The wall street journal (WSJ) is reporting that Google is thinking about letting people use the left over space in their gmail account for storing things, as a drive most likely with a web only interface, along the lines of rapidshare. They’re nice and vague about the time this will take to implement, staying with the conservative ”a few [...]
Some developers are gaining early access to the iPhone SDK, according to reliable sources speaking to Electronista. A handful of devs are said to be getting beta or pre beta versions of the tools to help code applications than would be impossible with the current web-only option. Exact details of what the kit allows are unknown so [...]
Rumors are heating up over the future of pentax’s DSLR line, with the latest round of rumblings coming in the form of speculative specifications, the K10d and K100d Super will be replaced with a K20d and K200d. The K200d should get something along the lines of
10MP Sensor from Sony?
PRIME 12-bit Image Processor?
3 FPS (10 Max [...]
A group called Devil Mountain Systems has claimed that Windows XP service pack 3 is somewhere in the range of 10% faster than service pack 2, even calling it a “must-have update”. Vista, on the other hand, looks to be covered with more DRM or something because it’s not getting any quicker. XP seems a [...]
Quite a fun little donationware app for mac was released this week by Pierre Chatel. It allows you to set a desktop at a specific time, allowing for some fun desktop ideas, the included set is currently my desktop background but i’ll make a set for it soon.
Grab the app and try it out, if [...]
The replacement for the Canon 5D, the 5D mark 2, looks almost certain now, thanks to a slip up on phase-one’s website, similar leaks happened before the 40d was released so this seems to be a fairly accurate way of knowing it’s coming soon. Here’s the page
The Canon 5D Mark II is rumored to include the [...]
11.14I have my iPhone
I waited in line for 4 hours, between 2pm and 6.02pm last friday, but it was worth it, it’s a great phone. I made quite a decent day of it, buying a massive cookie with “iPhone iPhone iPhone” written on it.
I was interviewed by the Press and Journal [ Link ] because i was first in line [...]
In a move totally out of redmond, Microsoft has added time limiting features for parents to enforce on their kids for when they’re playing games. It can be set on a per day or per week basis, so the kids can’t even play a lot of video games at weekends.
It’s almost like Microsoft want kids [...]
The One Laptop Per Child Program, in efforts to spread sub-$200 computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, has reached a milestone with the start of mass production.
The nonprofit spinoff from MIT said assembly lines for its “XO” laptops were fired up on Tuesday at a Quanta Computer factory in China. Meaning children (and donors) should begin getting the [...]
Now, on ticketmaster’s site you can, when ordering a song, get an option to buy an album from the specific artist you’re going to see via iTunes, a very nice collaboration of web apps.
“The ability to connect live and recorded music, concert tickets and album sales is the future of the music business,” stated David Marcus, SVP [...]