Section: Web , Google Google has been always the household name for anything internet-related. It became even better when it released its own email hosting service – Gmail.com, which proceeded to Gtalk – an online instant messenger.  Read More →

Filed under: Gaming , Multimedia , Rumors Now that Valve has committed to offering full support for the Mac for both its in-house games and Steam, its digital game delivery system, other developers are expressing interest in the Mac as a gaming platform, too. Gas Powered Games , creator of Supreme Commander 2, Kings and Castles , and Dungeon Siege , has said of the Mac: “We, as a developer, will include a Mac platform option in all of... 

Intel this week previewed its forthcoming 32nm Core i7-980X processor, a six-core CPU codenamed “Gulftown,” and a new rumor has suggested the chip could find its way into Apple’s Mac Pro line as early as next Tuesday.  Read More →

It’s not like director Tom De Nolf doesn’t have 35mm film cameras and a bunch of other video-making tech at his disposal; no, De Nolf was so surprised by the video capability of his recently purchased 3GS that he chose to shoot the above music video using just three iPhones. “Wow, this takes a really great  Read More →

ZDNet reports that it has received information from tipsters claiming that Apple will release new Mac Pro models next Tuesday, adding a hexacore Core i7-based model to its lineup. I’m gett…  Read More →

Apple was able to achieve dominance in the MP3 player arena by closely marrying hardware and software, a formula that it has extended to its success with the iPhone and the App Store. As the company gets ready to ship the iPad, the next phase in that evolution, Amazon, Dell, and Google are teaming up on the Dell Streak tablet, which will run the Android OS and have access to 300,000-plus e-books in the Kindle store, more than 11 million songs... 

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Gas Powered Games’ Chris Taylor and EA DICE’s Karl Magnus Troedsson this week expressed interest in bringing their companies’ games to the Mac via Steam, which Valve is releasing for the Mac next month, along with its entire catalog of games. Gas Powered released the real-time strategy game Supreme Commander 2 last week, and EA DICE is responsible for the Battlefield series of first-person shooters.  Read More →

Apple — along with AT&T, Research in Motion and a number of other companies — is the defendant in a new patent suit that covers a broad range of smartphone related technologies, including e-mail syncing and Bluetooth connectivity.  Read More →

I have several sites that I access on both my iPhone and desktop, so I like to have quick access to them via the Bookmarks Bar. However, these sites have different versions for the desktop, for mobiles, and, in some cases, yet another version for the iPhone. Usually, the full version doesn’t work so well on the iPhone, and the iPhone version is undesirable on the desktop. Instead of creating a plain bookmark, a little Javascript can make... 

Are you curious, like me, about the new Single Window Mode (most excellent; see this article at Ars for more details) available in the newest unstable 2.7.x GIMP releases? Well, sadly, the final and stable GIMP 2.8 release won’t come out before the end of this year, and there are still no experimental 2.7.x binary releases available for Mac OS X (via X11). One could always try to compile everything from source, but that might be quite complicated... 

Filed under: Gaming , Software , Freeware , App Store , iPad We got to sit down with Australian developer Firemint here at the Game Developers Conference 2010 in San Francisco — it’s a mobile game developer who hit it big last year with the very popular iPhone game Flight Control , and while it used to make mobile games for just a handful of larger game publishers like EA, the company is now trying to cement a reputation for making... 

With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. Here’s how to wipe them clean. (more…)  Read More →

Section: Computers , Mobile Computers , Laptops , Netbooks MSI has recently introduced yet another notebook/netbook, it is the Wind12 U230 and is powered by an AMD processor and available in two versions—the U230-033 and U230-040. To begin with, this gets that notebook/netbook description because it falls right in the middle with a 12.1-inch WXGA (1,366 x 768) display. But whether or …  Read More →

No app’s banning from the App Store has caused more gnashing of teeth and anger than the loss of Google Voice (no, not even the removal of the weak girly picture apps). While it’s understandable why AT&T would want to keep free phone calling and SMS off of their network, it’s still infuriating. As a  Read More →