With floppy disk drives long gone, someone on Reddit poses an interesting question: How much longer will the 3.5-inch floppy disk represent the “save” icon in most computer programs?
You have to think that eventually it’ll get to the point when little kids using computers during their formative years will ask what the hell that …
I don’t know if I’ve ever read anything longer than a sentence or two from Steve Jobs, but he pulled out the big guns with a 1,653-word post on Apple.com called Thoughts on Flash.
It’s been no secret that Apple’s opted to embrace HTML5 over Flash and the Apple-versus-Flash tiff has spilled over into the public arena, most …
Sony’s going the Chumby route (remember Chumby?) with its Dash Personal Internet Viewer. At $200 it’s a tad on the expensive side, but you get a big 7-inch 800×480 touch screen and over 1,000 apps to choose from. Oh and speaking of those apps, they’re actually Chumby apps. UPDATE: While the device uses Chumby apps, it’s also got …
Forget the flowers this year and buy your mom something she’ll actually enjoy. Here are a few gift ideas based on her level of comfort with technology products. Oh, and get her flowers too. And a card.
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Here’s a quick update on the whole iPhone saga for your enjoyment. You’ll recall that over the weekend, a special task force raided Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s home and took most, if not all, of his electronics equipment as evidence that “tends to show that a felony has been committed or that a particular person has committed a …
It’s Tecmo Bowl, but on your Xbox 360. And without the NFL-licensed players and teams. But with a 3D-style look and feel! You can go old-school and play in 2D mode, too. It’s actually the SNES version of Super Tecmo Bowl, redone for the present day and with some extras thrown in here and there.
The big addition here, aside from new
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There was some scuttlebutt—not quite a brouhaha—this weekend when Stephen Hawking said the following during his new Into the Universe series on the Discovery Channel:
“If aliens visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.”
The theory …
Finally! Tiger Scouts, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts now have access to the prestigious Video Games Belt Loop and Video Games Academics Pin. Awards for playing video games? Sort of!
To get the belt loop, you must do the following:
1. Explain why it is important to have a rating system for video games. Check your video games to be …
Modder extraordinare Ben Heckendorn has just wrapped up his second PS3 Slim laptop. This one has a 17-inch 720p display, built-in speakers and headphone jack, and McMaster-Carr friction hinges.
The display’s HDMI cable can be detached from the PS3 in case you want to hook it up to a bigger TV and the headphones allow you to play
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My wife and I live on a somewhat modest income—she’s a teacher, I’m a world-famous blogger—and she still owns well over 1,000 purses. I haven’t counted them all by hand, so my math may be off. Whatever the case, I can only imagine that people in higher economic classes than us have entire rooms in their homes for the sole
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RIM has tapped the Black Eyed Peas’ Boom Boom Pow to show off its upcoming BlackBerry 6 operating system. A fashionable business lady, a man in a suit, and a kid at school all dance behind the transparent interface and push various buttons. It’s all very hard to watch. The final few seconds with the three of them in a B-Boy stance is the …
Available as a developer tool since 2008, Google has now officially opened up Earth View in Google Maps to everyone. You need to install the Google Earth plugin for your browser but once it’s up and running, you’ll have access to three dimensional views of certain places of interest (search for Stonehenge and zoom in, for example).
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