Archive for September, 2008
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Apple shares pounded…along with my retirement account.
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I gotta complain today about Apple’s stock. Sure, sure, the world is going to hell and the market is down. But it seems like iPods are becoming an elastic good just like my cigarettes. So why, ohh why, did AAPL close down $22.98 today? That is [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Apple, Off topic by Jason T.
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Paul Newman
… Has passed away. He was 83.
1 Comment » - Posted in Industry News by Jason D.
Friday, September 26th, 2008
SD cards for HDTV
After a bitter loss to Sony’s Blu-ray HD system Toshiba is looking to make their next move. Predicting that optical disc have their days numbered anyway they are skipping ahead to sell players employing the SD cards that you might find in your digital camera. While I don’t think anyone disputes the fact that digital [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Content, Industry News, Movies by Jason D.
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Googlephone/gPhone/G1 vs iPhone
ExtremeTech’s got a great post by Lance Ulanoff (The T-Mobile G1 [Google Android] is No iPhone) of PCMag doing essentially a nice, clean, side-by-side comparison of Google/T-Mobile’s G1 versus the Apple/AT&T iPhone. He took the lenghty articles and boiled them down into a nice bulleted list comparing the features of each phone–what they both have, and [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Apple, iPhone by Jason T.
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
LHC Breakdown Buys Europe 6 Months
The people of the world, specifically Europe, have been given 6 more months to live. The Large Hadron Collider underneath Switzerland and France has been shut down until early spring 2009. This news comes soon after the announcement that a transformer had malfunctioned and wasn’t cooling the internal temperature of the collider to it’s absolute [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Science by Jason D.
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Googlephone arrives 10/22
Today Google announced the first phone running on the Android platform. It’s the G1, made by HTC (makers of many popular Windows Mobile devices). The G1 will be available exclusively from T-Mobile stores in U.S. cities where they’ve depolyed their 3G data network. You’ll be able to order the phone online and it will work [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Apple, Google, iPhone by Jason T.
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration out today
Awesome. Today Paramount released The Godfather trilogy - The Coppola Restoration on DVD and Blu-ray today. You can pick up the giftset DVD package from Amazon. The giftsset edition includes all three Godfather films. In total there’s 549 minutes of video…that’s 9.15 hours. This edition has a lot of cleaned-up parts by Coppola and got [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Movies by Jason T.
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Google’s Android could be for more than just phones
Google’s releasing the first Android phone tomorrow through T-Mobile. But C|NET’s got an interesting article talking about the possibility that Android could make its way into more devices than just your phone. Unlike the iPhone, Google has created Android as a platform–it’s not device specific. For instance, Android could crop up in home appliances or [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Google by Jason T.
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Apple rejects what sounds like a sweet mail application
Apple (AAPL) blocked another application [via MacRumors.com] from the App Store because it duplicated functionality of their built-in apps. But again it sounds like it’s more the case that the developer’s app was better than what Apple has released. Specifically this guy’s application, MailWrangler, allows you to more easily check multiple Gmail accounts and also do [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Apple, iPhone by Jason T.
Friday, September 19th, 2008
Apple Recalls iPhone’s USB Power Adapter
If you bought your iPhone 3G in the US, Japan, Canada, Mexico, and several Latin American countries, you need to exchange your ultracompact USB power adapter for a new one. Apple (AAPL) said they’ve had reports of the prongs coming out and getting stuck in sockets, which can cause a showck if you try an [...]