Jul 18th, 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: Cable, New content
Of all the HD channels out there that aren’t offered by most providers, it seems that National Geographic HD might be the most sought after. We have some good news for Cox [...]
Jul 18th, 2007
by hueland.
Amazon.com Widgets Filed under: Industry, Set-top boxes, Cable
It’s been a few weeks since the FCC mandate for seperate security went into effect, and when our cable company offered us a free STB for a year — to make up for the fact that they moved an HD channel to SDV and out of [...]
Jul 18th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Industry, Blu-ray, HD DVD
As if moving over 100,000 units wasn’t enough, those involved with the making of The Departed have yet another reason to celebrate — right alongside the equally successful crew involved with 007: Casino Royale, of course. At the first Entertainment Merchants Association’s Home Entertainment Awards to hand out honors for [...]
Jul 18th, 2007
by hueland.
David asked: By the results of Stat. report of NPD Group, it is revealed that sales volume in American toys market has reached $22,300,000,000 in 2006. The main reason is it sells very well in the 4th season, which ensures the whole year to have a little growth of 0.34% in 2006. However, toy sales [...]
Jul 18th, 2007
by hueland.
Faithful iPhone Central reader Walter R. Basil wrote to us:
How about a light version of iPhone central for those of us browsing from our iPhones? Using EDGE of course.
Well, I suppose we should– hey! Whaddayamean you want a light version of the site? The whole point of the iPhone is to browse the “real” web, [...]
Jul 18th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Industry, Displays
Honestly, don’t look so surprised. Just under two years ago, some 15-percent of American homes had at least one HDTV somewhere on the premises, and not long after, estimators were suggesting that a whopping 82-percent of domiciles would be HDTV-equipped by the end of this decade. Earlier this year, a more recent [...]
Jul 18th, 2007
by hueland.
So a couple weeks back, Chris Breen and I were recording a Macworld Podcast episode — him on the iPhone, me on Skype — when we tried to patch in another iPhone caller using the phone’s easy-as-pie Merge Call feature. The only trouble is, in this case, it wasn’t easy-as-pie — despite repeated attempts, Chris [...]
Jul 18th, 2007
by hueland.
It may seem like a no brainer, but since full-fledged AJAX applications run fine on the iPhone, so do many bookmarklets. Bookmarklets, if you’re not familiar with them, are little JavaScript applications that look just like bookmarks. They can do handy things like help you shrink URLs, or let you search a website without going [...]
Jul 18th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Reviews, Blu-ray, Sony
We can imagine quite a few Fifth Element faithful were ready and willing to hand over MSRP in order to take home one of the first Blu-ray copies of the quasi-cult classic, but the overwhelming response from those hoping for the best was nothing short of unpropitious. Thankfully for those still [...]
Jul 18th, 2007
by hueland.
With millions of iPhone users hitting the streets and hotspots in the next few months, there’s a high degree of concern over whether they will be able to keep their data from the hands of the many crackers and sniffers out there who routinely grab any login information or other personal data that passes over [...]