Michael Santo
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... but only from AT&T. If you go to AT&T's site, you can buy an iPhone 3G online, and have it delivered the next day (free). Ah, the comforts of being able to skip the store (as with the original iPhone). Apple, on the other hand, has no such online buying option on their site. AT&T is actually shipping the phone pre-activated,...
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It's been a missing, yet highly called-for feature on the iPhone since it's launch: copy-and-paste. But despite its appearance in surveys done by Apple over possible new features, it's still missing from the OS. Now a company called Pastebud appears ready to unveil a limited version, which doesn't require any software installation. It works...
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Zeitgeist is a German term that means "the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era," or as Google likes to say, "the spirit of the times." On Wednesday Google released their 2008 version of their annual Year-End Zeitgeist List which purports to highlight "the big events, memorable moments and emerging trends that captivated...
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Video:Samsung SyncMaster 2343NW @ InsideHWMSI R4670 512MB Review @ OCCMSI Radeon HD 4830 512MB OC Video Card Review @ Legit ReviewsSapphire Radeon HD 4650 HDMI 512MB video card review @ Elite BastardsPalit Geforce 9800GTX+ (512Mb DDR3) @ CPU3DMotherboards and Chipsets:Gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H Motherboard @ iXBTMSI KA790GX-F Motherboard @ CPU3DFoxconn...
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How long has Google's Gmail been in beta? Years. And yet a report indicates that Google wants to take its Chrome web browser out of beta, only three months after its first beta release. Seems difficult to imagine, what with the product's still buginess, but there's an apparent method to this madness. According to TechCrunch, VP Marissa Mayer...
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Remember all those iPhone 3G issues when it was first released? Perhaps if every AT&T customer had a femtocell in their house, we wouldn't have seen so many complaints. AT&T is currently testing the "cell phone signal boosters" in employees' homes, and is looking at a broader, city-sized test with customers in the Q2 2009. A femtocell...
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A British surgeon volunteering in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa used text messaging to help him perform an unfamiliar surgical procedure, saving a teenager's life. David Nott was volunteering for the French medical charity Medicin Sans Frontierescame (A.K.A. Doctors Without Borders) and when he first saw J he knew he was dying,...
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It's a fairly common strategy: buy a new computer, and then upgrade the RAM yourself. In general, it's cheaper, and often the new RAM is of better quality the OEM RAM. But Macs have been known to be picky about RAM, and right now it looks like if you want to upgrade your shiny new aluminum Macbook, you might want to wait: multiple crashing...
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Video:Affordable Graphics Cards Roundup @ InsideSWXFX GeForce 260 GTX Review @ NVNews.NetPALIT Radeon HD 4870 512MB Sonic Dual Video Card Reviewed @ TheTechLoungePalit Revolution R700 Deluxe HD4870X2 Review @ OCCPalit Revolution 700 Radeon HD 4870 X2 Video Card @ BmREnvision G218a1 22" Widescreen Monitor Review @ OCIA.netMotherboards and Chipsets:MSI's...
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Access to editing a Wikipedia article in the U.K. has been effectively blocked after the U.K.'s Internet Watch Foundation added a Wikipedia article on Virgin Killer, an album from German heavy metal group Scorpions, to its blacklist. The album's cover art image, depicting what appears to be a nude underage girl, is what caused the blacklisting....
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Spore is not only a retail hit, it's a BitTorrent hit, according to a recent top 10 assessment of PC game piracy by TorrentFreak. Spore's SecuROM DRM earned it negative customer reviews at Amazon.com, protest Spore creatures, as well as lawsuits. According to TorrentFreak (and honestly, many others), it also earned the game a ton of pirated...
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Video:Battle of GPU Transcoders: ATI Avivo Converter and NVIDIA Badaboom @ PC PerspectiveTwo Palit GeForce 9800 GTX+ Graphics Cards Reviewed @ X-bitLabsMotherboards and Chipsets:MSI Eclipse @ t-breakMemory and Storage:A-DATA Vitesta DDR3-1333MHz 3GB Triple Channel Kit @ TweaktownG.Skill 2x2GB PC2 6400 (F2-6400CL4D-4GBPI-B) Review @ Overclockers...
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Last year a report from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia said that the particles of toner released by laser printers might be as bad for your health as cigarette smoke. A new study from Germany's Fraunhofer Wilhelm Klauditz Institute (WKI) purportedly refutes that conclusion. The report, interestingly, was done in...
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Nintendo wanted to show off the Character Importer feature of Animal Crossing: City Folk for the Wii. To do so, it sent media pre-played copies of the old (2005) DS game, Animal Crossing: Wild World, with much of the content unlocked. Unfortunately, it appears whoever played the games added a surprise Nintendo never intended.Both MTV Multiplayer...
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In late October AT&T finally opened up its hotspots to iPhone users, but it did so by using a rather convoluted system that involves logging in with your phone number and waiting for an SMS with a link to be returned. Devicescape has a app that bypasses all this extra work, and lets you login to an AT&T hotspot with one button click....
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OCZ Technology Introduces the Throttle eSATA Drive, Offering Enthusiasts Blazing Performance over Traditional USB Flash StorageSunnyvale, CA—December 4, 2008—OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today introduced the Throttle eSATA drive, which offers performance and...
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Video:Sapphire HD 4830 512MB Review @ OCCDiamond Radeon 4870 - 1GB Edition - Reviewed @ Boot Daily.comPalit Revolution 700 Deluxe HD 4870 X2 2GB Graphics Card @ TweaktownXFX GTX260 Black Edition (GX-260N-ADB9) @ InsideHWThe NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 & 4800 Professional Graphics Card @ TechARPMotherboards and Chipsets:MSI IM-945GSE-A Mini-ITX...
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William J. Gillis Jr. filed a lawsuit against Apple in September which alleged that Apple and AT&T had made overstated the performance of the iPhone ("twice the speed, half the price," remember?). Apple's interesting legal response says, in part, we're not lying about the performance, but honestly, you should know better than to believe...
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OCZ Technology Announces the CrossOver USB Flash DriveA Unique Storage Solution with Integrated MicroSD Adapter for Ultimate VersatilitySunnyvale, CA—December 2, 2008—OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today introduced the CrossOver USB 2.0 Flash drive, the latest line...
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You might recall the "Ad Hoc" distribution model, which was used by the developer of the "booted" Podcaster app to distribute his program. That really got him into hot water; its actual use was for beta testing or promo copies. It was a pain to use for promos,though, as developers had to custom build the app for each user. But finally, Apple...
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Another day, another Yahoo! acquisition rumor? According to a terse report on Tuesday in the WSJ, ex-AOL CEO Jonathan Miller is trying to raise funds for a bid on Yahoo!, which may result in either a total or partial buyout of the company. Unlike the last such rumor we reported on, which came from the Times Online, and didn't mention any sources,...
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Video:NVIDIA's GeForce Power Pack 2 - GPU PhysX revisited @ Elite BastardsSapphire Radeon HD4830 512MB Graphics Card Review @ Bigbruin.comSapphire Radeon HD 4870 Toxic Review @ OCModShopMotherboards and Chipsets:Asus' P6T Deluxe motherboard @ bit-techMemory and Storage:In-Win 'NA USB Hard Drive Enclosure @ CPU3DPatriot Xporter Magnum 64GB...
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