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Posts on ‘May 22nd, 2007’

More new HD channels on the way from Discovery, CNBC and Chiller

If you like gadgets you need my RSS feed. It keeps you up-to-date on all the gizmos you love!Filed under: Discovery-HD, Satellite, New content
You know times are good when we are surprised when it is more than a week between new HD channel announcements. This week we have a few more channels for you, [...]

Hugin panorama photo maker

Amazon.com Widgets Filed under: Freeware, Open Source
In a previous Ask TUAW we covered a few of the panoramic photo stitching options available for the Mac. Now another tool for doing this has come to my attention and is probably worth a look for anyone interested in making panoramic pictures from multiple photos. Hugin [...]

Make a peepmobile

Here’s how to take your left over Marshmallow Peeps, add a few components, and make them into pimped-out peepmobiles.

Okay, so Easter has come and gone. Really gone. And if you’re like us, you didn’t eat all of your Peeps. Have they gone bad by now? Probably not. As it turns out, the [...]

Prototype Of Pandora Wifi Device Shown Tonight In San Francisco

Pandora made a number of announcements tonight at a press/user event at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, which we covered earlier. Deals with Sonos and Sprint were announced that bring Pandora Internet radio into the home and to mobile devices.
They also made a pre-announcement, however, of an upcoming Wifi music player to [...]

Nespresso Limited Edition Sparkle Pink Essenza

Filed under: Gadgets
I am not a morning person and sometimes the smell of coffee brewing is the only thing that will lure me out of bed. If I had this blinged-out espresso maker to look forward to, getting up might be a little easier. Covering an espresso machine in Swarovski crystals may seem a bit [...]

Nespresso Limited Edition Sparkle Pink Essenza

Filed under: Gadgets
I am not a morning person and sometimes the smell of coffee brewing is the only thing that will lure me out of bed. If I had this blinged-out espresso maker to look forward to, getting up might be a little easier. Covering an espresso machine in Swarovski crystals may seem a bit [...]

Anarchy, Discontent Plague Second Life

Linden Labs may soon be delivering better clouds to Second Life, yet there are clouds of another kind on the horizon for the much hyped service.
An update to Second Life’s client server will coincide with a 6 hour outage from 6am-12 noon PST Wednesday and Second Life users are not happy. According to a [...]

Plain text wiki bundle for TextMate

Filed under: Software, Productivity
Matt Webb likes VoodooPad, the desktop wiki application from Gus Mueller, but he does not like his data to be bound up in a proprietary format. So he’s cooked up a bundle for the powerful TextMate text editor that allows him to create a plain text wiki. Basically the bundle allows you [...]

All New Technorati: No Longer Blog-Centric

Blog search engine Technorati made significant changes to its data architecture and user interface this evening. CEO Dave Sifry outlined the details on his personal blog. The changes, Sifry says, are largely in response to Technorati’s changing user base - more and more mainstream Internet users are using the service.
This is also a clear move [...]

Social Recommendations Meet BitTorrent on Tribler

A BitTorrent client developed by the Delft University of Technology and the VU University Amsterdam brings dynamic social recommendations to the BitTorrent world.
Tribler version 4.0 takes the concept of what is popular and gives it a solid Web 2.0 twist. Pandora and Last.fm style, Tribler recommends downloads based on a user’s history.
The client also supports [...]