Episode 123 of the PowerPage Podcast is now available. You can either download it from the iTunes Store or directly (48.4 MB, MP3). Panel : Jason O’Grady, Rob Parker and Shaun Redmond Topics : We analyze the brand-spankin-new Apple iPad and we play “What’s on your Mac?” Here’s what’s on our Macs this week: Jason TruePower IV Pro ($99) – The best iPhone battery pack RadTech Omnistand ($79) – Aluminum notebook and tablet stand Beatles Music Skins ($15) – Licensed vinyl skins for the iPhone and iPod Rob CardRescue ($39) – data recovery for media cards Shaun TruePower battery for MacBook Pro ($99.95) – Affordable and well designed domestically made battery by FastMac Ecobee smart thermostat ($469) – Interactive, flexible and remotely accessable smart thermostat with energy monitor option Solar Checker (Free) – Powerful app that uses the iPhone’s sensors to calculate the solar production potential of your roof Follow us on Twitter @JasonOGrady @ParkerDigital Subscribe to the PowerPage Podcast in iTunes or add the Podcast RSS feed to your RSS client.
The New York Times notes that books from Macmillan, one of the largest U.S. publishers, have been removed from Amazon.com. The post says that Amazon made the move in a disagreement over pricing. The publisher has asked Amazon to lift e-book prices to around $15 from $9.99. “Amazon is expressing its strong disagreement by temporarily removing Macmillan books,” the Times reports.
Steve Jobs,"Next iPhone Update is A+; Flash is buggy, HTML 5 is the Future"
Apple’s Tablet, the iPad, was one of the most anticipated device of 2010 (2010 has just started by the way so there are many more to come from other guys). When Steve Jobs launched the iPad on Jan 27 2010, the whole Internet came to a stand still and everybody was busy tracking, live blogging, tweeting, facebooking the event. Along with the iPad there was a rumor that Apple would be launching an upgraded version of the iPhone OS but as it was a iPad dedicated event no news came on that from
Get Your Game on with Old-skool, New-tek Atari 2600 Style Joystick
Most us that remember and love the Atari 2600 gaming system revere, but may not adore, its iconic joystick . Suffering several disfiguring side effects of said joystick myself, newer and more ergo devices come home with me far more often than they should. Reflex Audio returns this venerable device to us with an new un-paintjob and a blue LED glow to set it apart.
USB 3.0 Stuff WD My Book 3.0 1TB SuperSpeed USB Drive Seagate BlackArmor USB 3.0 2.5″ Drive with ExpressCard Kit Asus USB 3.0, SATA 6Gbps Combo in PCIe x4 Card OCZ Showcases USB 3.0 Solid-state Drive USB 3.0 Notebooks Appear, Some Shipping Gigabyte “Heavy duty” USB 3.0 PCIe Card Hardbox – First Novelty USB 3.0 Hard Drive Linux Ready for USB 3.0 Already…
The big question for those early-adopters of the iPad: Which version are you going to buy? Whether you are going the thrifty 16gb route or getting the 3G 64gb Cadillac, I’m just curious which one you are going to buy and why? Also, are you going to skip work to stand in line or wait until after the insanity subsides before braving the trip to your local Apple Store?
Stephen Colbert rocks the Grammys with an Apple iPad
We didn’t think we’d see an iPad surface so soon… If you were keeping up with the Grammys, you were probably just as shocked as we were when Stephen Colbert pulled one out to present Song of the Year. And of course, the iPad’s cameo wouldn’t be complete without a little gloating from Colbert himself. “Jay Z, did you not get one of these in your gift bag? Am I cooler than you?!” Bravo, Stephen Colbert
SkyGolf is announcing a brand new GPS enabled rangefinder called SkyCaddie SGX . SkyCaddie SGX has a 3″ transflective LCD screen, Lithium-ion battery that can last up to 14 hours, offers up to 30,000 pre-loaded and ground-verified maps. It can automatically rotate the green to match a golfer’s angle of approach and provides all of the distances needed to hit greens – and many more features we’re not too familiar with
New Nokia N97 firmware update V21.0.045 and 21.2.045 from Feb 1, 2010, 08:00GMT.
On Friday, you may have read that today’s the day (February 1st 2010) at 08:00 GMT that V2.1 firmware update for the N97 will be available. The software version number will be 21.0.045 (RM-505) or 21.2.045 (RM-507) depending on your region. The release for N97 China 2G (RM-506) will follow shortly. Non-customised versions of the software, with country (SIM-free) and operator versions following over the next few days and weeks . In addition to usual bug fixes, main changes include: Improved call reliability Smooth touch screen scrolling
Opera – Facebook is the most-visited social networking site on the mobile web
Unique mobile visitors to Facebook increased 619 percent worldwide in 2009 according to browser developer Opera Software’s newest State of the Mobile Web report. Facebook is now the most-visited social networking site on the mobile web, although microblogging service Twitter experienced the biggest year-over-year leap, with unique mobile visitors increasing 2,859 percent in 2009.
The TomTom Ease , announced at CES, is now shipping from Amazon, available in a Red bezel. The Ease offers a redesigned interface to put a lot of information at your fingertips, with a quick Plan Route and Browse Map pair of icons to make the decision process pretty easy. I mean how many people start up the GPS and right away think, “Hey, I want to change the map color scheme?” Not many – almost everyone wants to see where they are or program in where to go. There are other smart icons at the bottom, including flipping to a night view (or back to day view) and an options button where you can play with settings. At Amazon the TomTom EASE
New Release: SnowCover Pro 1.0, gesture-based playback controls on your iPhone lockscreen [Jailbreak Apps]
[ Update : there's now a version 1.1 of SnowCover Pro with an extra corkboard theme, though it's a little buggy right now, so I'd suggest you wait until February 1st to try the app out. Version 1.1 keeps telling me I have a cracked copy (Untrue - I bought the app myself) and the volume indicator takes about three seconds to show up.
Convert images to PDF on your Windows Mobile phones, Pocket PC and Smartphone Image2PDF mobile is a small utility that enables you to convert images into a single PDF file, archive it or share it with your contacts via email. With it, you won’t worry about how to archive import images, just convert them into a single PDF file, In addition, you can email the PDF file to your contacts easily. Benefits to use Image2PDF for Windows Mobile: Support JPG/PNG/BMP/TGA/PCX/TIF/TIFF and more formats. Easy to use and low cost.
The TomTom ONE 130 is a pretty basic GPS navigator with the guts of a TomTom, and a limited but very functional feature set. Offering maps of the US and Canada, solid routing, and a set of TomTom branded features like Help Me! – the quick way to see critical location information in an emergency, MapShare – their way of sharing crowdsourced map fixes, and the EasyPort mount – a foldable mount that makes sticking the GPS into a purse, briefcase or gove compartment a lot easier. The TomTom 130 is $79 at Best Buy plus about $7 shipping.
BlackBerry Curve 8910 actually not meant for just Asian markets?
We haven’t confirmed this yet, but one of our connects just let us know that the BlackBerry Curve 8900 might be seeing a status change pretty soon. So, if our tipster is to be believed, the BlackBerry Curve 8900 on T-Mobile might be going on an end-of-life plan. What better device to replace the BlackBerry 8900 than the BlackBerry 8910? RIM sure knows how to slip in those minor refreshes…
N97, one of the two Nokia smart phones, which helped Nokia regain its market share in Q4 2009 will soon be getting 2.1 Firmware update. Last year, October, Nokia N97 received Firmware 2.0 update, which was pretty big and users got to enjoy kinetic scrolling and more responsive touch screen UI. Some of the major changes that the 2.1 Firmware will boast of are, smooth touch screen scrolling, improved call reliability, image & video stability, browser stability and improvements in the music player
Don’t ask me what the mobile FireFox team is doing – but it most certainly isn’t helping their market share in mobile. Vendors like Opera have made a killing off Windows Mobile and Symbian…and the folks at Mozilla’s have just released their first final FireFox mobile version.
A new model from Nokia’s Slide range of phones has now been launched on T-Mobile pay monthly deals, the Nokia 2220 Slide is a new budget handset that’s big on style without compromising on those essential features. This is the first colour variant of this new sliding phone in Grey, there are also planned releases for