March 2009
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WatchPizza vending machine | Video | Reuters.com
Technology and food service coming together to put teenage pizza chefs out of business.
The video shows a pizza vending machine that makes everything fresh for you in just three minutes.
Put in your money, select you toppings, and the vending machine starts mizing the dough, adding sauce, and dropping on toppings while you watch.
Then it the whole...
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Timelapse Garden Video Camera →
Looking for an interesting gift for Easter or Mother’s day? Is that certain someone by chance a gardener?
Then this might be just the fun lil gadget gift for them. It’s a battery operated time lapse camera. It takes a series of still images of a single plant or whole garden ans then uses them as frames in your own movie.
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Now you can watch your...
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Why hasn't anyone done this before? A USB Flash... →
Brilliant. Stupid that no one has thought of it before.
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A USB Key that is shaped like a regular Key, and is as tough as a regular key.
I know I know you can attach other USB drives to your keychain, but have you actually done that? After a bit the plastic USB drive takes a heck of a beating. At least in my pocket, I’ve even tried some metal cased...
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Blackberry App World: BlackBerrry App World To... →
Well well well. It’s about time RIM.
Rumor is although there will be free applications allowed in the store, pricing for paid apps will start at $2.99.
That’s three times what the minimum price for applications is on “other phones” but still it’s better to have something.
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The question is, how fast can they fill this store with...
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TiVo announces Blockbuster On Demand support →
TiVo has been slowly and somewhat quietly adding a bunch of services to it’s collection. Really taking advantage of that network cable connection on the back of the TiVo units, TiVo Series 2 and up.
Amazon On Demand, Netflix, Disney, Jaman, and various IPTV and podcast services have all been added in the last few years, and now coming into the fold is Blockbuster On Demand.
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RIAA Turns to ISPs to enforce draconian copyright... →
Cnet is reporting that AT&T among others has agreed to become the enforcer for the Recording Industry of America’s anti piracy campaign.
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It was only a few months ago that the RIAA announced they would stop suing children and grandmother’s (any individuals) in their anti-piracy efforts.
But now their back and they have some new partners. ...
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Sprint Looks Beyond the Consumer to just become a... →
Sprint’s cell phone business is in trouble. It has been for a few years now. Their subscription base if falling despite inking a few good deals like being the first to have the Palm Pre.
But instead putting all their energy into fighting a loosing battle with Verizon and AT&T, they are quietly going after consumers indirectly by powering other companies gadgets.
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Vuse: Now playing, on all your screens →
Vuse formally the Azureus Bit Torrent client has been working for a while now to be come a online video client and purveyor of both legal and up for debate video programming.
They haven’t ever really been too interesting, until now.
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The latest version of Vuse includes support for putting their video content on pretty much whatever screen you want it...
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Exciting news: Wuala merges with LaCie →
Here is cloud computing acquisition that actually makes a lot of sense.
Wuala is a program that syncs your files over the internet to another computer. It’s very similar to a product I use all the time, dropbox.
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The idea is simple, link a couple of folders on one computer to the program, so the same thing on another computer and anything you put in...
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Custom Tailored News →
What’s happening to newspapers? Recessions and economic uncertainty have begun to faze out newspapers across the country. Large, well-known publications like the Rocky Mountain News and Seattle Post Intelligencer, along with countless other regional and local offerings are shutting off their printing presses, though some continue to blow on the embers of relevancy with web-only issues. But...
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iPhone 3.0 OS Reveals New iPhones, iPods and an... →
Well the code monkeys over at Ars Technica, Boy Genius and others have been pouring over the iPhone 3.0 SDK that was released on Tuesday and look at what they found.
There are references to new iPhone hardware, new iPod Touch hardware, and two more mystery devices dubbed the iFPGA, and the iProd.
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This is almost exactly what happened when the iPhone 2.0...
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Safari hacked within seconds at Pwn2Own contest →
Ahh is it that time of year again. Yes, the Pwn2Own hacker competition is going on right now. This is the competition where poor unsuspecting laptops loaded up with certain browsers are hacked on by some of the best and brightest the Internet underworld has produced.
This year in big surprise Apple’s Safari was the first browser to fall to the perils of Hackery going down and yielding...
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Internet Explorer 8 available now. →
Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8 to the general public. It adds a bunch of new features and claims speed and security improvements.
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But personally I have been bitten too many times by Microsoft to trust that this browser will be any better.
But if you are a Microsoft lemming, and must have the latest and greatest from them, hit the link in the...
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Cisco Buys Pure Figital (Flip Video) For $590... →
Cisco has been slowly buying up a bunch of great tech companies as it tries to form a monopoly on any hardware that can connect to the internet.
This time it is the very popular Flip Video camera company.
Flip makes very small handheld digital camcorders, designed with a USB plug built in for easy uploading to You Tube or similar sites.
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So although the...
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Mozilla Fennec (Firefox Mobile) hits beta →
Now this is interesting. Fennec, the mobile version of firefox has hit beta today. So we can all rush out and give it a try right? errr no.
The beta is available for Nokia N810 Interent Tablets (a great device but are there more than 50 active users?), Windows (Vista, XP, etc), OS X, and Linux computers.
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Do you see whats missing? Yeah any cell phone....
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Counting Crows Go Label-Free →
Another band slips away from the grasp of the mighty recording industry to go it alone on the interent.
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I don’t see any consumers or Counting Crow fans shedding a tear.
Adapt or perish record industry… The bell tolls for thee.
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2G iPod touch to have Bluetooth capability... →
Booyah! How the heck did I miss this yesterday.
It seems that for the annoying but necessary $9.95 cost to upgrade an iPod Touch to the iPhone 3.0 software when it becomes available, we iPod touch users are getting a tad more than just a software upgrade.
The built in Bluetooth chip in the second generation iPod Touch that currently only works with the Nike+ software and shoes will be unlocked...
iPhone 3.0 Software Event Summary →
iPhone 3.0 software was demoed today to a small group on the Apple campus. There is a ton of coverage on this so I am just going to post the highlights here.
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Applications will now be able to sell you things from within the App. Bonus features, extra content, upgrades, etc.
Peer to peer connectivity will be available. Multiplayer gaming yes, but also...
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Rumor: Is the Apple TV getting a "Touch"... →
Could the Apple TV be gearing up for games?
it’s an interesting thought, especially with the patent filing of a wii like remote device for the Apple TV showing up last week and now another patent clearly shows an App store icon in a drawing.
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Apps of all sorts not just games could make the Apple TV incredibly useful. However, I don’t think Apple...
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Apple invites media to sneak peek of iPhone 3.0 on... →
This looks to be a small even being held in Apple’s own facilities. It will be a sneak peak at the iPhone 3 software and it’s features.
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It’s unclear if this means we will see new iPhone hardware, or just a summer software update.
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Yale student sues US Airways for $1million...... →
Not strictly tech related, but I just had to put this up here and say. I hope he wins. Airlines need to reform their system, they regularly overbook flights, damage and lose luggage and the customer has little or no resource (unless they know someone on the inside)
Flying has become the worst most uncomfortable way to travel and in this economy it’s only going to get worse.
Bah Humbug...
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Apple releases new iPod Shuffles out of the blue... →
Ahh Apple. Doing their best to end the recession by releasing a fresh update to the cheapest of the iPod line. The iPod Shuffle.
These screenless gems have gone back to the “gum stick” style the orgional shuffle had, and seems to have dropped the colors choices as well.
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Now available in only a 4gb model and your choice of either light or dark...
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This is how Cyborg's begin →
Oh sure, I know what you are going to say, and yes of course you are right. There have been mechanical pieces, and electronics put into human being for a while now.
But this is the first, to my knowledge, computer componant ever installed “just for the hell of it.”
What I’m talking about is a guy named Jerry, who happened to to be a computer hacker, and also happened to have...
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Is Apple Building a 'Netbook' or maybe The 'iPod...
Is this the Apple tablet is device I have been calling for ever since I heard Andy Ihnatko describe such a thing shortly after the iPhone was launched two years ago.
Well the Digi Times is reporting that Apple has ordered a boatload of new touch panels for some sort of “netbook” device.
I sincerly doubt this device will be a touch screen netbook, ie. a small clamshell/notebook with a...
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McNamee predicts death to iPhone on June 29 →
This is just a laugh. Even if the Palm Pre is as good as Palm and CEO of Elevation Partners Roger McNamee think it will be. I doubt the iPhone is going to cease being the dominant consumer smart phone on June 29th.
Just because people with original iPhone contracts may be looking for a new contract at this times doesn’t mean they are all going to abandon ship and switch to an unproven...
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Amua: cool, minimal Last.fm player for Mac →
I just installed this little application, and I am blown away. It is so much better than the official last.fm application.
Not only does this Last.fm client stream last.fm music like a champ, it scrobbles your music, displays album art and info, and does it all with a minimal footprint both physically and with system resources.
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Download Squad says the only...
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Recharge gizmos on the run for $29 shipped | The... →
As I depend more and more on portable devices like my iPod Touch and my Balckberry storm, the issue of keeping these devices charged becomes a real issue.
Well here is a steal of a deal from Amazon.
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The Tekkeon TekCharge is on sale at Amazon for $28.99 with free shipping. Normally priced at $45, the TekCharge is a portable battery pack for anything that...
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Firefox 3.1 renamed Firefox 3.5 →
I have been playing with the Firefox 3.1 beta for a while now. And it’s a pretty big improvement over 3.0.7 or whatever the most current regular version is now, and apparently the devolpers agree.
The have figured out that 3.1 is enough of an improvement to be called 3.5. Phew well that’s a load off.
Psst. Hey Firefox. You’ve been a great browser thus far, and you have...
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Amazon Launches Kindle App for the iPhone →
The rumored release of the Kindle app for the iPhone has come true, and sooner than anyone thought.
I downloaded it and a free copy of Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, a favorite book from my childhood, just to test it out.
Text is clean crisp and easy to read, navigation is simple, just swipe to change pages, bookmarks leave a little digital dog ear on the page, and...
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Streaming Media: Amazon Video On Demand Now on the... →
Remmember that $100 netflix streaming player for your TV? The little box that I and everyone else was raving about a year ago or so, now has more choice.
Existing users and new buyers of the “little set top box that could” can now get content from either Netflix or Amazon.
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Amazon is now on board offering it’s video on demand service to the...
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Apple Updates Consumer Desktop Line →
And it’s about time.
In a press release issued just this morning, Apple has announced a product and pricing refresh of it’s popular consumer desktop line including the iMac and (finally) the Mac Mini.
“Our flagship 24-inch iMac with twice the memory and twice the storage is now available for just $1,499,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s COO. “The Mac mini is not only our most affordable Mac,...
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Amazon Caves to Snippy Authors: Kindle's... →
What a load of b@#ls&#t!
In case you have missed this story let me sum it up for you. The Authors guild has been up in arms about the Amazon Kindle 2’s new Text to speech feature ever since it was announced. Claiming it took away their performance rights for things like audio books.
Because yeah, the robotic voice reading software is just as good as a book read by the author.
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