Friday, March 6, 2009
Business
Circuit City Stores to Close Forever on March 8th
11:40PM Mark Wilson | Liquidators who are squeezing the last life blood out of Circuit City announced that all remaining stores will close by the end of the business day on March 8th. Farewell old acquaintance. [BusinessWire] More »
Computers
How To Install a Second Hard Drive in the New Mac Mini
11:13PM Mark Wilson | iFixit has posted a fantastic, step-by-step tutorial tutorial explaining how to swap out the new Mac Mini’s optical drive for a second hard drive. More »
Software
Cydia Opening Parallel Paid App Store for Jailbreak Apps
9:45PM John Herrman | Cydia has been the hub of the iPhone grey market for some time now, but developer Jay Freeman is planning on turning the jailbroken app manager into a questionably licit competitor to the App Store. More »
Peripherals
First SDXC Card Is The World’s Fastest, Only Holds 32GB
8:12PM John Herrman | SDXC, the new memory card spec announced at CES, promised exciting things, storage-wise. Pretec demonstrated the first card that’ll support the standard, and at a mere 32GB and 50MB/s, well, it’s a step. More »
Science
Beijing Clinic Using Stem Cells as Eternal Youth Beauty Treatment
6:00PM Elaine Chow | While we debate the morality of stem cell usage here, China’s gone ahead and started marketing it as a beauty product. A Beijing medical centre is offering “age-reversing” stem cell therapy for your face. More »
Weapons
Suicide Bomber Training Vest in the Works
5:15PM Elaine Chow | The US Naval Air Warfare Centre is currently developing a suicide bomber simulation vest in an attempt to prepare soldiers for encounters with possibly rigged combatants, according to patent filings. More »
Design
Tea Bag Lighting Concept is Absolutely Tea-lightful
4:03PM Elaine Chow | Korean designer Wonsik Chae’s light concept is in the shape of a teabag filled with fluorescent molecules that react to chemicals in a teacup. The result: a new meaning to the words “tea light.” More »
Software
3:31PM Nick Broughall | (Apologies in advance for the Sydney-centric rant about to be flung your way).
If there’s a bigger bunch of dicks than the people running Cityrail in Sydney, I’m yet to hear about them. Aside from incredibly inept timetabling, corruption, outdated trains and an overall incompetence in terms of providing a world-class public transport system, they’ve also demanded that a third party developer of an iPhone timetable app pull their program from the App Store for copyright violation. More »
CityRail Stuck In The Dark Ages, Demands Timetable App To Be Pulled From App Store
3:31PM Nick Broughall | (Apologies in advance for the Sydney-centric rant about to be flung your way).
If there’s a bigger bunch of dicks than the people running Cityrail in Sydney, I’m yet to hear about them. Aside from incredibly inept timetabling, corruption, outdated trains and an overall incompetence in terms of providing a world-class public transport system, they’ve also demanded that a third party developer of an iPhone timetable app pull their program from the App Store for copyright violation. More »
Entertainment
Watchmen’s Old School Macintosh SE/30
2:30PM Jesus Diaz | Here it is, Ozymandias’—one of the Watchmen—computer: A Macintosh SE/30, all in black including the keyboard and mouse. One of the many Apple/Steve Jobs references in the movie (spoilers). Click to see the close-up. More »
Games
2:03PM Nick Broughall | Something that wasn’t made terribly clear by the US post on the upcoming Beatles: Rock Band game is that it’s going to be released globally on September 9 this year. That means Australia as well. If you don’t believe me, check out the press release: More »
The Beatles: Rock Band To Be A Global Launch
2:03PM Nick Broughall | Something that wasn’t made terribly clear by the US post on the upcoming Beatles: Rock Band game is that it’s going to be released globally on September 9 this year. That means Australia as well. If you don’t believe me, check out the press release: More » 