60 Million iPhone Apps Downloaded First Month After Debut
When Apple launched their new App Store on July 10, 2008, everyone knew it would be a success. But no one could have known it would be this BIG of a success.
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Sorry Microsoft, Almost Everyone Hates Windows Vista
Microsoft's Vista operating system is a public relations failure. Can something called the Mojave Experiment help save Microsoft Vista's reputation?
Ex-Googlers Launch New Search Engine Called Cuil (2008)
Cuil is a new Internet search engine created by ex-Googlers Tom Costello and Anna Patterson that promises new privacy features for Internet users.
Brazilians Hackers Are The First To Unlock iPhone 3G Smartphone
DesbloqueioBr, a Brazilian telecom company, says they are the first to find a way to unlock Apple‘s new iPhone 3G. Brazilian newspaper, Folha de Sao Paulo, says DesbloqueioBr altered the iPhone’s firmware and added a special card to the phone’s SIM chip. Users with one of these Brazilian iPhones can connect to any mobile carrier …
ROCKETON Turns The Web Into a Giant Playground
In 2007, Steve Hoffman and Eric Hayashi joined forces with Naomi Kokubo and co-founded ROCKETON, a new type of multiplayer social experience that spans the entire web. Instead of having to go to a separate site or use a specific application like Second Life, ROCKETON turns the entire Internet into a virtual world for browser based avatars.
Microsoft Sends An Internet Explorer Cake To The Firefox Dev Team
Microsoft sends an Internet Explorer cake to Mozilla's FIrefox development team to congratulate them on shipping FIrefox 3.
Loopt Now Available For BlackBerry, iPhone 3G Coming Soon
Wish you knew where your friends and family were at all times? Have you heard of Loopt yet?
Reddit Redesign: Popular Social News Site Finally Gets a New Look (2008)
A lot of internet power users are really excited about the new Reddit redesign featuring vastly improved navigation, organization and customization tools.
Cluttered Desktop Art: Turn The Icons On Your Messy Desktop Into Beautiful Art
In an effort to encourage people to clean up their messy desktops, Teknograd Mac Support has come up with an ad campaign that visualizes the feeling of helplessness that a cluttered desktop can cause.
Mac Menu Extras: How to Add An Eject Menu To The Mac Menu Bar
This tutorial will show you how to add icons for Mac Menu Extras to your Menu Bar in the Mac OS.
Mac OS X Password Reset: How To Reset Your Password
Oops! Did you forget your password? Just follow theses Mac OS X password reset directions to get a new account password.
Helio adds TV Guide Mobile
TV Guide and mobile content provider Helio introduced a new service offering TV show information, program listings, search functions and daily recommendations to Helio users. Text-based program alerts can be set to remind yourself and friends of what’s coming on the tube. TV Guide Mobile is available to Helio subscribers for $2.99/month, in addition to …
PBS Downloads Now Available Legally Via BitTorrent And Vuze (2007)
PBS downloads are now available legally via BitTorrent. PBS is also making titles available for purchase on Vuze.
RIP: Classic Mac OS 1984-2007
It’s not a huge surprise, but Apple’s gone ahead and posted a note confirming that OS X Leopard will not support Classic, even on PowerPC machines. Of course, Intel Macs have never been able to run Classic anyway, so only like Hypercard user groups and the three print shops still running QuarkXPress 4 and will …
RIM unveils Facebook app for BlackBerry
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. has launched a Facebook app designed for its smartphones to make it easier for users to browse the popular social networking Web site. T-Mobile USA has been chosen as the first carrier to provide the new software to its customers, RIM said Wednesday. The application will let users receive Facebook …
iPhone Theme for BlackBerry: How to Download and Install
Got iPhone envy? I do. My company is Blackberry only and won't support the iPhone. So I installed the free bPhone iPhone theme for BlackBerry. It even replaces the hourglass with the Mac OS X spinning beach ball.
Halo 3 Sales Smash Multiple Sales Records (2007)
Microsoft is reporting that sales for its much hyped game, Halo 3, generated $170 million during the first 20 hours of its release. Not only does this top the $125 million sales record set by Halo 2, but it also surpasses the opening-day US box office record of $59.8 million set by Sony's "Spider-Man 3" in May. In fact, Halo 3 made more money in 24 hours than Spider-Man 3 made during its three-day opening-weekend ($151 million).
