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  • Goodbye, Norma Jean: Apple’s “Get a Mac” Ads are over

    Goodbye, Norma Jean: Apple’s “Get a Mac” Ads are over

    Posted on April 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Of two things I was always sure: that people would not talk to me at parties and that Apple's "Get a Mac" ads would be around forever. I imagined showing my grandchildren the ads in 2040, explaining that once, a long time ago, the animated corpse of John Hodgman used to be a real man and now as he capers about on our 3D holoscreen talking about the PC's lack of a fission reactor power supply, gobbets of preserved flesh strung up like a puppet on a skeleton of titanium, well, you can still see some of that same schlubby good humor in that soulless meat pop that I enjoyed back in 2010, before the Happening. That will never happen, people. Apple is discontinuing the campaign. In an interview with AV Club Long said that Apple hasn't brought them back into the studio in a long while and that he believes they're going to "move on."

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  • Official: Verizon BlackBerry Tour 9630 getting Push-to-talk on March 30th

    Official: Verizon BlackBerry Tour 9630 getting Push-to-talk on March 30th

    Posted on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
    The good word of the rumor mill said we’d be hearing about Push-to-talk on the Verizon BlackBerry Tour soon, and sure enough: ol’ VeeZeeDub has just made it official. The Push-to-talk application should land in the Tour Application Center on March 30th, at which point anyone lookin’ to get in on the fun can add [...]

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  • Nikukyu Mouse: Thanko’s cat paw computer mouse

    Nikukyu Mouse: Thanko’s cat paw computer mouse

    Posted on March 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Long time no hear from Tokyo-based crap gadget maker Thanko. About for weeks ago, the USB specialist released a mouse with a built-in speaker, only to follow up today with the Nikukyu Mouse [JP], a mouse that looks like a cat paw for some reason.

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  • The JBL MS-8 in-car DSP finally gets an official release date and price

    The JBL MS-8 in-car DSP finally gets an official release date and price

    Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments
    It has been a long time coming, but the notorious JBL MS-8 is almost here. Car audio forums have been talking up this digital signal processor system since 2007 when it debuted in a BMW demo car. It reached vaporware status in the minds of many, but JBL finally went live with its April release date and price today.

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  • Logitech outs the sub-$100 600 and 650 Harmony remotes

    Logitech outs the sub-$100 600 and 650 Harmony remotes

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    The Harmony universal remote line just got two well-needed additions to its stable. The 600 and 650 offers most of the Harmony magic at a more affordable price-point. Both models do the computer-assisted setup thing that made the brand so successful in the first place, but forgos a few creature-comforts to reach the sub-$100 market.

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  • Be aware of your digital footprint

    Be aware of your digital footprint

    Posted on February 25, 2010 | No Comments
    So the Internet is abuzz about the fact that Microsoft has a document entitled "Microsoft Online Services Global Criminal Compliance Handbook". The document was leaked to Cryptome, and as soon as MSFT found out they sent a DMCA takedown notice to Network Solutions. The proverbial cat is out of the bag, as the document has been well circulated; but I'm left wondering what's the big deal?

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  • Logitech MK710 Wireless Desktop: Really nice and lasts a long time

    Logitech MK710 Wireless Desktop: Really nice and lasts a long time

    Posted on February 10, 2010 | No Comments
    I’m a big fan of Logitech. I’ve used the MX mouse for nigh on most of a year and now I’m typing on a DiNovo Edge. That said, I think I’ll just pitch my old input devices and get me one of these. This is a large, full keyboard and mouse set with a mini-LCD [...]

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  • Kinekt gear ring. It spins!

    Kinekt gear ring. It spins!

    Posted on February 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Quite possibly the coolest ring we’ve seen in a long time. Maybe ever. It might not be as functional as my bottle opener ring, but this gear ring from Kinekt Design will certainly be more entertaining. Made completely out of stainless steel, there are six internal gears than spin with the two outer [...]

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  • Rumor: Palm Pixi to go Pink?

    Rumor: Palm Pixi to go Pink?

    Posted on January 4, 2010 | 1 Comment
    As any long time MobileCrunch reader (hey, they exist!) ought to know, we've got a bit of a soft spot for pink phones. I'm not really too interested in carrying one (nothing against'em, it would just clash with my depressingly grey-hued wardrobe), but I like to keep a careful eye on them as they surge in popularity right around February 14th of each year. This time around, it looks like Palm might be hopping on the brightly-colored bandwagon.

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  • Last call for KEO space time capsule message: Let people 50,000 years in the future how much you rocked

    Last call for KEO space time capsule message: Let people 50,000 years in the future how much you rocked

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Hurry up, sports fans, for today's the last day you can submit a message to the KEO space capsule. The idea is to have a bunch of people write an epic message, then in 50,000 years it'll return and give future people the messages. I have no idea how any of this works, so please direct your WTFs somewhere else.

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  • Why are people falling victim to Facebook scams?

    Why are people falling victim to Facebook scams?

    Posted on December 14, 2009 | No Comments
    The beauty of essentially quitting social networking, as I have, is that I don't have to worry about all of the associated nonsense. “Facebook's new privacy settings cause uproar.” Really? Not if you quit the site it doesn't. “Malicious programs causing social network malaise.” Again, not an issue if you're not all-consumed with tweeting every 10 seconds about what you're eating for breakfast.

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  • World of Warcraft’s new dungeon finder just made life worth living again

    World of Warcraft’s new dungeon finder just made life worth living again

    Posted on December 14, 2009 | No Comments
    For me, the best part of Patch 3.3 in World of Warcraft is the new dungeon finder. I've used it a bunch in the past couple of days, and can say this: PUGing is now fun (though it'll change the way we look at guilds).

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  • Survey: Boys want to play video games with President Obama, girls with Miley Cyrus

    Survey: Boys want to play video games with President Obama, girls with Miley Cyrus

    Posted on December 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Right now, if I could play a round of Multiplayer Game 2: The Sequel with anyone in the whole world, it'd probably be either Manuel Zelaya or The Situation from Jersey Shore. Zelaya because I'd could ask, “So what's it like to be the first South American leader in a really long time to be illegally ousted in a coup?” Then I'd tell The Situation, “Hey, you're terrific. Let's do 800 sit-ups then pump our fists in the air to the latest episode of A State of Trance.”

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  • Victor JVC Japan announces new Everio camcorders

    Victor JVC Japan announces new Everio camcorders

    Posted on December 2, 2009 | No Comments
    It's been a long time we heard about JVC updating their Everio brand of camcorders (back in July to be more exact). But the company today announced a total of three new models for the Japanese market. Expect all of these to go on sale outside this country sooner or later.

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  • Daily Crunch: Stinkbot Edition

    Daily Crunch: Stinkbot Edition

    Posted on December 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Autom, the fat-fighting robot, is coming in 2010 Donkey Kong plus Star Wars equals the nerdiest shirt I’ve seen in a long time Cabling as art form

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