FREE MP3 FROM THE ARCHIVE. Forget their influences–people now want to know what bands Fall Out Boy have inspired. Their latest efforts have scored them prime cover shots on all the top magazines (such as “Rolling Stone”), and although it’s hard to remain punk after such praise, they still …
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We actually pondered aloud where all the standalone OTA DVRs were in this wild world earlier this year, and at long (long!) last, we finally have a new entrant into the all-but-dead niche. DISH Network’s DTVPal DVR, which was known in a former life as the EchoStar TR-50, has finally started to ship out to anxious buyers. For those who’ve forgotten, this box acts as a digital-to-analog converter and an HD DVR, capturing up to 30 hours of HD OTA material or 150 hours of SD content. Check the read link for a slew of in the wild / interface shots.
[Thanks, TOTA]
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DISH Network’s DTVPal DVR now shipping, caught in the wild originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Broadband Internet access is becoming standard in homes around the world. With fast Internet access comes file sharing, and that is where RapidShare comes in. RapidShare lets people upload files to their servers and they will host the files at no cost. This is a great solution but some people get annoyed with the limitations RapidShare places on free accounts. If you do not have a Premium RapidShare account then you will have to wait 30 seconds before you can download each file and you are limited to downloading just 30MB/hour.
So how do you get a Premium RapidShare account? You can purchase it for about $12.60 each month or you can watch for free accounts that they giveaway. They periodically give 2-day Premium accounts out on a first-come first-serve basis. You can prevent these accounts from expiring by uploading files and getting people to download the files.
Rapidshare often posts 10’s of thousands free accounts at a time and let people come and get them. There is plenty of software available if you want to get notified of free accounts being posted or you can constantly check their Free Account site. Here is two different pieces of software that will notify you when to get a free account:
Option #1: RapidShare Free Account Notifier
Checks availability of free Premium RapidShare Accounts
Option #2: RapidCheck
Checks availability of free Premium RapidShare AccountsAs you can see both pieces of software are very similar. It doesn’t really matter which one you choose because they will both get you the same result: a free Premium RapidShare account. It is always nice to have a watchful eye doing the checking for us!
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It wouldn’t be as much of an icebreaker as saying you have a bionic eye, but University of Colorado Hospital’s Jeffrey Olson has developed a procedure for improving eyesight that involves injecting nano-sized semiconductors called “quantum dots” into the retina. These dots stimulate electrical activity in working parts of the eye and slows degradation in the rest, and early tests on rats have been shown to successfully increase perception. Although intended for those with damaged vision, this might be just the thing for watching your neighbors’ HBO from the comforts of your windowsill — hey, we won’t judge you.
[Via New Scientist]
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New nanotechnology augments vision, optic blasts not included originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Personally, we wouldn’t want to be within 15 feet of a Centro being mercilessly overclocked to a mind-numbing 936MHz, but we reckon that’s where our fearless readers come into play. We’re told that this sucker reached prompt criticality and melted into the Earth’s crust shortly after this screen shot was taken, and you know what? We can’t say we blame it.
[Thanks, Jason]
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
The gigahertz Centro, also known as ‘the Palm-powered grenade’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Wow, talk about spreading that holiday cheer. Psion Teklogix has apparently hired a legal team to write up cease & desist letters that are being sent out to select netbook enthusiast websites. One particular letter is pictured above, and we can only assume the URL is hidden for the safety of those involved. jkOnTheRun dug a little deeper into the matter and found that the outfit did indeed produce a Netbook and Netbook Pro back in the day, and while the surprisingly netbook-like devices (imagine that, right?) have since been discontinued, it is still making compatible accessories. Something tells us Psion waited a touch too late to pick this fight, but just in case Engadget is next in line for one of these letters, we’ll be utilizing the term smallcheap(er)book for the foreseeable future. Hope that’s okay.
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Psion Teklogix sending out cease & desist letters to netbook-centric websites originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Everyone knows the Playstation 3 has one key thing over the Wii and the Xbox 360: A Blu-ray player.
But according to a recent report, the PS3 will soon have one more thing above the others: native stereoscopic 3D gaming. It’s a development that’s not terribly surprising, but it’s interesting enough (and potentially lucrative) that its competitors are sure to be watching.
According to Neil Schneider, the CEO of 3D tech purveyor MTBS, Sony will begin supporting their Blitz Tech 3D engine on the console in 2009. Expected to be a downloadable firmware update, the tech will allow players to upgrade their console to stereoscopic 3D visuals and inexorably, to Blu-ray content on 3D.
Andrew Oliver of Blitz Games Studios says that 3D capability through the BIOS firmware is likely unique to Sony PS3 and will give them a competitive advantage in this area.
A stereoscopic 3D update in the box will presumably enhance the visual depth perception that allows 2D images to pop out of the screen. But the question will be placed precisely on the quality of the perspective deviation of the games, which is what makes good 3D, well, good. Otherwise, the screen might get all fuzzy.
Another question is the variability of the TV displays used when playing the 3D-enhanced games. Some sets already have their own 3D secret sauce — the new Mitsubishi Laser TV, for example, uses a 3D IR emitter along with a ‘checkerboard display’
format, where the ‘checkerboard’ is a type of complicated geometry calibration to display 3D images.
The PS3 3D firmware update will likely be able to fit all of these calibrations, but we don’t know for sure whether it will look better or worse in some TVs.
Already, you should be able to play games regardless of the system in several new, 3D-enabled TVs like the Mitsu, and Samsung’s PN42A450P Flat Panel HDTV. However, this option has received little buzz as most of the games aren’t set-up to take advantage of the tech.
The bigger question as always, is the quality of the content, and the PS3, with or without 3D, is still running behind.
At the system’s inception, the Blu-ray presence promised superior graphics and a larger capacity for extra content, like smoother animations and epically long stories. But unfortunately for Sony, it took way more time that the Wii or XBox 360 to come up with appropriate, fun games that lived up to the hardware.
With a cool new firmware app in tow, it’s up to Sony’s game developers to come up with good games and take advantage of the 3D, which has grown exponentially as an accepted technology in the last few years. If they pull it off, the Playstation might have one more thing up its sleeve before the final score has been tallied in the seventh generation of gaming systems.
Photos: Screenshot of Fallout 3, Mitsubishi 3D test/HDTVExpert
SlipperyBrick: Everyone needs a lamp at one point or another. Whether it’s on your desk at the bedside, a lamp is something we all need, but is often one of those things we don’t buy. Lamps can make good Christmas gifts, especially geeky lamps.
ThinkGeek is offering new DIY Dinosaur Lamps that are made from laser cut sheets of flexible plastic. The lamps require assembly, which amounts to putting tab A into slot B and so on. The directions promise to be easy to follow and lots of pictures are included.
Three lamps are included in the kit and they look like a T-Rex, stegosaurus, and diplodocus. I have no idea what that last dinosaur is. Construction time is 30 to 40 minutes and a card and switch are included with the lamp kit. The only thing you have to add is elbow grease and light bulbs. The kit of three lamps is $19.99.
ThinkGeek dinosaur lamps are great for geeky gift giving [SlipperyBrick]
This year, all I really wanted for the holidays was the perfect smartphone. Not too much to ask for, right? You’d think, but all I ended up with was constant swapping between 3 (or more) devices, hoping to find some balance of features that worked for me. Instead of one “go to” phone, I juggled the iPhone 3G, T-Mobile G1, and BlackBerry Bold for the last few months, desperately wishing I could merge them into one perfect device. I shall now break down my hopes for the upcoming year, with a prayer in my little old heart that manufacturers are listening.
Continue reading Editorial: All I wanted this year was the best smartphone ever
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Editorial: All I wanted this year was the best smartphone ever originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
We’ve already had the pleasure of checking out the Aigo Patriot in its natural habitat, and now we’re finally being treated to the same with its Gigabyte-branded counterpart. The Atom-based MID has been unboxed all official-like over at UMPC Fever, and the photographer didn’t even shy away from snapping a few with the lid off. Have a look yourself in the read link below, but don’t get too attached — so far as we can tell, it’ll cost you a pretty penny to get it imported from a foreign land.
[Via SlashGear]
Filed under: Handhelds
Gigabyte’s M528 MID gets unboxed, photographed lots originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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