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Click to viewI generally try to avoid the Evil Geniuses at the Apple Store, but after waiting 45 minutes past your appointment you tend to take what you can get. [Landline TV]
There’s no time better than the present to join in on the Windows 7 excitement. Check out our guide to Windows 7 savings and this terrific HP package in addition to the Dell laptops in today’s Deals. https://gizmodo.com/last-minute-guide-to-saving-money-on-windows-7-5386828 Top Deals: • 15.4″ Dell Vostro 1520 Laptop with Windows 7 for $499 (normally $853 – use…
Are you an Abracadabra type, or more of an Undercover Brother? Why not acquaint yourself with your mustachioed alter-ego in the name of charity by participating in Movember, the worldwide month-long moustache-growing competition that raises cash for cancer research? Register here to join the Movember movement. And don’t forget to document your furry journey. Movember…
I like Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Rem Koolhaas‘ creations so much that I want to have his babies. OK, that part is a lie, but I would certainly have his Tony-Stark-worthy Maison à Bordeaux. His new Stadskantoor is quite impressive too. https://gizmodo.com/koolhaas-transforming-house-is-worthy-of-iron-man-batm-371814 Stadskantoor will be constructed at Rotterdam’s City Hall. Designed by OMA, Werner Sobek, and…
Windows 7 and Snow Leopard are great. And cheap. Boot Camp’s the free, official way to run them both natively on one machine. It’s easy to setup, and just works, except when it doesn’t. Here’s how to survive Boot Camp. https://gizmodo.com/windows-7-review-you-can-quit-complaining-now-5330609 Boot Camp, to be clear, is different from virtualization software like Parallels or VM…
If you live in Paris, you can head on over to 47 Boulevard Sebastopol and enjoy coffee and pastry served up by Microsoft. Their Windows 7 Cafe is now open for business. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-opening-windows-cafe-in-paris-5367035 As you will see in the gallery complied by Le Journal du Geek, it looks like a pretty cool place to hang…
Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer defended notorious products like Windows Vista and Windows Mobile throughout our interview, but when it came to Zune, he did seem to admit that Zune HD nailed what previous Zunes simply couldn’t. When I asked if he gave an order to make Zune better, he replied: Sometimes you get it the…
Let’s not dwell on the past. Things happened as they happened, you have a kid and you don’t want to sing the damned Happy Birthday song yet another year. Boy oh boy do we have the cake plate for you. With the push of a button, the Musical Cake (and pizza) Tray will play Happy…
Just in case you missed it buried underneath the upgrade to Netflix Watch Instantly the other day, Microsoft has gone live with Internet TV on Windows 7 Media Center, offering content (of rather poor picture quality) from the following providers: https://gizmodo.com/streamlined-netflix-experience-now-available-on-windows-5386041 • CBS Audience Network: Featuring a variety of shows from CBS Primetime, Daytime, Extras,…
Click to view You’ve seen how to host your own Windows 7 launch party. Over at Funny or Die, they explain how to throw your own Windows 7 torrenting party in what’s easily the most brilliant parody spot yet. [Thanks Adam!] https://gizmodo.com/this-incredible-windows-7-launch-party-video-is-either-5366105
So hey, you probably heard that Windows 7 arrives today. If you’re still wondering what the fuss is about—or you’re on the fence—check out our full review. It really is what most people thought Vista should have been. https://gizmodo.com/windows-7-review-you-can-quit-complaining-now-5330609
Within minutes of the FCC’s proposed rules to codify net neutrality, we got an email blast from the National Cable and Telecommunications Association—basically the RIAA of the cable world. It’s easy to guess how they feel about this, but it’s not actually that easy to see it in the text: We fully appreciate that Chairman…
Shure has updated their SE115 with an a “m” and a “+” that delivers a built-in mic and 3-button remote for iPhone/iPod users. https://gizmodo.com/shure-se115-low-end-headphone-update-adds-more-low-e-5124189 The 3-button remote can be used to easily control music and video playback, adjust volume, record voice memos and answer or end calls. The original Shure SE115 headset had a great…
Nook better watch it. One of the “surprises” at the Windows 7 keynote: a multitouch Kindle app for Windows 7 from Amazon. Ebook reading with pinch text zooming, and yes, color photos. Looks great. A full-color shot: https://gizmodo.com/live-from-the-windows-7-launch-5387614 Okay, so now we just saw the app running on an Acer tablet. Apparently it’ll use an…
After careening into a wall outside of Rankin, PA, one Street View photographer has been trapped, and condemned to send dispatches from a horrifying hellscape, forever. This is the highly empirical theory that the internet, and I, am sticking with. As per the instructions by the gentleman on Reddit who found this anomaly, “click forward.”…
The Dell Adamo XPS isn’t only ridiculously thin, but it opens like no laptop ever seen before. Its propped up keyboard can only be opened by sliding a finger on the lid’s heat sensing strip. See it to believe it… https://gizmodo.com/dell-adamo-xps-first-look-so-thin-it-could-slice-a-mac-5376253 Did your mouth drop? Because mine did. All I know is that rubbing that…
Nokia is suing Apple for infringements on their GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN patents. $200 million UPDATE From Nokia: The ten patents in suit relate to technologies fundamental to making devices which are compatible with one or more of the GSM, UMTS (3G WCDMA) and wireless LAN standards. The patents cover wireless data, speech coding,…
Sure, 91 percent of release candidate testers surveyed said they’d recommend Windows 7 to friends and family. But, undoubtedly Microsoft’s favorite statistic is that 80 percent of Mac users in the survey said they’d recommend Windows 7 to friends and family too. Of course, just ’cause I tell my mom this minivan would perfect for…
Some of Apple’s patents become real products, but many more don’t. So who knows if the “visual or audible” ads in this unearthed 2008 application will see the light of day. https://gizmodo.com/apple-multi-touch-mouse-completely-eliminates-buttons-275095 Among other disclosures, an operating system presents one or more advertisements to a user and disables one or more functions while the advertisement…
Well, that’s pretty decisive. Following weeks of hints, clues and noisy corporate whining, the FCC has laid out their plan: Following a public vetting process, they’re cracking down on all things not neutral. https://gizmodo.com/more-net-neutrality-bashing-from-verizon-ceo-5387326 The event is still happening, but they got right to the meat. Here are the proposed guidelines—the first four are old,…