VentureCraft?s Go-Dap is a useful and clever accessory to the iPhone 3G/GS. It improves the sound (substantially with headphones) and will give you decent backup battery power as an added bonus. Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2010/12/29/venturecraft-go-dap-iphone-3ggs-headphone-amp-review/ KLATENCOR KONINKLIJKE KPN LAM RESEARCH LIBERTY GLOBAL LM ERICSSON

CyanogenMod-6.1.2 for the Evo 4G — support for newer hardware Are you rockin’ one of the newer revisions (some 003 and all 004 versions) of the Evo 4G, and want some CyanogenMod loving?  It looks like the man himself has got you hooked up, and it’s only a flash away.  You’ll need to be rooted [...]

Skype video calls, iOS IM clients, Game Center games, iOS security, – From the Forums The TiPb forums are naturally a great place to talk, commiserate, celebrate, get help, and offer advice to your fellow iPhone users. In order to create a new thread of your own or reply to any of the existing threads, [...]

In the past week we’ve seen robberies with giant sticks, muskets and crossbows, but thanks to CCTV their identities were easily-discovered. Here’s how to use Photoshop and a hacked knitting machine to create a bitmap balaclava. [Craft] More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/AKtHhHBJ1ws/bitmap-balaclava-the-perfect-disguise-for-bank-robbers LSI LINEAR TECHNOLOGY LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LAWSON SOFTWARE

Happy New Year from TiPb! To all our readers, listeners, and viewers, from everyone here at TiPb, we wish you a peaceful, prosperous, healthy, and happy New Year. May 2011 bring all of us many mellow unharshening, universe denting, childlike sense of wonder restoring Apple iPhones, iPads, iPod touches, Apple TVs, and more! Add you [...]

If opening Google Chrome’s new tab page just to fire up an app feels a bit too clunky for your liking, check out a new extension from Google itself: App Launcher. Once installed, you’ll have access to a drop down menu which lists all your apps in alphabetical order — unlike previously reviewed AppJump Launcher, [...]

iPhone Live 132 + iPad Live 36: Year in Review Our podcast feed Download Directly Subscribe via iTunes Rene, Chad, Georgia, and The Keith Newman talk the top ten iPhone and iPad stories of 2010, top apps, top accessories, and top things we want from Apple in 2011. This is a double dose of iPhone [...]

It was only days ago that we wrote that after nearly a year of delays, the first WakeMate units were finally shipping to customers. And now there’s some more bad news ? really bad. Some of the initial units are apparently bursting into flames because of any issue with the USB charger included. Repeat: Do [...]

Skype video calls, iOS IM clients, Game Center games, iOS security, – From the Forums The TiPb forums are naturally a great place to talk, commiserate, celebrate, get help, and offer advice to your fellow iPhone users. In order to create a new thread of your own or reply to any of the existing threads, [...]

[Rumor] HTC Thunderbolt specs? Or just a dream made of unicorn blood? Stop what you’re doing, take a second and click the picture you see above.  If you’re reading on your phone, run to a computer — you want to see this.  Supposedly these are the specs for the European version of the HTC Thunderbolt, and [...]

Owners of 2010 and 2011 Ford Sync-capable whips can now send direction and traffic info to their cars from their Androids and iPhones with Ford’s free Sync Destinations app. Hey, it’s better than fiddling with the car’s GPS controls. [Sync] More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/iNd9oXxlZ6k/fords-sync-destinations-app-lets-you-beam-routes-from-phone-to-car FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR INTERNATIONAL FAIR ISAAC FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS F5 NETWORKS EPICOR SOFTWARE

[Rumor] HTC Thunderbolt specs? Or just a dream made of unicorn blood? Stop what you’re doing, take a second and click the picture you see above.  If you’re reading on your phone, run to a computer — you want to see this.  Supposedly these are the specs for the European version of the HTC Thunderbolt, and [...]

iPads, iPhones and Android smartphones will be among the major targets for cybercriminals in the coming year, McAfee has warned. That’s because the consumerization of technology is leaving enterprise IT unprepared for the onslaught of personal devices in the corporate environment. Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/71541.html SES SHAW COMMUNICATIONS SIEMENS CDW CHINA MOBILE

BN’s Android-based Nook line is the company’s top holiday seller Barnes & Noble today announced that its Android-based Nook line of e-readers is "the company’s biggest bestseller ever in its nearly 40-year history." That’s, like, EVER. It also includes the new Nook Color, a full touchscreen device that also doubles as a decent Android tablet when rooted. We’ve [...]

Steins of Science, created by a UC Berkeley physicist, are drinking mugs made from heavy-duty lab flasks. Just think how chilly beer stays when it’s wrapped in a vacuum “100,000 times more powerful than that of your average thermos.” More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/uYDLj0B72xA/these-lab-flask-mugs-put-your-dweeby-thermos-to-shame HEWLETTPACKARD HIGH TECH COMPUTER HON HAI PRECISION IND HYNIX SEMICONDUCTOR INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES

iPhone Live 132 + iPad Live 36: Year in Review Our podcast feed Download Directly Subscribe via iTunes Rene, Chad, Georgia, and The Keith Newman talk the top ten iPhone and iPad stories of 2010, top apps, top accessories, and top things we want from Apple in 2011. This is a double dose of iPhone [...]

France considering tablet tax, Windows bizarrely excluded   French tablet manufacturer Archos is none too pleased with the French government’s move towards applying a Private Copy tax to tablets running Android and iOS. In France, the controversial "Copie Privée" levy is applied to sales of blank writeable media, under the assumption that it’ll be used to [...]

As the story goes, Russia-based AFK Sistema’s subsidiary Sitronics (along with US’ Qualcomm and China’s ZTE) have developed the first smartphone to use GLONASS — specifically one with a 90nm GPS-GLONASS chip. It’s been called, in so many words, the “Russian answer to the iPhone 4″ by the Powers That Be, and without getting into [...]

CyanogenMod-6.1.2 for the Evo 4G — support for newer hardware Are you rockin’ one of the newer revisions (some 003 and all 004 versions) of the Evo 4G, and want some CyanogenMod loving?  It looks like the man himself has got you hooked up, and it’s only a flash away.  You’ll need to be rooted [...]

Android Central Podcast is live tonight at 9 p.m. EST / 6 p.m. PST One last podcast before the end of the year? Oh, why not. We’ll take a look back at the year that was, and a look ahead at next week at the craziness that is CES. And it all happens tonight, live, on [...]

Gingerbread on the Eris, myTouch 4G data speeds, Evo Shift 4G video chat [from the forums] That time of the year again rather, what’s left of the year. Time to close out 2010 and look towards 2011. New Years resolutions will be made then most will be broken. Most folks look at it as a [...]

iPhone Live 132 + iPad Live 36: Year in Review Our podcast feed Download Directly Subscribe via iTunes Rene, Chad, Georgia, and The Keith Newman talk the top ten iPhone and iPad stories of 2010, top apps, top accessories, and top things we want from Apple in 2011. This is a double dose of iPhone [...]

Did you know that you can have a total of 6 apps in your iPad dock? By default there are only 4 but in this quick tip you’ll see how you can easily add up to 2 more of your choice. So, to get started select an app you’d like to bring to the main [...]

Rumor: AT&T to announce the Motorola Olympus at CES   The unsourced rumor du jour is that Motorola and AT&T will be announcing the Motorola Olympus during CES next week. The long rumored 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor has been making its rounds on the web for the past few months now. And that’s basically [...]

Gingerbread on the Eris, myTouch 4G data speeds, Evo Shift 4G video chat [from the forums] That time of the year again rather, what’s left of the year. Time to close out 2010 and look towards 2011. New Years resolutions will be made then most will be broken. Most folks look at it as a [...]

Even if you don’t give two f-stops about analog photography, it’s always good to respect our elders. So today, we pour one out for Kodak’s legendarily beautiful Kodachrome film, which after today, in Parsons, Kansas, will never be processed again. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/0kbV3NUywa4/the-last-roll-of-kodachrome-film-ever-will-be-developed-today VERISIGN VERIFONE HOLDINGS VEECO INSTRUMENTS VARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT ASSOCIATES UNITED ONLINE

A Blu-ray player for under a hundred bucks is a pretty good deal. A 3D-ready Blu-ray player from a reputable manufacturer for $98 with bulit-in Wi-Fi, Netflix, Amazon VOD, and Pandora support? That’s just nuts. But that’s what the Sony BDP-S570 is going for over at Dell, a full $150 off suggested retail. Even if [...]

HTC HD2 gets a stable Android ROM that’s bootable from internal storage No doubt about it the HTC HD2 is pretty darn beautiful device. With the exception of the OS that it came pre-loaded with. Developers have been hacking Android onto the device for quite some time now. Problem with that though is previously, users [...]

Rumor: AT&T to announce the Motorola Olympus at CES   The unsourced rumor du jour is that Motorola and AT&T will be announcing the Motorola Olympus during CES next week. The long rumored 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor has been making its rounds on the web for the past few months now. And that’s basically [...]

Combining great graphics, an ominous soundtrack, and challenging game-play, Galaxy NGC3D is a great new game on the Android Market.  The premise is simple — man your fighter, and destroy them before they destroy you, but if you’re looking for a cakewalk look elsewhere.  You need a bit of skill (or practice) to pilot your [...]

BN’s Android-based Nook line is the company’s top holiday seller Barnes & Noble today announced that its Android-based Nook line of e-readers is "the company’s biggest bestseller ever in its nearly 40-year history." That’s, like, EVER. It also includes the new Nook Color, a full touchscreen device that also doubles as a decent Android tablet when rooted. We’ve [...]

In yet another example of China being on the cutting edge of technology, witness the Top Charming Breast Stimulator. It’s Electro-Abs for your chest, for all you ladies out there that have always wanted those chiseled, 6-pack boobs. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/hwvkZJNBp54/chinese-scientists-invent-electro+abs-for-womens-chests NIKON NINTENDO NOKIA NVIDIA ORACLE

HTC Scribe trademarked, to be company’s first tablet?   Hmm, look at what we have here. Many of us have been patiently waiting for any information to surface about an HTC tablet in the works, and today may be that first break. Here we have a patent filing with the United States Patent and Trademark [...]

HTC releases source code for the latest Evo 4G maintenance update For you coding types: HTC has released the source code for the latest maintenance update to the Evo 4G. That’s the one that added the Swype keyboard, Kindle and Blockbuster apps, and NOVA stub app, among other things. We knew there were at least a couple version [...]

Like the bubble wrap toy, the edamame and the endless chocolate bar, this Stickpecker lets you repeatedly do an activity you usually only do once. It works with magnets! But costs $44. [Stickpecker via Book of Joe via Wired] More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/pXobXLeT1iQ/chopsticks-that-repeatedly-snap-open MICROSOFT MICROSEMI MICROS SYSTEMS MICRON TECHNOLOGY MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY

HTC Scribe trademarked, to be company’s first tablet?   Hmm, look at what we have here. Many of us have been patiently waiting for any information to surface about an HTC tablet in the works, and today may be that first break. Here we have a patent filing with the United States Patent and Trademark [...]