FanDuel Turns Premium Fantasy Sports Social — And It’s Legal
The people that brought you HubDub, the prediction site that effectively turns news content into a game, have had a new idea. FanDuel is a premium, paid-for game focused on fantasy sports. Running in private beta for the last month, the game opens up today concentrating on baseball and NFL to begin with.
Although the competitive [...]
TextDiff Compares Your Documents and Files for Changes [Downloads]
Windows only: TextDiff is a simple and portable tool for quickly comparing and merging changes in documents and files. Plug in a pair of documents and TextDiff will quickly highlight all the differences by line and by the portion of the line which has changed. You can ignore spaces and special characters, edit the text [...]
Ultimate iPhone Hacker Championship: Purplesn0w vs Ultrasn0w
In the past 24 hours we have seen major updates to not one but two software unlocks for the iPhone 3GS. Who says competition isn’t a good thing and who doesn’t love a good old fashion hacker fight? Let’s get it on:
In the red corner we have George Hotz along with his fresh version of [...]
How to: Search Old MobileMe Mail on the Server
Apple’s lone outstretched hand to the social web, the MobileMe News “blog” is back with another helpful hint for users, this time about using iPhone 3.0 to search older email on the server:
select your Inbox or another folder from your MobileMe Mail account and access the search field by scrolling to the top [...]
Are These Cat Lips On DC Universe’s Comic-Con Poster? [Sony Online Entertainment]
Match the lips to the character in this teaser image from the San Diego Comic-Con exclusive poster for DC Universe Online. This teaser image popped up on the DC Universe Online MySpace page yesterday, along with a bit of overly-obvious teaser text: “I just saw the poster that we’re giving out at San Diego [...]
OCZ Sabre OLED Keyboard (Unofficial Codename: Optimus Budgetus) Priced at $135 [Keyboards]
The OCZ Sabre asked us to compromise, featuring a sharply limited number of display-integrated keys, so we asked it to do the same: dip below $200, or else. Today, ZipZoomFly is listing the Sabre at a reasonable $135.00. For comparison, ThinkGeek sells the Optimus Maximus, the great grandpappy of the OLED-in-a-key concept, for a staggering [...]
Speeding Up RSS
I’m sorry, but RSS feeds are way too slow. I know this first-hand. As part of my job here at TechCrunch, I monitor a lot of RSS feeds for breaking news. We also produce our own feed and I can see how quickly it propagates to various feed readers and feed-powered news [...]
Y Combinator Endorses Bump Technologies In The Quest To Destroy The Business Card
Last summer, I wrote a lengthy rant against business cards, calling them “virtually useless as one of the last bits of information that we pass non-digitally”. Ten months later, I couldn’t agree with myself more. Just like the handshake, the business card is an annoying relic of the past. Each card I [...]
