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Enhanced Gmail Plug-in for BlackBerry now in beta testing {Engadget}
Jul 6th 2009 3:44PM Dude, glad to know that you know you're a freak (at least it is part of your handle). First, the product is from RIM itself, so how is this pushing a product? Second, you obviously don't use all of the potential of Gmail on your BB and this is fine. But for those who want to tag/archive, star, mark read/unread, delete, etc. their Gmail (in other words MANAGE their email) from their BB, the current pop-based solution is BROKEN. This is FAR FROM misinformation. Note, capitalization added for emphasis and to show how silly your use of capitalization was.
Verizon BlackBerry Tour unboxing {Engadget}
Jul 1st 2009 1:23PM The need for Wi-Fi depends on where you use the device most. If you have excellent 3G coverage in both home and workplace then, sure, it isn't that big of a deal. For those of us without such perfect coverage, Wi-Fi is essential to a good smartphone experience. Plus, they generally are more efficient in terms of battery usage, especially in areas of spotty coverage. Honestly, I don't get Verizon. Everyone has all-you-can-eat data with these things, so they aren't losing revenue if they add Wi-Fi. To the contrary, they are just offloading some of the network traffic which should HELP decrease costs and increase profits. MAYBE they could lose some revenue to folks installing VOIP apps, but given that such apps have been available for Win-Mo devices for years and seem not to be making a dent, this seems like a lame excuse. Any other reasons why they wouldn't?? Obviously the reasons aren't technical ones...
Netgear MoCA Coax-Ethernet adapter reviewed by Engadget HD {Engadget}
Jun 25th 2009 9:08PM Yes. To be safe you may want to split the cable using a decent splitter ($8 one at Best Buy or better) instead of using the pass-through built in to the box, but even the pass through works with the proper switch flipped in the settings. I just bought two of the latest gen Actiontec routers from eBay though. So $80 less, I get the same capability but 4 10/100 ports and 802.11G at either end. Works like a charm and I'm getting way more than enough throughput to support uncompressed HD. I'm pleased with my purchase.
Josh is on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight! {Engadget}
Jun 17th 2009 3:10PM Hmm, I see an iPhone 3Gs review by Josh immediately followed by this announcement. Hmm...
Jon Rubinstein takes over as Palm CEO {Engadget}
Jun 10th 2009 11:13PM http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_24/b4135033926195.htm
Jon Rubinstein takes over as Palm CEO {Engadget}
Jun 10th 2009 7:36PM What happens to Jon when Dell buys Palm? Hmm...
Palm Pixie (Eos) confirmed via webOS ROM leak? {Engadget}
Jun 10th 2009 2:30AM Let's hope the graphic is wrong about a lot of things. At $299 post rebate, this is a non-starter for all but the most rabid Palm fans or Apple/RIM haters (unless of course this is the no-commitment price). This will have to sell for $99 to be even competitive. To me, the release of the Pre and the deets we now know to be true makes this slide seem even more fake (or at least VERY preliminary) than it did when it first came out.
Project Natal video hands-on, impressions, and further details {Engadget}
Jun 3rd 2009 1:34PM Nothing is going to prevent developers from also using input from other devices. You could certainly still be holding and using any kind of controller. That's the beauty. This is simply a way of building in a whole new realm of awareness into a game. Your hands/fingers/thumbs are still free to do/hold whatever the heck you need. Imagine a Metal Gear type game where crouching/hiding/jumping/dodging/ducking are all based on your physical movements, but you still get a light gun. Close one eye and you go into scope mode. Etc. Etc. Etc. I wouldn't necessarily want to play an entire MGS single player campaign this way, but it would be awesome for some multi-player fun.
Project Natal video hands-on, impressions, and further details {Engadget}
Jun 3rd 2009 1:25PM The fact that the Wii has sold more than the PS3 and 360 combined (despite having previous gen hardware/graphics and a real-world price that has long been a bit higher than the 360) might clue you in to the fact that this type of natural interface might actually be wanted. Get your ass of the couch and exercise your brains instead of your thumbs for a while and perhaps you'll clue into the potential for this for so many types of games. No, it won't replace the controller, but I guarantee you it'll be one hell of a supplemental input device and will form the basis for a whole new category of games in Xbox land.
D-Link routers get added CAPTCHA protection {Engadget}
May 12th 2009 10:36PM Am I the only one that misses having DNSMasq (or similar) on this router (655)? Without it, I can't resolve computers by name on my internal LAN. Well, I kind of can if they are all running windows, but I can't if I'm trying to find a PC from a Mac or vice versa. Perhaps nobody else cares, but I have a Windows Home Server and a media "server" and trying to get everybody to see everybody else is painful without DNS forwarding that ALSO resolves internal DNS requests. Linksys had this by default (as I recall) and DD-WRT certainly does. D-Link's firmware doesn't (also doesn't support WDS). The hardware is nice and the connections were fast and pretty solid (except to 802.11b devices, which it dropped like hot potatoes), but I'm back to my good old WRT-54g.
Am I alone or am I the only one trying to get so much out of my consumer routers?
