Tools and Gadgets

Xbox 360 Arcade unboxed and turned on

Mike — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:54:17 +0000

We managed to get a full unboxing of the Xbox 360 Arcade before Microsoft has even been able to send out a press release about the thing! $279.99 gets you a hard drive-free console, a 256MB Memory Card, a Wireless controller, an HDMI port minus the cable, and a disc that includes five Xbox LIVE Arcade games.

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Why Hard Drives are Here to Stay, and SDD is just a FLASH in the Pan

Mike — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:54:10 +0000

Sure, they
’re taking place on a subatomic level that just won the Nobel Prize for physics. But overlooked innovations in hard-drive capacity, as PM’s senior tech editor sermonizes in his trend column, aren’t just letting you record TV shows and save massive amounts of music. They’re pushing us into a new era of computing.

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Electronics + YouTube = Engineer Resource [Google Ajax API]

Mike — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:54:04 +0000

Your Electronics Open Source blog,
used the new Google Ajax API to make an electronics project video-page.
The Electronics Engineer can bookmark this page, and everyone can grab this idea (code) to insert video-related content in own Blog.

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HTC to launch Touch Cruise PDA phone in November

Mike — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:53:54 +0000

High Tech Computer (HTC) plans to launch a new GPS-enabled touch-controlled PDA phone, the HTC Touch Cruise, in November, according to sources familiar with the company’s roadmap.

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Many pics of the Comcast Motorola TiVo in the wild

Mike — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:53:45 +0000

The Comcast Motorola TiVo is rolling out to a select group of well connected folks in New England and I managed to get my hands on about 20 pics. Sweet!

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Microsoft launches social bookmarking/GTD/wiki service Listas

Mike — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:52:32 +0000

It’s called Listas and it’s basically a social bookmarking service for keeping track of content you come across while browsing the Web, and sharing it with others.

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Windows 7 taking shape

Mike — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:52:23 +0000

A senior Microsoft engineer recently demonstrated the core of the next version of Windows, codenamed Windows 7, at the University of Illinois. Microsoft admits that its work is cut out for them, thanks to virtualization, multicore, and more.

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The $80 Brown Zune

Mike — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:52:17 +0000

What started as a $150 white Zune last month has quickly dropped to $80 of brown.

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WARNING: device driver updates causing Vista to deactivate

Mike — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:52:10 +0000

Microsoft has confirmed: something as small as swapping the video card or updating a device driver can trigger a total Vista deactivation.

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Samsung G800 pics

Mike — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:52:04 +0000

Europe is the first port of call for Samsung’s G800 multimedia cell phone. With a five-megapixel camera, 3 x optical zoom, Xenon flash, face detection and WDR (Wide Dynamic Range) technology,….

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