Back in the mists of time at the dawn of the Gadget Age, Richard Thalheimer’s Sharper Image was one of the more highly regarded purveyors of well-made, interesting and sometimes even useful products for the discerning gadgeteer. Starting out as a catalog selling jogging watches in 1977, The Sharper Image eventually grew into a heavy [...]
Written by Lonnie Lazar on March 5th, 2010 with no comments.
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Plainview is a web browser with a difference. It’s a full screen browser, lacking any bells and whistles at all except just the one: no chrome, if you’ll forgive the pun.
So all you get is web content from floor to ceiling. Everything else gets hidden away, including your Dock and your Menu Bar.
So, you might [...]
Written by Giles Turnbull on March 3rd, 2010 with no comments.
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The Boxee beta is finally available for Apple TV.
Boxee is Apple TV done right. It’s a great, Net-connected, “social” media player that allows you to play video from all over the Web as well as files from file-sharing networks. It streams content from sites like Netflix, Pandora and Last.fm, and makes it easy to get [...]
Written by Leander Kahney on February 26th, 2010 with no comments.
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chat roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.
Remember Casey Neistat? He and his brother caused a stir back in 2003 with The iPod’s Dirty Secret, a viral video about the iPod’s irreplaceable battery.
Now he’s got a really nice, artful little film about Chatroulette, a web app tha lets you videoconference with random strangers all over the [...]
Written by Leander Kahney on February 25th, 2010 with no comments.
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UPDATE: Just got word that Gruber is NOT cool with the site, and is demanding it be taken down. This about 20 mins after this post was published. Guess the “reasonably parodic period” is up. That was quick.
I’ve just been IM-ing with John Casasanta, the brains behind DaringFireballWithComments.net – a website that mirrors Apple pundit [...]
Written by Leander Kahney on February 3rd, 2010 with no comments.
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