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It turns out that Andru Edwards from GearLive.com was right about the iPhone 1.1.3 update. Here’s a rundown of the new features that were announced at Macworld… New features include: location data via cell tower triangulation (via Google) or WiFi triangulation (via Skyhook Wireless) Webclips – ability to make sections of web pages into widgets …
This morning at Macworld 2008, Steve Jobs announced a new hardware companion product called Time Capsule for Apple’s Time Machine backup software. Time Machine is part of the newest Apple operating system OS X Leopard 10.5. If you are already familiar with Apple’s current products, Time Capsule is basically an Airport Extreme with a hard …
According to the Financial Times, Paramount Pictures is going to drop their support for Toshiba's HD-DVD after Warner Brothers pulled out of the HD-DVD camp last Sunday night. Not a great way for Toshiba to start CES 2008. This will most likely put the final nail in the coffin of the HD-DVD format and end the biggest home entertainment format war since Betamax vs. VHS.
MC Hammer hasn’t topped the music charts since the early 1990s, but the former rap star says he has another hit in him — only this time around he’ll produce it as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Hammer, whose real name is Stanley Burrell, is choreographing a new career as co-founder and chief strategy officer of …
Here it is… video evidence of the new unreleased iPhone 1.1.3 software improvements. The embedded video below is a nice and thorough walk-through of the unreleased iPhone 1.1.3 firmware updates hosted by Andru from GearLive.com. Watch it fast before Apple’s lawyers take it down. Anyone still think it’s fake? If the embedded video above doesn’t …
In an effort to jump-start the market for online movies, News Corp.’s Twentieth Century Fox and Apple Inc. are preparing to announce a deal in which Fox movies would be available for rent digitally through Apple’s iTunes Store, according to people familiar with the matter. Apple has for months been trying to persuade the Hollywood …
Do you work in local TV ads sales? You might want to polish up your resume and send it to Google. According to WSJ.com (subscription required), Google is buying giant blocks of local TV advertising at discounted rates and auctioning off the time to the highest bidder online. They are calling the program Google TV …
Do you have a dropped iPhone in toilet problem? If you accidentally dropped your iPod or iPhone into a toilet, then here's how to fix it.
Everyone on the Internet is talking about the iPond, but for all the wrong reasons.
All professional photographs are usually touched-up a tiny bit. Sometimes specks of dust need to be removed, maybe the image needs a little bit of color correction or even a dose of red eye reduction. Then there are images that get completely ‘shopped (aka Photoshopped). For example, look at the terrible image of Oprah to …
The USPS Inspector General's office is not happy with the red envelopes used by Netflix for their DVD mailings because they have to be hand sorted.
How early is too early for marketers to start hyping their Super Bowl spots? The earlier the better for companies that want to—or need to—make an impact, according to an upcoming survey. Or, as with Frito-Lay’s Doritos and the NFL, which both ran consumer-generated ads during Super Bowl XLI this past Feb. 4 (on CBS), …
The Batmobile from Batman Forever just sold for only $297,000. It cost Warner Bros. $2,800,000 to create Batman's Batmobile car for the 1995 film. So why did the Batmobile sell so cheaply? It's a bad deal. Here's why.
So it turns out a white onion is not only good for salsa, but could be good for charging iPods too. Here is a video showing you how to charge an iPod with an onion, Gatorade and USB cable.
How can you not love the classic 1983 holiday film, A Christmas Story? The cult classic grows in popularity every year and with it, one of its most recognizable props, the Christmas Story leg lamp.
Automatically feeding my fish while on vacation is no longer a problem thanks to the Eheim Automatic Fish Feeder. The EHEIM Everyday Fish Feeder is awesome.
Internet giant Google is expanding from search and advertising to try developing cheap energy alternatives to coal.The initiative, Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal, will focus initially on solar, geothermal and wind energy. Google (GOOG) will use its vast resources to buy companies and hire engineers to see this initiative through. “Our goal is to produce …
