April 2009

Adobe Flash coming to a TV near you

Adobe plans to bring its Flash technology to your TV screens by having TVs and set-top boxes built with support for Flash. Flash is the format used for roughly 80% of video online as well as many online video games. This will certainly make it easier for studios to create content that is viewable on [...]

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Fujitsu Develop Data-Erase USB Memory Sticks

Fujitsu have just announced their latest memory security device; one that erases the data after a certain time period and also has the ability to block users from copying the files from the memory stick to a PC. Perfect if you’ve had your memory stick with confidential files on lost or stolen (something that that [...]

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YouTube Looking To Accept Full-Length Content… Legally

YouTube and Sony are currently in talksĀ  to display full-length content from Sony Pictures on YouTube. About a week ago, a deal was closed between YouTube and Disney to do the same with some short Disney clips – but it seems that Sony Pictures may provide some longer content for YouTube. This may be a [...]

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See Timeline of Events on Google News

I usually have no reason to visit websites to read news as I take it all in via RSS feeds using Netvibes (fantastic reader by the way), but now I have a really cool reason to visit Google News. They’ve launched a new feature called “Timeline of articles” which shows you events and other related [...]

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Will Twitter’s ‘mainstream’ popularity last?

Ashton Kutcher and CNN recently went head to head to see who would hit 1 million followers first (Kutcher won by a nose), and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone remarked that it was another watershed event in the history of Twitter. One reporter said that this brought Twitter mainstream, but in our opinion, that does not [...]

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Article Recap for the Week ending Apr 17, 2009

We started off the week by reporting that Amazon’s Kindle Store has surpassed over 260,000 books with an exponential growth rate – at least that’s not a reason not to own one. We took a look at the available VHS to DVD converters and other analog to digital converters (both hardware and software solutions). We [...]

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Top Spy Cameras For Non-CIA Agents

Spy cameras – nothing new here; hidden cameras have been around for years and have slowly made it from the upper echelons of the security services down to ordinary consumers like us. Here we’re going to feature some of the best hidden spy cameras that are available right now for an ordinary person. Starting off [...]

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Rock Box – Storage For Your Rock Band

So you’ve been rocking out on Rock Band and have plastic instruments strewn around the living room in front of the TV. Want to get it out of the way when you’re not fake-shredding? the AK Rock Box should solve this – it is essentially a stylish ottoman, that wouldn’t look out of place in [...]

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Fun and interesting uses of Google Latitude

The bloggers of Google’s mobile division has put together a quick entry on some interesting uses of Google Latitude (that they probably didn’t envision). Perhaps the best one is of a poor guy tracking down his phone after he forget it in a cab. Phone made it to Boston less than half a day later. [...]

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Gmail Labs now has an insert image feature

Thank you, thank you Gmail Labs team. There is now a new Labs feature that lets you insert images directly into e-mails you compose within Gmail. While it’s not something I use that often, when I do, I spend waaaay too much time trying to get images inserted. Don’t know about Gmail Labs? Oh, you’re [...]

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