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RSS Digest #117

RSS Digest for Saturday, Augest 8th, 2009:

Facebook jealousy sparks relationship woes: study
What Is The Real Reason Dell Is Discontinuing 12-inch Netbooks?
AP Mobile for iPhone still a dog for many
App Store Thaw? Apple Accepts A Gmail Push Application
Report: Apple, Google agreed not to poach each other’s workers
Panasonic adds Amazon VOD to Blu-ray players
Google: Unify the Phone Numbers and All Else Follows – NYTimes.com
LG Chocolate Touch and Samsung Omnia 2 slated for August 23rd, according to supposed Best Buy leak
Best Buy in 3D Needs to Go Back to the 2D Drawing Board [Augmented Reality]
Week in Apple: mystery Apple product, keyboard and SMS exploits, 10.5.8
Job bank for women in technology
Poor Passwords A Worse Problem Than Poor Antivirus
Blu-ray support coming with iTunes 9?
British military encouraged to get online
XP Mode vs. Med-V
Energy saving search engine
Downloaded Child Porn? Blame Your Kitty Cat [Wrongmodo]
The Web Cycle: The faster you pedal, the faster your porn downloads
Six-Month-Long Camera Exposure Shows Both Winter and Summer Solstices [Photography]
Some Basic Truths About Broadband (Economics)
Week in tech: USB 3.0, gay slurs, and Chrome syncing in the cloud
NSFW: Ice-T tears apart a Powerbook, wants to be in Gears of War 3
Plantronics Discover 925 Bluetooth Headset – $42.99
Week in Microsoft: Windows 7 RTM starts trickling out
LG GD900 Crystal submerged in a fish tank
Debian & Android Together on G1
Nintendo sells 600,000 copies of Wii Sports Resort in Europe
Contributing To a Project With a Reclusive Maintainer?
Fixing XML
Planet Mozilla Interns: Aaron Train: Totally hip, totally rad Mozilla QA Companion 1.0

- Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

RSS Digest #105

RSS Digest for Sunday, July 26th, 2009:

Cylons, Watchmen and Zombies Take Comic-Con 2009
FiiO PS1110 Walkbox portable speaker says ‘buy more’
iPhone 3G refurb selling for $49
EU Windows 7 to have multiple browser options?
Bacterial Computer Solves Hamiltonian Path Problem
Getting Comfortable With People Who Make You Uncomfortable
Shane Caraveo: Adobe/Mozilla partnership
Social Media Updates for 2009-07-26
ASUS Eee PC 1004DN lands in Taiwan, gives the netbook a serious identity crisis
Technology and the megachurch
OEMs Pick Up Windows 7 RTM Code in Redmond
Gaming on the Throne: Review of Squash the Street for iPhone
Dell Studio 14z hits the review bench, disc drive stays behind with few regrets
Windows 7 will give boost to PC hardware
XPize masks Windows XP UI quirks with a fresh coat of paint, Sevenize to come
Panasonic TC-P54V10 Reviewed: Worthy Successor to Pioneer Kuro [HDTV]
Hacker Group L0pht Making a Comeback
Two-way Search
Ascii Art for Sunday
Weird science benefits from the placebo effect
How to Read Your Favorite RSS Feeds On an iPhone
I’m a Mac, and I Prevent Spontaneous Cephalopod Attacks [Comics]
Astronauts in home stretch of marathon mission
Disheveled Celebrity Mac Chick Sighting: Sarah Silverman
Trophy Cupcakes for My Birthday
Reprogrammed Skin Cells Turned Into Baby Mice
Palm Pre at Best Buy for $99 – Update
Android team member says Donut isn’t 2.0, doesn’t have multitouch
How to build a desktop WYSIWYG editor with WebKit and HTML 5

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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

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

RSS Digest #85 – Eee Tablet, Pirate Bay VPN… for our protection, and Rag on a Stick (update aka FAILED)!

RSS Digest for Monday, June 15th, 2009:

Reform groups offer tough questions for FCC nominees
Adobe makes Acrobat.com a business with paid accounts
Virgin-Universal deal may hit ‘persistent’ file sharers
6 multiclient IM apps to chat about
Microsoft to announce Azure business plan next month
Much faster: Panasonic announces class 10 SDHC cards
Palm: Prithee, good sirs, speak not of Palm Pre tethering
The StarCraft II beta approaches!
Buy a Mac on or after June 8, get Snow Leopard for $10
Comfort Wipe discontinued, but you can still use a rag on a stick
Your Publication Can Suck as Badly as TechCrunch
Panasonic DMC-ZS3 hands-on and review
Intel Celeron, Core i7, and Atom lineup leaked?
Asus Eee PC T91 starts shipping today
Palm webOS system upgrades mandatory; hacking scene forbidden from tethering
Dell Latitude Z series laptop leaked, sized up in pictures
Plantronics Voyager Pro – A New Flagship for the Voyager Fleet
China’s filtering software includes stolen CYBERsitter code
Xbox 360 to be upgraded and re-released next year?
With a Big Push, IBM Gives Cloud Computing Its Blessing
Downturn Slows Telecoms (Except in India & China)
Google Doesn’t Want to Pay Artists for Making Custom Chrome Skins [Greed]
A Carbon Fiber Joystick…For No Good Reason Other than General Effect [Gaming]
Palm Warns About Pre Tethering Hack – Because Sprint Won’t Like It [Palm Pre]
AT&T to Prepaid iPhone Owners: F*&k You Very Much [IPhone]
Apple’s iTunes Now Nation’s Largest Music Seller…Are CDs Going The Way Of The 8-Track?
Family’s Christmas Photos Hawk Groceries In Prague
Fifteen Classic PC Design Mistakes
The Next Ad You Click May Be a Virus
Windows 7 Launch May Be A Quiet Affair
Hot Forum Topic – Tablet Macs Revisited: New Handheld Devices on the Way?
Acer Tempo X960 Windows Mobile smartphone
‘Alien’ lifeform wakened from 120,000 year Arctic slumber
Nokia posts then pulls E-series phone vid
Frozen microbe may hold clues to ET life
Jargon Watch: Gastric Condom, Equasy, Dark Flow, Virtual Parent
Mysterious Gamma-Ray Bursts Linked to Failed Black Holes
Pirate Bay Launches VPN Service

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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 – #58,#59,#60

Another late set of posts..

Here are the links for:

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

RSS Digest Combo – #50,#51,#52

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]