Archive for December, 2009

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• Google’s 2009 Holiday Doodle: A fun seasonal scene each day

Google has revealed its traditional Holiday Doodle this past Monday. As has been the case with all previous doodles, Google’s Dennis Hwang tweaked the company logo appearing on the main search page. You’ve probably noticed it if you have visited Google.com over the past few days: A multi-stage artwork depicts holiday postcards piling atop the […]

• The next iPhone to take better pictures thanks to 5MP camera

CMOS image sensors maker OmniVision Technologies will supply five-megapixel modules for the next iPhone expected to ship in summer 2010, Taiwan-based trade newspaper DigiTimes reported this past Wednesday. The well-connected publication quoted market sources who estimated OmniVision’s 2010 shipment of CMOS units for the next iPhone at 40-45 million units. The 2009 shipments will have […]

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• Leave a comment: 2009’s best tech gifts

Whether you do the Christmas thing or not, you probably found yourself on either end of some gift giving this holiday season. We want to know, did you give or receive any amazing tech gifts this year?
Of course there are the holiday staples–the videogames, the iPods, and digital cameras–and those are always great, but anything […]

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• Valve adds bots to Team Fortress 2

Christmas time usually means a few days off and therefore lots of time for gaming, but you also probably have to be sociable and spend time with family. Then there’s present wrapping, unwrapping, and lots of eating of nice food to sap your time. So getting together with friends for a game of your favorite […]

• Steve Jobs receives $1 salary for 2009

Normally if a CEO was offered a $1 salary for a year’s worth of work, they would most likely laugh at such a gesture. For the CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs is most likely content with such a deal and is probably even happier with just still being here.
According to the Associated Press, Apple indeed paid Jobs […]

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• Quick Review: TuckPack notebook carrying sleeve

Lately I’ve been taking my MacBook everywhere. What this means is usually taking my laptop bag, too. The upside is that my bag is loaded with everything I could possibly need when traveling with my laptop but as a result it tends to be a bit heavy.
So, what if I just want to grab my […]

• Track the videos your friends share on Facebook right inside YouTube

YouTube has a new feed that pushes the videos your friends are embedding on Facebook back to your YouTube homepage, Google announced via a blog post this past Friday. Facebook-shared videos appear in the “Recent Activity” section found on your homepage when you’re logged in to YouTube. The search company stressed that 46.2 years of […]