Lol Archive

  • 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

    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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  • LOL! Some1s stealing ur car!: Viper SmartStart for iPhone gets push notifications

    LOL! Some1s stealing ur car!: Viper SmartStart for iPhone gets push notifications

    We've written about the Viper SmartStart system before. It's the $30-per-year iPhone/BlackBerry app that, when paired with a $500 component in your car, ensures that you never have to worry about strenuous nonsense like turning a key to start your car or unlock your doors ever again. Up until this point, its been a one way deal. You can tell your car to turn on and fire up the AC, or use your alarm to scare the hell out of people in parking lots miles away - but what if your car wanted to talk back to you? Now it can!

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  • Keyboard has A through Z layout and built in LOL buttons

    Keyboard has A through Z layout and built in LOL buttons

    Why learn to actually use a keyboard nowadays? It’s all ROFL, LMAO, RTFM, TLDR, and GFY anyway. In that spirit -- or in the spirit of helping “hunt ‘n peck typists or novices and young beginners,” according to the product description – the $23 Fast Finger keyboard makes the complicated QWERTY layout and difficulty of typing 3-4 letter acronyms a thing of the past.

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  • Oh, Mom, you have so much to learn

    Oh, Mom, you have so much to learn

    My lovely mother just got her first BlackBerry a few weeks ago and has since enjoyed texting me. I noticed something today. She always laughs out loud at the end of every text. So I asked her about it. Apparently LOL means “Lots Of Love.” Yup, I have the cutest mom in history. Update from Mom: [...]

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  • Prepare yourselves… for Wi-Fi Certified N!

    Prepare yourselves… for Wi-Fi Certified N!

    We're pleased to say that 802.11n has finally been finalized (hmmm... “finally been finalized.” I see that's why we make the big bucks, lol!). That's right, you won't be buying “draft n” routers anymore, as the Wi-Fi Alliance has updated its tests, going from “draft n” to “Wi-Fi Certified n.” Does that make a difference in your everyday computing? No, probably not—how many years now have we been using “draft n” items with nary an issue?

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  • Safety: Obama Administration now looking to eliminate texting while driving

    Safety: Obama Administration now looking to eliminate texting while driving

    Looks like the Obama Administration, which really ought to be focused on getting Americans like me affordable health care (unless doctors now accept World of Warcraft Gold as payment, lol!), has set its sights on eliminating the scourge of distracted driving once and for all. Case in point: Transportation Sec. Ray LaHood is holding a summit this week that has the ultimate goal of “finding ways to eliminate texting while driving.”

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  • Sony kills (for now, at least) UMD transfer program for PSP Go

    Sony kills (for now, at least) UMD transfer program for PSP Go

    Oh, Sony. You're so close to being back, and then this happens. As you all know, the PSP Go comes out next week, and judging by all the random unboxings I've seen on various message boards—maybe our PSP Go got lost in the mail? Oh, well.—it looks like a fine, fine piece of hardware. The kicker, though, is: what happens to all those UMD games we've bought over the years? The original plan was to have some sort of trade-in or transfer program, whereby for every UMD you bought, you'd get a code to download the game. (Remember, there's no UMD slot in the PSP Go, so all games have to be downloaded onto the device's memory.) Turns out there's a small glitch.

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  • ‘LOL OMG’ license plate spotted at local Cold Stone!

    ‘LOL OMG’ license plate spotted at local Cold Stone!

    Man alive, look what I spotted at the local Cold Stone. That's right, an automobile with this Internet-friendly license plate.

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  • iPhone is the most popular camera on Flickr

    iPhone is the most popular camera on Flickr

    Get this! The iPhone is the most popular camera on Flickr! And it isn't even a camera! LOL! According to Flickr's camera finder the iPhone beat out the Canon Rebel XTi and other big players in the DSLR game.

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  • Lol: Release group pred a copy of Windows 98 today

    Lol: Release group pred a copy of Windows 98 today

    Too funny! Someone (iND) actually pred a copy of Windows 98 SE today.

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  • And now Germany bans the public display of Counter-Strike

    And now Germany bans the public display of Counter-Strike

    Another ban hammer has fallen on Germany. Now it looks like the country, in its various Länder, has passed a law banning the public display, at LAN parties and the like, of the game Counter-Strike, effecting the closure of a tournament there.

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  • First screenshots of Max Payne 3

    First screenshots of Max Payne 3

    Looks like Rockstar just hit “send” in their e-mail client, because guess what just arrived in our inbox? That's right: the first screen shots of Max Payne 3, which was first announced a few weeks ago. The new issue of Game Informer has a whole article on the game, filled with facts and information. We have no such luxury.

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  • Here’s what the Windows 7 box looks like!

    Here’s what the Windows 7 box looks like!

    Gather 'round the campfire, children, as we look at the Windows 7 boxes. There's Home Premium... there's Professional... and is that... yes! Yes, it's Windows 7 Ultimate! Three cheers for life!

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