We’ve had a number of close calls here during our Web Faceoff series, but this wasn’t one of them. This week we pitted TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop against each other in a bar room brawl for favorite Twitter client. Now, the results are in. Whereas last week’s Windows 7 versus OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard battle was a close one, with Windows 7 going the distance to outlast the current Mac OS, this week’s showdown had a big winner. …and TweetDeck was it, with a full 71% of the vote (3294 votes) as compared to Seesmic Desktop’s 23% (1055 votes). Six percent or 260…
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iPhone Coming to Verizon in 2010 [RUMOR]
6 Nov 2009 | 5:21 pmMany signs point to the Apple and AT&T agreement that makes the latter the exclusive carrier of the iPhone within the US coming to an end within the next year. For starters, non-exclusivity has been profitable for Apple in other parts of the world. Moreover, even AT&T’s CEO acknowledges the deal won’t last forever. And while Verizon might be all about showing off what Droid does right now, a new report suggests it could become the first carrier other than AT&T to offer iPhone on American soil, starting in the second half of 2010. According to a report obtained by Apple… -
DocVerse Puts Google Docs-Like Collaboration Inside Microsoft Office
6 Nov 2009 | 5:20 pmThis post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: DocVerse Quick Pitch: DocVerse brings the collaboration functionality of products like Google Docs to the 600 million users of Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Genius Idea: Collaboration is a key to success in any business, especially when you have a scattered team that needs to work on documents constantly. There are already a lot of options,… -
FishVille Launches on Facebook; It’s Like Underwater FarmVille
6 Nov 2009 | 3:56 pmWe were sort of surprised to discover how many of you proclaim your love for FarmVille, the social farming sim game from Zynga. We reported that the company had trademarked the name FishVille last month, and speculated that an aquatic derivative of the wildly popular social game might be in the works. And indeed it was, with FishVille launching in beta today. It’s a bit of a late contender to the aquarium games space, with Happy Aquarium, Fish World and My Fishbowl all getting a head start. Nevertheless, Zynga has enough clout in the social games space to make FishVille a quick winner… -
5 Must-Have iPhone Apps for Wine Lovers
6 Nov 2009 | 3:23 pmMegan Berry is an evangelist for Mobclix, the industry’s largest mobile ad exchange, working on social media and marketing. She also blogs at The Huffington Post and the Mobclix blog. You can follow her on Twitter as @meganberry, or through the @Mobclix handle. Unsure about mixing your iPhone with wine? Well, if you’re a true vinophile, the iPhone is an amazing device to keep you more connected to your wine. The following list of top wine apps on the iPhone will convince you that mixing the two is worth the risk of spilling some pinot noir on your phone. Like wine itself, these…
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Straw Man Argument About Enterprise 2.0 Doesn't Fly
6 Nov 2009 | 2:05 pmDennis Howlett got the attention of the Enterprise 2.0 community today, with his continued skepticism about "social" technologies and their place in the business world. Here's a quote from his post entitled Enterprise 2.0 - the non-debate: "Why am I not surprised? I've argued for years that the notion of anything that has 'social' attached to its moniker is about as welcome as breaking wind in a spacesuit." Sponsor While Howlett makes a few good points in his post, we think that he's making a straw man argument - that the Enterprise 2.0 community is somehow involved in a big lie. The reality… -
Clicker: A One-Stop Shop For Online Video (1000 Invites)
6 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pmFinding specific online videos from TV networks and independent producers can often be a daunting challenge. Some TV shows are on Hulu, some can only be found as paid downloads on iTunes or Amazon and some are only available for streaming on the network's and producer's own sites. Clicker wants to change this by making it easier to find shows from TV networks, music videos, and web videos from across the Internet. Clicker is currently in private beta and only available in the US. The company gave us 1000 invites for our readers. Read on to find out how you can get yours. Sponsor Clicker… -
Layar Tells CNN: Augmented Reality Will Be Second Only to Voice On Phones
6 Nov 2009 | 12:17 pmWhen you've got a global audience, maybe it's good to make sweeping, ambitious statements. Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald, co-founder of Augmented Reality browser company Layar, was interviewed by CNN today and took the opportunity to claim that AR on phones is going to be so big in the future that only voice will be more popular. Maybe. Many people in the Augmented Reality world are rolling their eyes at Layar's incredible media exposure. They worry that relatively simple implementations of this technology paradigm will create such a bubble of hype that software developed over decades will suffer… -
Remixing Via iPhone: 5 Tools for the Pocket DJ
6 Nov 2009 | 11:00 amIn 1906 John Philip Sousa criticized the gramophone saying, "These talking machines will ruin the artistic development of music in this country." Nevertheless, because Sousa did not forsee user-generated culture proliferating alongside "mechanical music" he could not have been further from the truth. Not only have machine technologies aided in musical development, but there are a variety of mediums to choose from. While audio engineers may scoff at the idea of making music on the iPhone, there's no denying that a number of options exist for the pocket DJ. Below are a few tools to get you… -
Seesmic Web Gets Lists and Geolocation
6 Nov 2009 | 8:49 amSeesmic just announced the launch of Twitter lists in its browser-based Seesmic Web Twitter client. Earlier this week, Seesmic released the first desktop Twitter client with support for lists. Despite Seesmic's best efforts, Brizzly managed to become the first company to release a web client with support for lists earlier today. Seesmic Web offers another first for web-based Twitter clients, however: support for Twitter's geolocation API. Sponsor Lists With Auto-Updates In Seesmic's web interface, users can now simply hover their cursor over profile pictures and a menu will appear. This menu,…
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TweetDeck iPhone Update Fail Makes the Day "Manic".
6 Nov 2009 | 1:22 pmEarlier this morning, Iain Dodsworth, creator of TweetDeck, posted that the day could potentially be "manic". While he cautioned the day's updates would not be list-related, as many updates from his competitors have been over the last week, it was hinted it would not be desktop related either. That left the iPhone, as TweetDeck doesn't yet have a Web option. But the iPhone release was found buggy, was later pulled, and now the service, and its devoted followers, are once again in a holding pattern with Apple - which makes them the undesired middleman. And yes, that means the day is officially… -
Brizzly and Seesmic Web Get Into Twitter Lists Game
6 Nov 2009 | 9:27 amAt this point, it's almost getting easier to see which popular Twitter clients have not yet added Twitter Lists support than it is to track those that have enabled support, as in the last 12 hours, both Brizzly, a product from Thing Labs, and Seesmic Web, Seesmic Desktop's sexier counterpart, have weighed in with their support for the increasingly utilized Twitter Lists functionality. Assuming TweetDeck wraps up their support shortly, as they have promised, and we hear something from Tweetie, all the majors will have reported for duty.Brizzly Highlights Integrated Lists SupportBrizzly, having… -
Listiti Watches Twitter Lists for Keywords and Alerts
5 Nov 2009 | 1:29 pmRegardless of where you sit in the RSS vs. Twitter debate for information discovery, you know the power of finding out when people are discussing topics of your interest, wherever they do so - be it on blogs, blog comments, social networks or anywhere else. With the advent of new Twitter lists, smart folks are manually curating lists of fellow Twitter users who to them provide value. And if done well, the lists should be spam-free, delivering only quality. A new service called Listiti debuted today, to help monitor lists which you hand select for keywords of your choosing.Today, I use… -
TweetMeme Goes Mobile for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry
4 Nov 2009 | 10:55 amTweetMeme has rapidly become the most popular and practical default engine for content authors to enable their Web sites and blogs to be forwarded on to Twitter (in the form of a Retweet). The company is now serving more than 100 million Retweet buttons across the Web each day, and is aggregating the statistics of most popular items on its Web site. Today, the company jumped forward, introducing a new capability that lets users retweet from their favorite Twitter apps - as many people, including me, do not use Twitter's standard Web interface when unchained from the laptop.The new… -
Stalqer: A Location Sharing App for Real Friends
3 Nov 2009 | 12:08 amI have always felt my life was not interesting enough to broadcast every small update. That's a major reason why I was initially slow to embrace Twitter, and why, thus far, I have shunned application broadcasting services like BrightKite and the extremely popular at the moment Foursquare. But a new application, set to hit the Apple iTunes Store any day now, called Stalqer, has a permanent position on my iPhone, because instead of being focused on badges and contests, its aim is to connect real friends, and it can work in the background - enabling me to have it run passively as I go about my…
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LA Auto Show Design Challenge reveals Youthmobile 2030 design entries
5 Nov 2009 | 4:39 pmFiled under: LA Auto Show, Audi, GM, Honda, Mazda, Nissan, Toyota, Design/Style Mazda Souga Concept from LA Design Challenge 2009 - Click above for high-res image gallery This year's iteration of the annual Design Challenge at the LA Auto Show asks the question: How will a new generation of drivers age 16-23, raised with cell phones, web cams and online communities, emotionally connect to the automobile in 2030? We don't know the answer either, but at least six designers from some of the world's top automakers decided to give it a go with their own ideas. First up are the eSpira and eOra from… -
VIDEO: Audi in on developing dashboard-mounted buddy robot
5 Nov 2009 | 4:01 amFiled under: Technology, Videos, Audi MIT and Audi present Aida -- Click above to watch video We don't know where carmakers got the idea that we want intelligent robots learning our behavior and then talking to us. Wherever it was, we don't want it any more than they thought we did 25 years ago in a talking Maxima. Nissan has its PIVO concept, which has the distinction of being as creepy as it is cute. Now Audi's in the game with it's much cuter, Wall-E reminiscent cybernetic accomplice, Aida. In conjunction with MIT labs, Aida - an acronym for Affective Intelligent Driving Agent - is not… -
Autoblog Podcast #151: With Eddie Alterman of Car and Driver
3 Nov 2009 | 12:50 pmFiled under: Podcasts, SEMA Show, Etc., Plants/Manufacturing, Audi, BMW, Dodge, Ford, Lincoln, Subaru, Earnings/Financials, UAW/Unions, Celebrities Click above for the Autoblog Podcast in iTunes, RSS or listen now! Abuelsamid, Lieberman, Roth and Shunk. Sounds like a law firm, but it's this week's podcast crew. Car and Driver editor-in-chief Eddie Alterman bravely wades into the pool and joins us for Episode #151 of the Autoblog Podcast, as well. We spend a goodly amount of time going over what's in all five garages this week, before picking up actual topics. Once into news, we move through… -
Suzuki dresses up a Kizashi for Halloween
1 Nov 2009 | 4:57 pmFiled under: Concept Cars, SEMA Show, Sedan, Performance, Audi, Suzuki 2010 Suzuki Kizashi Concept- Click above for high-res image gallery The boys and girls at Suzuki got into the Halloween spirit and dressed up a new Kizashi to celebrate the day. So what kind of costume would you put on a new sedan that aspires to redefine the company and show that this small carmaker can play with the big boys? Much like a kid who slaps a giant "S" on his chest to transform into a superhero, this Kizashi put on a super-sedan's duds and thrust its chest out proudly. Looking for all the world like an Audi… -
VIDEO: Dogs like trucks. Leopards apparently prefer Audis.
1 Nov 2009 | 1:32 pmFiled under: Coupe, Etc., Videos, Audi, Humor A leopard chills in his Audi TT - Click above to watch the video You've pretty much achieved Tony Montana status when you can keep a big cat as a pet. But how do you transport Fluffy around when it's time to venture beyond that "The World Is Yours" statue at the homestead? Apparently, the preferred method of this particular leopard-owning baller is to simply load the kitty into the passenger seat of an Audi TT, roll down the window, and head out on the town. (Perhaps a Mercury Cougar would be more appropriate? Maybe a Jaguar?) Leopards apparently…
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DC Comics to launch first Islamic superheroes comic book
6 Nov 2009 | 10:35 amDC Comics will be launching a new comic book series called The 99, the Islamic superheroes created by a Kuwaiti psychologist. Gulf News reports, the creation of the Islamic superheroes is mainly intended to curb stereotypes associated with people of the Islamic faith. The characters fight evil and personify the 99 attributes of Allah. Twitter users are fascinated by the first Islamic superheroes, but some feel it’s not a good idea. leilangod (Toronto, Canada) loves that “DC Comics will launch a new comic book series depicting Islamic superheroes” http://bit.ly/hHziO. My… -
TwitPics: Twitter users ‘Remember, remember the 5th of November’
6 Nov 2009 | 10:34 amTwitter users in the United Kingdom and in former British colonies took part in annual festivities on Thursday, November 5 to commemorate Guy Fawkes Night. Usual festivities include fireworks, bonfires, and burning effigies of Guy Fawkes. Calling for religious toleration, Guy Fawkes and other conspirators on the evening of November 5, 1605 tried to carry out a plot, known as the Gunpowder Plot, to blow up the British Parliament building and kill King James I. Ultimately, the plot was unsuccessful. Fawkes was captured, tried and executed. Reuters and The New Zealand Herald on Thursday… -
Fort Hood shootings: Seven dead at army post outside Killeen, Texas
5 Nov 2009 | 1:28 pmAt least seven people were killed and several others injured in a shooting at the Fort Hood military base outside Killeen, Texas on Thursday afternoon. Local television station KXXV reported, “We’ve learned an incident has taken place at the sports dome, now known as the soldier readiness area. Temple ISD Schools Have Been locked down as part of this incident. The district’s spokeswoman tells News Channel 25 the district is on soft lockdown.” People in and around Fort Hood were worried and shared their concerns on Twitter. RicoRossi (Fort Hood, Texas) if your… -
Israel claims to have stopped Iranian arms ship
5 Nov 2009 | 9:51 amPer BBC, the Israeli Navy has seized a ship reportedly headed by Iran carrying weapons disguised as civilian cargo, yet Iran has denied the allegations. The Israeli Navy has reported that the arms ship was on its way to Hezbollah, where fights between Israeli and Iranian forces has been active. Several hundred tonnes of weapons were seized making it the largest involving Iran since 2002 when the Israeli military found 100 tonnes of arms. People in the Middle East reacted to the news through Twitter. petitedov Smthg nice to wake up to: Israel seizes Iranian ship bound for Hezbollah loaded with… -
Brazilian man surprises family, shows up at own funeral
4 Nov 2009 | 9:23 pmBBC News reports that Ademir Jorge Gonclaves,a 59-year-old bricklayer from Brazil surprised his family by showing up to his own funeral alive Monday morning. Gonclaves had been identified by his family as the victim in a car accident the previous day in Brazil’s southern state of Parana. However, it was later revealed that Gonclaves had spent the previous night drinking ‘pinga’ with friends. Police even reported that the family had trouble identifying the body due to its disfigurement. Twitterers were amazed and confused with Gonclaves’ surprising appearance:…
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Audi Wins 18th Golden Steering Wheel Award
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Audi Reports its Third-Best October for U.S. Sales
5 Nov 2009 | 12:45 pmNovember 3, 2009: Audi today reported October sales in the U.S. of 7,358 luxury performance cars and SUVs, a result that approached the all-time October record set by the brand a year earlier. -
VW Jetta TDI Cup 'Street' Edition Racing Into Dealer Showrooms Soon
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Lively beats brawny in battle of performance cars
4 Nov 2009 | 8:11 pmSports/Performance Lively beats brawny in battle of performance cars 2010 Volkswagen Golf GTI The Germans take the Sporting prizes, with VW's GTI the victor in the under $50,000 group, and Audi S4 in the over $50,000 category Michael Bettencourt From Thursday's Globe and Mail Published on Wednesday, Nov. -
Which Import Brand Has The Genesis Hurt The Most? Read The Facts And See
4 Nov 2009 | 12:04 pmWhen Hyundai debut the Genesis sedan Last year they made it clear that it had targeted the luxury community, they were putting the establishment on notice so to speak.
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Will Audi Remain the Best-Performing Luxury Brand?
3 Nov 2009 | 5:55 pmAudi continues to wow us with the increase in sales. This week the company reported October sales in the U.S. of 7,358 luxury performance cars and SUVs.Below is a chart showing a comparison of sales in October 2009 versus October 2008 for each Audi model...The U.S. isn't the only country that Audi is doing well in. Audi even expects to surpass German's sales by 2012 or 2013. Add in the popularity of Audi vehicles in the South Asian market and you've got a recipe for a very successful year.Will Audi remain the best-performing luxury brand with regard to year-over-year sales performance for… -
The Future of Audi Starts With the Audi A3 TDI
19 Oct 2009 | 8:50 pmAudi enthusiasts are well aware that Audi is playing a part in creating a more environmental-friendly world. The Audi A3 is a product of this initiative, and it will be the stepping stone into a whole new future of auto manufacturing.Here's the "Do Your Part" commercial for the Audi A3 TDI:In recognition of Audi’s 100th birthday, the company with the four rings will once again invest considerably in its future. Earthwork operations for a key construction project in the northern sector of Audi’s Ingolstadt site will begin later this month. More than €100 million will be invested in a new… -
The Latest Audi News From the Blogosphere
6 Oct 2009 | 2:51 pmSo, what's going on in the world of Audi? We did a blog search and wanted to pass on some of the news:4WheelsNews.com reports that Audi has decided to ditch the RS4, and the convertible A4 and S4.Indian Car Blog, Carazoo.com, says that Audi sales continue to grow in the country.According to MotorAuthority, Audi has confirmed the e-tron for production by 2012. Apparently, this seems to be the big news for the week.For some Audi eye candy (literally!), check out this pink Audi R8 that was spotted in the Netherlands.Have an Audi news tip to share? Send it to admin [at] audiblog [dot] info.Photo… -
Audi Buzz: R8 Spyder
18 Sep 2009 | 4:51 pmAs someone who lives in California with its year-round warm weather and bright, sunny days, a convertible vehicle is ideal for just about any day of the week. But not just any convertible...the Audi R8 Spyder will work just fine!The Spyder received quite a bit of buzz on Twitter and the internet this past week when it was unveiled at the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show.We must agree with CarScoop and say that the Spyder looks great in white. Red is OK, but black would be smokin'.Check out this short clip that features highlights of this latest Audi creation...What are your thoughts? -
Audi Q7 Eye Candy
12 Sep 2009 | 10:28 pmThe other day as we were walking through the mall parking lot, my dad spotted an Audi Q7. "Wow! That's a nice-looking car!" he says. This is coming from a man who rarely appreciates a European car - although we did have a Volkswagen van back in the 80's. I turned to look at the bright white vehicle that stood out in the sea of SUV's in the parking lot. It sure did look real good in person. I've seen the Q7 in a showroom, but never paid much attention to it. And speaking of the Audi Q7, Audi of America President Johan de Nysschen recently gave a talk about the company’s clean diesel TDI…
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DC Comics to launch first Islamic superheroes comic book
6 Nov 2009 | 10:35 amDC Comics will be launching a new comic book series called The 99, the Islamic superheroes created by a Kuwaiti psychologist. Gulf News reports, the creation of the Islamic superheroes is mainly intended to curb stereotypes associated with people of the Islamic faith. The characters fight evil and personify the 99 attributes of Allah. Twitter users are fascinated by the first Islamic superheroes, but some feel it’s not a good idea. leilangod (Toronto, Canada) loves that “DC Comics will launch a new comic book series depicting Islamic superheroes” http://bit.ly/hHziO. My… -
TwitPics: Twitter users ‘Remember, remember the 5th of November’
6 Nov 2009 | 10:34 amTwitter users in the United Kingdom and in former British colonies took part in annual festivities on Thursday, November 5 to commemorate Guy Fawkes Night. Usual festivities include fireworks, bonfires, and burning effigies of Guy Fawkes. Calling for religious toleration, Guy Fawkes and other conspirators on the evening of November 5, 1605 tried to carry out a plot, known as the Gunpowder Plot, to blow up the British Parliament building and kill King James I. Ultimately, the plot was unsuccessful. Fawkes was captured, tried and executed. Reuters and The New Zealand Herald on Thursday… -
Fort Hood shootings: Seven dead at army post outside Killeen, Texas
5 Nov 2009 | 1:28 pmAt least seven people were killed and several others injured in a shooting at the Fort Hood military base outside Killeen, Texas on Thursday afternoon. Local television station KXXV reported, “We’ve learned an incident has taken place at the sports dome, now known as the soldier readiness area. Temple ISD Schools Have Been locked down as part of this incident. The district’s spokeswoman tells News Channel 25 the district is on soft lockdown.” People in and around Fort Hood were worried and shared their concerns on Twitter. RicoRossi (Fort Hood, Texas) if your… -
Israel claims to have stopped Iranian arms ship
5 Nov 2009 | 9:51 amPer BBC, the Israeli Navy has seized a ship reportedly headed by Iran carrying weapons disguised as civilian cargo, yet Iran has denied the allegations. The Israeli Navy has reported that the arms ship was on its way to Hezbollah, where fights between Israeli and Iranian forces has been active. Several hundred tonnes of weapons were seized making it the largest involving Iran since 2002 when the Israeli military found 100 tonnes of arms. People in the Middle East reacted to the news through Twitter. petitedov Smthg nice to wake up to: Israel seizes Iranian ship bound for Hezbollah loaded with… -
Brazilian man surprises family, shows up at own funeral
4 Nov 2009 | 9:23 pmBBC News reports that Ademir Jorge Gonclaves,a 59-year-old bricklayer from Brazil surprised his family by showing up to his own funeral alive Monday morning. Gonclaves had been identified by his family as the victim in a car accident the previous day in Brazil’s southern state of Parana. However, it was later revealed that Gonclaves had spent the previous night drinking ‘pinga’ with friends. Police even reported that the family had trouble identifying the body due to its disfigurement. Twitterers were amazed and confused with Gonclaves’ surprising appearance:…
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DC Comics to launch first Islamic superheroes comic book
6 Nov 2009 | 10:35 amDC Comics will be launching a new comic book series called The 99, the Islamic superheroes created by a Kuwaiti psychologist. Gulf News reports, the creation of the Islamic superheroes is mainly intended to curb stereotypes associated with people of the Islamic faith. The characters fight evil and personify the 99 attributes of Allah. Twitter users are fascinated by the first Islamic superheroes, but some feel it’s not a good idea. leilangod (Toronto, Canada) loves that “DC Comics will launch a new comic book series depicting Islamic superheroes” http://bit.ly/hHziO. My… -
TwitPics: Twitter users ‘Remember, remember the 5th of November’
6 Nov 2009 | 10:34 amTwitter users in the United Kingdom and in former British colonies took part in annual festivities on Thursday, November 5 to commemorate Guy Fawkes Night. Usual festivities include fireworks, bonfires, and burning effigies of Guy Fawkes. Calling for religious toleration, Guy Fawkes and other conspirators on the evening of November 5, 1605 tried to carry out a plot, known as the Gunpowder Plot, to blow up the British Parliament building and kill King James I. Ultimately, the plot was unsuccessful. Fawkes was captured, tried and executed. Reuters and The New Zealand Herald on Thursday… -
Fort Hood shootings: Seven dead at army post outside Killeen, Texas
5 Nov 2009 | 1:28 pmAt least seven people were killed and several others injured in a shooting at the Fort Hood military base outside Killeen, Texas on Thursday afternoon. Local television station KXXV reported, “We’ve learned an incident has taken place at the sports dome, now known as the soldier readiness area. Temple ISD Schools Have Been locked down as part of this incident. The district’s spokeswoman tells News Channel 25 the district is on soft lockdown.” People in and around Fort Hood were worried and shared their concerns on Twitter. RicoRossi (Fort Hood, Texas) if your… -
Israel claims to have stopped Iranian arms ship
5 Nov 2009 | 9:51 amPer BBC, the Israeli Navy has seized a ship reportedly headed by Iran carrying weapons disguised as civilian cargo, yet Iran has denied the allegations. The Israeli Navy has reported that the arms ship was on its way to Hezbollah, where fights between Israeli and Iranian forces has been active. Several hundred tonnes of weapons were seized making it the largest involving Iran since 2002 when the Israeli military found 100 tonnes of arms. People in the Middle East reacted to the news through Twitter. petitedov Smthg nice to wake up to: Israel seizes Iranian ship bound for Hezbollah loaded with… -
Brazilian man surprises family, shows up at own funeral
4 Nov 2009 | 9:23 pmBBC News reports that Ademir Jorge Gonclaves,a 59-year-old bricklayer from Brazil surprised his family by showing up to his own funeral alive Monday morning. Gonclaves had been identified by his family as the victim in a car accident the previous day in Brazil’s southern state of Parana. However, it was later revealed that Gonclaves had spent the previous night drinking ‘pinga’ with friends. Police even reported that the family had trouble identifying the body due to its disfigurement. Twitterers were amazed and confused with Gonclaves’ surprising appearance:…
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Apple’s New iMac Hidden Feature Plus More!
20 Oct 2009 | 11:00 amBoth of the new iMac models announced today capable of attaching an external display up to a 30 inch at a resolution of 2560 by 1600 pixels, but most interestingly is that the 27-inch model’s Mini DisplayPort also supports video inputs from DisplayPort equipped devices like the MacBook and MacBook Pro. The new iMac also has [...]Apple’s New iMac Hidden Feature Plus More! is a post from: Vinko's Thoughts On... a blog of true technology Versatilist. -
Apple’s Mac Slate
14 Oct 2009 | 3:00 amOver the years there has been a lot of rumors on the soon to release Apple Tablet “Thingy”, which I will call “Mac Slate”. These rumors and mockups are mostly based on leaked information from existing Apple suppliers and manufactures in China and Taiwan. They are interpretations without any explicit information from Apple themselves, as Apple [...]Apple’s Mac Slate is a post from: Vinko's Thoughts On... a blog of true technology Versatilist. -
So Soon To See Another OS 10.6 Update
11 Sep 2009 | 7:38 amApple released a new version of OS 10.6 (aka. Snow Leopard). It appears to fix several bugs that people on various forums are complaining about. This a welcome sign from Apple. So Soon To See Another OS 10.6 Update is a post from: Vinko's Thoughts On... a blog of true technology Versatilist. Related posts OS 10.6 aka Snow Leopard [...]So Soon To See Another OS 10.6 Update is a post from: Vinko's Thoughts On... a blog of true technology Versatilist. -
Snow Leopard After a Week
5 Sep 2009 | 4:06 amNow that I have been running OS 10.6 (aka. Snow Leopard) on my 2006 MacBook Pro for a week. I can offer my opinions of the latest OS X. Twitter followers had heard me complain that my MacBook Pro was very slow with certain apps, including those that others had raved about for being improved and [...]Snow Leopard After a Week is a post from: Vinko's Thoughts On... a blog of true technology Versatilist. -
Snow Leopard Now Installed
30 Aug 2009 | 8:35 amAs many of you know Apple released the latest version of OS X, 10.6 (aka. Snow Leopard) on Friday, August 28, 2009. I had pre-ordered this version on Tuesday, when Apple began accepting orders on their online store for HKD238.00. Apple had originally told me that my order was going to ship on August 28 and [...]Snow Leopard Now Installed is a post from: Vinko's Thoughts On... a blog of true technology Versatilist.
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Review: Shipwrek on iPhone
1 Nov 2009 | 9:10 pmA friend on Twitter brought Shipwrek to my attention, an application developed by Candy Cane in Estonia. It is a game with a simple goal. There are two docks: one yellow and one red, the player has to guide the corresponding coloured boats to the correctly coloured dock by drawing course lines on the screen for the [...]Review: Shipwrek on iPhone is a post from: Vinko's Thoughts On... a blog of true technology Versatilist. -
Review: Newsie on iPhone
30 Oct 2009 | 7:53 pmThe Google Reader web client on the iPhone is not bad, it is one of the better web applications from Google aside from GMail. May be that is why there are very few iPhone client made for Google Reader. Newsie is such a client developed by Instant Voodoo Magic and released in the Apple iTunes App [...]Review: Newsie on iPhone is a post from: Vinko's Thoughts On... a blog of true technology Versatilist. -
Smartone-Vodafone HSDPA Network Test Results
15 Oct 2009 | 2:56 amAs most readers know I conducted a joint test of Smartone-Vodafone’s HSDPA network last week; which I now found out it cost me HKD60.00 in data charges, as I had detailed in my post, Smartone-Vodafone HSDPA Network Speed Tested. At the time Smartone-Vodafone technicians did not have the data correlated until today. These results are from running [...]Smartone-Vodafone HSDPA Network Test Results is a post from: Vinko's Thoughts On... a blog of true technology Versatilist. -
Smartone-Vodafone HSDPA Network Speed Tested
6 Oct 2009 | 2:09 amThe people at Smartone-Vodafone took notice of my post, iPhones on Two Different 3G Networks Compared, and wanted to get to the bottom of the cause of the slow down in their HSDPA network; especially compared to 3 HK (another Hong Kong mobile carrier). They began by acknowledging my claims, although they did not do what [...]Smartone-Vodafone HSDPA Network Speed Tested is a post from: Vinko's Thoughts On... a blog of true technology Versatilist. -
Review: SimplyTweet on iPhone [Updated]
28 Sep 2009 | 3:47 pmOver the years many Twitter clients had come and gone on various mobile phone platforms: iPhone, Blackberry, Android, etc.. Some great ones like TweetDeck, Tweetie, Echofon Pro (formerly TwitterFon) and some flops like TweetStack. I’m glad to see other developers are still trying to out do its established competitors. Recently I came across such a developer, [...]Review: SimplyTweet on iPhone [Updated] is a post from: Vinko's Thoughts On... a blog of true technology Versatilist.
