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RSS Digest #101

July 2nd, 2009 by mattatobin | Comments Off | Filed in General

RSS Digest for Thursday, July 2nd, 2009:

Latest dev diary for Batman: Arkham Asylum
Phone ringtones a “public performance”? EFF, AT&T say no
MJ Fans Flock to eBay for Memorabilia
Archos 9 Windows 7 tablet does a little hands-on time
Google App Engine misfires
Waffle House waiter sues over Taser incident
Huge 2K Games sale on Steam, plus 50% off Fallout 3
What will you do if piracy as we know it goes away? (I’ll just read more)
O2 confirmed as Palm Pre carrier in the UK, again
Windows 7 Home Premium to get Family Pack deal
Will MySpace Kill MySpace Latino?
Lunar mapping satellite snaps first test images
Verizon will now offer the BlackBerry Tour to everyone
Can an SD card startup disk be used on any Mac?
Twine Tries To Manage The Stream With New Coverflow-Like Design
What’s new at Talking About Windows.com
Leaked AT&T Memo: iPhone 3GS Generated ‘Best Ever Sales Day’
Make big bucks rolling out broadband to unserved areas!
Take the Fireworks With You For Free
10.5: Wake a sleeping Mac with via Automator
Do Lower Phone Bills Justify Ads on Your Mobile Phone?
Motorola’s Aura Celestial Edition soon taking “giant leaps” for “mankind”
Carnivorous gadgets kill insects for power
The future is now: Star Trek-like language translator debuts on the iPhone
Opinion: Why the iPhone can’t be killed
Free Windows 7 upgrade plus HP Pavilion S5110t – $339
Apple to Rate Your Karaoke Singing on Your iPhone?
PS3 Slim ready to ship in July?
HTML 5 standard won’t have an official video codec
DIY HD projector hits the right note, sub-€500 price range

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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RSS Weekly Digest – #3

April 22nd, 2009 by kteck | Comments Off | Filed in RSS Digest

Here are my news picks for the week…

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite debuts in the App Store
Windows 7 Release Candidate Drops May 5
Chrysler’s Peapod EV lets iPod double as ignition key
Cheap Blu-ray players will hit U.S. store shelves
Dilbert Takes on Cellphone Rebates In Epic Battle With Rebaterus [Comic]
This is not how you’re suppose to wardrive
2009 is an Android year declares Google’s Schmidt
Do You Have a Google Profile?
Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles
SMS messages could be used to hijack a phone
MySpace Fires Employee After Data Breach
The Palm Pre is already in mass production
Kadoink Seized By Creditors
New Get a Mac ads after “Laptop Hunters”

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

Lobby Groups Launch Full Assault For Canadian DMCA
Ubuntu 9.04 release candidate arrives
Windows Mobile 6.5 takes personalization to the next level with themes and Titanium plugins
What’s up, bot? Google tries new Captcha method
Celebrities Take Over Twitter
Apple Comments on Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter Ads

Apple Is Approaching a Defining Moment
Windows 7 RC coming May 5 for public consumption, out now for MSDN / TechNet subscribers
How many paper cups do you trash in a day?
Apple tops PC customer satisfaction survey
Piracy causes nightmares for Stardock’s Demigod
BBC explains DRM restrictions on HD broadcasts
Let your friends crash on these CTRL-ALT-DEL Pillows
Windows Mobile 6.5 coming soon?

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Windows enthusiast Cullen creates “Cophenhagen” user experience concept video
The Pirate Bay verdict: guilty, with jail time
A warning against premature adoption of cloud computing
Job cuts to happen at Sony Ericsson
Hilco / Gordon Brothers acquires Polaroid brand, assets and dignity
iPhone beta OS cracks before release
Microsoft Family Safety Filter Blocks Google
LEGO Boombox looks sweet, still can’t make your kid’s music sound good
Simplify Media- Legally Share Your Music Library with Up To 30 Friends
A Few New Functions Spotted in iPhone 3.0 Beta [Unconfirmed]
Vonage now charges 29% in fees (at least for me)
4 Reasons Apple Should Deliver the iPhone to Verizon
Microsoft targets Barmy Army with Silverlight
Windows Mobile 6.5 to officially “launch” on May 11
If You Become a Yahoo Engineer, You Too Can Have 7 Monitors on Your Desk [Yahoo]
Verizon’s subsidized HP Mini 1000 leaks out
Report: Hulu planning iPhone app
Stone Neo 101 drops into the netbook pond, doesn’t cause a ripple
Tweetie for Mac looks fantastic!
Nintendo sells 435,000 units in the US in first week
AT&T iPhone Exclusivity Expires in 2010, AT&T Asking for Extension?
Samsung, Dell bring SSD encryption solutions
Photo Sharing feature in Live Messenger: Kill it dead

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

This DSi Can Take Itself Apart, Thank You Very Much [Teardowns
4400 Radioshacks Now Accepting Old Gadget Trade-Ins [Retail]
“Apple Tax” Report Backfires On Microsoft
ZuneHD specs leaked, supposedly confirmed by Microsoft
Sun begs IBM to come back and talk
German iTunes Store adds movie purchases, rentals
Mac OS X 10.5.7 update appears to be nearing release
Apple patent shows front-facing camera: Hello, video calls
Genius sues Activision and 7 Studios over Scratch game delay
Iomega opens sub-£2k box of storage tricks
Pirate Bay server becomes museum artefact
Apple, your Mighty Mouse sucks. Please fix it.
Ning hits 1 million social networks
Apple Researching Movement-Aware Interfaces for iPhones
WSJ’s Free iPhone App Is Already Better than the NYT App [Apps]
The Gadgeteer’s ZuneHD Rumor Mill Roundup
DivX 7 video software released for Mac
Apple growth turns negative as worldwide PC shipments plunge
Lose Your Amazon Account and Your Kindle Dies
They’re gone! After outcry, Time Warner uncaps the tubes
Apple and AT&T: Should the Exclusive Deal End?
Are Skype’s founders going to buy back the company from eBay?
SlingPlayer banned from App Store?
Google: We’d love to supply ads for Twitter
It begins: Palm Pre trickles out to accessory manufacturers
Light Up with Windows 7 Libraries
Apple: A PC is no bargain when it doesn’t do what you want
YouTube launching premium section with movies, TV shows
Apple market share drops slightly in the past year
Chrome update offers tab micromanagement options
Verizon Sues Dastardly Californian Fiber-Optic Cable Slicers [Crime]

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Virgin Media switches to Gmail
Apple Offering 8 GB RAM Kits for 2.93 GHz and 2.66 GHz 15″ MacBook Pros
Nirvanix Adds $5M to Keep Data in the Cloud
US company steps in with three new displays for mini-DP Macs (Updated x2)
eBay to spin off Skype in 2010
Eee PC hacked into a digital picture frame
DIGG: (Yet) Another DiggBar Update
OWC Releases Plug & Play Desktop Hardware Raid Solution
Google finally lets Blogger users earn money with AdSense ads
Reports: Mac OS 10.5.7 release imminent
ZuneHD details “confirmed”
CNN acquires leading Twitter account
Microsoft to allow on-campus pub after all
eBay buying stake in Gmarket; Yahoo selling its

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

OTA feature updates for Windows Mobile in the works
OQO could be hurting
app4mac Intros Jump, Projector Productivity Apps
Twitter is at least a dress rehearsal
Google official announces Android OS 1.5
Apple isn’t making your next iPhone, these guys are
Microsoft ends mainstream XP, Office 2003 support
Better Place experiments with WPF & Windows XP for in-car electronic console
Next-gen iPhone shows 15+ parts supply vendors
Reporter drives the Chevy Volt (almost)
Libraries Under the Hood
Ubuntu 9.04 due April 23, includes native ARM port
10 Of The Most Annoying Vista Irritations Solved
Coming Soon, Yet Another Re-Org at Yahoo
Vista Post-SP2 Is the Safest OS On the Planet
iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 3 is out
Google search referer changes
Apple posts third iPhone OS 3.0 beta with minor API changes

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Bluetooth 3.0 specs revealed April 21, 480Mbps
Want to Sync Files Between Computers and Platforms? Check Out Dropbox!
Microsoft: have it your way on IE 8
iPhone Jailbreaking Still Going Strong
YouTube bypasses Korean law by ‘blocking’ uploads and comments
Kwiry- Another Web Service Shutters Its Virtual Doors
Palm’s “Touchstone” induction charger to cost $70?
HP MediaSmart now streams to iPhone, iPod
Burn ISO Images Natively in Windows 7
Sony to sell PSP game without UMD copy?
German Wikileaks Suspension Not Related To Police Raid

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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.

Here are the links for:

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 – #55,#56,#57

February 25th, 2009 by kteck | Comments Off | Filed in RSS Digest

Another late set of posts..

Here are the links for:

Tuesday, February 24th 2009
The Omni Group Releases Four Apps, Including OmniWeb, as Freeware
Apple starts ‘iTunes Pass’
Google Apologises to Millions of Users Left without Email
iTunes Launches Indie Store
Kindle 2 dissected, found to contain space for a SIM card
The Kindle 2 Gets Disassembled [Kindle 2]
The Hard Upgrade Path From XP To Vista To Win 7
Hidden Preference Tweaks in Safari 4 [Safari 4]
Can’t Get 1password to Work With the Safari 4 Beta? Here’s the Fix.
Google pays for e-mail outage with 15-day credit
DVD Jon’s DoubleTwist device-management software enters public beta
Firefox 3.1 Won’t Ship This Quarter
What’s next for netbooks?
Apple’s PR for Safari 4
Microsoft: new flaw affects all supported versions of Excel
Kindle 2 unboxing and hands-on
Google App Engine Announces Pricing
Jam an extra internal hard drive in your MacBook via OptiBay
Hands on: Safari 4 beta fast, mixes polish, rough UI edges
Intel rips into NVIDIA’s Ion platform
How to run Safari 4 beta and Safari 3 on the same mac
A micro microSD card reader
Leaked Snow Leopard Grabs Reveal Slimmer, Faster Mac OS X
Safari 4: Finally a reason to come back UPDATE
A few new rumors point to two new NVIDIA-packing iMacs
Mac OS X trends Compared to Windows
Blu-ray sales to top 100 million next year, says analyst firm

Monday, February 23rd 2009
Red ‘Resident Evil 5′ Xbox 360 unveiled!
Hack an extra core into your Phenom II
Google.org: Full steam ahead!
Snow Leopard shots reveal few changes but QT pro included
Chipmakers Hope Widgets Bring the Web to TV
“I Am Rich” clone comes to Android – at last!
Desktops on cell phones: X-Windows comes to Android
Brando USB Internet Sharing Dongle is About Nine Years Too Late [Internet]
CBS may fight to get Hulu videos back
Amazon ships Kindle 2 a day earlier than planned
Academy Award Winning Films Distributed For Free At “Kopime” Stations [Piracy]
Concept video shows iPhone App sorting done right
The 30 best features of Windows 7
Beambox launches Evolution R-1 pico projector
Vista Capable Lawsuit Loses Class-Action Status
Two more X-Slim notebooks coming from MSI
Want to Clean Up After Your Applications? Check Out AppZapper!
Dell’s Mini 10 comes with any amount of RAM you want, so long as it’s 1GB
Apple, Psystar Case Gears Up For the Long Haul
Video claims to offer more evidence of a Mac mini revision
News: iTunes Norway leaks album weeks before release
ASUS Eee PC T91 sits down for photo shoot, early critique
Stolen WinMo 6.5 device wiped remotely
Yahoo! boss warns of reorg ahead
Staccato CEO says UWB still has more to give

Sunday, February 22th 2009
Apple Disk ][ enclosure used to house Mac mini, enhance lives
Gnome, KDE, LXDE, IceWM All Working On Android
Satellite Collision May Have Endangered All Future Space Launches [Space]
Vizio moves to second place in HDTV sales
Online Cable Debate Heats Up As Execs Embrace Streaming Tech, Bicker About Programming Model [Cable]
Google Earth 5.0
Cool computer networking architecture graphic from 1988
Otters Making Home Videos Of Passing Photojournalists In Monterey Bay [Man Versus Nature]
iriver’s gorgeous P7 gets itself a web address
Microsoft wants refund from some laid off employees
Is P2P the new music marketing arm?
How Intel’s battle with NVIDIA over Core i7 impacts Apple
How a Router’s Missed Range Check Nearly Crashed the Internet
Researcher demonstrates SSL attack
An HP Mini 2140 Mini Post
Forget iClones, Everybody’s Copying the Iriver Spinn These Days [Copycats]
iPhone game saves a family’s home
Exclusive: Windows 7 RC set for April 10, 2009
Trimble rolls out rugged Yuma UMPC
Sun Slips Firefox Extension Into Java Update
TealOS brings Pre experience pre-Pre
The Future of Netflix is All About Streaming
Windows 7 Beta Users to Get Updates That Aren’t Updates

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RSS Digest – #48

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

Here are the links for: Saturday, February 14th 2009…

10 Ways Microsoft’s Retail Stores Will Differ From Apple Stores
Apple battles EFF, calls iPhone jailbreaking piracy
Apple sued over iPhone screen rendering tech
Is Jumping from XP to Windows 7 too Complicated?
Lego Star Wars Spaceship Carries More Than 100 Minifigs
Linux Version of Chrome To Use Gtk+
Microsoft offers 250K reward to catch worm creator
Moonlight – Run Silverlight on Linux
New Nvidia Video Drivers for Linux Bring OpenGL 3.0 Support
Nokia to start music service
The Death Of “Web 2.0″
Windows 7 Build 7022 Leaks, Packs IE8 and New Enhancements [Windows 7]
Windows Mobile 6.5 Previewed on an HTC Touch HD [Windows Mobile]

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