RSS Digest for Tuesday Augest 11th, 2009:

No, Really, I’m Studying… Textbooks on Your iPhone
Asimo costume: for best results, move robotically
Hotels That Tweet
La Petite URL
RFID-secured hard drive: sexy if it works
HP, Dr. Dre plan new ‘digital music ecosystem’
Netflix to hold second film recommendation contest
Carmack thinks Sony might release PS4 before new Xbox
Samsung, LG capture almost half of North American handset market?
The Verbatim Tough-N-Tiny is a tough, tiny 8GB USB drive
Safari 4.0.3
Think big: NASA pushed to fund 40 year research projects
‘Lost’ Star Elizabeth Mitchell Fights Aliens in ‘V’ Reboot
LG’s phone division cooking up netbook integration, ‘blooming’ keyboards, and a form factor you’ve never seen
Using Custom Icons in Windows Mobile 6.5
USAA Bank Will Let Customers Deposit Checks by iPhone
How Twitter Saved G.I. Joe
Sony finally admits NVIDIA chips are borking its laptops, offers free repair
How a Macworld Cover Is Made
Xbox 360 gets Netflix exclusively
Sinewave Modulated Adjustable Cannon
Is Sony Ericsson eyeing the netbook market?
Google provides peek into new search engine
Amazon also leaks Zune HD pricing
1 TB Hitachi 7200 Internal Drive – $64.99 AR
Hacker with Asperger’s Sentenced to 55 Months for Trucking Scheme
Apple Planning Some Super Secret Social App?
Google gets caffeine injection as search speeds up
Palm Pre soap brings webOS to the tub

- Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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Due to being majorly behind I did this as a combo.

Here are the links for:

Monday, February 16th 2009
Neuros Link: Netflix Bounty Claimed!
What are people saying about Internet Explorer 8 RC1?
Lenovo said to be prepping 12-inch IdeaPad S20 netbook
Motorola Demonstrates Android on E-Ink Display
iTunes goes DRM Free
Asus Eee Top PC runs it some touchscreen Opera
Nokia also joins Adobe initiative, Flash 10 for (almost) all
Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 ‘Bots Can Spot Their Favorite Color [Toy Fair 2009]
Nokia starts App Store rival
Nvidia Plans To Power $99 Mobile Internet Devices
Google’s Android Market accepts price tags
Windows Mobile 6.5 is finger friendly and packs a new browser
Adobe preps full Flash player for smartphones
VHS Toaster Eats Breakfast, Not Tapes [Kitchentech]
Windows Mobile 6.5 walkthrough with Engadget (now with video!)
Palm joins Adobe’s Open Screen Project, Pre to support Flash
News: Vegas casinos warned of card-counting iPhone app
Should Apple License Mac OS X?
‘Usability Is the Only Reason Mac Survived’
Windows Mobile 6.5 announced, Marketplace included
First Multi-Core Mobile Platform Demonstrated
Landmark copyright trial against Pirate Bay gets underway
S3 crams DisplayPort, HDMI and DVI onto $70 Chrome 540 GTX

Tuesday, February 17th 2009
Liberty Media rescues Sirius from bankruptcy
Sirius XM gets 11th-hour $530m loan
The World’s Oldest Emoticons (From 1881)
103-Inch Panasonic TV Morphs Into a Giant, Multitouch Table Hockey Game [Giant TVs]
Microsoft team hacks Silverlight for Chrome
17-inch unibody MacBook Pro gets disassembled, examined
Fujitsu transfers its HDD business to Toshiba
Microsoft says “we’ve put the worst behind us” on Red Ring of Death
Partners to Support Native Windows 7 Mobile Broadband
MS To Slip IE8 Into Vista and XP Through OEMs
Apple settles San Francisco store disability lawsuit
Palm Developer Network: Overview of WebOS
User data ownership on Facebook and why it doesn’t matter
News: Apple rejects ‘South Park’ iPhone application
Android Not Dead

Wednesday, February 18th 2009
Windows 7 Beta Brings New Functionality to Games Explorer
Video: Offline Gmail Web App for Webkit browser phones demoed
Mozilla, Skype support EFF’s case for iPhone jailbreaking
Microsoft interested in ‘virtual reality’ technology company
The case of the App Store ripoff
Boxee Loses Hulu Later This Week [Boxee]
MacBook’s “Unremovable” Battery Easy To Remove
Retro Cassette MP3 Player Runs on Finger Power [Mp3]
Google wins the Street View privacy suit.
CES: No Replacement for Macworld Expo
The Oregon Trail fording river onto iPhone
Regarding Microsoft’s Foray Into Retail
Latest Apple Security Update causes issues with tweaked Perl
Intel takes NVIDIA to court over chipset licensing
New exploit targets IE 7 hole patched last week
MacBook SMC 1.3 Update fixes slow battery startup times
News: Apple posts new iPod touch ad
Western Digital My Book World Edition 1TB NAS box
Samsung Promises ‘More Than Three’ Android Handsets By End Of Year [Android]

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Here are the links for: Friday, January 16th 2009…

1 In 3 Windows PCs Still Vulnerable To Worm Attack
10 Gadgets That Help You Survive in Old, Beater Cars [Tgif]
App Store Hits 500 Million Downloads
Apple Tells Dual-Link DVI Display Adapter Customers That Their Monitors Are Incompatible [Apple]
Apple To Use Nvidia’s Atom-Powered Ion Platform For Something: Mac Mini or Apple TV? [Rumor
ATi Drivers for Win 7 Beta Pulled
Debian on Android installer released
EU Antitrust Troubles Continue For Microsoft
For the child who’s not spoiled enough, there’s the $480 Porsche sled
Hawaii makes an early switch to all-digital TV
HD movies available for purchase in the US iTunes Store? I say it's a mistake.
HP rolling out new Mini-Notes soon?
Hulu rival adds more premium content
Java-based Bolt Joining the Mobile Browser Wars, Doesn't Look Horrible [Mobile Browsers]
Kogan Agora, The Australian Android Phone, Delayed Indefinitely [Kogan Agora]
LCD vs Plasma in 2009
Lenovo trots out new trifecta of unexciting desktops
Nancy’s Macworld Expo Product Roundup
Netbooks ate 20% of regular notebook sales last year
Netflix HD streaming shootout
New report claims piracy makes up 95 percent of all music downloads
Palm Pre to use Centro-sized battery (Updated)
Sony Online Entertainment Arrives on Steam
Sony’s MDR-EX36SC earbuds with dual-purpose speaker / case
Twitter May Have Found Its Business Model
VisualHub rising from the dead
What fair use? Three strikes and you’re out… of YouTube
Why the DTV switchover might be pushed back to June
Win 7 Tip: Sleep/Hibernate Mode Is Buggy, May Incapacitate Your Machine [Windows 7]
Windows 7 Runs So Much Better Than Vista On a Netbook [Impressions]

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Here are the links for: Monday, January 12th 2009…

Windows 7 gets installed on MacBook Pro [With VIDEO]
Windows 7 as “Linux killer”? How times have changed!
Why is finding a Jasper Xbox 360 such a pain in the neck?
What I Like About XTools Better Than Visual Studio
Video: Powermat’s wireless charging lineup in action
Video: BFG Tech’s on-case LCD screen
Uh oh – AMD’s new processors are no match for last year’s Intels
Troll Touch announces touch-ified 24″ LED Apple displays
Storm worm smackdown as researchers unpick control system
Sony’s flexible OLED mockups
Sling Founders Leave Sling Media
Shifting OSes: From Vista to XP
Sharp does the unthinkable, intros slotMusic-friendly sound systems
Samsung Q1EX tablet shows itself, gets detailed
PS3 Controllers hacked to work with Windows
Post-Palm Pre, what’s up with Android?
PogoPlug NAS Adapter takes it to the next level
Palm Pre pricing update: $399 is indeed sans contract
Palm Pre and webOS: lies, damn lies, and statistics
Olidata Conte ultraportable makes its shiny debut
NVIDIA Ion platform gets demonstrated at CES
Next Palm Pre WebOS Phone Will Be Cheap, Maybe Centro 2 [Rumor]
News: Sites offer ‘cracked’ iPhone apps
New LED Cinema Displays?
MSI to sell MacBook Air-rival with Intel Pentium chips
Monday Apple Links: Macworld Expo ‘09 hangover edition
Microsoft resumes Windows 7 test downloads
Microsoft Leads $24 Million Round In N-Trig To Bring Multitouch To PCs
McAfee finds Google Code suffering malware abuse
Macworld 2009: Interview with VMware’s Peter Kazanjy
Keepin’ it real fake, part CLXVII: the BlueBerry is exactly what you
Intel Classmate 2 Already For Sale, Priced at $550 [Classmate Pc]
How to Sing Songs You Don’t Know: Still Alive (Portal)
Here Comes iPhone Nano, But Not In the US
HDi introduced MKV and Torrent supporting Blu-ray players
Hacker Charged With Selling Modems That Get Free Broadband
Google Chrome set to release for Mac this summer
Google adds HTTPS-only browsing to Chrome | Zero Day |
Community Presentation Video
Asus’s Eee PC 1000HE pulls the shift key in from right field

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Here are the links for: Sunday, January 11th 2009…

Xbox 360 IPTV Service Not Dead, Just Sleeping (and Testing) [Ces 2009]
Windows 7 Problem Steps Recorder: miracle tool
Windows 7 Open Beta Download Limit Lifted Until January 24 [Microsoft]
Windows 7 Beta is LIVE!!!!!!!
What’s In the Macworld 2009 Speaker Bag?
Video: Viliv S7 hands on and VAIO P comparo
Video: Powermat’s wireless charging lineup in action
Video: Motorola Aura in action
Video: Engadget CES trailer tour!
The Nyko Wand May Be Just as Good as the Wiimote, Or Even Better [Wii]
Storm Worm Botnet “Cracked Wide Open”
Stop Trying To Turn My TV Into A Computer
Sony’s DualShock 3 controller hacked to work in Windows
Someone Is Lying!
So how’s that Windows 7 beta treating you?
Robert Sayre: Ian Bicking on Atompub vs. WebDAV
Maxell M&M’s Earbuds Will Probably End Up In Your Kid’s Stomach [Crapmodo]
Ibiza Rumble prototype hands-on: a touchscreen PMP with Rhapsody, webkit
How to Make a Search Form With Multiple Search Options
How green is Apple?
Grippity drops by again to show off gaming mockup and original keyboard model
Crash course on authoring Windows 7 Troubleshooting Packs
CNN – is Microsoft Vista dead?
Chrome On the Way For Mac and Linux
CEA confirms Apple-related exhibits at CES 2010
Best Free 3-Column WordPress Themes
ASUS Eee Top touchscreen PC zombie hands-on
A Software Populist Who Doesn’t Do Windows

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