Believe it or not, there’s a site dedicated to deceive kids into thinking that Santa Claus exists: Send photo, pay $US10 and they insert Santa. Can you guess what Santa is doing here?
Chances are, digital radio hasn’t exactly got you worked up under the collar. I mean, it’s radio, and in today’s world of podcasts and IPTV, radio doesn’t quite have the same kind of allure. Well, anyway, Austereo has announced the first of their digital channels today, ahead of the official digital radio launch in May next year. The new station, Radar Radio, focuses on undiscovered Australian artists, and rather than featuring proper DJs and shows, will instead feature pre-recorded announcements announcing each track, according to Michael Bodey over at the Australian.
TechCrunch is confirming what I relayed to you last night, that Chrome is officially no longer a Google beta product. Its 15th release is free of that familiar Google “beta” badge, and though the install base isn’t what some had hoped for, Google itself is bragging that the app has accrued 10 million active users in 100 days. So, like I was saying, here comes the mother of all browser wars. Oh, and yes, we would like a Mac version sometime in the next two months. [Google Blog via TechCrunch]
Ask any unshowered person in a tie dye shirt and they’ll go on for hours about the benefits of hemp, nature’s wonder material that has nothing to do with weed. Now here’s a hempmote.
It’s no secret that being an iPhone app developer is at times rough business, mostly due to Apple’s goofy authoritarianism. But judging by some recent soul-spilling by a few leading devs, things are getting rougher.
Sick of all those fake instruments cluttering up your living room? Try Korean-made Funny Band, which takes a guitar and shoves drums on the back and a keyboard on the front for some insane reason.
The UK police have a dream that one day, even the most technologically illiterate in their ranks can pop a device into a computer that will automatically flag illegal activity on the hard drive.
General Electric’s new Energy Smart CFL.fluorescent light is one of those things that makes you scratch your head and wonder: How the hell do they do that? A fluorescent spiral lamp into a traditional bulb?
We already know the new MacBook Pros have video problems, so when the Inquirer says their Nvidia GeForce 9600 GTs use the same faulty material that killed earlier graphics cards, it doesn’t look good.
Most of you know that seeing the difference between 720p and 1080p depends on screen size and how far away you sit— but, in the end, it really comes down to your eyes.
