It’s Sunday and I want you to be happy. That’s why I’m offering you your very own Vue Personal Video network so you can keep an eye on Santa as he sneaks up to your back porch and steals your garbage cans.
We reviewed this kit a few months ago and were impressed. It’s completely wireless and the cameras are battery powered.
The kit is worth $299 and it can be yours for the price of a comment below. We’ll pick a winner on Tuesday.
Our memory of the announcement of Thief 4 has long since been washed away by other sizable pieces of gaming news and releases -- however, Eidos Montreal boss Stephane D'Astous recently assured IncGamers that the dev team hasn't been slacking off since the game's big reveal. In an interview with the site, D'Astous claimed, "the team is making leaps and bounds," later adding, "personally I have never seen a team, at this milestone (middle of pre-production) in such good shape!"
Wait aSource: Houstonist RSS Feed
Yes, you read this right… Psystar sold only 768 machines!
Psystar’s whole business is premised on stealing from Apple,” Apple argues, “Psystar pirates Apple’s software, circumvents Apple’s technological protection measures and illegally benefits from the good will and reputation Apple has built. Psystar’s conduct, if permitted to continue, will both tarnish Apple’s reputation for excellence and lead to the proliferation of copycats who also will free ride on Apple’sSource: UNEASYsilence RSS Feed
While Black Friday has long been a popular phenomenon for brick and mortar stores, the deal frenzy has been extending to e-retailers and online stores. Now, sales on the web are equally as lucrative as those in the stores. eBay is launching a campaign to capitalize on the holiday shopping season, called “12 Days Of Deals,” and has also rolled out a new Deal-focused iPhone app and partnered with Microsoft to offer deals directly from Internet Explorer 8.
Today, the e-commerce giant is launching a interactive map that shows all of the transactions that took place on eBay on Black Friday. The map provides a visualization of all U.S.-based buyer and seller transactions that occurred on eBay on Black Friday.
As the clock runs, points will appear on the map, representing the occurrence of buyer and seller transactions on eBay. eBay says the map visualization is based on raw data that includes eBay sales and purchases occurring in approximately 33,000 U.S. ZIP codes.
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Five years ago today, the Nintendo DS came to the United States. I was able to purchase a launch-day system, and I was so excited when games like Mario Kart came to the handheld device. Here are some of the highlights over the past five years.
File this under "heaven help us all." Uwe Boll-- the man with an inexplicable skill in somehow turning video game film adaptations, themselves already the stuff of "meh", into works of pure torture to watch-- has apparently announced that he's going to direct a third movie in the Bloodrayne franchise. I must confess I haven't seen either of the first two movies; the bastardization of Alone in the Dark was quite enough for me, please and thank you. He somehow managed to make a sex sceneSource: GayGamer.net RSS Feed
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You can catch last week's show, the deep dive on the Psystar summary judgment with Lauren, via iTunes or Talkshoe. Granted, it was a bit single-minded compared to our usual attention deficit-driven topic hop, but I enjoyed it!
Tonight, we're going to cover the week in review as we often do; plus we'll take your calls and suggestions for our holiday gift guide choices. It's a great time to drop hints to family and friends about whatSource: The Unofficial Apple Weblog RSS Feed
Screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson had a big hit with Secretary in 2002. Well, maybe not a hit in the commercial sense, but definitely in the cultural sense; it’s a film that people still talk about, and which will likely continue to have a real presence for years to come. But Wilson hasn’t had a great many produced credits since then. Maybe her profile will rise once again thanks to Oprah and Harpo Films, which is making a deal with HBO to produce a currently untitled show about a womanSource: SlashFilm RSS Feed
Sony Ericsson’s as-yet unannounced Kurara touchscreen smartphone has stayed still for long enough to get a non-blurry photo, and as you might have guessed it’s mobile-review’s Eldar Murtazin responsible for the shot. The Kurara was originally described as a more entry-level version of the Sony Ericsson Satio, but according to Mutazin there’s actually a whole lot more to it than that: squeezed inside is an ARM Cortex A8 CPU complete with PowerVR GPU.
That gets 256MB of RAM to Source: SlashGear RSS Feed
Section: Computers, Software / Applications
With Windows 7 now out in the wild for almost a month, Microsoft has time to unleash another beta product on us for testing. This beta comes in the form of Microsoft Office 2010. The Office 2010 beta will feature everything minus the online version, which is currently being tested within Microsoft.
Somewhat surprising for a public beta, the Office 2010 beta offers everything in the office suite. So it has Word, Powerpoint, Excel,Source: Gadgetell RSS Feed
Ladies, a question for you. You have just started dating someone new. He is cute, sweet, funny, and smart. He laughs at your jokes. He is attentive. He even opens the door for you. You enjoy each other’s company. So far, so good. You really don’t want to mess this up.
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Satin sheets symbolizing luxury are getting geeky by the day! Imagine integrating a radio alarm clock within the Sheet! That’s the Melted Clock for you: a haptic, touch sensitive alarm with speakers and controls all embedded within your sheet. The three control icons are embroidered on the sheet and relevant to the operating elements on the outside edge of the bed sheet. Use the two in combo to set your radio frequency, alarm time etc. Essentially, you just feel your way through thisSource: Yanko Design RSS Feed
Windows/Mac/Linux: The folks at Mozilla continue their steady march towards the release of Firefox 3.6, today releasing an update to Firefox 3.6 Beta 3. The update addresses 90+ bugs from the beta 2 release.
Weblog Mozilla Links also notes that, unfortunately, support for some of the best new Windows 7 features has been removed from 3.6 at this point, meaning no tab previews, jump lists, and download progress in the task bar. (Bummer.) Still, if you’re an early adopter who’s been Source: TechBlogger RSS Feed
Not to be overshadowed by BioWare's latest effort to depict Mass Effect 2 in one epic cover, 2K Games has released the box art for BioShock 2 -- and it doesn't win any points for originality or cleanliness. Just like the first game's cover, it features Big Daddy (this time he's you!) and Little Sister (not you). Only now, everything's behind cracked, grimy glass and the logo's covered in barnacles. Eww.
You can lay your eyes on high-res versions of the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC covers forSource: Houstonist RSS Feed
Net blunders have somewhat lost their shock value recently. Ridiculous stories about stupid people getting in trouble doing stupid things sometimes elicit nothing more than an unenthusiastic "meh" from the reading public. Last week, though, the Net idiocy genre experienced a few dramatic twists. Accidental e-mail inclusions and the old 'Reply All' mishap have created infinite amounts of uncomfortable scenarios, but rarely do those situations gross out an entire university campus.Source: Switched RSS Feed
Amazon is testing using SMS messaging to provide shipping notifications to customers. It is an opt-in service that will send you a text message when your package ships or is delivered. The company says the text message notification is in the testing phase, and is only available to a small set of customers. There is an FAQ explaining how the notifications work along with how to get signed up. Those of you who obsessively check online to see where your new gadget purchase is will want to give Source: jkOnTheRun RSS Feed
Few months ago I wrote a provocative post comparing between different smartphones OS.
After getting hammered (pretty nicely I would say) by a lot of Google fans out there (but not only), furious about their little baby not winning the kindergarten contest, and after almost a year has passed, in which many have changed, I’ve decided to try again…
(Oh boy… here we go…)
So what’s different this year? A lot:
Two new significant releases of Android, one newSource: Mobility Site RSS Feed
This weekend I had an opportunity to attend a renewable energy workshop organized by the Southeastern Massachusetts Achievement and Retention in Technology group at Bristol Community College. The morning was packed with teachers sharing their lesson and unit ideas on ideas based around the STEM subjects of green technologies and energy.
The college offers a Lending Lab for tools and lab equipment that most schools are unlikely to stock. Through using these equipment resources,Source: MAKE: Blog RSS Feed
Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) is looking to hire a game developer for its iPhone and iTouch team, but such a move carries the possibility of alienating some of its huge ecosystem of independent game developers.
The Web site AppleInsider reported on Friday that Apple is looking to hire an engineer to develop games for its iPhone and iTouch devices.
The actual Apple job posting can be read by clicking here.
In the posting for a “game/media software engineer,” Apple said it isSource: iPhone News Updated RSS Feed
It's totally possible at this point that a strange ploy to keep us writing about Modern Warfare 2 at least four to five times per day exists. WPXI in Pittsburgh today reports that Western Pennsylvanian police are still looking for a man who robbed a Meadville, Pa. GameStop of 100 copies of the game (and "a few other items") last Tuesday evening. According to the report, the man told the store clerks that his friend outside would shoot them if they called the police.
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To be clear, we can't be certain that the massive creature seen above is actually called a Brutalisk. We're just assuming so, based on the image's filename. That said, look at that thing. It's humongous. The StarCraft II Twitter account implies that the massive creature is a "custom" unit from the single-player campaign. Given that the first installment of the game, Wings of Liberty, will focus on the Terrans, we get the feeling that players won't be controlling this bad boy. OurSource: Houstonist RSS Feed
Most people today would recognize it if they were located in a “no cell phone” zone. That’s because there are signs posted that we can clearly recognize. Some of these signs actually tell us in text that we aren’t allowed to use our mobile phones in the area. Other signs simply show us in pictures that no cell phone use is allowed. These cell phone signs have become as familiar to many of us as other common signs such as “no crossing” and “no smoking signs”. In fact, aSource: Dial-a-Phone RSS Feed
While it may initially seem the only game releasing this holiday season is something called Modern Warfare 2, some titles -- like Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed II and Nintendo's New Super Mario Bros. Wii -- actually have the guts to stand up against the most important game of all time ever seriously. Game rental service Gamefly recently gathered data on which titles its users are actually looking forward to this holiday season, offering the info in one convenient list.
For the allSource: Xbox 360 Fanboy RSS Feed
WOODCLIFF LAKE, New Jersey — Rampant unemployment and a gyrating stock market have changed American consumers forever, and unlike previous recessions this one will leave lasting scars on our shopping psyches. But people still will buy pricey items if they’re presented as a socially responsible choice, says market research firm DYG.
This permanent shift has replaced the conspicuous consumer with “the conscientious consumer,” even in the area of luxury goods like high-endSource: Autopia RSS Feed
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Well, the spirit of giving arrived a little early this year! For my birthday last month, Google (GOOG) announced it was partnering to offer free Wi-Fi on all Virgin America flights until January 15th. Great, thanks Google, now I have to check the feeds even while flying at 500MPH. But I guess that wasn’t enough kindness to satisfy the Goog.
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According to The Register and others, a tool which allows hackers to break into jailbroken iPhones and steal information has been discovered.
Following closely in the footsteps of the first iPhone worm (known as Ikee) which hunted for jailbroken iPhones running SSH which were still using the default password of "alpine", the hacking tool reportedly allows criminals to steal emails, contacts, calendars and other data stored on the device.
Sophos has not yet received a sample ofSource: Security Ratty RSS Feed
You know what day it is! Herein lies my usual review round-up (see yesterday’s preview), starring Modern Warfare 2. Right now I’ll highlight the good in the game, and later today I’ll highlight the bad. Very exciting, yes.
From 1UP (gave the game an “A”:
Mixing real-world locations with bombastic set-pieces MW2 continues the guided, thrill-ride experiences of its predecessor, and adds even more depth to its multiplayer offerings. It might not have fixed all theSource: CrunchGear RSS Feed
A new Wave extension Voicy, allows you to easily record messages and share them with a group of people, or share messages between people inside one wave, within a single voice recorder. Voicy identifies the current viewer and customizes the gadget accordingly (between host and non-host, giving the host more options).
How does it work:
Enter this Public Wave and install the Voicy gadget. Then open a new wave, click on Voicy icon (edit mode - see screenshot), record yourSource: Go2web2.0 RSS Feed
This project is behind schedule. The reasons, I hope, are forgivable. First off, there was just too much other stuff going on last week, to the point where, even though I've read several chapters of Suzanne Somers' new book (if you can call it that) Knockout: Interviews with Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer--And How to Prevent Getting It in the First Place (Random House website), I couldn't force myself to sit down in front of the computer, copy of Knockout in front of me in order to pick choiceSource: Thoughts from Kansas RSS Feed
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Rumored for an early 2010 release, Apple’s touchscreen tablet is shaping up to be one of the most anticipated gadgets since the iPhone. But words aren’t doing it justice. Tipsters have described the device as a “giant iPhone” of sorts, which doesn’t sound terribly exciting. That’s why Wired.com challenged readers to mock up illustrations of an Apple tablet for aSource: Wired RSS Feed
I have talked about the cool Envive TheaterStation multi-zone content management system before. The system debuted at CEDIA back in September.
Envive has announced that it is now shipping the TheaterStation multi-zone system with central storage. The device is available with storage capacities ranging from 4TB to 14TB and doesn’t need a TheaterStation server. The device supports up to 20 independent zones of audio and video.
Envive offers the system in 1U and 2U rack mountSource: SlashGear RSS Feed
As previously posted, my job requires me to have an overview of the whole of BBC Vision's online portfolio. Until recently, my record of new site launches comprised a TextEdit document on my laptop (edited on a daily basis) and an Excel spreadsheet on a shared drive (updated, er, less frequently). A couple of weeks back I decided that a far better tool for maintaining and sharing this information would be a simple blog.
As well as being naturally geared towards the chronologicalSource: fabric of folly RSS Feed
The 'bike tree', an automatic storage system for cycles, can hold up to 6,000 bikes... watch the video!. David Munk @ THe Guardian.co.uk writes-
It's not often something stops you in your bike tracks. But a spectacular "bike tree" invention from Japan bowled me over when I was in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago.
Fed up with bicycles locked to railings, piled on top of each other, blocking doorways and roads, a local council in the city installed the mechanical masterpiece.Source: MAKE: Blog RSS Feed
Holiday season is just around the corner. Some of us will stay home, some will go away. Some will work every day that’s not a public holiday, or on which our presence is not required elsewhere by friends and family. Others will take days, if not weeks, of time out from work. Some will remain connected at every moment, come hell or high water. Others will switch off, kick back, and only get online to read the news, check personal accounts, or find out if the weather will be fairSource: Web Worker Daily RSS Feed
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When it comes to the Internet, few consumers are willing to pay for services -- especially during the current economic hard times. Yet, there are still some websites that are able to get people to fork over their hard-earned money. One example is Ancestry.com (NASDAQ: ACOM), which provides extensive data and tools to research family histories.
In fact, this week the company hitSource: Blogging Stocks RSS Feed
Posted by Jeffrey Peng, Software Engineer, Google Books
I'm a software engineer on Google Books. One of my main projects is adding magazine content and features to the site. In September we were excited to announce the availability of over 1,860 issues of the iconic LIFE magazine on Google Books. One of the feature requests that I got from friends and family was to add a way to browse all the magazines available. Someone even created a Facebook group called Get Google Magazine Search to Source: Google Book Search RSS Feed
To celebrate the Blu-Ray and DVD release of Disney•Pixar’s UP, Oakland California’s Fentons Creamery will host the official release party for the animated film.
The popular East Bay Ice Cream Store made a cameo appearance in the summer blockbuster when Carl Fredrickson and Russell parked their Zeppelin above Fentons and enjoyed some delicious ice cream. In was only fitting to celebrate the November 10 release to Blu-Ray and DVD with an ice cream social that can bring theSource: SlashFilm RSS Feed
Remember yellowsn0w, the iPhone 3G soft unlock app launched in January this year?
Well, now we have blacksn0w too, which can unlock both the iPhone 3G and the new iPhone 3GS, via either Windows or Mac.
The blacksn0w unlock app is free and requires iPhone OS 3.1, as well as baseband 05.11.07. To download the application, visit the blackra1n website.
More info about blacksn0w can be found here.
Tutorials on how to use blacksn0w are available at iClarified (text andSource: Unwired View RSS Feed
Black Friday isn't the only day in November where prices are eviscerated and sweet deals are distributed like confetti at a Flaming Lips concert. Wal-Mart has begun posting ads for a batch of sales being offered this coming Saturday morning -- one of which will be particularly intriguing to the prospective holiday console buyers among you. While supplies last (and we assume they won't last long), anyone who purchases a $199 Xbox 360 Arcade bundle will receive a $100 gift card to boot.
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Though many today would agree that the Internet now compliments traditional consumerism, there are still those businesses that are simply doing it wrong. There seems to be no end to the list of companies who fail miserably at understanding the role of Social Media and the Internet, and it’s a growing concern. It’s a problem that affects more than just their bottom-line.
It’s no new concept that media in general has seen a significant paradigm-shift in recent years, that theSource: The Next Web RSS Feed
Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Email / IM, Smartphones, Mobile
We knew it was too good to be true. We knew Verizon couldn’t keep it’s mitts off the phone and tweak something to make it less fun. The good news is unlike most of Verizon’s disabled phone, this one can be fixed by throwing money at it. $15 per month to be exact.
Thanks to the geniuses at Verizon, if you wish to access Exchange mail on your Droid phone you’ll need to cough up anotherSource: Gadgetell RSS Feed
Even if you're not in the Halo Waypoint preview, you can get an early look at what's going to be available when it launches for real on Thursday, November 5, thanks to a weekly schedule we received from 343 Industries. By Thursday's launch, you'll already be able to watch a "Spotlight on Louis Wu" and a "Halo in Five Minutes" presentation, as well as page through some Firefight screens from the community.
Other content up this week: "Welcome to Waypoint," which serves as anSource: Xbox 360 Fanboy RSS Feed
WinMo folks, we wouldn't blame you for getting a bit of Android envy after last week's DROID onslaught, but if there's one thing that could make people pine for your OS it's HTC's HD2, and T-Mobile has just confirmed it's coming on November 9 -- a mere weekend after Moto's new hotness hits Verizon. Mind you, there is some confusion going on here, as the picture on T-Mo's site is of the old Touch HD, not the HD2 we met and loved, and the mention of "loads of applications to download fromSource: Engadget RSS Feed
Capturing the same powerful forces that destroyed the Tacoma Narrows Bridge shortly after it was built in 1940, researchers at the University of Michigan are developing a new way of generating electricity with the slow moving currents found in most of the rivers and oceans of the world.
VIVACE is the first known device that could harness energy from most of the water currents around the globe because it works in flows moving slower than 2 knots (about 2 miles per hour.) Most of theSource: MAKE: Blog RSS Feed
Anyone seeking a case study of how a proprietary software company can “embrace and extend” itself into the open source world should stop thinking Microsoft and start thinking Blackboard.
(Picture from the University of Alaska. Bonus points if you find a link to Russia from the site.)
Blackboard has a long-running feud with open source, ably chronicled by our own Christopher Dawson. Open source Learning Management Systems (LMSs) like Moodle, Sakai and OLAT have been seeking Source: Open Source RSS Feed
T-Mobile in the UK have uploaded details of the HTC HD2 to their site stating it has a launch date of November. The problem is that they have displayed the wrong phone and also stated that the HD2 will give access to the Android Market to download apps… seems they are getting a little confused there.
But, the release date does look about right and looking at other pages on the T-mob site they do refer to a Windows Phone based device running WM 6.5, so it seems the release date isSource: Gadget Venue RSS Feed
Beyond cries from fanboys for Recon, the rarest of all Halo 3 armor permutations -- or at least the rarest option -- is strutting around multiplayer matches with a flaming skull. Originally only available to employees of Bungie, the heated helmets are now the prize for G4's upcoming Sarkathlon.
In order to enter the contest, which runs until midnight on November 8, players must download a special variant of the map Longshore (only found on the second disk of Halo 3: ODST) andSource: Xbox 360 Fanboy RSS Feed
And now... fighting out of the red corner, weighing in with two Evergreen GPUs, and wearing black trunks and red trim, it's the Radeon HD 5970. ATI's latest challenger for the title of undisputed graphics champion has been snared in the wild, and its photo shoot reveals a suitably oversized beast. Measuring in at 13.5 inches and requiring both an eight- and six-pin power connector, the pre-production sample can fit inside only the roomiest and best-powered rigs around. It's named somewhatSource: Engadget RSS Feed
