A Note from Tobin: I am sorry for the lateness of the digest but I have not been feeling well. It all started Sunday when I decided to cook a pork steak on the grill… It was delicious however about 4 hours later I started not to feel well… The usual side effects kicked in… I could only conclude I am dieing… but as dramatic as that sounds i’m sure it was only a bad cut of meat. I am starting to feel some better the last few hours so I decided to catch up on the digest before it got over whelming… This does not indicate a pattern of late posts that will lead to the digest falling once again into the abyss… Unlike some people I am fully commited to the digest and if all goes well it will be resuming the prompt by midnight publication that everyone has enjoyed since #80. Thank you for your understanding!
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RSS Digest for Sunday June 28th, 2009:
Hulu blocked from PS3s?
Bob the Apple guided tour guy leaves for greener pastures
Report: Microsoft to cut Razorfish loose
The Pirate Bay’s video sharing site is coming
Acer to surpass Dell as the second biggest PC company
Blogger ethics: proper attribution > accountability
Chicken Feathers May Hold Key To Hydrogen Storage
Why Oracle will continue to win
Burning Edge – Firefox: 2009-06-28 Trunk builds
Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #148
Twitter Device Tweets Heartbeat, Scares Relatives When Twitter Crashes [Twitter]
Sony to Apple: ‘Thank You Sir, May I Have Another?’
Weird Science, wasted wallaby edition
Breaking news! Billy Mays, the OxiClean and Pitchman guy, is dead
Trying to Get the Real “Deal or No Deal”
Windows Marketplace launching with 600 apps, or one bazillion times what the App Catalog has
Computer-Controlled Air Compressor Alarm Clock Pounds Your Head Into Consciousness [Beds]
App Review: Lemonade Tycoon for iPhone
Win7: FREE trial, and then 1/2 price from Microsoft
Lenovo S12 VIA Nano Option Swaps Battery Life For Speed Boost [Lenovo]
Judge wants to save the newspapers by outlawing links to copyrighted articles
Don’t try this at home
In Two Weeks Windows 7 Price Will Go Up, Guess What Else Will Follow…
PollyTrade Lets You Trade Stocks Via Twitter
Buzz Aldrin weighs into NASA
Self-Service Nation: Why Targeting Small Business Is Good Business
Tone-deaf robots teach each other to sing, passionately butcher a Happy Birthday rendition
Blu-ray will be half of market sales by 2012, says Futuresource
Work it GAGA
Explosive Driver Hammers High Handicaps
Top 10 Raw Deals for Gamers
… and the …
RSS Digest for Monday, June 29th, 2009:
Birdfeed Twitter Client for iPhone Features Caching for Offline Browsing [Twitter]
Vae Victis
FCC cracks down on “gamesmanship” of line-sharing rules
NY Times Hints at Fable III – Mistake or Intentional?
The Culinary Watch: Usable in Hell’s Kitchen
Hackers blamed for wave of fake death tweets
A Whole Lotta Quake Will Be Blowing Up Your iPhone [IPhone Apps]
OLED mini projector prototype for mobile phones using a series of lenses developed
StarCraft II mega-preview: An (endlessly tweaked, stats-filled) intergalactic bloodbath
RIAA: Jammie Thomas snubbed our settlement ‘overture’
Kace to boost Mac features in systems management appliances
ModDB Interviews With NEOTOKYO°’s Musical Mastermind
Tweetmeme lets hoax “Zombie Swine Flu” BBC story go-unchecked
Comcast to offer 4G wireless broadband service
‘Firefox Mobile’ updates for Windows Mobile
Hands on with Plex, an alternative to Apple’s Front Row
How’s Your Palm Pre Holding Up? [Question Of The Day]
ASUS unleashes USB 2.0 Blu-ray drive — government denies knowledge
Got Ideas? Tech Companies Crowdsource Creativity With Contests
Sputnik
Free ‘Free’ (Or: Who’s the Blowhard Now?)
Facebook names a CFO, at last
The making of Pitfall! for the Atari 2600
Firefox 3.5 Language Coverage
FastScripts
Rumor: iMac line to see a price drop this fall
Standardized mobile charging coming soon
How the Mafia conquered social networks
U.S. Apple Retail Store iPhone 3GS Supplies Begin to Tighten
A possible solution for contextual menu crashes
Spazzing out with webOS app developer Ed Finkler
First Looks: Incipio Performance Armband for iPod nano 4G & Nike+iPod Sport Kit
Will Code for Green
Windows 7 gets “Apple style” guided tours
“I’m a PC and I’m about to get a major upgrade”
Light touch: a design firm grapples with Microsoft Surface
-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast