Monthly Archives: September 2008

Packard Bell Looks to Reposition Self as ‘Trendy’ Lifestyle Brand… LOL!

Read this post and it just made me chuckle to myself… Packard Bell is set to reposition itself as a trendy design-focused lifestyle brand, following its acquisition by Acer last year. Speaking at Acer’s Global Press Conference, Emmanuel Fromont, Vice … Continue reading

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Google Adds Gears to Safari

This is a worthwhile install if you’re a WordPress user (or any other gears enabled system) on the mac - great to see some Safari lovin’. We’re really excited to announce the official release of Gears for Safari on OS … Continue reading

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VMWare Fusion 2 Is Out

Go get it! Great news for any virtualization junkies out there (I know I’m not the only one). VMWare Fusion 2.0 has just been released! Fusion 2.0 is a free upgrade for all existing 1.x customers, and it adds more … Continue reading

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eeeMac Runs OS X on an eeePC

I like… I’ve heard some great things about the tiny little eeePC, but this is the best thing I’ve heard so far: it can be a Mac. Twitterer Gregory Cohen has pictures on Picasa of his completed eeeMac, an eeePC … Continue reading

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History of the Browser User-Agent String

I’ve only done user-agent string sniffing once and I remember it gave me a headache… This post explains why it gave me a headache! And then Google built Chrome, and Chrome used Webkit, and it was like Safari, and wanted … Continue reading

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QGtkStyle Now Part of Qt

Looks like KDE apps just got a whole lot more appealing to Gnome users. I like a lot of KDE apps (Kate being a particularly cool editor when I’m on the Linux box), but I just never used to use … Continue reading

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How Videogames Blind Us With Science

An interesting article over at Wired discussing a recent study into how kids are using their brains and scientific reasoning to beat video games… One of the reasons kids get bored by science is that too many teachers present it … Continue reading

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