Low Quality Archive

  • Review: Psyopper Netbook Sleeve

    Review: Psyopper Netbook Sleeve

    There's lots of mass produced, low quality, netbook sleeves and bags out there. Generally speaking, you get what you pay for. But what about something made by one guy, his sewing machine, and a dream? Can a home made product sold on the internet hold up to the same standards as products made by Crumpler, or Timbuk2? Can the little guy be competitive in the market with companies that spend more on staples then what he spends on materials a year? I say: yes.

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  • DPS plug-in from Bongiovi Acoustics

    DPS plug-in from Bongiovi Acoustics

    There’s a disturbing trend in music technology. Although home studios are rising, music is generally still recorded in specially designed environments and at high fidelity. Then for distribution, we compress the hell out of each track and do all sorts of terrible MP3-related things to them. And now, in order to repair the damage, we’re [...]

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  • CGM Night: CrunchGear visits Otaku party in Tokyo (photo report)

    CGM Night: CrunchGear visits Otaku party in Tokyo (photo report)

    Being based in Tokyo has its advantages, and one of them is being close to Akihabara, the world's paradise for all things geek: Video games, anime, manga, Cosplay, figures, maid cafes etc. etc. And over the weekend, I was fortunate to be invited by one of Japan's most famous otaku (and Japan) culture bloggers, an Englishman called Danny Choo, to "CGM Night".

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  • Why we need to chill about ChromeOS

    Why we need to chill about ChromeOS

    We’ve been sitting things out today as our brothers at TC pant over ChromeOS, the latest OS based on Linux to impress, however lightly, upon the synapses of our country’s journalistic elite. ChromeOS can’t beat anything. In fact suggesting that ChromeOS will beat Windows or even OS X is like expecting Coby to come up [...]

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  • Fun Polaroid Simulator Will Waste Many Hours

    Fun Polaroid Simulator Will Waste Many Hours

    The Polaroid is dead. It was killed by the digital camera, which obviated the Polaroid’s headline feature — instant photos — by making them even more instant, and even better, by making them free. Which is a shame, as the Polaroid had another appeal. The photos it produced had a certain look to them, a vignetted, [...]

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