Apple iPhone School has a great ‘Friday Night Movie – Flashback’ post up – with a Flashback to the truly old school days of iPhone jailbreak. The AppSnapp jailbreak method shown in the video involved fake activation, some fancy home button jockeying with precise timing, mutliple reboots, and running the actual jailbreak app from within [...]
Continue Reading...Still remember the MSI Wind U230? This 12.1-inch netbook is now available for purchase via Buy.com, or you can also pre-order this netbook at Amazon. As a reminder, the MSI Wind U230 is powered by an AMD Athlon X2 L335 processor (dual core, 1.6GHz), an ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics, a 2GB RAM, a 250GB [...]
Continue Reading...We’d love nothing more than to extol the merits of Sony’s Alpha ultra-compact concept with an interchangeable lens — which bears a striking resemblance at face value to Olympus and Panasonic’s Micro Four Thirds standard — but alas, the little device is hidden behind glass. Furthermore, all the Sony reps we managed to corner wouldn’t [...]
Continue Reading...Our favorite pseudonym company out there, Sand Dollar Enterprise, is back with a pair of new filings with the FCC pointing to a refresh of the PlayStation 3 Slim hardware. We don’t know specifically what has been overhauled inside, though the two new SKUs, CECH-2101A and CECH-2101B, mimic the coding scheme of the current hardware, [...]
Continue Reading...Samsung has begun selling their latest 15.6-inch laptop ‘R530′, which is now available via Amazon for $654. Specs-wise, the notebook offers a 15.6-inch LED-backlit 16:9 widescreen LCD display, a 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, an Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics card, a 4GB DDR2 memory, a 320GB hard drive, two 1.5W stereo speakers and Windows [...]
Continue Reading...Oh, how I’d love to win this contest, but I think we all know that’s not going to happen. I lack both the skill and the dedication to win the Magic Mouse that Punflay is offering up as the prize for the highest recorded Rafter score. However, maybe you can win. All you need to [...]
Continue Reading...Here’s how dedicated I am to this iPhone blogging thing: when I spot an app that mentions SXSW (the upcoming music, film and interactive festivals here in Austin), free shows, and free beer, I’m willing to immediately give it a look and share it with you our dear readers. Today I spotted just such an [...]
Continue Reading...Here’s the latest product from Shanzai, the Core Grid Vigood U220 Netbook. Featuring a solid metal chassis, this mini laptop offers a 10.2-inch WXVGA LED-backlit LCD display, a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, an Intel 945GSE chipset, a 1GB RAM, a 250GB hard drive, a 1.3MP webcam, WiFi, Ethernet, 3 USB ports and a memory [...]
Continue Reading...I thought I could go back to using the default SMS app and simply use Pro Switcher to let me pause my games while I answered text messages, but it just hasn’t been working out. The SMS app still takes a bit too long to load up, and it pales in comparison to some of [...]
Continue Reading...We’ve already seen Pentax tease a few new cameras ahead of PMA, and it looks like another pair have now slipped out at the last minute. That includes the rugged W90 which, among other things, packs a ring of LEDs around the lens to help with close-up shots, and should hold up against even the [...]
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