Posts by John Herrman
Software
This Week’s Best iPhone Apps
10:20AM John Herrman | In this week’s never-gonna-switch-so-stop-asking app roundup: Free games, reinvented! Aeroplane anxiety, averted! Photos, wirelessly printed! Cool apps, discovered by other cool apps! Navigation cheapened! Black Friday rush, preempted! Google Wave, appified! Screens, pointlessly tapped! And more! More »
Entertainment
What Netflix On The PS3 Actually Looks Like
6:35AM John Herrman | The tale of Netflix on the PS3 is sad: Sony’s solution is only now shipping after sitting pretty on the Xbox for more than a year, and to add insult to injury, it comes on a disc. Thankfully, it’s slick. More »
Software
All Of Snow Leopard’s Hidden, Secret Settings Laid Bare
4:25AM John Herrman | Screencap formats, secret dock animations, previously unseen menu shortcuts, login screen backgrounds: These are the hidden settings that Apple doesn’t want you to see (or just forgot about) and that Secrets — a free, super-simple app — helpfully wrangles into one place. More »
Software
1:51AM John Herrman | Windows 7 rolls past Snow Leopard in just a week, almost everyone still runs XP, and Vista, which didn’t even crack one-third of its predecessor’s install base, is doomed to be forgotten. This is the world outside Gizmodo, people. [Ars]
Reality Check
1:51AM John Herrman | Windows 7 rolls past Snow Leopard in just a week, almost everyone still runs XP, and Vista, which didn’t even crack one-third of its predecessor’s install base, is doomed to be forgotten. This is the world outside Gizmodo, people. [Ars]
Software
Pre Developers Get Stupid-Simple Tool To Make Stupid-Simple Apps
1:28AM John Herrman | It’s no secret that Palm’s been taking it niiiice ‘n slow with their app strategy, whatever it is. Here’s their next baby step: Ares, a browser-based, drag-and-drop development toolkit for making simple apps. It’s a marginally good idea! More »
Software
Giz Explains: Android, And How It Will Take Over The World
Business
Intel Hit With A Massive Antitrust Suit, In the US This Time
3:19AM John Herrman | Remember how AMD got smacked in the face with a $US1.45 billion fine in the EU for shadily suffocating AMD into submission? Today, New York’s Attorney-General has brought the fight to the US. This is going to get messy. More »
Games
3:18AM John Herrman | The DSi shatters and fragments, which is more effective at maiming and disabling a target. On the other hand, the PSP Go! remains whole, for greater penetration through tough surfaces. Both, however, are fun to look at. More »
Which Handheld Console Is Better At Smashing Walls?
3:18AM John Herrman | The DSi shatters and fragments, which is more effective at maiming and disabling a target. On the other hand, the PSP Go! remains whole, for greater penetration through tough surfaces. Both, however, are fun to look at. More »
Gadgets
The Bomb-Sniffing Gadget That’s (Definitely Not) Saving Iraq
1:51AM John Herrman | The promise of the ADE 651 is seductive: a handheld detector which susses out bombs, guns, drugs and human bodies from up to a kilometre away. And the Iraqi military swears by it! One problem: It doesn’t seem to work. More »
Computers
