iPhone Firmware 2.0.2 is available - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) (9)
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Filed under: iPhone A new iPhone software update just hit iTunes. Version 2.0.2 is described as a bug fix release with little additional information. As usual, a version can be downloaded directly from Apple's servers or through iTunes. And, as always, this update will de-pwn your iPhone, should you have previously pwned it for command-line shell access and third-party Cydia applications. If you've upgraded your iPhone or iPod touch, drop us a note in the ...
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Bwana said:
Waiting for confirmation that it addresses anything substantial. I'm going to really need my phone the next few days and don't want anything broken.
Most Wine Should Be Sold in Boxes (20)
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Tyler Colman, reporting for The New York Times: A standard wine bottle holds 750 milliliters of wine and generates about 5.2 pounds of carbon-dioxide emissions when it travels from a vineyard in California to a store in New York. A 3-liter box generates about half the emissions per 750 milliliters. Switching to wine in a box for the 97 percent of wines that are made to be consumed within a year would reduce greenhouse gas ...
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bbebop said:
on the downside, wine-in-a-box would obsolete a bunch of wine refrigerators...
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zappy said:
I have been drinking boxed wine for quite a while in Italy. Will see if I can find some in germany.
307 - Higher, Faster, Stronger: the Olympic Medals Map (2004) (13)
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It will be some days yet before the Summer Games of the XXIXth Olympiad in Beijing draw to a close, so the medal count is still not complete. Host nation China seems on course to achieve its goal of dominating the medal tables, having built up a strong lead in the number of golds, but is still slightly behind the US in the total number of medals. This map shows the complete medal count of ...
Complicated Pile (33)
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“A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday. The art work, titled “Complex S(expletive..)”, is the size of a house. The wind carried it 200 metres (yards) from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds ...
Wii Transfer updated for Mii capture (12)
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Filed under: Gaming, SoftwareMaking cartoon avatars of yourself is hard work, and nobody wants to redo all that tweaking when you've got a perfectly good doppelganger sitting right there on your Wii console... with no good way to get it off the TV and onto your Mac. What a drag! Good thing there's the new version 2.6 of Wii Transfer, the Swiss Army Knife of Mac-Wii connection tools, to the rescue.Aside from the headline feature ...
MotionX Dice lets you roll dem bones on your iPhone (1)
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Filed under: Gaming, Software, iPhoneThe folks at Fullpower kindly sent us a note about their new iPhone app, MotionX Dice, and after giving it a try, I can say it works as promised -- if you want a good-looking and fun way to roll dice on your iPhone, this is it. There are several types of well-rendered 3D dice and tables to choose from The actual "rolling" is done by shaking the iPhone, which is ...
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Geoff said:
Jasen had been working on something like this. Really wish it did D10s and D20s.
Wiimote mod adds LEDs to your rumble (2)
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This site shows a step-by-step mod to get your Nintendo Wiimote to flash an LED when it rumbles. Ingredients for this mod include a Triwing screwdriver, a 0603 LED, copper circuit tape, and some wire strippers. Pretty simple mod that will definitely add some bling to your game. LED Rumble Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Gadgets | Digg this!
Is it happening? Birds are stealing money (4)
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Back in 2005 I picked Josh Klein's "crow vending machine" as one of my favorite projects from the ITP show... and now a year later it seems to be happening - these birds made off with $4,000... So many questions, who is giving them peanuts, is this based off Josh's work or the other way around, a fake? Bill is the owner of a company that manufactures and installs car wash systems. Bill installed one ...
Homebrew flashlight adds a new star to the galaxy (6)
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The "MaxBlaster" is a 38 million candle power flashlight created by Dutch optics engineer Ralf Ottow. By taking apart a commercial flashlight, inserting a mercury arc bulb, and adding a custom designed reflector, the beam is as powerful as a miniature star when seeing it from a distance. Pretty amazing design, just don't look at it directly. Check out how it was built at the link below. Handheld Sunbeam via Popular Science Read more | ...
Tom's Hardware says Apple and PC prices are equivalent (28)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Desktops, Hardware, Apple, Macbook Pro, Mac ProI love Tom's Hardware -- they're traditionally a PC site (and being a gamer, I've built and run my share of PCs), but like most PC guys, they aren't afraid to lay out the specs and draw direct conclusions from there. And that's exactly what they've done with a very Mac misconception: that Apple computers traditionally cost more than the average PC.To the average ...
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Geoff said:
It's about time people finally realized this. I'm so sick of the "Macs are just soooo expensive" garbage. Compare features people, not just a couple of stats.
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Casey said:
Wow, much needed proof.
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Ben said:
Sorry to the folks linking to eWeek's Mac costs twice as much as PCs article yesterday but I'm more inclined to believe the TH guys.
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Leon said:
was considering building a hackintosh, but now i'm sure i'm just gonna stick with a macbook pro.
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WickeD said:
Indeed TH is traditionally a PC site but I wouldn't take this too seriously. The fact is Macs are more expensive if you compare the PC and the Mac in store. What you don't know is that buying a Mac gets you some of the coolest software/os ever. If you don't care - buy a PC.
Vital threads biofeedback apparel (4)
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The above video interview with Sean Montgomery was recorded at the recent Last HOPE conference where Mr. Montgomery exhibited his line of 'Vital Threads' projects. These wearable devices display realtime biological sensor data as visible (and boldly fashionable) adornment. Included in the collection - the Heart-on Shirt which pulses light in sync with Electrocardiogram readings, the Truth Wristband - displaying galvanic skin response as light/color (literally illuminating the "Truth"), and the Thinking Cap which conveys ...
Leatherman Argentum 25th Collection (3)
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Leatherman is celebrating its 25th anniversary with the Argentum Collection ~ an incredible (and pricey) line of limited edition hand-crafted leathermans by world-renowned artist and silversmith Adrian Pallarols. There are 7 pieces in the collection, and The Charge Dorado is $40,000, the Charge Acanto $12,000... and they work their way down to a mere $240 for a little Squirt Lagrima de Luna. See more close ups on the next page, as well as pics of ...
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Geoff said:
Man, if only i has $12,000 to drop on a multi-tool... The Charge Acanto looks hot.
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Dwayne said:
i have been looking for a leatherman...this one oughtta do the trick
Tangible digital DJ interface (1)
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Developed by students at the University of Ulm in Germany, the Timbap DJing interface uses an acoustic timecode signal from a vinyl record to allow a user to select skip tracks, scratch and otherwise manipulate digital audio from the familiar turntablist perspective. But instead of being limited to one LP the user's entire music library is navigable -The rotation of the turntable serves as a means for scrolling through the music collection automatically. The user ...
John Carmack planning a "graphical tour-de-force" for the iPhone (6)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, DeveloperAh, game developers (especially EA game developers, of which id software's John Carmack is now one, after their announcement at E3 that they'd work together to publish games). They thrive on hype, and live, it seems sometimes, off of speculation. That's probably why Carmack has told Forbes that not only does he love his iPhone, and not only does he not want to "announce anything specifically," but id ...
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Geoff said:
And now i can drain my batteries even faster than with Super Monkeyball!
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JR A said:
le retour du Carmack-a-dit
Flickr Find: the Fluid icons pool (17)
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Filed under: Software The team down the road from me at Carsonified have been doing it, and you can do it too. Fluid is a fantastic free app that turns any web site into a self-contained application on your Mac. If you want to keep your webmail outside your normal web browser, Fluid is what you need. Thing is, all the apps it creates need icons, just as any app in your Applications folder does. ...
Portable voice over booth (7)
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This setup allows you to make high quality voice recoding on the go. In fact, it may be a great setup for anyone that needs to record voiceovers and doesn't have a lot of space. This would be great to use while documenting your next project! A decent laptop, an audio interface, and a microphone allow you to record and deliver voice tracks from almost anywhere. And with high-speed Internet readily available there's no reason ...
Dog Poo Bags (6)
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Shit Happens. Dog Poo Bags by Junges Schactel, the design duo, Nina Dautzenberg and Andrea Gadesmann. How cute is their studio puppy, Cuno? And don't these bags just make you wish extremely talented packaging, branding, graphic, experience designers made everything in your world? See more pics below ~ and i'm also totally in love with the branding of Junges Schactel with their pull strip, packaging opening branding that is on their flash, portfolios, and even ...
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Geoff said:
Shit happens.
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Mauro www.fotomaf.com said:
El packaging lo es todo! :P
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Oliver said:
Wow... now you'll get frowned upon if you use a regular grocery bag... although I guess if you're being environmentally responsible, you would have moved over to the cloth bags and eventually your reservoir of plastic bags would be gone... Seems to me, if you're a pet owner, you actually have an incentive not to adopt cloth bags at the grocery store.
