RSS Digest for Monday, Augest 17th, 2009:

Users file privacy lawsuit against Facebook
Itty-bitty lasers hold hope for scalable optical processing
Bing rings up search gains, dinging Google, Yahoo
If You Build One Thing This Week, Make It a Shoulder-Launched Dry Ice Cannon [Cannons]
Consumers want 3G modems — at half-price
Here come the ‘Twitter, we did it first’ lawsuits
DIY: Eco-responsible super fridge
Rumored Apple event roulette wheel lands on September 9
Sony’s big plans for OLED HDTVs may slip to next year
Wannabe Entrepreneur Has Never Heard of Electronic Post-Its [Crapmodo]
eBay Watch: Mint 1949 Atomic Energy Lab
Cellphone Calls Fire Up This Guy’s Maytag Oven [Scary]
Kodak Unleashes Best Pocket Cam We’ve Seen This Year
DIY to de-stress: Sit back, get crafty and relax
Hands-on with the Satin Silver PS3 DualShock 3 controller
Three men indicted in largest U.S. data breach
Hackers set new high score for credit card theft at 130M
What is Comcast going to do with all its money?
Eliminating a Word macro virus
NVIDIA confirms Tegra processor within Zune HD, details it real good
DirecTV offers NFL Sunday Ticket via Internet in NY trial
ChromeOS spotted with dock and other blurry UI elements
FCC enforcing imaginary laws in P2P ruling, says Comcast
Adobe’s next Lightroom to forsake PowerPC Macs
The Logitech G27 racing wheel is $299 worth of realism
Mozilla nudges Firefox users to latest version
Confirmed? TomTom’s iPhone GPS Car mount will work with iPod touch, as well as 3rd party navigation apps
Create a digital ID with Adobe Acrobat
ASUS’s RT-N13U router wants to make your life as EZ as possible
Porn producers sue South Korean pirates
EU retailers chop price off PS3 before any official announcement
Brain Wrinkles Protect Against Head Banging

- Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

Tags: Adobe, Asus, Bing, ChromeOS, DIY, Ebay, EU, Facebook, FCC, Firefox, Hacker, Kodak, Logitech, Mozilla, Nvidia, porn, Post-it, PS3, Router, Sony, Twitter

I have been very very busy for the last few days including personal stuff to work out. So here is the RSS Roll-up Extravaganza.

NetNewsWire beta beginning of transition to Google Reader (Updated)
Let them eat cake: Fat Princess is a delight
Robert Kaiser: Progress on XULRunner-based Mandelbrot app
Holiday season will see big changes in laptops
Homegrown CBHD discs outsell Blu-ray by 3-1 margin in China
Microsoft Drops Windows 7 E Editions
Calendar: How to Save Sunbird
Man, the U.S. had a crazy cyberwar plan against Iraq (that it didn’t execute)
The Robot Uprising Will Begin With a Game of Catch [Robots]
Big Talk from MS: WinMo 6.5 is Gonna Trump the iPhone’s Web Browsing
Downloaders Beware: Lawmakers say Downloading Music or Files Could be Are Costly and Unsafe
Mining Social Networks for Clues
Google Maps accused of unfair competition in France
Using software updates to spread malware
Google Adds More Options To Image Search
Hackers expose weakness in visiting trusted sites
Complex Medical Test Made From Paper and Tape for Three Cents | Wired Science | Wired.com
Nike Basketball Trainer Ganon Baker shows 23 Ways To Destroy Your Defender: New style iPhone app!
How to Make an Electronic Display With Paper and Mood-Ring Ink | Wired Science | Wired.com
AT&T responds to FCC letter re: Google Voice mobile iPhone App
Snow Leopard Now Available for Pre-Order [Snow Leopard]
Whitman leads in cash for Calif. governor race
Nope, don’t expect to see an Apple e-book store
RSS Subscribers or Twitter Followers: Which Are Worth More?
Week in Microsoft: Pirates crack Windows 7, Redmond counters
In cloud computing, data is not electricity
20 years of computer lessons on 1 page
Celebrity Mac Chick Sighting: Rose McGowan
Shape Services Brings Skype To The Palm Pre
Original Futurama cast returning to the show!!!
Researchers offer tools for eavesdropping and video hijacking
BlackBerry App World v1.1 Available Today
Price of the PS3 has come down 70 percent… what? No, not for you, silly
Cultured Code
MySpace Mail: Not bad, but not a killer app
Manually-Powered Wind-up Light Is Perfect For Bed Time [Light]
Windows 7 Family Pack Pricing Confirmed at $149 [Windows 7]
Adobe updates Acrobat, Reader with security improvements
The Chinese iPhone surfaces
My Kindle ate my homework: lawsuit filed over 1984 deletion
I Quit The iPhone by Michael Arrington
Does Verizon Stand to Benefit From the FCC’s Probe?
Over 1 billion served: Firefox passes download milestone
Steve Ballmer on Apple and PC Pricing
Happy System Admin Day!
PS2 is outselling PS3 and PSP
Seth Godin at the Business of Software Conference
SplashID – A Second Look
Apple claims iPhone jailbreaking leads to compromised security and shorter battery life
Review: Verizon MiFi 2200
The Pirate Bay ordered to shut down in the Netherlands
Coconut! Headphones!
Sony sees huge loss, Nintendo profits fall, Apple noted as competition
Mozilla IT: Mozilla Scheduled Downtime – 07/30/2009, 8pm – 10pm PDT
Google Goes Back to School to Secure the Future of Its Apps
McAfee acquiring MX Logic, delivers solid outlook
Record every moment of your boring life
Report: eBay is building a Frankenskype
Pac-Man oven mitts keep hands cool. Might eat your cookies though.
CentOS Linux developers threaten mutiny
Apple unceremoniously discontinues Shake pro VFX app
Logitech release 7 new webcams
Apple Not Exhibiting at CES 2010
Top 10 iPhone annoyances — and how to fix them
Facebook and Google Android app getting closer
Skype Prime won’t make global phone sex operators rich
Unauthorized charges getting WoW accounts suspended
DIY Vortex cannon
Samsung announces 8500 series of backlit LCD HDTVs
Psystar finally announces legal team for fight against Apple
T-Mobile ETF escape may be on the horizon for some with 9/1/09 fee changes
Rename open files
Hands-on: Linux appliances made easy with SUSE Studio
Who wants to win a 2-year old, lime green iPhone?!?!
Google vs. Bing. vs. Yahoo: Fight!
Windows 7 tours gets animated Silverlight browser

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

PS: Digests resume as normal by midnight tonight… KtecK Standard Time

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RSS Digest for Thursday, July 2nd, 2009:

Latest dev diary for Batman: Arkham Asylum
Phone ringtones a “public performance”? EFF, AT&T say no
MJ Fans Flock to eBay for Memorabilia
Archos 9 Windows 7 tablet does a little hands-on time
Google App Engine misfires
Waffle House waiter sues over Taser incident
Huge 2K Games sale on Steam, plus 50% off Fallout 3
What will you do if piracy as we know it goes away? (I’ll just read more)
O2 confirmed as Palm Pre carrier in the UK, again
Windows 7 Home Premium to get Family Pack deal
Will MySpace Kill MySpace Latino?
Lunar mapping satellite snaps first test images
Verizon will now offer the BlackBerry Tour to everyone
Can an SD card startup disk be used on any Mac?
Twine Tries To Manage The Stream With New Coverflow-Like Design
What’s new at Talking About Windows.com
Leaked AT&T Memo: iPhone 3GS Generated ‘Best Ever Sales Day’
Make big bucks rolling out broadband to unserved areas!
Take the Fireworks With You For Free
10.5: Wake a sleeping Mac with via Automator
Do Lower Phone Bills Justify Ads on Your Mobile Phone?
Motorola’s Aura Celestial Edition soon taking “giant leaps” for “mankind”
Carnivorous gadgets kill insects for power
The future is now: Star Trek-like language translator debuts on the iPhone
Opinion: Why the iPhone can’t be killed
Free Windows 7 upgrade plus HP Pavilion S5110t – $339
Apple to Rate Your Karaoke Singing on Your iPhone?
PS3 Slim ready to ship in July?
HTML 5 standard won’t have an official video codec
DIY HD projector hits the right note, sub-€500 price range

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

Tags: Ads, Apple, ARchos, Batman, Bills, BlackBerry, broadband, Card, codec, Coverflow-Like, DIY, Ebay, Google, HD, HP, HTML5, iPhone, Lunar, Mac, mapping, Microsoft, Motorola, MySpace, O2, Palm, Pavilion, Phone, Piracy, pre, projector, PS3-Slim, ringtones, Satellite, SD, standard, Steam, tablet, translator, Twine, Twitter, UK, Verizon, WIndows, Windows 7

What is a iPod Shuffle that doesn’t shuffle? A iPod Shuffle Clone

Earlier on I have posted scans of a few iPod clones. This time around I got to try one my self (It was only $10). First off it looks overall quite impressive like a real iPod Shuffle 2nd gen other than the fact it uses B mini usb port, has different button style and the switch is on/off not shuffle.

First thing I noticed was that it has absolutely NO shuffle mode at all… making it pretty well useless for uses were you want random playback. Another sore spot for it is the battery life but that’s to be expected.

The sound quality was not that bad…. I tested with a set of THX test sounds that doubled as the copy to device test when i added them. The file copy of 18 128kbps cbr mp3 files too 54.4 seconds.

I’m glad it only cost $10…. I feel that it’s not worth much mor than that. Basically just because it looks like a iPod doesn’t mean its a iPod. The sad thing is i’ve seen scammers on ebay passing the clones off as real iPods and were not being stopped.

In the end ill still stick to my 2nd gen iPod Touch and 2nd Gen iPod Nano.

Here are some pictures:

Main Unit

Cables & Headphones

User Manual

Tags: Apple, Clone, Ebay, Hands, iPod, on, Shuffle, Sylvania

RSS Digest for Monday, June 22nd, 2009:

Nortel Falls To Telecom’s Titanic Shift
Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 1
Apple Loves Its Customers
Flash 10 for smartphone beta coming this October
‘Find My iPhone’ in Action
ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings
Scrappy Post-Apollo Lunar Science Sets Stage for New Missions
Kodak stops Kodachrome film production
Camino Blog: Camino 1.6.8 Released!
Verizon boosts FiOS speeds, but talks mostly about uploads
Obama’s USPTO choice supports patent reform
TiVo and Time Warner apparently discussing DVR deal
Tron Guy Hits Economic Turbulence, Hawks ‘Tron’ Plane on eBay -
Rumor: Windows 7 RTM sign off set for July 13?
GameStop betting digital distribution is far, far away
Platform Brings Big-Business Grid Rep to the Cloud
Nanometer wars heat up, Toshiba and Intel enter unofficial race
Web cam tilts, swivels, has 2GB of storage
GTA: Chinatown Wars heading to PSP this fall
Nvidia says no to Linux on Tegra netbooks, chooses WinCE
Adobe on HTML 5
LG Electronics to stuff ARM processors into HDTVs
Comcast to provide wholesale IPv6 service
Samsung’s P410M pocket projector is just a little bit better
Grooveshark sued by EMI
multi-process firefox demonstrated
HTC Magic selling better than G1
How Apple, AT&T Are Closing the Mobile Web

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

Tags: Adobe, Apple, ASCAP, AT&t, Camino, COmcast, DVR, Ebay, EMI, FiOS, Firefox, flash, GameStop, Groveshark, GTA, HTC, Intel, iPhone, IPv6, Kodak, LG, Mozilla, Nasa, Nortel, Nvidia, Samsung, Time Warner, TiVO, Toshiba, Tron Guy, Verizon, webcam, Windows 7