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Curious and/or impatient techies! An early developer build of Google (Google’s?) Chrome OS – which was just formally announced – has been unleashed on the Internet for those who want to take an early early early peek at what I like to call the BrOSer. From what I’ve read about it Chrome OS basically offers…
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November 20th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: computing future tech technology
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Space puns ftw! NASA recently released a free iPhone app that promises a ton of content for space fans, including mission details, videos, images, and twitter feeds. The mission portion is probably the geekiest part of the app, allowing users to read mission details, view launch or arrival countdown clocks, and even follow the orbit…
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November 17th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: just plain fun mobile tech technology
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Call it a case of life imitating software: a designer at Mintpass recently showed off a couple of designs for calculators that look exactly like the calculator apps in Windows and in OS X.
The Mac version has a metal case and a 2-liner LCD screen like its software counterpart, while the Windows calculator sports…
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November 4th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: computing design gadgets geek art + craft just plain fun mobile tech technology
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Ah, software problems. We’ve all experienced them in varying degrees – sometimes it’s just a stupid online video that won’t load, and sometimes the operating system itself gives up. Now imagine a future where programs can still be compromised, or attacked, but will no longer crash or hang. A group of MIT researchers, led by…
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October 30th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: computing future tech strange + wonderful technology
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Man, these are smartphones indeed. The wise – and probably bored – folks at the University of Berlin made a one-of-a-kind iPhone app which they called iDriver, which allows them to control a Honda Civic via Wi-Fi. But it’s not like our German friends just coded the app and then began playing real-life Hot Wheels;…
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October 19th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: computing cool toys gps + navigation hacks + mods just plain fun mobile tech technology
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Developed by a team of students from Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore, Photosketch is a more practical version of Scribblenauts. Say you want to have a picture of a shark jumping out of the sea in an attempt to swallow a helicopter. All you have to do create a rough sketch the…
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October 9th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: computing digital imaging future tech just plain fun strange + wonderful technology
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The iPhone app store is loaded up with tens of thousands of apps ranging from video games, to GPS software to fart apps. But here’s an application that can actually change lives. Proloquo2Go is an amazing iPhone and iPod Touch app that helps people with speech impairments communicate wherever they go.
Created by AssistiveWare, Proloquo2Go…
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September 25th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: audio gadgets media players mobile tech technology
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I love playing video games because they give me quantifiable proof of my progress, unlike in real life where sometimes (cue violins) you just don’t know where you are, what you’re supposed to do and where you’re going (stop music). Tactical RPGs are my favorite because in my opinion they’re the ones that provide the…
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September 10th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: hacks + mods technology video games
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A Best Buy employee recently posted screenshots of what he claims is part of a training program about Windows 7. The screenshots show some Windows vs. Linux comparisons. You probably know where this is going. The employee is overclock.net forum member GodofGrunts, and here are some of the screenshots he posted:
Now I have never…
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September 8th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: computing technology
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If you’ve upgraded to Apple’s much-hyped and well-received Snow Leopard, I recommend that you update your system’s Adobe Flash player – even if you already had the latest version prior to the installation. That’s because in the process of installing Snow Leopard, your current Flash player will be replaced by version 10.0.23.1. Both Adobe and…
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September 4th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: computing technology
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Internet Explorer is still the world’s most popular internet browser, but its market share has dropped because of sweet alternatives like Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari. And if ReadWriteWeb’s “reputable sources” are to be believed, a new challenger is about to drop a metaphorical token in the metaphorical arcade machine that’s playing the metaphorical video…
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August 14th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: computing future tech strange + wonderful technology
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This has to be one of the weirdest movie and franchise tie-ins ever: just in time for the live action movie, there’s a G.I. Joe-themed version of Norton Antivirus, complete with its own website.
It seems like the kind of thing that would be fanart, or the product of a Photoshop contest, not a real…
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July 28th, 2009
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author: alisha k.
filed under: computing just plain fun technology
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