Tuesday, September 25, 2007
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Adobe Photoshop for iPhone Is as Stupid as It Sounds
11:46PM Addy Dugdale | Not the best use for an iPhone SDK but, for some reason, we find this funny. Beware, installing Adobe Photoshop in your iPhone will void your warranty, aspazzarently. [YouTube] More »
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War Ends In 18 Months, Possibly with HD DVD Upset Victory Over Blu-ray
11:40PM Wilson Rothman | Sales of next-gen high-def disc players won’t kick into high gear for another 18 months, says a fresh report from Forrester Research, not until they reach the $200 price point. The study didn’t say whose players, though. What was once an easy call—Blu-ray by Christmas 2007—has gotten murkier, and in the most recent rounds, HD DVD has been bitchslapping Blu-ray up and down the ring. More »
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Amazon Non-DRM MP3 Store now in Public Beta, Easy to Use
11:37PM Addy Dugdale | Amazon’s MP3 store is now in public beta, so you can all have a fiddle around with the DRM-free service &mdash like I just did. First observations: More »
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No iTunes Gift Cards For Your $100 ‘Early iPhone Owners’ Store Credit
11:07PM Charlie White | We bought iPhones here on Day One, and were delighted to see the offer of a $100 store credit from Apple when the company cut the price of that product by $200. But there was a rude awaking here at the Giz when we ordered up some stuff and included a $25 iTunes gift card in the mix. It turns out that Apple is not letting you use these gift cards toward a store credit. Sure, the info about this is buried deep inside the Apple Store’s legal mumbo jumbo, but you’d think the company would have made the info more prominent. That’s why we’re telling you here. Gee thanks, Apple. Read the fine print, everyone. Caveat emptor.[Apple] More »
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ParaScope Urban Combat Sight Allows To Aim and Fire Around Corners
10:33PM Jesus Diaz | The ParaScope Urban Combat Sight is a specialized device that acts like a periscope to allow aiming and firing around obstacles and corners, without having to put your life on the line or firing John McClane-style “Hail Mary” passes. It can be connected to any existing scope, “projecting the target image, with the targeting laser dot, back through it at any angle” and according to the Marines who have tried, it works great. In other words: peeping toms of the world, this thing is a must.[Defense Tech] More »
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Gigashot A100 Series is Small, Full HD Camcorder from Toshiba
9:27PM Addy Dugdale | Here’s a full-frontal of one of Toshiba’s Gigashot A100 Full HD camcorders. The A100F has a 1.8-inch HDD with capacity of 100GB, while her younger sister, the A40F has, yep, 40GB on hers. But they both give you 1920 × 1080 resolution in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format. They’re out in Japan mid-November, a month after the less sexy Gigashot K hits the shops. More pics and specs below. More »
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Sony Gives its Super-Mini Vaio U Series an Upgrade
8:40PM Addy Dugdale | Sony’s pocket-sized U series Vaio has been updated, replacing the previous CPU, an Intel Core 2 Solo U2100 at 1.06 GHz with a Core Solo U1400 at 1.2 GHz. What else? Oh yeah, they’ve boosted the HD: More »
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Lightweight Sony Vaio G2 Has Drip-Proof Keyboard and SSD
8:21PM Addy Dugdale | The next-generation Vaio G is out in Japan next month, boasting a Core 2 Duo CPU, SSD and a drip-proof keyboard, which shuts down the system if it detects a spillage, while diverting the water away from the important stuff. You can see how that works in the gallery below, while the gen on the G2 is after the jump. More »
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Official Launch of Samsung’s ArmaniPhone in Milan
7:25PM Addy Dugdale | It’s not the first time we’ve seen Samsung’s Armani phone, but its official unveiling happened in Milan yesterday, following Giorgio’s runway show. The credit-card-sized phone is 10.5 mm wide, has haptic feedback and will be on sale in Europe from November. An Armani-Samsung Casa LCD TV is to follow in January. Stats, pricing and more pics and pricing of the cell are below. More »
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