Message date: 2010-03-06

Review: Motorola Devour with Motoblur

It’s tough to be a technology writer when you have to get a new mobile phone. Heck, it’s tough even if you aren’t a writer considering the number of options available. Rather than looking at technology I looked at what I wanted the phone to do for me. First, I wanted it to consolidate my [...]
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XFX unveils Radeon 5970 Black Edition Limited (2 GPUs, 4GB, Eyefinity 6)

While Nvidia struggles with GPU-killing drivers, and no DirectX 11 cards until the end of this month, AMD is riding high with performance graphics cards appearing from multiple vendors. XFX has even gone as far as unveiling a very special and limited run edition of the Radeon 5970 at CeBIT. Called the Radeon 5970 HD Black [...]
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Google Chrome gets richer privacy controls, automatic web page translation

The latest beta of Google Chrome brings a new automatic web page translation feature and more detailed privacy controls on a per-site basis. When you visit a site written in a different language than your preferred language set in Chrome
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Skinput transforms your arm into an input device

Over the years, inventors have created some fascinating ways to expand our connection with computers and other electronic devices besides using standard input devices like touchscreens, keyboards and mice. Today’s example, created by inventor Chris Harrison, centers on a machine that allows the human body itself (specifically the arm) to become a new type of input device. Harrison’s Skinput prototype, as [...]
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How to: Swap the Fn and Ctrl keys on a ThinkPad

In recently released ThinkPads, like the T410, is it possible to swap the Fn and left Ctrl key. It gives ThinkPad users something that they’ve been requesting for a long time: placement of the Ctrl button at the bottom lefthand corner of the keyboard. This happens in BIOS, not on the hardware side, so it’s an [...]
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Gran Turismo 5 and NASCAR

Gamers who have been following the development of Gran Turismo 5 will already know that the game includes NASCAR. But until now, we haven’t really seen any in-game footage of it in action. That changes today with the release of the video you see above giving a teaser of what to expect. Kazunori Yamauchi, creator of the [...]
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The iPad arrives April 3, pre-order from March 12

Apple has put an end to ongoing speculations regarding the availability of its recently announced tablet. The iPad goes on sale in the US starting April 3 and later that month in nine more countries. The Cupertino firm put out a press release early Friday officially confirming that its
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Booq announces Boa skin XS cases for the iPad

The business of iPad accessories is booming even though the device is scheduled to hit the stores worldwide later this month. We’ve previously covered ColcaSac’s fashionable sleeves for iPhones, iPods, and Kindles, and today we learn about a premium iPad carrying case from Booq, a privately-held family company that creates high-end laptop bags. The Sierra Madre, [...]
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Valve announces Portal 2 for Holiday 2010 release

It’s been a crazy week for Valve news, and it looks like thing won’t be slowing down any time soon. Not long ago the company put out a short release saying that Portal 2 is on the way. Here is the release: Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life) and [...]
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Degradeable game demos patent filed by Sony

The use of game demos has gone through a number of iterations over the past couple of decades. The shareware model used to distribute the first few levels of a game to get a player interested, and then charge a fee to unlock the rest. Then we started getting demos on magazine cover discs before [...]
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How Star Trek should have ended

Say what you will about 2009’s blockbuster Star Trek, but most people will agree that is was a good watch. This video plays on its popcorn-movie appeal by rewriting the ending. It’s ridiculous, nonsensical, and highly amusing. Things get silly at the end, but I do like it when they piece apart things from the movie, like [...]
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Review: Cyber Clean cleaning compound

Cyber Clean is a cleaning compound that sells for $6 for a 75 gram packet. According to their website Cyber Clean is: … a revolutionary cleaning compound! When it comes to cleaning action in cavities and where convention cleaning products have physical limits. Cyber Clean gets into cavities because of its perfect combination of viscosity elasticity [...]
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Hollywood shows unconditional love for Apple products

Product placement is a big business in Hollywood. Companies spare no expenses to put their products in front of the public and what better way to achieve this than have a star of the latest flick use your product. Some products are a given for certain movie genres. For example, there’s a high likelihood of a [...]
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Awesome video walkthrough of Windows Phone 7 series

If you’ve dismissed Windows Phones based on the previous versions of Windows Mobile, you may want to give the platform a second chance. Based on this cool detailed walkthrough, we are now more excited about Windows Phone 7 series than ever before. Even though the initial batch of hands-on videos detailed the software extensively, there are [...]
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Star Wars Characters get the crochet treatment

I fully admit, when it comes to arts and crafts I was never any good at those classes in school, which is probably why I found my niche in computers and technology. But, that doesn’t mean I cannot appreciate those people that have mad craft making skills – especially, when they make something that puts [...]
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