Archive for June, 2010

myPad? Build Your Own Tablet for 400 Bucks

Jun 20 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

It may not be quite as pretty or compact as the iPad, but open source hardware company Liquidware is selling kits for a $400 build-it-yourself tablet utilizing the Texas Instruments single-board computer BeagleBoard. It all snaps together with relative ease, and the end result, while decidedly more »

IBM Develop World's First Artificial Game Show Contestant - And He Cleans Up REAL Well

Jun 20 by Ty Dunitz | 4 comments

Check this out. As you may or may not have already hit play, you may or may not already know that this is Watson, a computer by IBM that they’ve dubbed a ‘question answering system’. As horrifyingly uninteresting as that sounds, this is the closest I’ve come to a sense of ‘awe’ at the communication more »

Multiple Google Accounts? Relief May Be On The Way

Jun 19 by Toby Leftly | 1 comment

I’ve written about the problems with maintaining Google accounts before. A lot. Sometimes on my bedroom wall, late at night in my own blood. To describe Google’s account systems as massively, time consumingly problematic would be unfair to massively time consuming problems. But help may be more »

Facebook For iPhone Gets Bumped To 3.1.3

Jun 19 by Toby Leftly | 1 comment

If you have a pulse, you’re probably a member of Facebook. If you’re on Facebook and own an iPhone you’re not alone – almost 55 million users each month access Facebook on an iPhone. Big numbers, but if you’re one of those 55 million you know that Facebook for iPhone is an imperfect method of accessing more »

Finally: The Truth About The iPad

Jun 19 by Toby Leftly | 8 comments

Or at least a cynical, funny look at the iPad. Apple takes themselves way too seriously, leaving themselves wide open to parody and merrymaking. The iPad is the latest target to be stripped naked and thrashed to within an inch of its life. The video says it all, so watch, enjoy, and go give your iPad more »

E3 2010: The Biggest Disappointment In E3 History?

Jun 18 by James Mowery | 6 comments

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) used to be the most important day within the game industry for publishers, developers, and consumers, but numerous issues over the years had taken away the spectacle’s appeal. This year’s E3, however, certainly had the emotion behind it to propel more »

CD Or Vinyl? Why Not Both!

Jun 18 by Toby Leftly | add comment

The format wars are largely a thing of the past, and thank god for that. Now we’re less concerned about the shape or size of the piece of plastic we insert into drives with complex moving parts, and more concerned with moving bits and bytes around the web onto servers and hard drives. The one format more »

Lost Your iPhone? Apple Wants To Rub Your Nose In It

Jun 18 by Toby Leftly | add comment

Nothing smarts like losing your shiny, brand spanking new iPhone. You worked and saved to earn the money to buy Apple’s latest hot gadget, then you got wasted one night and it slipped out your pocket on the cab ride home. Well, now there’s a solution. Kind of. Apple has launched the new Find My Phone app (iTunes link), more »

Getty Images Gets Mobile

Jun 18 by Toby Leftly | add comment

Online stock media giant Getty Images is going mobile at last. The Getty Images iPad app is now available on the App Store (iTunes link). This is fantastic news for creative professionals who are most likely always in and out of client offices and previously have had to rely on their laptop or their clients more »

Shock and Awesome: New Technology Lets Gamers Feel the Noise

Jun 17 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

“Interestingly enough,” says Shahriar Afshar, “I’m not a gamer myself. I’m a physics professor.” Afshar is not of our generation, and as such finds today’s videogames a bit noisy. That said, he understands the gamer’s need to immerse himself in the sound of loud gunfire, rock music, and angry more »

Will Google’s Chrome OS Run Mac, Windows Apps? Maybe...

Jun 17 by Jon Edwards | 23 comments

We all recall Steve Ballmer’s famed ‘Monkeyboy’ chant as he ran round a stage yelling, “Developers, developers, developers,” and despite leaving himself open for a lifetime of ridicule with the move, he was right. A platform is nothing without a strong developer community. And that’s why Google’s Chrome OS will let you run more »

Oh, Snap! Droid Incredible Sneaks Peeks at Your Web Adventures

Jun 17 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

Man, it’s like privacy snafus are the new wardrobe malfunction or something. Not to be outdone by other privacy stories in the news, it seems the HTC Incredible’s Sense UI has got a nasty trick up its sleeve. As you may or may not be aware, Sense UI periodically takes a snapshot of your web browser. more »

String Section Hero Brings Some Class to the iPhone

Jun 17 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

I used to be so good at Guitar Hero. Back in my day we were scoring our own tracks for GH2 to run on a hacked Playstation 2 and rewiring our controllers with extra strum buttons on the fretboards for wicked awesome two-handed solos. This is the most interested I’ve been in a Guitar Hero clone since then. more »

AOL Sells Bebo!! ...And the World Continues to Turn.

Jun 17 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Hey guys, you ever lie awake at night and wonder what’s up with Bebo? Yeah, me neither. AOL did this one time, and now it’s paying dearly for it – to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. I guess I should explain what Bebo is, for the less-informed here: Bebo is… jeez, what’s the best way to put more »