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MySpace to Charge For Streaming Music? For REAL?!

MySpace to Charge For Streaming Music? For REAL?!

See that? Up there, in the headline? You see? I used not only a question mark, but followed it with an exclamation point, calling attention to just how goddamn ridiculous this concept is. It’s no secret MySpace isn’t exactly the belle of the social networking ball anymore, and as such they’re losing a ton of revenue. Hell, their ad deal with Google is up for renewal next month, and something tells me Google isn’t quite going to pay the $900 million they did last time. So on the one hand, I guess it’s understandable that MySpace would be scrambling to think of new ways to generate some scratch. But charging…

Pad Racer Lets You Drive Across an Entire Landscape of iPads

Pad Racer Lets You Drive Across an Entire Landscape of iPads

Heard of Pad Racer? If you’re busy sensually yet inadvertently rubbing your iPad against your shirtless self, you probably have. Once or twice. For the rest of you, Pad Racer is essentially slot car racing for Apple hardware. Using your iPhone/iPod Touch, you control a tiny stain of pixels – er, ‘car’ around a track displayed on your iPad. The play control looks pretty good, and I can imagine multiplayer matches are totally fun fun super lucky best time. But why am I writing about a single iPad app? Well, the latest version of Pad Racer lets you set two iPads next to each other, allowing for double the…

Things No One Will Ever Buy, Ever: The TV Hat

Things No One Will Ever Buy, Ever: The TV Hat

I know what you’re thinking. Actually, you may even be using far more colorful language than I. But this isn’t the half of it. I’m actually having a hard time typing this article through my fit of giggles. But for all my tears, the TV Hat (seriously, that’s what it’s called. Simply ‘TV Hat’.) isn’t even what it advertises itself to be. That is to say, no TV is involved. It’s a pocket for your iPhone. That you hang on your face. Watch what you want, when you want, where you want. Slide your iPod®, iPhone® or most any MP3 player into the interior pouch and the attached 2.5x magnification screen helps give…

Foray Into Kindle Gaming Proves It

Foray Into Kindle Gaming Proves It's Still Only Good for Reading Stuff

Your favorite eBook reader just became your least favorite game console. Japanese company KLab has successfully cloned the development kit for Amazon’s Kindle and released it open source – meaning developers can start churning out totally wicked sweet homebrew apps, right? Er, not quite yet. Below is a video of …jeez, do I even need to introduce the damn game?… Super Mario Bros, running on an NES emulator developed with KLab’s kit. As you can plainly see, it looks like crap, and runs lower than full speed. So what’s the point? Probably, ‘because we can’. If you’ll recall, the same mantra was…

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