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Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness

Microsoft today released a patch for the new Office for Mac, fixing “issues that might cause Office 2008 applications to stop responding or quit unexpectedly.” I haven’t noticed any hinkiness of this nature, but I know some people have. If you are among the grouchy, then this patch is for you. [Microsoft Mactopia] https://gizmodo.com/first-hands-on-microsoft-office-for-mac-2008-339376

Tech News Wilson Rothman

TiVo Getting YouTube

Good news, kind of. TiVo has just announced that their networked Series 3 and TiVo HD subscribers will be getting YouTube access through their boxes sometime “later this year.” While new media features are always a plus, TiVo’s more recent advanced service offerings (like Rhapsody integration) have been a bit buggy. Here’s hoping YouTube rolls…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Next Superman Movie Will Have Actual Superheroics

Superman Returns director Bryan Singer is aware that the film’s date-movie ambitions struck many people as less than super. And he promises the sequel will be more action packed, saying: “The first one was a romantic film and a nostalgic film… And now that the characters are established, there’s really an opportunity to up the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Skywalker Last Supper Painting Made With 69,550 Star Wars Frames

This is what you get when you capture 69,550 full resolution frames from the six Star Wars movies and combine them with a version of DaVinci’s Last Supper on a PC with mosaic-making software and a custom matlab-based algorithm. The 262-megapixel mosaic (24,168 x 10,864 pixels) took two weeks to complete, including 30 hours of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Secrets Of Gondry’s Utopia And Star Wars’ Dystopia

Here’s a new clip of awesome train-jumping action, from plague-ravaged thriller Doomsday, which opens Friday. Two more clips below the fold show car-bezerkering, plus Malcolm McDowell giving away what may be a major plot point. In this morning’s spoiler roundup, we also have a new hint about the direction of the PG-13 live-action Star Wars…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

100,000 Apple iPhone SDKs Downloaded So Far

Apple says that over 100,000 iPhone software development kits have been downloaded since its celebrated unveiling on March 6, not a week ago. The announcement below is atypical of Apple: following the standard chest-puffing from execs such as worldwide marketing SVP Phil Schiller, you’ll find exec quotes from Namco, NetSuite, PopCap, Rocket Mobile, Six Apart…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Pants in a Pinch, Change of Clothes in Your Pocket

According to our estimations, between various bowel problems and a nasty affliction of general apathy, the average person has accidents around 2-3 times per week. We know what you’re thinking, “So what?” Well sometimes crapping one’s pants can actually be inconvenient. For those rare circumstances, Pants in a Pinch are 100% cotton bottoms that can…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Cheaptastic $199 12-Megapixel GE Camera Spotted on HSN

In case you were wondering when the final treaty would be signed in the megapixel war, I think today is as good as any day to call it. There’s a 12-megapixel GE—that is to say, brand-licensing no-name Chinese manufacturer—camera selling on HSN for “under” $200. It even lists a 2.7″ LCD, an SD/SDHC card slot…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

TAD Customizable Finger Mod for Better Touchscreen … Touching

The TAD gadget is designed to help fat-fingered folks (or just plain clumsy typists, like me) who have trouble with touchscreens or tiny buttons on cellphones. It’s simply a plastic ring with a customizable “nubbin” for better contact than your fingertip offers— you can choose rounded for buttons and pointy for touchscreens. The makers claim…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Audioengine AW1 Lets You Stream Music With Little Fuss

Audioengine has released a software independent, wireless music streaming solution, called the AW1. The AW1 set contains a receiver module and transmitter; the receiver connects via USB, RCA or line-out and the transmitter connects to your PC via USB. The audio sent is then picked up by the connected audio source, with a reported 100-foot…

Tech News Haroon Malik

iPhone 2.0 Unlocked, Runs All Apps

Click to viewUpdate: Video of project Pwnage after the jump. The beta 2.0 firmware that comes with the iPhone SDK has been modified to unlock the iPhone and run any application. Part of the Pwnage Project, the hacked firmware will allow you to do anything you want, including the installation of both official and unofficial…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Gear4’s BassStation iPod Dock Thumps Out 35W of Pumping Tunes

Gear4’s BassStation iPod dock will have a 35W pumping subwoofer, RCA connectivity and a fully featured remote control. The white on black styling looks retro enough for us to give the 2.1 stereo speaker the time of day, and the 10m range of the control gives us enough space to shield our eyes when it…

Tech News Haroon Malik

DigiArt i90 Camera-PMP Combo Frees Pockets From Multiple Gizmos

Out first in Korea (where else?) Digix’s Picto DigiArt i90 is one of those crazy-sounding convergence gadgets. Combine a seven megapixel camera and PMP in one case, and you save people from carrying several gizmos, or so the idea goes. Mind you, the camera sounds okay for holiday snaps, with 3x optical zoom, some sort…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Wall-E Versus The Shopping-Cart Army

You may know all about Wall-E the cute robot’s aeons of tedium on an abandoned Earth, and you may even have glimpsed his torrid love affair… but do you know about his valiant battle with a platoon of shopping carts? The full trailer for Disney/Pixar’s robo-classic in the making just went online, and it shows…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Time Bomb Alarm Clock Wakes You Up With a Boom

Bomb themes and alarm clocks go hand in hand. We have seen it a number of times in the past, most notably with the Danger Bomb Clock. Both devices will attempt to wake you up with a loud explosion sound, but only the Time Bomb clock warns you with ominous ticking as the alarm approaches.…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Nokia N810 Tablet Gets a $90 Price Drop

The powers that be over at Nokia have officially dropped the price of their N810 tablet by $90, bringing it down to a slightly more affordable $389.99. Hell, at that price buy two! [Nokia] https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n810-hands-on-gallery-and-video-312680

Tech News Sean Fallon

Build Your Own Electronic Post-it Note

Post-it notes are one of those archaic products that still manage to stick around, literally, in our offices and homes. With this hack, you can transform the beloved Post-it into a very 21st-century digital note system. To leave a note, all you need to do is write it out with your finger on the trackpad.…

Tech News Sean Fallon

A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers

Humans, birds, and other creatures share a set of genes that lead to the development of fingers and other digits (like paws or wings), but the way those digits form has been a mystery. Now a group of researchers in Wisconsin have discovered the secret of digit growth, and perhaps the key to regrowing severed…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola (1914)

This movie poster for the 1914 film L’Avventure Straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola (The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola) was drawn by Albert Robida. This version of the (paleo)future appears to involve riding sea creatures while shooting magical underwater firearms. See also: Going to the Opera in the Year 2000 (1882) Evening Fashions of the Year…

Tech News Matt Novak

Color Changing Concert Hall May Be More Interesting Than the Performances

A concert hall has just been unveiled in Aurillac, France, that will be used for everything from sporting events to theater performances. However, the interesting thing about this building is not what is going on inside it, rather, it is what is taking place on the outside. Using a combination of glass bricks and fluorescent…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Office for Mac 2008 Update Fixes Crashiness

TiVo Getting YouTube

Next Superman Movie Will Have Actual Superheroics

Skywalker Last Supper Painting Made With 69,550 Star Wars Frames

Secrets Of Gondry’s Utopia And Star Wars’ Dystopia

100,000 Apple iPhone SDKs Downloaded So Far

Pants in a Pinch, Change of Clothes in Your Pocket

Cheaptastic $199 12-Megapixel GE Camera Spotted on HSN

TAD Customizable Finger Mod for Better Touchscreen … Touching

Audioengine AW1 Lets You Stream Music With Little Fuss

iPhone 2.0 Unlocked, Runs All Apps

Gear4’s BassStation iPod Dock Thumps Out 35W of Pumping Tunes

DigiArt i90 Camera-PMP Combo Frees Pockets From Multiple Gizmos

Wall-E Versus The Shopping-Cart Army

Time Bomb Alarm Clock Wakes You Up With a Boom

Nokia N810 Tablet Gets a $90 Price Drop

Build Your Own Electronic Post-it Note

A Breakthrough That Lets You Grow Extra Fingers

Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola (1914)

Color Changing Concert Hall May Be More Interesting Than the Performances

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