| 6:59 PM: | Google Gadgets To Download For The Fun Of It! Less serious gadgets for Google's serious desktop tool. MakeUseOf. | |
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| 6:44 PM: | Zink and Polaroid's inkless printers hit stores this Sunday. After years of gestation, Zink Imaging will finally get its ink-free printers into the market this Sunday with the launch of the Polaroid PoGo in Best Buy stores. VentureBeat. | |
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| 6:42 PM: | Y Combinator's Anyvite Takes On Evite, Keeps Things Simple. It's no secret that Evite sucks. The latest company to take on the much-maligned site is Anyvite, a Y Combinator-funded startup that launches today. TechCrunch. | |
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| 6:40 PM: | Everex Going Bigger With Tiny Cloudbooks and Adding Next-Gen Wireless Joy. The mini-notebook market is heating up, with today bringing stats and shots of the Asus's latest Eee PC with it's tiny screen and keys that might work with normal hands. Gizmodo. | |
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| 6:32 PM: | Podcast with the Gnip guys. I caught up with Eric Marcoullier and Jud Valeski of Gnip in Eric's car, this afternoon. Scripting News. | |
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| 3:42 PM: | Digg Recommendation Engine early test: Good to quite good. Just yesterday, the social news voting site Digg announced that it would begin rolling out its new Recommendation Engine in beta to users as soon as this week. For me, that day came today. I've been testing it out for the past couple of hours and I must say, I'm pretty impressed. VentureBeat. | |
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| 3:41 PM: | DIY, solar-powered mobile Wii. The guys over at Tom's Hardware Guide have built a mobile Wii station, so they could get out a play video games in the sunshine. CrunchGear. | |
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| 3:38 PM: | Universities Taking Kindly To Kindle. The Amazon-run electronic book reading device has been picked up by Princeton University for use in the fall, according to Inside Higher Ed. The Inquisitr. | |
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| 3:36 PM: | Adobe unveils Reader 9 with Flash. Adobe released on Tuesday the first Reader application to bake movies and animation into the Portable Document Format. Webware. | |
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| 3:35 PM: | Ultimate Ears Loud Enough. Ultimate Ears' Loud Enough earphones are designed to protect kids' ears (or those of wise adults) by lowering the overall volume. Amazingly, the device accomplishes this without lowering the standard of audio performance. PC Mag. | |
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| 3:34 PM: | Nokia 5310 XpressMusic. The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic is an adorable and affordable choice for T-Mobile users looking to chat, groove, and message. PC Mag. | |
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| 3:33 PM: | Radius Atomic Bass Earphones. These affordable earphones may well be the answer to that heaviest of all questions, "Bass! How low can you go?" PC Mag. | |
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| 12:40 PM: | HP lets loose $599 xw4550 Opteron-based workstation. 2.0GHz AMD Opteron 1212 processor, along with 2GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, a DVD burner, and NVIDIA Quadro FX 290 graphics with 256 MB of RAM. Engadget. | |
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| 12:39 PM: | Mozilla Releases Weave 0.2: Filling in for Browser Sync. Besides just synchronizing bookmarks, Weave also saves cookies, passwords, form data, tabs, and the browsing history. These can be turned on and off selectively, though by default, they are all turned on. In the future, Weave will also start synchronizing themes, plugins, and microformats. ReadWriteWeb. | |
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| 11:45 AM: | Frellstedt Light-Up Bench: Illumination For Bums. This relaxing Light Bench is makers Frellstedt's idea of the future of seating. You know, the future where even garden furniture uses up electricity and contributes to global warming. Gizmodo. | |
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| 11:18 AM: | Lazy blogger tool Zemanta adds MySpace support and more. Zemanta has pushed out an update to include several new publishing platforms -- one of them being MySpace. It's a good bet a chunk of those active users are taking advantage of the service's built-in blogging tool instead of going to another service like WordPress or LiveJournal. Webware. | |
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| 10:41 AM: | Iterasi getting public RSS feeds and widgets. Web page archiving tool Iterasi is getting a small but important update Tuesday morning. Users can now share their stream of archived pages with others as an RSS feed, letting anyone view their saved items either directly in their browser or in a feed-capturing tool like Google Reader or desktop e-mail clients. Webware. | |
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| 10:34 AM: | Roberts releases solarDAB: world's first solar-powered DAB radio. The latest patently ugly (but sort of cute) DAB radio to emerge from its lair is the solarDAB, which predictably gets energized by the sun. The unit packs a top-mounted solar panel along with a "level indicator on the display screen that shows the strength of the solar level being absorbed." Engadget. | |
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| 10:33 AM: | Intel says to prepare for 'thousands of cores' Intel is telling developers to start thinking about not just tens but thousands of cores. News.com. | |
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| 9:55 AM: | Gnip Launches To Ease The Strain On Web Services. MyBlogLog founder Eric Marcoullier sold his company to Yahoo in January 2007 for an estimated $10 million. He left Yahoo in July 2007 with the seed of a new idea germinating in his head -- "Make data portability suck less." The result of that thinking is Gnip. TechCrunch. | |
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| 9:35 AM: | Gnip: Grand Central Station for the Social Web. Polling for updates to user data streams, wishing they spoke the same language and dreaming they knew which accounts belonged to the same people across different services. Sounds like a great opportunity for an infrastructure provider, doesn't it? Enter the sexiest infrastructure provider we've seen in a long time: Gnip. ReadWriteWeb. | |
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| 9:11 AM: | First US WiMAX deployment goes live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. America's first mobile WiMAX deployment has gone live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming courtesy of Alvarion's BreezeMAX gear. Engadget. | |
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| 9:10 AM: | Quikmaps does what Google Maps failed to do | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET. Quikmaps, a third party tool that plugs into the same Google Maps data, lets you simply doodle on the map. Webware. | |
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| 9:10 AM: | Falling Over Fallback Password Questions. Researchers at the Palo Alto Research Center have developed a new way to help people recover lost passwords -- a personality test. NYT. | |
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| 9:08 AM: | Your PlayStation 3 Firmware 2.40 Questions Answered [] The official PlayStation blog has a posted a FAQ covering most of the lingering questions about the hot hot hot 2.40 firmware update. Gizmodo. | |
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| 9:00 AM: | Google and Yahoo to Search Inside Flash Files. Adobe announced Tuesday that Google and Yahoo are adding search capabilities that will enable users to look inside the content of files encoded in Adobe’s Flash file format SWF. NYT. | |
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| 8:59 AM: | Quickoffice launches Quickaccess: A mobile file streamer. It's a streaming technology that will let you access and edit office documents on your phone without having to depend on native mobile versions of the desktop software. Webware. | |
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| 8:51 AM: | Review: Eye-Fi Explore (Geotagging SD Card) it does not use any sort of GPS technology. Instead it utilizes the Wi-Fi Positioning System by Skyhook Wireless, the same technology used by Apple in the first generation iPhone to provide locational data. Skyhook has a massive database of US and Canadian access points and correlated that to GPS locations. Paul Stamatiou. | |
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| 6:30 AM: | Loud Enough Earphones: Ultimate Ears For Your Kids. Ultimate Ears has released its newest offering, and it's for the kids: the Loud Enough earphones. Gizmodo. | |
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| 6:26 AM: | UK scientists demo graphic passwords. Doodles on touch screens could replace the numbers and letters currently used for passwords online. News.com. | |
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