Hasta La Gadget!

Yesterday, Microsoft officially unveiled their new products like Windows 8 and the new Surface tablet running Windows RT. President of the Windows and Windows Live Division Steven Sinofsky spoke about the company’s new products and how they deliver modern computing at a lower cost by no doubt bringing Apple into the equation.

Sinofsky mentioned to AllThingsD that there are full-featured Windows 8 laptops that sell for as little as $279, which is less than what Sinofsky calls a “seven-inch recreational tablet” that sells for pricy $329. Sinofsky pointed out that he is very pleased with OEMs like Acer, Lenovo and Dell who have released thin and light touchscreen Ultrabooks that sell for much less than a MacBook Air.

However, he notes that these companies are “not just discounting” their products, but that it’s simply “engineering work that drives the cost down.” Sinofsky also says that the tablet-optimized Windows RT OS will hold a lot of appeal, and that the Surface tablet “really is a PC for everyone.”

Then again, Sinofsky asked, “Is it for everyone all the time?” His answer was no, but he said Microsoft’s Surface tablet will suffice during long business trips, and would outdo the iPad when it comes to long trips like that, since he mentioned that Apple’s tablet might only be good for shorter trips.

[via AllThingsD]

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Popular blogging platform Tumblr is still not up after suffering from an outage right before half past eight earlier this Friday morning, where initial whispers of Tumblr being down and out were going around the Internet then, followed by official announcements and feeds as you can see above. In fact, Tumblr acknowledged the issues surrounding their website over Twitter, saying, “We’re experiencing slow loading or intermittent errors on certain pages and are working quickly to restore performance.” Right before 10 a.m. ET, they did send an update, “Tumblr is experiencing network problems following an issue with one of our uplink providers. We will return to full service shortly.”

Alas, things did not seem to go as planned as approximately 60 plus minutes later, issues plaguing Tumblr seemed to have gotten worse – or at least status quo remained, and Tumblr users were not too pleased with the delay in getting the service back up. I guess if you happen to host around 77 million blogs with a 36th ranking as the most popular website in the world, any problems affecting the uptime of your site definitely needs some looking into to make sure it does not happen again in the future.

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This chocolate cherry filled Death Star is the ultimate power in the universe. It will shatter your taste buds into a million gooey pieces as it fires at the pleasure centers of your brain like Alderaan. Get this in my mouth now!


Don’t worry. No single X-Wing can possibly destroy this amazingly geeky treat. If they fly into it’s trenches, they will just get stuck in the gooey center. The tractor beam on this Death Star actually works in reverse. It doesn’t pull you into it’s hangar bay, you can’t help but pull it toward your waiting mouth.

If only I could order about two dozen of these things, I would be happy.

[via Geeks Are Sexy]