Dec 20

Laugh Of The Day: My Windows Vista Error Message

Posted in: Software, Today's Chili, Windows

This article was written on September 14, 2006 by CyberNet.

Vista RC1 has been running like a champ for the past week but I finally found a bug. I received the error message below when I tried to open an HTML file with Notepad++:

Do people really want to know when a system error completes successfully? :)

I’m sure the error is partly the fault of Notepad++ since it isn’t announced to be Vista compatible. However, I would think that Microsoft could come up with a more informative error message and maybe, just maybe, the title of the message could read “System Error” instead of “System Err”. :D

The world would be a horrible place without error messages, right?

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Dec 20

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FP8 reviewed: as good as ‘a loaf of plain white bread’

Posted in: camera, lumix, Panasonic, review, Today's Chili

It’s hard to imagine complaining about a stylish compact camera that packs a stabilized 28-128mm zoom range and does 720p video capture at 30fps, but Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-FP8 didn’t garner any raves from the crew at PhotographyBLOG either. Image quality was found to be decent in well-lit conditions and no more than ISO 800 — typical limitations on cameras with such tiny lens and body. Little is said about the video quality but we were adequately pleased with the sample videos linked from YouTube. The only major flaw indicated was the “permanently exposed” lens, but we can’t imagine it being a deal breaker for most of you nice folks out there, right?

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FP8 reviewed: as good as ‘a loaf of plain white bread’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dec 20

Re transforms your iPhone into a universal remote (which seems like a step backwards, to be honest)

Posted in: remote, Today's Chili

OK, so we know a thing or two about the “convenience” of using your iPhone as a remote control. For instance, using it to control Boxee was alright — until we needed to make a call. Or we received a call. Not to rain on anyone’s parade, but the idea of re-purposing your phone to act as a universal remote seems a little silly. But what do we know? Maybe you hold all calls while Jersey Shore is on anyways. In that case, Re could be your next favorite gadget. This bad boy lets your handset communicate with all your AV equipment via infrared, contains an extensive database of devices, and can learn from any IR remote. If that weren’t enough, New Kinetix promises regular updates to the app — and your typical remote can’t do that! Compatible with the iPod Touch as well, there’s no word yet on a price or release date, but we’re expecting that we’ll be getting plenty more details come CES time.

Re transforms your iPhone into a universal remote (which seems like a step backwards, to be honest) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dec 20

Poor iPhone reception graduates to SNL ‘Weekend Update’ joke status

Posted in: Apple, att, iPhone, Today's Chili

“It was reported this week that Google would soon launch its own cellphone as a challenge to the iPhone. Also a challenge to the iPhone? Making phone calls.”

Cue uproarious applause.

Update: Video after the break! Thanks Michael!

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Poor iPhone reception graduates to SNL ‘Weekend Update’ joke status originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dec 19

Artopz Minitopz Ion-based nettop lamp rains down confusion, wonder

Posted in: nettop, Today's Chili

We don’t get it. At all. That said, we’re totally enamored with this Artopz Minitopz, which manages to both be an impressively-specced Atom and Ion-based nettop, and simultaneously a completely confounding piece of “art.” Apparently it’s supposed to be perceived as a lamp, but we’d say that stretches the limits of imagination. But it stretches them in a good way, that’s all we’re saying. Oh, and the Minitopz costs $2,250, just in case you thought you’d penetrated this fog of luxurious gadget oddity to the point of pulling out a wallet. Maybe the video after the break will help clear some things up? Nope, not really.

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Artopz Minitopz Ion-based nettop lamp rains down confusion, wonder originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dec 19

B.O.S.S. Wiimote shell fills giant people with sense of SNES nostalgia

Posted in: Retro, Today's Chili, wii

It might be hard to tell from the picture, but that B.O.S.S. controller, built by Performance Designed Products, is no controller at all. Instead it’s a SNES controller-shaped, super-sized shell that slides over a regular Wiimote and turns it into a monstrosity of memories and oversized buttons. Kudos for ingenuity, but unfortunately the playability suffers and the bulk is just too much to handle, according to Ars Technica. For $10 you can’t fault it too much (and it least it isn’t reliant on its own batteries, a sore subject for the manufacturer), but we think we might save that cash for some international postage to write Nintendo about its unconscionable neglect of the Wii Classic Controller with New Super Mario Bros. Wii.

B.O.S.S. Wiimote shell fills giant people with sense of SNES nostalgia originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dec 19

No Nook by Christmas? Here’s a $100 gift card

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Barnes Noble alerts some customers who preordered the new e-reader that they might not get the device in time for Christmas. Company says it will send a $100 gift certificate, with apologies.

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Dec 19

Possible PSN premium services detailed in leaked survey?

Posted in: leak, playstation, rumor, Today's Chili

It’s hard to put too much credence in a survey. Not only is it easy to fake (although this one sounds fairly legit and has popped up elsewhere), but the questions posed could be purely theoretical. That caveat aside, there’s a bunch of very interesting stuff in this list of features we just got from someone who claims to have done a survey for Sony about its plans to charge for “premium” PlayStation Network content. The actual subscription costs flung around ranged from $20 to $60 a year, or alternatively $6 to $9 a month, and while some features might sound familiar to Xbox Live members, there’s plenty of innovative stuff here that we wouldn’t mind seeing pop up on either platform, including:

  • Customer Service Priority Access
  • Exclusive Experiences with Sony Brands
  • Extended Console Warranty 3 Years
  • Access to Beta Games
  • Early Access to All Store Content
  • Member Demo Sharing of Full Game
  • Cross-game Voice Chat Access
  • Full Title Trial – 1st Hour Is Free
  • Token Wagering
  • User-to-user Challenges
  • Free Access to PSOne Classics, PSP Minis, and PS3/PSP Themes
  • Discounts on Store Content
  • Member Only In-game Content
  • Trophy Alerts
  • Cloud Storage Space for Games
  • Online Music Service
  • Online Music Video Service
  • Automatic Downloads and Updates
  • Loyalty Program Rewards
  • Facebook Connectivity
  • Catch-up TV
  • Netflix Access Without Disc

What a mouthful! There are definitions of all these after the break, and while the survey seems to imply that not all of these would be available in whatever paid service Sony launches, we could imagine quite a few PS3 users (ourselves, for instance) shelling out cash for some of the perks listed — as long as they can swallow their Xbox Live Gold-deriding pride.

[Thanks, Christopher]

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Possible PSN premium services detailed in leaked survey? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dec 19

Psystar still in business, or not in business, or… something

Posted in: Apple, lawsuit, legal, Today's Chili

Psystar’s attorneys have had some truly bumbling moments in the past year or so, and the hits keep coming: now they’re disagreeing over whether or not the would-be Mac cloner is out of business. Lead law firm Camara & Sibley is now denying yesterday’s Dow Jones report, which quoted Psystar’s California counsel Eugene Action as saying the company would be shutting down “immediately,” and insists that the company is still is business selling Rebel EFI. That would be the end of the story for now… except it’s not true. Although Psystar’s site still offers the software for download, it’s listed as “out of stock,” and you can’t buy a license. What’s more, Psystar was just ordered by the California court to stop helping anyone install OS X and warned that it continued to sell Rebel EFI “at its peril,” so it’d be pretty ballsy to offer it for sale once again. Camara & Sibley also says it’s going to appeal the California decision while it presses forward with the second lawsuit in Florida, but we’ve seriously got to wonder who’s going to pay all these bills — Psystar is already on the hook for $2.67 million in fines to Apple, and appeals and a second round of litigation don’t come cheap. We’ll see what happens next, but we can’t say we’re too surprised that the end of Psystar’s story is as shady as its start.

P.S.- Eugene Action might be the single best thing to come out of this whole mess — his website, located at (seriously) myharvardlawyer.us, is a treasure trove of embarrassing hilarity. Choice unedited quote:

I Graduated from Harvard Law School in Cambridge Massachusetts. If you have not heard of Harvard Law school, welcome to planet earth and enjoy your visit.

Well, we’re certainly impressed — too bad that fancy degree didn’t help Psystar win its case, though.

Psystar still in business, or not in business, or… something originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dec 19

Motorola’s XT701, MT710, and XT800 do Android for China’s big three carriers

Posted in: Android, breaking news, BreakingNews, moto, motorola, Today's Chili

Even through the lean years, Moto’s been making waves in China where it enjoys comparably high popularity — it was one of the first major manufacturers to throw its support behind the nation’s homegrown TD-SCDMA 3G tech, after all, and it’s had a tendency to get the company’s sexier WinMo smartphones like the SURF. On that note, it doesn’t come as much of a surprise to see that they’ve now announced not one, not two, but three fairly attractive, high-end Android handsets specifically for duty in the Far East, one for each of China’s big three carriers (each of which employs a different 3G technology, per the gub’mint’s orders). Starting on the left, the XT701 is the phone that we’d believed to be the Sholes Tablet — and considering that it uses HSPA for China Unicom’s airwaves, we still have no reason to believe it couldn’t make the leap across the Pacific. The MT710 (pictured center) is an OPhone for China Mobile and stands the least chance of making an unfettered jump to another continent since it uses a completely customized UI along with a positively China-only TD-SCDMA radio. Finally, the XT800 on the right looks like a Dell Mini 3i done right to us, rocking dual-mode GSM and EV-DO for China Telecom’s rather heterogeneous network. We’ve got to hand it to Moto here: by all appearances, these 3.7-inch WVGA, 5 megapixel beasts could get Android fans drooling pretty much anywhere in the world, so let’s get ’em over to Europe and America on the double, eh?

[Thanks, Vitala]

Motorola’s XT701, MT710, and XT800 do Android for China’s big three carriers originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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