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Laptop Buying Guide 2012: How To Find The Right Laptop For You Remember that iPhone app which let you control your Canon DSLR (while it was connected via USB to a laptop) and even display a Live View feed? Well a new version will also add support for those with a penchant for Nikon cameras. The update, which is due out mid-July, is also said to feature a new, more intuitive UI . [onOne via NikonRumors]
Intel researchers are working on wireless power that doesn’t use a conductive pad. Instead, it uses magnets and a tuned directional transfer coil to send music from an iPod a couple of feet to a speaker. It works!
One of the most talked about features of the new iPhone 3.0 software update is internet tethering, or being able to use your iPhone as a mobile modem for your laptop. Both Optus and Vodafone have announced they’ll support the service, although Optus has stated that they’ll be charging you for the privilege. Telstra, Three and Virgin are all yet to publicly announce support for the feature, but thanks to some enterprising people, you can get your iPhone tethered to your laptop for free, today, regardless of carrier. Here’s how.
A delusional Minnesota court has ordered Jammie Thomas, wanton criminal Kazaa user, to pay a total of $US1.92 million for sharing 24 songs. As my own little protest, I’m going to illegally download Metallica’s entire discography. And I hate Metallica.
The Pentagon’s current crop of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are insanely powerful—the “Hellfire” is so named for a reason—but also fairly imprecise, often killing innocent, nearby civilians. The DoD’s new UAVs hope to cut down on such casualties.
Those deconstructionists over at Rapid Repair have taken their tiny screwdrivers or whatever to the iPhone 3GS and disassembled the poor baby. And so soon after its birth!
Yamaha’s MusicCAST2 Network Music System is a Wi-Fi-based tunes centre that allows you to wirelessly transmit and listen to music in up to 32 rooms throughout your home. Do you even have 32 rooms in your home?
NASA launched a lunar satellite into orbit today, which will fire a rocket booster at 9,000kph into a Moon crater, causing a six-mile-high explosion. They hope to find water in the Moon’s south pole. But I find this deeply disturbing.
Here’s the stuff that we didn’t post today. (Until now, obviously.)
