Goodness Archive

  • The Archos 7 Home Tablet arrives at the FCC obstacle course

    The Archos 7 Home Tablet arrives at the FCC obstacle course

    The Archos 7 Home Tablet is coming to America, everyone. The product's US availability has always been in question but now that it's hanging with the boys down at the FCC, it's all but announced for America. We still don't have a release date, though.

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  • Upcoming Live Blogs: Apple’s iPhone OS 4 tomorrow, Microsoft’s Project Pink on 4/12

    Upcoming Live Blogs: Apple’s iPhone OS 4 tomorrow, Microsoft’s Project Pink on 4/12

    Start the countdown, folks. Tomorrow at 10 A.M. sharp, Apple will finally be dropping the curtain on iPhone OS 4.0 – and we’ll be there, reporting live. We’ll get to the ol’ Infinite Loop bright and early, armed to the teeth with laptops, cameras, an array of 3G USB dongles, and all the other gear [...]

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  • We’re at Penny Arcade Expo East 2010: Pax Nerdicana

    We’re at Penny Arcade Expo East 2010: Pax Nerdicana

    Greetings, fellow gamers. I’m in Boston for PAX East. It’s all the fun of the Penny Arcade Expo, but done east coast hip-hop style. It’s just me and I have no idea what I’m doing, but expect a steady stream of video game goodness in the next two days. Any requests—specific game you want to [...]

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  • CTIA 2010: Kyocera Zio brings high-resolution Android goodness without breaking the bank

    CTIA 2010: Kyocera Zio brings high-resolution Android goodness without breaking the bank

    Look at you, Kyocera! After essentially shuttering your smartphone division for years, you’ve jumped back in with a bit of a splash. Today at CTIA, the low-to-mid-range handset manufacturer announced the Zio, an Android-powered touchscreen phone. What makes the Zio special isn’t its specs — it’s the price it brings the specs in at. For somewhere [...]

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  • Apple having a rough time convincing companies to provide content for iPad

    Apple having a rough time convincing companies to provide content for iPad

    Looks like Apple is running into some last-minute trouble getting content providers to provide content for the iPad. The device goes on sale next week, and Apple has already seen plenty of pre-orders—even if those pre-orders may have quickly fallen off. The deal is that Apple had wanted to offer TV subscriptions alongside the device's launch, so that every episode of The Office and Parks and Recreation would automatically be downloaded to your iPad. That was the idea, at least.

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  • The Search for Meaning (at SXSWi 2010)

    The Search for Meaning (at SXSWi 2010)

    While standing in line for an hour to get my badge and materials at this year's SXSW Interactive Conference, I had time to ponder my first trip to Austin for the event. Initially, my plans for attending centered around hunting down and harassing SEO spammers but a little extra time to reflect reminded me of the insensitivity and meaninglessness of such actions. Besides, that time could be much better spent hunting down beer and merch. All kidding aside, Friday got off to a slow start, panel-wise, but that seemed to suit the nice, laid back nature of this town. At least the AT&T network seemed stable. We’ll see how that goes in the following days. If you have something specific to bitch CrunchGear at SXSW, twoot me at getdonovan.

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  • Swype for Android rolls into semi-public Beta

    Swype for Android rolls into semi-public Beta

    Swype for Android’s finger-dragging input method goodness has been available to some extent through other means for a while now — some legit, some not quite as legit. Legitimate means or otherwise, Swype has still only been made available to pretty small group of people. Well, things are about to open up — if only just [...]

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  • Corsair unleashes the Force SSD line

    Corsair unleashes the Force SSD line

    Forget about the just-announced Corsair Reactor and Nova SSDs because you're not going to want those after you hear about the upcoming Force models. This new line forgos the Indilinx Bareboot controller for the faster SandForce SD-1200 processor, which enables the Force line to read at 285MB/s and write at 275MB/s. Yeah, that's quick. Trim support is also present on the SATA II drives as long as you're running a Trim-friendly OS like Windows 7. Don't expect all this SSD goodness to be affordable, though.

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  • TiVo Premiere hands-on~!

    TiVo Premiere hands-on~!

    Greetings! Nicholas and Jimin here live from the big TiVo Premiere launch in New York. There was a man guarding the device, which was hidden under a cloak, but when the cloak was lifted, oh dear! The gist: this is a TiVo you're probably going to want. HD menus (build using Adobe Flash), searching that actually makes sense, a fancy remote control, and other goodness that you wouldn't mind.

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  • Apple prepping a Mac mini with HDMI? And Blu-ray?

    Apple prepping a Mac mini with HDMI? And Blu-ray?

    The Mac mini has long been a HTPC fan favorite. It's small, quiet, yet powerful. But it doesn't have an HDMI port, which makes many Apple clowns sad. But hold on, a rumor just popped up that states that Apple is working on a Mac mini with *gasp* an HDMI port!

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  • CrunchDeals: 40% off all ScottEVest Goodness

    CrunchDeals: 40% off all ScottEVest Goodness

    Our best buddy, Scott, he of ScottEVest, just started its massive 40%-off sale. They have plenty of great stuff including the Quantum and Evolution jackets and my favorite, the cotton hoodie.

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  • SlingPlayer Mobile now streams over 3G for your iPhone

    SlingPlayer Mobile now streams over 3G for your iPhone

    After a little bit of a misunderstanding between SlingPlayer, AT&T and its customers and why it took so long to get content to stream over 3G, things are all sorted and we can now get streaming goodness to feed our inner couch potato. If you’ve been dying for SlingPlayer Mobile streaming wherever you are, and you’re [...]

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  • Blaster Master coming to Wiiware

    Blaster Master coming to Wiiware

    Holy wow. Remember this game? You were some kid named Jason with a frog. The frog turns into a monster and then disappears and you follow the frog in a battle tank called Sofia the Third (WTF, right?). Well, the game has been remade and is coming to Wiiware. All of the goodness is there [...]

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  • The JXD V3 does gaming, plays media, takes 5MP pics, gets the ladies

    The JXD V3 does gaming, plays media, takes 5MP pics, gets the ladies

    How come Japan always gets all the fun toys? Like this JXD V3. It can play most modern roms along with nearly every video and audio format. One look at it and you know that it will bring you some serious geek cred in your computer science classes. Thank goodness it’s available for worldwide shipping. Supported [...]

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  • Newegg and Amazon cuts the Zune HD price by $30-$40

    Newegg and Amazon cuts the Zune HD price by $30-$40

    The Zune HD is a tempting piece of PMP goodness and it just got a whole lot more tasty with a modest price drop. Both Amazon and Newegg have at least temporarily dropped the price of our favorite media player. So far we haven't heard anything from Redmond about official cuts, but something is definitely up when these two retailers both cut prices.

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