Archive for August, 2010

Fisheye, Wide Angle and Macro Phone Lenses

These two small yet powerful and finely constructed lenses, one fisheye and one combo wide-angle/macro ($40), attach to your cell phone transforming your standard flat phone photos into wide and up-close wonders.

New Xbox 360 Slim Modded to Play Backup Discs

Team Xecuter has just released a proof of concept video showing a highly modified Xbox 360 Slim booting up a backup of Crackdown 2. In other words, “the group says they’ve successfully patched the DVD drive to play burned discs.”
Better still, they’re promising that a public release of said patch “will be available shortly” to [...]

Google Apps and Gmail Notifier for Multiple Accounts

Spiffy, is on the verge of being awesome. Spiffy is simple, and that is partially because it is available in a portable form. The rest of the simplicity comes from being able to configure up to 5 Gmail accounts in a few minutes.

iD Software’s Rage Tech Demo Running on iPhone at 60FPS

John Carmack showed off an incredible Rage tech demo at QuakeCon 2010 running at a blistering 60-frames-per-second. Believe it or not, he also said “it still ‘runs great on an original 2G iPhone’ as well.”
We’re sorry, but the Palm Pixi’s rendition of Need for Speed no longer impresses us — we’ve just seen John Carmack [...]

Google Android Voice Actions

Google announced a new Android feature called Voice Actions today, and it’s useful, but maybe not a big enough deal to warrant the press conference they held for it. Voice Actions allows you to control your Android phone (2.2 Froyo only) with spoken commands: you can send email, call any contact, get a map of [...]

Times, a slick newspaper-like RSS reader, hits the iPad

Times, one of the more interesting RSS reader options on OS X, just got an iPad version. The iPad is a perfect fit for Times’ newspaper-like layout, which looks more like a magazine in the iPad version. As much as I love Flipboard as a way to read articles on the iPad, I know that [...]

Bynamite is a beautiful service that tries to help you get more relevant ads

Bynamite is that it looks slick. It’s a service that purports to let you easily opt out of over 100 ad networks and specify what interests you (and what doesn’t) so that you can get better targeted advertising.
It’s not an ad blocker. It’s a browser add-on for Firefox and Chrome that’s coupled with a website. [...]

Custom-Built HandyDuo Portable Plays Both NES, SNES Games

Aside from looking like a factory built console, the HandyDuo is capable of playing both NES and SNES games, without having to replace / remove any parts. Video after the break.
Under the hood of the HandyDuo are components of a RetroDuo system with an integrated PSOne screen, and a pair of 4250 mAh batteries to [...]

Artist Creates Incredible Pencil Tip Sculptures

Artist Dalton Ghetti took his skills and creativity to the next level by creating these incredible pencil tip sculptures — some are even carved directly into the pencil’s body.
From a miniature bust of Elvis Presley wearing shades to tiny hammers and old boots, his work is mind boggling.

[via Inhabitat]

Dropbox offers a free 250MB for completing a quick tutorial

If you’re a Dropbox user — and we think you probably should be — you can get an extra 250MB added to your account by completing a tutorial that really doesn’t take very long. Just click the Get Started tab on the Dropbox website and follow the instruction. There are 6 steps, and you can [...]