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This confirms what I suspected this weekend: Android Market‘s automatic update notifications are broken. In the meantime, if you’re affected, you have to go to individual app pages to see if there’s an update for the app. At least, that seemed to work for me. [Phandroid]
OK, so if crazy Kim Jong Il does try nuking Hawaii this weekend, don’t blame me. He was planning on it before this horrifying and hilarious gallery of shameful Photoshops appeared. Oh god, what have I done? First Place — Nick Dwyer Second Place —T. Baxter Third Place — Dave Corrasa
The analysis was correct: the iPhone 3GS graphical abilities are significantly better than the iPhone 3G. Here’s how much better, according to OpenGL benchmarks: https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3gs-just-how-awesome-are-the-graphics-gonna-get-5286972 * The CPU performance is Faster by 40-70% * The fillrate* is 3x to 4x higher * Texture effects and filters are about 10x faster Keep in mind that it’s…
If you’re wondering which file system you should format your new Linux partition as, phoronix has a test of EXT4, BBtrfs and NILFS2. The winner (for the most part): EXT4. Hit the link if you want to find out why. [Phoronix via Slashdot]
The November 29, 1959 edition of Arthur Radebaugh’s Closer Than We Think features a job interview of the future. And what job interview of the (paleo)future would be complete without a man from Philadelphia and his entire family chatting via videophone with a potential employer in Buenos Aires? Until recently, a man limited his job…
Fueled by the original rechargeable batteries from 2005, Sanyo’s consistently strange eneloop (on-a-loop) line keeps on growing: next up is the eneloop Lamp, a vaselike, wirelessly chargeable table lamp that turns into a flashlight when picked up. The lamp is intended to spend most of its time on a wireless charging stand, which not unlike…
A 19-year-old who was part of a swatting group—hacking the phone system to get 911 to respond with a SWAT team to potentially dangerous situations in order to harass people—just got sentenced to 11 years in prison. Their method of hacking used spoofing to pretend the call originated from the victim’s house. The team could…
The Wall Street Journal chimes in on talk of Dell’s Android smartphone with the bit that it’s not a smartphone (yet), but a media player with Wi-Fi, a la iPod touch or Zune HD. If Dell doesn’t kill it. [WSJ] https://gizmodo.com/is-dell-working-on-an-android-smartphone-5290781
The Domo meme has long since hit the internet in full force, but your baby boomer coworkers will hold your $23 Domo iPhone case in the highest regard. Just one minor geek nitpick: Domo supposedly hates apples. [Etsy via LeJournalDuGeek]
We’ll see plenty of “Pre sells X units in Y amount of time; not as many as iPhone” stories in the next year—in fact, we already have. That may be the wrong way to look at it. Charter Equity Research is now saying that Palm has pushed over 300k Pres into sales channels in June…
Thanks to all our Chicago readers who sent in their speed test data from their iPhone 3G and 3GS. Here’s our conclusion: the 7.2Mbps AT&T’s testing in Chicago doesn’t really make any difference right now in speeds. https://gizmodo.com/chicago-iphone-3g-and-3gs-users-send-us-your-speedtest-5297379 The 3GS turned out to be slightly faster in downloads (1202kbps vs. 1161kbps), but just about the…
The bottom line of Bill Howard’s epic consideration of a new color laser printer is that cheap printers can cost more over their lifetime than nicer, slightly pricier printers, so you might as well get a good one. [Gearlog]
TreeHugger explores just what goes in to automating your house for Twitter, the practicality of solar powered lighting, if iRobot is serious about e-cycling, and how home water makers work and which models are best. So just how does one got about setting up their house to Twitter its energy and resource consumption? An IBM…
Firefox 3.5 is worlds better than 3.0 with powers like geo-location and serious speed to compete with Chrome and Safari 4, so grab it nownownow. Update: It’s official! [Firefox, Softpedia via DS] https://lifehacker.com/top-10-firefox-3-5-features-5295655
It’s not a formal wall socket replacement, but this Elecom U2H-TC410B 4-port USB hub will look sharp (and a bit misleading) when mounted to a desk or table. In all actuality, it’s just a typical 4-port USB hub with a tad more style and a lot of extra space for larger USB devices to plug…
Your worst fears about The Pirate Bay acquisition might be coming true: Peter Sunde told Torrent Freak that they are indeed closing down TPB’s tracker and decentralizing to the point listed torrents won’t be hosted on the site anymore. https://gizmodo.com/pirate-bay-bought-out-suddenly-respects-copyrights-5304354 There’s an update at the end of the post from Global Gaming Factory X CTO…
Are these photos of the HD video-shooting D300s and non-video-shooting D3000 real? That’s what I love about leaked camera shots—fudge a badge, add a mic hole, who can ever tell? That said, on the D300s front, we’ve seen some specs and the back of the camera, and Nikon is just about the leakiest company this…
Hint: It involves South Korea, agriculture, television, and the geopolitics of love. What you see above is the home of one Mr. Lee Si-kap, a farmer in rural South Korea, who is said to have the most operational satellite dishes in the whole country—85, which net him over 1500 channels. Clusters of neglected satellite hardware…
If you own a D700 or 5D Mark II, their miraculous sensors make it incredibly easy to shoot at night without extra gear. But what if you own a $500 DSLR? Photography Bay has some basic reminders for night shooting. https://gizmodo.com/canon-5d-mark-ii-vs-nikon-d700-review-shoot-out-5160540 Their tips for shooting with a lower-end DSLR without carrying gear like a tripod…
Starting this fall, all new planes will be required to have heartier seats that can withstand 16x gravity without popping out of place. Plus, they’ll be getting airbags in select areas. As of now, plane designs that were certified before 1988 are permitted to have seats that can withstand just 9x gravity. And airbags are…