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iLuv kicks out i168 and i169 HD Radio alarm clocks

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Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio

Something’s really wrong with the world if more than a few months pass by without a new iPod alarm clock from iLuv, so we suppose everyone’s a-okay for a few more months now. Announced today, the firm has introduced its first pair of HD Radio clocks, and sure enough, one of ‘em plays nice with Cupertino’s darling. The i169 would be that player, which offers up a mostly black motif, dual stereo speakers, remote, iPod dock, AM / FM / HD Radio reception, an auxiliary input and dual alarm settings for good measure. As for the currently available i168, it provides most everything you read up there sans the iPod compatibility, but then again, it only demands $89.99. What about the i169, you ask? It’ll set you back a cool $169.99 when it lands in “early May.” Full release waiting after the break.

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MacBook Air users still faced with overheating problems?

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Filed under: Laptops

We’re still hearing reports of MacBook Air overheating woe, well after an EFI update in April that was meant to address some of those problems. While hot computers are nothing new, the MacBook Air starts shutting down cores and offloading processes when things get bad, which means users are faced with aggravating stop-start freezing until they can manage to cool the computer off — or just put it to sleep and let it “rest.” Apparently some people have traced this back to the age-old misapplied thermal grease problem, but that’s hardly a solace for the average consumer trying to convince Apple to fix this thing for them. We took a MacBook Air that was acting up into the Genius Bar and Apple claimed it couldn’t reproduce the problem, though we have heard cases of Apple replacing the computer for users. We’d be curious to know just how many Air users are having trouble, and if the X300 is experiencing anything similar, so let us know in the comments.

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Daily Poll: Is a Good Browser Worth Money?

Posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins under 1

Stan wrote a fairly simple rant, this morning.  This rant rings true with me as well. I haven’t gone so far as to enumerate my personal Firefox issues here with a Mashable piece, but my followers on Twitter and FriendFeed are likely all to familiar with the battle I’ve had browsers in trying to find something that works fairly well on my brand new laptop.

Louis Gray and Chris Pirillo suggested that I try Safari. I did, and while it performed fairly solid, on my Vista laptop, it was just about as slow as Internet Explorer (not to mention it mangled nearly every WordPress post I attempted).

Adam Hirsch keeps recommending I switch to Flock for more stability. I’ve tried that, but while I think it’s an innovative new browser that solves a lot of problems, I just can’t get past the way it rather mangles Twitter status updates in the built in sidebar - and the stability for me isn’t better than FF2.

I’ve tried, like Stan, the FireFox 3 Betas, and my crashes have diminished from multiple times a day down to about once a day.

Still, I have to wonder if there isn’t something better.  I live in my browser, almost literally. Judging from the comments on Stan’s piece, there are a number of you who live in the browser and have similar experiences.

Given the fact that our browser is becoming now, more than ever, the center of our world, I’m left to wonder if it isn’t time to start paying for a browser.  Granted, FireFox isn’t currently hurting for money.  But given that my livelihood depends on me being able to reliably browse the web, me paying upwards of $100 would be worth it to me to get better performance.

With that, today’s poll asks:

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For a browser that runs quickly and doesn’t crash, would you be willing to fork over some cash?

• Yes, it’s worth it to me to pay for a browser.

• No, browsers should always be free.

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Daily Poll: Is a Good Browser Worth Money?

Posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins under 1

Stan wrote a fairly simple rant, this morning.  This rant rings true with me as well. I haven’t gone so far as to enumerate my personal Firefox issues here with a Mashable piece, but my followers on Twitter and FriendFeed are likely all to familiar with the battle I’ve had browsers in trying to find something that works fairly well on my brand new laptop.

Louis Gray and Chris Pirillo suggested that I try Safari. I did, and while it performed fairly solid, on my Vista laptop, it was just about as slow as Internet Explorer (not to mention it mangled nearly every WordPress post I attempted).

Adam Hirsch keeps recommending I switch to Flock for more stability. I’ve tried that, but while I think it’s an innovative new browser that solves a lot of problems, I just can’t get past the way it rather mangles Twitter status updates in the built in sidebar - and the stability for me isn’t better than FF2.

I’ve tried, like Stan, the FireFox 3 Betas, and my crashes have diminished from multiple times a day down to about once a day.

Still, I have to wonder if there isn’t something better.  I live in my browser, almost literally. Judging from the comments on Stan’s piece, there are a number of you who live in the browser and have similar experiences.

Given the fact that our browser is becoming now, more than ever, the center of our world, I’m left to wonder if it isn’t time to start paying for a browser.  Granted, FireFox isn’t currently hurting for money.  But given that my livelihood depends on me being able to reliably browse the web, me paying upwards of $100 would be worth it to me to get better performance.

With that, today’s poll asks:

n

For a browser that runs quickly and doesn’t crash, would you be willing to fork over some cash?

• Yes, it’s worth it to me to pay for a browser.

• No, browsers should always be free.

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Daily Poll: Is a Good Browser Worth Money?

Posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins under 1

Stan wrote a fairly simple rant, this morning.  This rant rings true with me as well. I haven’t gone so far as to enumerate my personal Firefox issues here with a Mashable piece, but my followers on Twitter and FriendFeed are likely all to familiar with the battle I’ve had browsers in trying to find something that works fairly well on my brand new laptop.

Louis Gray and Chris Pirillo suggested that I try Safari. I did, and while it performed fairly solid, on my Vista laptop, it was just about as slow as Internet Explorer (not to mention it mangled nearly every WordPress post I attempted).

Adam Hirsch keeps recommending I switch to Flock for more stability. I’ve tried that, but while I think it’s an innovative new browser that solves a lot of problems, I just can’t get past the way it rather mangles Twitter status updates in the built in sidebar - and the stability for me isn’t better than FF2.

I’ve tried, like Stan, the FireFox 3 Betas, and my crashes have diminished from multiple times a day down to about once a day.

Still, I have to wonder if there isn’t something better.  I live in my browser, almost literally. Judging from the comments on Stan’s piece, there are a number of you who live in the browser and have similar experiences.

Given the fact that our browser is becoming now, more than ever, the center of our world, I’m left to wonder if it isn’t time to start paying for a browser.  Granted, FireFox isn’t currently hurting for money.  But given that my livelihood depends on me being able to reliably browse the web, me paying upwards of $100 would be worth it to me to get better performance.

With that, today’s poll asks:

n

For a browser that runs quickly and doesn’t crash, would you be willing to fork over some cash?

• Yes, it’s worth it to me to pay for a browser.

• No, browsers should always be free.

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Daily Poll: Is a Good Browser Worth Money?

Posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins under 1

Stan wrote a fairly simple rant, this morning.  This rant rings true with me as well. I haven’t gone so far as to enumerate my personal Firefox issues here with a Mashable piece, but my followers on Twitter and FriendFeed are likely all to familiar with the battle I’ve had browsers in trying to find something that works fairly well on my brand new laptop.

Louis Gray and Chris Pirillo suggested that I try Safari. I did, and while it performed fairly solid, on my Vista laptop, it was just about as slow as Internet Explorer (not to mention it mangled nearly every WordPress post I attempted).

Adam Hirsch keeps recommending I switch to Flock for more stability. I’ve tried that, but while I think it’s an innovative new browser that solves a lot of problems, I just can’t get past the way it rather mangles Twitter status updates in the built in sidebar - and the stability for me isn’t better than FF2.

I’ve tried, like Stan, the FireFox 3 Betas, and my crashes have diminished from multiple times a day down to about once a day.

Still, I have to wonder if there isn’t something better.  I live in my browser, almost literally. Judging from the comments on Stan’s piece, there are a number of you who live in the browser and have similar experiences.

Given the fact that our browser is becoming now, more than ever, the center of our world, I’m left to wonder if it isn’t time to start paying for a browser.  Granted, FireFox isn’t currently hurting for money.  But given that my livelihood depends on me being able to reliably browse the web, me paying upwards of $100 would be worth it to me to get better performance.

With that, today’s poll asks:

n

For a browser that runs quickly and doesn’t crash, would you be willing to fork over some cash?

• Yes, it’s worth it to me to pay for a browser.

• No, browsers should always be free.

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Posted by Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins under 1

Stan wrote a fairly simple rant, this morning.  This rant rings true with me as well. I haven’t gone so far as to enumerate my personal Firefox issues here with a Mashable piece, but my followers on Twitter and FriendFeed are likely all to familiar with the battle I’ve had browsers in trying to find something that works fairly well on my brand new laptop.

Louis Gray and Chris Pirillo suggested that I try Safari. I did, and while it performed fairly solid, on my Vista laptop, it was just about as slow as Internet Explorer (not to mention it mangled nearly every WordPress post I attempted).

Adam Hirsch keeps recommending I switch to Flock for more stability. I’ve tried that, but while I think it’s an innovative new browser that solves a lot of problems, I just can’t get past the way it rather mangles Twitter status updates in the built in sidebar - and the stability for me isn’t better than FF2.

I’ve tried, like Stan, the FireFox 3 Betas, and my crashes have diminished from multiple times a day down to about once a day.

Still, I have to wonder if there isn’t something better.  I live in my browser, almost literally. Judging from the comments on Stan’s piece, there are a number of you who live in the browser and have similar experiences.

Given the fact that our browser is becoming now, more than ever, the center of our world, I’m left to wonder if it isn’t time to start paying for a browser.  Granted, FireFox isn’t currently hurting for money.  But given that my livelihood depends on me being able to reliably browse the web, me paying upwards of $100 would be worth it to me to get better performance.

With that, today’s poll asks:

n

For a browser that runs quickly and doesn’t crash, would you be willing to fork over some cash?

• Yes, it’s worth it to me to pay for a browser.

• No, browsers should always be free.

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Psystar Open Computer notes, benchmarks and video

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Should Strands Apply Recommendations to Personal Finance?

Posted by Kristen Nicole under 1

Strands has been around for a couple of years now, and has made quite a name for itself in th realm of social media recommendations. Often considered a competitor to sites like Last.fm, Strands built a brand around providing a service that spanned the web and mobile devices for introducing you to new music, and more recently videos, by way of search and discovery, among other things.

So with a vast amount of funding reaching $55 million, what’s this company doing acquiring Expensr, a money-management tool?

As with many other online money management services emerging in this day and age, Expensr already had a social component to it. Acquired for an undisclosed amount, expensr’s inclusion into the Strands family will help the recommendation service branch out into new directions. To kick things off, Strands is launching moneyStrands (currently in private beta), which directly applies social recommendations to personal finance.

It seems a bit odd at first, but there are already services out there, like Redux, Facebook Beacon and others that have already begun to take such measures into consideration, to varying degrees. If media recommendations, among other types of user and consumption behavior, can be applied to search and discovery, then it can be applied elsewhere–like towards personal finance.

In an anonymous manner, you can share your financial activity in order to compare yourself to others, and learn from the aggregated data that moneyStrands is keeping tabs on. It’s quite similar to some of the social stock-picking sites we’ve seen, as well as other socially adept personal finance management tools, like Geezeo. And it wouldn’t be a Strands product if it didn’t have an optimized mobile offering as well.

With strategic investment from the global financial institution BBVA late last year, the current moneyStrands features have apparently been in the works for some time. As a result of Strands tis with BBVA, Strands will also be ensuring industry best practices. So how do you feel about being able to compare your personal preferences across media as well as spending habits under one virtual roof–Big Brother or a better road to Beacon? To what other areas of our lives will personalized recommendations be applied?

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T-Mobile to debut 3G as voice-only. No data. We’re over it.

Posted by Ryan Block under 1

Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless

Well screw us — T-Mobile’s 3G network debut tomorrow? It’s going to be voice only. That’s right, you heard us, VOICE ONLY. So trepidatious is this company to actually get their 3G data rollout, um, rolled out, they’re launching first with kneecapped voice-only service, keeping only EDGE for those demanding data. Here’s the snippet from the memo we received:

“3G is the next generation of our wireless network, following our current GSM network. In this early phase of our network evolution, 3G is a new technology for carrying wireless voice calls and supporting existing data capabilities on our network. In future phases, this next generation network will power ‘high-speed’ (3G) products and services that connect customers in new and exciting ways. … Inform customers who are interested in high-speed data that the first phase of our 3G roll out supports voice only.” [Emphasis ours]

No word on when T-Mobile actually plans to turn on the faster data, but for everyone who haven’t already jumped ship — hoping against hope — the wait continues.

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Picnik Chooses Tribal Fusion for Integrated Ads

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Picnik has done a lot in the past few months, like make its services readily available for integration amongst other social media-sharing sites, embark on global growth, seek out additional revenue through peripheral products and make all of its services free, in the ad-supported kind of way.

That’s a lot going on, especially as Picnik is striving to stay competitive in the web-based photo editing space. So to help it do so, Picnik has chosen Tribal Fusion as its new ad network. As part of Tribal Fusion’s Brand Certified program, Picnik even gets special treatment and additional advertising opportunities within Tribal Fusion’s network.

This also gives Tribal Fusion an opportunity to strut its stuff, in terms of its vertical advertising capabilities, where it really shines. The types of ads you’ll be seeing as a result will include things like custom skins used for background images, and other floating ads. In providing this type of integrated advertising option, Tribal Fusion and Picnik leverage both of their own strong points and make the ads part of the content with which end users are interacting.

Given Picnik’s demographic and spreading popularity within Facebook and MySpace, such marketing certainly seems better than a simple banner ad, and fits better with Picnik’s distributed access across the web as well.

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Chelpa Ferro’s foosball table is seriously wired for sound

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Filed under: Gaming, Household

Researchers show off laser-guided wheelchair that docks with vehicles

Posted by Donald Melanson under 1

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

We first heard about this laser-guided wheelchair way back in 2006 but didn’t really have much more than promises from the team behind it about exactly what they had in store. As New Scientist reports, however, it seems that the folks from Lehigh University and Freedom Sciences are still hard at work at it, and they’re finally showing off some of their progress. The wheelchair is apparently still not entirely automated though, with it needing to be driven to the rear of the vehicle by remote control, after which the on-board LIDAR system kicks in and loads it onto the lift all by itself. Not surprisingly, the estimated price for the eventual commercial version has also gone up since we last heard from the team, with it now set to demand $30,000 (as opposed to $15,000 to $20,000) when it goes on sale later this year, assuming it gets the necessary FDA approval. Until then, you can head on over after the break to check it out in action.

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RC-12 wireless mini video camera can record itself get lost

Posted by Donald Melanson under 1

Filed under: Digital Cameras

We've seen a number of cameras mounted on RC vehicles before, but if you're looking for a more out-of-the-box solution, you may want to consider this so-called RC-12 camera now available from Japan Trend Shop, which is not only smaller than most, but able to be used underwater as well. Apparently, the 2.7 megapixel camera will work up to 30 meters away with the included 1.2GHz Morse typeS receiver, and last for about 45 minutes on a single charge, which is likely more than you'll ever want to shoot in one go, unless of course you happen to be recording some first-person footage from your next robot laser battle, which we could never possibly get enough of. As you might have guessed, however, the pint-sized kit doesn't exactly come cheap, with it setting you back $269, plus some fairly hefty shipping charges.

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Naim offers up HDD-based HDX network audio player

Posted by Darren Murph under 1

Filed under: Home Entertainment

Naim Audio, a name synonymous with high-end, has recently launched its very own hard drive-based music server, and on paper, it’s a fairly mesmerizing piece of kit. The HDX packs a pair of 400GB hard drives (one primary and a back-up) and claims to be a “fully integrated CD ripping and data storage system.” Aside from giving users a way to catalog their gargantuan CD collection in digital form, it’ll also play tracks back in the finest of detail. Packed within is a Burr-Brown PCM1791A DAC, 24 bit/192kHz internal architecture, ultra-low jitter re-clocking circuits and a built-in touch panel, too. Best of all, any tunes stored on network / USB drives can also be played through the device, and it can send up to six different streams of music simultaneously over a home network. The rub? At £4,500 ($8,772), you’re probably better off hiring Daft Punk to just play at your house.

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Psystar Open Computer unboxing and hands-on

Posted by Nilay Patel under 1

Filed under: Desktops

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