Toyota’s original plan for its Entune in-car platform was to draw in new users with three months’ free usage, before whacking ’em with a $5 monthly charge. At some point, however, the company decided to abandon that idea, and will instead offer the connected infotainment service free of charge. We’ll let the cynics amongst you ponder if it was a lack of demand that caused Toyota to change course.
Filed under: Transportation, Software
Source: Prius Chat, Zatz Not Funny
The second Kickstarter-funded, Android-powered gaming console to arrive this year — PlayJam’s GameStick — is being delayed once again, this time to October 29th. Folks who backed the game console on Kickstarter will get it earlier in the month, with shipments arriving “three to four weeks before retail.” The rest of us can pick it up at GameStop, Amazon or GAME (for you UKers), and it’ll cost the expected $79.99 / £79.99.
You may’ve noticed we didn’t list that price in Euros, and that’s because the console is launching in the US and UK first, with the rest of the EU, Canada and Middle Eastern territories getting GameStick “prior to the end of year holiday season.” PlayJam CEO Jasper Smith chocks this (third!) delay up to “stringent QA” standards at the company, and PlayJam responding to the criticisms it heard from early beta testers. “Production delays are certainly frustrating, but in certain instances they’re essential,” Smith told Engadget. “There were some issues there that we thought needed to be solved, there were some issues that came out of watching what others had done, that meant that we should solve some other issues. So the unfortunate result is that pushed things back.”
Smith cited various usability issues, from “the way games were being submitted” to “the way that the games actually played,” as fixed problems. “On TV you’ve gotta make it so it’s easy for people to get in and out of a game, start again and all that stuff. And I hope that we’ve done a reasonably good job on that.” We hope so too, and we’ll find out soon — keep an eye out for a review of GameStick in the coming weeks on Engadget.
The boys of summer are about to come home, but that doesn’t make developer Aaron Draczynski’s Google Glass baseball app any less rad. Blue uses geolocation to determine what park you’re at and feeds all manner of ball diamond-data directly into your eye. Whether it’s displaying play-by-play descriptions, who’s on the mound or how fast and what type his last pitch was, sitting in the stands no longer means missing out on the info you’d get from a TV broadcast. While this might seem like it’d be a better tablet or phone app, wearing Glass to a ballgame does have a distinct advantage: it lets you hold more than two $15 beers at a time.
Via: Buzzfeed
Source: Papermodelplane
This week the folks at TiVo Inc. introduced a transition point for the digital video recording universe, that being the movement of TiVo Roamio DVR technologies to a cloud-based system. With this new TiVo Network PVR, users will be able to extend the digital video recording experience they’ve known – or perhaps have not yet […]
This article was written on June 14, 2006 by CyberNet.
It was just a few days ago when VistaTorrent.com started and provided the world with a quick way to download Windows Vista Beta 2 (build number 5384). At the time they only had the torrent posted for the x86 (32-bit) version but the x64 (64-bit) torrent is now available. Downloading via the BitTorrent network is much quicker than downloading the file directly from Microsoft right now, so here is how you do it:
- Download **FILE REMOVED FROM HOST**.
- When the ISO has completely downloaded, please run a checksum verification against the x64 file. It must match this MD5 hash: e43502d0a15eadd551119d5639859e04. Accept no substitutes, as we downloaded this ISO directly from Microsoft’s servers.
- If you haven’t already, you will need to visit Microsoft to get your registration code for this Vista beta. They’re free for the taking!
- This step is optional, but we ask that you please keep the torrent open once you’ve finished downloading it – as that will help increase the speed of subsequent downloads. We’d also appreciate it if you let others know about this site and the torrent.
The 32-bit instructions and torrent file can be found here. Many people recommend the 32-bit version because the 64-bit version requires special drivers for your hardware, and often people have troubles finding the special 64-bit drivers that are needed.
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OUYA’s “Free the Games” fund, which matches funds for any indie game on Kickstarter with at least $50,000 in funding (up to $1 million), is embroiled in backlash from the indie game developers it sought to court. After two Kickstarter projects tied to the initiative were found to be taking advantage of the promotion — investing their own money or those of friends to receive the matching funds — OUYA head Julie Uhrman attempted to assuage concerns with a blog post last evening. In it, Uhrman says, “Recently, the intention behind our Free the Games Fund – to provide additional funding to crowd-funded games bound for OUYA, and enable developers to make more of them – seems to have been lost.”
The post, however, seems to have caused more harm than good. Indie developers took to the comments section to berate Uhrman’s response. “This reads like a press release from a console company locked into a foolish policy and using aspirational language to shift the blame, weirdly, onto its critics,” Thomas Was Alone developer Mike Bithell wrote in the comments. “You can do better.” One dev says she’s removing her game from the OUYA marketplace altogether as a result of Uhrman’s deflection. “After reading Julie Uhrman’s blog post last night it became very apparent to me that the company does not support indie developers who need the support most, and that they are incapable of ever correcting their mistakes,” Rose and Time developer Sophie Houlden posted to her blog. “I’m simply no longer comfortable supporting the company.”
Aside from a single statement on Twitter, Uhrman (nor OUYA) hasn’t responded to critics just yet. “No we are not changing the Free The Games Fund. We are sticking with it,” she wrote last night with a link to the blog post in question. We’ll update this piece should OUYA decide to alter its course.
Filed under: Gaming, Software, HD
Source: OUYA, SophieHoulden.com
This article was written on December 20, 2006 by CyberNet.
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is scheduled for January 8-11 in Las Vegas, Nevada (United States) to showcase new products and innovations. Microsoft is always one of the attendees so they thought this time that they would make us hold our breath a little longer.
In a guide that they are sending out to attendees of the show there is an ad for Microsoft and it says “All together now. Announcing a new way to share, protect, and store what matters most.” Robert McLaws from Windows Now suggests that this could be the Windows Live Drive file storage that we have all been waiting for. I think that is a possibility but my guess is that they are going to officially launch the new Live.com email service and open it up to the world. It has been a long time coming, and since CES is just a few weeks away I believe that the timing is just right. After all, email is probably one of the most important things for a lot of people, right?
So what else matters the most to you? I have been trying to sit here and brainstorm and the list that keeps running through my head is documents, email, photos, and settings/preferences in applications. I guess they could launch some sort of photo service because they don’t have one, do they? Looking back it is hard for me to believe that all of these other companies (Yahoo!, Google, etc…) all have photo services but Microsoft is kinda behind the times. Also, I mentioned that my settings were important to me and it would be really nice if they figured out some way to save my Windows settings online so that I can pickup where I left off on nearly any computer. I think that is a bit more of a stretch though.
Can you think of any other ideas?
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This article was written on May 06, 2006 by CyberNet.
Doing repetitive tasks is always a grueling job, but Automator will relieve that stress. This is only for the Mac OS X and is a powerful application. Here is just some of the things that you can do with Automator:
With Automator you can automate just about everything you do with your computer. Create and print a family directory with the contacts in your Address Book. Find and add images from your favorite websites to iPhoto. Print your Keynote business presentations to your iPod Photo. Perform scheduled backups of important files. There’s no limit to what you can do. Add more actions and you can do even more.
Another cool thing is that you can share your automated tasks with your friends. They also have a place where you can see examples of tasks that have already been created.
This application is also great because it is no cost! That’s right…it’s FREE! Go ahead and give it a try…now you can automate your tasks.
Automator Examples
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Apple had two phones and the final iteration of its mobile OS to show off, so it’d be forgiven for letting smaller news slip through the cracks — especially when it’s the termination of an older service. It looks like not many people were in need of Cupertino’s Cards app, which launched alongside the iPhone 4S back in October 2011. In case you forgot, iPhone (or iPad) users could send an ole-fashioned greeting card through the app interface which would then be sent via snail mail. Apple’s official support page confirms that the service is being shuttered, but reminds us that it still has a Hallmark alternative and that we can make “beautiful letterpress cards customized with your photos and text using iPhoto on your Mac.” At $2.99 per greeting in the US (or $4.99 to send it globally) the service wasn’t cheap, so perhaps you’d already resorted to sending your photos and greetings digitally (and for free) on iMessage — Apple publicly launched its messenger app at the very same event.
Filed under: Cellphones, Software, Mobile, Apple
Via: 9to5Mac
Source: Apple
If you’re looking to relive all that went down in Cupertino earlier today, the full-length event video is now online for you to do just that. From a stable of new iPhones to a shiny new mobile OS, Apple packed in the announcements and a viewing sessions affords you the chance to rehash the event in its entirety. Just check the source link below — and make sure you’ve got Quicktime installed, of course.
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Software, Mobile, Apple
Source: Apple
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