del.icio.us links for September 23, 2007

Archive of del.icio.us links

1. You Never Will Call – YouNeverCall Promises $10,000 to the First Cell Phone Caller from the Moon – GadgetsClub.Com

   OK, it is a marketing scam, but a clever one, so we shall humor YouNeverCall. The press release states that $10,000 shall be awarded to the company/person that places a cellular phone call from the moon to YouNeverCall’s HQ in LA.

2. M-Audio’s Session Music Producer microphone lets you hear yourself as you speak – SciFi.Com

   Yesterday, M-Audio introduced its latest Session Music Producer USB microphone. At $99, it’s less expensive than other M-Audio mics, and has the added benefit of an in-microphone headphone jack, meaning near-zero latency.

3. Broadband Bill Gains Support – FreePress.Net

   A third of the 101 cities and towns in Western Massachusetts have no broadband Internet access, but that could change with a $25 million proposal from the governor that is wending its way through the state Legislature.

4. MySpace News Is Stealing Your Search Results – TechCrunch.Com

   Given what little traffic MySpace News is doing on their main site, there is little new traffic benefits from the service, instead the traffic from the MySpace News pages on Google cannibalizes existing search traffic.

5. Slim Aluminum MacBooks Coming Soon from Apple – 9to5Mac.Com

   Black aluminum and silver aluminum (like MacBook Pros) have been seen. They are considerably slimmer than current MacBook and even a bit more than MacBook Pros. The screen reaches much closer to the edges than current MacBooks

6. Apple admits some iPod touch players shipped with faulty screens – AppleInsider.Com

   It’s presently unclear how widespread the iPod touch display issue may be or what remedial action Apple will offer to customers who own affected units. Such information will be published once it becomes available.

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1. Belkin Ships Its Network USB Wi-Fi Hub – PC World.Com

   The $160+VAT. The USB Hub works with an existing wireless router to give wireless access to peripherals and simulating a direct USB connection, tricking the computer into thinking the devices on the network are directly attached to it.

2. LCD Monitor Arms – CodingHorror.Com

   Ergotron provides a display compatibility page where you can check to see what you’ll need. The 100 x 100 mm VESA mounting panel is very common, but if your monitor is 22″ or larger you might have something bigger, as I did on my 24″s.

3. ABC to Offer Free Shows Online Via AOL – DailyTech.Com

   ABC will be offering its prime time content on AOL Video. The shows will be paid for with embedded advertisements, like NBC’s shows. ABC is owned by Walt Disney and AOL is owned by Time Warner.

4. PayPerPost Abuses Declining Job Candidate – TechCrunch.Com

   After an underwhelming interview the candidate did some research and wrote back to the headhunter that he was not interested in the job, and was so upset that he wasted his time “Remove me from your candidacy system immediately,”

5. Apple Plans to Release a 3G/GPS iPhone Next Year : Specs, reviews and prices. – MobileWhack.Com

   “The new 3G iPhone is expected to include features like global positioning for navigation services. In fact, sources say Apple has tapped Broadcom’s Global Locate unit to supply chips for the phone.” – Will we get this in the UK?

6. Infinity and JBL subs help decrease your home theater’s clutter – SlashGear.Com

   With four channels to choose from which combined with the channel selection on the other 2.4GHz devices in your house should make it easier to find an interference free signal. The Infinity PS212W, $679. The JBL CSS10W, $559.

7. Public health department uses Facebook to trace woman exposed to rabid bat – Yahoo! Canada News – Yahoo.Com

   “Once we tried a few different spellings on Facebook, we had the individual within an hour,” Crapper actually had to get special dispensation so that a colleague who has a personal Facebook account could trawl its network looking for the woman.

8. Google Sued For Crimes Against Humanity – TechCrunch.Com

   Dylan lodged eight filings with the court, including an accusation that the Philadelphia 76ers play a key role in the code to unscramble his social security number to spell Google. Google won’t have a lot to worry about with this case.

9. Customers Ask: Is Apple Going Rotten? – iLounge.Com

   Four reasons why Apple’s are going rotten – “An increasingly angry erosion of Apple’s brand loyalty is beginning, with complaints mounting all over the Internet”

10. Internet Celebrity Doesn’t Translate: Amanda Congdon Let Go By ABC – TechCrunch.Com

    As much as we wish Amanda the very best in her future endeavors, her failure to move from online celebrity to mainstream media company successfully does bring into question the ability of online stars to go mainstream.

11. Canadian coppers admit making up piracy figures – TheInquirer.Net

    However bogger Michael Geist asked for the sources behind the Royal Mounted Police’s $30 billion claim. The letter came back from red-faced coppers confessing that they made up the figure based what they had read on the Internet.

12. Apple loses iBook G4 case; refunds may come – MacNN.Com

    The board has now ruled against Apple for the second time, finding that the company will have to refund money to customers for faulty computers. Affected iBooks lose power and the screen goes blank after just over one year’s use.

13. Alienware increases hard drive capacity in its notebooks to 640 GB – TG Daily.Com

    Alienware offer 320 GB 2.5″ hard drives in single- and dual-device configurations for notebooks. Either RAID 0 and RAID 1 systems in the 17″ Area-51 m9750 and Aurora m9700 notebooks (dual-drive notebooks are priced from $2400)

14. MySpace Bands – Rockers Work the Web – Wired.Com

    Nowadays, up-and-coming rockers don’t need million-dollar videos, A-list publicists, or glowing Rolling Stone write-ups to hit it big. Smart artists work the Web. Check out how these Net-savvy bands broke into the mainstream.

15. Rivals Scramble for Nintendo’s Scraps at Tokyo Game Show – Wired.Com

    Nintendo, which traditionally skips the September event where gamemakers show off early demos of their biggest upcoming titles. But the Wii maker’s powerful presence still stalks the show floor like an invisible ninja that nobody dares challenge.

16. The SEC Subpoenas Jobs Over Backdating – BusinessWeek.Com

    Securities & Exchange Commission lawyers suing former Apple General Counsel Nancy Heinen over her alleged role in the matter have issued subpoenas to Jobs. The SEC has said it won’t sue Apple over the backdating of grants

17. Seagate’s Watkins Sounds Off – BusinessWeek.Com

    Seagate shipped 159.2 million drives in its recently ended fiscal year, recording a $913 million profit. Though sales rose more than $2 billion, to $11.4 billion, price pressures kept profit growth to a gain of merely $73 million year-over-year.

18. Alien Furniture – YesICan.eu

    Our spectacular range of Alien furniture is skillfully hand crafted from carefully selected used car and bike parts, tools and other recycled metal components making each individual piece subtly unique. The artist is based in the UK

19. Cheap Kids’ Laptop: ‘Ultimate Learning Tool’ – PC World.Com

    After testing the green-white computer for a while, Soelberg began to worry if the machine is stable enough. Several times during the 30-minute test the computer crashed or froze while opening a program. It was an early version though.

20. Future Looks Bright for Large Scale Solar Farms – Slashdot.Com

    Electricity from the Nevada plant costs an estimated 17 cents per kWh, but could fall to below ten cents per kWh as the technology improves. Coal power costs just 2-3 cents per kWh but that will likely rise due to changing regulations

21. Hubble and Facebook Help Save Endangered Species – PC World.Com

    When a new shark is discovered and its photo is uploaded to the Web site, it is given a number. When it is photographed again, a “resight” note appears on the Web site. “We have found photos from Web sites like Facebook,”

22. Microsoft giving Vista Business / Ultimate users ‘downgrade’ to XP option – Engadget.Com

    Microsoft is “quietly allowing PC makers to offer a downgrade option to buyers that get machines with the new operating system but want to switch to Windows XP,” but the program only applies to Vista Business and Ultimate editions.

23. Blaupunkt dumps CDs in new car stereo – Crave.Cnet.Com

    Blaupunkt’s “Melbourne SD27″ is the first car stereo that shuns CDs, according to SCI FI Tech, instead playing MP3 and WMA files with a front-loading SD card. There’s an optional adapter that can be used for an iPod. Price is only $160.

24. Affordable HDMI Capture for PC/Mac – Wired.Com

    At only $250 ($350 for the Pro model with breakout component/S-video cables that let you bypass annoying HDCP). When Wired needed to cap some smokin’ hot Halo for our video primer, the Intensity Pro delivered smooth 720p