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Tattoo Shop 1.0.2 (Mobile)

You can choose from categories like Girl Stuff, The Crypt, Pride, Spiritual, and Tribal, Or create your own text tattoos, choosing ink color and font. Select a photo from your library or ours iPhone users can also use their camera from within the app. Select a tattoo from the Tattoo...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Photograph, Font, Sonic BOOM

Software downloads 2009-05-25

A plane spike to cut sonic boom

Back in 2004, NASA engineers worked with DARPA to reduce the sonic boom intensity in order to develop silent supersonic planes. Now, theyre teaming with Gulfstream Aerospace on a project named Quiet Spike to reduce sonic booms. Theyve put a 24-foot-long lance-like spike weighing 470 pounds on the nose of...

Tags: sonic boom, NASAs Dryden Flight Research Center, spike

Blog posts 2006-10-09

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Altec Lansing inMotion Classic

Photo gallery:Altec Lansing inMotion ClassicAltec Lansing has a long history of producing stellar little speaker systems designed around the iPod. Its latest portable speaker, the inMotion Classic ($149), continues the company's tradition of delivering quality audio in a compact and stylish design.DesignThe first thing you'll notice about the inMotion Classic...

Tags: speaker, Apple iPod, Altec Lansing, kickstand

Product reviews 2009-10-02

The App Store millionaire club

Despite the recent comments by some iPhone developers on the harsh economics of the App Store, other developers are making a killing by cranking out inexpensive but popular apps. Newsweek's Dan Lyons profiles Ge Wang and Jeff Smith the brain trust behind Smule, creators of four $1...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, App, Ocarina, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-15

Sonic Lighter 1.2.1 (Mobile)

Sonic Lighter is a lighter: blow out the flame with your breath; pinch the flame to change its size; tilt the flame sideways to fry the side of your phone. But Sonic Lighter is more: hold the valve to create a blowtorch flame; ignite other phones by using the blowtorch...

Tags: Mobile, Flame, Apple iTunes, Smule, Sonic Lighter, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-11-18

Sonic Boom 1.1 (Mobile)

Sonic Boom turns your phone into a virtual firecracker and uses your finger as a virtual match. Strike the match, ignite the fuse, wait... boom. Resize the firecracker and TNT with a vertical pinch gesture. Resize the fuse length and time with a horizontal pinch gesture. For those with more...

Tags: Explosion, Mobile, Gesture, Match, Apple iTunes, Smule, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-11-17

Logitech ClearChat PC Wireless Headset

Wireless keyboards, mice, and printers have been around for years, but headphones and headsets are fairly new to the cordless party. Logitech's entry into the fray is the ClearChat PC Wireless Headset. Unlike the Creative Digital Wireless Gaming Headset HS-1200, which is targeted at gamers, Logitech sees the ClearChat as...

Tags: Logitech, ClearChat PC Wireless Headset, headset, Creative HS-1200

Product reviews 2008-08-28

iHome ZN9 Clock Radio for Zune

The iHome ZN9 ($99) is a welcome addition to the short list of Zune MP3 player accessories. With dual alarms, battery backup, AM/FM radio, and a time zone indicator, it's also simply one of the best clock radios we've come across at this price. DesignThe iHome ZN9 is created for...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Media players, Game players, Digital music, iHome ZN9, Microsoft Zune

Product reviews 2008-06-27

Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo; Plans open architecture spaceship

Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo; Plans open architecture spaceshipBeautifulThey are much better looking than the first ones. I hope that they accelerate space exploration and lunar landings. Unfortunately, the current goal is mostly space tourism, which is impractical. Maybe they'll raise enough money from it to fund the bigger picture, though.RE:...

Tags: space elevator, Virgin Galactic, architecture spaceship, SpaceShipTwo

Discussion threads 2008-01-23

Turtle Beach Ear Force AK-R8

Plenty of PC headphones and audio cards offer a "headphone surround-sound" mode, but it's often little more than a sophisticated reverb mode that uses psychoacoustics to trick the mind into thinking it's hearing something beyond a stereo (2-channel) source. That's why the Turtle Beach Ear Force HPA headphones were so...

Tags: Ear Force AK-R8, headphone, Turtle Beach Ear Force HPA, PC, AASRM, earcup, USB

Product reviews 2007-11-01

Sonic Impact iF-3

Portable iPod speakers come in many shapes and sizes, and form factor is the most important aspect for determining just how portable an item is. Sonic Impact obviously has a firm grasp on this concept: Every portable unit the company has put out features a highly totable design. The latest...

Tags: Monitors & displays, i-F3, Apple iPod, speaker

Product reviews 2007-09-21

The Trojan Horse iPhone

The Telcos have become the biggest obstacle to the development of new technologies and services. They have become the most backward elements in our society when it comes to rolling out new technologies, applications, and services. They have filed lawsuits to stop public wireless networks, and they constantly seek to...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Enterprise IT, Disruptive, APPL

Blog posts 2007-06-28

Sennheiser MX 75 Sport

For some time now, Sennheiser has been synonymous with quality headphones, from the consumer level to their studio professional line. With competitors such as Shure introducing several affordable, excellent in-ear sets specifically suited to portable use, Sennheiser was bound to eventually throw its hat into the ring. Not that the...

Tags: Sennheiser, MX 75, headphone

Product reviews 2006-07-20

Santa is bringing coal for Google--shoveling up a ton of it

Santa is bringing coal for Google--shoveling up a ton of itToo lateGoogle, with its dark fiber and portable data centers is poised to take over the internet (or more precisely, BECOME the NEW internet). Read Cringley http://www.pbs.org/cringely/ if you want to know the "truth".Never mind the man behind the curtainThat's...

Tags: INTERNET, Social networking, Microsoft Outlook, Google Inc., Santa

Discussion threads 2005-12-12

Santa is bringing coal for Google--shoveling up a ton of it

The general sentiment towards Google has definitely turned negative lately. It's to be expected, such things come and go, we've seen it time and time again.The media hoist companies onto a pedestal, write adoring articles, and then kick-in the pedestal. Or try toThe negative sentiment could all just be part...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2005-12-12

Roxio software targets iPod users

Digital-media company unveils Boom Box, five applications that let people tinker with music and more. Digital media company Roxio is offering a software suite designed to let iPod owners fine-tune their song collections and other audio files. Boom Box, announced on Thursday, comprises five applications, including...

Tags: Software, Apple iPod, Roxio, Audio File, Podcasts, Digital Media, Tools & Techniques, Digital Music, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, CNET News.com Staff

News items 2005-06-09

IT: New profits in Old Glory?

Can CRM be tweaked to track terrorists? Tech companies are working on ways to adapt their products for homeland security--and tap into a nearly $38 billion government budget. Software companies looking for greener pastures are turning to the red, white and blue. Whether out of heartfelt patriotism in...

Tags: Software, Information Technology, Sept. 11, Government, Homeland Security, Vertical Industries, Technology, Alorie Gilbert

News items 2002-07-16

IT: New profits in Old Glory?

Can CRM be tweaked to track terrorists? Tech companies are working on ways to adapt their products for homeland security--and tap into a nearly $38 billion government budget. Software companies looking for greener pastures are turning to the red, white and blue. Whether out of heartfelt patriotism in...

Tags: Software, Information Technology, Sept. 11, Government, Homeland Security, Vertical Industries, Alorie Gilbert

News items 2002-07-12

Mac Product Watch

March 20 to March 24 Miss shooting big floating rocks? Good news: Mac game publishing house MacSoft has announced that it will bring the 3-D space shooter Asteroids to the Mac by April. This is a remake of the classic...

Tags: Apple Mac OS, FireWire, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., RealCADD, Deneba, Demo Version, Mac Version, NewWave Technologies, NetImmerse, PopTop Software, Beta Software, 2100XL, WigWam Multimedia, Desktops, Hardware, ZDNN Staff, Technology News

News items 2000-03-01

New game consoles blow away PCs

Video game makers expect to win back the masses with their upcoming super consoles. Sony Corp. hopes to drop a bomb on rival makers of video-game systems next year. But in the coming war, the personal computer may take the most collateral damage. For the first...

Tags: Sony Corp., Sega Corp., Console, PC, Sony Playstation, Game Console, Games, Personal Technology, Dean Takahashi, Technology News

News items 1999-09-02