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| Posted Jun 8th, 2009 by Chief Gizmateer [e-mail, website]
Engadget received confirmation that AT&T will in fact offer tethering with the iPhone.
Today at WWDC it was announced that 22 carrier partners in 44 countries would offer tethering, but the assumption was that AT&T would not provide tethering. With no official announcements, the question now turns to when AT&T will offer with [...]
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| Posted Jun 6th, 2009 by Chief Gizmateer [e-mail, website]
Steve Jobs may be ready to take the helm back at Apple after his six month medical leave for to work on a nutritional problem. The big question is, will Jobs appear at the World Wide Developer’s Conference on Monday. Normally Jobs would give the keynote address on Monday, but Philip Schiller, Apple’s marketing [...]
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| Posted May 31st, 2009 by Chief Gizmateer [e-mail, website]
Google has launched a limited test of Google Apps Script which allows users to add automation with Google Spreadsheets. Google Apps Script allows you to automate reading and changing values in cells and ranges, changing formats and formulas and creating custom functions and make those functions available from the Google Spreadsheets menu. Scripting [...]
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| Posted Feb 16th, 2009 by Chief Gizmateer [e-mail, website]
The Memorex SingStand revolutionizes the way you can interact with your music allowing you to become a star! The SingStand microphone speaker system allows you to sing along with music from iPod or any MP3 device with a headphone jack (although the iPod Touch’s look pretty darn cool sitting in the SingStand). Impress [...]
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| Posted Feb 15th, 2009 by Chief Gizmateer [e-mail, website]
Atari’s new party game, Ready 2 Rumble Revolution for the Wii, drops on March 17th. The game improves considerably from the Wii Sports boxing game with 18 caricatured boxers which are parodies of celebrities from sports, music and music. The games looks like it will be a party hit.
Amazon has the game $10 [...]
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| Posted Feb 7th, 2009 by Chief Gizmateer [e-mail, website]
Get your FREE Gmail stickers until February 14th! That’s right, you’ll get no love after Valentine’s Day if your request for stickers is not sent to Google on or before Valentine’s Day.
If you want to learn how to get your stickers, check out Google’s Official Gmail Blog or send a self-addressed stamped envelope [...]
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| Posted Feb 7th, 2009 by Chief Gizmateer [e-mail, website]
A fun camcorder/camera for fun times. Sony’s Webbie HD weighs in at 7 ounces and is pocket-sized allowing you to record all your crazy life moments.
The camcorder records 8.5 hours of HD MP4 video which plays nicely with YouTube. The Webbie can also take and store thousands of photos using a built-in [...]
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| Posted Jan 31st, 2009 by Chief Gizmateer [e-mail, website]
Even though we already knew it, Facebook has officially surpassed Myspace with users according to comScore. Even though the two sites were fighting closely for the crown mid-2008, by December the clear winner emerged as Facebook grew to 222 million users, 100 million more than Myspace.
The graph above shows the Google Trend utilizing [...]
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| Posted Jan 31st, 2009 by Chief Gizmateer [e-mail, website]
Apple’s Mighty Mouse may match my keyboard and 24″ iMac in the context of design, but the Mighty Mouse simply does not match the quality of the iMac. After a year and a half, I have finally decided to drop the Mighty Mouse from my desk (literally) and switch to another mouse.
The [...]
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| Posted Jan 25th, 2009 by Chief Gizmateer [e-mail, website]
Fatgadget from Geeky Gadgets had a problem, and as all good Geeks do… he solved it.
While working on his PC, he wanted to watch some video but just could not get his iPhone properly propped. Looking around his desk in MacGyver mode, he found 5 pencils and some elastic bands which were crafted [...]
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