June 2009
39 posts
The Pirate Bay Will Close Its Tracker and Remove... →
Alongside the news that The Pirate Bay will sell shares on the Swedish stock market come some other significant changes. The site itself will decentralize and stop hosting and tracking torrents….
Standardized mobile phone charger coming to... →
Apple, Nokia, Samsung, and others have agreed to adopt a charging standard for “data-enabled” mobile devices based on USB. The current agreement only applies to the European Union, though it is hoped…
The biggest problem facing Bing? Loyalty to... →
8 out of the 12 users said they planned on sticking with Google, despite a positive experience with Bing. Some users cited the fact that the engines were producing essentially identical results….
Pirate Bay’s YouTube Competitor is “Coming Soon” →
The Pirate Bay team has continued developing its video streaming site - which will open up to the public within 5 years. On The Video Bay users can share video clips without having to worry about…
How Michael Jackson's death shut down Twitter →
Just seconds after the story hit the internet, messages or ‘Tweets’ about the singer on the micro-blogging site Twitter doubled, leading to a temporary shutdown of the site.
iPhone 3G S Can Record 720p HD Video, But Doesn't →
Apple has thus far decided not to take advantage of these HD capabilities for video recording, as the iPhone 3G S video camera will only capture clips in VGA-quality.
What Will the Return of Steve Jobs Mean for Apple? →
Six months ago, Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs took a leave of absence from his company to focus on his health, leaving the company in the hands of COO Tim Cook and other Apple execs. Since that…
iPhone 3.0: All the Small Things →
Since Apple hasn’t given us a comprehensive list of all the little changes in iPhone 3.0, users have taken it upon themselves to compile the treats they’ve found in the new software, some of which…
A mom cancels a WoW account and ...... [Video] →
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Jobs Had Liver Transplant →
Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple Inc. since January to treat an undisclosed medical condition, received a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago. The chief executive…
iPhone 3G S: Review and Speed Test (vs. iPhone 3G) →
“The speed increases I’ve noticed so far have been nothing short of phenomenal for something that got a 50% speed boost and a doubling of RAM. Quite often, load times have been reduced by up to 4x…
Windows Internet Explorer 8: Get the facts... →
Microsoft’s “Windows Internet Explorer 8: Get the facts” is a carbon copy of the infamous “get the facts” propaganda against Linux, lies and all. Someone decided to set the record straight. My…
Now we all know who Shaun White really is →
Guys Gonna Shit When He Gets Back From His... →
16 Tips to Become an INSTANT iPhone OS 3.0... →
Shout it from the mountain top, copy and paste has arrived on the iPhone. After you’ve gotten your fill of pasting links into your favorite Twitter app and Facebook, here are some tips to make using…
I Dare You to Steal This Bike [PIC] →
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Doing something stupid HAS looked cooler [pic] →
Opera Unite →
The newest service from Opera.
How to Create a Grunge Web Design Using Photoshop →
In this step-by-step web design tutorial, you will learn how to craft a beautiful and eye-grabbing grungy web layout using Photoshop. In the process, you will witness beginning to intermediate level…
Can I Download the Internet? →
n00b asks if it’s possible to download Facebook so he can use it on an airplane with no Internet connection. Hilarity ensues.
Hands Down, The Best Facebook Vanity URL →
As you no doubt heard last night, the whole Facebook vanity URL grab thing was big. Within seven minutes of the service being available last night, 345,000 users grabbed one. Within 15 minutes, over…
Google Wave Questions and Answers →
After whinging loudly about not having access to the Google Wave preview, Santa GOOG dropped me an invite. Last night I held a Wave Q&A on Twitter; here are the results, complete with screenshots.
Top Tweetie iPhone App Secrets →
Here are some of the best keep secrets of the Tweetie IPhone app for you to check out.
10 Snow Leopard Features Not Mentioned at WWDC →
While we do know that Snow Leopard will be taking advantage of the hardware that comes bundled with our Macs, including the graphics accelerator OpenCL and 64-bit compatibility, we’re wondering what…
8 Browser Innovations Started by Opera →
Even though Opera is the most popular mobile browser in the world, in the desktop market Opera is the most under-rated browser despite having created many innovative features. Which was later copied…
First Look at Mickey Rourke as Whiplash in Iron... →
Obviously, we’re seeing a primitive prototype of the supervillain’s eventual armor, a piece of state-of-the-art weaponry the Russian will eventually use on his own people, turning on his government…
T-Mobile Accidentally Posts Secret iPhone 3G S... →
Apple has flatly refused to tell anyone just what chips lie inside the iPhone 3G S. In fact, while Apple insists that the “s” in 3G S stands for speed, it could equally well stand for secrecy. But…
Are Women Born Like This? →
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Kevin Rose on Marketers Producing Digg-Worthy... →
In an e-mail interview, Kevin Rose told Ad Age he’s got faith in advertisers’ ability to produce Diggable content. Insight into trends and what to expect for the rest of ‘09.
DEADLINE - Amazing Post-It Stop Motion Animation →
Awesome stop motion video with post its made by a student at Savannah College of Art and Design for his senior project.
Court Review Says Pirate Bay Trial Judge Not... →
The Stockholm District Court reviewing the charge of bias leveled against presiding Pirate Bay trial Judge Tomas Norström has concluded that the accusation is unfounded.
15 Apps Rendered Obsolete By The New iPhone 3GS →
Chances are you’ve already heard about the iPhone 3G S and some of it’s cool new features. What you might not have thought about, however, are the apps which many developers have slaved over for…
IPhone OS 3.0 Coming on June 17 →
Apple senior vice president of iPhone software Scott Forstall used Monday’s WWDC keynote with the news that iPhone users have waited months to hear: The new iPhone 3.0 OS will be released on June 17,…
AT&T Is SCREWING OVER US iPhone Users! →
What’s the deal with AT&T? How long have they had to prep for this stuff? It’s not like its new or fancy technology. It’s pretty tough to justify this lag in support for iPhone 3.0 features. Lets get…
Apple WWDC 09 Keynote liveblog →
Today at 1pm East coast/10am West coast. This year Gizmodo has a new realtime update technology that will make the Apple liveblog better and faster than ever.
Can Ants Survive in a Microwave? →
I got to work this morning a little sleepy and shoved my breakfast in the microwave oven. After five minutes, it was finished cooking, and upon removing it, I noticed several ants inside the oven,…
Twitter to Roll Out 'Verified Accounts' this... →
On the company blog, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says Tony La Russa lawsuit over fake tweets borders on “frivolous,” but details plans to prevent such abuse of the service in the future.
WWDC banners are up: Let the guessing game begin →
Apple has started decorating San Francisco’s Moscone Center in anticipation of the Worldwide Developers Conference, which opens Monday morning.
6 Real Islands Way More Terrifying Than The One On... →
Summer’s right around the corner. How about a lovely vacation loaded with despair and sheer terror?