RSS Digest for Monday, Augest 3rd, 2009

Facebook app lets Intel PCs donate processor power
ARM-based netbooks set to arrive on US shores by year end
Dell adds high-powered ATI FirePro M7740 graphics to the Precision M6400
Accused domain thief faces jail time for “stealing” P2P.com
Microsoft apps–only suckers pay retail
OCZ’s 1TB SSD Colossus due out this month for ~$2500
Windows Mobile 7 to be a premium, multitouch beast of a platform
My Kindle ate my homework
PayPal suffers from e-commerce outage
AT&T and SlingPlayer
White House ‘Cyber Czar’ Resigns; Let’s Not Replace Her
From the NASA Archive: Astronaut-Butt Molds
Verizon drops smartphone prices across the board
Netbook Fight! Gateway LT3103 versus Acer Aspire One 751h
Mac 911 and the summer vacation
Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde resigns
Hidden gay slur, search terms, get campaign site blacklisted
Radio Shack rebranding: Why? Why!?
PS3 sales hit 24 million globally
Backstage: Thermaltake’s Luxa2 M1-Pro, M2 + M3-Air Cooling Stands for Apple’s MacBooks
ATM scam at DEFCON clearly the work of ironic criminals
10.5: Be aware of a shrinking Terminal window bug
Breakin’ up is hard to do: Schmidt leaves Apple board
Top Facebook etiquette tips
Sony ‘to launch cheaper, slimmer PS3′
Sony’s VAIO W netbook reviewed: personable and pricey, and that’s pretty much it
“Life Comes Together”: the alternative Windows ad campaign Microsoft didn’t run
Reports: RIAA wins $675k in damages from file swapper
GM_Stargrass
The Making of a Prehistoric Brew

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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Another late set of posts..

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Saturday, March 21 2009
Chat With CrunchGear at 35K Feet [Update 2]
Online Apps Help You Get The Most Out Of March Madness
Twitter Turns Three
Twitter’s Constant Stream Of Update Messages Suddenly Grinds To A Halt
Middlespot Is An Alternative Visual Search Engine
How Barclays Ensured That Everyone Would See Their Confidential Tax Avoidance Documents

Friday, March 20 2009
Facebook Bug Reveals Private Photos, Wall Posts (Updated)
Elevator Pitch Friday: Song.ly Lets You Share Music Via Twitter
Tags Is The Organization Tool For Mac Users Who Have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Google Ventures Almost Ready To Launch, But It Is A Bad Idea
GE Uses Digital Hologram To Advertize Windmills
Facebook Goof Cripples Controversial Homepage Poll
Worio Taps Into Social Search With Facebook Connect
Following The iPhone, Social Tagging App Sekai Camera Will Be Released For Android, Too
LinkedIn Finally Makes Groups More Useful
Are We Headed Into An Era Of “Dumb Tech?”
Visualize Data (Including Google Search Results) In 3D With iFree3D
YouTube Now Lots Better On Windows Mobile And Nokia Phones
Omgili Stream Offers Another Discussion Tracker For the Web
SpiralFrog Goes Belly Up

Thurday, March 19 2009
BlogTalkRadio Now Playing In The Enterprise Space
MySpace Launches In-Browser Photo Editing Tools
CrunchGear Travels Cross-Country
Yapta Now Tracks Price Drops For Hotels Too
Gmail Gets A Panic Button
Coming Soon To A Windows Live Profile Near You: Facebook Updates
Flip Video: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong And Then So, So Right.
RentBits Launches At-A-Glance View Of Housing Rental Market
LaCie acquires Wuala to take P2P cloud storage mainstream
With IE8, Microsoft Ignores One Third Of The Market
It’s Official: Cisco Buys Pure Digital (Flip Video) For $590 Million
Google Opens Up Google Books To Sony eReaders
Lending Club Gets A $12 Million Credibility Boost
Internet Explorer 8 Available Today
Nimbuzz Pushes New iPhone VoIP App, Supports Calling Over 3G
Beejive IM Moves To Block Out iPhone Pirates
Naveen Jain’s Intelius Scam Begins To Crumble. Good.

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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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Here are the links for: Sunday, January 25th 2009…

Record video with any Liveview enabled Canon EOS DSLR
Mario Paint Composers
Apple to sue Palm?
Plastic Logic e-reader not coming until early 2010
Bill Gates’ Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note
Edit-Approval System Proposed For English-Language Wikipedia
iLife ‘09 Shipping Now For Some People? Hits Torrents in Three, Two… [Apple]
DLP Pico Pocket Projector Technology – CES 2009
HP TouchSmart for Business – CES 2009
22 Most Used Free Fonts By Professional Designers
Mac: 25 Years in Pictures
Twitter Has Done News. Now It’s Doing Global Charity Events
Is the Zune doomed?
Google to launch next big update to Google Earth
Multiple Windows 7 versions coming? Say it ain’t so!
Who Needs Netbooks? Acer Plans Detail Mobile Internet Device [Acer]
Rogue Android App Allegedly Destroying G1 Memory, Installing Adware [App Market Scam]
5 Resources for Netbook Helps, Hacks and How-To’s
Mozilla wants to watch 1% of Firefox users
iPhone 101: Basic questions, basic answers
Sprint Treo Pro spotted in the wild, specs and all
FriendFeed Hits Nearly One Million Users; Grew Tenfold In The Past Six Months
Monster.com Data Stolen, Won’t Email Users
RSS-powered Windows 7 desktop slideshows
iPhone Bluetooth File Transfer Coming Soon (YES!) [IPhone]
Comcast Charges Hurricane Victim $24.95 For Calling Service
Windows 7: some bad news for business users
Microsoft To Exit the Zune Business?
New Twhirl beta turbocharges Twitter – becomes must have Twitter client
AMD sees distinction between netbooks and laptops vanishing
Google Puts The Squeeze On Free Apps
CNN Uses P2P Plugin for its Live Stream
Get your hack on: unofficial multi-touch support released for Android
Jolicloud: the OS your netbook has been screaming for
National Censorship Plan Offensive, Says Aussie Shadow Minister

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Here are the links for: Sunday, January 18th 2009…

10 Really Cool Google Chrome Hacks
30 Beautiful and Creative Examples of Vibrant Web Designs
50 iPhone Apps with Icons That Don’t Suck
Acer’s 10-inch Aspire One 103 in photos
Belkin replies to Mechanical Turk shilling
Beta Is Dead
Boy, 8, becomes youngest IT professional
CherryPal calls its Bing netbook a nettop, can’t win for losing
Chumby gets retrofitted into retro telephone, will soon make collect
CircuitCity.com morphs into an info page
Does piracy actually matter?
Epidermis Theme Manager
Former Employees Talk About Google
Get Your Paws On the Myka BitTorrent Box in ‘Four to Six Weeks’ [BitTorrent]
GoDaddy hit by a DDoS attack
iPod touch 2G redsn0w Video Shows Jailbreak in Action [Apple]
Lycos Kills Jubii While They’re At It
Lycos To Shutter Lycos Mail, Tripod On February 15
Man Loses $150,000 To Nigerian Scam
PSP phone shot down by Sony
Recession strikes PC sales
Seagate Flooded With Failing Drive Complaints
Seagate Provides Firmware Update For Failing Hard Drives
Steve Wozniak Speaks About Steve Jobs’ Health Issues (Video)
The Top 10 fonts of 2008
Top 10 Steve Jobs Quotes Of All Time
Viliv uncovers gorgeous X70 Atom Communication MID
What’s New in Windows 7: Window Management
Which is Better: A Microsoft or Logitech Mouse?
Why Google Employees Quit
Wii Homebrew Hack Turns Wiimote Into a Casual Carpenter’s Level [Wii]
Wikipedia Beefs Up for Multimedia
Windows 7 Beta takes another crown, besting Vista in SSD performance
Windows 7’s Media Hype Having the Opposite Effect As Vista’s
WowWee’s Lightstar flying blade reviewed: a cheap thrill

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