Message date: 2010-02-09

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There’s is an old saying: if something is wrong with your Microsoft computer, simply reboot. A few days ago I came to learn that this advice applies to some vehicles as well. I recently purchased a 2008 Ford Fusion and among its many features was SYNC by Microsoft. This is the in-car system that allows [...]
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Illustration shows the State of the Internet for 2009

The Internet is a very large and busy place connecting people, organizations, and countries every day. With that kind of mass communication around the globe it is no wonder that the Internet makes our world feel a little smaller every year.  But have you ever wondered what kind of people frequent the Information Super Highway on [...]
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Motorola Droid gets Android 2.1 and multitouch this week

Droid owners are in for a treat this week. Not only are their handsets being upgraded to Android 2.1, they will also be getting multitouch support. The announcement comes exactly a week after the Google Nexus One got a multitouch update and Verizon is currently testing the functionality for a rollout to Droid. The plan is [...]
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Berlin Group pranks Google

No matter which side of the fence you are on in regards to the invasion of privacy issue with Google Maps “Street View”, you have to give some credit to a group who recently turned Google Map technology against the search giant. In a feat of electronic shenanigans, a group out of Germany called Free Art and Technology [...]
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Upcoming Core i5 and i7 MacBooks will be speedy, a benchmark suggests

Apple’s MacBook family of notebooks is overdue for a hardware refresh. A benchmark posted last week suggests the 17-inch MacBook Pro might run the top-of-the-line Intel Core i7 M620 processor and the score suggests a favorable jump in performance over the existing line of the Core 2 Duo-based MacBooks. More precisely, the unreleased MacBook Pro [...]
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Google sets up a Nexus One phone support line

Google has finally decided to implement its own phone support service for the Nexus One smartphone. Many would argue that this should have been a service available at the phone’s launch, but Google was trying to sell its smartphone with direct support links only to its hardware and network partners HTC and T-Mobile. Clearly a completely [...]
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RealPlayer SP beta debuts on the Mac, lets you save online videos to portable devices

RealPlayer SP beta for Mac launched Monday as the first major upgrade to Real’s media solution on Apple’s platform in quite a while. First thing you’ll notice, RealPlayer SP is a good citizen – the app looks and behaves according to Apple’s interface guidelines. More importantly, this new version adds all the cool features from [...]
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Design a donut, become famous, win cash

A guilty pleasure of mine is Dunkin’ Donuts. I don’t know what the heck they put in them, but there is nothing better than a box of them with coffee in the morning. Everyone has their favorite and some have even designed their own. Back in June, Dunkin’ announced the winner of of their “Create Dunkin’s [...]
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Nintendo awarded $1.3 million in New Super Mario Bros. Wii piracy lawsuit

James Burt, a 24-year-old Australian gamer, is facing a debt that he will probably be struggling to pay for the rest of his life after committing an act of piracy. He managed to buy the game New Super Mario Bros. Wii early when a games shop sold it before the official release date. James didn’t take [...]
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MEETorDIE calculates the wasteful cost of company meetings

Are you a fan of company meetings? Me neither. Then again, I am more of a man-of-action kind of person and dread when I have to sit for hours at a time. If you feel this way as well, then let me introduce to you a website that points out just how much of a waste meetings [...]
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Q Games to develop PixelJunk Shooter 2

If you enjoyed the recently released PixelJunk Shooter on PSN as we did, then you’ll be glad to here Q Games has a sequel planned. Q Games isn’t a developer known for doing follow-up games, instead coming up with interesting and highly popular new games as part of its PixelJunk series. But Shooter seems to be [...]
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2008 Flash crash bug still active, Adobe says sorry

When Adobe issues an apology you know something has gone wrong or the community has been complaining so much the company needed to respond. Emmy Huang, product manager for Adobe Flash Player has in the past few days issued such an apology. The reason: A crash bug which was reported in September 2008 by Matthew Dempsey [...]
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Apple updates Aperture 3 with 200 new features, including Faces, Places, and Brushes

Apple upgraded Aperture Tuesday morning, its pro photo editing and management software for the Mac, with over 200 new features, including Faces, Places and Brushes. More importantly, Apple re-wrote Aperture 3 as a 64-bit application that takes advantage of multi-core CPUs and GPU-accelerated graphics, courtesy of Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Apple’s marketing chief Philip Schiller [...]
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Quick look: HP iPAQ Glisten smartphone

HP’s relatively new iPAQ Glisten Windows phone recently landed on my desk and I’ve had some time to tinker with it. I’m not a Windows Mobile user, but I wanted to put down some thoughts on the device. The Glisten runs Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional, a topic that we’ve covered a number of times here on [...]
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Eyeing Apple

How much will apps for the iPad cost and will you be able to access documents on your desktop or place VoIP calls over 3G? Does it make sandwiches? How about videoconferencing, streaming Netflix movies, and entertainment outside the iTunes juggernaut? Geek answers the top ten most burning questions about the iPad that Apple didn’t [...]
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