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Twitter was a big part of our Macworld keynote address coverage today. Thousands of others were also on Twitter for the same thing; just watching the #macworld and #mwsf09 hashtags on Monitter showed 4+ Tweets per second regarding product announcements and demos. When I finally stopped Tweeting and stepped back to take a look at […] Add comment
Four announcements were dropped during this year’s somewhat drab keynote address. Check ’em out: 17″ MacBook Pro A 700:1 contrast 1920×1200 LED display with a gloss finish ($50 for matte upgrade) and 60% improved NTSC gamut .98? thick 6.6 pounds Integrated battery with a promised 7-8 hour battery life Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93 GHz […] Add comment
Live coverage of the 2009 Macworld event, Apple’s last, began at around noon. Keep your eyes here or on Twitter for time-stamped updates straight from the keynote address. 1:37 PM EST: That’s all, folks. Apple’s 2009 keynote address has come to a close. Are you excited by what you saw today? Disappointed? Were you expecting […] Add comment
Okay, seriously, is it something in the water in that corner of the world? First Australia’s communications minister wants to censor the net, and now anyone in New Zealand simply accused of file sharing is guilty without due process. TorrentFreak writes about the Copyright Amendment Act’s “Section 92” set to take effect at the end […] Add comment
On the Windows side of things, Google’s Picasa program has received favor for intelligently organizing everyone’s growing glut of digital images. As of today, the Apple-devout can also jump on the bandwagon with Google’s immediate release of Picasa for Mac. PR noisenoisenoise after the jump. Aren’t you even a little bit interested? Add comment
In just early November, AMD CEO Dirk Meyer announced that AMD had no intention to compete in the Netbook market. Instead, AMD and Meyer reasoned that it would be more lucrative to fill a slice of the market that lay between the ~$500 netbook and the ~$1500 ultra-portable. In that regard, AMD has just recently […] Add comment
The DFI Lanparty DK 790GX-M2RS is best suited for AMD overclockers, thanks to its robust BIOS and massive tweakability. It’s begging for a Phenom II. Add comment
Guru3D likes the tricked out HIS Radeon HD 4870 IceQ+ Turbo 1028MB graphics card. Add comment
The Hitachi Deskstar E7K1000 hard drive is built for enterprise use. It’s expensive and slow. Add comment
Benchmark Reviews has released its findings for the best CPU coolers of Q4 2008. Add comment
Sure to raise the ire of Cupertino’s finest, the EFI-X Boot Module allows a PC to run Mac OS X on any hardware without the need for funny hacks. [The EFI-X module], which connects directly to a PC motherboard’s USB connector, is a complete implementation of the Extensible Firmware Interface specification, which Apple uses as […] Add comment
President elect Barack Obama used the internet as a cornerstone of his campaign. With a tremendously successful presence on Twitter, he proved that it is possible to harness the internet to make a powerful case for change. While the account has been disappointingly dormant since November 5, it recently received an update indicative of a […] Add comment
The boys in the lab over at ZDNet gave Windows 7 Beta 1 (build 7000) a spin in 23 productivity tests and it walked away an easy winner. The bottom line is that the more I use Windows 7 the more I like it. Sure, we’re looking at a beta build here and not the […] Add comment
Intel and Adobe have partnered to leverage the Intel Media Processor 3100 CE with an implementation of Flash for DTVs, STBs, and BD Players. PR noisenoisenoise behind the jump. Add comment
Known as E-Prime, this bizzaro-land form of English (someone was bored) banishes all derivatives of “to be.” Add comment
Today’s download of the day, WindowsPager, brings four virtual desktops to Windows 2000/XP/Vista. The unassuming little program uses just 5MB of system memory and brings all the Linux nerds to the yard or, you know… Doesn’t. Add comment
The significant weight loss for Apple CEO Steve Jobs has made him the target of considerable speculation regarding his health throughout 2008. Now, for the first time, a public letter has been released to inform the public regarding his condition. Add comment
A patent was published on December 25th that was filed by Microsoft, back in June 2007. As is usual with most issues relating to Microsoft, this publication has caused a lot of controversy, with one school of thought slating the patent as the most ridiculous, lame brained idea MS has come up with to date […] Add comment
Pidgin is a lightweight messaging application that supports every protocol under the sun. Add comment
Japan’s largest advertising agency, Dentsu, is teaming up with Nintendo to offer a video distribution service on the Wii console. Although the two companies haven’t yet worked out the specifics, it seems as if light entertainment and cartoons are under consideration. Some of the content will be available for free. Though this service will initially […] Add comment
Can Apple sell a tablet to a market that has consistently rejected wide-scale adoption of such devices? Only time will tell, but Apple's strong brand certainly does not hurt their chances of success. Add comment
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