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RSS Digest #115

RSS Digest Thursday, Augest 6th, 2009:

Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user
Windows 7: RTM in pictures
Panasonic’s micro four-thirds DMC-GF1 spotted in leaked picture
Microsoft killing Xbox 360 Pro?
Fox joins Universal’s war on Redbox DVD rental kiosks
Startup Weekend San Francisco Women 2.0
Defective By Design targets Amazon’s Kindle in new petition
New ID cards are supposed to be ‘unforgeable’ – but it took our expert 12 minutes to clone one, and programme it with false data
Lies About Lying
On demand in command; 51% of young ‘Net users view TV online
Windows 7 RTM released to TechNet and MSDN
Dealzmodo: $300 Off HP Pavilion dv6z Notebook [Deals]
Apple looking to avoid warranty ripoffs with abuse detection
Netbook + mouse = Newton Mogo Mouse for netbooks
Article: Weird + Small Apps 24: Q*Bert Deluxe, Meditation Apps, Glance, NESynth, Car Stat Apps + More
Intel still won’t talk Core i5 details, but you can order one anyway
Cash for Clunkers likely extended despite controversy
Clearing the air on the The iTablet – what we know so far
Apple Rejecting All e-Book App Store Submissions? [Updated]
Frankenbook! Another look at hacked Mac netbooks
Prepaid Competition Takes a Bite Out of MetroPCS Earnings
No More Perks: Coffee Shops Pull the Plug on Laptop Users
Feds At DefCon Alarmed After RFIDs Scanned
Google Chrome gets skins and JavaScript performance boost
Microsoft is now the proud new owner of Office.com
Review: iFlash Touch for iPhone
Logitech replaces G5 with Gaming Mouse G500, throws Gaming Headset G330 in for luck
HTML 5 Canvas Experiment Hints At Things To Come

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

RSS Digest #107 and #108

RSS Digest for Wednesday, July 29th, 2009:

Video: ‘V for Vendetta’ Director Goes Ninja
Kodak Zi8 Wallops Flip With 1080p, Image Stabilizer and SD Slot [Camcorders]
Xbox Live dashboard update preview invites begin rolling out
Palm Pre headed to Verizon next year
LG has first THX-Certified LCD HDTV
Agency Mulls Curbs on Cybersquatters
Pascal Finette: Mozilla Labs Design Challenges – What we’ve learned so far…
AOL revenue slides 24 percent in 2nd quarter
Intuit and open source: Tastes great, less filling?
T-Mobile to sell HTC Touch Pro2 in August
Oops, @MarissaMayer Deletes Sensitive Tweet That Can Still Be Found
AP’s rights management DRM explained
Psystar hires Jammie’s lawyers in fight with Apple
Windows 7 activation already cracked with Lenovo’s OEM license key
Pirate Bay acquisition is likely dead
Car? Kids? Get a two-pack of headrest LCDs for $130
Online video keeps growing with help of broadband, mobile
Barnes and Noble to offer complimentary WiFi
Windows 7 vs. Windows XP On a Netbook
Brilliant but Doomed Technology
Intel: Windows 7 will deploy faster than Vista
Unboxing the $1,195 URC MX-5000 remote
Steam Achievements
Motorola Morrisson with T-Mobile 3G and UMA hits the FCC
I’m 90% sure the “Apple iTablet rumor” is an elaborate hoax by Apple to get Dell to waste money building a competing device
How Much Do You Think Twitter Is Worth? How about a Half-Billion Dollars

RSS Digest for Tuesday, July 28th, 2009:

The Matrix, but with money: the world of high-speed trading
Apple Rejects Official Google Voice iPhone App [Apple]
Labels hope Apple’s ‘Cocktail’ will boost album sales
MySpace Overtakes Evite On The Event Planning Totem Pole
LEGO Unboxing
Travel Back in Time
V-Screen turns PSP games 3D
ATI’s $1,800 2GB FirePro V8750 GPU introduced and reviewed
Microsoft sponsors Firefox!
Free Spirit: NASA Recreates Mars Surface to Liberate Rover
Movie studios sue The Pirate Bay
Unix Turns 40
Samsung’s debut e-book reader arrives
Verizon Uses Twitter To Trash Talk AT&T Too
AT&T dual USB and iPhone car charger – $15
Acer and ASUS reportedly freeze netbook releases until 2010
microsoft’s settlement proposal
Red Hat: ‘We spend over $100 million a year to advance Linux’
Like Chrome, Should Firefox Put Tabs on Top?
New Scientist: ‘Humans Prefer Cockiness to Expertise’
Electric-car maker Coda gains high-powered investors
Order Your DIY Flying Trike Today!
Robot gets an iPhone 3Gs for a brain
Landlord sues tenant after tweet about moldy apartment
Mozilla Security: URL bar spoofing vulnerability
Netgear and OpenDNS to block porn from the cloud
Viliv X70 preorders delayed, should ship out on August 11
New DoS Vulnerability In All Versions of BIND 9
Alternative to Bottled Water
Toshiba’s inaugural 3.5-inch external HDD is exactly what you think it is
EU Vista, XP users will also get to vote IE off the island
Yahoo and Microsoft to start ad partnership, says source

- Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

RSS Digest Combo – #58,#59,#60

Another late set of posts..

Here are the links for:

Friday, February 27th 2009

Microsoft’s Child ‘I’m a PC’ Ads Only Works With Little Girls Apparently [I'm A PC]
Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage + video)
Psion responds to “netbook” challengers, says it does so still sell the NetBook Pro
Preview: Boxee social media center for Windows
Google: ‘New Code’ Crashed Gmail, Sorry, Won’t Happen Again
Acer “Hornet”: Wii-like PC game platform
Camino 2.0 beta 2 for Mac now available
Run BASIC
LG denies plasma TV withdraw claims
Inside the Recompute Cardboard PC [Greener Gadgets]
World of Warcraft: ‘the crack cocaine of the computer world’
Sega Dreamcast + iMac = iCast
10 ways to make Chrome as good as Firefox
Google Street View integrates user images
Apple cracks down on emoji apps
Microsoft to remove need for QuickTime in Windows 7
Microsoft’s Business Model
USB cable with inline card reader
Australian Censorship Scheme Gets Blocked By Opposition Leaders [Australia]
A Little Peak at Changes Coming with the Windows 7 RC

Thursday, February 26th 2009

Safari 4: Eye Candy or Seriously Useful?
Microsoft talks open-source love amid TomTom Linux ‘war’
New Adobe AIR Marketplace
Apple Removes Old Non-Customer Reviews from App Store
IE8 for Windows 7 beta in ‘reliability update’
Apple and Psystar finally agree—to keep trade secrets secret
My Safari 1.0 Review From January 2003 (Not Mine but the author of the blogs review)
Windows 7 to get 2,000 bug fixes pointed out by testers
LEGO employees hand out tiny versions of themselves as business cards
Apple laptop ignites marketing department
Quebec ISP To Terminate Subscribers Over Copyright
Acer’s Ion-based Hornet nettop leaked in presentation slides?
Acclaim developer claims PSP 2 will be without UMD
There’s the Grammatic Way and the SEO Way
New Yahoo CEO ushers out CFO in executive shake-up
Practicality of Multi-Touch and an Early PowerBook Multi-Touch Keyboard Design
Apple Prepping OS X 10.5.7 Update
Amazon Kindle 2 review
Video: Windows CE and Android running simultaneously on a Nokia N800
Android Gathers Steam Among Open Source Developers
Get the Vista Service Pack 2 Release Candidate Next Week [Vista Sp2]
New Google dashboard provides downtime information
The Future of Google Chrome
Anyone Using Yahoo Briefcase?
Windows 7 – How WGA Will Work
Safari’s new tabs: Good or bad?
PSP 2 is ready and UMD-less, claims Earthworm Jim developer
More hidden preferences for Safari 4 Beta
Purported Specs Surface for Slimline 10″ Acer Aspire One [NetBooks]
Jobs Coming Back to Apple in June

Wednesday, February 25th 2009

Nokia’s Brave New Strategy: Laptops
Windows 7 shipping this Fall… according to Compal, anyway
Google Me Business Cards: Best or Worst Idea Ever? [Design]
New slimline Acer Aspire One slimline pics, alleged specs leak
Google blocking paid Market apps from Dev Phone 1 users
Quake Live May Spark Gaming Industry Shake-up
Microsoft files patent lawsuit against TomTom over Linux-based GPS systems
Leaked Snow Leopard screenshots and video show new Stacks, install options
I Love Downloadable Media, But It Makes For a Crappy Gift [Editorial]
Warning: Google Talk Phishing Scam On the Loose
id pushing hard for Quake Live on the Mac
Kindle 2: Disassemble? No disassemble!
Announcing the Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 RC
Ballmer Confirms Skinny Version of Windows 7 for Netbooks [Windows 7]
Apple’s App Store success hasn’t stopped prices tumbling
Panasonic’s latest Toughbook 30 unboxing and hands-on
Will You Be Moving to Safari?
New, Stealthy Conficker B++ Worm Discovered
Safari 4 Tips, Tricks and Special Effects
Real worm breaks man’s computer, sick of software worms getting all the glory
Adobe patches Flash vulnerabilities for three platforms
Google explains cause of latest Gmail outage
ZumoDrive Launches Public Beta
Apple TV 2.3.1 updated totally borks the Boxee add-on
Intel launches shapely new CPUs for slim new laptops
Sony shows off its latest fuel cells and cola-powered batteries
Syba debuts RCG RC-VIS62002 pocket projector
OmniWeb Mac Browser Finally Released For Free [Browsers]
Intel also sues Psion over ‘netbook’ trademark, general stupidity
Happy Birthday Steve Jobs

RSS Digest – #33

Here are the links for: Friday, January 30th 2009…

What Will Replace The Internet?
Win 7 Tip: Miss Vista’s Taskbar Or Quick Launch? Here’s How You Get It Back [Windows 7]
NEC cutting 20k employees, 20,000
PS3 doing fine, no price drop in sight, PSP is a different story, says European SCEE boss
Microsoft Confirms No More Windows 7 Betas [Windows 7]
Why Google Needs the GDrive to Fight Microsoft
Google’s GDrive revealed in code?
Limited iMac availability could mean new iMacs soon
EFF Sues for Access to Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Documents
T-Mobile Exec: More “G series” phones on the way
Windows Vista SP2 RC may be in the hands of testers as we speak
10 cheap and easy upgrades for your old PC
Dell headed into the mobile phone business?
15+ Incredibly Useful Mac Apps For Freelance Web Designers
Why CableCard isn’t on the Mac
Google Software Update for Mac refuses to uninstall
Dissecting Apple’s “Multitouch” Patent: Can It Stop Palm? [Patent Wars]
If Windows 7 Fails, Citrix (Not Linux) Wins
Gridplane releases hazy NXE mockup that never was
Rowmote Brings Apple’s Front Row Remote to the iPhone (Unofficially) [IPhone Apps]
Start your day violently with the Smash Clock
Google Chrome Accesses Hotmail by Pretending It’s Safari
Apple makes NVIDIA Graphics Update mysteriously disappear
Hack turns off Windows UAC forever and ever
Pixel Art Book Jackets Hide Your Shameful Reading Habit [Decorating]
Firefox 3.1 release date hampered by cheeky monkey
DRM killed Gears of War for PC
Roombas Are Fun For Cats of All Ages [Adorable]
Samsung’s 4Gb chip promises 32GB DDR3 memory modules for PCs and laptops

RSS Digest – #32

Here are the links for: Thursday, January 29th 2009…

Malware can turn off UAC in Windows 7; “By design” says Microsoft
Meebo Community IM (Finally) Prepares To Open The Floodgates
Rumored iPhone “2,1″ hardware in the wild
With ION, Nvidia Covers the Mobile Market
More Windows Mobile 6.5 Shots Put Internet Explorer On Display [Windows Mobile]
New Kindle coming in February?
Palm’s VP of design shows off Pre features, scoffs at N95
AT&T and Apple Discussing 3G-Ready MacBooks
Google tells you if your ISP is interfering with BitTorrent
OLPC’s XO-2 to be open source hardware
Philips’ 21:9 aspect ratio TV on video
PlayStation division hit hard by global recession
I’ve Got A Bad Feeling About This…Adding YouTube Annotations Just Got Easy
Intel said to be prepping eight-core Xeon for launch next month
Engadget on Apple’s and Palm’s Touchscreen Patents
Why Microsoft Should Give Windows 7 Away
GMail For Domains Gets Updated Look
Expiration of Service Pack Blocker Tool for Windows Vista & Windows XP
A Few More Details about ‘iPhone 2,1′
Flickr Apps for iPhone
Gmail and Google Reader now “wicked fast”
Apple’s Bloodiest Patent and Copyright Clashes [Palm Beware]
Micael Arington to Leave TechCrunch Due to Death Threats, Abuse
The Mac at 25: Apple TV commercials
SongSmith: Flawed music software produces comedy gold
AOL to Lay Off 10% to Consolidate During Recession
New LED light bulb: Inexpensive, long lasting & environmentally friendly
UK.gov backs ISPs on charging content providers, throttling P2P
News: iTunes now offering track-by-track iTunes Plus upgrades
Sony’s 4th quarter net profit dropped 95 percent, 95 percent!!!
What To Know About iPhoto ’09 Face Detection and Recognition [Apple]
Major storage vendors agree to disk encryption standards
Windows 7: Action Center Utility
Next-gen iPhone revealed deep in latest firmware?
You Need To See This Video (1981 TV Report On Birth Of Internet News)

RSS Digest – #25 – More on time this time…

Here are the links for: Thursday, January 22nd 2009…

1984 Macintosh Ad Still Rocks Our Socks 25 Years Later [Apple]
20 Windows 7 Tweaks & Tips: Every Secret Uncovered to Date
ABC fiddling with ‘Lost’ broadcasts, making them harder to capture (read: pirate)
Acer to phase out 8.9in Aspire One netbook?
Android for Pre likely, with or without Palm
Apple proves recession-resistant, for now
Apple’s success formula: A simple product line
Designer Chumby up for sale: $600 never seemed so functional
Digitize your tapes with TapeLink
Do You Want a Boxee Dedicated Set-Top Box? [Boxee]
EA Reveals More Spore Games For 2009
Gizmodo’s Complete Windows 7 Coverage [Windows 7]
Google Feedburner has Rough Start…
Google flaunts Meltdown-proofiness
Google’s FeedBurner Problems on the FrontBurner: You’re SOL
Having Feedburner Issues?.. Well I Told You So!
Intel to halt [some] production
Microsoft Defends Return to DRM
Microsoft to cut up to 5,000 jobs
New Storm OS 4.7.0.90 leaked, includes QWERTY keyboard in portrait mode
News: Browser-based App Store clone appears on web
Nokia, Microsoft drop while Apple stock soars
Pirated version of iWork ’09 contains a nasty trojan
RAM Disk Puts New Spin On the SSD
Seagate – Give Us Another Chance!
Seagate releases an actual fix for freezing HDDs
The 7 Worst Tech Predictions of All Time
The First Windows Review Ever
‘The Source’ stores go up for auction
Tim Cook: Apple Will Aggressively Protect iPhone Intellectual Property
Universal Connections Concepts: USB in Everyday Objects [Design]
Welcome to Black January: Microsoft, Intel, IBM and others lay off tons
Why I can’t get enough of Windows 7 | The Digital Home
Why the Windows 7 Taskbar Beats Mac OS X’s Doc
Win 7 Tip: Fix That MSI Installer Bug And Get Apps Running Again [Windows 7]
Windows 7 Search Connectors: Twitter, YouTube, Amazon, eBay…
Windows 7 Taskbar Not So Similar To OS X Dock After All
You Stay Classic, Mac OS
Zimbra! founder! quits! Yahoo!