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I happen to think the crushed flakes of cereal at the bottom of the bag are worse than someone stepping on my toe. I’d love for them to go away, but this cereal dust sifter just isn’t the solution. We appreciate Stupid Inventions (of Instructables) making this ghetto gadget, but using a normal sifter and…
Sorry for the delay, but the Apple OS X Snow Leopard Review is working now. https://gizmodo.com/snow-leopard-review-lightened-and-enlightened-5346418
Looks like the $12 Energizer E2 rechargeable D battery is actually a AA battery (retail price: $3) in a larger shell. Try to keep your anger at an appropriate level: A short, derisive grunt should be just right. [Natural News]
This is the list form of stacks. It’s best for displaying tons of files, but you can’t quite make out the icons. Good old stacks grid mode has a scroll bar and you can dig into directories without being kicked into a new Finder window.
Quicktime has an option to export files to iTunes, YouTube or MobileMe. There is no pane around the video window, just a drop shadow. Controls pop up when you mouse over. Editing clips is pretty easy using the thumbnail skimmer interface from iMovie 09.
The following frames cover most of the user-experience tweaks found in Snow Leopard. We apologize for the haphazard clump of screenshots, but hey, you want it all, right? [Back to our Complete Guide to Snow Leopard] https://gizmodo.com/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-the-complete-guide-5352889 Contacts app now syncs with Google and Yahoo!: No longer a service for the iPhone and Mobile Me,…
OK my dearly beloved, I don’t care if you dress up as characters from the anime series to get married under a full-size Gundam in Tokyo. Just don’t get married, ok? Unless you get to leave flying the damn thing. https://gizmodo.com/activated-full-size-gundam-robot-looks-totally-absofri-5289548 That’s my general advice based on two experiences: Pass on the paperwork. But if…
There are mods that don’t require a lot of time or skill, and then there are insane mods that only crazy people put together. This media center PC stuffed into an ancient Mobira Talkman cell phone is definitely the latter. Inside this ancient phone you’ll now find a fully-functioning PC, plus a USB hub, Wi-Fi…
This second MacGyver Chef recipe, fish in a dishwasher, is a true classic, yet I had no great luck. I tried on two machines, and though edible, the resulting dish was either sashimi or cat food. Gallery haters take note, to skip the slides and jump to a single long post, click here. https://gizmodo.com/macgyver-chef-dishwasher-steamed-salmon-with-cilantro-5346308/ Equipment:…
Swedish hacker Hans Andersson doesn’t need a robot to solve sudokus puzzles. That’s because he’s a genius capable of making a robot that can solve sudoku puzzles. He used Lego Mindstorms to do it, and even the writing is beautiful. On the Heyzeuss Awesome 1 to 10 scale, this gets a Spinal Tap 11. [Tilted…
Are you a half Korean father of eight whose public opinion is down somewhere between Michael Vick and Kim Jung Il? Then get your wallet out for these Ed Hardy USB keys. Prices range from $78 for an 8GB drive to $52 for a 4GB drive, which drives home the message that if you’re gonna…
I don’t like edible lingerie. It tastes like crap. The bacon bra, on the other side… well, the bacon bra is made out of bacon. Bacon-sustained bra technology, people. I just can’t say no, even if it’s raw. Only boobs and chocolate can match this in Chez Gizmodo’s Taste Test. Any female reader wants to…
ViewSonic is hoping to take advantage of the surge in popularity of pico projectors with their new PJD2121 Short Throw DLP featuring a 1:1 throw ratio that displays a 60-inch view area at a distance of 4-feet. The projector is capable of producing 400 ANSI lumens, a 1,800:1 contrast ratio and an 800×600 SVGA resolution—not…
I don’t get this passion people have for getting strange devices to cook and serve food. Like this Magisso Cake Server. Why oh why do I need a special utensil to cut my cake? It looks nice, but it’s silly. Cutting cake is something you can do—and a lot better—with a big, razor sharp knife.…
According to sources inside the company, Palm is ready to cash in on the iPhone’s Google Voice rejection nightmare with a full app for the Pre. According to sources within the company, Google has no idea that this is happening. https://gizmodo.com/apples-chickenshit-approval-process-has-gone-too-far-5325539 It’s one of the weirder stories I’ve read this week, but also one of…
Apple’s Leopard PC icon set the standard for anti-PC snark, but the PCSim iPhone app, which promises 99 percent of a PC’s functionality with a BSOD, viruses and long startup time, nicely continues that tradition of dickitude. [iTunes via Wired]
God bless The Sun—the most reliable, serious, and solid newspaper in the entire Commonwealth—because they have just discovered the Loch Ness monster using Google Earth. Or at least, that’s what it appears to be in the photo. According to the lighthouse of journalism and one of its experts—reader and security guard Jason Cooke, 25, of…
Our occasionally culinary cousins over at Lifehacker may have jumped the gun on Gastronomodo Taste Test by a few weeks, but I’ll let this one slide, because it’s helpful: Here are five good ways to manage your recipes. https://lifehacker.com/five-best-recipe-managers-5289792 Lifehacker’s got all the details, but here’s the gist: • Allrecipes.com stores and organizes your recipes…
ASUS likes to throw crap against the wall to see what sticks and in this case they put voice recognition into its newest EeeTop. The software is accurate, but I’m not seeing the need for it in a 20-inch PC. I do have to say the voice recognition seems to be on the ball from…
After a whole bunch of hype, the first augmented reality app for the iPhone 3GS is now available (Yea!)…for Paris subway travelers (Ugh). Metro Paris Subway 3.0 has been updated to help commuters find POIs using a live video mode. Now that the floodgates are open, how long will we have to wait for Twitter-based…
