You’ll soon be chatting with Deckard Cain once again. Blizzard has confirmed that Diablo III is coming. The game will be fully 3-d and include a new witch doctor class. Get details here, along with a trailer and gameplay video:
http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/
Humyo offers 30 GB of free online storage — 25 GB for music, photos, and video and 5GB for whatever you want. The site lets you listen to and watch your media files from any computer. Users can even embed media files onto their website, blog or social networking site. To keep [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Mixx is a promising Digg alternative. The site is well designed, easy to navigate and very responsive. Categories and sub-categories are laid out logically and the posted content is usually pretty interesting. In fact, Mixx is good in every way except the one that matters — community. Mixx doesn’t seem to have [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )When you pick up your 2009 Chrysler at the dealer, make sure it has the optional EV-DO modem and WiFi router built in.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )T-Mobile will begin offering in-home VoIP service to their wireless subscribers on July 2. The service will be just $10 a month and include unlimited local and long-distance calling. Voicemail, call forwarding and call waiting are also included.
For T-Mobile customers who aren’t sure they need a land line, but aren’t quite ready [...]
In addition to the new mobile links site, I’ve also installed and enabled a Wordpress plugin called Mobile Wordpress which formats the site for mobile devices. The plugin uses the browser’s user agent to choose mobile or normal formatting. Surflizard.com should now be much easier to read on mobile devices.
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Hack the Apple MacBook Air SuperDrive to work with any computer — PC or Mac. All it takes is a bit of solder and a $9 part — and a willingness to void the drive’s warranty.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Popular mobile phone OS Symbian is going open source:
On Tuesday, companies including Nokia, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, LG Electronics, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, AT&T, Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics and Vodafone announced that they will work together to make the Symbian OS open source. They will offer it under a royalty-free license to members of a new nonprofit group [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Unlocked GSM-flavored Palm Centros are now available directly from Palm for $299. It’s a nice phone, despite Palm’s outdated operating system. Unfortunately, the keyboard is too small for many hands — including mine.
In addition to a tiny (but full QWERTY) keyboard, the Centro features a touchscreen, Bluetooth, a microSD card slot, and a [...]
Notebook computer sales increased 35% in the first quarter compared to the same period a year ago, according to a report by market research firm DisplaySearch. HP led the way with 20.8% of sales, followed by Dell with 15.1%. Acer, Toshiba and Lenova rounded out the top five, and Apple surged from 8th [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )From vnunet.com: “There are now more than one billion PCs in use worldwide and this number will double by the year 2014, according to Gartner research.”
We’ve come a long way since the Commodore VIC-20 was the first computer to sell over 1 million units back in 1983.
Introducing Surflizard Mobile Links — a small link directory of sites formatted for smart phones. The site is still under development, but it’s very usable now and should work great with any smart phone browser. The look and feel is somewhat iPhoney, but it also renders nicely in my Treo 650’s uninspiring Blazer [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )It’s no secret that today’s high-end graphics cards are more powerful than desktop PCs of a few years ago. However, things are about to get a lot more interesting:
The PC industry’s two largest graphics companies released new top-of-the-line models this week. The new graphics processors will bring not just better videogame performance, but will [...]
If you’ve tried to sign up for a Yahoo! email address in the last few years, finding an available user name was probably a frustrating experience. But now, it sounds like you’re about to get another chance. On Thursday, Yahoo! will begin offering a new email domain, “ymail.com”, to new and existing [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )The Skype internet calling service will be getting a major redesign with Skype 4.0, according to The New York Times. The new design will make video calling more intuitive and will improve on usability. The article mentions that an impressive 28 percent of the calls on its service include live video. That’s [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Not only is Firefox 3 now available for download, but Firefox 3 Portable Edition is also available. The portable edition isn’t just for thumb drives — it can also be ran from your hard drive. It’s a great way to try the browser out without installing it.
Lifehacker has posted a helpful [...]
As my fellow Treo 650 owners probably know, there is an LED light just above the screen that blinks constantly when the phone is on — red for no signal and green when a signal is available. Turning off the phone is the only way to get the light to stay off. Or [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Scientists are working on “the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil.” Let’s hope it pans out.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Version 9.5 of the Opera web browser is now available for download. Opera has always been fast, but Opera 9.5 feels a lot faster and more responsive than either Firefox or IE.
The latest version of the browser almost no one uses also features an impressive search feature built into the address bar [...]
At first glance, TidalTV appears to be just another Hulu competitor. However, this new content streaming site is actually much more than that. In fact, it looks and feels more like your cable tv service than a video streaming web site. In addition to the expected “On Demand” content, there’s also a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Don’t get too excited, only a few films will be streamed. According to a Disney press release, Disney films that air on ABC as part of the network’s weekly Wonderful World of Disney will be available for free streaming on Disney.com for the week following the network airing (Monday – Friday). Here’s the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )In case you haven’t heard, the new $199 3G iPhone will end up costing more than the old model. That’s because AT&T is charging $10 a month more for data services. The monthly data charge will now be $30. Of course, that’s still pretty cheap for unlimited data on a very fast [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )If you’re not ready to say goodbye, PC World has the info.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )I’ve spent some time with Warner Bros’ new content site, TheWB.com (currently in private beta). So far, it appears to be a fairly competent cookie-cutter site delivering the network’s programming over the web on demand. That’s not a bad thing, but it does make me wonder why a long private beta is necessary. [...]
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