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RSS Digest #93

RSS Digest for Wednesday, June 24th, 2009:

Jesus Recommends: this little rolling robot
ASUS Eee PC Seashell 1005HA available for pre-order, shipping July 1st
Why We Need Steve Jobs
Buffalo’s 16GB 5mm USB Thumbkey: It’s really small
With File Sharing, FriendFeed Rides the Collaboration Wave
Researcher Implants Laser-Activated Brain Cells
Review: MacBook Air (Mid 2009)
Seagate introduces FreeAgent Go Dock+ with powered USB hub
Wall Clock Keeps Mississippi Time: That’s Accuracy You Can Trust [Clocks]
Is Comcast and TimeWarner’s “TV Everywhere” TV for everyone?
Sharp LCD panels banned from US import until further notice
Oops! Best Buy Selling a Palm Pre Case with ‘iPod Sold Separately’ [Best Buy]
News: Apple updates Remote for iPhone, iPod touch to 1.3
AT&T brings AT&T Navigator to iPhone
AIM, BeejiveIM instant-messaging apps get push
Intel’s new China fab will only produce 65nm chips
RIAA Faces Opposition from Some of Its Content Providers
Apple TV 2.4 Update Now Available, Updated Remote App with Gestures [Updated]
“Twitterature” to Hit the Bookstores – WSJ
The Strange Tale of Wi-Fi Startup Whisher
My Mac OS X Dock
Achtung! RapidShare ordered to filter all user uploads
No Jailbreak Required! SIM Unlock Card for iPhone 3G
The Mozilla Blog: Extend Firefox 3.5. Make the Next Great Web Experience!
SanDisk Claims Title of World’s Fastest 32GB SDHC Card [Flash Memory]
Apple drops space in ‘iPhone 3G S’
YouTube sued again over copyright infringement
Microsoft home energy management software “Hohm” leaks (updated)

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

RSS Digest #89 – no tagline… I’m too tired…

Due to internet connectivity issues here is the slightly belated RSS Digest for Saturday. June 20th, 2009:

Best Handset For Freedom?
Interview with Das Bo Schitt
Robert Accettura: Things You’ll Love About Firefox 3.5
RIAA needs to be disbanded, says Moby
Giant Cowboys Stadium LED wall caught playing Xbox 360 during downtime Update: Video!
Linux’s Hardware Support Better Than Windows?
Why Macs look like Porsche’s
Phone Unlock! v3.0
Muggers Caught When Their Crime Was Captured by Google Street View [Crime]
ASUS Eee PC 1005HA up for pre-order on Amazon
Dell has 15% off numerous game consoles: Playstation 3, Wii, Xbox 360, PSP 3000, Nintendo DS
Lies, Damn Lies, and Battery-Life Statistics
Samsung shows off new flexible, OLED passport
Microsoft confirms Nvidia ‘Tegra’ chip for Zune HD
AT&T says tethering won’t cost $55
Believe it or not, this is an actual Halo desktop
Video: Obama is the first nerd president
United States Sneaks Into Top 20 List of Household Broadband Use (at Number 20) [USA! USA!]
Avoiding Latency in the Cloud
Typing In an E-Mail Address, and Giving Up Your Friends’ Too
Palm Pre Nears 700,000 App Downloads in Less Than Two Weeks [App Catalog]
Live-blogging at MSM
Pwnage Tool for iPhone OS 3.0 now live, ultrasn0w still on standby
Spunky Sputnik LED Lamp
Erik Naggum, R.I.P.
Sonos CR200 controller outed by the FCC
Why video can transform the Wikipedia experience
A Good Guide to Social Marketing
Liberal Party of Canada Comes Out In Support of Net Neutrality
Report: Steve Jobs had liver transplant
Free Mimobot of the Week: Darth Maul!
UxStyle Core Beta bits now available
Snuff Lures Tobacco Fiends With Whiff of Exotic History

- 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 – #27 – Happy 25th Mac & More…

Here are the links for: Saturday, January 24rd 2009…

Happy sixth birthday WordPress!
Where Is iPhone OS 2.3?
Apple Patent Would Automatically Adjust Speaker Volume
IBM Confirms Layoffs – PC World
What made the Mac different
Apple Mac Computers Through The Ages (Pics)
Is the Apple TV worth it?
Lego Chuck Taylor Sneakers Look Even Less Comfortable Than Usual [Lego]

Apple Still Thriving on 25th Anniversary of the Mac
Microsoft extends Windows 7 beta downloads to February 10
Windows Mobile 6.5 shows up on the Compulab exeda
Linus Switches From KDE to Gnome
Video: Steve Jobs Giving His First Big Demo
Apple’s Macintosh Turns 25 Years Old Today
The Mac at 25: How Mac gaming has changed
Lego’s Digital Box Shows Completed 3D Models With No Construction Needed [Lego]
Zune sales are struggling
7 things Apple got disastrously wrong
Microsoft ‘Vista Capable’ Settlement Cost Could Be Over $8 Billion
The Mac at 25: Best Mac games
Maybe Yahoo Was Destined to Flounder
The Mac at 25: Forgotten Apple products
Microsoft reports $100M decline in Zune revenue
25 Years of Macintosh: Our Favorite Mac Moments
Guardian Interview With Andy Hertzfeld
Palm Treo Pro delayed until after Valentine’s Day
Palm Chats with Facebookers, Explains Pre’s Lack of MicroSD [Palm Pre]
Datto gets official with Box 2 Box specs, pricing
Hands on with Sony’s Vaio P netbook
Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS released
What’s Shaking in the Windows 7 Beta: The Windows!
A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes?
RAmos T10 ikiss PMP looks pretty good, probably stole its outfit

Microsoft Learning spoofs “I love the whole world”
The API Wars
The PC Industry: Before

RSS Digest – #22 – Late but long edition

Here are the links for: Monday, January 19th 2009…

15 Stunning Examples of Long Exposure Photography
35 Beautiful Examples Of ‘Urban Decay Photography
A Quick Look at the 10-Inch Aspire One 103 [NetBooks]
Acer announces small form factor PC, 23-inch LCD
Apple Desktop Keyboard with iPhone Dock Concept Makes Perfect Sense [Concept]
Belkin Employee Sheds Light On Belkin’s Supposedly Dirty Practices [Belkin]
ChaChaputer has eight screens, the sweet stink of obsession
Circuit City closings begin, lines form, bargains await
Circuit City Liquidation FAQ: Gift Cards, Warranties and Repairs [Circuit City]
Continuing with Windows XP
EC Considering Removing Internet Explorer From Windows
Farewell, iPhone-optimized iGoogle
IMPOSSIBLE’s on a mission to revive Polaroid film
Incandescent Light Bulb On The Way Out
Intel intros new models, cuts prices
iPhone gains two new TV Out utilities
Is a 15-inch MacBook Air In the Works? [Rumor]
Judge: 17,000 illegal downloads don’t equal 17,000 lost sale
Kana micro: New, cute and inexpensive DAPs from Greenhouse
Laserdisc is dead
Linux Advocates Question Silverlight’s Use in Inaguration
Microsoft accused of anti-competitive web browser bundling
New Infineon 4G chip possible choice for future iPhone
News: YouTube offering iPod-ready video downloads
Palm Pre “Oops I’m Late” Feature Sounds Kind of Horrible [Palm Pre]
Seagate offers fix, free data recovery for disks affected by firmware bug
Share iPhone Applications Just Like iTunes Songs
Single Drive Wipe Protects Data
SkyBox: Microsoft’s MobileMe, But for All Phones? [Unconfirmed]
Steve Jobs – Why is my Health So Important?!
TechCrunch Tablet Update: Prototype B
The Top Windows 7 Tips and Tricks List
Tiny company accuses RIM, Nokia of violating patents, wants their products banned in the U.S.
Travelmate USB Power Adapter does just what its name implies
Users affected by Windows worm is ‘skyrocketing’
Valve speaks out about piracy
Video demo: iControlPad iPhone gaming controller
What’s New in Windows 7: User Account Control (UAC)
Why You Should Go 64-Bit With Windows 7 [Windows 7]
Win 7 Tip: WordPad Opens Word 2007 Docs [Windows 7]
Win32/Conficker.B/Downadup Infection Prevention and Removal
Wireless touchpad controls your computer and media center
You’ve been Steve’d!