RSS Digest for Thursday, Augest, 13th, 2009:

Sony promises more clarity on VAIO virtualization support
Now In The App Store- QIK
Kaleidescape gets in line behind RealDVD for rough treatment
Samsung puts LCD screens on the front of new cameras
ISPs Are Boosting Upstream Speeds, But Where Are the Services?
Twitter plans to integrate retweets
Corsair’s new high-speed thumb drive holds 128GB, is whale-like
Internet Explorer 8 Offers Better Protection against Socially Engineered Malware Threats
Apple might be planning keynote for week of September 7th, might have new products on offer
New startup incubator in Cambridge, England
Paranoid Much???
Talkback Thursday: Would you use tags if we implemented them?
Verizon announces AD3700 global modem from ZTE
iTunes 9: A wish list
Dell Mini 3i smartphone captured in pair of spy shots
Microsoft reaches settlement with 11 pirate retailers
New ICANN policy stops domain tasting
Palm collects GPS location data from Pre users
Dell refutes high Linux netbook return rates, but not customer ignorance
Review: Electronic Arts Wolfenstein RPG
Laying It All Out
Next Mac Office, due by 2010’s end, gets Outlook
Video: ‘To Catch a Pirate’ is like ‘To Catch a Predator,’ only with pirates
Snow Leopard cometh soon, brings installation tricks galore
Will 4G Wireless Really Threaten Wires?
Modder hacks PSP for DualShock 2 control, proves kids aren’t worthless
Sign electronic documents with your own handwritten signature
GearDeal: Get $500 off an HP HDX 18T Premium laptop & HP mini 110 XP netbook Bundle
Shooting the boss (and getting paid for it)
You’re Not Crazy–You’re an Entrepreneur

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

Tags: Apple, Dell, icann, IE8, iPhone, iPod, ISP, iTunes, Linux, mac office, Netbook, Palm, pre, psp.sony.vaio, Samsung, Twitter, Verizon

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

Tags: Acer, ad, Apple, ARM-based, Aspire, Astronaut-Butt, ATI, ATM, blacklisted, Board, bug, campaign, Colossus, Cooling, criminals, Cyber, DEFCON, Dell, e-commerce, etiquette, Facebook, FirePro, Gateway, gay, high-powered, Intel, ironic, Jail, Mac, MacBooks, Microsoft, Mobile, multitouch, Nasa, Netbook, netbooks, P2P.com, PayPal, Precision, Prehistoric, Processor, PS3, Radio, rebranding, RIAA, sales, Scam, search, SlingPlayer, slur, smartphone, Sony, SSD, Vaio, Verizon, WIndows

I have been very very busy for the last few days including personal stuff to work out. So here is the RSS Roll-up Extravaganza.

NetNewsWire beta beginning of transition to Google Reader (Updated)
Let them eat cake: Fat Princess is a delight
Robert Kaiser: Progress on XULRunner-based Mandelbrot app
Holiday season will see big changes in laptops
Homegrown CBHD discs outsell Blu-ray by 3-1 margin in China
Microsoft Drops Windows 7 E Editions
Calendar: How to Save Sunbird
Man, the U.S. had a crazy cyberwar plan against Iraq (that it didn’t execute)
The Robot Uprising Will Begin With a Game of Catch [Robots]
Big Talk from MS: WinMo 6.5 is Gonna Trump the iPhone’s Web Browsing
Downloaders Beware: Lawmakers say Downloading Music or Files Could be Are Costly and Unsafe
Mining Social Networks for Clues
Google Maps accused of unfair competition in France
Using software updates to spread malware
Google Adds More Options To Image Search
Hackers expose weakness in visiting trusted sites
Complex Medical Test Made From Paper and Tape for Three Cents | Wired Science | Wired.com
Nike Basketball Trainer Ganon Baker shows 23 Ways To Destroy Your Defender: New style iPhone app!
How to Make an Electronic Display With Paper and Mood-Ring Ink | Wired Science | Wired.com
AT&T responds to FCC letter re: Google Voice mobile iPhone App
Snow Leopard Now Available for Pre-Order [Snow Leopard]
Whitman leads in cash for Calif. governor race
Nope, don’t expect to see an Apple e-book store
RSS Subscribers or Twitter Followers: Which Are Worth More?
Week in Microsoft: Pirates crack Windows 7, Redmond counters
In cloud computing, data is not electricity
20 years of computer lessons on 1 page
Celebrity Mac Chick Sighting: Rose McGowan
Shape Services Brings Skype To The Palm Pre
Original Futurama cast returning to the show!!!
Researchers offer tools for eavesdropping and video hijacking
BlackBerry App World v1.1 Available Today
Price of the PS3 has come down 70 percent… what? No, not for you, silly
Cultured Code
MySpace Mail: Not bad, but not a killer app
Manually-Powered Wind-up Light Is Perfect For Bed Time [Light]
Windows 7 Family Pack Pricing Confirmed at $149 [Windows 7]
Adobe updates Acrobat, Reader with security improvements
The Chinese iPhone surfaces
My Kindle ate my homework: lawsuit filed over 1984 deletion
I Quit The iPhone by Michael Arrington
Does Verizon Stand to Benefit From the FCC’s Probe?
Over 1 billion served: Firefox passes download milestone
Steve Ballmer on Apple and PC Pricing
Happy System Admin Day!
PS2 is outselling PS3 and PSP
Seth Godin at the Business of Software Conference
SplashID – A Second Look
Apple claims iPhone jailbreaking leads to compromised security and shorter battery life
Review: Verizon MiFi 2200
The Pirate Bay ordered to shut down in the Netherlands
Coconut! Headphones!
Sony sees huge loss, Nintendo profits fall, Apple noted as competition
Mozilla IT: Mozilla Scheduled Downtime – 07/30/2009, 8pm – 10pm PDT
Google Goes Back to School to Secure the Future of Its Apps
McAfee acquiring MX Logic, delivers solid outlook
Record every moment of your boring life
Report: eBay is building a Frankenskype
Pac-Man oven mitts keep hands cool. Might eat your cookies though.
CentOS Linux developers threaten mutiny
Apple unceremoniously discontinues Shake pro VFX app
Logitech release 7 new webcams
Apple Not Exhibiting at CES 2010
Top 10 iPhone annoyances — and how to fix them
Facebook and Google Android app getting closer
Skype Prime won’t make global phone sex operators rich
Unauthorized charges getting WoW accounts suspended
DIY Vortex cannon
Samsung announces 8500 series of backlit LCD HDTVs
Psystar finally announces legal team for fight against Apple
T-Mobile ETF escape may be on the horizon for some with 9/1/09 fee changes
Rename open files
Hands-on: Linux appliances made easy with SUSE Studio
Who wants to win a 2-year old, lime green iPhone?!?!
Google vs. Bing. vs. Yahoo: Fight!
Windows 7 tours gets animated Silverlight browser

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

PS: Digests resume as normal by midnight tonight… KtecK Standard Time

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RSS Digest for Wednesday, July 29th, 2009:

Video: ‘V for Vendetta’ Director Goes Ninja
Kodak Zi8 Wallops Flip With 1080p, Image Stabilizer and SD Slot [Camcorders]
Xbox Live dashboard update preview invites begin rolling out
Palm Pre headed to Verizon next year
LG has first THX-Certified LCD HDTV
Agency Mulls Curbs on Cybersquatters
Pascal Finette: Mozilla Labs Design Challenges – What we’ve learned so far…
AOL revenue slides 24 percent in 2nd quarter
Intuit and open source: Tastes great, less filling?
T-Mobile to sell HTC Touch Pro2 in August
Oops, @MarissaMayer Deletes Sensitive Tweet That Can Still Be Found
AP’s rights management DRM explained
Psystar hires Jammie’s lawyers in fight with Apple
Windows 7 activation already cracked with Lenovo’s OEM license key
Pirate Bay acquisition is likely dead
Car? Kids? Get a two-pack of headrest LCDs for $130
Online video keeps growing with help of broadband, mobile
Barnes and Noble to offer complimentary WiFi
Windows 7 vs. Windows XP On a Netbook
Brilliant but Doomed Technology
Intel: Windows 7 will deploy faster than Vista
Unboxing the $1,195 URC MX-5000 remote
Steam Achievements
Motorola Morrisson with T-Mobile 3G and UMA hits the FCC
I’m 90% sure the “Apple iTablet rumor” is an elaborate hoax by Apple to get Dell to waste money building a competing device
How Much Do You Think Twitter Is Worth? How about a Half-Billion Dollars

RSS Digest for Tuesday, July 28th, 2009:

The Matrix, but with money: the world of high-speed trading
Apple Rejects Official Google Voice iPhone App [Apple]
Labels hope Apple’s ‘Cocktail’ will boost album sales
MySpace Overtakes Evite On The Event Planning Totem Pole
LEGO Unboxing
Travel Back in Time
V-Screen turns PSP games 3D
ATI’s $1,800 2GB FirePro V8750 GPU introduced and reviewed
Microsoft sponsors Firefox!
Free Spirit: NASA Recreates Mars Surface to Liberate Rover
Movie studios sue The Pirate Bay
Unix Turns 40
Samsung’s debut e-book reader arrives
Verizon Uses Twitter To Trash Talk AT&T Too
AT&T dual USB and iPhone car charger – $15
Acer and ASUS reportedly freeze netbook releases until 2010
microsoft’s settlement proposal
Red Hat: ‘We spend over $100 million a year to advance Linux’
Like Chrome, Should Firefox Put Tabs on Top?
New Scientist: ‘Humans Prefer Cockiness to Expertise’
Electric-car maker Coda gains high-powered investors
Order Your DIY Flying Trike Today!
Robot gets an iPhone 3Gs for a brain
Landlord sues tenant after tweet about moldy apartment
Mozilla Security: URL bar spoofing vulnerability
Netgear and OpenDNS to block porn from the cloud
Viliv X70 preorders delayed, should ship out on August 11
New DoS Vulnerability In All Versions of BIND 9
Alternative to Bottled Water
Toshiba’s inaugural 3.5-inch external HDD is exactly what you think it is
EU Vista, XP users will also get to vote IE off the island
Yahoo and Microsoft to start ad partnership, says source

- Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

Tags: Acer, activation, Apple, Asus, ATI, Barnes, Bay, BIND, Camcorders, car, Chrome, Cloud, Cockiness, Coda, Cracked, Cybersquatters, Dead, Dell, Design, DIY, DoS, DRM, e-book, Electric car, EU, FCC, Firefox, FirePro, Google, gpu, HDTV, hoax, HTC, Image, Intel, Intuit, iPhone, iTablet, Kodak, LCD, Lego, Lenovo, LG, Linux, Mars, Matrix, Microsoft, Mobile, Money, Motorola, Mozilla, MySpace, Nasa, Netbook, Netgear, OEM, OpenDNS, Palm, Pascal, Pirate, Pirate Bay, porn, pre, PSP, Psystar, RED, robot, Rover, Scientist, SD, Security, Source, Spirit, Steam, surface, T-Mobile, THX Certified, tweet, Twitter, UMA, UNIX, URC, URL, usb, V-Screen, Verizon, video, Viliv, Vista, vulnerability, Wallops, Wifi, WIndows, Worth, X70, Xbox, XP, yahoo

RSS Digest for Thursday, July 2nd, 2009:

Latest dev diary for Batman: Arkham Asylum
Phone ringtones a “public performance”? EFF, AT&T say no
MJ Fans Flock to eBay for Memorabilia
Archos 9 Windows 7 tablet does a little hands-on time
Google App Engine misfires
Waffle House waiter sues over Taser incident
Huge 2K Games sale on Steam, plus 50% off Fallout 3
What will you do if piracy as we know it goes away? (I’ll just read more)
O2 confirmed as Palm Pre carrier in the UK, again
Windows 7 Home Premium to get Family Pack deal
Will MySpace Kill MySpace Latino?
Lunar mapping satellite snaps first test images
Verizon will now offer the BlackBerry Tour to everyone
Can an SD card startup disk be used on any Mac?
Twine Tries To Manage The Stream With New Coverflow-Like Design
What’s new at Talking About Windows.com
Leaked AT&T Memo: iPhone 3GS Generated ‘Best Ever Sales Day’
Make big bucks rolling out broadband to unserved areas!
Take the Fireworks With You For Free
10.5: Wake a sleeping Mac with via Automator
Do Lower Phone Bills Justify Ads on Your Mobile Phone?
Motorola’s Aura Celestial Edition soon taking “giant leaps” for “mankind”
Carnivorous gadgets kill insects for power
The future is now: Star Trek-like language translator debuts on the iPhone
Opinion: Why the iPhone can’t be killed
Free Windows 7 upgrade plus HP Pavilion S5110t – $339
Apple to Rate Your Karaoke Singing on Your iPhone?
PS3 Slim ready to ship in July?
HTML 5 standard won’t have an official video codec
DIY HD projector hits the right note, sub-€500 price range

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

Tags: Ads, Apple, ARchos, Batman, Bills, BlackBerry, broadband, Card, codec, Coverflow-Like, DIY, Ebay, Google, HD, HP, HTML5, iPhone, Lunar, Mac, mapping, Microsoft, Motorola, MySpace, O2, Palm, Pavilion, Phone, Piracy, pre, projector, PS3-Slim, ringtones, Satellite, SD, standard, Steam, tablet, translator, Twine, Twitter, UK, Verizon, WIndows, Windows 7