Google Voice Free For All
Google Voice is out of beta and no longer requires an invite. LifeHacker has more.
Permalink | Make a Comment ( None so far )Uh Oh, SpaghettiOs
Campbell Soup recalls 15 million pounds of SpaghettiOs:
Permalink | Make a Comment ( None so far )WASHINGTON (AP) – Campbell Soup Co. is recalling 15 million pounds of SpaghettiOs with meatballs after a cooker malfunctioned at one of the company’s plants in Texas and left the meat undercooked.
The Agriculture Department announced the recall late Thursday. Campbell spokesman Anthony Sanzio said the company is recalling certain lots of the product manufactured since December 2008 “out of an abundance of caution” because officials don’t know exactly when the cooker at the Paris, Texas, plant malfunctioned. Officials believe it happened recently but aren’t sure, he said.
iPod Touch Gets Free iOS4 Update
It’s old news, but I just noticed that the iOS 4 upgrade will be free for iPod Touch owners as well as iPhone users. In the past, Apple has charged $20 for iPod Touch OS upgrades, a shoddy practice they blamed on accounting requirements. Good for Apple for doing the right thing by their iPod Touch users.
[via Cult Of Mac]
Permalink | Make a Comment ( None so far )Stop Motion Mario
…with post-its
Permalink | Make a Comment ( None so far )New $5 version of popular iPhone GPS App
The CoPilot Live USA iPhone app is just $4.99 and offers turn-by-turn spoken directions and free map updates for the rest of the year.
[via CNET Cartech Blog]
Permalink | Make a Comment ( None so far )iPhone Upgrade Dates Moved Up
Dial *639# (star-639-pound) from your iPhone to see if you’re eligible for an upgrade. AT&T announced that they’ve moved up the upgrade eligibility date for current iPhone customers by up to six months. If you would have become eligible for a subsidized upgrade any time in 2010, your date has been moved up so you can grab a new iPhone as soon as it is available.
FarmVille Ice Cream / FarmVille iPhone
FarmVille branded Ice Cream and Slurpees from 7-Eleven offer in-game rewards:
Rita Bargerhuff, chief marketing officer at 7-Eleven, said it is one of the most unique campaigns in the chain’s history as it gives more than 30 product incentives to Zynga’s 239 million monthly active users.
“Through our promotion with 7-Eleven, we are expanding our reach and making our games more accessible to consumers,” said Vish Makhijani, senior vice president of business operations at Zynga.
The promotion runs through July 15 or while supplies and codes last.
AND finally…FarmVille is now available as a free iPhone application.
[both items via Venture Beat]
Permalink | Make a Comment ( None so far )Blu-Ray Ripping Guide
From LifeHacker: The Hassle-Free Guide to Ripping Your Blu-Ray Collection
Permalink | Make a Comment ( None so far )A Hiring Boom For Journalists At AOL
AOL will be hiring “hundreds” of journalists in the coming year while re-organizing their content division.
[via Ad Age]
Permalink | Make a Comment ( None so far )AT&T Kills Unlimited Data Plans
The $29.95 iPhone (and other AT&T smartphone) unlimited data plan is being replaced by two cheaper plans with data limits.
The $15 plan will get you 200 megabytes of data, which AT&T claims is enough to “send/receive 1,000 emails (no attachments), plus send/receive 150 emails with attachments, plus view 400 Web pages, plus post 50 photos on social media sites, plus watch 20 minutes of streaming video”. That sounds optimistic to me, but this plan in particular will be a good option for parents who have kids clamoring for an iPhone. And for many users, free WiFi isn’t usually far away.
The new $25 plan will get you 2 gigabytes, which is far more data than most iPhone users currently use – but power users may find themselves bumping up against the limit.
AT&T says you can keep your current unlimited plan, or you can switch to one of the new cheaper plans without extending your contract.
Permalink | Make a Comment ( None so far )Weekend Movie Watching
Thanks to Netflix Watch Instantly, my holiday weekend was a blur of 1980′s nostalgia (with a brief side-trip to 1992). I’d recommend all of these, with the possible exception of Chevy Chase’s ‘Modern Problems’ – go watch Vacation or Fletch instead. WarGames 1983 – After cracking the security of an Air Force supercomputer, young hacker [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Browser Wars
The top five web browsers, tested and ranked by Tom’s Hardware. The major browsers are all pretty good now, but I’m currently a disciple of Chrome (with Opera a close second). Whichever you use, make sure your using the latest release (especially important with IE).
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Popular Science Archives – Free
PopSci has partnered with Google to offer the magazine’s entire 137-year archive for free online.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Play Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online For Free
EA’s Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online game is in open beta, and it’s a lot of fun. The graphics are good (especially for a browser based game), it’s not a huge download, and the course selection is pretty amazing – Pebble Beach, St. Andrews, Sawgrass, etc. It’s designed to be a multi-player social online game, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Apple II Gets New Digital Music Synthesizer
As a former Apple II enthusiast (owned an Apple IIc and Apple IIgs in the late 80s), I think it’s awesome that there’s still a fan community out there developing for the platform. Engadget posted about a new Apple II digital music synthesizer.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Macmillan’s Price Fixing Scheme
Macmillan is forcing Amazon to go along with their e-book price fixing scheme. Price fixing is usually illegal in this country, but there are often loopholes and exceptions to laws. I guess calling booksellers ‘agents’ who don’t get to set their own prices and receive a fixed commision is a pretty good one. That doesn’t [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Meat Is Murder…Delicious Delicious Murder.
Is vegetarianism dead? Maybe not, but it doesn’t seem as trendy and popular as it did a few years ago.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Just Don’t Wear A Red Shirt On Away Missions
From Digital Spy, hands-on with the upcoming ‘Star Trek Online’ MMO game.
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