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RSS Digest #84 – iPhone OS on Mac Pro, Warp Drives, and Twitter on the Commodore 64… o rly? kthnx bi

RSS Digest for Sunday, June 14th, 2009:

PSP Go battery life worse than PSP-3000
Bigger Loss: Cell Phone or Wallet?
A Twitter Client For the Commodore 64
The Pirate Bay Joins Anonymous’ Fight Against Scientology
CrunchDeals: Asus Eee 900 for $170
Swine Flu Vaccine In Production
Memory and Perspective
Theoretical Warp Drives Theorized To Be Black Hole-Creating Doomsday Devices [Space]
The Daily Show on New York Times: Read It and Weep (with Daily Show video)
DTV Transition Mostly Smooth, Windows Media Center Problems
Pioneer explodes your dashboard with new AVIC U, X and Z-series in-dash navigation systems
MySpace problems may spread to Facebook, Twitter
What Intel Can Teach Google About the Cloud
Four years later: Why did Apple drop PowerPC?
Does Microsoft’s Bing have Google running scared?
CrunchDeals: 37-inch 720p LCD TV for $398
DIY High Speed Photography Studio In the Comfort of Your Own Home [DIY]
PS2 Casemod Lives Inside Jack Thompson’s Book About Video Game Violence [Casemods]
Weird Science ponders angry flies and guilty dogs
Apple and the Environment
Well, that explains the 8-hour battery life…[MacBook Pro]
Talkcast tonight: 10pm post-WWDC wrap-up
Google Voice About to Get More Amazing By Letting You Port Your Number [Google Voice]
Does America Need to Make Things?
Mac laptop glossy screens hazardous to your posture?
Ocean Currents Proposed As Cause of Magnetic Field
Samsung Omnia Pro to be the Louvre B7610?
Nintendo outsells competition nearly 2 to 1 in May
Win a high-tech wheelbarrow for your Dad
iPhone OS on a touchscreen monitor, multi-touch and al
Alienware M17x unboxed… by Mr. Bicep
Windows Weekly 111: An F.U. To The E.U.

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

RSS Digest #83 – *insert witty comment here* … meh

RSS Digest for Saturday, June 13th, 2009:

Microsoft Finally Gives A Good Reason to Download IE8!
Quick Look: 18.4-inch Averatec D1100 All-In-One PC
Tweak your Windows 7 Logon UI “button set”
GPS coordinates lead demolition crew to destroy wrong house
Roland TU-88: Everything you need not to piss of the neighbors with your rendition of Sweet Home Alabama
Reduce Your Student Loan Debt With Income Based Reductions
Shuttle’s H7 5800 packs Core i7 and all the trimmings into a small form factor PC
how’s that 11 million downloads workin’ for you, apple?
Hands Down, The Best Facebook Vanity URL
Looking To Score An iPhone 3G S From AT&T This Friday? Not So Fast…
Slick-Looking iPod Dock Packs Slot-Loading CD Player, Radio, and OLED Display [Accessories]
AT&T Sells Out of Initial Batch of iPhone 3Gs Pre-Orders
Twitter “twitpocalypse” affects Mac, iPhone apps
Dell S2409W 24-inch full HD LCD Monitor – $199
MSI’s Skinny 15.6-Inch X-Slim X600 Laptop Specs Revealed [Laptops]
Coming soon: Google’s micro-blogging search engine
AnandTech on the New 15-Inch MacBook Pro’s Battery Life
On the Road Again – what items do you carry?
OS X Runs (Poorly, We Admit) on Sony Vaio P [Hackintoshing]
Comfort Wipe: I warsh myself with a rag on a stick
The Secret to Dealing With Infrastructure Headaches
Microsofts Explains European Version Of Windows 7
NASA kick-starting lunar science
Student Who Released Code From Assignments Accused of Cheating
Media Misreports on Biased Pirate Bay Judge
Do We Really Want Only One Version Of Windows 7 ?
NASA scrubs Endeavour launch
Separated at Birth? [Thinking Out Loud]
Default Passwords Blamed In $55M PBX Hacks
Justin Scott: How many add-ons are there?
DAEMON Tools Pro v4.10
FlyCast 2.0 Public Beta for BlackBerry Curve, Storm, and Bold
Geek Art: Needlework Brings Together Programmers, Crafters

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

RSS Digest #82 – iPhone owners are superior beings?, Psystar, and the Twitpocalypse… we are all gonna die! Wait, what?!

The RSS Digest for Friday, June 12th, 2009:

Father of the cell phone
Why Smart Grids Could Be Slow to Beat Web 2.0
Gaming hardware, software sees slump in May
Atom N270 / N280-based netbooks may be stuck at Windows XP
Windows 7 to push up netbook prices
Windows 7 UAC code-injection vulnerability: video demonstration, source code released
Why Mozilla could beat IE in a European ground war
Twitter profile hack pwns Mormons
Palm Pixie is real, but may never materialize
Lenovo G530 for $379
Opera to ‘reinvent the web’ in four days
Apple readies new retail store design in Arizona
An end to the endless cycle?
How To Seize a Laptop And Make It Stick
Casio Exilim EX-H10 shoots 1,000 images on single charge
Blu-ray Managed Copy Full-Res Backups Are Only Good in Theory [Blu-Ray]
Safari 4: 11 Million Downloads in 3 Days
When the Cell Phone Is the Office Phone, Taxing It Is Wrong
Dell and Samsung placing orders for 11.6-inch netbook screens?
The World’s Smallest DV Camera Could Reveal World’s Largest Scandal [Video]
Major UK ISP: video streaming’s “free ride” is over
iPhone owners are superior beings, says survey
Let’s Play… Spot The MacBook Pro!
US hardware sales collapse in May
DriveSavers offers hard drive failure simulator for iPhone
SDXC set to blow your mind next year, with 64GB capacity out of the gate
Psystar: We’ll gladly pay you tomorrow for 581 copies of Leopard today
Recreating Tesla’s Wireless Power Experiments [Tesla]
Bring Back MST3K!
Twitpocalypse Not Now: Crisis Averted
Running Custom Firmware on the Palm Pre Is Rather Easy [Palm Pre]
Bio-ammonia Plans Proceeding

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

RSS Digest #81 – OLED kills DLP, Lycos Coming Back… WHY?, and Mac Attacks

RSS Digest for Thursday, June 11th, 2009:

Data Protection Makes Identifying Online Pirates a Nightmare
Scientists Discover Superconducting Material That’s Just Two Atoms Thick [Future Tech]
Researchers ditch DLP, develop OLED panel-based mini projector
Sharp’s remote controlled LED light-bulbs generate seven-shades of smart
US brain-plug interface gets live human trials
Security holes poked in Chinese compulsory PC filter plan
Linux is first OS to support USB 3.0
Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran?
Microsoft’s Free Antivirus Software – Will You Use It?
Samsung goes official on the WB1000/TL320 digicam
Over 50,000 Palm Pres Sold, Over 150,000 Pre Applications Downloaded
Epson to mass-produce world’s first HTPS-TFT panel
New AMD Neo Athlon / Turion chips emerge in HP Pavilion dv2z
Lycos To Relaunch Search Services In Europe, For Whatever Reason
‘Bionic ear’ can detect Wi-Fi, FM,GPS signals simultaneously
Does the Wii Provide A “Watered-Down” Game Experience?
Product News – OWC Announces DDR3 1066MHz RAM Upgrades for New MacBook Pro Models
Apple already testing 10.5.8 update to Mac OS X Leopard
Scientists Create Form of Pre-Life
Nobody Recognizes The Chrome Icon, So Google Wants You To Make A Video About It
Periodic table adding new element
How to modify RSS
How to Install Windows 7 from a Flash Drive
Windows 7 build 7229 leaked
Microsoft plays recession card with Novell
Opera lashes out over Microsoft’s browser removal
Six-Core Nehalem Processors Might Arrive This Year [Processors]
Two new Mac attacks surface
RedEye turns iPhone into universal remote control
Psystar Owes Apple $75k For Some Reason [Psystar]
AMD plans ‘Congo’ chipset for a future world of thin-and-lights, dodging netbooks for now
Doom Comes to the iPhone
Handlebar-mounted bike mp3 player sounds dumb but it’s totally not
Shuttle Endeavour set for grueling station mission
Twitter Starts Verifying Accounts Without Actually Verifying Them
DRM licensing group presses on with plan to plug analog hole

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

RSS Digest Combo – #66,#67,#68

Another late set of posts..

Here are the links for:

Saturday, March 7th 2009

New StreamDesk Update
Solving the TinyUrl centralization problem
Schmidt: Google ‘unlikely’ to buy Twitter soon
What the Heck Is Twitter?It’s not a Google killer, and it’s not a Facebook killer.
Why TV Lost
Cydia Opens iPhone App Store for the Jailbroken Community [Jailbreak!]
Has ‘cloud-computing’ lost its VC luster?
Smartstrip surge protector and money saver
All Circuit City stores set to close tomorrow
Did Apple OK price cut on latest MacBook Air?
New Snow Leopard test build has more Cocoa goodness
New CableCARD diagnostic tool for Windows Media Center makes installation slightly less frustrating
Onkyo rolls out Sotec-branded E702A9 media PC
OWC Releases 4GB RAM Upgrades for New Mac Mini

Friday, March 6th 2009

Palm’s Sugar Daddy Serves Up Another Load of iPhone Trash Talk [Palm Vs Apple]
ASUS shows off Wireless LCD prototype, “Green” monitors
Digg CEO Jay Adelson on FoxBusiness.com
Apple’s Time Capsule, Airport Extreme Update Adds Drive Sharing For Older Units [Apple]
Apple denies second round of layoff rumors
The 100 oldest registered .com domains
Hallelujah: Microsoft confirms IE8, WMP, others can be removed from Windows 7
Unlike PCs, Apple’s Mac prices not collapsing yet
White Chocolate Keyboard Most Definitely Melts In Your Hands [Art]
Cydia developer planning independent iPhone App Store, others planning jailbreak service, adult app store
Circuit City RIP, 03-08-09
Twitter power-users, monitor calibration, and Geneva Conventions
Hulu content returns to Boxee in a different form
How To Install a Second Hard Drive in the New Mac Mini [Mods]

Safari 4 Buddy 1.0 changes hidden prefs | Utilities | Macworld
‘Toys “R” Us’ Buys Toys.com Domain Name For $5.1M

Thursday, March 5th 2009

Sapphire launching Radeon HD 4870 with 2GB of memory
firefox 3 in second place
Watchmen Steve Jobs Alter Ego’s Old School Macintosh SE/30 [Apple]
OCZ jumps into the netbook game with the Neutrino
9 Browsers Compared For Speed and Features
NVIDIA’s GeForce 9600M causing issues in 17-inch MacBook Pro?
Lars Ulrich ‘pirated’ his own CD
Core i7 laptop weighs 12 pounds, has a one-hour battery
Clearwire stays the course despite losses
HDMI-equipped ASUS Eee Box 206 eyes-on
Georgetown Finally Greenlights Apple Store
Ustream Launches Mobile Video Broadcasting Apps
New Samsung Q1 UMPC, the Q1EX
FireWire target disk mode to the rescue
Windows 7 test build ‘turns off’ Internet Explorer 8
Google Chrome now bundled with Real Player
Safari 4 Buddy 1.0 changes hidden prefs
GameTap to receive major update, lose Mac support
Mac Mini 2009 Review [Review]
Vista SP2 release candidate gets public airing
MSI WindBOX dismounts LCD, acts all proper at CeBIT
Apple Gets Nehalem Early, h264 and VMWare Performance Boosts
YouTube, Universal near new video deal
Joost Continues Fight For Relevancy, Teams Up With Social Network Netlog
Apple developers mark a year of iPhone apps
First look: Qt 4.5 rocks for rapid cross-platform development
ASUS: Our Eee PC 1000He is better than Acer’s Aspire One D150, fashion elegant too
HDTV Pinball Machine is Almost as Good as the Real Thing [Pinball]
7 Cool Research Projects From Yahoo

RSS Digest – #45

Here are the links for: Wednesday, February 11th 2009…

How Palm’s OS Went From PDAs to Smartphones [Palm OS]
50 Seriously Useful Windows 7 Tips
New Palm Pre details emerge
Elevator music files for Chapter 11
Ripdev launches anti-piracy service for iPhone developers
MS To Offer Free Windows 7 Upgrade To Vista Users
mophie’s Juice Pack Air: world’s thinnest iPhone 3G battery / case
Windows 7 Enterprise Edition Customer Benefits
Vizio Drops Out of Plasma TVs [Plasma]
NVidia’s Ion Netbook Platform First Appearing in a…Desktop [Nvidia]

Google Book Settlement Site Is Up; Paying Authors $60 Per Scanned Book
Know Your Rights: Does the Kindle 2′s text-to-speech infringe authors’ copyrights?
Palm’s done with PalmOS, plans to get Pre on other carriers in 2010, speaks to patent issues
Sirius XM may go into bankruptcy
Minor OS X Dock bug could result in serious data loss
Alcatel assembling a Lego (or Lego-esque) phone?
Microsoft places stamp of approval on Vista-based Ion SFF PCs
Google Brings Location-Awareness to Email
Pandora handheld sneaking towards production, hopefully
Windows 7 handcuffs for productivity
News: Rockstar switches to iTunes for GTA music partnership
Core i7 (Nehalem) Based MacBook Pros Possible in Q4 2009?
SanDisk shows off multi-level cell make-over
Analyst predicts cut-price, updated 3G iPhone models
Archos 10 netbook reviewed: a little rough around the edges
Adobe relaunches AIR developer’s trading website

RSS Digest – #23 – Another late day edition..

Here are the links for: Tuesday, January 20th 2009…

“Shining” phone steals a little Agora magic
“Solve a problem with Windows 7 beta” actually works?
10 Free DNS and IP Lookup Tools – or DNSstuff.com Alternatives
13 Free Web Apps To Simplify The Designer’s Work life
9 Ways Twitter Can Help in the Real World
AMD Cuts Prices in Response to Intel Pricing Drops
Analysts: iPhone Outselling Android Nearly 6-to-1
Apple Hit with Permissions Law Suit
Apple stops requiring serial numbers for boxed iWork ’09
Belkingate – as new evidence turns up, the company keeps mum
CBS’s ‘Worst Week’ Mistakes iPod for iPhone, Sends Nerdier Viewers into Convulsions [Goofs]
Converting video with GPU acceleration tested
Desktop integrated graphics shoot-out
Don’t fall for the next generation of Phishers!
Google expands and disbands
Google Gdrive Is The Real Deal?
Got $200? Then buy a matte screen for your 15-inch MacBook Pro!
Ha ha ha… Psystar
Hardwood and Leather MacBook Case Is Maybe Not So Practical [Laptops]
How the Downandup Worm works
How to Find the Best Computer Mouse
How to Get Tons of Mac Software for Free: MacHeist
Intel cuts quad-core chip prices by 40 percent
LG shows off plasma TV with one billion-to-one contrast ratio
Logitech is in financial trouble, mass layoffs imminent
New OS X research warns of stealthier Mac attacks
Phoenix Technologies HyperSpace instant-on OS coming to ASUS
Plantronics laying off 18% of employees, now!
Polaroid fans want their instant film
Retromodo: A Modern Day Unboxing of a 1984 Atari Touch Tablet [Retromodo]
RIM opens the BlackBerry Application storefront, says it’s going to shake up “Music 2.0″RIM opens the BlackBerry Application storefront, says it’s going to shake up “Music 2.0″
Sega America Lays Off Staff
Sony’s VAIO P spotted for sale in Hong Kong, price tag spotted too
Swedish file sharers’ privacy in jeopardy
Video demo: Eee PC Touch UI
Video: Cooler Master replaces car starter with PSU, it works
Video: OQO model 2+ MID gets unboxed, previewed
What’s New in Windows 7: The Taskbar!
Whose notebook is it anyway?
Wiimote and skateboard hacked into a controller, Gator not impressed
Windows 7 – A View From Across The Sea
Windows 7 install roundup
Windows Mobile 6.5 reportedly will include MobileMe competitor (that works)
WTF? Has Firefox been failing for you under OS X?