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  • Steve Jobs: iPhone OS ’started on a tablet’

    Steve Jobs: iPhone OS ’started on a tablet’

    Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Steve_Jobs_at_D_iPhone_OS_started_on_a_tablet_Engadget'; Well, Steve Jobs just dropped a little nugget of history on us during his chat with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the All Things D conference. When asked by Walt why they originally put their new OS on a phone and not a tablet, Steve said, "I'll tell you a secret. It began with the tablet." After working on the tablet OS which had a glass display and multitouch, another idea occurred to Jobs. "My God, I said, this would make a great phone ... so we shelved the tablet and built the iPhone." And there you have it.

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  • Via Labs is showing off its 4-port USB 3.0 host controller at Computex

    Via Labs is showing off its 4-port USB 3.0 host controller at Computex

    Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Via first showed off its USB 3.0 host controller at CES 2010 and it just broke cover at Computex. The VL800 series chip can handle four USB 3.0 devices simultaneously while providing data rates up to 5Gbps. Via aims to put this single chip solution into desktops, notebooks, servers, and everything else on God's green earth.

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  • Don’t let taste stand in the way of buying a crystal iPhone stand

    Don’t let taste stand in the way of buying a crystal iPhone stand

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Are you the kind of person who has to have the best of everything? Two-ply toilet paper? Nice plastic plates? The best mixture of Alpo and brown gravy spread liberally onto your chest as a libido suppressant? Then you're going to need the Calypso Crystal iPhone stands. These stands, which range from $199 to $349 for the Aurora model, are made of leaded crystal and take "15 days to make" in Central Europe. The sad thing is that these are actually probably made in Poland where leaded crystal is actually quite popular (my mom collects it, incidentally, but I doubt she wants these.)

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  • Team Fortress 2 Engineer Update

    Team Fortress 2 Engineer Update

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    As I just told Nicholas, who truly doesn’t care, this is big news. The Engineer is the only class in Team Fortress 2 not yet updated with new gear and Valve just released this video teaser showing that’s about to change. But what is he working on? A new sentry perhaps? Landmines? Something totally awesome [...]

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  • HP releases new Pavilion notebooks

    HP releases new Pavilion notebooks

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | No Comments
    If there’s anything better than consumer grade sub-$800 notebooks, God kept it for himself. HP just announced the dm4, dv5, dv6, and dv7 notebooks. All are running the latest processors and the dm4 and dv7 support discrete graphics. The dv6 is a touchscreen laptop, which is great for people who like to touch their screens. Not [...]

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  • Nokia wants you to make an Ovi app out of your Twitter feed, launches Ovi App Wizard

    Nokia wants you to make an Ovi app out of your Twitter feed, launches Ovi App Wizard

    Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
    To anyone who’s ever written a line of code, pre-canned/auto-generated apps are the scourge of the App Store world. For anyone who just wants to be able to say “Me? There’s an app for that! LOL!” without having to dedicate their lives to waging war against semi-colons and pouring through documentation, however, they’re a god [...]

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  • These handmade wooden computer peripherals are the closest thing to heaven on earth

    These handmade wooden computer peripherals are the closest thing to heaven on earth

    Posted on April 26, 2010 | No Comments
    There is something warm about these handmade external computer drives. They are almost like how God would have created computers. The real charm is that they are made exclusively by two dudes out of Seattle who obviously enjoy woodworking as much as I do.

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  • Nuance’s Dragon Dictation for E-Mail now available for BlackBerry

    Nuance’s Dragon Dictation for E-Mail now available for BlackBerry

    Posted on April 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Typing is hard. I hardly ever type unless I have to. In fact, roughly 80% of MobileCrunch’s operating bills go towards paying a full staff of invisible underlings to write what I say and censor my vulgarity. Unfortunately for the livelihood of the aforementioned underlings, they’re now replaceable by a BlackBerry. Following up on the launch of [...]

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  • Messi: You know you’re good when people compare you to a PlayStation!

    Messi: You know you’re good when people compare you to a PlayStation!

    Posted on April 7, 2010 | No Comments
    How do you know when you're a great athlete? Oh, I don't know, maybe when the top-tier manager of the opposing team calls you a PlayStation! Like, you're so good it's almost as if someone goes into Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer or EA Sports' FIFA, creates a player, than gives said player 12 out of 10 in all the key stats: speed, attack, technical skill, etc. Leo Messi is like a PlayStation.

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  • Adios, Usenet: UK High Court rules against Newzbin

    Adios, Usenet: UK High Court rules against Newzbin

    Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments

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  • Wherein the LOTR Blu-ray is compared against HD broadcasts and deemed inferior

    Wherein the LOTR Blu-ray is compared against HD broadcasts and deemed inferior

    Posted on March 25, 2010 | No Comments
    The Lord of the Ring Blu-ray discs will be released on April 6, but a few lucky nerds already have access to it. And they don't like what they see.

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  • Never fear, Innovationman is here!

    Never fear, Innovationman is here!

    Posted on February 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Innovationman has a gas-powered skateboard to sell you! He wants you to buy it! He has a family who are also interested in your trade! This thing is going for under $1000 but if you win, you have to offer a deposit of $1000! Don’t miss out! What is this thing? Let Innovationman tell you! GAS [...]

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  • The Saints will win The Super Bowl, says Madden NFL 10

    The Saints will win The Super Bowl, says Madden NFL 10

    Posted on February 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Flickr’d Short and to the point: EA Sports’ Madden NFL 10 has predicted that the New Orleans Saints will beat the Indianapolis Colts 35-31 in Super Bowl XLIV. Go ahead and dance in the streets. Also, what in God’s name does “Who Dat?” mean?

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  • Churches (and others) will have to upgrade their mics right quick or the FCC will be very angry

    Churches (and others) will have to upgrade their mics right quick or the FCC will be very angry

    Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
    The absurdity of this issue, I swear. Get this: churches (and other deals like outdoor events) have been using microphones that operate on the 700MHz spectrum since, like, forever. It turns out that that part of the spectrum, 700MHz, is to be set aside for over-the-air digital TV broadcasts. You see where this is going: churches all over the country are going to have to upgrade their microphones, sound systems, etc. lest they run afoul of the law come June, 2010. You'd think God would have warned them about this.

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  • Anticipating the Apple Tablet: When journalism becomes fanfiction

    Anticipating the Apple Tablet: When journalism becomes fanfiction

    Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
    For the record, I'm writing these words on a MacBook Pro; the third Mac I've owned in the past twelve months. As I do so, I'm listening to music on iTunes through my standard issue iPod headphones, so as not to disturb my neighbours. Less than a foot from where I'm sitting, my iPhone sits charging. I am - as marketers might have it put - "a Mac". And yet - my God - I'm bored of reading about Apple and their 'long awaited' tablet.

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