Engadget (Free subscription) | 3 minutes ago
Filed under: Wireless , Networking Face it, that sneakernet setup of yours is way tired. What you need is a racist wireless data transfer device that fires 3.5-inch floppy disks at deadly velocity. Really, you've earned it. Video after the break. Continue reading Electricity-powered Datastorm data transfer device is retrolutionary Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
CyberNet (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Microsoft/Mac Monday Today we’re taking a look at Apple’s Front Row vs. Windows Media Center. We’re not really sure if Front Row can be compared to Media Center because right now, they serve different purposes. Front Row is more of an interface for controlling the media already on your computer while Media Center will do that [...]
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Platial, the community mapping portal, has been redesigned to highlight their content. In making the decision to redesign the team realized two things. First, that with all of their content (over 150MM points from their community maps and the recently acquired Frappr -- Radar post) they had the makings for map-oriented local guides. Secondly, the vast majority (> 98%) of...
Engadget (Free subscription) | 3 minutes ago
Filed under: Cellphones Following the lead of Google and Apple in providing a hefty chunk of some sort of funding up front for app developers, RIM is teaming up with RBC and Thomson Reuters to provide a $150 million fund to invest in "mobile applications and services." Interestingly, RIM isn't limiting those apps and services just to the BlackBerry, and instead the fund is designed to "advance the...
Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Free subscription) | 11 minutes ago
Smalltalk Solutions 2008 is coming up fast - the schedule of events is here, and registration is here. There are a ton of great talks, like this keynote from Gilad Bracha: The closer one looks at Smalltalk, the more one appreciates how exquisitely well designed it is. Just as Hoare said of Algol, Smalltalk too was " a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors,...
Compiler (Free subscription) | 22 minutes ago
The Windows-on-your-Mac virtualization application Parallels has been updated to support the most recent Windows updates from Microsoft. The latest version of Parallels will work with both Windows Vista SP1 and XP SP3. Along with competitor VMWare Fusion, Parallels Desktop for...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 27 minutes ago
A British man who had his car clamped outside his home used an angle-grinder to cut it in two. Ian Taylor's car, which he had bought for $100 for his stepson to use (guess he doesn't like his stepson...
All About Microsoft (Free subscription) | 29 minutes ago
Research in Motion (RIM) and Microsoft have struck a deal via which Blackberry users will be able to run Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger on their devices.
popgadget (Free subscription) | 32 minutes ago
If you've had the feeling that perhaps all's not well with your monthly electricity bill, then there are two things you have to do. First, smack yourself for not making your home sufficiently energy-efficient. And second, get yourself the Cost Controller Power Strip to individually single out those appliances that are gobbling up electricity. This power strip with surge protection displays the power...
AterSlash (Free subscription) | 41 minutes ago
They could put a satellite dish on their roof, but it's a 300-year-old house and they feel a dish would be as prohibitively ugly as running dedicated lines would be prohibitively expensive. I’ve suggested they get familiar with a text-only email client; I also suggested they talk with their senators and local political reps.
Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Free subscription) | 45 minutes ago
On today's Smalltalk Daily, we take a look at building a simple grammar in SmaCC, a Smalltalk compiler-compiler. Technorati Tags: smalltalk , compiler-compiler , smacc
Gadget Lab (Free subscription) | 48 minutes ago
The mewling, puking newborn that is the ebook market has few contenders. If you discount the iPhone (and you should, because right now it's still a pain to get any text on there) then you're left with Amazon's Kindle and...
Gadget Lab (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Luigi Licciardi, a vice president at Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) told tech journalist David Manners that the company will be selling a 3G iPhone next month. The quote is unambiguous: We will be selling an iPhone with 3G capability next...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Perhaps knowing that a Death Star wedding cake was starting marriage asking for trouble, reader and chef Charlene made an R2-D2 one, bringing balance back to the Force, and restoring dorkiness...
Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Linux only: Free multimedia note organizer BasKet takes a page from Microsoft's OneNote , along with a good portion of Getting Things Done-style organization, to offer an all-in-one spot to drop your thoughts and next actions. You can quickly paste in text and images, sure, but you can also set up launchers to open files with particular programs, grab a section of your screen to paste up, and grab...
