iMac, Mac mini supplies growing thin, refresh expected soon

Rumors of updated iMacs have been flying fast and furious lately, and now it seems like they're getting a bit of credibility -- AppleInsider says retailers, including Apple's own stores, have been told supplies of iMacs and Mac minis are "constrained" and that future orders will go unfulfilled. You heard that right -- the Mac mini, the red-headed stepchild of the Mac line, is now also officially on Refresh Watch. Combined with the rumors of revised and potentially cheaper plastic MacBooksSource: Engadget RSS Feed

Countertrend: H-P Says Please Print Often

If your company makes printers but general trends are leaning toward using less paper and moving digital content to e-readers and smartphones, what can you do? Hewlett-Packard’s solution is to find new ways to get people to print more.

The $399 H-P Photosmart Premium All-in-One with Touch-Smart Web (hp.com/go/touchprinting) will print, copy, fax and scan like other all-in-ones. But it connects to the Internet using built-in Wi-Fi and displays customized Web applications on itsSource: All Things Digital RSS Feed

More Social Media Use Means More Email Use

Nielsen set out to prove that social media use put a significant dent into email use, assuming that the more time people spent on social networks, the less time they were likely to spend using email. It didn't quite work out that way in the firm's experiment however.
Nielsen explains its methodology:

We decided to churn some quick data to test our hypothesis that “Consumption of social media decreases email use.” First, we broke the online population into four groups. TheSource: WebPro News RSS Feed

The Buzz: Our Watery Moon

Last June, scientists were thrilled to find evidence of ice on Mars. Now, the galaxy is again proving to be more abundant in water than believed. Data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument aboard the Indian satellite Chandrayaan-1 has revealed that the surface of the Moon may be covered in either water or closely related hydroxyl ions (OH-). As much as one quart of water or hydroxyl might be contained in a cubic yard of Moon soil, according to the best estimates from the data. "ThisSource: Page 3.14 RSS Feed

Rumor: Nikon D3s Refresh In October, Adds 1080p Video [Nikon]

An anonymous tipster over at Nikon Rumors reports this weekend that the pro-level Nikon D3 will be on the receiving end of a refresh on or around October 15.

Topping the list of expected features and improvements are 14fps and 1080p video, as well as a Nikon AF-S Nikkor 16-35mm f/4G ED VR lens.

Things I probably don’t need to remind you of but will say anyway: This is an “anonymous tip” at a web site with the word “rumors” in the title—to say you should remainSource: Today's Review RSS Feed

Bring Back the Radio Wars [GigaOM]

The enthusiasm in Silicon Valley over the growth of mobile broadband and mobile applications is palpable these days, but there’s one thing missing: an understanding of how the underlying network affects both the physical hardware and the way applications run. What we need is the return of the Radio Wars, those loud and acrimonious battles over exactly how we’re going to get our gigabytes of mobile data from Point A to Point B.

In the mid-’90s the debate was over CDMA vs. GSM;Source: GigaOM Network RSS Feed

Mobile Tech Minutes: Viliv MID Touch Interface

I’ve shown the Viliv S7 UMPC on video before, but felt it was worth it to show off the touch interface that Viliv is installing on its UMPCs. The MID touch interface is a program launcher and UMPC control that’s designed to be operated totally by touch. In this video you will see the interface, along with some special Viliv utilities including media players and the FastWeb browser.

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Read PowerPoint and PDF Files Online with Google Docs Viewer

How do you read the contents of a PDF document or a PowerPoint Presentation if you don’t have the corresponding viewer installed on your computer or mobile phone? The immediate answer would be that you upload the file to a document hosting site like Scribd or SlideShare and read the contents inside the web browser.

Perfect but there’s a small problem. Most of these sites render documents using Flash and therefore the approach may not work on a mobile phone like the BlackBerry or anSource: Digital Inspiration RSS Feed

Microsoft Turtle Comes Out of it’s Shell and Brings the Pure With it.

It seems Microsoft were oblivious to the whole Bob Quick photograph scandal, as they’ve gone and made a similar blunder. Photographs of Microsoft’s ‘Pink Project’ were left around and Gizmodo have taken full advantage. Here you can see two photos of the alleged ‘Turtle’ and ‘Pure’ Microsoft phones, they aren’t shots of the actual phones but rendered images of what they’re expected to look like.

So it doesn’t look like it’ll be launching an attack on the high-endSource: Dial-a-Phone RSS Feed

Sony Ericsson Equinox (T707) coming to T-Mobile USA in October

Announced back in March by Sony Ericsson and Maria Sharapova, the T707 will be soon released by T-Mobile USA as Sony Ericsson Equinox.

Coming as a fashionable clamshell phone, the Sony Ericsson Equinox should be on sale via T-Mo starting October 28.

The features of Sony Ericsson Equinox include: scratch-resistant displays (QVGA internal one and 36 x 128 pixels external one), stereo Bluetooth, picture messaging, 3.2MP camera and “fashionable pulse light.”

No word yetSource: Unwired View RSS Feed

Columbia Sportswear Puts Reusing Boxes on the Map

Columbia Sportswear wants consumers to act like 2-year-olds by seeing how much fun they can have with a cardboard box.

Taking pages from interactive fads Where's George? and Flat Stanley, Columbia is using social media to encourage people to reuse shipping containers.

The company last month launched A Box Life, a website for tracking the travels of boxes which have been shipped to multiple locations. The process starts when customers choose a previously used box for theirSource: Matter Magazine RSS Feed

Nokia’s Ovi Store Enables Re-downloads

When you buy a piece of software (or any product, for that matter) you’d like to feel as though you’re able to keep it for as long as you need it, regardless of where you go or what device you use. But until recently Nokia had a different philosophy for anything purchased through the Ovi Store.

It used to be that any purchase made in the Ovi Store would be limited to one download only and could not be transferred to another Nokia device.

That’s why we were happy toSource: Unwired View RSS Feed

Irex officially unveils new wireless e-book reader

Rendering of the Irex DR800SG.

(Credit: Irex)

Back in August we wrote about the impending arrival of a new, touch-screen, wireless-enabled e-reader from Irex, and now the company has officially unveiled the product, the DR800SG, which boasts a 8.1-inch screen and costs $399.

While Sprint provides the Amazon Kindle's wireless service, the Irex e-reader will use Verizon for its 3G wireless connectivity. As with the Kindle, the "free" wireless plan offers unlimited e-bookSource: CNet News RSS Feed

What City Has The Worst Drivers? [Question Of The Day]

It’s Crash Week and, while we’re taking a global view of bad driving, we thought we’d resurrect one of the most controversial driving questions ever: what city has the worst drivers?

After long deliberation, we have to go with Chicago drivers. This is totally subjective, of course, but while driving in New York is hellish, it’s predictably hellish, and you know you’re in for rudeness and sleep-deprived taxi drivers before you set out. The same goes for Los Angeles, whereSource: Worlwide Cars News RSS Feed

Compete: “Facebook” Was Top Search Term in July

Facebook was buy far the most-searched term in July, according to a fresh look by Compete at the data today. Among the fastest-growing terms, it was searched for 69.5 million times. Number two was Craigslist, in distant second, with 32.9 million queries.

The number of searches for a company often correlates with its overall popularity. Facebook got much more popular this year, growing 495 percent from 11.7 million in July of the previous year. Microblogging psuedo-rival Twitter Source: Inside Facebook RSS Feed

Yahoo Will Spend More Than $100 Million To Try To Connect With You

Yahoo unveiled a new branding campaign at a press conference in New York City, centered around personalization and connecting directly with consumers. The Web company’s new tagline is, “It’s Y!ou” (with the awkward Yahoo exclamation point in there). Yahoo wants to make the Web personal and it is emphasizing the various ways it does that through the Yahoo home page, search, and individual properties. The company will be spending “more than $100 million” on this new Source: TechCrunch.com RSS Feed

Magnetic Attraction

Aufhanger is the re-design of an ordinary hanger sans hooks. It uses magnets within its body to latch onto the steel rod of the wardrobe. The body of the hanger could be of cast aluminum, but wood or plastic can also be used. Magnets like Neodymium N42 or N50 can also be used for their strength and stability. A hook-less hanger not only looks classy but is quite functional as well. BTW, the magnet part is nestled on the top rim.

I would like to leave you with this wonderful lineSource: Yanko Design RSS Feed

250GB PS3 Slim bundles tipped in Norwegian leak

Sony may have denied the existence of any imminent 250GB PS3 Slim bundles, but obviously nobody told retailer GameStop in Norway.  According to an apparent leak from their inventory system, several 250GB SKUs – bundling titles like Need for Speed: Shift, FIFA 10, Uncharted 2 and Assassin’s Creed 2 – are incoming to the store.

Other screenshots have shown a fifth SKU, bundling Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time with the new 250GB console.Source: SlashGear RSS Feed

Rumor: Handful of 250GB PS3 bundles heading to Europe

This morning, Joystiq received two images, from an alleged Norwegian GameStop employee, in which multiple PlayStation 3 250GB game bundle SKUs are visibly on display. In one image, claimed to be an internal email to all Norwegian GameStop employees, instructions on the difference between the rumored 250GB PS3 bundles and the current 120GB PS3 are found. The email "there is no difference" aside from storage space and posits four possible "PS3 250GB" bundles: One paired with "NFS"Source: Houstonist RSS Feed

Garmin-Asus nüvifone coming this October

The Garmin-Asus nifone has been talked about for a while, but now it's gone from talk to reality. The nifone G60 is expected to hit the market in October for $299 after a $100 mail-in rebate with a 2-year contract.

The nifone G60 is the Linux-based smartphone with a 3 megapixel camera, 3G capability, 3.5" touchscreen, and of course, a built-in Garmin GPS.

With GPS capabilities available as an added feature on practically every phone, Garmin might be a bitSource: DVICE RSS Feed

Paranormal Activity: Speilberg’s Haunted Screener, Remake Madness, and Area 51

The Los Angeles Times has published a great article on Paranormal Activity, which features a bunch of interesting tidbits:

• Steven Spielberg had taken a Paranormal Activity DVD screener to his Pacific Palisades estate, and not long after he watched it, “the door to his empty bedroom inexplicably locked from the inside.” The famous director was forced to call a locksmith, and returned the screener back to Dreamworks in a garbage bag, certain that his copySource: SlashFilm RSS Feed

a link to the quilt

The Wind Waker was a somewhat controversial entry in The Legend of Zelda series due to the childlike cel-shaded graphics, which many fans felt didn’t suit the franchise. No one could possibly object to Wind Waker Link on this quilt, though. And the best part? No sailing.

Okay, so this isn’t actually a quilt. Instead, it’s a quilted design sewn onto a comforter–quicker, easier, and really, pretty awesome (but with less work involved). In fact, if you canSource: technabob RSS Feed

Lock down your Playstation 3 and XBox 360 against roommate theft

It’s been a little over a month since most college students went back to school. The first few weeks can be nerve-wracking for freshmen as they meet new roommates and get used to people coming and going from their room at all hours of day and night. Why take any chances that someone walks into … [visit site to ]

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animals with lightsabers: rawesome

What happens when animals get their hands on deadly energy swords? This.

Over at AnimalsWithLightsabers they do one thing, and one thing only. They put dangerous lightsabers in the hands of woodland creatures, pets and other animals. Actually, they don’t. You do. All of the wacky photos and videos are contributed by people just like you and me – with a little PhotoShop or video compositing skill and a sense of humor. They even take care of the hard part bySource: technabob RSS Feed

Cracker Barrel racist thug's cousin defends beatdown of black woman in front of her child.

Jesus' General told me about this and I thought he was sh*tting me. Giving the source of inimitable satire, that would be an appropriate reaction. However, this was all too true -- and almost beyond comprehension.

Earlier today, Rick Sanchez showed a tape of a fine Confederate-American who says he's Cracker Barrel beater Troy West's cousin.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you asked me why he hit the woman, if you ask me, he was provoked. That's my -- I think he was. Now, it might notSource: Pam's House Blend RSS Feed

If You Love Your Gadgets, Tear Them Apart

When Kyle Wiens and his colleagues flew to New Zealand two years ago, they weren’t on vacation. They had a serious mission: to purchase one of the first iPhones and then ruthlessly tear it apart.

Wiens runs iFixit, a tech company that can be described as eccentric, to say the least. The staff of 20 engineers and college interns specializes in disassembling gadgets while documenting the process with photographs and writing. The end result of their work is anSource: Gadget Lab RSS Feed

Nokia Braille Reader to help visually impaired users read SMS

Nokia has just released a beta application that should allow blind and visually impaired users to read SMS.

Called Nokia Braille Reader, the app works on touchscreen phones, it uses the Braille alphabet and leverages on tactile feedback.

Developed in collaboration with the Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired and the Tampere University, Nokia Braille Reader is compatible only with Nokia’s S60 5th Edition smartphones: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N97,Source: Unwired View RSS Feed

HandheldLearning 2009 free Free Festival first day

Now in its fifth Year, the HandheldLearning conference assembles the full spectrum of players in the field: Teachers, school governors, parents, employers, accompanied minors and anybody who is interested in the positive impact that mobile, always-on computing is having on the quality of learning and teaching experience.

The first day of the of the October 5-7, 2009 conference in London is now open to free registration that includes all of the day’s events andSource: Smartmobs RSS Feed

Kanye West Disrespects Our Website

This is pretty awesome. You’ve probably heard about hip hop artist Kanye West’s antics on Sunday night during MTV’s VMA awards. If not, watch this. Basically, West interrupted country singer Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech to say that Beyonce deserved the award. It seems like no one will shut up about it. While West later apologized, his name has been a top trending topic on Twitter ever since the incident. And now any website can suffer the same disrespect at theSource: TechCrunch.com RSS Feed

250GB PlayStation 3 slim Uncharted 2 bundle leaked?

Well, what do we have here? No sooner do we get a 250GB Xbox 360 on the horizon does this image land in our tip box, showing a PlayStation 3 slim bundle for Uncharted 2 that just so happens to have that 250GB hard drive we spotted in the FCC last month. We've been able to independently confirm that it's legit, but beyond that we've got no clue when it'll be announced or any price / release date information. We wouldn't be surprised to see this hit stores in mid-October alongside Uncharted 2,Source: Engadget RSS Feed

Toshiba 160GB 1.8″ Single Platter Drive Launched

Up till now, the largest 1.8″ single platter harddrive had a capacity of 80GB. Toshiba is about to change that though as they have created the same physical sized drive but with a 160GB capacity instead.

The new Toshiba drive is numbered the MK1634GAL and spins at 4200 RPM. It isn’t a SATA drive, and instead uses a PATA interface. The drive also has some soft of acoustic management technology which makes it also run quieter which is another bonus.

CurrentlySource: Gadget Venue RSS Feed

Router/Twitter/Arduino clock

[Kyle] decided to build the above LED clock for his church. Though it may look impressive enough, it is also hiding loads of features. [Kyle] wanted to make the clock as easy to control as possible, so rather than use buttons or dials to control what is being displayed, he used Twitter. The clock is connected to the internet through a Linksys WRT54GL. The router was hacked so not only does it supply the connection to Twitter, it also parses all of the repliesSource: Hack A Day RSS Feed

iPhone’s Limitations Help Redefine The Term “Switcher”

There is a new kind of switcher on the rise these days, and whiles its numbers are limited, they are nonetheless notable. No, we aren’t talking about people who make the move from Windows to Mac; we are talking about people who dropped one device for the iPhone, but now find themselves making the move back again- most of the time to a Blackberry it seems.

The latest victim to succumb to this switcher-mania is CNET’s Adam Richardson. … [visit site toSource: Gear Diary RSS Feed

LG Android phone, the LG Etna, erupts onto the market (sorry!)

LG have dipped their toes into the Android market with the LG Etna, LG's first Android-based smartphone. The Etna, or LG-GW620 to give it its less-sexy title, looks very similar to the Motorola DEXT, another new Android phone, with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. However, the DEXT differentiates itself from the competition with Motorola's new MOTOBlur user interface, which makes the DEXT unlike any other Android device on the market.

So what about the new LG Etna? How does Source: Mobile Mentalism RSS Feed

Grab your Twitter Follow Badge

Since more and more sites and blogs are adding a twitter follow button, we thought it will be nice to have an easier way to do it, so we've created this "twitter follow badge" generator. It will allow you to simply create a nice looking twitter tab to place at your site/blog.
Just customize the design and position of the badge, and grab the code.
Please keep in mind that this is only an Alpha version of the badge so we're welcoming any feedback and suggestions. In fact we'd love to Source: Go2web2.0 RSS Feed

People's Curse Winner Gets Pardon From Not-So-Bloodthirsty Crowd! [24 Hours Of Lemons]

It says it right on the People's Curse ballots: Don't vote to crush a car just because it's ahead of you! Still, that's what happened today; the White Lightning RX-7 got the most votes.

Not only that, the second-place Lightning McQueen Jetta got the second-most Curse votes. Now, the People's Curse really is a democracy, so the Mazda was going to get destroyed... unless the people could be persuaded to issue a pardon to the super-clean-driving, not-very-cheaty (and perhaps even Source: Jalopnik RSS Feed

Mad Catz MvC2 FightStick unveiled, tags in this fall

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Sharp-eyed Shoryuken forum dwellers recently spotted a Marvel vs Capcom 2 Tournament Edition FightStick at a GameStop conference, and now Mad Catz has officially announced the peripheral, which will be available for both PS3 and Xbox 360 this fall. The stick features Marvel vs Capcom 2 artwork and, like its SFIV Tournament Edition cousins, is fully loaded with Sanwa arcade parts. The stick will be sold exclusively at GameStop, or online at the Capcom

Microsoft’s take on today’s Apple announcements

One things we’ve been wondering today, admidst all of the Apple It’s Only Rock and Roll event news, is how Microsoft was feeling, especially as it pertains to their Zune business, which is set for a major overhaul in six days. We got in contact with a Microsoft spokesperson, and asked them about what they thought of the new iPod and iTunes announcements. Here’s what they had to say:

Since our debut, Zune has offered a different kind of end-to-end digital