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

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

Tags: Acer, Android, Apple, Apps, Chrome, Coffee, Design, dvd, e-book, Facebook, Feds, Frankenbook, Gaming, Google, Headset, HP, HTML, i5, iFlash, Intel, iPhone, iTablet, Javascript, kiosks, Laptop, Logitech, Mac, MetroPCS, Microsoft, Mouse, MSDN, Netbook, netbooks, Newton, notebook, Office.com, Pavilion, Prepaid, RFIDs, RTM, skins, startup, Store, Technet, Touch, TV, Twitter, war, warranty, Weird, WIndows, Windows 7, Xbox

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

Tags: Acrobat, Adobe, Android, Apple, Arrington, Beta, Bing, BlackBerry, Blu-ray, Browser, CentOS, CES, China, Cloud, Clues, code, cyberwar, Display, DIY, e-book, Ebay, Electronic, Facebook, family, Fat, FCC, Firefox, Frankenskype, Futurama, Global, Google, hijacking, iPhone, Iraq, Jailbreaking, laptops, lawsuit, LCD, Legal, Leopard, Linux, Logitech, Mac, Mail, Malware, Maps, McAfee, Medical, Microsoft, MiFi, Mobile, Mozilla, MySpace, NetNewsWire, Nike, Nintendo, Pac-Man, Palm, pc, Perfect, Phone, Pirate, plan, pre, pro, Probe, profits, PS2, PS3, PSP, Psystar, race, reader, Redmond, Release, responds, returning, rich, robot, Rose, RSS, Samsung, Science, search, Season, Security, silverlight, Skype, Snow, Social, Software, Sony, SplashID, Sunbird, SUSE, T-Mobile, Talk, Time, tools, Trump, Twitter, updates, Verizon, VFX, video, Vortex, Web, webcams, WIndows, Wired, wow, XULRunner-based, yahoo

RSS Digest for Wednesday, June 17th, 2009:

CrunchDeals: A sub-$100 Blu-ray player
Mozilla pushes Firefox 3.5 RC to beta testers
Weather Balloons to Serve Up Web Access in Africa
Nerd Bird flights out of Silicon Valley are cancelled
SkypeCap 2.0 adds QuickTime .mov support
Citigroup: eBay Still Has Plenty to Prove
Timezone confusion baffles eager 3.0 downloaders
Apple warns about iTunes syncing with “non-Apple” devices
Wikipedia turned into book
How well do Netbooks work with Web apps?
Logitech aims to make video calling easier with Vid
Government report: climate change here, mitigation needed now
IBM Throws $100 Million at Mobile
Wireless-networked, WMD-sniffing bugs. Yeah, it’s a Pentagon project …
Website anti-malware service Dasient launches
NSA Email Surveillance Pervasive and Ongoing
US broadband report: more popular, more expensive
Fake golf club holds 48 ounces of booze
TweetDeck for iPhone Lightning Review [IPhone Apps]
Buffalo BSH4A02 USB hub loves switches, hates vampires
HDS drive array failure suspected in bank giant’s ATM outage
10 (More) Ways to Provoke a Geek
OCZ Neutrino 10″ Do-It-Yourself netbook review
LG 15-inch OLED TV on sale in December
Will new browsers really upgrade the Web?
Dell replaces entry-level EqualLogic boxes
Internet Explorer 8 treasure hunt: Microsoft Australia hides $10,000 on a website, find it, keep it
Apple tells UPS to stop overachieving, puts brakes on early iPhone 3G S deliveries
Ghostbusters game is graphically crippled on PS3
Windows 7 Deep Dive Lab Event
PlayStation 2 is still the most played console
First Anti-Stab Knife
On the lookout for Push Notification apps
Twitter. Needs. Competition.
Netbooks Mutate to Meet Market Challenges

- Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

Tags: Apple, Beer, Blu-ray, BUffalo, Citigroup, climate Change, Dekk, DIY, Ebay, email, Firefox, Ghostbusters, Gulf, IBM, IE, Internet, iPhone, iTunes, Logitech, Mozilla, Netbook, NSA, OCZ, OLED, Playstation, PS2, PS3, RC, SkypeCap, Sony, Timezone, TV, Twitter, UPS, usb, Weather Ballon, Web, Web-apps, wikipedia, Windows 7, Wireless

All through time eventually companys hit a point of cutting costs to make a bigger profit… but that cost cutting can have major side effects if they take it too far. For example the lower cost as it is Logitech OEM Wheel mouse. I have been getting these for years and the source of them has recently started selling them for higher price.

I will be doing a point by point comprison of key points/flaws of the old and new design.

Old Design

The key points of the old design are: Multi part scroll wheel assembly socketed cable hookup Wheel Design Rubber wheel with plastic spokes to track via optical sensors Wheel on plastic support assmbly Wheel is on oiled peg with metal click feed back support on left and spring support on right mutli part wheel assembly clicks down in a preset poslition to click button

New Design

The key points of the new design are: Metal Weight in top all in one plastic wheel assembly with thin coating of rubber hard wired mouse cable Wheel Design all in one plastic wheel assembly with thin rubber coating Wheel assembly supported by two poorly fastened support posts lower cost scroll sensor that relies on the center of wheel assembly having contact with sensor Overall this design sucks and broke after one drop and now the wheel is dead.

Tags: Crap, Hardware, Logitech, Mouse, New, Old