Archive for December 24, 2006

Hacha’s R280 DAP holds 8GB of flash with style

Engadget. You know, China ain’t just about cheap knockoffs of visible brands. There’s a good bit of innovation going on over there, especially in the DAP space, with players like Meizu almost beating Apple at its own game, and now Hacha doing a bit of a iriver thing with its new R280 player, but doing it quite well.

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Vigor Force Recon QX4 gaming rig brings the Quad FX power

Engadget. AMD’s Quad FX chips haven’t been on the market for all that long, but that hasn’t stopped one company after another from pushing out the gaming machines.

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Best Buy hording PS3’s until New Years Eve?

Just wanted to verify that Best Buy is hording more PS3’s. We received a shipment of around 82 PS3s today around 6pm. What they plan on doing is releasing 14 each day until Sunday, when they plan on releasing 40 (they are all the 60gb model).

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Browsing the Internet on the Wii Opera Browser Video

Curious what it is like to surf the Internet with a Wii? Here you go…

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More PC buyers will be going Mac in 2007

“Intel CPUs and dual-booting Windows are just two reasons more people will be choosing the Mac.” I see the general buzz around Macs as a reason for those who’ve been holding off to finally take the plunge and buy a Mac. And the “halo effect” _does_ exist.

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Mac OS X May Go Embedded?

Apple intends to integrate the software on a couple of devices beginning early next year, those people say, while more comprehensive plans call for it to form the bedrock of a jaw-dropping device not due to hit the market until the following year

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Next Mac OS X Upgrade (Leopard) Will Feature Eater-of-Worlds File System

ZFS. Sounds innocuous, doesn
’t it? ZFS is a 128-bit file system, which means it can store 18 billion billion times more data than current 64-bit systems. “Populating 128-bit file systems would exceed the quantum limits of earth-based storage. You couldn’t fill a 128-bit storage pool without boiling the oceans.”

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[PSP] Firmware 2.80 to 1.50 Downgrader released!

The holiday season has been one to watch out for every PSP homebrew freak. Not only have we had Dark_AleX’s newly released custom firmware, but we’ve also been witness to an unknown (until now) in the scene who just cracked open kernel mode in firmware 2.80. Now 0okm has released a firmware 2.80 downgrader out of the blue, surprising everyone.

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Impressions around KDE 4 development

The last days were quite interesting regarding KDE 4 development: Aaron released a screenshot showing the new Alt+F2 application launcher with translucency abilities and linked a public relations (or sometimes called propaganda) document introducing Oxygen to “normal” people.

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Last Tiger (Mac OS X - 10.4.9) Update May Drop Soon

It’s been 3 months since Apple updated OS X.4, and now there’s news that 10.4.9 is about to be seeded to developers. Obviously this will be the last update to Apple’s operating system before Leopard drops sometime in 2007

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Next generation of Apple Cinema Displays to include HDMI

Tipsters informed MacScoop that Apple is planning to use HDMI technology in its next generation of Cinema Displays, while a recent vague report claims that a larger than 30 inch model could also be on the way.

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Google Calendar SMS notifications now available for Italy

Google Calendar has (finally!) reactivated SMS notifications for Italian cellular operators. Here’s how to activate them from your account. And what about other nations?

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