IceTV has a very, very good point on their blog today about planning your scheduled recordings around this week’s introduction of the One HD sports channel. As in, ‘If you don’t change your scheduled recording before March 26, you’ll probably miss the next episode of House in HD’.
TechRadar has a great post on early Windows 7 concepts that didn’t make the cut— where they originated and what actual features they directly influenced—such as the “Bat Signal”, which became Aero Peek.
With this latest news of a pulled hamstring to go along with his fractured foot, Steve Wozniak is starting to resemble the nerd equivalent of Brett Favre on ‘Dancing With The Stars.’
It’s a pretty big design flaw: 3′s Internet key software only works on monitors with a screen resolution greater than 800 x 600. So on netbooks like the HP Mini 2140, which boasts a 1024 x 576 screen, the software just doesn’t work. Fortunately for me (and now you), the guys at 3 are familiar with the problem and walked me through how to work around it*.
The Gadget:A small waterproof sports camera with mounts for handlebars, helmets, chests, surfboards, snowboards/skis, cars — almost anything. This cam has a 170-degree wide-angle lens. And it’s cheap and amazing.
Google’s Visual Design Leader Douglas Bowman bailed last week. He left, he reveals, because Google’s fundamentally run by engineers. Engineers who do things like focus test 41 shades of blue to decide the best one.
newVideoPlayer("/hudsonbird.flv", 480, 261,""); If you thought that the pilot who landed US Airways flight 1549 on the Hudson River was cool, you haven’t seen this simulation with the real FAA voice recordings. I’m absolutely stunned by his nerves.
I’m a sucker for party games, so when Anu Media came out with iShout Pro—an iPhone version of Catchphrase, a game where Taboo meets Hot Potato—I had to get in on the action.
Microsoft’s releasing their yearly update for Windows Home Server tomorrow, and it’s called Power Pack 2. People who like putting all their files in one centralised, networked place should be excited.
The Deep Flight Super Falcon is a flying submarine that can’t really fly. Not that it matters for anyone without $US1.3 million to spare, but the “fly” part refers to the way it dives.
