Archive for October, 2009

I Ate the Windows 7 Burger

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

9d35e11629jason3 I Ate the Windows 7 BurgerToday I ate two things: whale steak and the Windows 7 burger. Only one of these meals prefabricated me want to vomit.

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12 Things You Need To Know About Apple TV 3.0

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

1f00cddd67n tv 2 12 Things You Need To Know About Apple TV 3.0If there’s one Apple product that lives outside the Reality Distortion Field, it’s Apple TV. But hey wait, 3.0 is out, doesn’t that change everything? Well, considering Apple rolled it out on a Thursday afternoon with no fanfare, whattaya think?

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$1000 1080p Projector Battlemodo: Optoma HD20 vs Vivitek H1080FD

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

ff5e428368ectors $1000 1080p Projector Battlemodo: Optoma HD20 vs Vivitek H1080FDThe intent of a $1000 1080p projector is enticing, but are the first products to reach this price, the VIvitek H1080FD and the Optoma HD20, any good? Yes, yes they are.

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8 Ghost Detecting Gadgets That Can Confirm Your Sanity

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

With Halloween coming up this weekend, it seemed like the perfect time to discuss a problem far too many of us face—homes that are haunted by evil spirits.These gadgets can confirm you are not completely crazy.

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Canon G11 Review: Makes You Feel Like a Real Photographer (Almost)

Friday, October 30th, 2009

f9dd545351c 0075 Canon G11 Review: Makes You Feel Like a Real Photographer (Almost)It’s fat. It’s $500. It takes fantastic photographs.

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Apple TV 3.0 Software Is Out, New Interface Looks Fugly

Friday, October 30th, 2009

304c72811cletvui Apple TV 3.0 Software Is Out, New Interface Looks FuglyAtten-shun! The new Apple TV 3.0 is out. As rumored, it includes iTunes Extras, iTunes LP, and Genius Mixes, but also a surprise: A new individual interface. Question: Is Steve Jobs too busy overseeing the paper development? This looks uggghsome:

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Canon S90 Review: It’ll Never Leave My Pocket (Except When I’m Taking Pictures)

Friday, October 30th, 2009

e27c9a250cy 025 Canon S90 Review: Itll Never Leave My Pocket (Except When Im Taking Pictures)My first real camera was a Canon S50. I loved it. Canon let the pro compact S line die a few years later. It’s back with the S90, though the only thing that’s the same is that it’s still awesome.

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BlackBerry Storm 2 Review: Improving, But Still Mostly Cloudy

Friday, October 30th, 2009

b2d7be52fam 056 BlackBerry Storm 2 Review: Improving, But Still Mostly CloudyTake the BlackBerry Storm. Now imagine a phone that’s basically exactly the same, but does everything better. That’s the Storm 2.

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Windows XP Phone: A First Look at its Touchscreen Interface

Friday, October 30th, 2009

8f57a4d60frface0 Windows XP Phone: A First Look at its Touchscreen InterfaceRemember the xpPhone? The 4.8-inch touchscreen slider has netbook-like specs, some sort of “AMD Super Mobile CPU”, and runs a full-blown copy of Windows XP. They’ve just sent through shots of its phone-function interface…and they actually look pretty good.

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Jumbo 4-Inch Nintendo DSi Coming This Year

Friday, October 30th, 2009

e2739be681antdsi Jumbo 4 Inch Nintendo DSi Coming This YearA new DSi? Oh, of course—it’s only been a year since the original launched, and we’re talking about Nintendo. Nikkei says a fresh DSi is coming with a 4-inch screen, for the same price as the current one.

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