Monthly Archives: December 2009

FlipShareTV Lets You Watch Flip Video to your TV Screen

by Arnold
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FlipShareTV Lets You Watch Flip Video to your TV Screen

Available  today at Amazon and announced  by Walt of WSJ is Cisco’s  latest offering  - the FlipShare TV. If you dig wirelessly feeding videos from your PC or Mac onto your 32″ LCD TV then this device is for you. Honestly, what I’m seeing here is that more YouTube videos will be finding their way on to TV screens, right after they are ripped off from the internet. Well, however you may want to use it, or what ever video you want to watch, here are the features that you should look forward to in case you decide to get the FlipShare TV. Read more »

Women outnumber men on most social networks. Rejoice!

by andy
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Women outnumber men on most social networks. Rejoice!

Less than a week after we discovered the amazing truth that women know about gadgets too, we’re now led to believe that there’s a helluva lot of them on social networks, too. Male geeks looking to pull by sharing their favourite links and photos need to be careful where they do it, though, for men still outnumber women on Slashdot, Reddit and Digg. Unfortunately, this is probably where most of the true geeks are hanging out a lot of the time. There’s also no age breakdown, so while you might fancy your chances are higher on the likes of Bebo and MySpace, you could find yourself in a bit of Read more »

Bit.ly gets extra protection from Sophos, Twitterers rejoice

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Bit.ly gets extra protection from Sophos, Twitterers rejoice

For cool but technologically clueless people who try desperately to get Stephen Fry’s attention on Twitter and whose social network accounts are probably jammed full of spyware, malware, junk and pr0n, there’s good news that at least the bit.ly short URLs they’ve been sharing with their friends (even the Facebook ones they’ve never met and are probably robots or axe murderers) just got a little bit safer. Touching the world (by just their fingernails) that geeks live in — that which is protected by not running a crappy operating system in the first place and/or having proper protection from firewalls, anti-virus, anti-phishing and other standard filters — they can now Read more »

Apple scuppers fring video calling on iPhone unless you have a mirror

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Apple scuppers fring video calling on iPhone unless you have a mirror

While people moan about how difficult it is to get VoIP apps onto the iPhone because it might hurt precious telcos’ revenue stream, when it comes to using the wonder phone for video calling there’s a much more serious problem. Firstly, you can forget about using your iPhone or iPhone 3G because, for whatever reason, the camera just can’t do video. Let’s face it, it can barely do photos. Even if you’ve got the iPhone 3GS, you’re still stuffed, because the camera is in the wrong place. It’s on the back. As if the Apple faithful hasn’t put up with enough from Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile lovers, we’re now Read more »

BADASS: You'd sit through history class if it was taught this way

by Jayvee Fernandez
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BADASS: You'd sit through history class if it was taught this way

They say that although content is king, context has always been its crown. Take elementary school history for instance: it’s hit or miss depending on how exciting your teacher made it. One thing’s for sure though, if I had BADASS for my history textbook, I’d ace the subject and would never miss class. It’s all about the context. According to the audio book description: Throughout history – from the bone-crushing age of antiquity to the sack-tearing modern era – there have been larger-than-life ass-kickers with a natural talent for unleashing their epic bloodlust on anyone who crossed them. They built empires, smashed armies, and ravaged civilizations for wealth, glory, and Read more »

1/60 Raiser Mobile Suit Gundam: Spinning GN Drives, Fully Articulate

by Jayvee Fernandez
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1/60 Raiser Mobile Suit Gundam: Spinning GN Drives, Fully Articulate

Straight from the Mobile Suit Gundam 00 series is an astounding 1/60 scale plastic and snap-on accessory-heavy 0O Raiser (roughly $271.35 USD). Since the parts are snap on, you won’t need glue to assemble the Celestial Being’s pride and joy. Parts are fully colored as well, so there’s no need to apply paint. The 0 Raiser and 00 Gundam are fully articulate (including fingers) and the hefty price tag adds several other doodads that will definitely surprise the meticulous hobbyist — the eyes light up using internal LED lights and internal wiring. Apart from this, the twin GN Drives are shown and spin up as well using coin batteries which Read more »

Why do we listen to thin-skinned Plaxo-quitting Stephen Fry?

by andy
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Why do we listen to thin-skinned Plaxo-quitting Stephen Fry?

It must be because celebrities bring a certain “cool” quality to social networks and microblogging services — cool in the way the mass of non-techies view things, at least — that we (the media) seem to pay so much attention to them. You see, even I’m writing about it, and I stopped following Stephen Fry’s Twitter account months ago. He didn’t notice, because I didn’t bother to slag him off and test his incredibly thin skin. I’m quite surprised that Stephen, who at least gives the impression of being super-intelligent, didn’t realise that building a huge following on the Internet had significant potential for being criticised. Some people are even Read more »

Electric Cars Get Noisier

by J. Angelo Racoma
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Electric Cars Get Noisier

The great thing about electric vehicles or EVs is that they don’t generate as much noise as cars that guzzle petrol or diesel. They run smoothly and quietly without the revs and vrooms often associated with internal combustion engines. The problem? They’re often so silent that people don’t hear them coming. Take for instance the Tesla Roadster. Even the driver doesn’t know whether the engine is running or not, much less estimate how fast he’s going from the usual sounds from the road and engine. This has grown to be a safety issue, particularly to pedestrians, and especially to the visually-impaired. These days, manufacturers are coming out with ways to Read more »