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  • Can a shopping app change your life? Lady Geek review Tesco Groceries app on the Ovi Store

    Posted on August 18, 2010 | No Comments
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  • Nexus One steps up to 720p HD video thanks to latest hack (video)

    Nexus One steps up to 720p HD video thanks to latest hack (video)

    Posted on June 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Just more evidence that rooting is the only true path of the geek. The indefatigable coders over at xda-developers have just pushed out a download that allows the Nexus One to start shooting video at 720p resolution. You'll need to have at least CyanogenMod version 5.0.8test3, but once you get your house in order, you'll be enjoying one of the big touted features of the latest handsets on your five-month old Googlephone. Pretty neat, and what's even better is that work is already underway to improve audio and the fps rate, as well as making the code compatible with Android Froyo, it all just requires a bit more tinkering. So, hit the source link to get the download or join us after the break for a quick sample video.

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  • Use Linux to water your lawn

    Use Linux to water your lawn

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    So you bought the EasyBloom to take precise soil moisture readings. You have a spreadsheet plotting plant growth over time. But you're still schelpping out to water the lawn like all your Luddite neighbors. Where's your sense of pride? You're a geek! You should be using technology to make your life better. Here, we'll help get you started with this Instructable on using Linux to water your lawn!

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  • The ExoPC’s release date and GPU, everyone

    The ExoPC’s release date and GPU, everyone

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    We've been following the ExoPC's development with a bit of curiosity and excitement. It's one of the only tablets, along with the Notion Ink Adam and WePad, that has a chance to grab a bit of marketshare away from the iPad. The ExoPC just got a bit more interesting, too. Blog Geek just got confirmation that the slate will use the Broadcom BCM70012 or Crystal HD, which should have enough juice to provide silky-smooth 1080p HD video playback. Best of all, though, the tablet is set to come out in within a few months.

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  • Photo report: CrunchGear visits the Gundam Cafe in Akihabara (sort of)

    Photo report: CrunchGear visits the Gundam Cafe in Akihabara (sort of)

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | No Comments
    I went to the world's geek paradise, the Akihabara district in Tokyo, today to get lunch in the new Gundam Cafe [JP] that opened just a few days ago. As the name suggests, the Cafe is a dream come true for hardcore Gundam fans, offering everything from Gundam-shaped cakes to restrooms designed in Gundam style.

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  • More details about the ExoPC slate surface

    More details about the ExoPC slate surface

    Posted on April 6, 2010 | No Comments
    The ExoPC is shaping up to be a major contender in the tablet PC space with the iPad's good looks and an affair of ExoPC UI-Layer on top of Windows 7. And if these leaked capabilities are in fact coming, the HP Slate better look out. This guy will steal some of its thunder.

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  • For women only: Sony’s Cyber-shot DSC-W530D

    For women only: Sony’s Cyber-shot DSC-W530D

    Posted on April 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Sony Japan today announced [JP] a new digital camera that's specifically geared towards women. Technically speaking, the DSC-W530D isn't really a new device (it was unveiled earlier this year in Japan and is available for $200 in the US, too). But Sony changed the design to (possibly) make the Cyber-shot more appealing to female customers.

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  • PAX East 2010: In which we talk to a dude wearing a WWE belt for some reason

    PAX East 2010: In which we talk to a dude wearing a WWE belt for some reason

    Posted on March 26, 2010 | No Comments
    OK, so PAX may be crawling with people dressed as Chris Redfield and, um, Generic Skimpy Outfit Female, but it takes a certain kind of geek to walk around with a WWE championship belt. I use the word “geek” with all due respect, of course: we're all geeks here at PAX.

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  • World of Warcraft headset available for purchase

    World of Warcraft headset available for purchase

    Posted on March 22, 2010 | No Comments
    While we reviewed it a few weeks ago, Creative's World of Warcraft headset hasn't been available for purchase until today. Time to get your geek on!

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  • Tiny $20 camcorder shoots 640×480 video

    Tiny $20 camcorder shoots 640×480 video

    Posted on March 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Look at this little guy. It’s just a $20 camcorder that promises to shoot 640x480 video at 30 frames per second. Will you get awesome looking footage out of it? Probably not. Probably absolutely not. Maybe. Probably not, though.

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  • Palm webOS 1.4 SDK released to developers, allows apps to record video

    Palm webOS 1.4 SDK released to developers, allows apps to record video

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    It’s a bit different than the “developers get the new firmware first” mentality we’ve grown used to from those other guys, but Palm has now released the SDK for webOS 1.4. The flagship feature of webOS 1.4 (besides Adobe Flash support, which isn’t available just yet) is its new found ability to record video. With [...]

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  • The Novac NV-CR001U digitizes music cassettes and LPs

    The Novac NV-CR001U digitizes music cassettes and LPs

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    It's not the first device of its kind, but it's pretty cheap and compact: Japan-based Novac announced [JP] the NV-CR001U today, a player for both LPs and cassettes that helps to digitize music stored on those media (almost) hassle-free.

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  • The long wait for a toilet speaker is over

    The long wait for a toilet speaker is over

    Posted on March 1, 2010 | No Comments
    A tiny speaker shaped like a toilet may already exist but the thought of searching Google for “USB Toilet Speaker” just makes me want to crawl back into bed. It’d be a new low for my career. Oh, who am I kidding? I just searched and it already exists. In several colors, even.

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  • Android update after next likely to be codenamed “Gingerbread”

    Android update after next likely to be codenamed “Gingerbread”

    Posted on February 9, 2010 | No Comments
    As any good Android-obsessed geek should know by now, Google’s made a tradition out of alphabetically naming their firmware builds after sweets. Android 1.5 was “Cupcake”, v1.6 was “Donut”, v2.0 is “Eclair”, while the next release will be lovingly dubbed “Froyo”. “But what comes after that?!” you say from the edge of your seat. According to [...]

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  • T-Mobile myTouch with a 3.5mm jack caught on camera

    T-Mobile myTouch with a 3.5mm jack caught on camera

    Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Not too long ago, HTC announced -- much to our excitement -- that they would be putting 3.5mm jacks in all of their handsets. In non-geek speak, that means that you wouldn't need some annoying little one inch, easy-to-lose cable adapter just to be able to use your own headphones. One of the last phones to sneak out with a non-3.5mm jack was the HTC T-Mobile myTouch. It was actually a pretty decent handset -- but that useless jack really killed our buzz when we reviewed it. Fortunately, it looks like HTC and T-Mobile are going back to fix the error in their ways.

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