Within a year, IP (internet protocol) addresses are expected to run out. Each IP address is like a unique phone number assigned to whatever device you’re using to connect to the internet. Without a valid IP address you won’t be able to connect to the outside world, so they’re important. But now that our computers, mobile devices, cars …
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You May Now Legally Jailbreak Your iPhone and Rip DVDs
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has just announced some big, big wins for consumers. Labeled as “exemptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act,” a law enacted in the late ’90s to protect copyright holders against piracy, it’s now within consumers’ legal rights to jailbreak phones, rip DVDs (for certain uses), and a 2006 …
Top Ten Monday Tech Deals
Another Monday, another set of handpicked gadget deals to help you stave off the work you may or may not have piling up on your desk. Best Buy has a couple great deals—internet connected GPS for under $100, the very-excellent Logitech MX1100 for $35—along with a couple good camera deals from the likes of Walmart and Amazon. …
MetroPCS Launches $60 Unlimited BlackBerry Curve Deal
MetroPCS is now offering the BlackBerry Curve 8530 smartphone with a $60 no-contract plan that includes unlimited voice minutes, text messages, web access, taxes, and regulatory fees.
You’ll have to purchase the phone outright at $279 and wait for a $50 rebate but even comparing this offer with the free 8530 you’d get with a …
How To Get Your Free iPhone Bumper (Oh Yes, There’s An App For That)
Today, Apple posted its free bumper app which allows iPhone 4 owners to sign up for their free case that will cure the iPhone 4 of its glitchy reception issues. The app itself is straightforward. Enter your information (along with your username and password) and then pick your preferred bumper – but hurry, they’re expected to run out …
White iPhones Delayed Again
Looks like there’s yet another iPhone 4 snafoo. Apple announced today that it will delay the release date of the white iPhone 4s until “sometime later this year,” due to manufacturing difficulties. (The phones were delayed a first time in June.) Here’s the official (very brief) statement:
White models of Apple’s new iPhone 4 have …
Nook Comes to Android, Brings E-Lending with It
Barnes & Noble created a solid contender for essential e-book status when they launched the Nook last year. More compelling the e-reader hardware is the breadth of the library they’re able to make available. It’s about one million books! Now, Android users will be able to access all of that literary goodness on the smartphone of their …
Amazon Inks Exclusivity Deal for Odyssey Editions Kindle Books
Amazon has hammered out a deal with The Wylie Agency to offer 20 of its Odyssey Editions books exclusively on the Kindle e-book platform for two years.
The deal also marks the first time the books– from authors such as Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, Hunter S. Thompson, and more–have been available electronically.
The …
Comic-Con 2010 Exclusive: IDW Launches New Digital Partnership With Nokia
Even though Comic-Con 2010 is still hours away from officially opening, news has started to come from the event with the announcement that IDW Publishing is extending its digital reach by being the first comics publisher to offer titles through Nokia’s Ovi Store.
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How To Turn Your Handwriting Into A Font
How many of you believed we’d live in a world where our handwriting would become a novelty? (Show of hands?) E-mail is uniform and impersonal, and a handwritten note doesn’t meet today’s instant gratification standard of messaging. But melding the two? Now, that’s enticing. PilotHandwriting.com allows you to turn your handwriting into a …
So Long, Nexus One
It was fun while it lasted.
Samsung Updates DualView Cameras With Even Larger Screens
Taking Facebook profile pictures just got easier thanks to Samsung’s latest DualView point-and-shoot cameras: ST600 and ST100. With an enlarged 1.8-inch front-facing LCD, 14.2-megapixel shooters also have 3.5-inch rear touchscreens and they both shoot HD (720p) video. Both models feature a 5x optical zoom but it’s an internal zoom …