Verizon launches Motorola Rival A455 phone
December 31, 2009
Verizon Wireless has announced the Motorola A455 Rival handset designed for text and instant messaging lovers. It sports a sleek side-sliding backlit QWERTY keyboard with appropriate shortcuts for simple access to text message composition and email. There’s also touchscreen dialing to save you from sliding out the keypad in case you only wish to place a phone call. Other features in the purple and silver body include a 2MP camera, EV-DO, VZ Navigator and microSD memory expansion of up to 8GB, all for $100 after a $50 mail-in rebate and two-year contract.
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Canabalt’s Run-Jump-Go Splat Format Massively Addicting
December 31, 2009
What it is: ‘Canabalt’ is a easy game, available both as a free Flash game and as a $2.99 download for the iPhone. The premise is basic; you play a tiny man, fleeing what appears to be an alien invasion, leaping from rooftop to rooftop, dodging obstacles, and smashing through windows.
What we like: This game is as pared down as it gets. There is only one button: jump. There is no 3-D environment in which to position the camera, no punching, kicking, or shooting — you can’t even control movement left or right. To accompany the easy game-play mechanics, the game employs an equally simple aesthetic design. The world of ‘Canabalt’ exists nearly entirely in four shades of gray, and is stylishly pixelated.
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Canabalt’s Run-Jump-Go Splat Format Massively Addicting originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Mechanics Struggling With Cost of Repairing Electronics-Heavy Automobiles
December 31, 2009
The era of a grease monkeys spending their days on their backs, underneath a automobile, are long gone. Now, mechanics spend just as much time staring at a personal — sifting through online manuals and searching for specialized tools.According to USA This day, independent auto-repair shops are struggling because proprietors can’t afford the automakers’ on the internet manuals, which can cost as much as $11,000 per year, or the tools needed to work on vehicles equipped with complex wiring and personal. Here’s the problem: automakers freely give this information and these tools to their dealership shops. Since this practically creates a monopoly on service, a dealership can charge you an arm and a leg to simply reset your vehicle’s personal, while the little man can’t offer the repair, or offer you a better price.
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Mechanics Struggling With Cost of Repairing Electronics-Heavy Cars originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Mechanics Struggling With Cost of Repairing Electronics-Heavy Vehicles
December 31, 2009
The era of a grease monkeys spending their days on their backs, underneath a car, are long gone. Now, mechanics spend just as much time staring at a personal — sifting through on the internet manuals and searching for specialized tools.According to USA Today, independent auto-repair shops are struggling because proprietors can’t afford the automakers’ online manuals, which can cost as much as $11,000 per year, or the tools needed to work on cars equipped with complex wiring and computers. Here’s the problem: automakers freely give this information and these tools to their dealership shops. Since this practically creates a monopoly on service, a dealership can charge you an arm and a leg to simply reset your car’s personal, while the little man can’t offer the repair, or offer you a superior price.
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Mechanics Struggling With Cost of Repairing Electronics-Heavy Vehicles originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Rock Band Weekly: Paul McCartney, Blink-182, Psychedelic Furs, Ramones
December 31, 2009
Paul McCartney, in a non-Beatles outing, rings in the new year for next week’s Rock Band Weekly update. The 67-year-old rocker (good on him!) will have the company of a Blink-182 pack, along with individual tracks from The Psychedelic Furs and The Ramones. Ringo might be in there too, but nobody would notice either way — poor Ringo.
Check out pricing and track details for the console releases after the break.
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Rock Band Weekly: Paul McCartney, Blink-182, Psychedelic Furs, Ramones originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Engadget App Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch
December 30, 2009
Just in time for 2010, Engadget’s iPhone/iPod touch app has hit Apple’s App Store. The app features all the authoritative content you know and crave from Engadget classic, mobile, and HD. Give tips to the crew from within the app, watch the latest ‘Engadget Show,’ browse news and features by topic, check out the latest galleries, and even listen to the weekly podcast. And hold off on the “Apple fanboy!” accusations; BlackBerry and webOS versions are planned to drop before CES, and an Android version is in the works.
Get the app, available now, here.
Engadget App Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Mechanics Struggling With Cost of Repairing Electronics-Heavy Vehicles
December 30, 2009
The era of a grease monkeys spending their days on their backs, underneath a car, are long gone. Now, mechanics spend just as much time staring at a computer — sifting through on the web manuals and searching for specialized tools.According to USA This day, independent auto-repair shops are struggling because proprietors can’t afford the automakers’ on the web manuals, which can cost as much as $11,000 per year, or the tools needed to work on cars equipped with complex wiring and computers. Here’s the problem: automakers freely give this information and these tools to their dealership shops. Since this practically creates a monopoly on service, a dealership can charge you an arm and a leg to simply reset your car’s computer, while the little man can’t offer the repair, or offer you a better price.
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Mechanics Struggling With Cost of Repairing Electronics-Heavy Vehicles originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Nokia Ovi Store Items
December 30, 2009
With Nokia’s Ovi Store about to be launched, it looks like Nokia is going to make an effort to take down Apple’s App Store. While Google’s Android Market had 50 selections when it was launched, Nokia states the Ovi Store will have over 20,000 items ready for download, which is a good begin, especially since Apple has about 40,000 apps in the App Store. The questions that people are asking is that whether stated “items” include ringtones and songs. Obviously that number includes custom apps and WidSets, possibly even N-Gage games. After all, it’s about quality, not so much quantity.
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Plants vs. Zombies coming to iPhone in late January
December 30, 2009
You’ve known it was coming. Like Lon Chaney Jr. watching the full moon rise, you’ve known you were on the very precipice of becoming a monster. Now, thanks to a post on the PopCap Facebook page, you’ve a better idea of when you can state goodbye to friends and loved ones: Plants vs. Zombies will arrive on iPhone and iPod Touch in late January.
So in conjunction, we’d like to announce the “Late January Buy All of Joystiq’s Material Possessions Fire Sale.” Come, buy all our stuff, we won’t need it, just so long as you leave us a bed roll and our feeding tube.
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Plants vs. Zombies coming to iPhone in late January originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Firefox Mobile To Support Auto Login
December 30, 2009
One of the things that we can’t wait to have on our mobile phones is Firefox Mobile, after all, we’re hoping that it bring what it did for desktop browsing to the mobile scene. Aside from the already known features such as geolocation and gesture browsing, it seems that Firefox Mobile will be getting automatic website login as well, via Weave sync. It will handle OpenID, along with the normal username/password login method.
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