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- Skinny Camera for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)
- With Skinny Camera for iPhone look slender in your photos naturally and stop taking those sideways photos. Skinny Camera for iPhone is the first camera iPhone app to help you look slim when taking photos. Now you can send pictures to relatives, friends and loved ones looking great. It features...
- Software downloads 2009-11-19
- Jabra Stone
- Not many Bluetooth headsets combine style and performance, and when they do, they stand out. Examples include the Aliph Jawbone Prime, the BlueAnt Q1, and the Plantronics Discovery 975. Jabra, a company that has been in the Bluetooth business a long time, attempts to come up with yet another headset...
- Product reviews 2009-11-17
- Size zero devices: How thin is too thin?
- Thin is betterIt is better to be skinny than fat, and in ITthin and light weight is best!"learn to type with our tongues"I believe the rest of us call that speaking, but nice concept. :pYou know where this is heading don't you?I call it "tatoo tech" you need a new...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Adding lightness with Seibon at SEMA
- Most car guys know that carbon fiber is lightweight and very cool looking, but most don't know much past that. We stopped by well known carbon fiber manufacturer Seibon's booth at the 2009 SEMA Show to get the skinny on this miracle material. by CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-11-04
- LG Bliss - white (US Cellular)
- LG is one of the top makers of touch-screen feature phones, and though many of them go to big national carriers like Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless like the LG enV Touch and the LG Xenon for example, quite a number of them make it to regional carrier U.S. Cellular...
- Product reviews 2009-10-14
- Let's get 64-bit sorted out before we think about 128-bit!
- Yes, it is time for 128 bitWhile 32 bit is not quite history yet it should be considered for history in the next release of windows which leaves us with 64 bit apps. However, apps continue to evolve requiring more memory and to do more for us. It is better...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- Motorola H17
- Motorola continues its trend of making tiny Bluetooth headsets with the Motorola H17. As a successor to the H15 and the H12, Motorola touts the H17 as one if its smallest headsets yet. The reason it can be so small is because it has a flip-switch boom mic that can...
- Product reviews 2009-10-01
- Sound ID 400 Bluetooth headset
- Though Sound ID isn't as well-known as Jabra and Plantronics in the Bluetooth headset world, its headsets have stood out because of their comfort and sound quality. Indeed, Sound ID boasts a deep understanding of the science of hearing because of the company founder's otology roots. Its first headsets (the...
- Product reviews 2009-09-22
- Animal dung and climate change
- Bison dung and the climateWhat did 60 million bisons and their dung have on global warming. I understand the dung had high carbon and was used as firewood by early settlers.My question is basically, before they were slaughered, did they contribute to global warming. Global warming is a...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- Poll: How often do you use your pocket camera?
- I fall into that "Only on special occasions" category so I selected every few weeks because that's about right. I always have it with me in my bag but typically only use it for vacations and festivals and that sort of thing.RE: Poll: How often do you use your pocket...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- Photos: IFA highlights from Berlin
- Some of the interesting things on display at the IFA show going on in Berlin right now include a 150-inch plasma TV, super skinny laptops, a wall of beer, and a mouse that doubles as an aquarium. by CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-09-05
- Has Steve Jobs banned Apple staff from social media?
- Nothing wrong with thatApple does rely on secrecy, especially in their R&D, to get more bang for their buck when the product is finally announced. I could see why Apple would want their employees not talking about their jobs in the social media. I can see why a lot of...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- Toshiba 55SV670U
- At the high end of the LCD TV cost spectrum sits models equipped with LED backlighting. Whether edge-lit or local dimming, these sets command a price premium and deliver somewhat better energy efficiency and markedly better black level performance than standard LCD TVs. But with black levels on par with...
- Product reviews 2009-08-27
- Toshiba 46SV670U
- At the high end of the LCD TV cost spectrum sits models equipped with LED backlighting. Whether edge-lit or local dimming, these sets command a price premium and deliver somewhat better energy efficiency and markedly better black level performance than standard LCD TVs. But with black levels on par with...
- Product reviews 2009-08-27
- MIDs and netbooks - half the size, half the experience - Solomon type design
- Personally - not really interested in smaller than a netbook."With AJAX, and HTML 5 coming, the Internet experience will require ever more power."Somehow I doubt that that will really take more power than video.But if it doesn't do video - yeah, it's underpowered.Frankly, though, I really don't want to go...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- Plantronics Discovery 975
- The Plantronics Voyager Pro earned our Editor's Choice award earlier this year for having the best sound quality of any Bluetooth headset we've tried. However, the Voyager Pro was marred by its slightly bulky and unfashionable appearance. The new Plantronics Discovery 975, on the other hand, is a much more...
- Product reviews 2009-08-20
- Social CRM: Shifting power and rapid burn
- Something is beginning to concern me...Michael,Good writing and great article. However, you are bringing a point that has began to bother met about this whole SCRM thing.We are beginning to talk about how it works when you complain online, show case studies of how companies are handling complaints faster...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-19
- Major security holes in popular XML libraries
- A security research outfit has issued a warning for several critical vulnerabilities in popular XML libraries used by a wide range of software vendors. The flaws, discovered earlier this year by Codenomicon, affect a wide range of technology products, including servers and server applications, workstations and end...
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- Motorola Karma QA1 (AT&T)
- It seems that PCD isn't the only manufacturer making square messaging phones. Indeed, the Motorola Karma QA1 for AT&T looks a whole lot like PCD's Verizon Wireless Blitz and the more recent Cricket TXTM8. However, the Karma QA1 is a step above those two in both design and features. It...
- Product reviews 2009-08-05
- Apple warns of Mac attack risk via image files
- Apple today warned that opening or viewing image files could lead to remote code execution attacks against Mac OS X users. In an update that contains fixes for a total of 19 documented vulnerabilities, Apple said malicious hackers could rig PNG Portable Network Graphics and other images...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
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