Mar 27th, 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: Displays, Sony, Projector
Sony keeps the BRAVIA train rolling today, announcing pricing and availability for not one but two new 3LCD projectors. The 720p VPL-AW10 and VPL-AW15 projectors both feature the same 165-watt 1,100 lumen [...]
Mar 27th, 2007
by hueland.
Amazon.com Widgets Filed under: Industry
HDTV and Catholicism seems a natural marriage doesn’t it? It would be one of those opposites attract kind of thing - old school meets new skool. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the television director in the Vatican, is promising to get the HDTV system up and running by Pope Benedict [...]
Mar 27th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Audio, TUAW Business
Thanks to everyone who entered the Xmod Giveaway! We only had one unit, which means only one winner. A big congratulations to Morgan-William in Brooklyn, who proved it is possible to leave a comment on a post– and wind up with a cool Xmod from Creative. We’re hoping to roll out [...]
Mar 27th, 2007
by hueland.
ToonDoo launched this morning, a new site that lets users easily create comic strips with pre-built or uploaded images and text. This is an Indian company, and has the same parent company, AdventNet, as Zoho (one of our current sponsors), a fairly serious online office application startup (see our coverage here).
The creation tool is a [...]
Mar 27th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Displays, Sony
Sony was still rolling out new BRAVIA’s this morning, with three new models in its Japanese X2550 line that should give a preview of the successors to the current XBR models we’ll see here. The piano black finished LCDs all feature 1080p resolution, wide color gamut backlighting, BRAVIA Engine and Sony’s new [...]
Mar 27th, 2007
by hueland.
Rent-a-Shacks everywhere have a nice business goin’ on where they let people afraid of commitment still enjoy nice stuff. Come to think of it, does any of these rental place have HD DVD or Blu-ray players? Anyways, Netfix does about the same thing if you think about it - but did you know they also [...]
Mar 27th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Features, How-tos, Tips and tricks, Troubleshooting, Ask TUAW
Wednesday means it is Ask TUAW time! This week we’ll look at questions about Arabic support in Mail.app, playing a Wii on a Mac, Digital Color Calibration, problems copying from Firefox and much more. As always, please leave your own comments, and ask more questions for [...]
Mar 27th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Displays, Sony, LCD
Sony’s got its latest network-enabled LCDs lined up for release in Japan. These are similar to the V- and S- series BRAVIA’s coming to the U.S. soon, with the J5000 series adding a 40-inch model to go along with the 32-inch LCD, both featuring 120Hz MotionFlow technology to reduce blurring, 24p [...]
Mar 27th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Blu-ray, HD DVD
May 22 is right around the corner folks and frankly, we don’t feel everyone is ready. That day you are going to have to decide which high-def Matrix film collection you are going to buy. Are you going to go for the ‘The Ultimate Matrix Collection’ which includes all the films, [...]
Mar 27th, 2007
by hueland.
Smartphones Show 28 is an eleven minute Nokia N95 review special, complete with iPhone-esque intro. I look at how well (or badly) it does at replacing each of 11 standalone devices. As ever, it's in cross-platform MP4 format, if your desktop can't run Quicktime or similar then here's a slightly lower quality version on YouTube.
Originally [...]