Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - Page 2

Google Maps Crowdsources Traffic By Measuring Your Commute

When used on phones with GPS (including the Pre and MyTouch 3G, though not the iPhone), Google Maps crowdsources huge batches of data on how fast you’re travelling on a particular street, thus measuring traffic for fellow drivers.


Computing

Apple Genius Finds Child Porn On G5 In Need Of Repair

Forget Megan’s Law, those Apple Geniuses are pretty darn good at catching paedophiles. An American man was arrested after an Apple Genius found pictures of naked 10- to 13-year-old girls in “explicit” poses on his G5 desktop’s hard drive.


Entertainment

The Reason Behind Digital Radio’s Five Second Delay

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If you jumped on the DAB+ digital radio bandwagon when the service officially launched earlier this month, you may have noticed that there’s about a five second delay between it and the old analogue transmission. Jez Ford over at AVHub managed to find out exactly what causes the delay, and it’s quite interesting…


SendStation PocketDock Lets iPods Embrace MiniUSB

The proprietary dock connector on the iPod line is nice for a wide line of accessories, but it forces you to carry a uni-purpose iPod cable. The PocketDock lets you sync and charge with miniUSB, the accepted standard, instead.


Turn Your Food Into Poop With A Cloaca Machine

Why bother digesting, when the Cloaca machine can do it for you?


Microsoft Takes Its Antipiracy Crusade To Employee Cafeterias

A hungry, possibly larcenous Microsoft employee sent us this glimpse of life from the company’s Issaquah campus. I like to think of it as Windows Geniune Advantage®: Peach Parfait Edition.


Software

iHungry?

I will never go hungry again. At least, as long as my iPhone’s charged.


Online

La Trobe Uni Joins iTunes U

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Melbourne-based La Trobe University today joined a whole heap of other Australian unis by adding their content to iTunes U. I still find it mind blowing that I’m still paying off my 3 years at uni – an education I probably could have gotten for free online if I’d only waited a few years for iTunes U to launch…


Gadgets

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Mario Kart, the Absolute Best Live-Action Videogame Crossover Film Never Made…Google Offers Yet Another Way to Stalk Your favourite Demi-Celeb…LG and Nortel Practice Safe Hand-Offs…A Video of Robots Making Out


Software

How Your Favorite iPhone App Was Designed

It probably went a lot like tap tap tap’s design process here for their app Convert. At least, if the developer actually cared. An illuminating video if you’re never thought about how much goes into good design. [taptaptap]