If Xbox LIVE doesn’t work for you today, there’s good reason. Microsoft planned the outage for maintenance. “On Tuesday, June 16 beginning at 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. PDT (2009-06-16 0701 to 2009-06-17 0659 UTC) Xbox LIVE and Xbox.com will be offline for scheduled maintenance.” In other news, PSN should be online, but it’s still a bitter disappointment.
Remember those heady days when USB drives used to cost hundreds of dollars? Well, thanks to Kingston’s latest 128GB monster, they can again. More »
There are plenty of ways to deal with the twinned problems of insufficient plug space and cable tangle, but the obscenely overdone Outlet Wall concept, courtesy of Ironic Sans, is easily my favourite. More »
From TeamXbox, the same site that may or may not have broken news on a PSP-like Microsoft handheld, comes a marked rumour about the next Xbox. More »
If you haven’t watched the season finale of Galactica, don’t read this. But if you have, it’s time for a definitive revelation: Luke’s father was really a Cylon. More »
In the days of touchscreens and wireless data, our heroes of yesteryear find solace in the companionship of one another. More »
The iPhone Dev Team has got us excited (and Apple worried) by announcing they have a fully-working software carrier unlock ready for the 3.0 firmware ahead of its official release. More »
Mathematica’s Wolfram Alpha, the occasionally cheesy, unintentionally racist autistic savant of search engines, has finally gotten a mobile version. It’s optimised for iPhones, and therefore Android phones, the Pre, and others (It works fine in Opera Mobile, for example). Search pages are presented in a clean, simple menu format, although results seem mostly unchanged. [Wolfram Alpha via Electric Pig] More »
A marginal player in the desktop browser field, Opera has done something pretty wild with the next version of their software: they’ve turn it into a zero-config server for files, music, photos and websites. More »
