Netflix’s online movie-streaming service has been hacked by a Very Clever Personâ„¢. The tools: Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player 11, FairUse4WM, and Notepad. The method: finding and downloading the URL of the video file, getting the license key and stripping the DRM. Sounds simple enough. The catch: only Netflix subscribers can do it. Logically, the rights management stripping only works on videos you have downloaded from their service. [Rorta via TV Squad]
In case our coverage of yesterday’s “Apple Special Event” just wasn’t enough to satisfy your Mac lust, Apple’s posted a streaming video of yesterday’s event in its entirety, minus the Q&A at the end. It’s just like being there, but without the choking sensation from all of the smug. [Apple]
A “mole” at Microsoft has told Ars Technica that after the current inventory is spent, they’re going to “soft launch” new Core and Premium Xbox 360s in late August or September that are loaded up with HDMI and possibly quieter DVD drives, along with the long-awaited 65nm process CPUs. While this is complete hearsay, the guys at Ars has better bullshit detectors than most, and we’ve been expecting these updates for a while, so it’s not exactly flailing speculation—but be sure to keep breathing. [Ars Technica]
T-Mobile made it official today: it launches the Samsung Blast, a pretty black and crimson slider otherwise unromantically known as the T729. We heard rumblings about this MotoRIZR-like cellie a couple of months ago, and as promised, here are the details on its big launch date. Its $99 price (with a 2-year contract) isn’t bad considering that it’s complete with Blackberry connect, and when you slide up that smallish 1.31 x 1.64 inch 176×220 screen it reveals a SureType keyboard similar to the Blackberry Pearl. Jump to the next page to see it lived up to its shirt to reveal that keyboard, and we’ll talk about a few of its other wonders as well.
Lukas Koh’s Space For You printer is rather a clever concept, combining a table with a printer, saving space – and, probably, your printer, if you’ve ever parked your coffee on it by mistake. It’s a simple idea:
Rollerman, aka Jean-Yves Blondeau, a crazy Frenchman whose Buggy Rollin’ suit effectively turns him into a 60-mph trolley, was pitted against a racing motorcyclist for a TV show earlier this year. Blondeau chose the racetrack, but it was a close run thing.
Motorola announced MOTOMAGX at Linuxworld today, their Linux and ALL CAPSLOCK OS. MOTOMAGX promises openness, flexibility and support for third-party applications.” That includes JAVA and web 2.0 apps. Awesome. I’m glad that the company is a) spending money on software and b) will have an alternative OS to Windows Mobile. [CNN]
newVideoPlayer("imackeyboard_gawker.flv", 475, 376); Here’s a video I took in Cupertino today of the new Apple keyboards, iMacs, and what I consider the best features of iPhoto and iMovie: skimming and…skimming. As for the rest of the day, here are the highlights:
Unleash your inner explorer with the adventurous Triton handheld GPS from Magellan. There are six models in total, all sporting QVGA touch screens (2.2″or 2.7″) that are waterproof up to one meter. Some feature expandable memory via an SD slot alongside a 2-megapixel digital camera and digital audio player. The top-of-the-line Triton 2000 has a 3-way electronic compass and a built in barometer. All the Triton models can be enhanced with National Geographic’s own topographical maps, which have never been commercially available on a GPS unit. galleryPost('tritongps', 4, 'Triton Series GPS Units');
Set to be launched next month, the whale-looking Aeros ML866 uses a combination of buoyancy (like a blimp) and lift (like a plane) to cruise comfortably through the air with over 5,000 square feet of interior room, it has more room than some houses. It can take off vertically, without taking up runway time at crowded airports, and even fields, and man, this thing is designed to fit a “business center” with video conferencing, but we were thinking more like a swimming pool with adjoining hot tub, and a few of those 103-inch plasmas from Panasonic. The downside is a rated 120 knots of top speed, which means a world tour on this baby wouldn’t be nearly as quick as it would be roomy. [GizMag]galleryPost('aeroscraftml866', 4, 'Aeroscraft ML866 Corporate Aircraft');
