Raffi Krikorian, author of TiVo Hacks and occasional contributor to this site has launched a new site of his own called mehack. It’s along the same lines as TiVo hacking but goes beyond to cover how to hack just about any electronic device in your home or car, and covers news and equipment necessary to … Read moremehack
Back in August of 2002 I helped found Gizmodo, the gadgets weblog. It was a labor of love, but never intended as more than a part-time freelance job. After nineteen months I’ve decided to take a risk and launch a new site that will let me do what I want: Blog about gadgets full-time. In … Read moreBest of Luck to engadget
Doing a bit of construction behind the scenes and looking to move this site to a new host very shortly. Not sure exactly when the domain switch will take place… I am still sorting out an import issue on my newer installation of moveable type at the future locale. Stay tuned… hopefully nothing will break … Read moreUnder Construction…
Sure the real reason is to get confidence cooking in the company, but I am just glad they are seemingly going to produce this. I really enjoyed the Chronicles of Narnia books as a kid and would welcome a live action version. I’ve recall seeing an animated version a long time ago and have heard … Read moreThank you Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings!
Samsung has announced a new addition to its collection of Palm OS smart phones. [Brighthand] According to this site, it will run Palm OS Garnet 5.2. Its processor isn’t known at this time, but the i500 uses a 300 MHz Intel processor. The i530 will have 32 MB of RAM and an SD/MMC slot for … Read moreSamsung Preparing i530 Palm OS Smart Phone
The Super Bowl is supposed to be the biggest day of the year for advertising, but when measured against the Academy Awards this year, it seems, well, hobbit-size. [New York Times: Business]
palmOne has released a second user installable ROM update for the Tungsten C handheld. The update new support for Wi-Fi roaming, a digitizer fix and other wireless bug fixes. [PalmInfocenter]
This is too cool… this is a bit complicated, so hopefully i can explain this properly. if you read this site, you know i created a “portable geek gym” basically it’s a few mobile devices that i wear while i run. the next evolution of the features is something i’ve been working on for a … Read moretoo cool
Internet giant Yahoo! Inc. is adopting a new system for indexing Web pages that will charge businesses to include more material currently unlisted in its online search engine, marking the first volley in a duel with its former ally Google Inc. [eWeek.com Messaging and Collaboration – Featuring Steve Gillmor]
Researchers at the pioneering PARC labs have developed software that allows all consumer electronics devices to communicate with one another, making networked home devices easier to use. [CNET News.com]
I finished reading Cory Doctorow’s excellent second novel, Eastern Standard Tribe via Palm Reader Pro, which has some features that really seem worth the upgrade from free. First – the book was great! I really like the kind of science fiction that is like 5 minutes into the future and in this case feels very … Read moreEastern Standard Tribe
Today we took advantage of the perfect weather (60, no wind and very sunny) and headed uptown to check out Central Park. Hannah rode the train once again up to 59th Street and from there we decided to check out the new Time Warner Towers… Inside (the part we saw anyway) is really an upscale … Read moreA Day On The Town
NASA to Announce ‘Significant Findings’ of Water on Mars Tuesday [SPACE.com]
The United States, Canada, China, South Korea and the Netherlands are the top five birthplaces of spam worldwide, according to a new analysis. [CNET News.com]
Here are some links (scroll down) to what look like official marketing videos. [PDAntic Blog]
A new report from the Pew Internet Project says that “44% of U.S. Internet users have contributed their thoughts and their files to the online world.” [Dan Gillmor’s eJournal]