Mar 16th, 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!Filed under: Blu-ray, Panasonic
This week at CeBIT Panasonic introduced the DMP-BD10A, which is a revision to the DMP-BD10. Among other things the A revision brings with it advanced CODEC support including Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD. We [...]
Mar 16th, 2007
by hueland.
Amazon.com Widgets Tello, a complicated company with a complicated product around “presence” (letting people find you when you want them to, and not when you don’t), has quietly disintegrated.
The company, which was founded by Jeff Pulver, Craig McCaw, former Apple CEO John Sculley and others, had a media blitz when it launched fourteen [...]
Mar 16th, 2007
by hueland.
Does a Windows-based operating system belong in an entertainment room? That’s been a question since Microsoft introduced its Media Center Edition of Windows XP and inspired a host of media-centric PCs. These computers were designed not just for office tasks but also for watching TV, listening to music and doing other fun things we enjoy [...]
Mar 16th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Features, TUAW Business, Weekend Review
Welcome to this week’s edition of TUAW Best of the Week. Because we know that you can’t spend every waking moment reading TUAW–if only you could!–you might have missed some great posts as the week flew by. So to make things easy for you, we’ve scoured all the posts [...]
Mar 16th, 2007
by hueland.
Kaneva is a new social network that extends the concept of MySpace into a virtual world. Although you’ve been able to sign up for a 2D profile on Kaneva they recently opened the doors to their 3D world. The idea is that users can create personal profile pages in the 2D space, like MySpace, but [...]
Mar 16th, 2007
by hueland.
Digg revolutionized social news when it launched in 2004. Since then, it has become the undisputed champ of news link ranking sites. They just recently crossed the million mark. And their influence goes far beyond those user registration numbers.
Tangible evidence of Digg’s importance: the raw number of clones and Digg gaming schemes out there. We’ve [...]
Mar 16th, 2007
by hueland.
Despite the sarcasm of the title, I’m pretty excited to hear that, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Gumby, all 200+ Gumby episodes will soon be available in full length on YouTube, AOL and other video sites. Each episode includes the original soundtrack and has been digitally remastered by Art Clokey, the son of [...]
Mar 16th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: iLife, Software, Terminal Tips, Developer
Today is apparently iPhoto export plugin day as in addition to the Facebook iPhoto plugin and updated FlickrExport plugin mentioned earlier, John Gruber at Daring Fireball brings our attention to ScriptExport from Nathaniel Gray. ScriptExport “allows you to ‘export’ your iPhoto pictures and movies by processing them with shell [...]
Mar 16th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Odds and ends, Internet, Internet Tools
We here at TUAW are big fans of Twitter, the simple web service that asks, ‘What are you doing?’ It is pointless, it is a time waster, but above all it is lots of fun. Gordon Meyer over at the Mac DevCenter seems to like Twitter as well, [...]
Mar 16th, 2007
by hueland.
Technology website The Register reports that Google has confirmed it is designing a mobile phone. El Reg speculates that their motive is to do with potentially large advertising revenues from mobile advertising. Google themselves say it is to get a foothold in developing countries (where mobiles are now the commonest form of connected computing). The [...]