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If you are of the mind to redecorate your kitchen, you may want to think twice about installing the usual boring old cabinets that are simply designed to just hold stuff. Get yourself one of those hanging pan racks, and free up your cupboard space for more important things, like …
Originally posted at Appliances and Kitchen Gadgets
(Credit: Eee PC News)There are no detailed specifications available, but Asus seems to be readying a 12-inch Eee PC.
Following in the footsteps of Dell, the Asus Eee PC S121 looks a lot like the slim and stylish Eee PC S101, except for a smaller bezel to fit the …
In marketing materials for its new $150 in-ear headphones, Monster headlines its package with the question, “The world’s best-sounding earphones?” I’m not sure if we should take this as a declaration or an actual question, but so far the answer from Amazon reviewers and some blogs is a …
Looks like the Midwest isn’t the only thing that’s freezing up this holiday season: many people are reporting that their 30GB Zunes are spontaneously going on the fritz as well.
Microsoft's Zune MP3 player.
(Credit: Microsoft)
The symptom is being reported widely on discussion boards about Microsoft’s music player, including Zune.net, Zune User Community Forums, and ZuneScene. With the problem, people’s Zunes reboot but freeze when the startup status bar reaches 100 percent.
Some users reported the problem happened at exactly midnight PST, at the very beginning of the last day of the year. That timing led some wags to call the problem Z2K after the Y2K problem that was widely feared to cripple the computing industry when computer clocks moved from 1999 to 2000.
“It reset itself. I don’t know why,” said one owner who posted an account of his Zune problem on YouTube after reporting it on the Zune.net forum.
Microsoft didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment Wednesday morning, but issued a statement later in the day (see below).
“I hate to say it but I believe this is the end of the road for the Zune and I. Just as I was happy with the last update and things were fine, we get another major meltdown. I was always supportive and had good things to say about my Zune to those that would ask, however this is the nail in the coffin,” griped user Redinight on a ZuneScene discussion board. “I can’t take it anymore. I can’t sit here all the time and wonder what Microsoft does right or wrong anymore, I just want to get up and go listen to my music. Listening to music is about the last thing I do with my Zune. I always have to reinstall, download new firmware, or wait for the slow software to catch up. Now this? I want to throw it away and never look back.”
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Originally posted at News - Microsoft
Flying your Bell Ranger in a ball cap is something of a fashion statement. But it lacks that iconic, ant-head panache that until recently only military pilots wearing restricted, government-use-only night vision-equipped helmets could pull off.
(Credit: Nivisys)The NVAG-6 Night Vision Goggles change all that. They’re the first …
Originally posted at Military Tech
Too good to pass up: BioShock for $4.99.
(Credit: BioWare)
Normally $19.99 and originally twice as much, the PC version of BioShock is on sale for just $4.99. No shipping, no sales tax (except in Washington)–it’s a digital download. It’s also one of my …
Originally posted at The Cheapskate
We’d pegged early January for the release of a pink Samsung Instinct on Sprint’s airwaves, and Best Buy’s doing everything it can to help us hold the line on that with a new “Coming Soon” page advertising just such a product. Unfortunately, they’re asking a whopping $599.99 for the pleasure of being the first kid on your block with this thing, but the off-contract pricing in Best Buy’s system is usually way out of whack — we wouldn’t worry about paying anything close to $200 on contract by the time you actually step into the store.
[Thanks, Emilio]
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Sprint’s pink Instinct shows up on Best Buy’s site for outrageous price originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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*From the Free MP3 archive* On new tracks like “Liar (It Takes One To Know One),” the punk/pop heroes continue to evolve their means of crossing alternative leanings with arena-ready hooks. Here, their slight–and welcome–subversions include moodier prod on guitars and genuinely achy vocals.
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Originally posted at Crossfade
Nokia’s 6208c (or 6208 classic, if you prefer) isn’t arriving as a surprise, though it is quite nice to see it being made completely official. The rather unique handset was designed with the Chinese market in mind, as it boasts an integrated, removable stylus modeled after bamboo slips for inputting Chinese characters via pen. You’ll also notice a stainless steel back cover, 3.2-megapixel camera (with twin LED flash), a 4x digital zoom and a microSD slot for expanding storage. Mum’s the word on pricing, but it should be loosed in “select markets” during the first half of 2009.
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Nokia’s 6208c now official, officially in love with stylus input originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Though a few lucky souls have already wrapped their paws around Lenovo’s completely unorthodox W700ds, the dual-screened machine has yet to undergo a proper review… until now. Laptop Mag found the rig to be expectedly dominant in all the right areas, with a ridiculous graphics performance and a stunning display. Yeah, display. As in, singular. The main 17-inch panel was nothing short of stupendous, though the pull-out 10.6-inch LCD was said to be “significantly duller and dimmer.” Additionally, the vertical orientation wasn’t well suited for much of anything outside of sidebar applications (chat boxes, Photoshop toolbars, etc.), but you probably knew that already, didn’t you? All told, the W700ds wasn’t deemed the best value in the world with an anticipated price point of around $5,000, but those with highly specialized needs might just pay the premium to make their dreams come true.
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Lenovo’s ThinkPad W700ds photographed and reviewed originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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