Rejected iPod Engravings

Seeded on Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:02 PM EST (methodshop.net)

As you may know, you can order an iPod from the Apple Store with a custom, laser-engraved message. However, not everything gets engraved. Apple has been rejecting some messages for editorial reasons.

technology, apple, ipod, rejected, engraving, engrave

US is 'worst' imperialist: archbishop

Seeded on Sun Nov 25, 2007 9:09 PM EST (The Times)

THE Archbishop of Canterbury has said that the United States wields its power in a way that is worse than Britain during its imperial heyday.

britain, america, archbishop, war, world-news, imperialism, imperialist

Wii Update Adds Primitive Keyboard Support

Seeded on Wed Aug 8, 2007 12:02 PM EDT (Kotaku)

Nintendo secretly hides functionality for a USB keyboard in yesterday's Wii system update.

technology, nintendo, video-games, keyboard, usb, wii

Circuit City Shows All Xbox SKUs Dropping in Price

Seeded on Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:59 PM EDT (Kotaku)

Another store gives us proof of an Xbox 360 price drop.

technology, microsoft, xbox-360, video-games, circuity-city

Wii Picross Makes Picross DS Wait Slightly Easier

Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:43 PM EDT (Kotaku)

If you've got the Picross itch, you needn't dig up your Mario's Picross Game Boy cart or suffer through the agonizing 48 hour wait for the domestic release of Picross DS.

technology, nintendo, nintendo-ds, nintendo-wii, picross, picross-ds

Mister Wong's New Logo

Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:24 AM EDT (blogoscoped.com)

Mister Wong is the name of a German social bookmarking site that just changed its logo after user protest.

technology, web-2-0, bookmarking, mister-wong

Top 10 Ways Best Ways to Manage Firefox Tabs

Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:08 AM EDT (Fried Beef)

10 extensions and tips to help manage and tame all your tabs while surfing the web with Firefox.

technology, extensions, firefox, tabs, mozilla, tabbed-browsing, mozilla-firefox

Viva Pinata DS Announced

Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:03 AM EDT (Kotaku)

Announced at Comic Con yesterday, Viva Pinata DS will see the original game concept (ie not the party game) ported over to the DS

technology, rare, microsoft, nintendo, nintendo-ds, comic-con-07, viva-pinata-ds

Australia To Make Changes To Game Ratings?

Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:00 AM EDT (Kotaku)

Australia is planning to change their game ratings system to incorporate a rating the equivalent of the ESRB's "AO" rating as well some other changes.

technology, video-games, austrailia, oflc, office-of-film-literature-classification

Top 5 Reasons to own a Pet

Seeded on Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:26 PM EDT (shrigley.blogspot.com)

Have you ever thought about owning a pet? If not, then consider my five reasons for getting a pet.

people, for, life, is, a, journal, help, lazy, self

Toys "R" Us Jumps on the 360 Price Drop Bandwagon

Seeded on Sun Jul 29, 2007 7:00 PM EDT (Kotaku)

More proof that the Xbox 360 has dropped in price.

technology, microsoft, xbox, xbox-360

Wal-mart Ad Shows 360 Price Drop

Seeded on Sun Jul 29, 2007 6:57 PM EDT (Kotaku)

The interwebs are a-buzz with the posting of a blurry image of a Wal-mart circular that shows a $50 price drop on the Xbox 360 taking it down to $349.

technology, microsoft, xbox, xbox-360, video-games

All aboard

Seeded on Mon Jul 2, 2007 5:13 PM EDT (googleblog.blogspot.com)

Google officially announces they have acquired GrandCentral.

google, technology, grandcentral

Google as spin doctor

Seeded on Mon Jul 2, 2007 4:03 PM EDT (Webware)

In one of those oops moments that has already generated significant backlash and could end up in a guide on "marketing don'ts," a Google blogger has pissed on Michael Moore's new movie Sicko and has offered to help the poor, unfairly criticized health care industry to fight back.

google, technology, healthcare, health-insurance, ads, search-engines, michael-moore, sicko, lauren-turner

Kick Your Competitor With Negative SEO?

Seeded on Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:15 PM EDT (Google Blogoscoped)

Google in their help files once said that there is "almost nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed" from their index." I emphasized the almost, because it means, according to Google, there are some things a competitor can do to hurt your r …

google, technology, search-engines, negative-seo

Google Maps: Drag and drop to tweak your driving route

Seeded on Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:11 PM EDT (Lifehacker)

Don't like the driving route Google Maps doled out to you? Now you can change the driving directions by grabbing the blue route line and dragging it to create a new destination point, which will in turn create a new route.

google, technology, google-maps

Zoho optimizes office suite for iPhone

Seeded on Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:34 AM EDT (Webware)

Zoho, the suite of Web-based productivity tools that's often considered the most formidable challenger to Google Apps' domination in the field, has entered the iPhone app blitzkrieg.

technology, apple, web-apps, iphone, zoho

Ga-Ga for Gadgets

Seeded on Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:02 AM EDT (googleblog.blogspot.com)

Google has just announce Google Gadget Ventures, a service that will help developers develop new and better Google Gadgets.

google, technology, google-gadgets, igoogle

The Bourne Ultimatum Google Tie-in Follow-up

Seeded on Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:59 AM EDT (blog.outer-court.com)

As previously mentioned back in April, Google is partnering with Universal to promote The Bourne Ultimatum movie.

google, technology, jason-bourne, bourne-ultimatum

The Benoit Tragedy

Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:10 PM EDT

As most of you probably know, Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy, and his son Daniel were discovered yesterday in their home dead.

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sports, wwe, benoit, chris-benoit, daniel-benoit, double-murder-suicide, nancy-benoit

Wii Internet Channel Finally Out of Beta!!!!!!

Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:59 PM EDT

Yes, you read right. Finally, after many months, Opera's Internet browser for the Wii is out of beta! I got home from school today and opened my Google Reader and scrolled down to the Webware feed from webware.com.

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technology, opera, nintendo, internet-browser, wii, nintendo-wii, opera-browser, opera-internet-broswer, wii-browser, wii-channel

New Wii Channel

Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:38 PM EDT

I was just watching AOTS (Attack of the Show) on G4 and they just announced that G4 created a Wii Channel which can be found at g4tv.com on the Wii's web browser and g4tv.com/wii on your computer's browser.

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technology, g4, g4tv, wii, wii-channels