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Born On Mac Date?

Not sure exactly why you’d need this, but in case you were dying to know when and where your Mac or iPod were built, the CoconutIdentityCard is an application that gives you that information instantly. It currently only works with Mac OS X 10.4 and up, though it should also run on upcoming Intel-based Macs…

Tech News Tgrumet

Nokia E61 Preview

All About Symbian is featuring a full hands-on preview of the Nokia E61 smartphone. This is rocking all of the standard bells and whistles of smartphones: Wi-Fi, SPRS, 3G connectivity, mini-SD expansion, and IR. The screen is an average 240×320 and the keyboard is a bit on the small side. Best of all this runs…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Playboy “Bodcasts” Available

Playboy is jumping on the podcast bandwagon by offering up their new “Bodcast” daily video podcasts. These Bodcasts will be available through the Playboy website and will feature video of Playmates, the joke of the day, commentary from ole’ Hugh, and advice from the gals. The Bodcasts are free as long as you sign up…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Take A Bite Out Of Cybercrime…With Drugs

Talk about a shocking find. Apparently cybercrime has the upper hand on drugs when it comes to overall sales of illicit substances. According to Valerie McNiven, a cybercrime advisor for the U.S. Treasury: “Last year was the first year that proceeds from cybercrime were greater than proceeds from the sale of illegal drugs, and that…

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Mad Beats on your Palm/Treo

If you’ve dreamt of laying down beats on your Treo, listen up: an update to the Palm favorite BeatPad from miniMusic could make handheld musicians very happy indeed. There’s now a built-in instrument that works with many higher-in Palms (including the Treos) so you hear high-quality sounds instead of beeps, and the software now exports…

Gadgets Johnb

frog Design Mind

The Ever Evolving Product By Jim Phillips A previous frog Design Mind article discussed the design complexity of technology systems, and how more sophisticated systems aren t always great for consumers. But not every additional layer of intricacy is a net negative for end users. That’s especially true when designers create systems that enable products…

Tech News Noah R

GPSP Turns Your PSP Into A Handheld GPS

GPSP is a nifty little piece of software for your PSP. It was created via some circuit hacking and using a piece of PSP software called “Lua.” Using a GPS dongle, you’re able to pick up a signal and use the PSP as a full-blown GPS device. It can show your location and update in…

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PixAlert Foils Office Porn Surfing

Not that any of you would ever think of looking at porn while at the workplace, but for those degenerates who may be tempted by the sweet, pink flesh of Wallace Shawn in a compromising position, PixAlert is on the case. Using high-speed image analysis software to scan images, the most recent version of PixAlert…

Tech News Tgrumet

Airtime

Looking For Mobile Search By Carlo Longino Mobile search has been quietly chugging along, with all the usual suspects and a big group of startups releasing their furtive efforts without too much fanfare. Things heated up last week with with separate announcements from giants Yahoo! and Google — with Yahoo saying it was working with…

Tech News Noah R

Sony Admits Screwing Up With DRM, Offers Replacements

Sony knows they screwed up finally and is now admitting their DRM allows hackers to penetrate your system and royally screw you over. So now Sony has killed it’s DRM program in the meantime and is pulling most DRM-protected CDs off the shelves. However, Sony is going to be a gentleman this time around and…

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Sony Stops Production of Content Protection CDs

Sony BMG announced that they will be temporarily suspending the production of CDs containing the First4InternetXCP content protection. Why you may ask? Well they tried to stop the hax0rs of the world from stealing music, so the hax0rs used Sony’s technology to exploit a Trojan virus. Touch Sony! The technology employed by Sony to protect…

Tech News Travis Hudson

TileToy – Electronic, Open-Source Fun

Are you a geek with a cubicle who needs a little something to keep your mind off work since you’ve been coding in C# for the past six-hours? Of course you are, and you demand your toys be open-source like your code. That’s why the TileToy is here. TileToy is an open-source game consisting of…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com

TiVo Now Prevents Overlaps

TiVo’s 7.2.1 software update will now include overlap protection, which will prevent you from missing the beginning of a show if it overlaps with another, less important, show in your schedule. Big deal? Kind of. This essentially solves the problem of TV programmers tacking on an extra minute or so to foil PVRs and piss…

Tech News Johnb

Gizmodo Ink

A Japanese phone company is developing a device, based on a rather impressive-sounding “galvanic vestibular stimulation” technology, that can be used to control its human host. While the cranium-hugging device is only capable of making you perform basic movements like leaning left and right, it did manage to make the author’s head involuntarily gyrate to…

Gadgets Noah R

iTunes On Treo 600 and 650

The latest version of Mass Storage Synchronizer — the add-on from Tea Vui Huang that adapts iTunes for Sony Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung phones — is now compatible with Palm One’s Treo 600 and 650 smartphones. You’ll need RealPlayer for Palm or Pocket Tunes to hear the music. It will be interesting to see how…

Gadgets Noah R

Gizmodo Frappr

Our girlfriend over at Lifehacker—well she’s a girl and she’s our friend but she’s not our girlfriend or anything but we went for a walk in the woods near my house and she was all like “I love Terry” and I was like damn and then we lost my dog—turned us on the Frappr, a…

Tech News Johnb

New Eboot Loader For The PSP

DO U HOMEBREW? Of course you do, that’s why Sony hates you. Enough rhyme. The new bootloader has come out for firmware 2.0 and it’s got the goods. This version,0.7, has a lot of nice new features. You can now exit back to the loader if a program has an exit function. Most importantly, emulation…

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DDR For The TI-83, TI-84

File this under “Awesomeness”. Some dude actually took the time to “port” DDR to BASIC for the TI-83/TI-84 calculators. Unlike the original DDR where you must use your feet to dance like a complete jackass, this one lets you use your fingers. By using the directional pad on the calculator, you have to “type” with…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com

Eminem and Nancy Drew and The Mystery of The Missing iPod Advertisement

Apple and Eminem have been on-again off-again enough times to merit a headline in OK! Let’s start with the backstory: The rapper s music publisher, Eight Mile Style, filed a lawsuit against Apple in early 2004, claiming the iPod maker used Lose Yourself in a commercial for the iTunes Music Store without permission. The dispute…

Tech News Noah R

Email On A Stick

The people have spoken, and they like their technology like they like their processed meat. On the cutting edge of this trend, a crack team of UK political scientists is hard at work bringing a refreshing blast of usefulness to the USB stick market: a wholly-contained USB key e-mail application. Mobility Email is a Thunderbird-based…

Tech News Noah R

Born On Mac Date?

Nokia E61 Preview

Playboy “Bodcasts” Available

Take A Bite Out Of Cybercrime…With Drugs

Mad Beats on your Palm/Treo

frog Design Mind

GPSP Turns Your PSP Into A Handheld GPS

PixAlert Foils Office Porn Surfing

Airtime

Sony Admits Screwing Up With DRM, Offers Replacements

Sony Stops Production of Content Protection CDs

TileToy – Electronic, Open-Source Fun

TiVo Now Prevents Overlaps

Gizmodo Ink

iTunes On Treo 600 and 650

Gizmodo Frappr

New Eboot Loader For The PSP

DDR For The TI-83, TI-84

Eminem and Nancy Drew and The Mystery of The Missing iPod Advertisement

Email On A Stick

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