Michigan based Humble Daisy, Inc’s experimental price drop for ProfCast ends Saturday at midnight. ProfCast allows live presentation recording, synchronization of slides with audio, PowerPoint support, and media generation. During the experiment ProfCast is half priced. For the remainder of the month of July, ProfCast has eliminated volume discounts and is instead selling ProfCast for [...]
Industry News
Business Insider, Turbocharged!
We’re excited to announce that we’ve just raised another round of financing, courtesy of New York-based RRE Ventures and our existing investors. This capital will help us continue to expand the site and bring you many of the things you have been asking for–and faster than we would be able to develop them under our [...]
Engadget
Apple issues Magic Trackpad drivers for OS X and Windows, updates MacBooks with new gesture support
Right on schedule, Apple’s released new drivers for the Magic Trackpad, in both OS X and Windows flavors. The download is pretty amusingly huge at 75MB, since it includes videos of all the gestures in action, but at least you’ll know exactly how many fingers to use for that new three-finger drag gesture. The bad [...]
Apple
Apple brings inertial scrolling, three-finger drag to some MacBooks
Apple on Tuesday issued an update to a number of recent notebooks — including the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air — bringing inertial scrolling and three-finger drag gesture support to some trackpads. Read more at source Related Reading:
Mobile Devices
Review: LogMeIn Ignition for Android
LogMeIn Ignition is a remote desktop program that allows users to access their computer, anywhere in the world, from a smartphone. The Android version has only been available for a short time, and I have been giving it a spin to see how it compares to the previously released iPhone version. This review should make [...]
Apple
iMac line refreshed by Apple
Filed under: iMac After some early morning downtime, Apple’s store is now back and featuring new iMac configurations. Full details are on the iMac technical specifications page. The new systems offer Intel Core i3, i5, and i7 processors (no more Core 2 Duo!) with improved graphics and new Magic Trackpad support. The refreshed machines include [...]
Mobile Devices
PlayStation emulator released onto Android Market
Being a former N64 fanboy, this may not excite me as much as some PS1 die-hards out there, but the PlayStation has just been added to Android’s already-impressive list of game console emulators. The app that makes this all possible is called "psx4droid" and will run you $5.99. Here is a quick rundown of the [...]
Engadget
Samsung TV schedule points to Epic 4G in August?
On August 20th, at 4:30PM Eastern Standard Time, Samsung will show off the Epic 4G smartphone on their television support website. Why is this of interest to you? Simply because the last two times the company did such a thing — for the Vibrant and Captivate, respectively — these infomercials all but coincided with the [...]
Mobile Devices
Six ways to get your webOS phone working again
Is your phone all seized up? Again? Palm’s got some tips to get things back into working order, and it’s the stuff of legends. Well, it’s more the stuff that tech support would tell you to try first, so you can get this out of the way before placing that always-frustrating call. Here’s what Palm [...]
Engadget
Okoro’s ultraslim SX100 HTPC updated with quad CableCARD support
Who says you need a supercomputer in your den to record four high-def feeds at once? Okoro Media Systems, a long-standing player in the pre-fab HTPC business, has just unleashed the latest update to its OMS-SX100, which measures in at just three inches tall and should slide in easily to whatever AV cabinet you’re currently [...]
Mobile Devices
AOL chooses Android as its mobile OS of choice, launches 2 apps
Probably all of us at one point or another have used AOL as our ISP. Though AOL’s users have been declining in recent years, AOL just got a whole lot cooler in my book. Today, AOL announced its support for the Android operating system, choosing Android as the platform to showcase their flagship AOL application. The [...]
Apple
Apple warning retailers of short-term iMac shortages — new models in the pipeline?
Filed under: iMac Several sources are reporting that Apple is notifying direct and indirect sales channels of upcoming shortages of stock for the iMac. It appears that Apple is drawing down inventory in anticipation of the introduction of new models of the popular desktop machines. According to AppleInsider, a source says that Apple is informing [...]
Apple
iOS 4 and iPhone 3G is a match made in… what’s the opposite of heaven?
Filed under: iPhone Do you have an iPhone 3G? Me, too. Have you updated it to iOS 4 yet? If the veins are popping out of your neck and your skin is turning green, you probably have. If your iPhone 3G hasn’t been updated to iOS 4 yet, then do your iPhone, yourself, and your [...]
Mobile Devices
Fring receives a minor update — but Skype remains missing
Fring received a minor update today, which should address many user reported issues, but it appears the feud with Skype is still going strong. Some of the updates include: "Significant" audio improvements The echoing is fixed (fixed, fixed) Supports new Android devices like the Samsung Galaxy S using the front camera Many more bugs fixes [...]
Ars Technica
Schrodinger’s Carmine: support Child’s Play, vote on Gears 3
Rookies in the Gears of War series have a pretty short life expectancy, and they can expect their deaths to come via the more gruesome methods. With Gears of War 3 on the horizon, Epic Games decided to put the fate of its newest rookie in your hands. Starting on July 29, you’ll be able [...]
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Lightspark 0.4.2 Open Source Flash Player Released
suraj.sun writes “The Lightspark project has released version 0.4.2 of its free, open source Flash player. According to Lightspark developer Alessandro Pignotti, the alternative Flash Player implementation is “designed from the ground up to be efficient on current and (hopefully) future hardware”. The latest release of Lightspark features better compatibility with YouTube videos, sound synchronization [...]
Engadget
Verizon confirms Droid X screen issues, but says they’re not widespread
We just got word back from Verizon regarding those flickering Droid X screens, and sure enough, the ghastly images are not a side effect of your assimilation into the Droid collective. Verizon and Motorola have owned up to a genuine problem with a small number of Droid X displays, approximately one-tenth of one percent. If [...]
Apple
Apple executives dodge data center, FaceTime questions in earnings call
As usual, Apple’s executives kept close to a carefully prepared script on the company’s stellar financial results, being careful not to reveal too much about the company’s future plans, including its data center cloud services and broader open support for FaceTime video calling. Read more at source Related Reading:
Mobile Devices
foursquare for BlackBerry v1.9 now available
The folks at foursquare have been hard at work tweaking their BlackBerry app and today have released version 1.9 with some new improvments. The features as still coming along, and some minor tweaks and fixes have helped out things like battery life this time around. Updates include: Sort Check-ins – Quickly sort your nearby check-ins [...]
