Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - Page 2

WD Launches 1TB Extra Storage For TiVo Users

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Got TiVo? Run out of space? Well, WD has just released a TiVo-specific 1TB drive for you to archive all your favourite recorded programs.


Mobile

New Version of Google Mobile iPhone App Features Added ‘Ninja’

We don’t have an explanation for this, but the new version of the Google Mobile App for iPhone/iPod Touch lists some pretty wacky improvements, notably “Longer Version Number” and “Ninja.” Rimshot!


Ennova USB Drive Comes Complete With OLED Screen/Fingerprint Scanner

I’m fairly certain that 99% of the population does not need an OLED screen or fingerprint scanner packed into the Ennova USB thumbdrive, but still, it’s nice to stop and ogle at it’s super-techie aspects.


Best Buy Sells Customer a Large Brick In Place of a MacBook Pro. Literally.

In what’s possibly the meanest anti-Apple pun ever, Consumerist reader Ryan was sold an actual brick in a box instead of the MacBook Pro for which he paid over $US2,000.


Software

Windows Mobile 6.5 Will Get TellMe Voice Commands

Unlike some smartphones we know, phones running WinMo 6.5 will get a pretty amazing connected voice command interface, courtesy of Microsoft subsidiary TellMe.


Software

iTunes 8.2 May Point to Blu-ray on Macs

The new version of iTunes 8.2 (required by the latest iPhone 3.0 Beta) has a mention of Blu-ray in the about screen. This means Blu-ray in Macs come WWDC?


Online

Flickr Collage Is One for the ‘Why Didn’t We Think of That?’ File

Flickr user Norby figured out a way to make the site’s interface work in ways we hadn’t expected. [Flickr]


Cameras

Puny Humans Return In Tilt-Shift Video

Keith Loutit’s tilt shift video returns with two more clips: another relaxing one of the beach and one of Mardi Gras. The beach one (Bathtub IV) is very soothing in an innocent way. [Neatorama]


Gaming

Rumour: New PSP Called PSP Go! – Ditches UMD

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Could it be that Sony are actually creating the PSP we’ve all been hoping for since the first version came out? According to our gaming brothers at Kotaku, that could very well be the case.


Geek Out

Biden Tells MPAA Obama’s Intellectual Property Czar Will Be ‘Right’

At a lobbying dinner hosted by the MPAA, Vice President Joe Biden chastised piracy as “pure theft” and assured the MPAA that President Obama’s administration will find the right person for the intellectual property czar.