Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Screens
SilverPac SilverFrame Is a Questionably Acceptable Use of the Term ‘Digital Picture Frame’
11:50PM John Herrman | If a device has a 10.1-inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 512MB of RAM, 1GB of flash storage, Windows, a browser and an IM client, isn’t it really just a PC? If you’re SilverPac, apparently not. [Slashgear via BBG] More »
Weapons
Halo Rocket Launcher Fires Music, Scares Girls Away
11:30PM Jesus Diaz | A guy called Mordacil created this Halo Spnkr rocket launcher with speakers in the barrels to play music from his MP3 player and embarrass himself in front of everyone at school. More »
Software
Microsoft Rolls Out Bing Mobile Site, First TV Ad
11:10PM John Herrman | Bing’s launch has officially reached stage two: Microsoft has rolled out a mobile version of the site, and debuted the search engine’s first TV ad. How are they? More »
Hardware
ASUS Mars GTX 295 Smoothly Running Far Cry at 3840 x 2160 Pixels
10:50PM Jesus Diaz | When Asus claims that their limited edition, Quad-SLI-capable ASUS Mars GTX 295 is the worlds’ fastest graphics card, they are not kidding. Or at least that’s what this video of Far Cry running at 3840 x 2160 pixels shows. More »
Phones
Yet Another Blurry and Fake iPhone 3G Summer 2009 Image (It’s Iron Bar Time!)
10:00PM Jesus Diaz | As WWDC ‘09 races towards us, we keep being bombarded by alleged iPhone 3G Summer 2009 images. This is the last one, which looks totally FAKE to me. (Click to enlarge both images.)
Computers
Microsoft Wants to Rebrand Netbooks ‘Low-Cost Small Notebook PCs’
9:01PM John Herrman | Microsoft wants us to move away from the term “netbook”, instead referring to the tiny, cheap laptops, which the company says demand recognition for handling more than just browsing, as—brace yourselves—”low cost small notebook PCs”, according to Digitimes. Sorry, Intel! More »
Online
Craziest Factory Spam Yet
8:54PM Jesus Diaz | I am pleasure to know you from Internet! Forget Viagra! Forget software! Forget Rolex watches! You need bulletproof attack vehicle! Combined riot shield Explosive-proof blanket! Navy patrol boat! Blast prevention torch! Best regards, Mr. Frank. More »
Software
Opera 10 Beta Adds Visual Tabs, Server-Side Compression
7:57PM John Herrman | The Opera 10 browser beta has opened to the public, cloaked in a slightly new interface and boasting a couple key features over the last version. Live tab previews and new navigation are the most conspicuous changes, though the most important one is under the hood: like Opera Mini and the upcoming version of Opera Mobile, Opera 10 supports server-side compression. More »
Online
YouTube XL Optimizes YouTube For TVs, Touchscreens
7:12PM John Herrman | Google has turned out a new web interface for viewing YouTube, called YouTube XL, which reformats the site to suit web-connected TVs, game console browsers, and, perhaps unintentionally, touchscreens. More »
Games
