Palm complains about Apple to USB governing body, while Pre / iTunes sync "fix" is explained
You should be refilling that popcorn bucket right about now. While we thought the next round of the Pre / iTunes syncing fiasco would probably be something simple like Apple releasing another quick patch, Palm has stepped it up a notch by complaining to the USB Implementers Forum over what it sees is “improper use [...]
Remains of the Day: The iPod touch with a Microphone Is Basically an iPhone Edition [For What It's Worth]
We ready to watch tonight’s eclipse online, spot video and photo integration with Google Docs, and get excited about a VoIP iPhone known as the iPod touch with a built-in microphone and camera.
Photo by michaelll.
Eclipse of the Century Live Online Tonight “The century’s most dramatic solar eclipse will be visible along a narrow swath of [...]
Thanks for coming to MobileBeat2009!
Thanks to all of you who made it to MobileBeat2009 yesterday!
We had a wide-ranging discussion of the biggest trends of the day. One conclusion from all of the excitement: U.S. is leapfrogging Europe.
That’s not a conclusion made by us. It came from several Europeans (see story). Mark Curtis, of Flirtomatic, was another attendee from Europe [...]
Dead-Simple DIY Camera Clamp Mount [DIY]
Flickr user six million dollar man loves creating timelapse videos with his new timelapse garden video camera, but when it came to mounting the camera for those long timelapses, he employed a little DIY ingenuity.
Using a cheap spring clamp and a simple thumbscrew that fits into the bottom camera mount, six million dollar man built [...]
Socialseek Lets You Track The Social Goodness Of Brands Online
Socialseek has released a desktop application that lets you search for a topic, item, brand or company across news sites, blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and events. You can also track mentions of a particular search query by city and receive charts that show trends on popularity of a topic across websites, or Twitter.
The ability [...]
Cooliris Business Model Surfaces: More Advertising We Actually Like
We don’t talk about Cooliris nearly often enough. The Palo Alto-based company has done a fantastic job in pushing the limits of interactive photo and video browsing with its 3D Wall, a plug-in for Internet Explorer, Safari and Firefox that enables users to enjoy viewing their photos on Flickr or Facebook and their YouTube videos [...]
A Boy And His Home-Made Blob [Art]
The best part of the upcoming reimagining of A Boy & His Blob isn’t the fact the game’s being reimagined. It’s that gorgeous storybook art style, which these home-made figures capture perfectly.
Since official figures from such an obscure license might be wishful thinking, this sculpt by Appy is probably as close as we’ll get to [...]
Top 10 Tips and Tricks for Better Coffee [Lifehacker Top 10]
Coffee doesn’t always make work better, but you can definitely work to get better coffee. From four-cup hotel machines to French presses, from home-roasted beans to decorative foam—we’ve got a wealth of tips for enjoying a better cup.
Photo by lepiaf.geo.
10. Decorate your own lattes
It’s not as hard as you might think to make lattes for [...]
The Evolutionary Odyssey Desktop [Featured Desktop]
Reader Chaebi69’s desktop combines Rainmeter configurations with a stylish dark theme to make a desktop that is entertaining, simple, and most importantly, fun.
The desktop is a combination of:
Windows Vista (Terminal)
Object Dock Plus (MNML)
Rainmeter (My own so called Project Nine – it’s a messy folder with a lot of things in it)
CD Art Display
You can click [...]
Netbook Cover Fashions Itself in the Likeness of an NES Controller [NetBooks]
Handcrafts made to look like old pieces of Nintendo hardware are great. Which is why this Netbook cover, received as a gift by Flickr user Mendicon, speaks for itself. But I think this could be even better.
How, you ask? Consider the shape of the NES controller, and think about which netbook best resembles it—yep, the [...]
