February 2010
Windows 7 on the new Apple iPad will be possible
Users will be able to run Windows 7 on the new Apple iPad when it releases in March, at least virtually, according to Citrix, a software engineer company. The Citrix Receiver software currently works with the iPhone and iPod, allowing users to virtually connect to Windows from your device.
The Citrix…
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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: turbines, rubber...
We’re happy to introduce The Week in Green, a new item from our friends at Inhabitat. Each week they’ll recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us. Welcome!
Sure, the iPad happened this week, but we also caught sight of several hot green gadgets and clean tech innovations this week that stand to shape the future of green consumer...
January 2010’s Most Popular Posts [[this Is Good]]
This month we showed you the best times to buy anything, all year round, highlighted a better way to tie your shoes, discussed some problems with the Apple iPad, and a whole lot more. Here’s a quick look back. The Best Times to Buy Anything, All Year Round You’re always hearing about off-season, post-peak times to save money on purchases and food, but it always...
Stephen Colbert Delivers Grammy for Song of the...
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Portland Government Plans 200-ft. Tall...
Portland, Oregon is so into the green movement that they’re going to cover their federal building from floor to ceiling with a 200-ft. wall made from living, breathing vegetation. The living wall is more than just a pretty facade, however, as city officials claim it will lead to savings of about $280,000 per year in energy costs. Add in some solar panels (also part...
Foursquare Teams With Bravo TV
Bravo TV and Foursquare will announce a new partnership on Monday that will integrate Bravo TV shows with the game aspects of Foursquare, a social networking site that encourages people to interact in the real world. The partnership hopes to engage viewers long after they turn off the television, close their laptops and stop watching Bravo’s TV shows.
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Mac OS X 10.3 installed on Nokia N900 via PearPC,...
Curious folks around the world enjoy a bit of hackintosh every now and then (although once is enough for many), but no geek has successfully ventured as far as Toni Nikkanen of Finland, who became the first person to run OS X on a phone — the Nokia N900. As you can see in the video after the break, Toni’s hack relies on PearPC — a PowerPC emulator — to install good...
Wasabi Fire Alarm Awakens You With a Slight...
In this case the burning sensation is “delicious,” not “first degree and could result in your death.” And apparently it really works too, although the advertised “time to awaken” period seems a bit too long for my taste. Effective over an area of 50 feet, the Wasabi alarm can typically wake people up within two-and-a-half minutes....
Amazon Gives In, Will Sell eBooks On Macmillan’s...
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Macmillan, one of the “big six” publishers, has clearly communicated to us that, regardless of our viewpoint, they are committed to switching to an agency model and charging $12.99 to $14.99 for e-book versions of bestsellers and most hardcover releases.
We have expressed our strong disagreement and the seriousness of our disagreement by temporarily ceasing the sale...
January 2010
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Entelligence: Lessons from the iPad launch
Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he’ll explore where our industry is and where it’s going — on both micro and macro levels — with the unique wit and insight only he can provide.
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Current Crop of E-Readers Compared: iPad vs. the...
Developer and blogger Darren Beckett rounds up a crop of five e-readers and gives them a short price and feature comparison with the newly released iPad—and rolled the results in to an eye-friendly infographic. (Click the image above for a closer look.)
We may have our problems with the iPad, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t interested in buying it. This...
DIY Texting System For Really Underground Radio
But scientists think one of the biggest threats to this emerging source of antibiotics is actually the scientists themselves.
In fact, researchers believe the more they visit a cave, the less likely they are to find antibiotics. People contaminate the sensitive cave environment just by being there.
Northup thinks that by connecting data recorders to Kendrick’s radio, scientists could...
iPad debut ignites price war between Amazon and...
By Neil Hughes
Published: 02:15 PM EST
Amazon stopped selling print and e-books from publisher Macmillan this weekend over a price dispute, just days after Apple introduced the iPad and its own iBookstore for e-books.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Macmillan CEO John Sargent visited Amazon Thursday to negotiate a new deal for e-book sales. Talks apparently...
Defrag Your Mind in Five Steps [Mind Hacks]
We recently highlighted personal development blogger Dragos Roua’s suggestion to treat yourself as a computer to become the best version of yourself. One of his suggestions: Defrag your mind. Here’s a closer look at what he meant. Roua extended his brain-as-computer metaphor a bit further, offering five steps to defragging your mind. It may sound a little...
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ExoPC Tablet Looks Familiar, But Similarities End...
The comparisons to another recently revealed tablet are unavoidable, but believe you me the similarities end with the aesthetics. Inside there’s Windows 7, flash support and multitouch. In fact, the more apt comparison is probably “netbook,” as you can see: There’s the Atom N270 processor, running at 1.6Ghz, for example. And then there’s the...
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Sony’s John Koller: Apple’s entrance into gaming...
Um, okay? Just days after Apple introduced its exceedingly underwhelming iPad while simultaneously attempting to convince that masses that said product was the portable gaming device they had been waiting their whole lives for, Sony’s own hardware marketing honcho has come forward and extolled Cupertino’s decision to finally make the gaming leap. In a recent interview, John stated...
Open Thread: What Features Should iPad’s...
Here’s our own wish list of features that would make us really excited to buy a tablet from an Apple competitor.
A Better Price
The iPad starts at $500, but with just 16 gigabytes of storage, it’s not the music/video/photo-carrying device most of us will need or want. That price point is essentially a phantom. And when we start to add up all the costs for the iPad...
Apple removes display of Adobe Flash content from...
By Neil Hughes
Published: 01:55 PM EST
Following an AppleInsider report that highlighted two pieces of promotional iPad material showing the display of Adobe Flash content, Apple has removed the offending images from its Web site.
On Friday, misleading content that implied the inclusion of Adobe Flash in the iPad’s Safari Web browser was noted. In an image...
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PMA leak roundup: Olympus, Fujifilm and Hasselblad...
Not sure if you’ve heard, but PMA is just around the corner. You know — that camera show? At any rate, Photo Rumors has a trio of new leaks to swoon over this fine evening, starting with black and white (saywha?) shots of Olympus’ supposedly forthcoming SP800 (or SP-800UZ, if we’re talking specifics). The megazoom shooter is said to boast a 30x optical zoom, 14 megapixel...
Apple’s Trend Away From Tinkering
If all you’ve got is locked content on locked machines, you end up with mind firmly locked shut.
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Five Best Public BitTorrent Trackers [Hive Five]
A great BitTorrent client is all well and good, but you need a great tracker to get the actual torrent files and stoke the bandwidth burning fire in your client of choice. Here’s a rundown of five of the most popular options. A bit of clarification is in order before we share the list of the top five contenders with you. In our call for contenders we asked for you...
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8.9-inch ExoPC Slate has iPad looks, netbook...
Yes, we realize that it’s hard to provide too much visual differentiation between tablet PCs with large, ebony bezels, but we can’t help but think that this 8.9-inch multitouch tablet looks a lot like another, recently announced 9.7-inch multitouch tablet. Nevertheless this one’s quite different on the inside, delivering “the web without compromise,” meaning full...
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MSI’s new CX420, CR420 and CR720 laptops put...
Smell that? That’s a smell of a real man’s budget computer, doing real manly things like task processing and pixel churning. MSI’s new CX420, CR420 and CR720 laptops aren’t much for looks, but under the hood you can find new-gen Core i Series processors across the board and ATI Radeon HD5470 graphics in the CX420 (pictured). Sure, there’s only Intel integrated HD...
Steve Jobs: Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ motto is...
Keeping in tradition with what happened after the release of the original iPhone, Steve Jobs held a meeting at the Town Hall in Cupertino following the release of the iPad, in order for employees to ask questions about the company and the new device. There has been much debate over…
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Panasonic clamps down prices, release window for...
Panasonic is nothing like shy about pushing out a plethora of compacts, but while it was talking up specs for the new Lumix F-series of compact cameras back at CES, we’ve just now got some prices and a release date to chew on. The FH1 (12 megapixel, 720p video) goes for $160, FH3 (14.1 megapixel, 720p) is $180, and the FH20 (14.1 megapixel, 720p) is $200. In slim land, the FP1 (12...
In Depth: How the humble hard drive is made
The fact that silicon chips start life as nothing more exotic than sand is amazing enough, but have you ever thought about that other important PC component, the hard disk? Its origins couldn’t be more different. The heart of a hard disk – the rotating platter where your data is stored – is made out of an exotic mix of elements including ruthenium and platinum, two of the world’s...
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Amazon pulled Macmillan titles due to price...
Macmillan’s US CEO, John Sargent just confirmed that Amazon pulled its inventory of Macmillan books in a powerful response to Macmillan’s new pricing demands. Macmillan offered the new pricing on Thursday, just a day after Apple announced Macmillan as a major publishing partner in its new iBookstore — a revelation that certainly factored into the discussions along with Skiff and...
Japan Will Start 3D TV Programming This Summer
[A] broad range of fairly mature 3-D equipment is already on the market. The available systems, however, suffer from the drawback that users have to wear special devices to separate the left eye’s and right eye’s images. Such “aided viewing” systems have been firmly established in many professional applications. Yet further expansion to other fields will require...
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ZAGGsparq portable USB charger gets reviewed,...
Imagine a HyperMac, but one that’s highly portable and engineered specifically to rejuvenate your USB-connecting gizmos. That, our friends, is the ZAGGsparq. Our good pals over at Gadling had a chance to sit down with the portable charger recently, and as expected, they came away duly impressed. At its core, this is little more than a portable 6000mAh battery with a pair of USB inputs; you...
Microsoft’s Silverlight Facebook Client is all...
You don’t hear much about Silverlight these days, but rest assured, Microsoft is still hard at work on the speedy little flash competitor. Of course, a platform is only as powerful as its applications, and a new Silverlight Facebook client does a fantastic job of showcasing this power. The lightweight and lightening fast new interface works on both Mac’s and PC’s, and is a...
Rival Tablet PC Makers Worry About the iPad’s $499...
Love it or hate it, the $499 entry level iPad is much cheaper than anyone expected. Tablet PC makers which were hoping to ride the wave of enthusiasm Apple was bound to kick up, are now being forced to step back and really question if they have what it takes to compete. Unnamed sources from within Asus and MSI claim they were counting on an iPad that would debut at $1,000 or more, making room...
The Earth’s Satellites, Visualized By Nation...
As data visualization has become more popular, bad infographics have started to crop up more and more frequently. Thankfully, we can always rely on Michael Paukner to make very, very good ones. Here he shows the satellites orbiting our planet.
Russia, as you might expect, has a whole lot of satellites that are no longer functioning. China is responsible for a surprisingly...
Google Phases Out Support for IE6
Not that long after a Google employee running Internet Explorer 6 was hacked, creating an international incident, Google has announced that they will begin withdrawing support for IE6 in their own services.
Beginning on March 1 Google will begin phasing out support, beginning with Google Docs and Google Sites. They recommend a number of much better browsers: “Microsoft Internet Explorer...
Switched On: Tabula rasa
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On , a column about consumer technology.
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Startup Strategy Roundtable
Sramana Mitra - entrepreneur, author, and Forbes columnist - holds a free weekly strategy roundtable on positioning, financing, and other aspects of a startup venture. During the 60-minute session, five entrepreneurs pitch Mitra their business ideas. She reviews the material in real-time, provides feedback, and takes questions about...
Google Tightens Chrome with New Security Features
Google has announced a number of security enhancements that are being implemented in Chrome. Some have already been implemented in other browsers, including Firefox and IE and in significant add-ons like NoScript.
Strict-Transport-Security is an HTTP response header that a site can send to a browser to tell it only to communicate with the site via HTTPS. This should provide extra security...
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Proto-2 humanoid robot auditions for Thunderbirds...
While there are some robots like ASIMO still keeping it real with their classic robot looks, it seems that humanoid bots these days are increasingly falling into one of two categories: creepy and more creepy. Making no attempt to alter that trend are the researchers from Advanced Robotic Systems Laboratories (or ARSL), who are now showing off their new Proto-2 robot — and apparently...
Mod Your NES for Stereo Sound, Arcade Games, and a...
The last time we talked NES hardware with you, it was a tip on how to repair a broken pin connector and get your old system working again. These hacks will take your old-school system to another level all together. Over at Raphnet.net the personal site of a Linux and electronics enthusiast, Raph has put together a guide to moding your NES in all sorts of ways. His...
Books pulled from Amazon in pricing dispute
New copies of Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall,” Andrew Young’s “The Politician” and other books published by Macmillan were unavailable Saturday on Amazon.com, apparently the biggest rift yet in the ongoing dispute over e-book prices.
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VisualBoyAdvance turns your Palm Pre into a Game...
A certain UK bank operates a delightfully dorky advertising campaign whose slogan is “we give you extra.” Well, in the case of mobile software communities, that’s exactly the case. From jailbroken iPhones to PS One-emulating HD2s to multitouch-enabled browsing on the Nexus One, the one group of people we know we can truly rely on are other geeks. So let’s salute those...
Amazon pulls Macmillan books as the e-book price...
Even before it has landed in the hands of consumers, Apple’s iPad is already living up to its reputation as a “revolutionary” device. The first battle, in what may become a full out war, has begun in the lucrative book market with Amazon pulling all of Macmillan books from its digital inventory. Rumor has it that the two companies are bickering over pricing with Macmillan (and...
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Intel and Micron start 25nm flash production; SSDs...
Intel and Micron have a history of pushing the state-of-the-art in flash storage — their joint venture IMFT was responsible for the first sub-40nm NAND flash and bringing it to production — and it looks they’ve done it again: IMFT is now sampling two-bits-per-cell 25nm NAND, which will eventually push prices down and capacities up when volume production begins in Q2....
Build a Light Bulb Aquarium [Weekend Project]
Sea monkeys make wicked cool pets but the little plastic aquariums they come aren’t aren’t anything special. If you’ve got an old globe light bulb and a wire coat hangar laying around, you can make a killer aquarium for a couple bucks. Instructables hooks you up with the step-by-step on how to assemble a new home for your tiny brine shrimp buddies. Part...
Open Thread: What’s Your Favorite Tech...
As most of you already will know, Kiva is an organization that allows users such as you and I to make microloans to folks in developing countries. For example, I could loan $100 to a woman in the Philippines to help her buy supplies and livestock to start pig farming, increasing her own quality of life and improving the local economy around her. Trickle Up is another similar...
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Macmillan books gone from Amazon.com, Steve Jobs...
We hate to iPad-ify the news so bluntly (matching lower back tattoos aside), but the timing of this one is uncanny. Mere days after Apple’s announcement of a deal with Macmillan for its new iBooks store, and right after a shakycam video of Steve Jobs predicting some publishers would be pulling books from the Kindle due to a lack of satisfaction with Amazon’s prices, Macmillan’s...
Top 10 Tips and Tools for Freelancers [Lifehacker...
Freelancing isn’t something you should just jump into, but it makes sense for a good number of workers. If you’re looking into, or getting started with, working on your own, here are 10 resources we think every freelancer can learn from. Photo by Mat Honan, who is himself a freelancer.
10. Make your schedule family-friendly
If you’re going to have to...
Build a Network Rack with an IKEA Table [DIY]
Whether it’s fate, serendipity, or someone in IKEA’s design department really wanted a network rack he could put a table lamp on, the Lack-line of ends tables is perfect network-rack size. If you work in a commercial setting then, naturally, you’ll have commercial network racks. Commercial racks are both overkill in build and price for a home user or a...
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Cisco set for first quarterly sales growth in year
Cisco Systems Inc is expected to post its first quarterly revenue growth in more than a year when it reports results, as customers more confident about the economy upgrade their networks.
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