Red Panther SSDs are not fierce, not bad either

The solid state drive market will get a little more crowded as Jay Di Es Inc. (Japanese company) has revealed that it is planning on releasing a full line-up of 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch NAND-based storage solutions. Part of the new Red Panther series, the SSDs go from 32GB to 256GB (128GB is max for the 1.8-inch models) in capacity, will be backed by a one-year warranty and come bundled with the SSD Inspector Lite management software.
According to their maker, the 1.8-inch PATA ZIF andSource: TechConnect Magazine RSS Feed

Rockstar revamps Social Club's online leaderboards and stat tracking for Gay Tony

With the release of this week's second Grand Theft Auto IV expansion The Ballad of Gay Tony, the game's developer has decided to update the online multiplayer statistics tracking in order to reflect the new multiplayer game types. The addition of "BASE Jump" to the mulitplayer as well as "new, tighter Deathmatch arenas" helped spur the leaderboard overhaul, according to the developer blog. The various new additions being made due to the DLC will even get their own section on theSource: Xbox 360 Fanboy RSS Feed

Google Maps Navigation Video

Earlier today we posted about Google Maps Navigation. The navigation program is free for Android 2.0 based devices and could potentially be a more popular option than the other free satnav software available from a few companies. We just came across the official video showing a tutorial of exactly what the software is capable of doing.

As mentioned on the video (below) the Google Maps Navigation features voice guidance and turn by turn navigation which is exactly what is required onSource: Gadget Venue RSS Feed

Nolan North imagines Hugh Jackman starring in Uncharted film

Who's going to play Nathan Drake in the upcoming Uncharted movie? Well, don't expect Nolan North to reprise the role for the silver screen. In spite of his stellar performance in the games, North knows he's not big enough to headline a big budget film like Uncharted. "I've done film and television and I understand the reality of the business," North said on the OPM UK podcast.
The frontrunner for the role for Nathan appears to be X-Men star Hugh Jackman. "Jackman is who I'd like Source: PS3 Fanboy RSS Feed

Can Pressitt Make an Impact As a Social Media Release Tool? [WebWorkerDaily]

When I heard that the folks at Pressitt in the UK had launched the beta of their social media news release tool, I decided to check it out.

Pressitt says the site’s focus is on providing journalists and bloggers with a primary research tool for stories. PR types can upload releases into the system that should then be available to these journalists and bloggers.

My very first experience with the site wasn’t great. When I first went to sign up (as a PR person) I was facedSource: GigaOM Network RSS Feed

Cocktail: The Musical Coming to Broadway. Let’s Take a Look at the Possible Jams.

“When he pours, he reigns.” In another sign that New York City is losing its edge, prominent stage producer, Marty Richards (Chicago), is bringing the straight-laced yet tutti-frutti Tom Cruise vehicle, Cocktail, to Broadway. *Attempting to hold back a smirk* Richards is teaming up with the film’s screenwriter Heywood Gould—who actually adapted the flick from his book Cocktail, see below—to create a musical based on the story of a young man thriving in the world of “flairSource: SlashFilm RSS Feed

Car Cam Voyager

Planes have a black box; unfortunately cars don’t come equipped with that type of device.  Individuals who want to have a record of what goes on while they are on the road now have the option of recording it all with the Car Cam Voyager.  The Car Cam Voyager is a video camera specifically designed for the car.  The designers of the gadget thought it would be the perfect device just in case a person got into an accident or came across some important event that was worth recording.

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Sony announces S-Frame digital photo frame-printer model DPP-F700

Ever have a friend look at a picture on your digital photo frame and say “gee.. can I get a print out of that picture?”.. OK.. maybe they’re more likely to say “gee.. can you email me that picture?” but JUST in case they do want a real printout, Sony now has you covered with the newly announced S-Frame digital photo frame with printer (model DPP-F700). This new all-in-one product combines a 7 inch 800 x 480 digital photo frame with a 4 x 6 inch 300 x 300 dpi photo printer into aSource: Krunker RSS Feed

The ‘I Automatically Hate The New Facebook Home Page’ Group Gets Some Big Support

It’s inevitable: With Facebook change, comes Facebook backlash.

Today’s introduction of the new-style News Feed on Facebook has been garnering quite a bit of positive buzz. But this is Facebook we’re talking about. Anytime they change anything, the backlash starts quickly. Sometime’s it’s justified, but quite often it’s users overreacting from the natural human feeling to dislike change.

Not surprisingly, there are already plenty of Facebook groups against newSource: TechCrunch.com RSS Feed

Software Boosts USB Flash Drive Speeds. Myth or Reality?

While we tend to distrust anything that's too good to be true, the USB SuperCharger appears pretty legit. Easy Co is apparently selling licenses now, per flash drive with gigabyte tiers, for USB write-optimizing software. The SuperCharger essentially targets the small file writing challenge faced by flash drives. While most MLC flash drives can actually turn out pretty good read speed and decent write speed for large files, small files are a major problem. Try and copy a folder with a Source: Everything USB RSS Feed

Use The Force Luke! “Star Wars Trench Run” Coming to the App Store Soon!

Word has just come out that THQ Wireless is bringing the classic Death Star Trench Run from the finale of the original Star Wars (yes I’m old enough to bristle at the thought of attaching an episode number) movie to the App Store. No date or pricing details yet, but they have released a nice trailer that was spotted by the folks at TouchArcade.

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1. LucasArts releases entire Star Wars Jedi Knight Collection on Steam for $20!
2. The Netbook Source: Gear Diary RSS Feed

HTC release Hero kernel source code: modders rub hands with glee

HTC have quietly answered many Android developer’s prayers, and pushed out the kernel source code for the Hero smartphone.  Available to download now – though admittedly of little use to most of us – it opens up the potential for much more modification of the Hero with custom ROMs.

Since the Hero’s launch, Android developers have been pestering HTC for full access to its code. The release will likely mean we’ll see some of the more popular custom ROMs – which have in theSource: SlashGear RSS Feed

889speedshop Offering First Tuned Lexus LFA [Tokyo Motor Show]

The Lexus LFA debuted approximately 12 hours ago and already German tuner 889speedshop is offering renderings detailing their plans for the first tuned version of the new LFA.

889speedshop will be adding their well-known touch to the Lexus LFA 889, making the already exclusive supercar even more-so. With a planned production run of just five cars, the LFA 889 will include the addition of an even lighter carbon-fiber hood and fender skins with an additional duct just ahead ofSource: Jalopnik RSS Feed

Magic Mouse post-teardown loses some of its dark arts charm

Were you expecting unicorn tears or something? iFixit keeps working to finish its list of teardown to-dos, this time with Apple's new Magic Mouse. It probably comes as no surprise, but just under the top surfaces lies a considerable number of capacitive sensors, and other than that, there really isn't a lot to gaze upon. Then again, if you tend to fancy the ins and outs if gears and gizmos, this should be right up your alley.

Filed under: Peripherals

Magic Mouse post-teardownSource: Engadget RSS Feed

A New Search Engine Specializing in Fun [The Mossberg Solution]

If you’re like me, you like to make the most out of what little free time you have. One way of finding ideas for activities without wasting precious minutes is by searching online. But sometimes the process of browsing the Web can suck you in and waste more time than it saves.

This week, I tested a tool called Goby (pronounced go-be), www.goby.com, which works as an activity search engine to help you find things to do. It tries to be simple enough so that you can get some ideas and Source: All Things Digital RSS Feed

ViewSonic announces 12-, 13.3-, and 14-inch ‘ViewBook’ ultraportables

ViewSonic dove headfirst into the ultraportable notebook game yesterday, with the announcement of the “ViewBook” line of 12-, 13-, and 14-inch low voltage machines.

The 13.3-inch ViewBook 130 (pictured above) looks to compete directly with Acer’s 3810-model Timeline offerings, while the 12-inch ViewBook 120 (video below) bears a striking physical resemblance to the Lenovo S12 series.

The ViewBook line was announced in Taiwan but it’s not out of the realm of possibilitySource: CrunchGear RSS Feed

Google needs a new name for its wicked Holodeck

When Google showed off a way of navigating Street View in a fully immersive room of flat-panel screens at the I/O conference in May, there was a collective web cry of — uh, awesome!

Informally dubbed the “Holodeck,” the room had a chair in the center and a joystick that let you “drive” around. (See the video below applied to Google Earth.)

But alas, the name “Holodeck” is not meant to be.

Paramount Pictures filed for the trademark back in 1992 when StarSource: VentureBeat RSS Feed

D&D rolls with the changes, ported to Microsoft Surface

By the time your average Dungeons and Dragons player has failed his third death save and gone off to that great dungeon in the sky, he or she's spent nearly $800,000 on miniatures and various-sided dice. (Trust us, it adds up.) Keeping that number in mind, we'd like to turn your attention to an alternative to tangible tabletop gaming: Surfacescapes, an in-development application for the Microsoft Surface, which attempts to recreate the D&D experience on an outrageously large touch screen. AsSource: Houstonist RSS Feed

Motorola Droid gets Hands on at BGR

Over the weekend we posted some shots that we found regarding the Android 2.0 operating system that BGR managed to get their hands on. Just a day before that BGR also made a quick video showing HELLOMOTODROID which looks to be exactly the same phone.

Now BGR have shown us some full pictures of the phone including a number of angles showing us exactly what it will look like. The phone as mentioned, will run Android 2.0 (which from what I have read looks amazing) and will be slightlySource: Gadget Venue RSS Feed

Motorola CLIQ available to T-Mobile customers now, great masses November 2

Well now this is a pleasingly rapid transition from announcement to review samples to market availability. Motorola's Android-loving CLIQ (already on sale under the moniker DEXT in the UK), its QWERTY keyboard and all the apps you could desire are now ready to be had, should you already have an account with T-Mobile, the device's exclusive US carrier. It was expected that only pre-orders would be taken today, but it appears for all the world that T-Mobile is ready to start shipping the CLIQ Source: Engadget RSS Feed

ATI gets official with HD 5770 and HD 5750 video cards

ATI has gone official with its new line of HD 5770 and 5750 video cards today. We already know just about all there is to know about the cards thanks to a leaked specifications and benchmark results last week. The leaked information got the specifications for the cards right.

ATI says that the HD 5770 has a core clock of 850MHz and a memory clock of 1.2GHz. The 5770 uses GDDR5 RAM and has 1.04 billion 40nm transistors. The card also features 800 stream processors, 40 texture units, 64 Source: SlashGear RSS Feed

Lunar auto repair depends on the sticky stuff

When you’ve got problems with your lunar rover you can’t just “trust the Midas touch”. Every unexpected repair that happens outside of the Earth’s atmosphere is a hack and it seems the common ingredient in each one is Duct tape. If you’ve seen the movie Apollo 13 you know it was used in making a square carbon dioxide filter fit into a round filter socket. [XD] let us know about another hack where NASA used Duct tape to replace a fender on the lunar rover during theSource: Hack A Day RSS Feed

Corvair-Powered Fiberfab Valkyrie GT-15 Prepares To Take Leave Of This World [Down On The Junkyard]

Last week, reader Curtis sent in an intriguing tip: a self-service wrecking yard in my area had a "kit car that looks kinda like a GT40 powered by what looks to be a Porsche engine."

Well, that sounded like a member of the Fiberfab family to me, and I figured the "Porsche engine" would turn out to be a VW Type I with funky carburetors and/or strange-o cooling ducts. Nope! That's a Corvair engine underneath that battered fiberglass body.
In case you were in any doubt aboutSource: Jalopnik RSS Feed

Terrifying Robotic Cockroach Survives Eight-Story Fall

Filed under: Computers

The world of robotics is awash in nature-inspired cybernetic creatures -- bees, spiders, fish. But none have been so creepy as the DASH, or the Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod. For those keeping score, that's a fancy way of saying "robotic cockroach."
The DASH was built by a team at the University of California Berkeley and mimics nature's nastiest little survivor in almost every way. Its six flexible legs allow it to move at astonishing speeds Source: Switched RSS Feed

Fan Art Friday: Peachy Peach!

This week's Fan Art Friday was submitted by the actual artist (gasp)! Dolphinwing has a great gallery of fan art up on her DeviantArt page as well as some great cosplay photos. She's very talented and absolutely a-dorable! A fine addition to our ever expanding Fan Art Gallery. We would love to see MORE artist submitted pieces for our Fan Art Gallery and I know there are lots of talented artists out there who read the site! So please submit your awesome art to info@gaygamer.net with theSource: GayGamer.net RSS Feed

Joystiq Podcast 113 - Plunger McGillicutty edition

Filed under: Podcasts

The fall onslaught is fully upon us, and we've got some big discussions for all the big games. So, if you've had a hankering for our take on Bral Legend, Uncharted 2 or Axel and Pixel, you should already be downloading. Also, we've got the first fake Visceral games and they are a-mazing.
Thanks to Alan Black for following our photoshopping protocol.
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T-Mobile USA Admits to Losing Customers Due to Lack of Proper 3G Network

Found under: T-Mobile, Deutsche Telecom, 3G, 4G, ,

T-Mobile USA is a great carrier if you ask me but the fact that it lacks a proper 3G network would be a good enough excuse for me to choose a different carrier. And apparently thats a big problem for the company. Deutsche Telecom T-Mobiles parent has apparently admitted that T-Mobile USA is losing customers because its 3G network isnt as developed as subscribers would want it to be. Therefore T-Mobile will definitely invest moreSource: MobileTopSoft news board RSS Feed

Stylophone Beatbox made interesting, desirable by superstar Brett Domino (video)

The $25.50 Stylophone Beatbox doesn't look like much, and if it weren't for one Brett Domino and his partner in hip-hop crime Steven Peavis, we just might have continued about our lives without knowing of this thing's potential. Described as the ultimate street cred token for the average white boy, this diminutive box reacts to panel presses by dishing out the hottest beats this side of Compton. The result? An eclectic mix of melodic rap tunes, all beautifully re-rendered by Leeds' mostSource: Engadget RSS Feed

Nokia Booklet 3G coming to AT&T in November for $299

Here it is — a netbook made by a cellphone manufacturer, and it's coming to the U.S. just in time for the holidays. Today Nokia revealed that it'll start selling its recently unveiled Booklet 3G in November for $299, exclusively at Best Buy. That's a nice price for a netbook with 3G, GPS, Windows 7, HDMI output and a sturdy aluminum unibody. Battery life is said to be a robust 12 hours. The catch: You need sign a two-year contract with AT&T to get it, and a typical 3G package costs $60 aSource: DVICE RSS Feed

Keepers Of The Court: Foursquare Superusers

Foursquare is a company with all of four employees. Yes, they just hired their fourth, we’ve learned (hello, Nathan Folkman, formerly of Betaworks, where he worked on Bit.ly). And yes, that’s a fitting number. You might think that a company that recently closed some funding would ramp up hiring a little faster, but the truth is that they don’t have to. Why? Because their users are already doing quite a bit of work to expand and improve the service.

You see, some users ofSource: TechCrunch.com RSS Feed

Western Digital WD TV Live HD media player gets official

Filed under: HD DVD, Others

Hope you didn't spend your well-earned shekels on a WD TV Mini -- it turns out that the HD-less wonder was just a waypoint to Western Digital's latest. The WD TV Live HD media player is an unassuming sort that doesn't really offer any surprises: 1080p video playback, support for all your favorite codecs, both Pandora and Live365 Internet radio apps, WiFi, two USB ports for external storage, HDMI, composite and component video outputs, SPDIF audioSource: Engadget HD RSS Feed

What Will Zombieland Director Ruben Fleischer Do Next?

Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer is a rare version of the young director with a hit movie on his hands: he didn’t walk into Zombieland’s release weekend with another movie set up, ready to go. That could have been a problem if the zombie flick had failed, but it definitely did not. So what will Fleischer do next?

THR runs down some of the director’s current options. Fleischer was never a horror guy, and most of what he’s gravitating towards now seems to be comedy. Right now,Source: SlashFilm RSS Feed

StumbleUpon site sporting a ’simpler, searchable, social’ look

StumbleUpon will roll out a new website, sporting acompletely updatedinterface, geared to be more simple, searchable and social.“Our goal was to make the site and the StumbleUpon Add-on easier to use and more intuitive for visitors and users. We’ve improved site navigation, and navigation within User Profiles, to make it easier and faster to find what you’re looking for. We also think it just looks a lot nicer,” announced. StumbleUpon says its new features include:Source: D' Technology Weblog RSS Feed

Every One of You Should Lead a Double Life [jkOnTheRun]

So instead of a relaxing weekend, Sidekick owners had a frustrating one. Saturday ended on a bang as the Sidekick servers lost all of the user data. That, in turn, translated into Sidekicks with little to no user data. Contacts? Gone. Appointments? Gone. Message history? Rewritten. It’s a terrible situation, and I feel for customers who lost anything and everything.

There’s plenty of reason to trash the folks that run the service, and if I was a Sidekick customer, I’d likely be Source: GigaOM Network RSS Feed

XROAD G-Maps (North America East)

A while back I received a copy of a new GPS mapping program called G-Map by a newcomer, XRoad. It was real GPS mapping software for the iPhone with one huge flaw. No turn-by-turn capability. That was not XRoad’s fault. Apple would not allow turn-by-turn on the iPhone, so G-Maps was little more than a pretty map program with not much more functionality than Google Maps which already came with the iPhone for free.

Then with Apple’s 3.0 software update, all that changed in a big way. Source: iPhone News Updated RSS Feed

Best CPU Cooler Performance LGA1366 Q3-2009

Overclockers and performance enthusiasts both share the same desire to cool their processor with the best possible hardware solution, but they each have different needs. The Benchmark Reviews test lab is rife with cooling products, ranging from silent low-profile to full-size tower coolers. The purpose of this series is to measure products for the best cooling performance in both stock and overclocked forms. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests a new collection of LGA1366 coolers usingSource: DV Hardware RSS Feed

Zeno Clash headed to retail on PC

We're glad that we're not the only ones who played the profoundly odd Zeno Clash and realized it needed to be experienced by as many people as possible. First, we learned it was headed to XBLA, and now Tripwire Interactive has announced it will bring the PC version of the first-person shooter/puncher to retail shelves in the USA and Canada.
No time frame has been given other than "soon" but, judging from that, it sounds like you'll find it in stores before you see it on the MarketplaceSource: Houstonist RSS Feed

TMNT: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled tops September PSN sales

Once again proving that regular people don't care about what critics have to say, TMNT: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled managed to climb to the top of the PSN download chart for September. With Final Fantasy VII and Marvel Vs Capcom 2 also maintaining enviable positions, it's clear that people love paying for nostalgia.
1) TMNT: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled
2) NBA 2K10: Draft Combine
3) Final Fantasy VII
4) Marvel Vs Capcom 2
5) Fat Princess
6) BattlefieldSource: Houstonist RSS Feed

Verizon and Google officially promise several Android phones

Verizon has just announced that it reached an agreement with Google, signing a strategic partnership with the big G in order to release Android devices, as well as related services and mobile applications.

Google and Verizon are ready to “co-develop several Android-based devices” that will be manufactured by leading handset makers.

Most probably, one of the promised Android devices is the Motorola Droid / Tao / Sholes (pictured below), which is rumored to be launched before Source: Unwired View RSS Feed

Ig Nobel prize winner: A bra that offers support AND life support

What women need are more bras that offer not just support, but life support. A while back I wrote about a sports bra that monitors your heart rate. Now there's a bra with more immediate life-saving potential.

This bra turns into 2 gas masks. One for you, one for a friend.

Behind this at-first-glance-ridiculous invention is a seriously unpleasant event: the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine, usually described as the worst-ever. Scientist Elena Bodnar, formerlySource: popgadget RSS Feed

EXCLUSIVE: The Chevy Caprice Police Car Is Back! [Police Cars]

After a 15-year absence patrolling U.S. streets, an all-new law-enforcement-only Chevrolet Caprice Police Patrol Vehicle (PPV) joins GM's fleet in 2011. Although it's built on the same rear-wheel-drive Camaro and dearly-departed Pontiac G8-spawning Zeta platform, it's not a G8 sedan.

Chevrolet plans to make the announcement of their new police cruiser today at the annual International Association of Chiefs of Police convention, in Denver, Colorado. Because we asked, we've beenSource: Jalopnik RSS Feed

Twitter’s shopping list: most common “must buy” tweets

Many of us perceive Twitter as a tool to monitor consumer behavior. As Twitter reflects the live streaming thoughts and needs of consumers – what can be more insightful for marketers than following the “must buy” products Twitter users tweet about.
We have generated a tag cloud for 24 hours cycle of tweets containing the actionable words “must have”. We have worked hard to clean irrelevant words and came up with the following shopping list:

You can see Twitter usersSource: Trendsspotting RSS Feed

JU-ON: The Grudge – Dated, Box Art, More

Just in time for Halloween, XSEED Games has been holding a grudge on Wii™ owners and has vowed to make amends starting October 13th. JU-ON: The Grudge, a haunted house simulator developed by feelplus, immerses players in a number of mysterious and eerie locales shrouded in utter darkness.

Armed with only a flashlight, players’ safety depends on thorough exploration of cursed surroundings, including an abandoned warehouse and a decrepit hospital. Move quickly, because as yourSource: WiiNintendo.net RSS Feed

WRUP: PSP Go edition

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