Google Voice Free For All
Google Voice is out of beta and no longer requires an invite. LifeHacker has more.
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Uh Oh, SpaghettiOs
Campbell Soup recalls 15 million pounds of SpaghettiOs: 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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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 [...]
Read Full Post | 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]
Read Full Post | 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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Blu-Ray Ripping Guide
From LifeHacker: The Hassle-Free Guide to Ripping Your Blu-Ray Collection
Read Full Post | 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]
Read Full Post | 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 [...]
Read Full Post | 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.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Car Thief Suspect Found Playing Grand Theft Auto
Finally, proof from the AP that playing Grand Theft Auto will lead to a life of crime…or possibly vice-versa: Sheriff’s deputies in central Florida found a suspected car thief playing the “Grand Theft Auto” video game, and they later charged him with just that. Polk County deputies investigating the theft of a 1998 Dodge Durango [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Like New Soviet Fighter – Only $5 Million
Via Wired’s Autotopia blog, buy a fully functional SU-27 ‘Flanker’ Soviet fighter jet for the low low price of $5 million. Finally get revenge on Maverick and Goose.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Besler Steam Plane, circa 1933
Steam powered flight! From the YouTube description: A Travel Air 2000 biplane made the world’s first piloted flight under steam power over Oakland, California, on 12 April 1933. The strangest feature of the flight was its relative silence; spectators on the ground could hear the pilot when he called to them from mid-air. The aircraft, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant
A very cool sea slug – it produces chlorophyll and can live indefinitely on only sunlight. A green sea slug appears to be part animal, part plant. It’s the first critter discovered to produce the plant pigment chlorophyll. The sneaky slugs seem to have stolen the genes that enable this skill from algae that they’ve [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Calorie Confusion
NY Times: Claimed calorie counts often wrong: Anyone who counts calories by using the figures on menus in fast-food restaurants or on the packages of frozen meals may want to count again. When researchers tested the food served in 29 chain restaurants and 10 frozen meals sold in supermarkets, they found that their calorie content [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Get Lost On Hulu
Seasons 1 – 5 of Lost are available on Hulu. I lost interest halfway through season 1, but maybe it’s time for a second look.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Windows 64 vs. Windows 32
Via Lifehacker, a comprehensive overview of the differences between 64 bit and 32 bit Windows.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )What To Watch This Year
Midseason TV 2010: January premieres and notable returns.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Audiences feeling blue after seeing Avatar
Seriously? James Cameron’s completely immersive spectacle “Avatar” may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Migraines and Light Sensitivity
Researchers may be close to understanding why bright light worsens migraine headache pain.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Netflix Agrees To Warner Bros.’ 28 Day Waiting Period
This agreement will encourage piracy more than it will protect Warner’s lagging DVD sales. Hopefully, it will at least open up more movies to streaming. Warner Bros. has signed a new agreement that will bring the studio’s new releases to Netflix in DVD, Blu-ray, and streaming form—a month after the original DVD release. [via Ars [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )I, for one, welcome our robot reporter overlords
Via ReadWriteWeb, robot reporters: One hour ago, three emergency vehicles responded to a report of an unconscious person at the world headquarters of Nike Inc. in Portland, Oregon. How do I know? An automated form-pumping robot from startup company Nozzl Media told me. Nozzl Media today unveiled a demonstration of its first product, a widget [...]
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