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Rubin: Android getting more social features; Donut, Eclair, and Flan all in the oven {Engadget}
Jul 10th 2009 10:04PM I say gentlemen, how do you do?
Rubin: Android getting more social features; Donut, Eclair, and Flan all in the oven {Engadget}
Jul 10th 2009 10:02PM @Chris Are: I know I am. Thank you, my world makes sense again :)
LG's 12 megapixel GC990 Louvre flagship with Schneider-Kreuznach optics records our puzzlement in HD {Engadget}
Jul 8th 2009 7:19AM Exactly, with 12MP and ISO 3200 - you'd be looking at so much noise no amount of photoshoping is gonna help. Completely pointless.
Killzone 2 / Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 bundle hitting Best Buy now {Engadget}
Jul 7th 2009 7:16AM Doesn't look like this bundle is coming to Canada, at least it's still not on bestbuy.ca :(
HTC Hero pre-release model taken for a spin, previewed in Russia {Engadget}
Jul 6th 2009 9:03PM Nah forget donut, I'm waiting for the croissant with HD support, but of course the ultimate goal is the browny with full holographic display :D
and the special browny edition will come in a rainbow of colors
Colorware offers up $6,000 Stealth MacBook Pro: it's really dark {Engadget}
Jul 4th 2009 7:13PM You could buy macbook pro spec'd like that for 4249, send it to colorware for a regular black + matte finish job for 819, and save almost a thousand bucks on it. As far as I can tell only thing you'll be missing on is a black trackpad and the softouch finish. Oh and of course if you don't want the SSD you could save another $600. Seems like a much better deal to me overall.
Symantec's Hall says free antivirus is for chumps {Download Squad}
Jul 4th 2009 6:53PM There are a lot of great free tools to protect your computer from various threats, be it viruses, malware, or whatever else. Of course the trouble with those is you need to know what to look for - if you're not familiar with the type of software, Google's first results might not always be the best. Then there's of course the problem of downloading all these various tools if you want to have full protection, as well as maintaining them (i.e. keeping up to date) and actually using them - not everybody can keep up a regular schedule of running 3-5 different tools to scan/clean one's computer.
This is not an issue for "techies", i.e. the sort of people reading download squad, but for the regular joe user, that's a lot of hassle. So, I think there is a place for paid protection software that offer complete "360" solutions with simple interface, easy scheduling, and sort of "click one button to fix all" kinds of tools.
But as I said, it should be a full solution, not the kinda crap like norton or mcafee pull with their "basic", and "plus", and "premium" packages (not actual package names) - if I'm gonna pay for this kinda software there better be just one package that protects me from everything.
Of courses prices have to be reasonable as well. Basic norton anti-virus software costs $40 for 1-year subscription. My free AVG does everything that basic norton package does, but it's free with "life-time" subscription. I mean, that's just bad business on Norton's side - isn't it part of "business 101" to learn to offer extra services if you demand a premium over competition.
This is of course on top of what everyone here knows - norton's and especially mcafee's software are bloated pieces of crap. Worst part is, perhaps their latest versions are actually not half-bad, but their reputation has already been soiled by the bad choices they made in the past. Only way they can save themselves is by doing a complete 180, but given what Mr. Hall there says, I don't see that happening.
iPhone 3GS jailbreak released by GeoHot ahead of Dev Team {Engadget}
Jul 3rd 2009 7:26AM If he can't find a hole, then the dev-team will and we still get a jailbroken 3gs, but we also have one now thanks to him and not the dev-team. And if they both can't find the new hole then we all loose anyway.
Any way you put he's right. It's stupid to be waiting for the next hole because there will always be a "next hole" - maybe dev-team should wait for os 4 before releasing 3gs jailbreak?
Palm Pre in cahoots with Dutch provider Hi? {Engadget}
Jul 3rd 2009 7:19AM Even the carriers there are hi, crazy europeans.
Sony exec says UMD-less PSP was "always the plan" {Engadget}
Jul 2nd 2009 7:55PM Yeah except that Sony should've been "leading the charge". Look at Apple - did they wait for smartphones to become user-friendly and have great UI? No, they went and did it themselves. Nintendo - did they wait for somebody to make the first motion controlled controller? No.
Sony, as a big company with plenty of resources should've been at the forefront of the digital distribution system, not playing catch-up with Microsoft, Valve, and heck, even Nintendo.
Now they're trying to appear as if it was all part of the plan but that's BS. They simply lacked the necessary vision and/or drive to truly innovate.
