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If you rejoiced at Google’s re-rollout of the one-phone-number-for-life Grand Central service as Google Voice, you’ll be pretty happy about GV—an app that can place outdoing calls using your universal number. https://gizmodo.com/grandcentral-sputters-back-to-life-as-google-voice-add-5168592 If you don’t have GV on an Android phone, Google Voice must first call your cellphone and then connect you to the outgoing…
Grammy nominated DJ/Producer Morgan Page will be playing the Zune party at Snowmodo this Saturday at Northstar-at-Tahoe. Not enough to excite you? How about custom Snowmodo Zunes or our Official Snowmodo Soundtrack… https://gizmodo.com/gizs-snowmodo-reader-meetup-saturday-april-4th-north-5143084 Zune is throwing an epic party for our Snowmodo event on Saturday April 4th at Northstar. They’ve lined up Grammy nominated Morgan…
The good news is that Slingplayer, the TV streaming app, is coming to the iPhone soon. The bad news is that your old Slingbox doesn’t work with it. Here’s Sling’s reasoning. https://gizmodo.com/slingplayer-for-iphone-submitted-to-app-store-blackber-5186090 As the product team was working on the future roadmap we realized that the hardware on the older boxes would not support the…
Twenty LEDs illuminate this wine glass light bulb. But for $120, the money may be better spent on a nice vintage…or maybe like a lifetime supply of Miller High Life. [Charles&Marie via Nerd Approved]
As you probably already know, the upcoming iPhone 3.0 software was upgraded with Stereo Bluetooth A2DP audio. That means you can pair it with a compatible device—like the stereo installed in this Toyota Venza. As you will see in the video, the process looks pretty smooth—even with beta software. Hopefully this will mean less annoying…
The Bad Decision Blocker is an iPhone App designed for people who have no control when they start hitting the bottle; it lets you select certain contacts to block during certain hours of the day. Simply select all of your exes/bosses/priests and choose when to block them, and you’ll be prevented from making any regrettable…
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iPhoto’s face detection isn’t perfect, but we can’t blame the software for spotting a face in this unbaked batch of cookies. https://gizmodo.com/what-to-know-about-iphoto-09-face-detection-and-recogni-5141741 I mean, c’mon, it looks like just a teddy bear! And maybe a teddy bear face doesn’t constitute a human face to some of you in the audience, but I like to think…
We’re nearing the still unknown release date for the Palm Pre, and new details are slowly surfacing. Sprint demoed the Pre’s WebOS apps at CTIA, including PalmOS Emulator, Google Maps and Pandora. These look fantastic. Like the iPhone, Palm gives developers a set of recommended UI design elements in the SDK, to promote a cohesive…
If Ford can put Sprint 3G in their cars, and now, Opera browsers, what the hell is taking the rest of the industry so long? SHAME! The in-dash computer has a wireless keyboard and mouse, a 6.5 inch touchscreen. No word on screen res or if the kb and mouse can be swapped with a…
“Hi, I’d like a large barbecue chicken pizza with extra—*fzzt* oni *asjkhwakj* no *kssshh*” CALL FAILED. What just happened here? With all of today’s modern wireless technology, why do cellphones still pull this crap? For all the miraculous things we’re able to do with phones now—tell 600 Twitter followers unpleasantly intimate details of our lives,…
Given that Google’s proprietary server designs are key element to their business, its not all that surprising that the details would be a secret. What is surprising, is that they finally spilled the beans. Speaking at the Google “Data Center Efficiency Summit” yesterday, server designer Ben Jai showed off one of their data centers and…
This Health Control Game Timer may be incredibly weird to Americans, but Asians know exactly what this is for—taking the place of parental nagging. The HCGT does two things: beep when your face gets too close to the screen and beep when you reached the 30/60/90/120 minute game timer limit. This is essentially what my…
As expected, AT&T has begun offering netbooks and onsite tech support directly from their stores. These laptops will range from $50 to $250 with purchase of an AT&T Internet at Home and On the Go plan that starts at $60 per month. [AT&T via CNET] https://gizmodo.com/at-t-stores-to-stock-netbooks-5153052
Take a trip to the nerd epicenter of the U.S, to quote Frucci, for only $28 roundtrip today. There you will find Apple brethren, Silicon Valley and be a quick drive away from Snowmodo! Apple • Apple MB323LL/A 20-inch iMac with Parallels and Printer for $888.99 (normally $1,199 – valid until 4/30. Use rebate form…
I’m not normally one for fancy aesthetic mods for laptop covers, but I can’t help but love Paul Smith‘s Syncopated Stripe wool laptop cover. It’s flat-out awesome. At $45, it seems totally worth the price for someone looking to add a bit of flair to their laptop. Unfortunately, most of the Macbook sizes are sold…
The Nokia 7205 Intrigue breaks absolutely no ground whatsoever in the cellphone world. But still, clamshells with hidden MP3 touch controls on the outside are great. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-7205-intrigue-looks-like-an-actually-decent-flip-5180521 The 7205 Intrigue comes packed with a pretty basic feature set, but includes Nokia’s Habitat UI, which is a pretty beautiful design. But the one techie feature of…
Those Vuzix video goggles are now getting an adapter cable in order to connect them to iPhones. Fantastic, since iPhone owners always have their phone with them. Current customers can upgrade for $40, whereas new users will be able to get them bundled directly with their Vuzix AV230XL systems for $200. There’s no guarantee that…
I can’t say that I’m all that into radiators—but if I ever needed a cool looking towel warmer, the Ideos from Kermi would definitely fit the bill. [Kermi via Trendir]
A new Bose ad campaign features famous musicians in speaker-drawn portraiture by Nirmalya Chakraborty. Without the Bose logo, they’d make for some great t-shirts. [Ads of the World via Neatorama]
