Feb 13th, 2007
by hueland.
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If you like gadgets you need my RSS feed. It keeps you up-to-date on all the gizmos you love!How to Choose CD/DVD Archival Media. A superb blog post and huge 4 month long comment thread which will tell you just about everything you need to know on the robustness, suitability and reliability of optical discs [...]
Feb 13th, 2007
by hueland.
Amazon.com Widgets
These new line of sneakers come with an embedded GPS chip (2-by-3-inches) which works when you press a button on the shoe, amazingly a father came up with the idea when his son went missing.
Sometimes people wonder what purpose does a gadget have in the real marketplace, but these GPS sneakers [...]
Feb 13th, 2007
by hueland.
Probably a touch of formality after completing their accquisition, but Sony Ericsson have confirmed that UIQ is still being licenced to other manufacturers if they so wish. In addition to this they're also inviting other phone vendors to become share holders in UIQ (which is currently 100% owned by Sony Ericsson). An interesting move, but [...]
Feb 13th, 2007
by hueland.
The XT9 Mobile Interface is a new version of the T9 predictive text tech which we all know and love from our happy hours spent sending SMS messages. What, you mean you don’t use predictive text? Tsk. The upgrades include faster mode switching between touchscreen, QWERTY and keypad, and a pretty cool error correction feature which corrects the [...]
Feb 13th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: iPod Family
Edgar >Bronfman Jr, chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group, thinks DRM is a good thing (though that article does get his name wrong). It protects intellectual property. He doesn’t think, however, that DRM should limit listeners to a single device, instead he believes in “interoperability”.
In a speech in Barcelona, he suggested [...]
Feb 13th, 2007
by hueland.
Apple just posted an updated version of its Fibre Channel Utility, allowing you to configure your Apple Fibre Channel PCI cards, including Dual- and Quad-Channel 4GB cards. Two archaic versions are also available for download, for 10.3 and for 10.4-10.4.7. For the curious, Wikipedia discusses Fibre Channel, a gigabit-speed networking technology, here.
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Feb 13th, 2007
by hueland.
Israeli Startup Aniboom has raise $4.5 million in an initial round of financing. At least that’s what TechCrunch France writer Ouriel Ohayon tells me this page says. The round was led by Israeli venture firm Evergreen.
The site has very good user generated animated videos presented in a Flash player and embeddable in other websites. My [...]
Feb 13th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Features, Cool tools, How-tos, Tips and tricks, Ask TUAW
Last week Ask TUAW took a little unplanned vacation, but it’s back this week none the worse for wear. This time we’ll be taking up questions from two weeks ago on getting video from a home DVD into iMovie, dismissing dialog boxes using the keyboard [...]
Feb 13th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Industry, DVRs, Tuners, Sharp
Oh, and speaking of Sharp recorders, we’ve got five more from the AQUOS series hitting today. The most interesting beast of the bunch is the ¥200,000 ($1,650) DV-ACW60 (pictured) packing a 1TB hard disk; dual digital and analog HD tuners; HDMI, Japanese D4, S-Video, composite video outputs; 2x analog, 1x [...]
Feb 13th, 2007
by hueland.
A reader wrote in to suggest we take a good look at Google’s Valentine’s Day logo, which appears to have dropped the “L” and simply reads “Googe.” The strawberry stem arguably is the missing letter, but this sure reads like Googe to me.
See all of Google’s past holiday logos here.
Update: Google discusses this on [...]