Posts Tagged ‘Open Source’

RSS Digest #90 – News, news, and more news, plus the evidence knife

June 21st, 2009 by mattatobin | Comments Off | Filed in RSS Digest

RSS Digest for Sunday, June 21st, 2009:

The Commodore 64 emulating iPhone app that coulda been a contender
Robotic Ferret Will Detect Hidden Drugs And Weapons
25% of US teens don’t consider it cheating to store notes on smartphones and peek during exams
Evidence knife makes perfect grab bag gift for the office backstabber
Meizu CEO: current M8 upgradeable to 3G, estimated cost about $190 to $220
Covering a small city
Lasers-guided cars could allow us to eat and sleep at the wheel while travelling in 70mph convoys
Trying to hack a good night’s sleep
Google Suggest Disabled In China Due To Por
Weird Science: giant sperm ahoy!
Even More Head-Scratching Apple Analysis From CNBC [Cnbc]
Could Palm’s openness to hacking webOS bring about (another) downfall of their platform?
QMO: QMO is now 12.5% more Usable!
How RIAA Case Should Have Played Out
How to Use Alltop to Add Content to Your Website, Blog, and Feed Reader
Windows Weekly 112: Spring Loaded Paul
Defogging the Cloud in IT
SNES USB cartridge adapter should set eBay aflame
KindleGate: Confusion Abounds Regarding Kindle Download Policy
The Newspaper Isn’t Dead Yet
Google Snaps Up One Million Phone Numbers As Google Voice Launch Looms Large [Google]
Verizon MiFi lets iPhone download big files on the go
Microsoft Open Source Licensing
Windows 7 Hits a New Low
Calendar: Our Menu has Changed…
John O’Duinn: Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
Canonical licences ’satanists’ selling Ubuntu-esque t-shirts
browser memory usage
Intel explains new Core i3, i5 and i7 CPU branding
Woman with no computer ’settles’ with RIAA over piracy claim

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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RSS Digest #87 – Twitter Chess, Win7 Starter no OEM Branding, and other great stuff…

June 18th, 2009 by mattatobin | Comments Off | Filed in General, RSS Digest

RSS Digest for Thursay, June 18th, 2009:

OEMs, partners can’t brand Windows 7 Starter either
Panasonic releases 85-inch plasma display
Safa rolls out accelerometer-equipped G3 PMP
Google invests $2.6M in startup tied to Brin
Pre-order Halo 3: ODST and get Sgt. Johnson later
Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty
What’s the Best Hard Drive Enclosure to Buy?
Bluetooth enabled dress lights-up for incoming calls
A facelift for Facebook in-boxes, but is it enough?
Smaller reactor design for fusion may work in a “pinch”
Wired on the Race for Netflix’s Million-Dollar Prize
Super Talent’s MasterDrive SX SSDs would go great with an old MacBook Pro
Google revs up smart charging for plug-ins
Big Opportunities for Semiconductors in LED Lighting: Report
GPS Device + Web Access = Never Get Lost Again
People are still using Bing.com a few weeks later
LG-NComputing promise: 11 users, 1 PC
Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Application ID
new firefox logos
TweetDeck Update Adds Multi-Column iPhone Client, Account Sync
Rock-on with some concrete speakers
The Young Entrepreneur Stereotype Bites the Dust
Motorola’s Endeavor HX1 Bluetooth headset packs ‘true’ bone conduction technology, modicum of style
Trick for enabling MMS on the iPhone – UPDATE
Tenenbaum P2P circus: judge’s “indulgence is at an end”
How to Play Chess on Twitter
Microsoft beating Mozilla…in open-source licensing
Windows 7 licensing situation a “disaster” for businesses?
StarForce DRM making a comeback?
Opera Unite Web Server Benchmarked

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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RSS Digest Combo – #72,#73

March 16th, 2009 by kteck | Comments Off | Filed in RSS Digest

First digest post done on mac :)

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Sunday, March 15th 2009

Motion’s J3400 rugged tablet PC boasts dual batteries, outdoor display
Boxee remote app for iPhone and iPod Touch available on App Store
Clock ticks for plasmas, LCDs
Old Habits Die Hard
Surprise! Google Earth used for robbery
Patent bares rumor: Apple TV gearing up for games?
Comcast, Sony to open joint retail store
Sprint Treo Pro now finally available, for real this time
SXSWi: Web Awards Honor 2009’s Big Names, Underdogs
Four Things The New iPhone Must Have!
iPhone 3.0 to have copy and paste, Pre-like features — but no background apps
Windows 7 to officially support logon UI background customization
Cell Phone “Jammers” = “Pandor’s Box”
New Life for Older PCs
Stopper Postcard Measures Delivery Speed While Stressing Out Postal Workers [Pointless]
UK ISPs Could Be Forced To Block Or Restrict P2P
Holy Cats! There is a DRM chip inside the iPod Shuffle earbuds! [Update]
Delivery Status touch for iPhone
Would you buy an Intel smartphone?

Saturday, March 14th 2009

Over 80 bug fixes due in Mac OS X 10.5.7 “Juno”
SXSW: AT&T’s Spotty Service Frustrates iPhone Users
TUAW @SXSW: The iPhone Gaming Panel
Live Images From Google Mars Now Available [Mars]
At SXSW, attendees confront Twitter saturation
SXSW: ‘Dead Space,’ a ‘Deep Media’ Case Study
Are You Interested In “Wearable Technology”?
Google Releases Jaiku Code!
Video: Apple Nehalem-based Mac Pro unboxing and hands-on
Apple Facing Lawsuit Over Exploding Ipod
Public Bug Tracking and Open-Source Policy
Will Apple sell iPhone themes on iTunes?
Bell Canada doesn’t want to share next-gen fiber network
Rumor: A Premium App Store for Even Pricier iPhone Apps? [Apple]

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RSS Digest Combo – #67,#68,#69,#70

March 14th, 2009 by kteck | Comments Off | Filed in RSS Digest

Another late set of posts.. Sorry for being SO late I blame the jailbreak research.

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Thursday, March 12th 2009

Amazon Web Services Rolls Out New Pricing Model For EC2
Apple invites media to sneak peek of iPhone 3.0 on March 17
Apple ready for third generation of iPhone
Apple releases iTunes 8.1
Apple to shift to voice interface for iPods, iPhones?
Asus merging EEE PC and netbook divisions: Who’s next?
Can Intel Thrive in a Post x86 World?
Completing the Windows Experience with Windows Live
Dell unveils the Studio One 19 all-in-one desktop
Google Checkout gets more expensive
GrandCentral Sputters Back To Life as Google Voice, Adds Voicemail Transcription, SMS Support [Google Voice]
IE8 Gets You Where You Want To Go, Quickly
Intel rated leading chip manufacturer again, AMD slips out of top ten
MSI makes the CS120 ‘Nettop’ official
New beta paves way for Firefox 3.5
Paragon announces NTFS for Mac OS X 7.0, lets you access NTFS partitions from a Mac
Reader Reaction: New iPod shuffle
Scosche releases iPod Shuffle headphones, Apple’s earbud hegemony broken
Shuffle 2k9 dissected
Sirius XM developing iPhone / iPod touch streaming radio app
Stephen Fry: The internet and Me
The Worst Proprietary Gadget Offenses [Shame]
Unicorn Wishes: If Only iPhone OS 3.0 Had These Very Cool Things! [Apple]
Upcoming Adium release to bring Twitter integration
Windows 7: Moving beyond Vista
You’ve never seen so much cabling, so neatly arranged

Wednesday, March 11th 2009

Adobe Fixes Recent PDF Flaw, But Not Before Auto Exploit
Apple shrinks its iPod Shuffle
Apple to take delivery of 10-inch touchscreens
Backstage: One More Thing: Apple’s New Approach to iPod “Generations”
Brush up on your History of OS Interface Design
Cupcake Android update coming to G1 in April
EU open-source document reflects Microsoft influence
Fusion-io ioDrive Duo is the Worlds Fastest SSD [Storage]
Google Also Likes To Use FriendFeed For R&D, Reader Gets Conversations
Google Now Lets You Target Ads At Yourself
Inside the Mac mini
Is the Apple Netbook Really an Ebook? [Rumor]
iTunes 8.1 coming soon with speed improvements, says Apple
Microsoft Adds New Line Of Notebook Accessories
Microsoft gets extension in EU antitrust case
Microsoft unveils Windows Marketplace fees, splits, hopes, and dreams
New Apple tablet rumors point to Kindle clones?
Redesigned iPod Shuffle, With VoiceOver
SmartQ 5 gets peeped, for reals

Tuesday, March 10th 2009

Acer Aspire One mod adds eSATA port, an element of danger
Apple to let naughty words flow on Tweetie 1.3
Gigabyte’s M1028 netbook / tablet hits the FCC
How to prevent piracy: sell only one copy of your song, ever
How Vista Mistakes Changed Windows 7 Development
iMac (early 2009) in-depth impressions
iPhone Nano Rumor #5,838,321: Screen stays the same, Home button moved to the side
iPhone: Renegade app store opens but Apple wants to kill it
Is IE8 Trident’s Last Stand?
Man punts ‘prototype’ iPhones on eBay
Microsoft hoping gimped Windows 7 Starter on netbooks will drive upgrades, revenue
More sources “confirm” Apple’s netbook plans
News: Apple kills eBay iPhone prototype, beta OS YouTube video
News: Update to popular Twitter client Tweetie rejected by Apple
Norton Users Worried By PIFTS.exe, Stonewalling By Symantec
Palm Issues Official Retraction of Roger McNamee’s Pre Crazy Talk
Reasons To Use Internet Explorer
Take-Two posts wider 1Q loss, higher sales
UK gov gets twitchy on Google feature creep
Woz dances: “like watching a Teletubby going mad”

Monday March 9th 2009

24 Solid State Drives Open ALL of Microsoft Office In .5 Seconds [Clips]
5 things Apple could be doing with their new touch screens
A gamer’s take on the new Mac mini
Analyst sees Windows 7 done by summer
App Store hits 6000 games available
Apple debuts another iPod touch web ad
ASUS showcases HD-minded Eee Top ET2203 and ET2003
Cebit 09 too dead to trash says Greenpeace
Google Docs suffers serious security lapse
Google issues first Android Dev Phone 1 update, clarifies paid app situation
How to Delete Any Online Account
Integrated Graphics Living on Borrowed Time
iPhone app phones home to foil pirates
iPhone developers unable to renew contracts
iPhone now has more applications than Windows Mobile
iPhone prototype surfaces on eBay, aims to fetch a pretty penny
Is a touchscreen Apple netbook imminent?
Microsoft’s Turner: Yahoo! search deal, but no acquisition
Mozilla bumps up Firefox 3.1 to 3.5
QuickTime X is more player, less chrome in latest 10.6 build
Running the Windows 7 beta on a MacBook
Seagate and AMD showing off SATA 3.0 and 6Gbps hard drives
Snow Leopard to Add 4-Finger Multi-Touch Gestures to Original MacBook Air

Super-rugged Dell Latitude E6400 XFR is tougher than you
Vista to XP ‘downgrade’ lawsuit revised
VMWare Fusion vs. Parallels Desktop for Mac: Which Is Faster? [Windows On Mac]
Why we’ve reached the end of the camera megapixel race
Windows 7 – More Stuff To Turn Off
Windows 7: Moving beyond Vista
YouTube blocks music videos in UK

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RSS Digest Combo – #58,#59,#60

March 1st, 2009 by kteck | Comments Off | Filed in RSS Digest

Another late set of posts..

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Friday, February 27th 2009

Microsoft’s Child ‘I’m a PC’ Ads Only Works With Little Girls Apparently [I'm A PC]
Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage + video)
Psion responds to “netbook” challengers, says it does so still sell the NetBook Pro
Preview: Boxee social media center for Windows
Google: ‘New Code’ Crashed Gmail, Sorry, Won’t Happen Again
Acer “Hornet”: Wii-like PC game platform
Camino 2.0 beta 2 for Mac now available
Run BASIC
LG denies plasma TV withdraw claims
Inside the Recompute Cardboard PC [Greener Gadgets]
World of Warcraft: ‘the crack cocaine of the computer world’
Sega Dreamcast + iMac = iCast
10 ways to make Chrome as good as Firefox
Google Street View integrates user images
Apple cracks down on emoji apps
Microsoft to remove need for QuickTime in Windows 7
Microsoft’s Business Model
USB cable with inline card reader
Australian Censorship Scheme Gets Blocked By Opposition Leaders [Australia]
A Little Peak at Changes Coming with the Windows 7 RC

Thursday, February 26th 2009

Safari 4: Eye Candy or Seriously Useful?
Microsoft talks open-source love amid TomTom Linux ‘war’
New Adobe AIR Marketplace
Apple Removes Old Non-Customer Reviews from App Store
IE8 for Windows 7 beta in ‘reliability update’
Apple and Psystar finally agree—to keep trade secrets secret
My Safari 1.0 Review From January 2003 (Not Mine but the author of the blogs review)
Windows 7 to get 2,000 bug fixes pointed out by testers
LEGO employees hand out tiny versions of themselves as business cards
Apple laptop ignites marketing department
Quebec ISP To Terminate Subscribers Over Copyright
Acer’s Ion-based Hornet nettop leaked in presentation slides?
Acclaim developer claims PSP 2 will be without UMD
There’s the Grammatic Way and the SEO Way
New Yahoo CEO ushers out CFO in executive shake-up
Practicality of Multi-Touch and an Early PowerBook Multi-Touch Keyboard Design
Apple Prepping OS X 10.5.7 Update
Amazon Kindle 2 review
Video: Windows CE and Android running simultaneously on a Nokia N800
Android Gathers Steam Among Open Source Developers
Get the Vista Service Pack 2 Release Candidate Next Week [Vista Sp2]
New Google dashboard provides downtime information
The Future of Google Chrome
Anyone Using Yahoo Briefcase?
Windows 7 – How WGA Will Work
Safari’s new tabs: Good or bad?
PSP 2 is ready and UMD-less, claims Earthworm Jim developer
More hidden preferences for Safari 4 Beta
Purported Specs Surface for Slimline 10″ Acer Aspire One [NetBooks]
Jobs Coming Back to Apple in June

Wednesday, February 25th 2009

Nokia’s Brave New Strategy: Laptops
Windows 7 shipping this Fall… according to Compal, anyway
Google Me Business Cards: Best or Worst Idea Ever? [Design]
New slimline Acer Aspire One slimline pics, alleged specs leak
Google blocking paid Market apps from Dev Phone 1 users
Quake Live May Spark Gaming Industry Shake-up
Microsoft files patent lawsuit against TomTom over Linux-based GPS systems
Leaked Snow Leopard screenshots and video show new Stacks, install options
I Love Downloadable Media, But It Makes For a Crappy Gift [Editorial]
Warning: Google Talk Phishing Scam On the Loose
id pushing hard for Quake Live on the Mac
Kindle 2: Disassemble? No disassemble!
Announcing the Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 RC
Ballmer Confirms Skinny Version of Windows 7 for Netbooks [Windows 7]
Apple’s App Store success hasn’t stopped prices tumbling
Panasonic’s latest Toughbook 30 unboxing and hands-on
Will You Be Moving to Safari?
New, Stealthy Conficker B++ Worm Discovered
Safari 4 Tips, Tricks and Special Effects
Real worm breaks man’s computer, sick of software worms getting all the glory
Adobe patches Flash vulnerabilities for three platforms
Google explains cause of latest Gmail outage
ZumoDrive Launches Public Beta
Apple TV 2.3.1 updated totally borks the Boxee add-on
Intel launches shapely new CPUs for slim new laptops
Sony shows off its latest fuel cells and cola-powered batteries
Syba debuts RCG RC-VIS62002 pocket projector
OmniWeb Mac Browser Finally Released For Free [Browsers]
Intel also sues Psion over ‘netbook’ trademark, general stupidity
Happy Birthday Steve Jobs

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