We've just scored some of the first shots of Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, and while they are said to be very early, you can clearly see the progress that has been made in the transition to native Cocoa applications. More »
You need insulated gonads of steel to get into a harness and let a helicopter fly you into a high voltage cable to service them. That's precisely what the technicians from Air2 do for utilities companies nationwide. [Air2 via Flightglobal] More »
You could say we've already reviewed the HTC Desire. After all, it's essentially a jumped-up Nexus One with a few minor changes, right? Wrong. HTC Sense, Adobe Flash support and an optical trackpad make it a brand new experience. More »
Curious, possibly weird: ZDNet editor-in-chief Larry Dignan says Adobe and Google are planning to announce tomorrow that they're bundling Flash with Google's "Chrome browser and or operating system." I'm not sure how much it move would really change the current Flash/no-Flash internet calculus, since Chrome still has just a tiny (but growing) portion of the browser market, you can already get Flash on Chrome (presumably everybody with Chrome has Flash already) and there are other forces at work in the internetosphere. More »
According to a leaked Best Buy iPad playbook, each store getting the iPad for D-day is supposed to receive exactly 15—five each of the 16, 32 and 64GB versions. Again, they won't be on the website, and there might be another round of iPads on April 11, if Apple doesn't hold stock back for its own needs. In other words, Best Buy isn't much of a backup plan if you haven't already pre-ordered, and if you're gonna camp out, you're probably better off at an Apple Store. [TUAW] More »
"I want a 9 car garage and be able to enjoy viewing one of them in the living room." And so it came to pass, and the people rejoiced. I love it when rich people go bonkers, don't you? More »
Here are the US mobile web traffic figures for iPhone OS and Android, getting ready to collide: Android, on its way up; iPhone, on its way down. So when will Android overtake the iPhone? Try next month. More »
With the iPad comes new iTunes. MacRumors hears that 9.1 will have a minor overhaul, organized around books, and smarter, more customizable Genius mixes. More »
Android's problem: There's a lot of Androids out there! 1.5, 1.6, 2.0 and 2.1, just to name the major current versions. A problem, 'cause spiffy apps that'll run on 2.0 won't run on 1.5, and now everybody's confused. Google's solution? More »
Snow Leopard 10.6.3 is waiting for you to grab it via Software Update—it fixes lots of things, from QuickTime X to OpenGL to "reliability of 3rd party USB devices." If it does anything else magical, we'll let you know. More »
This Cornered Glass was designed by James Laurie for nature lovers. Those who, whenever they see a giant spider in their homes, want to catch it to free it outside the house. I will keep using my method: More »
It's iPad week! Like it or not, this is gonna be the biggest story of the next few days. If you'd prefer to not see iPad or Apple posts, here's how: More »
People believe that cycles were invented in the 19th century in Europe. Historian Xu Quan Long disagrees. He says cycles were invented 2,500 years ago, and he built this fully functional tricycle to prove it. More »
"It's quite common to fill one with liquid nitrogen, let it sit on the lab bench, and when you come back three days later there will still be liquid nitrogen in it. Now imagine what it can do for beer." More »
Jobs and Schmidt, whose companies have just ended their love affair, were spotted minutes ago talking business at Calafia in the Town and Country shopping center in Palo Alto. Update: That's not an iPad. And body language analysis, here. More »
Fighting cancer or making nuclear reactors that constantly self-repair themselves, helping to avoid the possibility of another Chernobyl. Clearly, nanotechnology will either save Earth or convert us into Borgs. Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are betting on the first option. More »
We-hell-hell, what have we here? It seems as though those placeholder SKUs that popped up in Best Buy's database a few weeks ago were for iPads after all. Both TUAW and Engadget have some shots of Best Buy's confidential "Apple iPad Launch Playbook"—their term, not ours—and the documents suggest that some 675 Best Buy locations will have the iPad available in limited quantities on April 3. More »
This is Tom Shannon creating one of his latest paintings. His process—swinging a giant pendulum rigged with six remote control paint guns over a canvas—is a marriage of chaos and control. His finished pieces...well, they're incredible. More »
Exactly what Amazon has in store for the next generation of Kindle is unclear. But if they stick with E-Ink, this clip of a color, video-playing E-Ink display from Kindle screen-manufacturer PVI could be sneak peek. More »
