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RSS Digest #115

RSS Digest Thursday, Augest 6th, 2009:

Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user
Windows 7: RTM in pictures
Panasonic’s micro four-thirds DMC-GF1 spotted in leaked picture
Microsoft killing Xbox 360 Pro?
Fox joins Universal’s war on Redbox DVD rental kiosks
Startup Weekend San Francisco Women 2.0
Defective By Design targets Amazon’s Kindle in new petition
New ID cards are supposed to be ‘unforgeable’ – but it took our expert 12 minutes to clone one, and programme it with false data
Lies About Lying
On demand in command; 51% of young ‘Net users view TV online
Windows 7 RTM released to TechNet and MSDN
Dealzmodo: $300 Off HP Pavilion dv6z Notebook [Deals]
Apple looking to avoid warranty ripoffs with abuse detection
Netbook + mouse = Newton Mogo Mouse for netbooks
Article: Weird + Small Apps 24: Q*Bert Deluxe, Meditation Apps, Glance, NESynth, Car Stat Apps + More
Intel still won’t talk Core i5 details, but you can order one anyway
Cash for Clunkers likely extended despite controversy
Clearing the air on the The iTablet – what we know so far
Apple Rejecting All e-Book App Store Submissions? [Updated]
Frankenbook! Another look at hacked Mac netbooks
Prepaid Competition Takes a Bite Out of MetroPCS Earnings
No More Perks: Coffee Shops Pull the Plug on Laptop Users
Feds At DefCon Alarmed After RFIDs Scanned
Google Chrome gets skins and JavaScript performance boost
Microsoft is now the proud new owner of Office.com
Review: iFlash Touch for iPhone
Logitech replaces G5 with Gaming Mouse G500, throws Gaming Headset G330 in for luck
HTML 5 Canvas Experiment Hints At Things To Come

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

RSS Digest #104

RSS Digest for Thursday, July 9th, 2009:

Rumor: Windows 7 Family Pack Will Offer Three Licenses for $137 [Windows 7]
How Much Computer Memory Does Windows Need?
Facebook, MySpace: A race/class divide?
Apple Pushes Snow Leopard Build 10A402 to Developers
HP Mini 110 netbook gets 1366 x 768 display option
VMware’s CEO says x86 is junk silicon, not good for mobile
Quicken for Mac lives—and is coming in February of 2010
Bossa Nova Prime-8 Robot Walks Runs on His Hands, Smashes Aibos to Bits [Robots
OCZ's Sabre OLED gaming keyboard now shipping, priced at $135
Review: Yamaha PDX-30 Portable Player Dock for iPhone
US Seeks Volunteers To Review Broadband Grant Applications
Report: demand for Macs, iPhones on the rise
Netflix to stream movies to Sony Bravia TVs - BusinessWeek
Will the stars align for space-based solar power?
The problem with Qik and the App Store: will Apple gamble away the iPhone’s coolest-ever killer app?
Sprint Will Pay Ericsson $5B to Run Its Network
Starbucks offers free ice cream through Facebook
When It Comes to Links, Color Matters
Review: iASUS Concepts 500K Series Headset for iPhone
Sony PlayStation3 – 80 GB – $ 339 shipped
Coding Q+A
Intel and Qualcomm Are Dueling With Dollars
Review: Wellcomm iConnplus Case With Battery for iPhone 3G
Sony Bravia Connected HDTVs Finally Land Netflix Streaming [Sony]
Twittruth Tells The Truth About How You Really Use Twitter
How Would It Be to Live on the Moon [Space]
Student HP Ad Shows Beautiful Alternate Universe Where Printers Are Fast, Predictable, Musical [Advertising]

- The Constently late, Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

RSS Digest #99 and the big #100 – Last Combo till September, I hope!

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

RSS Digest #87 – Firefox, Windows 7, iPhone, and Netbooks… all the usual topics… ;)

RSS Digest for Wednesday, June 17th, 2009:

CrunchDeals: A sub-$100 Blu-ray player
Mozilla pushes Firefox 3.5 RC to beta testers
Weather Balloons to Serve Up Web Access in Africa
Nerd Bird flights out of Silicon Valley are cancelled
SkypeCap 2.0 adds QuickTime .mov support
Citigroup: eBay Still Has Plenty to Prove
Timezone confusion baffles eager 3.0 downloaders
Apple warns about iTunes syncing with “non-Apple” devices
Wikipedia turned into book
How well do Netbooks work with Web apps?
Logitech aims to make video calling easier with Vid
Government report: climate change here, mitigation needed now
IBM Throws $100 Million at Mobile
Wireless-networked, WMD-sniffing bugs. Yeah, it’s a Pentagon project …
Website anti-malware service Dasient launches
NSA Email Surveillance Pervasive and Ongoing
US broadband report: more popular, more expensive
Fake golf club holds 48 ounces of booze
TweetDeck for iPhone Lightning Review [IPhone Apps]
Buffalo BSH4A02 USB hub loves switches, hates vampires
HDS drive array failure suspected in bank giant’s ATM outage
10 (More) Ways to Provoke a Geek
OCZ Neutrino 10″ Do-It-Yourself netbook review
LG 15-inch OLED TV on sale in December
Will new browsers really upgrade the Web?
Dell replaces entry-level EqualLogic boxes
Internet Explorer 8 treasure hunt: Microsoft Australia hides $10,000 on a website, find it, keep it
Apple tells UPS to stop overachieving, puts brakes on early iPhone 3G S deliveries
Ghostbusters game is graphically crippled on PS3
Windows 7 Deep Dive Lab Event
PlayStation 2 is still the most played console
First Anti-Stab Knife
On the lookout for Push Notification apps
Twitter. Needs. Competition.
Netbooks Mutate to Meet Market Challenges

- Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

RSS Digest #84 – iPhone OS on Mac Pro, Warp Drives, and Twitter on the Commodore 64… o rly? kthnx bi

RSS Digest for Sunday, June 14th, 2009:

PSP Go battery life worse than PSP-3000
Bigger Loss: Cell Phone or Wallet?
A Twitter Client For the Commodore 64
The Pirate Bay Joins Anonymous’ Fight Against Scientology
CrunchDeals: Asus Eee 900 for $170
Swine Flu Vaccine In Production
Memory and Perspective
Theoretical Warp Drives Theorized To Be Black Hole-Creating Doomsday Devices [Space]
The Daily Show on New York Times: Read It and Weep (with Daily Show video)
DTV Transition Mostly Smooth, Windows Media Center Problems
Pioneer explodes your dashboard with new AVIC U, X and Z-series in-dash navigation systems
MySpace problems may spread to Facebook, Twitter
What Intel Can Teach Google About the Cloud
Four years later: Why did Apple drop PowerPC?
Does Microsoft’s Bing have Google running scared?
CrunchDeals: 37-inch 720p LCD TV for $398
DIY High Speed Photography Studio In the Comfort of Your Own Home [DIY]
PS2 Casemod Lives Inside Jack Thompson’s Book About Video Game Violence [Casemods]
Weird Science ponders angry flies and guilty dogs
Apple and the Environment
Well, that explains the 8-hour battery life…[MacBook Pro]
Talkcast tonight: 10pm post-WWDC wrap-up
Google Voice About to Get More Amazing By Letting You Port Your Number [Google Voice]
Does America Need to Make Things?
Mac laptop glossy screens hazardous to your posture?
Ocean Currents Proposed As Cause of Magnetic Field
Samsung Omnia Pro to be the Louvre B7610?
Nintendo outsells competition nearly 2 to 1 in May
Win a high-tech wheelbarrow for your Dad
iPhone OS on a touchscreen monitor, multi-touch and al
Alienware M17x unboxed… by Mr. Bicep
Windows Weekly 111: An F.U. To The E.U.

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

RSS Digest #80 (The Resurrection)

Dawn of a new day, This is the RSS Digest for Wednesday, June 10th, 2009:

Ubuntu aims for ten-second boot time with 10.04
Are Registry Cleaners Safe to Use?
2.8 million not ready for DTV transition
Rubinstein named CEO of Palm
Apple finalizes PowerPC divorce with OS upgrade
New Atom N450 CPU due in October
Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck
Google’s Schmidt: Bing Can’t Buy Search Love With Ads
iPhone 3G S processor specs: 600MHz CPU, 256MB of RAM
Virgin Mobile USA launches prepaid Broadband2Go 3G service
Palm Pixie (Eos) confirmed via webOS ROM leak?
Is the HTC Snap the Ultimate Messenger?
Disposing of your analog TV may be hazardous to everyone’s health
Mozilla opens up Firefox for business customization
Netbook v2.0 to Best Laptops in Portable Computing?
ExpressCard 2.0 Spec Is Out and Promises to Be 10x Faster [Peripherals]
Apple dashes hopes for ZFS support in Snow Leopard
Boot from the SD card slot in new MacBook Pros
UAC in Windows 7 still broken, Microsoft won’t/can’t fix code-injection vulnerability
The “Mighty Dead” mouse
Snow Leopard’s wallpaper looks many times faster than Leopard’s
iPhone 3G S Has a 600 MHz Processor, 256MB of RAM, PowerVR SGX
Reports: DOJ turns up the heat on Google’s book deal
Google unveils plug-in to marry Outlook, Gmail
Windows 7 build 7227 leaks
RIAA is using illegal evidence, says Harvard Law professor
AT&T iPhone upgrading pricing upsets consumers
Google Gives The G1’s Physical Keyboard A Glass Of Ice Water In Hell
News – Asutek Exec: Our Goal Is to Make Better Products Than Apple
News – Bankruptcy Court Sets Hearing Date for Apple, Psystar
TUAW First Look: iPhoto2Twitter
Cardboard gadgets don’t need unwrapping
Top 10 Game Trailers From E3

-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