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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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  • Newzbin has shut down

    Newzbin has shut down

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Well that didn't take long. Newzbin.com has shut down, just about six weeks after the High Court in the UK ruled against the Usenet indexing site. You had to see this coming.

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  • webOS App Catalog, Palm Developer Center down leaving ‘install failed’ messages in their wake

    webOS App Catalog, Palm Developer Center down leaving ‘install failed’ messages in their wake

    Posted on May 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Just a day before the Pre Plus launches on AT&T, current Palm owners are experiencing all kinds of problems related to the App Store and their Palm Profiles. Reports indicate the problems started last night, since then users haven't been able to download new apps or update existing ones from the catalog, while those unlucky enough to have tried a reset have had trouble signing back into their Palm profile in the cloud, and have lost some information like call logs and had to resync their various accounts in webOS. The Palm Developer Website is also down, tossing a "back in a few hours" sign in the window and going out for a few afternoon mimosas. For now, PreCentral posters recommend taking the device off of network time and resetting it to any day prior to today which will allow apps to install and update without issue. A post on the official Palm blog indicates things should be back to normal "soon" so AT&T customers can hopefully avoid any date/time trickery just to get their Foursquare checkins going.

    [Thanks, William]

    webOS App Catalog, Palm Developer Center down leaving 'install failed' messages in their wake originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 15 May 2010 16:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • The Google Phone identifies as an early replicant

    The Google Phone identifies as an early replicant

    Posted on December 13, 2009 | No Comments
    The Gruber brings us this bit of news: the new GPhone identifies as Nexus One in browsing logs. Five points to anyone who can remember what the Nexus models were? In Blade Runner the Nexus Six models were the “rogue” replicants and someone – not saying who – was a Nexus Seven model. So is Google [...]

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  • Help Key: How to use Windows Remote Desktop Connection to connect to computers without user passwords

    Help Key: How to use Windows Remote Desktop Connection to connect to computers without user passwords

    Posted on November 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Gather round, everyone. Gather round. I’m going to show you a trick that 98% of you will never use. But for the 2% of you that actually use the information contained herein, I hope you’ll consider removing at least part of the CrunchGear staff from your “People to Punch” list. Why? If you’re like me, you have [...]

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  • Palm Pixi definitely shipping with a new webOS version, but which?

    Palm Pixi definitely shipping with a new webOS version, but which?

    Posted on October 31, 2009 | No Comments

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    Whoa, is that webOS 2.0 we see on the horizon? No, sorry, it definitely isn't -- but we can say with relative confidence that the upcoming Pixi will be shipping with a newer, slightly more feature-rich version of webOS than its Pre brethren around the world; if nothing else, Synergy supports Yahoo on the new model, as PreCentral observes. What remains to be seen is the exact version number that'll be shipping out of the gate -- recent DSLReports user agent logs suggest that 1.2.9 might be the gold build (for the record, the Sprint Pre currently rocks 1.2.1), but apparently there's some chatter going on about a 1.3 as well. Doesn't seem like much of a difference, but a 0.1 increment usually means more features, fixes, and changes than a 0.01 increment does, so naturally, we're pulling for a bigger number. There isn't any intel on what this mythical 1.3 might contain just yet or whether it'd be heading to Bell, Sprint, and O2 Pres, but we'll keep an eye out.

    Palm Pixi definitely shipping with a new webOS version, but which? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Ooma Telo is here, let the free* calls begin

    Ooma Telo is here, let the free* calls begin

    Posted on October 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Ooma might be onto something here. The VoIP provider is taking a different path with the Telo system: the phone calls are free. Like, you don't ever have to pay for calling your Mom. You can either use your own phones or the Ooma high-end DECT 6.0 handset. Sounds nice, eh? Too bad there's a huge admission price for the hardware.

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  • Do you hate the iPhone? Probably not as much as this guy.

    Do you hate the iPhone? Probably not as much as this guy.

    Posted on August 13, 2009 | No Comments
    Lets say you hate the iPhone. Maybe its because the plans are too damned expensive. Maybe it's because it's because Apple's app approval process is twelve kinds of terrible. Maybe it's because it's taken over all of your favorite gadget blogs for the past 3 years. Whatever reason you have for disliking Cupertino's little flamewar generator, you don't hate it as much as this guy.

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