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RSS Weekly Digest – #4

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

RSS Digest Combo – #55,#56,#57

Another late set of posts..

Here are the links for:

Tuesday, February 24th 2009
The Omni Group Releases Four Apps, Including OmniWeb, as Freeware
Apple starts ‘iTunes Pass’
Google Apologises to Millions of Users Left without Email
iTunes Launches Indie Store
Kindle 2 dissected, found to contain space for a SIM card
The Kindle 2 Gets Disassembled [Kindle 2]
The Hard Upgrade Path From XP To Vista To Win 7
Hidden Preference Tweaks in Safari 4 [Safari 4]
Can’t Get 1password to Work With the Safari 4 Beta? Here’s the Fix.
Google pays for e-mail outage with 15-day credit
DVD Jon’s DoubleTwist device-management software enters public beta
Firefox 3.1 Won’t Ship This Quarter
What’s next for netbooks?
Apple’s PR for Safari 4
Microsoft: new flaw affects all supported versions of Excel
Kindle 2 unboxing and hands-on
Google App Engine Announces Pricing
Jam an extra internal hard drive in your MacBook via OptiBay
Hands on: Safari 4 beta fast, mixes polish, rough UI edges
Intel rips into NVIDIA’s Ion platform
How to run Safari 4 beta and Safari 3 on the same mac
A micro microSD card reader
Leaked Snow Leopard Grabs Reveal Slimmer, Faster Mac OS X
Safari 4: Finally a reason to come back UPDATE
A few new rumors point to two new NVIDIA-packing iMacs
Mac OS X trends Compared to Windows
Blu-ray sales to top 100 million next year, says analyst firm

Monday, February 23rd 2009
Red ‘Resident Evil 5′ Xbox 360 unveiled!
Hack an extra core into your Phenom II
Google.org: Full steam ahead!
Snow Leopard shots reveal few changes but QT pro included
Chipmakers Hope Widgets Bring the Web to TV
“I Am Rich” clone comes to Android – at last!
Desktops on cell phones: X-Windows comes to Android
Brando USB Internet Sharing Dongle is About Nine Years Too Late [Internet]
CBS may fight to get Hulu videos back
Amazon ships Kindle 2 a day earlier than planned
Academy Award Winning Films Distributed For Free At “Kopime” Stations [Piracy]
Concept video shows iPhone App sorting done right
The 30 best features of Windows 7
Beambox launches Evolution R-1 pico projector
Vista Capable Lawsuit Loses Class-Action Status
Two more X-Slim notebooks coming from MSI
Want to Clean Up After Your Applications? Check Out AppZapper!
Dell’s Mini 10 comes with any amount of RAM you want, so long as it’s 1GB
Apple, Psystar Case Gears Up For the Long Haul
Video claims to offer more evidence of a Mac mini revision
News: iTunes Norway leaks album weeks before release
ASUS Eee PC T91 sits down for photo shoot, early critique
Stolen WinMo 6.5 device wiped remotely
Yahoo! boss warns of reorg ahead
Staccato CEO says UWB still has more to give

Sunday, February 22th 2009
Apple Disk ][ enclosure used to house Mac mini, enhance lives
Gnome, KDE, LXDE, IceWM All Working On Android
Satellite Collision May Have Endangered All Future Space Launches [Space]
Vizio moves to second place in HDTV sales
Online Cable Debate Heats Up As Execs Embrace Streaming Tech, Bicker About Programming Model [Cable]
Google Earth 5.0
Cool computer networking architecture graphic from 1988
Otters Making Home Videos Of Passing Photojournalists In Monterey Bay [Man Versus Nature]
iriver’s gorgeous P7 gets itself a web address
Microsoft wants refund from some laid off employees
Is P2P the new music marketing arm?
How Intel’s battle with NVIDIA over Core i7 impacts Apple
How a Router’s Missed Range Check Nearly Crashed the Internet
Researcher demonstrates SSL attack
An HP Mini 2140 Mini Post
Forget iClones, Everybody’s Copying the Iriver Spinn These Days [Copycats]
iPhone game saves a family’s home
Exclusive: Windows 7 RC set for April 10, 2009
Trimble rolls out rugged Yuma UMPC
Sun Slips Firefox Extension Into Java Update
TealOS brings Pre experience pre-Pre
The Future of Netflix is All About Streaming
Windows 7 Beta Users to Get Updates That Aren’t Updates

RSS Digest – #39

Here are the links for: Thursday, February 5th 2009…

How to Back Up Your Tweets from Twitter
Mac Flickr client flickery being re-released after API snafu
Google Chrome for Mac OS X
Time Warner Cable To Expand Its Bandwidth Caps To Additional Cities [Broadband]
Gmail Adds Support For Multi-Pane Viewing
Fujitsu LifeBooks Get AT&T 3G Today, EVDO Soon [Laptops]
High-slider integrity planned for Windows 7 UAC
Google releases Books browser for iPhone
Ballmer to businesses: deploy WinXP now and face concerns from employees
Lenovo announces loss, CEO resigns
Norway drops complaint over Apple’s FairPlay DRM
Cardboard PC takes quixotic stand against PC cases
Eee PC 701 prototype UMPC mod spotted, photographed, lusted after
Mac documentary to show at User Groups
Apple’s Snow Leopard to include location, multi-touch tools
Broadcom Enables Cheaper Android Phones
Seagate continues to communicate bad news
Walter Bender — Taking Sugar Beyond the XO Laptop
Woz joins server storage firm Fusion-io as chief scientist
Intel Follows the Crowd With Integrated Chips
Google Latitude lets you publish your real-time location
List of Windows 7 (beta build 7000) auto-elevated binaries
Comcast Cable Guys Save Elderly Woman From Burning Home [Cable Guy]

RSS Digest – #10 – Back to more normal

Here are the links for: Wednesday, January 7th 2009…

Windows 7 Pubilic Beta Becomes True, Gonna Try It?
Wendy’s is giving out free stuff like Xboxes, cars, laptops and HDTVs
Wear your video camera
Twitter: 2009 is the year it gets big, and gets integrated
Toshiba showing off 56-inch Cell-based 4k x 2k HDTV, prototype MIDs
TiVo updates their search functionality, calls it Search
The nerdiest SuperSpeed USB 3.0 details yet
The amazing vanishing Mac desktop machine
Sony shows off GPS packing 1080p camcorders
Sony gets official with VAIO P: world’s lightest 8-inch netbook
SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone demoed on video, coming in Q1
SanDisk releases 2GB Rock Band 2 SD card for all your downloadable content
Samsung has the world’s first Blu-ray home theater sound bar
Samsung announces the MBP200 pico projector
Retrospect, portable storage headline Iomega booth
Redfly pushes back, offers PC functionality and something else that is mysterious
REDFLY goes Android.. sort of
Palm’s new website devoid of dedicated PDAs
OQO officially launches Gobi / OLED-equipped model 2+, we get hands-on
NVIDIA offers up GeForce 3D Vision, takes WoW players further
Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition taken out behind the woodshed, shot
New SDXC storage card has up to 2 TB storage
Netgear announces another set-top box
Microsoft Tag: Microsoft’s own 2D barcode
Microsoft Starting Windows 7 Upgrade Program on July 1st [Microsoft]
Logic Wireless’ Logic Bolt makes luminous appearance at CES
Linksys announces Wireless Home Audio System, another wireless audio toy for rich people
LG’s GD910 007-Approved Watch Phone To Start Production This Year [Ces 2009]
LaCie Releases 2big Quadra External Hard Drive Line
JVC finally brings its Blu-ray products to America
iWork ’09 Includes iWork.com, Costs $79 + Subscription

How Many Mac Users Use Microsoft Office?
Hardware that supports iPhoto ’09′s geotagging
Federal Trade Commission To Scrutinize DRM
Eye-Fi SD Cards Offering Direct to YouTube Uploading [Ces 2009]
Eviant introduces 4.3-, 7- and 19-inch digital televisions at CES
EMTEC’s sub-$400 10-inch Gdium netbook gets specced
EMC Issues Beta of Retrospect 8.0 Backup Software
EGM magazine is no more, 1UP staff slashed
Digital guru Clay Shirky’s media forecast and predictions for 2009
BUG Labs throws down five new BUGmodules, including pico-projector and 3G radio
Asus reveals 512 GB SSD, keyboard computer and other prototypes at CES
ASUS looking into Android for Eee Phone and Eee PC
Apple wants 30 cents per song to upgrade your iTunes library
Another year, another round of Olympus cameras, one of which has
And now the PS3 gets its own Resident Evil 5 bundle
Acer adds DisplayLink multimedia dock to 22-inch P224W monitor
Accell introduces their USB 2.0 to VGA Adapter at CES
32-Bit Vs. 64-Bit Windows
21 Free Apps For Mac OS X That Are Absolutely Useful

RSS Digest – #9 – Back on track

Here are the links for: Tuesday, January 6th 2009…

Revision3 Launches Search, Improves Website
Linksys Wireless Home Audio System Streams All Around Your House, Secretly Aspires to Kill Sonos [Streaming]
CES 2009: Brief hands-on with HP’s Dv2
Buffalo releases new NAS with iPhone support
MWSF 2009
TechCrunch Redesign, More Ads, Less Blog
Eee PC T91 convertible tablet lives (Update: Video!)
Eee Keyboard: An Entire Touchscreen Home Theater PC [Asus]
Asus’ Eee Keyboard revealed
New Samsung Enterprise SSD
Logitech announces Harmony 1100 with customizable touch screen
Fastmac quietly releases a Mac-specific external Blu-ray drive
Did You Enjoy The Keynote Any Less Without Steve Jobs? [Qotd]
Watch the Entire Macworld 2009 Event [Macworld 2009].
Here Come The 12 Inch Netbooks, And Intel Isn’t Happy About It
G-DRIVE external SSD for the mac addict
Sony’s VAIO P ultraportable revealed
News: Massive Flickr photoset from Macworld Expo 2009 posted
First Look: Axiotron Modbook Pro tablet Mac
Buy Leopard, iWork ’09, iLife ’09 via the Mac Box Set
Buy A PC in July, Get Windows 7 Free
MacHeist
Where’s the Mac Mini? And Other Rumor Smashes! [Macworld 2009]
Review: iTunes Plus
D-Link announces 7-inch ‘SideStage’ USB monitor
Testing the iPhone’s New Wireless iTunes Downloads [Macworld 2009]
Say hello to iWork 09: Like iWork 08, but plus one
Apple Sends iWork to the Clouds, Introduces iWork.com [Macworld 2009]
DRM-Free Music at iTunes Store
News: iTunes goes DRM-free with variable pricing, OTA downloads for iPhone
iPhoto Gets A Facelift
When Livestreams Go Wrong: MacRumors Gets Hijacked
Apple Revamps iLife for ’09 with iPhoto Facial Recognition and More [Macworld 2009]
HTC fills a gap we didn’t know existed with the S743
Microsoft layoff rumors continue their swirl
VIA’s dual-core Nano still on track, but it’s not the Nano 3000
Mouse-maker Logitech to cut 525 salaried employees
CrunchDeals: $199 Eee for Newegg.com newsletter subscribers
Western Digital now has Mac-specific My Passport, My Book external hard drives
Wrist-worn flexible OLED prototype is for the military, but kids like it too
Apple Store page goes down, iWork ’09 mention goes up
Clearspring Lays Off 20%, President And COO Jay Rappaport Leaving
Whoops! iWork ‘09 shows up on Apple’s downloads page
SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone promised by Q1 2009
Best 5 MacWorld Expo Rumors
Online video viewing jumps 34 percent
Picasa Released for Mac, At Long Last [Señorita Pabla Picasa]
Flash Memory Production, Sales Down
Best Buy selling iPhone 3G refurbished for $149/$249
Truphone Guns For The All-in-one iPhone App – Adds Skype, Twitter And Other IM
Phoenix Technologies relaunches HyperSpace instant-on OS: now tastier, widely available
Verbatim launch quad interface external hard drives
Seagate unveils highest-density hard drive
Tech show bucks global downturn
MSI’s upgraded Wind U100 gets tested and overclocked
LG Digital Photo Frame TV makes sure there’s always something on
Playstation web browser not doing bad in comparison
10 Free Music Based Games for the iPhone & iPod Touch
Epson PowerLite Flagship 1080p Projector Is Super Bright, Super Clear For Under $3K [1080p Projector]
Seagate First To Demo USB 3.0
First! 14-Year-Old Already in Line for Macworld ’09 Keynote
Macworld 2009: The Gingerbread Mac [Gallery]
A new era for Macworld Expo