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ThinkPad T61 15.4″ - $749
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Continue reading...Cell Phone Makers Agree on Plug Standard
21. September 2007
A group of the major cell phone manufacturers (Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, LG, and Nokia) sat down and agreed upon a new standard for plugs on cell phones, it looks like they ended up agreeing on using the newly announced Micro USB standard. The only downside is that you need to go buy new accessories, but [...]
Continue reading...10k CCTV Cameras Don’t Deter Crime
21. September 2007
It’s nice to finally see some details coming out of London’s obsession with installing CCTV’s at every inch of the city. I’ve read statistics that there is 1 camera for every 3 people, and on your way to work in the morning you will be photographed on average of 12 times. How much did this all [...]
Continue reading...Mass Lawsuit Against Cable Providers
21. September 2007
A huge lawsuit has been filed against every cable provider (satellite included) for forcing users into purchasing hugely expensive packages when they only want 1 or 2 channels from that package. The suit is seeking that users be able to piece-meal the channels they want instead of being controlled by the cartel created between the cable [...]
Continue reading...Valve Introduces “Achievements”
21. September 2007
Interesting, looks like Valve has introduced Achievements (just like XBL) into their games (TF2, Episode 2, Portal) on the PC. Looking at the Steam load-out continue to grow by leaps and bounds, is the goal eventually to make your achievements and “gamer score” percolate across all these games just like XBox Live? I really like seeing what [...]
Continue reading...Is Apple Starting to Suck?
21. September 2007
The article more or less asks if the new big-business (read: Microsoft-esque) tactics by Apple starting to cause Apple to go sour, atleast to customers? Here I’ll summarize this for you: yes. Apple has been going down the path of becoming the next Microsoft when they got: Egotistical “king” that runs his shop with a screaming, iron fist. Family [...]
Continue reading...“$30 Billion” Piracy Figure is Made Up
21. September 2007
For the folks in-the-know that always had an inkling that this number was bullshit, you were right. The “piracy costs the industry $30 billion a year!” number is made up.
Continue reading...PSN Updates
21. September 2007
Thanks GamingBits, here are the new PSN updates following TGS: Games: - LocoRoco Cocoreccho! for $6.99 Playable Game Demos: - NBA 08 - SEGA Rally Revo - Skate - Stuntman: Ignition Game Trailers: - Devil May Cry 4 Summer 2007 Trailer - GT5 Prologue Leipzig Video - Ratchet and Clank Future: ToD Trailer 3 - Folklore “Realms and Creatures” - LocoRoco Cocoreccho! Trailer - NBA 08 Free 6 [...]
Continue reading...Mozilla Fixing Memory Leaks in Firefox 3
21. September 2007
Grant Gochnauer sent this gem along, it looks like the Mozilla team is hard at work making Firefox 3 not suck as hard as Firefox 2 did when it came to memory usage. For those that don’t know, the longer you use Firefox, the more memory it leaks. It’s very common to have 1 tab [...]
Continue reading...Sandisk SSD vs Seagate HD
21. September 2007
Grant Gochnauer sent along another cool benchmarking article showing how the Sandisk 32GB SSD (solid state drive) stacks up against a Seagate 160GB HD in a laptop. The bottom lines are: Read-speed is impressive and very consistent Write-speed is surprisingly disappointing Seek-speed and load times are insanely high (programs “instantly” load, Windows boots 9secs faster) Price is ridiculous for SSD [...]
Continue reading...Sony TGS Live Coverage
19. September 2007
Ted Regulski sent in the link to the live coverage of Sony’s conference at TGS, here are the highlights: PSP + PS3 “Remote Play” will be enhanced further to allow friends to “spectate” games you might be playing in the future, like a Golf or Racing game. You will be able to download your progress in [...]
Continue reading...Going Chairless at Work Boosted Productivity
19. September 2007
As someone that sits most of the day, especially behind a computer, the idea of getting a tall bar-like desk that I stood behind (or sat on a bar-stool?) was interesting… I’ve certainly had my fair share of carpal-tunnel problems and other issues (back pain) that come from sitting all day, so anything different might [...]
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21. September 2007
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