Saturday, September 12, 2009 - Page 2
Software

The Week In iPhone Apps: Spiders, Robots And OCD

This week in your facelifted, more searchable, iTunes-sortable app roundup: Flickr goes official; spiders poop web; your homescreen gets organized; rhythm games find a new muse; and robots master the art of pillow talk.

Computing

GScreen’s Dual-Screen Spacebook Lives On Video

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It runs! It really runs! The GScreen Spacebook that is. We showed you exclusive shots a few weeks ago of the dual 15.4-inch display notebook, but now we’ve got video.

Ceton’s CableCARD Solution Has Six Tuners In One Slot

This Ceton Multi-Channel CableCARD is very interesting, both for its ability to decode six cable streams at once to record six shows at once on your Windows Media Center, but for the fact that it’s not all that expensive.

Sprint CEO: Pre Not In Same Category As iPhone

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Charlie Rose asked Sprint CEO Dan Hesse about how the Palm Pre is doing against the Apple iPhone. The bottom line: Well, but not too well. It almost feels like he’s admitting defeat from the start.

Yamaha’s MCR-140 Wireless iPod Dock Sounds As Good As It Looks

Yamaha’s latest iPod docks look fantastic—it’s made with metal, not plastic—and sounds damn near as good. Our quick impression is that the sound’s rich—highs aren’t tinny like most—and there’s some nice bass response.

Gadgets

802.11n Final Spec Is Final, Finally

Remember when I told you the 802.11n spec wasn’t final, even though you’ve prolly owned a wireless N router forever? It’s final now. Feel better? [Signal2Noise]

New iPod Touch Teardown Reveals 802.11n, FM Transmission

iFixit’s teardown of the new new iPod touch has revealed a few interesting bits of dormant hardware that could eventually get switched on by the powers that be at Apple. This includes support for 802.11n and FM transmission.

Entertainment

Meet The $US135,000 Blu-ray Player That’s Missing A Lot

Blu-ray! A format destined for hobbyists and physical-media fetishists, one that will never enjoy widespread adoption. And this idiotic $US135,000 BD player certainly won’t change that.

Is the Cliq a Way For Motorola To Sell Its Phone Division?

Remember when Motorola told everyone that they wanted to spin off that lame-o mobile division of theirs? Still hasn’t happened! Motorola isn’t depending on the Cliq to revive their phone business; they’re depending on it to ditch their phone business.

Snap Judgement On 3 Different 3D Technologies

CEDIA is the US’s premier home theatre show, with the the big 3D push coming in 2010, I planted my eyes on three types of 3D technologies that you may have in your next TV…and passed some judgements.

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