought to Be
Windows 7 Security: Helping Enable the Mobile Workforce
Google tweaks Chrome with new tabs management features
Windows 7: A New Approach to Securing Today’s Enterprise
Skype coming to the DSi?
$400 Xbox 360 Elite Games of the Year bundle with Halo 3 and Fable 2 gets official
Tweetie for Mac now available
MSI intros the touchscreen Wind Top all-in-one US mod
Adobe brings Flash to the TV screen
Atempo Digital Archive Adds Full Mac OS X Support
The Pirate Bay loads cannon with official appeal
Play Garry’s Mod before you die!
Windows 7 Starter Edition headed for a netbook near you
Engadget’s take on the new mophie Juice Pack Air
Toshiba 10-inch Dynabook UX’s got talent
More Apple Netbook Rumors Pinpoint Foxconn as Manufacturer
Next Generation iPhone to Support HD Video and Apple TV-Like Behavior?
Oracle reels in Sun Microsystems with $7.4bn buy

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RSS Weekly Digest – #3

April 22nd, 2009 by kteck | Comments Off | Filed in RSS Digest

Here are my news picks for the week…

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite debuts in the App Store
Windows 7 Release Candidate Drops May 5
Chrysler’s Peapod EV lets iPod double as ignition key
Cheap Blu-ray players will hit U.S. store shelves
Dilbert Takes on Cellphone Rebates In Epic Battle With Rebaterus [Comic]
This is not how you’re suppose to wardrive
2009 is an Android year declares Google’s Schmidt
Do You Have a Google Profile?
Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles
SMS messages could be used to hijack a phone
MySpace Fires Employee After Data Breach
The Palm Pre is already in mass production
Kadoink Seized By Creditors
New Get a Mac ads after “Laptop Hunters”

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

Lobby Groups Launch Full Assault For Canadian DMCA
Ubuntu 9.04 release candidate arrives
Windows Mobile 6.5 takes personalization to the next level with themes and Titanium plugins
What’s up, bot? Google tries new Captcha method
Celebrities Take Over Twitter
Apple Comments on Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter Ads

Apple Is Approaching a Defining Moment
Windows 7 RC coming May 5 for public consumption, out now for MSDN / TechNet subscribers
How many paper cups do you trash in a day?
Apple tops PC customer satisfaction survey
Piracy causes nightmares for Stardock’s Demigod
BBC explains DRM restrictions on HD broadcasts
Let your friends crash on these CTRL-ALT-DEL Pillows
Windows Mobile 6.5 coming soon?

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Windows enthusiast Cullen creates “Cophenhagen” user experience concept video
The Pirate Bay verdict: guilty, with jail time
A warning against premature adoption of cloud computing
Job cuts to happen at Sony Ericsson
Hilco / Gordon Brothers acquires Polaroid brand, assets and dignity
iPhone beta OS cracks before release
Microsoft Family Safety Filter Blocks Google
LEGO Boombox looks sweet, still can’t make your kid’s music sound good
Simplify Media- Legally Share Your Music Library with Up To 30 Friends
A Few New Functions Spotted in iPhone 3.0 Beta [Unconfirmed]
Vonage now charges 29% in fees (at least for me)
4 Reasons Apple Should Deliver the iPhone to Verizon
Microsoft targets Barmy Army with Silverlight
Windows Mobile 6.5 to officially “launch” on May 11
If You Become a Yahoo Engineer, You Too Can Have 7 Monitors on Your Desk [Yahoo]
Verizon’s subsidized HP Mini 1000 leaks out
Report: Hulu planning iPhone app
Stone Neo 101 drops into the netbook pond, doesn’t cause a ripple
Tweetie for Mac looks fantastic!
Nintendo sells 435,000 units in the US in first week
AT&T iPhone Exclusivity Expires in 2010, AT&T Asking for Extension?
Samsung, Dell bring SSD encryption solutions
Photo Sharing feature in Live Messenger: Kill it dead

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

This DSi Can Take Itself Apart, Thank You Very Much [Teardowns
4400 Radioshacks Now Accepting Old Gadget Trade-Ins [Retail]
“Apple Tax” Report Backfires On Microsoft
ZuneHD specs leaked, supposedly confirmed by Microsoft
Sun begs IBM to come back and talk
German iTunes Store adds movie purchases, rentals
Mac OS X 10.5.7 update appears to be nearing release
Apple patent shows front-facing camera: Hello, video calls
Genius sues Activision and 7 Studios over Scratch game delay
Iomega opens sub-£2k box of storage tricks
Pirate Bay server becomes museum artefact
Apple, your Mighty Mouse sucks. Please fix it.
Ning hits 1 million social networks
Apple Researching Movement-Aware Interfaces for iPhones
WSJ’s Free iPhone App Is Already Better than the NYT App [Apps]
The Gadgeteer’s ZuneHD Rumor Mill Roundup
DivX 7 video software released for Mac
Apple growth turns negative as worldwide PC shipments plunge
Lose Your Amazon Account and Your Kindle Dies
They’re gone! After outcry, Time Warner uncaps the tubes
Apple and AT&T: Should the Exclusive Deal End?
Are Skype’s founders going to buy back the company from eBay?
SlingPlayer banned from App Store?
Google: We’d love to supply ads for Twitter
It begins: Palm Pre trickles out to accessory manufacturers
Light Up with Windows 7 Libraries
Apple: A PC is no bargain when it doesn’t do what you want
YouTube launching premium section with movies, TV shows
Apple market share drops slightly in the past year
Chrome update offers tab micromanagement options
Verizon Sues Dastardly Californian Fiber-Optic Cable Slicers [Crime]

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Virgin Media switches to Gmail
Apple Offering 8 GB RAM Kits for 2.93 GHz and 2.66 GHz 15″ MacBook Pros
Nirvanix Adds $5M to Keep Data in the Cloud
US company steps in with three new displays for mini-DP Macs (Updated x2)
eBay to spin off Skype in 2010
Eee PC hacked into a digital picture frame
DIGG: (Yet) Another DiggBar Update
OWC Releases Plug & Play Desktop Hardware Raid Solution
Google finally lets Blogger users earn money with AdSense ads
Reports: Mac OS 10.5.7 release imminent
ZuneHD details “confirmed”
CNN acquires leading Twitter account
Microsoft to allow on-campus pub after all
eBay buying stake in Gmarket; Yahoo selling its

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

OTA feature updates for Windows Mobile in the works
OQO could be hurting
app4mac Intros Jump, Projector Productivity Apps
Twitter is at least a dress rehearsal
Google official announces Android OS 1.5
Apple isn’t making your next iPhone, these guys are
Microsoft ends mainstream XP, Office 2003 support
Better Place experiments with WPF & Windows XP for in-car electronic console
Next-gen iPhone shows 15+ parts supply vendors
Reporter drives the Chevy Volt (almost)
Libraries Under the Hood
Ubuntu 9.04 due April 23, includes native ARM port
10 Of The Most Annoying Vista Irritations Solved
Coming Soon, Yet Another Re-Org at Yahoo
Vista Post-SP2 Is the Safest OS On the Planet
iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 3 is out
Google search referer changes
Apple posts third iPhone OS 3.0 beta with minor API changes

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Bluetooth 3.0 specs revealed April 21, 480Mbps
Want to Sync Files Between Computers and Platforms? Check Out Dropbox!
Microsoft: have it your way on IE 8
iPhone Jailbreaking Still Going Strong
YouTube bypasses Korean law by ‘blocking’ uploads and comments
Kwiry- Another Web Service Shutters Its Virtual Doors
Palm’s “Touchstone” induction charger to cost $70?
HP MediaSmart now streams to iPhone, iPod
Burn ISO Images Natively in Windows 7
Sony to sell PSP game without UMD copy?
German Wikileaks Suspension Not Related To Police Raid

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