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Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why) [Remainders]

Google and the Phantom Town of Argleton ... 10 Years of Steve Jobs' Apple Product Unveilings ... AT&T's Foray Into In-Car Satellite TV Goes Miserably Wrong ... Robots Will Soon Learn How to Smell Fear ... Google and the Phantom Town of Argleton ... For ages, map makers have protected their own maps by adding little landmarks and towns that don't exist, sort of a hiding-in-plain-sight watermark. Well, the Telegraph UK reported that it had spotted one such town in a Google Map, which was using

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Flash 10.1: Full Flash for Everyone But iPhone, Actually Playable HD Vids [Flash]

A ton of good news about Adobe Flash 10.1: Full Flash is coming to Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, WebOS and Windows Mobile. and it'll be actually GPU accelerated, meaning you can play back YouTube in HD perfectly ... But the bad news? ... Nothing for the iPhone. "Still a closed device and not much progress there," Adobe told us as they gleefully detailed that Flash was invading basically every other smartphone. Also, we gotta wait until mid-2010 for the full rollout ... But, betas for Windows

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Apple MacBook Knockoff For a Netbook Price [Macbook Knockoffs]

At first glance this MacBook knockoff doesn't look all that bad, but by picture three it looks like week old garbage. According to the not very official picture caption, the "Macbook Mini" has the specs of a netbook ... It is powered by a good old 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive and a 3-cell battery. No word on an OS, but let's hope it is something that looks better than the SD card slot and ports on the right side of the chassis ... Frankly I'd rather the better smelling

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Garmin-Asus nuvifone finally coming to America in Q4 (or so they say)

With Garmin-Asus' nüvifone G60 already on sale in Asia, it makes sense to hear that said smartphone will soon make its way over to North American soil. Of course, it also made sense to think that this thing would be launching on AT&T about forever and a day ago, so we're not holding our collective breath just yet. At any rate, Garmin recently made abundantly clear on a quarter-end conference call that the GPS-infused handset is in the final testing stages with an undisclosed amount of US

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Windows 7 Review, Part 2: The Best Features and Tips [Windows 7]

You've read our final verdict, but since there's a ton of new stuff in Windows 7, we've rounded it all up here, in one easy list, with a little bonus opinionating ... The User Interface ... Here's everything that's improved in the Windows 7 UI. Win 7 kept the glassy Aero desktop from Vista, but added many more usability improvements on top of it. Basically, they extended the efforts of Vista to get the eye candy bar up higher while continuing to get the functionality up to match. There's the

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Gadgets Available Today [Now Available]

With all the gadgets we report on, it's hard to keep track of which ones are shipping or when they'll be available. We've put together a list of gadgets, some we've reported on and some we haven't, that are shipping today ... • Onkyo's DV-BD507 Blu-Ray player is now available stateside after an official European unveiling last month. The high end blu-ray player features HDMI 1.3 and will retail for $449 ... • ThinkGeek has the Retro Mini X Handheld NES System with Zapper. They've featured

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Tandy TRS-80: The Budget Computer [Computers]

Even back then, there were computers for people who couldn't afford the more expensive stuff. Take this Tandy, which costs little more than a upgraded Netbook today. From Core Memory , photographed by Mark Richards and written by John Alderman ... TRS-80 Model 1 (and Model 100) ... Year created: 1977 ... Creator: Tandy Corporation ... Cost: $399 ($599 with monitor) ... Memory: 4KB ROM ... Processor: Z-80 ... Despite Apple's marketing message of personal empowerment and freedom, they weren't

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Editorial: Taking the iPhone 3GS off the job market

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PC makers mum about Chrome OS

Google is gearing up for an assault next year on Microsoft's dominance in PC operating systems, yet the companies that would have to be complicit in the battle have little to say about it ...

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The Life of Steve Jobs - So Far [Apple]

Here's an idea: How about we stop focusing on livers for a second and look at the best, worst and as he might put it, "insanely great" parts of Steve Jobs life so far? ... Foreword (It's long. You can skip this if you want.) ... The timeline itself is made from a half dozen books, which I've listed below, and several websites. I'm sure there are some errors and missing parts, because the books often contradict each other. Also, I consider this timeline/biography to be in Alpha, so let me know if

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