The highly-anticipated Harry Potter theme park experience – courtesy of the Universal Orlando Resort – is nearly ready for the swarms of Wizard-lovers sure to come running.
This is the first image of the actual park, which is still under construction, and gives a glimpse of The Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. The …
Apple couldn’t thwart Google’s presence on the iPhone forever.
The makers of Mac threw out the proposed Google Voice app for the iPhone a year ago, but apparently forgot to lock the backdoor as the new HTML 5 spec allows iPhoners use of Google Voice through mobile site google.com/voice/m.
The webapp works for any HTML5-supporting …
Monday, Jan. 25, 2010
Today in Techland: The Peter Ha has landed. In San Francisco. To see Apple’s new shiny, shiny tablet. Read more about it here and here. We’ve also got podcasts, apps and a disturbing look at the porn career of Spider-Man. Yeah…
…
OnLive, the upstart company hard at work on a cloud-based, on-demand gaming console, has been on the defensive because of a PC Perspective article published last week detailing the author’s experience with the closed beta test of the service. While his experience with playing Burnout Paradise and Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. was generally …
Straight from the horse’s mouth, folks. In today’s earnings report, Steve Jobs confirmed that a new product would be announced.
“If you annualize our quarterly revenue, it’s surprising that Apple is now a $50+ billion company,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The new products we are planning to release this year are very
…
Since Lev is out for the next two weeks on book leave, I’ve taken it upon myself to keep App Club going. Is that okay with everyone?
This week’s installment comes from the twisted mind of American McGee, you know, the guy behind American McGee’s Alice and its upcoming sequel among many others. Anyway, McGee’s Spicy Horse has spawned a …
Friday, Jan. 22, 2010
Today in Techland: Lev struck Twitter gold with a pretty-darn-geeky Tweet meme, Steve liked didn’t really mind saw Legion, and both Peter and Lev got schooled by an 11 year-old while playing Halo 3.
For Anyone Who Ever Attended Middle School. The trailer …
Today, Expedition 22 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer has tweeted where no man has tweeted before.
Until now, NASA astronauts were emailing their tweets to ground support where personnel would help them post to their Twitter accounts. Astronauts on the International Space Station were offered a software upgrade this week that gave them …
Some assembly required.
We all remember the hours we spent staring at the soggy aircraft bobbing in the water when US Airways Airbus 320 went down in the Hudson River after the infamous bird strike. And then of course, there was the media sainthood of Captain Sully, whose face is still gracing billboards here in Midtown NYC.
(More …
In an effort to raise more funds for the relief effort in Haiti, unstoppable entertainment forces MTV and George Clooney have teamed up for tonight’s telethon, “Hope For Haiti,” that airs at 8 p.m. (ET). The campaign started accepting donations at noon (ET) today. Donations will support the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, the United Nations …
On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger fell from 20 miles (102,800 feet) above the Earth’s surface setting the free fall record. In 2010, Felix Baumgartner plans to break Joe’s record by falling back down to Earth from 120,000 (~23 miles) feet high. Think about that for a second, folks.
Man will free fall from Earth’s stratosphere with …
Thursday Jan. 21, 2010
Today in Techland: Steve chats about the bad ass factor of fallen angels with Legion director Scott Stewart, tech guru Doug shares his tips for keeping gunk out of your gadgets and Mike gives us the best panels of this week’s comics. We also spent the morning giggling over Avatar sex. It was good day,
…
