ups
Phones
Apple Tells UPS To Hold Your IPhone 3GS Until “Future Delivery Date”
5:54PM Simon Crisp | You’ve ordered the iPhone 3GS, Apple has shipped it, and UPS has picked it up and even taken it to your local branch… but that doesn’t mean you will be getting your hands on that 3GS goodness just yet. More »
Random Stuff
Brown Can Thrash Your Packages With A 27 Metre Delivery Toss, That’s What
3:01AM John Mahoney | This candidate for UPS-guy-of-the-year doesn’t even wait for his van to come to a complete stop before someone’s brand new something gets hail-mary’d into the garage. Thankfully, a security cam captured it all. More »
Gadgets
UPS Dumps Labels for Paper-Free Gauntlet-Cum-Printer
10:00AM Matt Buchanan | The gauntlet you see strapped to this guy’s hand is HP’s Handheld sp400 All-in-One, which is not only a hot fashion accessory, it scans barcodes and prints sorting info directly onto boxes (or someone’s face, natch) with magic quick-drying ink, no paper label required. UPS has been testing it out at a ship centre in Orlando, where they used it on 40,000 boxes with zero errors. More »
Computers
How To: Power Your Computer With Car Batteries
12:36AM Mark Wilson | Taking a lesson from the Tim Allen school of modding, one man rebuilt his UPS with a bit more kick. Because the UPS was only able to run his RAID-wielding desktop for three minutes before shutting down, he decided to add two 24V car batteries to the equation (the maximum that his UPS could tolerate). The good news: it worked, and will run his computer for an hour plus. More »
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