December 2008
27 posts
Msi Wind Forums • View topic - The $12 Touchpad... →
Fake iPhone nano makes its debut in Thailand →
If you see a listing for an iPhone nano on eBay, don’t freak out and spend your life savings to be the first to own this hotly rumored device. Chances are quite good that the phone you…
Las Vegas Events - Find Tickets and Information... →
Is London the capital city of Twitter? →
London is the capital of the Twittersphere according to a report on the state of the microblogging world.
London comes top of a list of the top Twitter ‘cities’ assembled on Hubspot’s inaugural…
Giant LED lamp →
[guyfrom7up] must really really love LEDs. When he needed some lighting, which would obviously be LED powered, he chose to actually build a giant LED. Well, he didn’t actually build a…
Use Zoom to View Websites Easier on Smaller... →
Shared by Jeff
This works really well for small netbook screens.
I have an understandable soft spot for the original 800×480 resolution UMPCs since I owned two of them. I later upgraded to…
Netbook enthusiast web sites getting C & D... →
This is very preliminary but we are hearing that some netbook enthusiast sites are getting “cease & desist” letters from a firm in the UK ordering the sites to stop using the term “netbook”. The…
Nine-year old girl is youngest person to become... →
A nine year-old girl in India named M. Lavinashree has passed the Microsoft Certified Professional Exam, becoming the youngest person to ever pull it off (smashing the record previously…
Virgin really, really wants you to keep saving up... →
The ad above seems to be implying that we’ll all soon be able to put our frequent flyer miles toward one of Virgin Galactic’s super-expensive space tourist flights. Of course, it’s…
Soda cup is actually sloven-chic phone →
This cute soda cup only telegraphs its status as a telephone by the sort of completely obvious curlycue cord coming out of its side. $13 + $5 shipping at ye olde SourcingMap.com, “The…
Australia To Block BitTorrent →
Kevin 7Kbps writes “Censorship Minister Stephen Conroy announced today that the Australian Internet Filters will be extended to block peer-to-peer traffic, saying, ‘Technology that filters…
How To Stay Connected: a Globetrotter’s List →
While most of us worry about where the next nearest WiFi hotspot is, extreme digital nomads are more concerned about how they’ll stay connected in the next nearest country. Andy Abramson…
SpoofApp - Amazing! →
Have you guys seen the Spoofapp that was released into the marketplace last night? Friggin awesome! I had an iPod Touch that was jailbroken and I used to use SpoofApp on that over the summer when it…
MythTV - AwkwardTV →
Mythtv frontend on the Apple TV.
Las Vegas Receives Record Snowfall →
3.6 inches of snow fell in Vegas yesterday. Check out a slideshow of the Vegas strip covered in snow, here . Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »
Android has free turn-by-turn navigation →
Android now has fully audible real-time turn-by-turn navigation with an application called AndNav2. This one is now only a public Alpha, but due to all the experience gained in AndNav1 this version…
Four Konami games coming to iPhone, including... →
Filed under: Action, Rhythm, Mobile
And Dance Dance Revolution, if you can believe it. Konami has announced the impending arrival of four downloadable iPhone games, with all…
Retail: Ubisoft releasing Grey's Anatomy game in... →
Filed under: PC, Mobile
Several retail listings indicate that a Grey’s Anatomy video game will release on PC next March. The beauty of this story is that the game is…
jkOnTheRun Fifth Annual Geek Holiday Gift Guide →
It’s time (past time really) for the jkOnTheRun Fifth Annual Geek Holiday Gift Guide to help you find the cool and unusual gifts for that geek in your life. I had to stop and look at that again,…
Jeffrey Sharkey gives us OilCan before starting at... →
Jeffrey Sharkey is at it again, this time pumping out his OilCan before he hops over to Google. For those of you who do not know who Jeffery is, he is one of the developers behind CompareEverywhere….
SIM / hardware-unlocked Android Dev Phone 1... →
Oh, snap! Out of seemingly nowhere, Google has revealed the Android Dev Phone 1, a SIM- and hardware-unlocked G1 designed to be sold exclusively to hard working developers. The…
Keepin' it real fake, part CLXX: the highly... →
How would you improve the XPERIA X1? If you answered, “remove the keyboard and add a mangled iPhone UI,” then the iFone x1 will be right right up your alley. Of course, this ain’t …
Rock Band Weekly: Most of No Doubt - The Singles... →
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm
As announced on the band’s website, 13 of the 15 tracks from No Doubt’s The Singles 1992-2003 album are heading to…
Super-size Three: PS3 can read Pioneer's 16-layer,... →
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Business
16 layers. 400 giga … bites? Sounds like the fast food burrito equivalent of the Death Star. Ah, but it’s not. It’s a Blu-ray Disc,…
Buffalo unveils 16GB and 32GB SSDs for Inspiron... →
It looks like the kids at Buffalo are hard at work making sure that all of you netbook-lovin’ Engadget readers aren’t stuck with the minimal storage that has plagued early adopters of…
Kogan intros world's second Android phone: Agora /... →
We’ll be totally honest — we pretty much blew Ruslan Kogan off when he proclaimed that he was about to push out a $199 Android phone by the year’s end. And truthfully, the guy still…