Message date: 2009-07-02

iPlayer lets you easily play videos on the DS

If you like your portable gaming Nintendo style, playing videos on the DS was limited to multimedia you could convert to the DPG format. Now thanks to a new accessory for the DS, video conversion is no longer needed. So you can take movies, music, and video clips anywhere and it’s as simple as copying the [...]
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Microsoft promotes IE8 with Dean Cain adverts

After the Seinfeld/Bill Gates advertising campaign got a mixed reception you think Microsoft may have been turned off adverts featuring well-known celebrities. But apparently that isn’t the case as a batch of Internet Explorer 8 ads have been created starring TV Superman Dean Cain. There are four adverts in total, with Dean Kane almost shouting his [...]
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Users to be paid for sharing on new Pirate Bay

New details are slowly starting to appear about what Global Gaming Factory (GGF) has planned for The Pirate Bay (TPB) which it acquired yesterday. The sale will not be completed until sometime in August, but Hans Pandeya, CEO of GGF, has been speaking with the BBC and has given us a better idea of what his [...]
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Design guru Jonathan Ive spills the beans on how Apple creates gadgets

Apple’s design chief Jonathan Ive draws terribly and is a lousy presenter by his own account, but he is pretty good at designing Apple’s next big thing. He received an honorary doctorate from London’s Royal College of Arts today, sharing a few secrets on how Apple’s elaborate design machinery works. The former toilet designer and Apple’s [...]
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Ulysses gadgets and gizmos to be abandoned in space

On June 30, the satellite filled with 20 year old technology will go silent as it continues to orbit the sun. Ulysses and all its scientific instruments will be abandoned. One reason for the termination of the mission is that the communications bit rate has decreased, and other demands for the Deep Space Network stations [...]
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Maine acquires 73,000 MacBooks for high-schoolers - they can use them at home, too

When Maine high-school teachers tell kids to get their notebooks out–they’ll be pulling out shiny new MacBooks. Apple will supply over 73,000 MacBooks to every public-school student in the state of Maine from 7th to 12th grade, the Maine Department of Education said Tuesday. In addition, the Mac maker will provide the state with the four-year [...]
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Firefox 3.5 sees over 5 million downloads and counting

Mozilla launched the latest version of their Firefox browser this week which promises to be the fastest version of the browser yet. As of Wednesday afternoon, Firefox 3.5 has already received over five million downloads. You can watch the latest number of downloads through a special website setup by Mozilla. Firefox 3.5 is touted as being [...]
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Dell takes to the cloud to manage hardware remotely

Computer giant Dell is spearheading a new strategy to provide services to SMEs via the internet cloud. Tim Griffin is global head of services and solutions at Dell
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Armed with a 'Wiimote', Irish students are fighting blindness

THERE are 37 million blind people worldwide. Ten million of these are in Africa alone and suffer from cataract blindness.
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Apple preps the iPhone OS 3.1, hails new features and better games

Forget about the iPhone OS 3.0, Apple is already testing 3.1, the firmware that will allow game makers write better-looking games. It also enables VoiceControl over Bluetooth, better video editing on the device and other tweaks . Barely two weeks passed since the iPhone OS 3.0 went live but Apple is already prepping the next incremental [...]
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Review: Jules Verne

A young castaway gets shipwrecked on an uncharted island in this exceptional iPhone adventure that features great visuals, an engaging soundscape, tough puzzles, and a rich storyline that draws power from a Jules Verne novel. Developed by French Tetraedge Games and published by UK-based Chillingo, Return to Mysterious Island (RTMI) is the premium iPhone port of [...]
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GDGT launches and is immediately overwhelmed by user response

What happens when two of the most famous gadget guys launch a new site together? It becomes overwhelmed so fast that it crashes, that’s what. If you’ve ever followed Engadget or Gizmodo then you know the names Ryan Block and Peter Rojas. The two are famous for having created the ultimate gadget news blogs and [...]
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VIA issues 170M shares to raise revenue, will Nvidia buy?

For the past few months there’s been a rumor making the rounds that Nvidia may be looking to buy into VIA (to give them a way in to x86 to create their own x86-based Fusion-like technology). Such rumors have been constantly denied by Nvidia, and VIA has refused to comment, even upon direct inquiry. However, [...]
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Worms 2 and King of Fighters

Worms 2: Armageddon and King of Fighters ‘98 Ultimate Match are  going head to head for your money this week on Xbox Live Arcade. Both of the $10/800 Microsoft Point games are  looking to add something new to a game you already loved. Worms retains its side-scrolling, turn-based shooter gameplay, allowing four teams of adorable, mouthy [...]
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'We need to connect Ireland with high-speed fibre and we need to do it fast'

Magnet CEO Mark Kellett believes deploying fibre networks across Ireland is a national imperative
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