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Archive for June, 2010
Google Voice opens to the world
01 year ago
by RustyG
in Technology
So if you haven’t heard, Google has now opened the by-invite-only Google Voice service. With the service only being just over a year old, and having a modest 1 million users it seems fitting to open it up to the public. I have been using this service for over 6 months now and it is great to see it now open to everyone. The idea is that you only need one number for the rest of your life, and you can just forward your Google number to your actual number. It’s great, because if you ever change service from landlines or cells, you don’t have to go and change everything, as long as you told everyone your google number… Check it out below:
via [GoogleVoice Blog]
How YouTube deals with Copyright
0So this video is from the TED (Technology, Entertainment & Design) talks shows how YouTube apparently has Super Computers doing their dirty work for them, but they do allow for some videos to be copied, watch to see how it all works:
via [Digg]
New Mac Mini Appears in the wee hours of the morning
01 year ago
Look! Did you miss it? I certainly did this morning in the craziness of pre-ordering my new iPhone 4G. Apple quietly updated the Mac Mini, and this time with a HDMI port out!! What’s worth a look @ $699 or $999? Let’s a take a peek..
Well, they added the uni-body design to the machine and it looks GREAT! The power brick has also been eliminated and the power supply is internal to add to the new design. Well, we see the new ports being HDMI (with mini display port) and now an SD card slot as well! Plenty of USB to go around and even an ever dying firewire…
Now how about the fact that you can upgrade (sort of) to DUAL 500 GB and loose the SuperDrive? Think you can attack all that storage space in one sitting? I’ll give you a chance, and then come back to me… Also you go from a dual core 2.4 to a 2.6GHz with both having the NVIDIA 320 chip inside.. You can also double the memory from 2 to 4GB or from 4 to 8GB… Now try watching your favorite podcasts on that machine connected to your HDTV of choice.. I bet it looks PHENOMENAL!!
Your $999 price gets your Mac SnowLeopard Server instead of the home version of SnowLeopard. I think this may definitely be my next desktop PC, Seriously….
via [Engadget] and [Engadget - Unboxing]
T-Mobile says, “It’s all FREE (for one day)!”
01 year ago
by RustyG
in Technology
Apparently it looks like T-Mobile is giving away all of their phones. Seriously. For Father’s Day 2010 (6/19 – this Saturday), you can pick up any T-Mobile phone for FREE, with a small catch. The ‘catch’ is you have to have a new 2yr agreement with at least a family plan or add a line to a current family plan. This seems enough for anyone new to the T-Mobile family and getting tired of their current provider, but that means a minimum of at least 2 phones and probably a minimum shared minutes plan as well… but seems well worth it for HTC HD 2!
Xbox Kinect Announced for November 4th with NEW 360
01 year ago
by RustyG
in Technology
Ok, so if you missed it, with all the hub-bub about the pre-orders for the iPhone 4, Xbox announced yesterday at E3 2010 the new Xbox 360 (slim). This new box is ready for purchase today and project Natal renamed Kinect for the Xbox 360 (to be available 11/4/10)! The new box is thinner than it’s previous model and just being named “the new xbox 360″. It is said to be “whisper quiet”, and comes with wireless built in! This model will come with a 250GB HD built in as well.
Also being announced with the new hardware were many new games for the Xbox Kinect, like Kinect Sports (very similar to Wii Sports, but with NO controller!!!). Also, all the games we were already expecting for a late summer launch, like Halo Reach, Metal Gear Solid:Rising, Fable 3 and Call of Duty: Black Ops. Not only these awesome titles, but an exclusive partnership with ESPN to bring college football, basketball, MLB, NBA and soccer to the Xbox 360 via ESPN 3.
Also being announced were a few updates to the OS, including video kinect, which allows you to use the camera on base station to video chat with any one on the MS network, including PCs and Xbox users alike! Now this is great, so that you can use this camera with anyone with the MSN messenger or Windows Live Messenger, and not just limited to your Xbox buddies.
Now there is definitely no reason for any single guys like me to have a cable bill. Just sign up for internet and all I want is on my Xbox or my PC.
You can see a great run down of the new hardware over at Engadget
CABLE COMPANIES: Pay attention, EVERYTHING is going to the net, we don’t need you for TV, just internet….
via [Microsoft Xbox]
Sprint Users and Android Users are retarded (Seriously)
21 year ago
Ok, First of all.. Everyone reading this from the Sprint Users and Android Users groups, you’re all completely retarded. I vote the mayor to be the guy who wrote the article over at ANewMorning.com. I think he was just trying to get traffic to his website. To make a claim that Engadget is biased to the Apple side is completely absurd. They (Engadget) are a tech news site, just like Technorati, ArsTechnica, GDGT or even Gizmodo. Their job is to report. That’s pretty much all they do, and everynow and again have an opinion on things. So for you to say they are biased, and that is the reason why they pulled the article, is just plain stupid.
Lets start with the original article that was pulled:
iPhone or Evo: which one should you get?
The article was mysteriously pulled yesterday, and many were looking for it a few hours after it was posted. Myself included, because my At&t contract is up, and was looking to see if the EVO was a better option.
I went to Digg because the link on the Engadget website went away.. I left a comment to see if anyone had picked up a cached version of it because I wanted to read it. You will notice, a couple people left comments with links (including myself) to the bing and google cached version.
Then I get up today and I read this article over at Engadget and all seemed to be ok.
UNTIL I came across this article about how Engadget was biased…
Wow, what a stretch of the imagination. Do I hear jealousy?? Does someone want an iPhone instead of their EVO? Is someone jealous they aren’t being talked about?
WOW…
