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Top 10 Pervasive Tech Myths That Are Only Wasting Your Time Own a Mac? Get a copy of DivX Pro free, today only. Don’t own a Mac? What the hell, grab a copy anyway. You never know when you’ll get one/sell it to someone for $5. – Jason Chen
Update: Not just free for Macs! Windows version here. Thanks hebrewbacon.
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Multitaskers rejoice, Intel is going to start using seperate decoders for HD DVD and Blu-ray playback in certain versions of their Santa Rosa chips. Now your pewny graphics card won’t have put up with your love of High-Def on its own.
That means no more computer slow down when you’re watching Planet Earth on Blu-ray (or HD DVD) and checking out Gizmodo at the same time. That’s a win for us, and a win for you-thanks Intel. – Ben Longo
According to sources very familiar with Apple displays and MacBook development, there is no discernible difference between CCFL MacBook Pro displays and the new LED MacBook Pro displays. All the eyeball tests so far have been either faulty or just plain wrong.
Think about it for a sec. If Apple’s displays were even 5% brighter now than before, don’t you think that’d be one of their selling points? They’re a company known for picking the “optimum” (some would say misleading) test results and figures and using that as something to boast about.
If you wanted to make a slightly more scientific test between the two displays, here’s how.
Friday morning, so it’s time for a treat. Isn’t it great we can eat cake for breakfast by calling it a ‘muffin’?
Speed Racer car for realz! When they make a live action movie, we get some sweet rides to looks upons.
Mod your Dell LCD with some steampunk flavour. Because we all want a Diamond Age style sexy Victorian future, right?
Boeing test fires scramjet. This is one of the hottest pictures I’ve seen in months. Get it?
Three screens, one laptop. Not quite so portable, but hey – three screens!
It’s official: Parallels Desktop 3.0 now available. Now! Those cheeky buggers go and launch so we can get a lot of love in before next week’s WWDC.
Businessweek claims two sources told them Apple will have 3 million iPhones ready for the launch on June 29. This is an absurdly high number. For comparison, Nintendo’s Wii had 1 Million units. The PS3? 400,000. Xbox 360? Around 300,000. So Apple’s going to have about twice as much as all of them put together? Amazing. And probably unlikely.
Here are some more unlikely numbers.
Some of you might recall my recent article about Monster Cable. If you read it through, you’d remember it as the piece that outlined Monster’s more credible scientific claims, culminating in my sober recommendation to buy a cheap HDMI cable first, then work your way up.
We seriously don’t know how you IBM keyboard lovers get any work done when it sounds like Optimus Prime pleasuring himself with a jackhammer. Us? We like things quiet. Quiet like this Thanko Silent Keyboard. It only makes 6db, compared with the 30db a “regular” keyboard makes. Although we’ll still stick to Microsoft’s Wireless Entertainment Desktop series for our quiet keyboarding needs, this $33.17 keyboard is good for those who don’t take typing quite that seriously.
We also hope it works better than the Thanko silent mouse we had to execute. – Jason Chen
Product Page [Raremonoshop via Gearfuse via Pop Gadget]
Ungar buy Dell LCD. Ungar use Home Business coupon, save much money. Ungar see Reuter report on Dell leave LCD market. Ungar sad. Ungar then see dell denial.
Dell say they soon make even more TV, include 40 inch and 46 inch. Ungar no trust Taiwan media now on. – Jason Chen
These guys are fast. They announce one week, then deliver the next. Parallels Desktop 3.0 is now ready to roll, with all those juicy features we talked about last week.
Product Page [Parallels]
The problem we had with buying a whole bunch of backup laptop batteries for CES and liveblogging was that we could only charge them inside the laptops themselves. This means waking up in the middle of the night and swapping batteries, which totally ruins snuggling time with Travis and Mark. With NewerTech’s MacBook and MacBok Pro battery charger, we can sleep soundly through the entire night and wake up with two refreshed batteries in the morning and still be snug in that Gizmodo sandwich.
The charger has two slots, one that chargers and conditions and the other just charges, and will work on both stock and aftermarket MacBook/MacBook Pro batteries. At a price of $149, it’s not cheap, but definitely worth the price if you need it. – Jason Chen
Product Page [NewerTech]
