Prayers Archive

  • The Olympus PEN E-P2 now comes in silver

    The Olympus PEN E-P2 now comes in silver

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    If you’ve been living your life in an endless nightmare of pain, confusion, and horror, your prayers have been answered: the Olympus PEN E-P2 now comes in silver. Hamburg, 6 May 2010 – Next week the E-P2, until now only cloaked in classic black, will also be available in silver. The camera unites the power and [...]

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  • SketchNation: DIY iPad gaming plus a giveaway

    SketchNation: DIY iPad gaming plus a giveaway

    Posted on April 13, 2010 | No Comments
    If you've dreamt all your life of blowing up your third-grade teacher with spitball guns, your prayers have been answered. SketchNation is a surprisingly odd game that allows you to select all of the sprites in gameplay. You can set your own character sprite (a spitball gun, for example), the sprites for the bullets or spitballs, and even set up a boss image (your third-grade teacher). You then fly through a hail of bullets until you beat the game. Apparently you can also blow up Walt Mossberg and David Pogue, for whatever reason. Those men are saints. Anyway, if you'd like to try it out, comment below. I'll send codes to five lucky, random readers. Viel Glück!

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  • Google Nexus One gets OTA update, multi-touch goodness

    Google Nexus One gets OTA update, multi-touch goodness

    Posted on February 2, 2010 | No Comments
    When Google announced the Nexus One at an event early last month, one journalist asked, "Why doesn't this have multi-touch? When is it going to get multi-touch?" Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering at Google, said, "It's something we're looking into. It's just a software thing right now." Well, today our prayers have been answered via an over-the-air update for the Nexus One. It also has some critical updates and fixes, too.

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  • ThinkFlood Answers Our Prayers and Unleashes RedEye: Universal Remote for the iPhone

    ThinkFlood Answers Our Prayers and Unleashes RedEye: Universal Remote for the iPhone

    Posted on December 1, 2009 | No Comments
    It's as though He came down and said to MobileCrunch: "Ask and you shall receive." We asked for this device just under a month ago and whoopee — ThinkFlood has delivered. Specifically, we wanted a universal remote because why the hell should we be using regular remotes anymore? ThinkFlood's RedEye remote system fits the bill, works well, and is loaded with features, but it comes with a price tag of $188.

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  • Wham: FlipShare video is handled by Mossberg

    Wham: FlipShare video is handled by Mossberg

    Posted on December 1, 2009 | No Comments
    If you’ve been waiting for some way to put your low- to middling-resolution videos onto a big TV, your prayers have been answered. Flip, through their mouthpiece Walt Mossberg, just dumped out a big bucket of howsyerfather and announced the Flipshare for all to enjoy. Not much has changed since we spotted this device in October. [...]

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  • Review: Motorola CLIQ

    Review: Motorola CLIQ

    Posted on October 14, 2009 | No Comments
    The Short Version Motorola has released the phone it should have released a few years ago to compete with phones like the Helio Ocean and feature phones from LG and Samsung. Android brings this phone into the 21st century and the QWERTY keyboard and BLUR UI tweaks will please those looking for a keyboard Android phone with social networking features. The Long Version This last half-decade has been hard on Motorola. It launched the RAZR in 2004 and essentially riffed on that ground-breaking clamshell for another four years. Now it's 2009 and it's time to move in a different direction. Can this creaky ship of a company take up the line, hoist the mizzen, and tack to starboard? Is the Motorola CLIQ the answer to their deepest, most secret prayers, prayed in anguish under a stifling cover of imminent collapse? How many more metaphors can I use here and still sound like I'm writing for a business magazine? First, I finger wag. Motorola, you have been very bad. You squandered your massive lead (110 million RAZRs sold by 2005) on a strategy that included, but was not limited to, trying to copy the magic of the RAZR while the rest of the industry was going the way of the smartphone. Then you tried to build out some Windows Mobile phones that no one wanted and, in the end, lost out to just about every rival you've ever had. This is bad. So here's your hail Mary pass, your Radio Free Europe, your return to four-letter naming conventions. I present the Motorola CLIQ.

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  • Is God too busy to read your Tweets? Apparently not.

    Is God too busy to read your Tweets? Apparently not.

    Posted on August 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Yup, you can now tweet God, as it were. There's a Twitter account,@thekotel, that takes your tweets, prints them out, then takes 'em to the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

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