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The Ziova CS505 we reviewed earlier this year just got a firmware update, adding features like a GUI redesign, commercial skip and some other minor details you can find in the changelog. It’s not a major update in terms of functionality, but as you can see from the gallery, it looks totally different. Much more…
Congratulations to Kevin Griffin for winning our Xbox 360 and HD DVD contest. Sorry for the delay in picking the winner. For everyone who didn’t win, we’ll have many other contests soon for which Kevin is not eligible to win. Sucks for you Kevin!
In yesterday’s Washington Post, buried on page two of Frank Ahren’s three-pager headlined “Apple in a Fight for Rights to TV Shows,” is the nugget: Warner Music Group, whose contract with Apple expires at year-end, is considering switching to a month-to-month deal with Apple, said a source with knowledge of the discussions who spoke on…
Click to viewThose of you who haven’t been poring over all of Mac OS X Leopard’s feature list (because you actually have lives) probably only know a few things about it. There’s this new backup software…and…some iChat stuff? That’s where we come in. We distill all the features down to ten points to help you…
The Osaka Police Purchased 800 of these lights for use on special patrol cars that cruise through school zones. Pink Tentacle says these are made to win the hearts of school kids as the police chase bad guys. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think the NYPD would have the same luck rolling through…
I’m going to stream Leopard live over Justin.tv right now. I’m busy reviewing it, so I won’t be too active, but for the next few hours, if you have questions, email em to tips at giz, drop em in the comments, or hit up the JTV chatroom and I’ll do my best to answer any…
AT&T’s broadcast mobile TV service with Qualcomm’s MediaFlo has had its launch date nudged back from year’s end to early 2008. The reason given is fine tuning, though what kind of “tuning” was left unspecified. Verizon’s, on the other hand, has had its MediaFlo-based offerings up and running since March. [Reuters via Phone Scoop]
We’ve seen our share of interesting power strips, but Tributaries’ PWRS-T10 has five standard outlets and five twistable outlets that give you a good way to plug in multiple large AC adapters at once. Because each one of the five slots can be twisted at up to 90 degrees, you can position them at say,…
The Skype Phone on UK’s 3 cellular provider just got leaked, and UK Phone News claims they have a picture of the device but can’t show it—but they can tell us details. The Skype phone will have a 2-megapixel camera with photo editing and effects, video capture and an MP3 player with various media functions.…
The Nokia N82 got specced way back in May when it was announced with the N81, but we haven’t seen pictures of it in the wild until now. The specs are still the same: 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss Lens and auto-focus, 3G, 30FPS VGA video capture, secondary video camera, 2.4-inch screen, GPS, FM radio,…
In one Akihabara shop, we found a pretty sizable collection of spy equipment. From cellphone jammers and bug finders to hidden cameras and microphones, everything you could possibly need to find out just who this guy is who thinks he can date your ex-wife is available. The most interesting were probably the hidden mics and…
The minimum requirements for Apple’s OS X Leopard are an 866Mhz G4 processor and 512MB of RAM. I happen to have an aging but still nice 1Ghz Powerbook with 768MB of RAM. Loading Leopard on it should tell us just how accurate those minimum specs are. Tiger: 40 seconds to login screen and 9 seconds…
As if those disastrous California fires weren’t bad enough, watch this poor couple whose house had just burned down describe how AT&T demanded $300 for a Dish Network satellite receiver that had also been destroyed in the conflagration. We hear AT&T intends to respond to this, so we’ll withhold judgment until the phone giant explains…
Pancakes are a pain in the ass to make, but not any more with Batter Blaster. Just spray this organic pancake goo onto a hot skillet and your steamy breakfast is just a couple of minutes away, bacon not included. If you don’t mind using Cheez Whiz Easy Cheese in its spray can, this looks…
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With the arrival of both Mac’s newest operating system and a mom-friendly version of Microsoft’s Windows server software for the home, one begins to wonder whether or not Apple could turn the mini (or Apple TV) into something truly useful: a Mac Home Server. (Or would that be the Mac iHome? How ’bout Mac homi?)…
Showing the House who’s in the lower chamber of the bicameral setup, the Senate passed a seven-year extension on the net tax ban, three years longer than the four-year ban that passed the House. Better deal for us, right? Well, since they didn’t match up exactly, they’ll have to work together to hammer out the…
We thought we wouldn’t be surprised by any car sound system ever again. Until this guy cranked up the volume of his custom 17,000-watt 8-Sundown Audio SAZ-1500D rig and we saw his iPod jumping half an inch, the whole car rumbling, the metal roof shaking like a leaf and then his hair getting blown away—literally—by…
If you’re among a select few with well-lined pockets (that you don’t want jangling) and have already placed yourself on the “reserve” list, for $300 and copies of the six keys you want slotted, the slick key consolidator, Keyport Slide, can be yours in silver, black, pink or blue. That’s right, they’ve shifted from pretty…
On the fifth floor of an otherwise unassuming electronics shop on a side street in Akihabara hides a store dedicated exclusively to robots. You can get everything from fully built (and very expensive) robots to DIY model kits to parts to build your own robot from scratch. It’s a robotics geek’s paradise, tucked away, like…