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The various flavors of Office 2010 are beyond mere mortal blogger comprehension, so here’s the full press release. Choose your poison, and choose it wisely. With Office 2010, the lineup of products has been improved to make it easier for people to choose a version that is best for them. Office 2010 will be offered…
Witness convergence in its dumbest form: the Pure internet radio that has Facebook and Twitter integrated right in. You know, for when the world needs to know that you’re really fiscally irresponsible. Do you know what else is an internet radio with the ability to post to Facebook and Twitter? Any computer with speakers. And…
There isn’t a whole lot we don’t already know about the Boxee Box, the set-top box developed by D-Link and media center software company Boxee which stands to basically ruin the set-top box party for every other player. Except, that is, the price: Initial reports had it pegged at $200; now a needlessly cryptic press…
[Voice=”Barry White”] When I first saw you, girl, I knew I had to make you mine. Now, I’m in the mood, baby. In the mood for…the Belly Love…Belly Love…oh yeah…I want to hold you…on that gloooowing light. You know… the Belly Love… No, really, you know the one I mean, don’t you? Yeah, the sofa…
Looking for a portable projector with a built-in Blu-ray player? Who isn’t? Well, Sony’s new BDPorter is just that. This rollable cabinet comes stocked with a Blu-ray player, a WXGA projector, surround sound headphones, speakers and a 60-inch screen. It’s aimed mostly for corporate use as a presentations machine that can be carted around to…
We loved the Promise SmartStor NS4600 when we reviewed it over the summer. Now the Promise SmartStor Zero NS2600 has streamlined the process of connecting multiple devices even further, and made it a lot more affordable to do so. https://gizmodo.com/promise-smartstor-ns4600-network-storage-with-time-mach-5310196 Like the NS4600, Promise’s new NAS supports DLNA standards that make it easier to share…
Now this makes sense—an HDMI cable with a connector that can be positioned within a 180 degree radius. That will be a big space saver if you are trying to run cords in tight spaces. Of course, the cables would have been more effective if both ends pivoted. For the life of me I can’t…
I want to spend two weeks working with the new fan-less, VIA EPIA-P820 pico-ITX board—with full 64-bit support—and matching VIA Amos-3001 chassis to create a full HD home theater in my car. Thankfully, I don’t have a car. But it’s a perfect base for a custom home theater in any case. The board has a…
Yesterday, I told you about a new Consumerist investigation into the huge ripoffy nature of Best Buy’s computer optimizations. But hoo boy, $40 to enter a username into a new Mac? That’s tough to justify. https://gizmodo.com/best-buys-optimization-is-officially-a-huge-evil-scam-5439590 Just what do you get when you give the Geek Squad $40 to optimize your new MacBook Pro? As…
Apple has spent $275 million to jump into the world of mobile advertising by acquiring Quattro Wireless. It remains to be seen what changes Apple will make, and how they plan to compete with ad giants like Google. [BGR]
Marvell’s ARMADA chips hope to power everything from Blu-ray players to ebooks to smartbooks to digital picture frames, but the most interesting are the 600 series smartphone chips with a strong claimed 3d performance. Says Sascha Segan: According to a Marvell press release, the ARMADA 610 can render 45 million 3D triangles per second and…
I’m sure the model holding the new Samsung Digital Photo Frame 700Z 7-inch OLED photo frame at CES2010 will have a lot less clothing than this one. The frame comes with 4GB of memory and Bluetooth support. [DA via Oled-Display]
Heyzeusrollerbladingchrist. Apple has sold one billion apps since the two billion September 28 mark, reaching three billion in 98 days. That’s 30,612,244 apps per day, 1,275,510 per hour, 121,043 per minute, 350 every second. Freakingnuts. https://gizmodo.com/itunes-apps-reach-2-billion-downloads-5369268 Apple’s App Store Downloads Top Three Billion CUPERTINO, Calif., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that more than…
It’s just a calculator. But a very nice one, designed by Canon’s camera group, and it uses recycled PowerShot lenses for the glass elements. It’s thirty dollars. Lake Success, N.Y., January 5, 2010 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today announced the addition of the X Mark I calculator to its lineup…
Canon’s absolute cheapest cameras get smarter flash exposure for less crappy flash shots, move up to 12 and 10 megapixels, and use Li-ion rechargeables instead of alkaline for the first time. The A3100 and A3000 push out the older A1100. The A3100’s goes to 12MP, while the latter’s 10MP, going for $180 and $150, respectively.…
Canon’s Vixia HF S21 is their camcorder Cadillac. Just look: 3.5-inch touchscreen, dual SD card slots, face detection from the PowerShot series, and image stabilization with glass from Canon’s high-end binoculars. It’s got 64GB + SD card storage; the S20 is 32GB and the S200 is card storage only, for $1400, $1200, and $1000, respectively.…
Thank God for USB 3.0. I was getting really tired of staring at the progress bar for seconds (seconds!) while my shit transfers. WD just announced their first MyBook external drive with 3.0, and it looks great. The MyBook 3.0 drive is available in either a 1TB or 2TB capacity, and in either a drive-only…
Like the Chumby, I’m not totally sure that the Pure Sensia is meant as a clock radio. But I don’t know what the hell else you’d use it for, and it’d be pretty sweet to wake up to. https://gizmodo.com/chumby-one-review-totally-frivolous-but-totally-adora-5403517 Pure mainly focuses on internet radio, releasing little docks and speaker sets and that kind of…
The Eye-Fi is an SD card that adds Wi-Fi uploads to any camera. Their latest flagship, the Pro X2, is pretty similar to old Eye-Fis, but it’s faster and even a bit smarter, too. The 8GB SD card has equally fast read/write speeds to older models (class 6, for the savvy comparison shopper), but uploading…
Hookai. So. The Samurai Air Sword is really an iPhone in disguise. It doesn’t come with touchscreen, CPU, multimedia processor, memory, GPS, or compass. But it has a gyroscope and runs a clone of the only iPhone application that matters. The Lightsaber app! Except it’s not really an app, and this is better: It makes…
