Archive for September, 2010

Turning A Photo Viewer Into A Tablet for $170

Sep 16 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Somewhere between DIY and iPad sits this hacked Insignia Infocast. The Infocast is a strange beast to begin with – little more than a digital frame on steroids, the thing surprisingly packs an 800MHz processor, 2 gigs of memory, a touchscreen, Wi-Fi, and two USB ports. And it’s only $170 bucks. Really, it’s more »

$100 Origami iPhone Stand - Functional, Stylish, Expensive

Sep 16 by Ty Dunitz | 3 comments

Craft time! Got a spare $100 bill lying around? Of course you do, you’re made of money. Look at you, in your freshly-pressed leisure suit and Italian shoes. Well, don’t dawdle, go get your bill, and play along as designer Enrique Pardo guides you through the how-to of creating your very own origami iPhone stand. more »

Least Surprising News of the Day: Halo Reach Sells Real Well, Makes A Ton of Money

Sep 16 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

You probably didn’t need a blog post to tell you that Halo: Reach was going to do well. Every word you’re now reading drips with the reek of superfluousness. But I’m gonna type them anyway, and I’m gonna rock out with my [xxxx] out as I do so. Halo: Reach did really, really well, guys. How well? 200-million-dollars-in-the-first-day more »

Diaspora Lives! But Will Facebook Die?

Sep 16 by Ty Dunitz | 4 comments

If you’re at all a social network enthusiast, you’re probably interested in – or at least peripherally familiar with – Diaspora, the would-be Facebook killer that’s been the belle of the social networking debutante ball since its Kickstarter account went nuclear. Last evening, Diaspora’s source code was released to developers more »

'In Soviet Russia' Joke Goes Here

Sep 15 by Ty Dunitz | 3 comments

Despite Soviet heritage, I don’t pretend to know more Russian than I learned watching James Bond movies through my childhood. Basically, I know ‘yes’, ‘no’, and a host of Russian swear words slipped slyly past the ratings board. That being said, as you can probably guess, I don’t have much information more »

Intel to Malware: "You Shall not Pass!"

Sep 15 by Kole McRae | 7 comments

You may have heard that Intel bought McAfee a few weeks ago. Well that decision had a lot of people scratching their heads. Personally, I thought the CEO said ‘I got a virus, we should buy a copy of McAfee’ and an intern misheard him and bought the entire company instead. Intel decided to have a big press conference and try more »

Making Future Magic - Animators Create Stop-Motion Film With iPads and Light

Sep 15 by Ty Dunitz | 6 comments

I repeatedly harp on the iPad for its lack of ability for truly professional content creation. Well, I take it all back. This is one of the most ingenious things I’ve seen in days. Combining long-exposure photography and stop-motion animation, I can guarantee you that this will be one of the most more »

With Instant, Does Google Have Our Best Interests in Mind?

Sep 15 by Navneet Alang | 2 comments

Over the past few weeks, some changes at Google and some comments from its CEO have gotten me thinking about the effect the company is having on culture. Now, to be clear, I am not part of that group of people – Nick Carr, Andrew Keen or Evgeny Morozov – who feel that the internet is ruining things. Quite to the contrary, I’m very optimistic more »

Eric Schmidt: Google Me Gets Real... Sorta?

Sep 15 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

We’ve all been whispering sweet nothings at each other for weeks about just what Google Me may end up being. As Google’s eaten smaller companies left and right over the last little while, most of us have been seduced into believing a true Facebook Killer might be in the works. But Google’s ever-handsome more »

So, How 'Bout That New Twitter, Yeah?

Sep 15 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Twitterphiles hither and yon, gather and bear witness to the new Twitter.com. At a special event yesterday, Twitter unveiled a new iteration of its website, one with a focus on providing a more robust Twitter experience, among other things. The first thing you’ll notice, in this screenshot provided more »

Because There's Always Room For More Gundams

Sep 14 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

I have a couple friends who are big into building scale models of Gundams. I’ve never really understood the appeal (of building tiny giant robots, not of giant robots themselves – they’re the bee’s knees), but it seems to be quite a phenomenon. Have you ever built a model? Y’know all those little more »

Czech Republic Turns Lights Out on Google Street View

Sep 14 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

Man, Google just can’t catch a break with Street View. Continuing the trend of countries casting a suspicious eye at the search giant, the Czech Republic has now banned Google from expanding Street View within the country. While details are still foggy at this point, according to the Office for more »

A Safer Kind of 3D Advertising

Sep 13 by Ty Dunitz | 6 comments

3D is absolutely bloody everywhere now. Everywhere you turn, stuff’s popping out of every surface at you – most of it in an attempt to get you to buy a television. Well, guess what, Every Surface: I already own a 27-inch CRT television from 1995, and I am pleased as down-forward-punch by its traditional more »

Nintendo's 3DS Will Launch Nov. 20th...Perhaps...?

Sep 13 by Ty Dunitz | 2 comments

A product designer for Keysfactory has let fly with a tweet which may or may not have inadvertently leaked the release date of Nintendo’s 3DS: November 20th. Now, my understanding of Japanese is limited to sporadic dickings around with Translation Party, but thankfully, Nintendo3DSblog has gone to the trouble of doing the dirty work for the rest more »