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  • iOS to make its desktop debut with next iMac revision?

    iOS to make its desktop debut with next iMac revision?

    Posted on June 23, 2010 | No Comments
    IOS on the next iMac? That's the rumor going around this morning. The deal is that Apple wants to bring touch controls to its desktop offerings, and will use the next iMac revision to test the waters a bit. So, you'll have your standard Mac OS X installation, but then when you activate “touch screen mode,” you'll switch over to iOS.

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  • AmpliTube iRig: Rock out with your ‘Phone out!

    AmpliTube iRig: Rock out with your ‘Phone out!

    Posted on June 16, 2010 | No Comments
    IK Multimedia - makers of fine Guitar and Bass modeling software, among other things – have pre-order and pricing info available for their new iRig/Amplitube combo for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. This system requires their iRig dongle in conjunction with an app on your device. I have used both their Amplitube and SVX desktop [...]

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  • Hitachi working on cheaper, higher quality IPS touchscreens for cellphones

    Hitachi working on cheaper, higher quality IPS touchscreens for cellphones

    Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
    In case you haven't heard, IPS panels are making inroads into the lucrative mobile market this year, and Hitachi's been working behind the scenes on something that should keep that momentum going. In the mainstream, touchscreen IPS displays are currently only available on Apple's iPad (and expected to show up in its next-gen iPhone), but should Hitachi's new production technique pan out, we might be seeing this screen tech in much more affordable devices as well. The company has fiddled with the arrangement of the touchscreen elements inside the panel, which it argues has made them cheaper and easier to produce and replace. All good news, but these things do take a while to filter through into reality, until which time you might wanna sate yourself with the latest desktop IPS displays, those ain't too shabby or expensive either.

    Hitachi working on cheaper, higher quality IPS touchscreens for cellphones originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • A quick look at Lenovo’s ThinkCentre M90z desktop

    A quick look at Lenovo’s ThinkCentre M90z desktop

    Posted on May 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Ready for your daily dose of viral marketing? This Lenovo video is just that, but it's also an interesting look at the development of Lenovo's upcoming ThinkCentre M90z all-in-one workstation. These folks know all-in-one desktops and the M90z looks to be the best yet. Launch data and specs should drop soon. Hopefully.

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  • Complain about your dropped iPhone calls… with science

    Complain about your dropped iPhone calls… with science

    Posted on May 23, 2010 | No Comments
    We just saw a great product at the TC Disrupt Hack Day. It’s basically a class action lawsuit generator against AT&T that uses your actual call drop data to tabulate how many times your phone crashed and how many times you’ve been generally hosed by AT&T. The site is worstphoneever.com and it searches for baseband [...]

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  • Google claims Froyo has the world’s fastest mobile browser

    Google claims Froyo has the world’s fastest mobile browser

    Posted on May 20, 2010 | No Comments
    You heard it here first, folks. Google has just come out with the strident claim that the web browser that comes as part of Android 2.2, aka Froyo, is the world's fastest for mobile devices. Google's implemented the V8 JavaScript engine that's already made an appearance in its desktop Chrome browser, and the result has been somewhere in the vicinity of two to three times better JS performance relative to previous Android versions. We'll give this geek cabal bonus points for the double equals sign up top and look forward to putting their bold assertion to the test in the near future.

    It's all going on live right now, so make sure to go hit our I/O liveblog!

    Google claims Froyo has the world's fastest mobile browser originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 May 2010 11:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Google Maps for Android adds bike routes, sharing, dedicated navigation icon

    Google Maps for Android adds bike routes, sharing, dedicated navigation icon

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    If you're running an Android phone and you're lucky enough to be using 1.6 or above (our deepest apologies, CLIQ owners), we might recommend you pop open the Market and score the latest version of Google Maps that just launched today. What's new? It adds support for bicycle routing (something they've had on the desktop for a while now) and sharing of destinations via the usual array of mediums like email, Facebook, Twitter, and so on, but the most significant change might also be the smallest: the addition of a dedicated icon for Google Maps Navigation. The product is still in beta, but this seems like an early sign that it's starting to come of age -- and on a more practical level, this obviously makes it quite a bit easier to launch right into a route when you saddle up in the car. Anywho, Motorola, about that CLIQ update?

    Google Maps for Android adds bike routes, sharing, dedicated navigation icon originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 May 2010 18:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Review: SugarSync for the iPad

    Review: SugarSync for the iPad

    Posted on April 13, 2010 | No Comments
    I've been wondering how, exactly, I'll be able to do work on my iPad. With the assistance of programs like Dropbox and SugarSync, it is possible to cobble together a workflow that doesn't drive me crazy. When I last looked at SugarSync the service was in it's infancy and I found it slightly lacking. All of my concerns, two years ago, have been address and now you have a fully versioned storage system that you can use to feasibly upload a plethora of files including, but not limited to, MP3s, videos, and documents. Audio and video files, for the most part, played natively on the iPad. However, if you need to transfer odd formats or edit Office or iWork documents (you can view them just fine) you'll need to email the files to yourself and them open them in Pages. This two step process, while upsetting to those afraid of more than one step, is frustrating at worst and a non-issue at best.

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  • Help Key: Syncing and sharing on the iPad

    Help Key: Syncing and sharing on the iPad

    Posted on April 4, 2010 | No Comments
    I did a quick exploration of the syncing and sharing features for the iPad and found them slightly confusing but, ultimately, robust. Here are a few issues/findings I think you’ll be interested in: No PDF support – You can drag ePub files over to your iPad and they will appear in the reader. However, you will [...]

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  • CrunchDeals: Refurbished Averatec 18.4-inch all-in-one for $300

    CrunchDeals: Refurbished Averatec 18.4-inch all-in-one for $300

    Posted on March 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Looking for a decent web-browsing machine? Sellout.Woot! is selling the 18.4-inch Averatec all-in-one with Atom CPU and Windows XP for $300 today. I reviewed the model with the big-boy Athlon X2 processor and Windows Vista back in July, should you need more info.

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  • The just-announced Corsair Reactor and Nova product lines are SSDs, not UFP starships

    The just-announced Corsair Reactor and Nova product lines are SSDs, not UFP starships

    Posted on February 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Corsair isn't a new player in the SSD game, but it has some new entries for your consideration. The Reactor and Nova series are both solid performers, but offer slightly different benefits for different users. While the speedy Nova series zips files along at 270MB/s (read) and 195MB/s (write) thanks to the Indilinx Bareboot controller, the Reactor models have slightly slower speeds of 250/170MB/s but has a USB 2.0 connector built-in for added connectivity.

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  • Official Nexus One desktop dock now available

    Official Nexus One desktop dock now available

    Posted on January 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Straight from the source, you can now get the official $45 desktop dock for your shiny new Nexus One. When you dock your phone, the clock automatically launches. Behold the future!

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  • Nexus One Car Dock and Desktop Docking coming soon, says Google

    Nexus One Car Dock and Desktop Docking coming soon, says Google

    Posted on January 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Uh oh, Motorola Droid - you better look out! The Nexus One is going to cut you -- Wait, no, that's not right. The Nexus One is going to snag one of your flagship features. I always get those two mixed up.

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  • Nexus One Car Dock and Desktop Dock coming soon, says Google

    Nexus One Car Dock and Desktop Dock coming soon, says Google

    Posted on January 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Uh oh, Motorola Droid – you better look out! The Nexus One is going to cut you — Wait, no, that’s not right. The Nexus One is going to snag one of your flagship features. I always get those two mixed up. Google didn’t make any mention of accessories when they were launching the Nexus One, [...]

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  • Ten gadgets that defined the decade

    Ten gadgets that defined the decade

    Posted on December 30, 2009 | No Comments
    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Ten_gadgets_that_defined_the_decade'; As 2009 winds down and we try to come up with new and clever ways of referring to the early years of this century, there's really only one thing left to do: declare our ten favorite gadgets of the aughts and show them off in chronological order. It's arguable that if this wasn't the decade of gadgets, it was certainly a decade shaped by gadgets -- one which saw the birth of a new kind of connectedness. In just ten years time, gadgets have touched almost every aspect of our daily lives, and personal technology has come into its own in a way never before seen. It's a decade that's been marked the ubiquity of the internet, the downfall of the desktop, and the series finale of Friends, but we've boiled it down to the ten devices we've loved the most and worked the hardest over the past ten years. We even had some of our friends in the tech community chime in with their picks on what they thought was the gadget or tech of the decade -- so join us for a look back at the best (gadget) years ever!

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    Ten gadgets that defined the decade originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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