Archive for June, 2009
KissTunes: make music online, with your keyboard
KissTunes is an online service that makes it easy to play and record music using your computer’s keyboard. It offers three different instruments, and all the home row keys (and a few from the row above) represent notes. You can save your song, along with any comments from friends, as a .kiss file that will […]
GM: Volt to be sportier alternative to Prius and Insight
2011 Chevy Volt - Click above for a high res image gallery
Now that the Chevrolet Volt has progressed to the point where vehicles with near-production bodywork are running around, the time has come for the crew to begin ironing out details like the ride height and spring rates that will directly influence the plug-in hybrid’s […]
DocMazy: a search engine dedicated to documents
DocMazy is a novel kind of search engine exclusively dedicated to finding documents. Instead of returning websites, it digs up PDFs, DOCs, spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and text files. DocMazy was designed to find information that gets buried in other search engines because documents often don’t score well in search engine algorithms, or aren’t indexed by […]
13-year-old trades iPod for Walkman, reports on mysterious ancient artifact
If you want to get an idea of just how fast technology moves, a brilliant piece from the BBC should help light the way. The setup is simple enough: 13-year-old Scott Campbell is given a Walkman and told by his dad that it was “the iPod of his day” — and that’s when the fun […]
Samsung to introduce NVIDIA Ion-powered netbook
According to a mag called Netbook Italia (which might have something to do with computers) Samsung is developing a new NVIDIA Ion-powered netbook platform, with the first such device making the scene in Europe as early as July.
Leaked: Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2?
2010 Lamborghini LP560-2 - Click above for hi-res photo gallery
Oh baby. The cat would appear to be out of the bag for the Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2, as what certainly look to be official photos of the newest bull have hit the web. Details are sketchy,
Oversharers.com Shares Way More Than You Want to Know
It should go without saying that we absolutely love the Net. The Web of Intertubes (forget the educational purposes) allows everyone to feel a little bit better about themselves, if only through pointing out other people’s foibles, insecurities, and moments of weakness. And then mercilessly making fun of them.
Eyes-on: Seven minutes of Starcraft 2 multiplayer footage
click here for high-res gallery or here for multiplayer video
Seven minutes and six seconds, to be exact. That’s pure, raw, Starcraft 2 footage coming at you just beyond the break, and it features Terran, Zerg, and Protoss units going at it. If you’re still not sated, try out the direct video file here (it’s 263MB), […]
Mars for Xbox 360 still dependent on publisher support
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An Xbox 360 version of developer Spiders’ upcoming game, Mars, may be planned, but apparently there’s currently no work being done on it. Destructoid spoke with Spiders CEO Jehanne Rousseau, who said that the company sorta needs a publisher to fund the project first.
7stacks lets you pin multiple folders to your Windows 7 taskbar
One feature of the Windows 7 taskbar I don’t quite agree with is the inability to pin folders somewhere other than Windows Explorer. I have two or three key folders that I’d like to access from my taskbar - and I’d rather not have create new toolbars to do it.
Alastria software’s 7stacks has the solution. […]
