‘SkiFree’ Comes to the iPhone, TiVo Remote Combo Lets You Skip Ads
March 20, 2010
There’s a load of great tech news happening out there each day, and, unfortunately, we just can’t cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw this day on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
- Relive your elementary school days on your iPhone with a new mobile version of Microsoft’s classic, vertical sports-scroller ‘SkiFree.’ [From: Gizmodo]
- While it’s not widely advertised, you can skip forward 30 seconds (the length of a commercial) on TiVo with a quick ’select-play-select-3-0-select’ tap on your remote. [From: Make]
- In case the enormous NCAA Vault of March Madness videos didn’t grind office productivity to a halt, you can ensure that nothing gets done with Business Insider’s guide to the top 10 March Madness iPhone apps. [From: Business Insider]
- ‘Futurama,’ an office favorite, returns this summer. Don’t miss Comedy Central’s 30-second teaser. [From: Geekosystem]
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AT&T ZERO Charger Targets Vampire Cell Phone Plugs
March 19, 2010
We’ve lectured you before about unplugging chargers to conserve electricity. It’s pretty much common knowledge at this point that, even when turned off, our gadgets consume energy. Design student Conor Klein’s solution was the Outlet Regulator, which detects when a cell phone is fully charged and then physically jettisons it from the power source.
AT&T has a less perfect, but slightly more practical fix: simply shut down the charger when nothing is connected to it. The ZERO Charger can tell when a gadget is connected to its USB port, and simply disconnects from the power source if nothing is plugged into it. It can’t tell when your iPhone is completely charged and then turn itself off, but, if you’re the type who can’t be bothered to remember to unplug your charger when you leave the home, the ZERO charger could end up saving you a few bucks on your electricity bills. [From: GeekSugar]
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AT&T ZERO Charger Targets Vampire Cell Phone Plugs
March 18, 2010
Filed under: Cell Phones, Green Tech
We’ve lectured you before about unplugging chargers to conserve electricity. It’s pretty much common knowledge at this point that, even when turned off, our gadgets consume energy. Design student Conor Klein’s solution was the Outlet Regulator, which detects when a cell phone is fully charged and then physically jettisons it from the power source.
AT&T has a less perfect, but slightly more practical fix: simply shut down the charger when nothing is connected to it. The ZERO Charger can tell when a gadget is connected to its USB port, and simply disconnects from the power source if nothing is plugged into it. It can’t tell when your iPhone is absolutely charged and then turn itself off, but, if you’re the type who can’t be bothered to remember to unplug your charger when you leave the home, the ZERO charger could end up saving you a few bucks on your electricity bills. [From: GeekSugar]
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Consumers Clamoring for 3-D Televisions, Windows Phone 7 Series Lacks Copy and Paste
March 17, 2010
Highlights from this morning’s other huge tech headlines….
- The 3-D TV movement is rapidly gaining momentum and the excitement over the new technology is beginning to translate into real and tangible results. Panasonic has announced that it took only a single week for the company to sell its entire U.S. stock of 3-D TVs, and that it is already being forced to take pre-orders. [From: Bloomberg]
- Apparently Microsoft wasn’t paying attention (or perhaps it just didn’t care) when Apple endured extensive criticism over the iPhone’s lack of copy and paste abilities. According to Engadget, Microsoft has revealed that the Windows Phone 7 Series will not provide clipboard features, either. [From: Engadget]
- Google announced in January that it would be entering the Android smartphone race, and now Google’s Nexus One officially made the company’s Android lineup. The 3G-equipped AT&T model is available now at the Google phone store, where it costs an eye-popping $529. [From: Engadget]
- The mystery and ambiguity surrounding the future of Google China is beginning to take a toll on the site’s advertisers. A conglomeration of 27 companies has implored Google to provide an announcement on the site’s future, citing deteriorating relationships with customers and investors. [From: The Huffington Post]
- Last fall, the Beatles actually surpassed Jesus in terms of Google popularity, but the religious icon still reigns supreme in the Apple Store. According to Gizmodo, the store lists thousands of various Bible apps, dwarfing the numbers of the Good Book’s nearest competitors. [From: Gizmodo]
- Even though enormously popular abroad, the music streaming service Spotify has remained unavailable on the Web in the U.S. Daniel Ek, the company’s CEO, announced at SXSW yesterday that the site will indeed be launching in the Says this year, though, and that the free subscription service will be similar to the highly successful European version. [From: The Telegraph]
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Facebook Crowned as Most Visited U.S. Site, A SXSW Twitter Walk-Out
March 17, 2010
Highlights from this morning’s other huge tech headlines….
- According to on the internet marketing firm Hitwise, Facebook has supplanted Google as the most visited site in the United Says. While its seemingly infinite communicative tools continue to encroach on the popularity of Google and Gmail, the social networking behemoth can’t claim complete U.S. dominance just yet, as Google still attracts more unique visitors. [From: Tech Crunch and The Financial Times]
- Twitter’s short-attention-span platform apparently carries over to reality, as hordes of bored nerds exited en masse from the South by Southwest keynote event featuring Twitter CEO Evan WIlliams. Most observers put the blame squarely on interviewer Umair Haque, who has been getting lambasted by the blogging nerd-osphere. [From: Gawker and NBC Bay Area]
- Rhapsody is developing a new app for the iPhone, and the music streaming service will apparently grant users to actually store songs for playback. The music cache will significantly increase battery life, as the offline mode will not drain as much as power as cell or Wi-Fi activity. [From: Wired]
- It may be a collateral effect of the massive hype and publicity surrounding the iPad, but Apple is experiencing a sales boom for a variety of its devices. According to marketing firm Piper Jaffray, January and February sales of Macs skyrocketed 39-percent over the sales from the same period last year. iPod sales also increased during the two-month period, the first such rise for the gadget in over a year. [From: Engadget]
- Apple is not only in the midst of a highly successful sales period, but the company has also earned some significant bragging rights over one of its primary competitors. Research firm Crowd Science is contending that an breathtaking 40-percent of BlackBerry owners would prefer have an iPhone. (But maybe those people just aren’t aware of the BlackBerry’s superior life-saving abilities.) [From: Ars Technica]
- The perennial, public disputes between Apple and Google have apparently devolved into a childish, personal spat. A weekend piece in the New York Times categorized the corporate feud (featuring Apple’s Steve Jobs and Google’s Eric Schmidt as the main event) as being “fierce” and “heated.” Tim Bray, an Android software developer, ratcheted up the intensity when he labeled Apple’s approach to the World wide web as “a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers.” Zing! [From: Engadget]
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Facebook Crowned as Most Visited U.S. Site, A SXSW Twitter Walk-Out
March 16, 2010
Highlights from this morning’s other large tech headlines….
- According to online marketing firm Hitwise, Facebook has supplanted Google as the most visited site in the United Says. While its seemingly infinite communicative tools continue to encroach on the popularity of Google and Gmail, the social networking behemoth can’t claim complete U.S. dominance just yet, as Google still attracts more very special visitors. [From: Tech Crunch and The Financial Times]
- Twitter’s short-attention-span platform apparently carries over to reality, as hordes of bored nerds exited en masse from the South by Southwest keynote event featuring Twitter CEO Evan WIlliams. Most observers put the blame squarely on interviewer Umair Haque, who has been getting lambasted by the blogging nerd-osphere. [From: Gawker and NBC Bay Area]
- Rhapsody is developing a new app for the iPhone, and the music streaming service will apparently allow users to actually store songs for playback. The music cache will significantly increase battery life, as the offline mode will not drain as much as power as cell or Wi-Fi activity. [From: Wired]
- It may be a collateral effect of the huge hype and publicity surrounding the iPad, but Apple is experiencing a sales boom for a variety of its devices. According to marketing firm Piper Jaffray, January and February sales of Macs skyrocketed 39-percent over the sales from the same period last year. iPod sales also increased during the two-month period, the first such rise for the gadget in over a year. [From: Engadget]
- Apple isn’t only in the midst of a highly successful sales period, but the company has also earned some significant bragging rights over one of its primary competitors. Research firm Crowd Science is contending that an astounding 40-percent of BlackBerry owners would prefer have an iPhone. (But maybe those people just aren’t aware of the BlackBerry’s superior life-saving capabilities.) [From: Ars Technica]
- The perennial, public disputes between Apple and Google have apparently devolved into a childish, personal spat. A weekend piece in the New York Times categorized the corporate feud (featuring Apple’s Steve Jobs and Google’s Eric Schmidt as the main event) as being “fierce” and “heated.” Tim Bray, an Android software developer, ratcheted up the intensity when he labeled Apple’s approach to the Internet as “a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers.” Zing! [From: Engadget]
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Facebook Crowned as Most Visited U.S. Site, A SXSW Twitter Walk-Out
March 16, 2010
Highlights from this morning’s other huge tech headlines….
- According to online marketing firm Hitwise, Facebook has supplanted Google as the most visited site in the United Says. While its seemingly infinite communicative tools continue to encroach on the popularity of Google and Gmail, the social networking behemoth can’t claim complete U.S. dominance just yet, as Google still attracts more one-of-a-kind visitors. [From: Tech Crunch and The Financial Times]
- Twitter’s short-attention-span platform apparently carries over to reality, as hordes of bored nerds exited en masse from the South by Southwest keynote event featuring Twitter CEO Evan WIlliams. Most observers put the blame squarely on interviewer Umair Haque, who has been getting lambasted by the blogging nerd-osphere. [From: Gawker and NBC Bay Area]
- Rhapsody is developing a new app for the iPhone, and the music streaming service will apparently grant users to actually store songs for playback. The music cache will significantly increase battery life, as the offline mode will not drain as much as power as cell or Wi-Fi activity. [From: Wired]
- It might be a collateral effect of the massive hype and publicity surrounding the iPad, but Apple is experiencing a sales boom for a variety of its devices. According to marketing firm Piper Jaffray, January and February sales of Macs skyrocketed 39-percent over the sales from the same period last year. iPod sales also increased during the two-month period, the first such rise for the gadget in over a year. [From: Engadget]
- Apple isn’t only in the midst of a highly successful sales period, but the company has also earned some significant bragging rights over one of its primary competitors. Research firm Crowd Science is contending that an incredible 40-percent of BlackBerry owners would prefer have an iPhone. (But maybe those people just aren’t aware of the BlackBerry’s better life-saving abilities.) [From: Ars Technica]
- The perennial, public disputes between Apple and Google have apparently devolved into a childish, personal spat. A weekend piece in the New York Times categorized the corporate feud (featuring Apple’s Steve Jobs and Google’s Eric Schmidt as the main event) as being “fierce” and “heated.” Tim Bray, an Android software developer, ratcheted up the intensity when he labeled Apple’s approach to the Internet as “a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers.” Zing! [From: Engadget]
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YouTube Auto-Caption Fails, Most Blatant Apple Product Placement
March 15, 2010
There’s a load of great tech news happening out there each day, and, unfortunately, we just can’t cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
- YouTube’s automatic shut captioning, like most automated systems, is serving up hilarious misinterpretations to the collective joy of Web users. Exhibit number one: Apple’s iPad introduction video. [From: DVICE and Engadget]
- Eye-tracking studies reveal most users ignore the real-time Tweets popping up in Google’s search results. [From: Guardian]
- The Awl looks at (with screencaps, of course) the most “remarkable Apple product placements” of all time, ranging from Rush Limbaugh’s personalized iPods to the “classic” ‘Zoolander’ orange iMac scene. [From: The Awl]
- YouTube user katamaran78 recut ‘Battlestar Galactica’ in a scene-by-scene remake of Spike Jonze’s Beastie Boy’s ‘Sabotage’ video. Impressive on its own, it’s even more mind-boggling watching both videos playing side-by-side. [From: BuzzFeed]
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YouTube Auto-Caption Fails, Most Blatant Apple Product Placement
March 14, 2010
There’s a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can’t cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
- YouTube’s automatic closed captioning, like most automated systems, is serving up hilarious misinterpretations to the collective joy of Web users. Exhibit number one: Apple’s iPad introduction video. [From: DVICE and Engadget]
- Eye-tracking studies reveal most users ignore the real-time Tweets popping up in Google’s search results. [From: Guardian]
- The Awl looks at (with screencaps, of course) the most “remarkable Apple product placements” of all time, ranging from Rush Limbaugh’s personalized iPods to the “classic” ‘Zoolander’ orange iMac scene. [From: The Awl]
- YouTube user katamaran78 recut ‘Battlestar Galactica’ in a scene-by-scene remake of Spike Jonze’s Beastie Boy’s ‘Sabotage’ video. Impressive on its own, it’s even more mind-boggling watching both videos playing side-by-side. [From: BuzzFeed]
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Is Your ISP Lying FCC Offers Tools to Test Surfing Speed
March 14, 2010
Have you ever had a sneaky suspicion that your broadband speed might not be as fast as your Internet Service Provider (ISP) claims The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will help you figure out if the wool has been pulled over your eyes. According to Wired, the FCC’s new site Broadband.gov will let users test the speed of their broadband connection for free. The announcement of this site, which went live yesterday, comes just days after research showed that most people are clueless about their connection speed.
There are two ways to test your broadband. First, you can visit the FCC’s site and simply enter your street address. Don’t worry, the government doesn’t want to spy on you. The FCC hopes that compiling geographic data on broadband speeds could help bring about policy change that would force providers to regulate coverage areas and speeds. Second, the FCC is also offering apps that’ll test the connection for both the iPhone and Android phones, which you can download from the respective app stores. If you’re in a broadband “Dead Zone,” the FCC still wants you to complete a report on the site or call this number: 888-CALL-FCC.
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