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Skype 2.1 For PocketPC Released

If you’ve got one of those 400 MHz HTC TyTN badboys, head on over to Skype to download their new version 2.1 for PocketPC devices. Among the improvements: One click Skype access: A Skype icon on the device home screen allows users to view and call contacts easily. Multi-person chat: Users can have multi-person chat…

Tech News Jason Chen

Apple Boot Camp 1.1 Released

Apple’s updated their Boot Camp software, which allows you to install Windows as a dual boot on your Intel Mac, to version 1.1. What’s new in this version? Well, beyond vagaries like “support for the latest intel-based Macintosh computers”, which probably means Mac Pro support, there’s the ability to install Windows XP on external on…

Tech News Jason Chen

Schoolhouse for OS X: Helping Mactarded Students Find Time to Waste

How many of you are reading this article when they should be getting some homework done? Tsk, Tsk. Well, we’re not here to scold you: Keep clicking on those gadgets while you fail out of school, slacker! No? Well here’s a fantastic scheduler for the kids called Schoolhouse by Logan Collins. Schoolhouse takes the typical…

Tech News Benjamin Longo

The Shape of Song: Visualizing Music

The Shape of Song is web-based software by New York-based digital artist Martin Wattenberg that has its own unique way of artistically interpreting MIDI files. You can load any MIDI song you can find on the Web into the interface (that’s “Eleanor Rigby” by the Beatles pictured above), or pick one of the many songs…

Tech News Charlie White

M-Audio’s Session: Available Now In a Standalone Version

M-Audio’s Session software can be easily described as Garageband for the PC. Up until now, you could only get a copy of it by buying a Fast Trak USB device from M-Audio. But starting today, August 15th, Session is available as a standalone purchase for $49. https://gizmodo.com/m-audios-session-garageband-for-the-pc-179175 Session ships with 3.5GB of loops and instrument…

Tech News Jason Chen

Flipclips Turn Digital Video Into Analog Flippage

Flipclips is a website where you send your digital video and get back a little color flipbook that displays that video as you quickly thumb through its pages. The books are available in three different sizes—a 75-page flipbook ($9) is 3.5 inches wide and works best with a 15-second video clip, a greeting card ($11)…

Tech News Charlie White

Microsoft To Let Regular Joes Develop Xbox 360 Games

The house that Gates built will be launching XNA Game Studio Express, a set of (dumbed-down) development tools that will allow hobbyists and their ilk to develop games for both the Xbox 360 and the PC. Initially, these homebrew (is it still considered “homebrew” if you’re using official tools?) games will only be playable to…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Disappearing Update for Motorola Q Mystifies

There’s an on-again off-again update for the Motorola Q smartphone that has made a quick appearance on Motorola’s site and then mysteriously disappeared. A glance at the Motorola update site shows that it’s back to tease mode, telling us this software update is “coming soon.” Wonder what happened? Anyway, it looks like Mot plans a…

Tech News Charlie White

Goggles: Flight Sim and Google Maps Mash Up

Goggles takes map data from Google Maps, overlaying a little biplane over it. It’s not really a mapping tool, as much as it is a game. Pull back to zoom out, divebomb to zoom in, being careful not to crash into the ground. Hitting the spacebar makes your plane fire, but there’s nothing to shoot…

Tech News Brian Lam

Motion-Controlled MacBook OS Switching

We’ve seen MacBook sensor hacks before, but this is debatably the more practical motion senor mods out there. This hack uses the motion sensor and AMSTracker software to quickly and easily switch between multiple operating systems. – Travis Hudson Motion-Controlled OS Switching [Techeblog]

Tech News Travis Hudson

Viddler to Bring Searchable Video to the Interwebs

As nearly everyone and his brother tries to figure out how to monetize a video site on the Interwebs like YouTube, in comes Viddler, an idea that just might work. Its major innovation is its searchable video, where uploaders tag certain sections of a video and then viewers can search within it, finding whatever spot…

Tech News Charlie White

The Guide To Downloading-and-Burning Movies To DVD

Intrepid Gizmodo friend, Sean Captain explores all the legal options we have for downloading and then burning movies to disc. His finds? Vivid does it first, CinemaNow and MovieLink follow suit. It takes about an 1.5 hours to download on fast broadband, and burning takes a button click. And then, your new movie-on-a-disc looks no…

Tech News Brian Lam

Real-Time Airport Plane Visualization

Reader Michael sent in this link to some web-based Java airport monitoring app. Just go to the site, pick an airport, and see a real-time display on planes flying in and out of your local hub. So far only major airports like Boston Logan International, LaGuardia, LAX, and my local San Jose International airport have…

Tech News Jason Chen

iSkoot Allows Skype Calling On Regular Cellphones

Skype and iSkoot just launched a new co-marketing agreement to allow Java-enabled phones and higher-end smartphones to make Skype calls through the regular cellphone network. While it’s true that using iSkoot will allow you to make calls on the Skype network by going through an iSkoot gateway first, it does not eliminate cellphone fees that…

Gadgets Jason Chen

CaddyAid: PDA Golf Cheats

Suck at golf? I sure as hell do—except for Tiger Woods golf for Xbox, I can kick all of your asses at that. The Caddy Aid can help your weak golf game. This gadget will provide aerial images of the links, GPS-powered distance guides, rules, regulations, flyovers and any other golf information you could want.…

Tech News Travis Hudson

OS X Leopard And Vista Side By Side Comparison

Our nerdy, yet sexy—in that librarian-glasses-wearing sort of way—sister Lifehacker did a side-by-side comparison of the announced features in OS X Leopard and a recent Windows Vista beta. Their conclusion? It’s close, but Leopard pulls ahead with stronger built-in apps (for example, iCal wins over Windows Calendar) and by sheer number of included programs. Hop…

Tech News Jason Chen

VMware Beta For Mac

People were confused about VMware’s presence at WWDC this year. Wonder no more, as the company’s official site has spilled the beans about its upcoming Beta version for the Mac. With VMware, you can run “any PC OS on Mac OS X without rebooting,” similar to the recent Parallels software. There should be an official…

Tech News Jason Chen

Apple Rumors: OS X Leopard’s Six Best Spots

It’s the day before Apple’s WWDC, and we’re dreaming of what goodies Stevie J. will reveal at the keynote. Last week, O’Grady got his O’Hands all O’ver what looks like details of the next revision of OS X, AKA Leopard. Giz took a look at the long-ish post, and sorted out what we thought were…

Tech News Brian Lam

TransGaming’s Cider Lets Enhanced Windows Games Run On Mac

No rebooting with Boot Camp and no Parallels software required to make these Cider-enhanced Windows games run on Mac. The only requirement is for game developers to include the Cider software in their game-builds for Windows, and Cider will handle all the translation between Windows and OS X. No major rebuild and development required on…

Tech News Jason Chen

Work Friendly: Make Any Site SFW (Safe For Work)

Every once in a while we’ll post a rather risque babe shot here at the Giz. Some of the more squeamish or lawsuit-prone beatches at your workplace might become uncomfortable if they steal a glance at your screen while reading one of these posts, so we have the perfect solution to that problem: Work Friendly,…

Tech News Charlie White

Skype 2.1 For PocketPC Released

Apple Boot Camp 1.1 Released

Schoolhouse for OS X: Helping Mactarded Students Find Time to Waste

The Shape of Song: Visualizing Music

M-Audio’s Session: Available Now In a Standalone Version

Flipclips Turn Digital Video Into Analog Flippage

Microsoft To Let Regular Joes Develop Xbox 360 Games

Disappearing Update for Motorola Q Mystifies

Goggles: Flight Sim and Google Maps Mash Up

Motion-Controlled MacBook OS Switching

Viddler to Bring Searchable Video to the Interwebs

The Guide To Downloading-and-Burning Movies To DVD

Real-Time Airport Plane Visualization

iSkoot Allows Skype Calling On Regular Cellphones

CaddyAid: PDA Golf Cheats

OS X Leopard And Vista Side By Side Comparison

VMware Beta For Mac

Apple Rumors: OS X Leopard’s Six Best Spots

TransGaming’s Cider Lets Enhanced Windows Games Run On Mac

Work Friendly: Make Any Site SFW (Safe For Work)

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Ahead of the SpaceX IPO, xAI Has Now Shed All 11 of Its Non-Elon Musk Founders

Do ‘Disclosure Day’ Prep With a Spielberg Sci-Fi Marathon

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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