3D Gaming: Are You Ready For It?
It’s 2010 and while there’s still no sign of flying cars in the near future, the way we watch TV and video games will be advancing forward. At this year’s CES, Sony revealed their plans for 3D gaming by demonstrating games like Little Big Planet, Resistance 2, and a playable version of the Avatar game based off [...]
Sony Bravia 40W5100 HDTV
The Sony Bravia 40W5100 isn’t just an HDTV with a very good picture–it’s a 40-inch window to the Internet.
Undocumented Improvments in the Pre 1.1 Include Better JavaScript Performance [Palm Pre]
With all the hubbub surrounding renewed syncing with iTunes, it’s easy to forget the other goodies Palm packed into the WebOS Update. Update 1.1 offers new audio notifications that have a richer tone, though users still cannot change sounds themselves.
Animated drop down and context menus have also been added to WebOS and result in a [...]
Twitter Unveils A Live-Updating Search Widget
Twitter Search is great. Unfortunately, unlike FriendFeed’s search, it doesn’t update live in real-time. Sure, for some searches, that would be annoying. But it’d be nice to at least have the option to watch a stream of incoming tweets without having to hit the refresh button. And Twitter has just unveiled a way to do [...]
Palm restores iTunes compatibility to Pre
Last week, Apple openly admitted to updating its iTunes music management software with a patch that blocks Palm Pre phones that attempt to connect to and sync with iTunes by identifying themselves as Apple iPhones.
Palm today responded by updating the Pre’s software to work with iTunes yet again. Gossip blog AppleInsider has confirmed that the [...]
EtherPad Gets A Makeover And Becomes Even More Of A Threat To Google Docs (Invites)
AppJet’s EtherPad, the real-time Google Docs-like wiki tool we wrote about last fall, has been upgraded to be prettier, more user-friendly and far more collaborative than before. EtherPad was the brainchild of former Googlers (who founded online programming tool and Y Combinator funded AppJet) who wanted a real-time, yet group oriented way to collaborate on [...]
iPhone Pro Tips: Find Text in Safari with Javascript Bookmarklet
If you’re browsing the web on a PC, you can just hit CTRL-F or CMD-F and quickly find any text on a webpage. It’s great for finding things fast, especially on long reams of text, and Safari does a nice job of it — just not Mobile Safari on the iPhone, not yet.
Editor emeritus Mike [...]
iDisk App for iPhone Release Imminent?
According to a tech note, which recently appeared then disappeared from Apple’s website (but can be seen at TUAW), our wait for the iDisk iPhone app may soon be over.
Surely you remember a little iDisk app that Apple promised to all of it’s MobileMe customers back around WWDC 2009? The biggest feature, at least [...]
Amazon, Why Don’t You Come In Our Houses And Burn Our Books Too?
So plenty has already been said about this, but we’re going to weigh in too because it’s just so ridiculous. Amazon began remotely deleting books from Kindles this morning. Illegal books? Nope. Perfectly legal versions of George Orwell’s “1984″ and “Animal Farm”, purchased through Amazon.
Why? Well, apparently the publisher changed their minds about having digital [...]
Verizon and Slacker make sweet music together on your BlackBerry Storm
If you own a BlackBerry and haven’t yet heard of Slacker, you clearly haven’t been paying attention. The spunky Internet radio provider is making headlines again today and VZW-branded Storm owners should take note — Big Red has announced a new deal to get Slacker on your handset whether you like it or not. But [...]
