RSS Digest for Wednesday, July 1st, 2009:

NASA patches Endeavour’s leaky plumbing
Child porn found on an iPhone application
Yahtzee woolgathers on and around The Sims 3
The One Day Particle Editor
Images of Apollo Landing Sites Soon Available
Scientists find a black hole that’s “just right”
As Mozilla ‘upgrades the Web,’ Microsoft must upgrade its pace
Toshiba launching the TG01 next week in London
ATM vendor gets security talk pulled from conferences
Xbox 360 Repair Guide
Weak PS3 sales: Now the Taiwanese government sponsors Sony
Bing’s first month produces small share gain
Get ready to deploy Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta 2.
How to Achieve Revenue
Gmail adds drag and drop
Happy Canada Day & Ch’town Tweet-Up
Bing takes a little more market share from Google
Finally, a MacBook Pro for Ninjas!
Gmail labels get higher placement, drag-and-drop
iPhoto update fixes crash, MBA firmware for new batteries
Bringing Moore’s Law to the Data Storage Market
iPhone 3GS TV Ads
GPS-Based System For Driving Tax Being Field Tested
3D TV will won’t go primetime in 2011
Microsoft resorts to vomit to market IE 8
Mimo Pivoting 7-Inch USB Display Now Available at Think Geek [Displays]
Happy DTS 7.1 Day, California
Is Twitter freaking out over ‘tweet’ trademark?
News: Apple posts iPhone OS 3.1, SDK 3.1 beta
Chicago ‘burb ditches red light cameras, no safety advantage
Windows 7 Beta automatic shutdowns begin today, RC users safe until March 1st
Is There More to Life than Gnomedex?

RSS Digest for Tuesday June 30th, 2009:

Starcraft lessons from a “100 percent full-blooded Korean”
PlayStation emulator hits the Palm Pre
John Slater: An Upgraded Mozilla.com for an Upgraded Firefox
Chocolate Covered Grasshoppers
Google fixes Outlook plugin for Google Apps
Where Have All the Platforms Gone?
RIAA triumphs in Usenet copyright case
Gnomedex 2009 for $99?!
The Original Ethernet Cable and Cable Diagrams [Retromodo]
Clipstart 1.1
Malcolm Gladwell Challenges the Idea of “Free”
Health Officials To Military: Ban Smoking
The Pirate Bay adds ‘user deletion’
Apple’s 3D Modeler Opening Could Be Your Dream Job [Apple]
Ubuntu: A feasible Oracle hedge against Windows
The Alienware OptX AW2210 21.5-inch LCD monitor – Hadoken!
Verizon says house shoppers crave high-fiber Internet diet
Firefox add-ons: Which work in 3.5?
New Firefox, Nero now available
Yahoo to build data center near Buffalo
ASUS rolls out RT-N16 wireless router
Arcade on wheels? Yes, please
Metaplace virtual worlds now blog-embeddable
Photos: NASA’s science, tech showcase
Comcast Bringing Metropolitan WiMAX To Subscribers
G.S.M. Palm Pre spotted in Vietnam
The Pirate Bay tracker to shut down
War is childish hell: Ars tries to review Battlefield Heroes
Ricoh jumps from copiers to the cloud
Three Startups That Want to Deliver a Fat Mobile Pipe
Sanyo’s Eneloop lamp heals your ecological soul

- Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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The RSS Digest for Friday, June 12th, 2009:

Father of the cell phone
Why Smart Grids Could Be Slow to Beat Web 2.0
Gaming hardware, software sees slump in May
Atom N270 / N280-based netbooks may be stuck at Windows XP
Windows 7 to push up netbook prices
Windows 7 UAC code-injection vulnerability: video demonstration, source code released
Why Mozilla could beat IE in a European ground war
Twitter profile hack pwns Mormons
Palm Pixie is real, but may never materialize
Lenovo G530 for $379
Opera to ‘reinvent the web’ in four days
Apple readies new retail store design in Arizona
An end to the endless cycle?
How To Seize a Laptop And Make It Stick
Casio Exilim EX-H10 shoots 1,000 images on single charge
Blu-ray Managed Copy Full-Res Backups Are Only Good in Theory [Blu-Ray]
Safari 4: 11 Million Downloads in 3 Days
When the Cell Phone Is the Office Phone, Taxing It Is Wrong
Dell and Samsung placing orders for 11.6-inch netbook screens?
The World’s Smallest DV Camera Could Reveal World’s Largest Scandal [Video]
Major UK ISP: video streaming’s “free ride” is over
iPhone owners are superior beings, says survey
Let’s Play… Spot The MacBook Pro!
US hardware sales collapse in May
DriveSavers offers hard drive failure simulator for iPhone
SDXC set to blow your mind next year, with 64GB capacity out of the gate
Psystar: We’ll gladly pay you tomorrow for 581 copies of Leopard today
Recreating Tesla’s Wireless Power Experiments [Tesla]
Bring Back MST3K!
Twitpocalypse Not Now: Crisis Averted
Running Custom Firmware on the Palm Pre Is Rather Easy [Palm Pre]
Bio-ammonia Plans Proceeding

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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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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Another late set of posts..

Here are the links for:

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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Here are the links for: Tuesday, January 27th 2009…

Knight Rider affordable R/C car with flashing lights and speech
KDE 4.2 Is Released
Eight Minute History of The Internet
Yahoo expects rough 1Q, slow start for new CEO
iPhoto’s Facial Recognition Feature Works on Cats [IPhoto]
iMovie ‘09 image stabilization
Forget Blending, Shredding a Piano is Where It is At [Watch It Shred]
How to Chat on the iPhone or iPod Touch
Gmail Goes Offline With Google Gears
Microsoft has no plans to kill off Zune
IBM quietly cuts thousands of jobs
Sony Webbie $200 HD camcorder gets reviewed
Apple releases new iPhone software version
GMod Featured in PC Gamer
25 Years of Mac Commemorative Shirts For $5.25 While Supplies Last [Dealzmodo]
Just How Secure Is Google Chrome?
The GarageBand Lesson Store Could Be Apple’s Next Revolution In Music
First look – Internet Explorer 8 RC1 | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com
iMovie HD fading into the ether as Apple removes download
Microsoft speaks out about Zune revenue loss
News: Papermaster starts April 24 as Apple iPod/iPhone hardware chief
A Quick Look at VirtualBox 2.1
Western Digital introduces the first 2TB hard drive
How old is your oldest working Mac?
Amazon Preparing To Drop Kindle 2 On February 9? [Kindle 2]
Internet Explorer 8 RC 1 available for download now
More screens of Android Cupcake, and a chance to taste it yourself
Japanese tax forms required for full iTunes Store income
Windows 7 may ship with rival browsers in EU
Panasonic announces the Lumix ZS3, ZS1, TS1, FX580, FX48 and FS25
Western Digital’s 2TB Caviar Green hard drive launches, gets previewed
Apple Gets Their Multi-Touch Patent; Is Palm Screwed?
6 Things You Need to Know About Windows 7
E-paper signs being tested in Tokyo for disaster prevention
Who Are You on Twitter?
Streaming video and Blu-ray help Netflix defy recession

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