Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Games
Reminder: Xbox LIVE Down Today
11:59PM Mark Wilson | 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.
Peripherals
Kingston Launches “World’s First” 128GB USB Flash Drive… For The Price Of A Laptop
11:40PM Simon Crisp | 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 »
Design
Outlet Wall Doesn’t Want To Hear Another Word About Power Strips
11:20PM John Herrman | 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 »
Games
The Next Xbox To Support Stereoscopic 3D?
10:57PM Mark Wilson | 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 »
Entertainment
Ancient Cylon Could Actually Be Luke’s Father
10:40PM Jesus Diaz | 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 »
Music
10:17PM Mark Wilson | In the days of touchscreens and wireless data, our heroes of yesteryear find solace in the companionship of one another. More »
The Atari 2600 IPod Dock
10:17PM Mark Wilson | In the days of touchscreens and wireless data, our heroes of yesteryear find solace in the companionship of one another. More »
Software
Dev Team Teases Carrier Unlock For IPhone 3.0 Firmware, Will Demo
9:16PM Simon Crisp | 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 »
Software
Wolfram Alpha Now Makes Your IPhone Smarter Too
9:00PM John Herrman | 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 »
Computers
Dell Latitude Z Leaked, Tentatively Held For Photo Shoot
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