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This could easily get snuffed out before release, but OS 3.0 beta users can download >10MB podcasts over 3G. An annoying catch: the 10MB limit is still in place for the app store. The change, discovered by Macrumors forums user getinline1, preempts a dissonance that I wondered about during the Keynote: How could Apple/AT&T/everyotheriPhonecarrierintheworld justify…
Spotted in the wild, this Peek appears to be running a maps app. Whether it’s a creative hack or a sign of things to come, the Peek might soon do more than just one thing. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-peek-pronto-is-peeks-business-email-device-5174291 Actually, the Peek currently does do more than one thing—it sends SMS messages as well as email—but this is…
Sure, you could always wait for Apple to release its first netbook (if they actually do). But over here in China, when we want something bad enough, we go and make it ourselves. https://gizmodo.com/apple-releasing-a-touchscreen-netbook-this-summer-5166576 That’s right, manufacturers in Shenzhen have gone and created their own netbook. And in true copycat fashion, it has a hilariously…
A high-end ping pong club, natural skin care, and custom beer tap handles — just another week at Uncrate. This week at Uncrate: We enjoy our booze in proper fashion with the Johnnie Walker Tasting Kit, get down to work at the Spotlight Desk, and trim up the lawn the same way grandpa did with…
Good news people! The US army has confirmed that Israel has their very own circumcised version of Dr Manhattan’s schlong. Sources estimate a collection of 200 to 400 nuclear warheads. https://gizmodo.com/watchmen-review-is-ozymandias-steve-jobs-5164510 After years of ignoring the Israeli nuclear program—which was denounced in 1986 by former nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu—the United States’ Department of Defense has…
Brazilian artist Paulo Nenflidio, who’s currently showing off his work in Arizona, creates weird noise-producing sculptures like this robot drill spider, which ends up sounding as frightening as it looks. Each of the six hammer drills is linked keys on the main body’s keyboard. When a key is pressed, it causes the drills to start…
Here you have the F-15 Silent Eagle, a classic fighter with special coating and sightly angled surfaces to reduce its radar signature. Check out its completely new weapons bays, integrated in the fuel tanks. Obviously, this plane won’t have the same stealth capabilities of the F-35 Lightning II or the F-22 Raptor, but according to…
Microsoft seems like the last one to the new browser party that’s dragged out over the last month, but they are the first to make their entrance final with Internet Explorer 8. If you’ve used the release candidate, or even the beta right before it, it’ll be a mostly familiar experience, with nothing that seriously…
Chinese officials have reported a UFO sighting while they were on an airplane and, in case anyone thought it was just a case of baijiu-induced hallucinations, they snapped pictures of it too. In a report from Xinhua, the government-sponsored news agency, a group of journalists and officials were on a Southern Airlines flight in late…
Or they lie a lot more than any other geek. This chart shows the percentage of virgins by major at Wellesley. I always knew there was a reason I liked art chicks. [Forwardon via Geekologie]
Yeah, that guy is back in the news again, currently on trial. After locking his daughter in a secret, electronically sealed basement for 24 years, turning her into a sex slave, and fathering children with her (bleck), Fritzl finally pled guilty to charges of imprisonment and murder, among others. today in the third day of…
Don’t have time to sit through an hour-and-a-half worth of Apple execs talking? This is the most exciting minute and a half. Watch it and move on with your day.
Once again, Lifehacker shows you how to be a cheap guy by brewing your own sports drinks and making your own headphones. • You can now “autofill” every iPod model with iTunes 8.1 • How to do the five minute prison workout • Death Switch sends out emails when you die https://lifehacker.com/itunes-8-1-adds-autofill-to-all-ipod-models-5171709 • How to…
If you like Metal Gear you will not be let down by the iPhone game. The Price: $8 Controls One of the biggest questions I had about the game was controlling Snake. When you start a mission for the very first time, there are detailed instructions on how to control Snake: how to aim (drag…
There are a lot of very good reasons why Apple doesn’t let you to skin the iPhone’s UI (just glance at most BlackBerry or WinMo themes). But then there’s this awesome retro Megaman theme. It’s like an 8-bit Capcom fanboy wet dream that’s congealed into a custom iPhone theme. Sure, like most of the apps…
What do you get when architects deconstruct a sphere? At least in this case, you get a house that looks a lot like a UFO. From inside to out, the Klein Bottle experimental house plays with the theme of a mathematical puzzle that manifests in an interesting hodgepodge of geometry. But cleverly hidden within these…
I am joining others in not caring about the legitimacy of Elecom’s claims of precision based on positioning the laser between your thumb and forefinger for their Scope Node mouse. This thing looks awesome. Joel @ BBG is right on saying that the Scope Node is “designed with the clinical asymmetry that the Japanese do…
Once dubbed as an iTunes-killer, Songbird has been plagued with bug issues—the most recent involving a nasty bit of business with its iPod add-on. Apparently it deletes music without user permission. https://gizmodo.com/songbird-free-itunes-killer-available-for-download-153498 Naturally, it is highly recommended that you uninstall the add-on. Songbird is currently working on the problem, but if you have already been…
Yep, that’s a disguised Vlad Putin in his carefree KGB days, ready to pop the Gipper if necessary with what is surely a camera gun of some kind. [Hot Joints – Thanks, Trina!]
Now you see it, now you don’t: This teaser for the Peek Pronto was up briefly, sent by a reader, but it’s gone now. Mysterious! Except that URL pretty much explains it all: “Peek for Business.”