Dec 15
Magazine names the Xbox 360 spookfest the top title of the year, with Angry Birds, Red Dead Redemption, and Halo: Reach also making the top five.
Dec 15
Creative ZiiEagle Movie Box promises 3,000 years of Chinese culture in one sleek burgundy package
Posted in: chinese, Today's Chili
So just what is the Creative ZiiEagle Movie Box? What exactly do you get from this? Here’s what we’ve gathered:
- A set-top box featuring 668 movies from Celestial’s Shaw Brothers Film Collection.
- “3,000 years of Chinese culture and secrets of the much elusive ‘Confucian thing.'”
- A price tag — 888 Singapore dollars ($676 in US currency) — that “solves the perennial video piracy problem in one stroke.”
- The reason for that awesome picture above to exist.
Singapore, consider yourself enlightened, and consider your days of video piracy officially numbered.
Creative ZiiEagle Movie Box promises 3,000 years of Chinese culture in one sleek burgundy package originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Dec 15
This article was written on May 30, 2006 by CyberNet.
For those people who are avid Google Calendar users then you will find this extremely useful. It is now possible to carry the Google Calendar in your pocket via your cell phone. GCalSync will synchronize your cell phone and Google Calendar in just a few simple steps. Your phone will need to support Java, and if it does simply point your cell phone’s browser to http://wap.gcalsync.com to download the necessary programs onto your device.
This will also work for those Blackberry users out there (probably just a handful of people 
).
GCalSync Homepage
News Source: Lifehacker
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Dec 15
(Credit:
Stupid Andy)
Kenley is back on The 404 today to announce the winner of our Nerd of the Year contest, and Stupid Andy is the victor!
Stupid Andy is a closet geek, so even though you might mistake him for a regular guy, he’s well versed in audio/visual languages which I think puts him in the category of nerd, according to this article comparing the two.
Time has announced its Person of the Year for 2010, and although Justin Bieber, the Chilean miners, and the Tea Party all came close, Mark Zuckerberg clinched the title of the person who Time describes as “for better or for worse…has done the most to influence the events of the year.”
With Zuckerberg in the cockpit, Facebook has changed the way we communicate and consume news, but we have to question whether the release of “The Social Network” had anything to do with the nomination.
Plenty of Gawker accounts were compromised as a result of last weekend’s Gnosis breach, and we learn on today’s show that even some of our fellow CNET colleagues were affected by the hack!
We also take a look at a graph of the top 50 Gawker Media passwords that are now posted online for public consumption. Clearly people just don’t care about their commenting passwords on the site, because the first 10 are all lazy keyboard strokes like “123456,” “abc123,” and “qwerty.” On the stranger side, “monkey,” consumer,” “superman,” and just the number “0” were all identified as popular passwords.
In the face of disaster, the smart thing to do is adapt and move on, so check out this Lifehacker guide to reassessing your online security measures. The page suggests using a free password manager called LastPass that generates complex passwords for you, stores them on a network, and even audits them to make sure they’re not easy to guess.
Narcs around the world have been waiting for a Big Brother app for the iPhone, and now it’s here. It’s called the PatriotApp, and it deputizes any iPhone user (pending a 99-cent fee) with the ability to report a number of crimes directly to the appropriate governmental agency. It links your iPhone to organizations like the FBI, the EPA, and the CDC so you can report things like government waste, environmental crimes, white-collar crimes, and public health concerns on the fly, but it just seems like a professional tool to snitch on your neighbor. Finally, you can also use the app to post your claims to Twitter and Facebook, so all your friends can be aware of your citizen’s arrests.
Remember Daniel, our friend who visited The 404 studio last March? He left us this video voice mail telling us about the current fashion trends blanketing his middle school. Congratulations on your graduation, buddy–be sure to tell all your new high school friends about The 404!
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Dec 15
Editorial: RIM seems to be as lost as my BlackBerry
Posted in: Android, BlackBerry, droid, playbook, RIM, Smartphones, Today's Chili, verizon
The only way to open this editorial is to admit something I’ve been rather shy about on the pages of Engadget: I’ve been an avid BlackBerry fan and user for about six years now. I mean a real addict — the kind who wakes up each morning looking for a blinking red LED, the kind who’s refused to give up push email and BlackBerry Messenger in favor of more powerful, polished, and progressive mobile operating systems like iOS, Android, and webOS. In fact, when my Verizon contract was up last year I opted to get a Curve 8530 instead of the Motorola Droid or Palm Pre — to say nothing of making the leap over to AT&T for the iPhone.
There were lots of reasons I didn’t want to give up my BlackBerry, but five days ago I lost that very Curve in a San Francisco cab. Then coincidentally, a day later I saw RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis speak at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference, where he almost embarrassingly avoided every question about the company’s immediate smartphone strategy. I had always known that RIM was behind the curve (always a great pun!), but I also always had hope that the company would catch up with modern smartphones of today. Sadly, watching Mike dodge questions on the D stage took that hope away from me — it’s crystal clear that RIM won’t have a solution to compete with those powerful smartphones anytime soon. So, what happens to a BlackBerry diehard like myself? Where do I go from here?
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Editorial: RIM seems to be as lost as my BlackBerry originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Dec 15
Nikon Coolpix P7000 v1.1 firmware released, improves RAW processing and focusing reliability
Posted in: camera, digicam, digital camera, DigitalCamera, firmware, firmware update, FirmwareUpdate, nikon, Software, software update, SoftwareUpdate, Today's Chili, update
Nikon’s taken criticism of its enthusiast-friendly P7000 compact to heart and has today announced a fresh firmware for that shooter. Overall NRW (Nikon’s own RAW format) processing times are said to have been reduced, while lens control has been optimized to reduce the occurrence of focusing errors. A couple of other tweaks have also been thrown in: one to overcome a rare issue that would block the zoom from operating, and another causing blown highlights on the camera’s LCD when Active D-Lighting is enabled and the shutter is half-pressed. That’s your lot; if you’ve got the camera already, it’s a no-brainer, and if you don’t, it might cast a happier new light on the P7000’s earlier reviews.
Nikon Coolpix P7000 v1.1 firmware released, improves RAW processing and focusing reliability originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Dec 15
Windows Phone 7 said to be getting major ‘Mango’ update in August or September
Posted in: mango, Microsoft, Today's Chili, update, windows phone, windows phone 7, WindowsPhone, WindowsPhone7, Wp7
We’d already heard that Windows Phone 7 is set to get an update of some sort early next year — possibly coinciding with Mobile World Congress in February — but ZD Net’s Mary Jo Foley is now reporting that an even bigger update could be following in August or September. According to her sources, the update is codenamed “Mango,” and it will effectively amount to Windows Phone 7.5, which she says might even be the actual name when it’s released. That update will apparently bring Silverlight runtime and HTML5 support to the OS, along with Far Eastern language support, and some other unspecified features and functionality. It will also presumably be the most significant update until Windows Phone 8, which Foley says is codenamed “Apollo,” and is on track for a release in late 2012.
[Thanks, John]
Windows Phone 7 said to be getting major ‘Mango’ update in August or September originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Dec 15
Long Term HSPA Evolution specs come together, promise speeds of 650Mbps — and T-Mobile USA is on board
Posted in: nokia, t-mobile, Today's Chili
Thought the alphabet soup of modern wireless standards was confusing enough? 1X Advanced / EV-DO Advanced, UMTS, HSPA, HSPA+, dual-carrier HSPA+, EDGE Evolution, LTE, LTE-Advanced, WiMAX, WiMAX 2… we could keep going, but we’d really rather not. Oh, but we have to, because this one could get really interesting: Nokia Siemens is touting that the specifications for Long Term HSPA Evolution have just been submitted to the 3GPP, promising theoretical speeds in excess of 650Mbps — a number that still falls shy of the ITU’s definition of a 4G standard, but easily eclipses just about anything shy of LTE-Advanced or WiMAX 2.
Interestingly, T-Mobile USA is specifically mentioned in Nokia Siemens’ press release as supporting the developments, a testament to the fact that the carrier is firmly committed to wringing everything it can out of legacy 3G standards before moving on — just as they’re already doing with their aggressive 21Mbps HSPA+ rollout. Considering that present-day LTE tops out somewhere in the 300Mbps to 400Mbps range, we can’t say we’re opposed, especially since the new technology will be backward compatible with today’s HSPA networks. Yes, granted: “Long Term HSPA Evolution” is a terrible name considering that LTE already stands for Long Term Evolution (and LTHSPAE isn’t the slickest acronym anyway) — but we’ll worry about naming logistics closer to launch, which is still years off. See the full press release after the break.
Long Term HSPA Evolution specs come together, promise speeds of 650Mbps — and T-Mobile USA is on board originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Dec 15
While it lacks integrated Wi-Fi and is more expensive than the Roku or Apple TV , the WD TV Live Hub’s combination of snazzy interface and built-in 1TB hard drive will appeal to advanced users who have a lot of existing files they want to view on an HDTV or stream to other PCs on a network.
Dec 15
Riven for iPhone, iPod, and iPad promises all the same mind-bending puzzles as the PC classic, but for a fraction of the price. (It’s 6 bucks.)
Originally posted at iPhone Atlas
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