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A clever iPhone dev was playing around with the App Store included on the SDK and hacked versions of the iPhone 2.0 firmware. Little did he know that he was about to discover a first look at Apple’s App Store, instead of the usual “cannot connect” error warning. Just revealed on the Modmyifone forums, here is the very first look ...

Microsoft’s software sales must be lagging pretty bad if they feel it’s needed to enter into the junk food business. We already were witness to the Microsoft Soda rage, but when exactly did they start releasing ketchup-flavored potato chips in Egypt? Ketchup Windows Chips can only be washed down with a large swig of Natural “Talking Rain” flavored Windows Soda. ...

If you’ve ever been into photography, you know that composition plays a major part in determining whether your shot turns out just right, or ends in the trash pile. While you can buy a level at your local hardware store which will ensure your camera is sitting on a straight plain, now there is an iPhone-led alternative. Photographer Ben Long ...

Those of your who turn to the Internet for match making might want to be on the lookout, for the next “woman” you are talking to might just be a program designed to flirt. A Russian website called CyberLover.ru is advertising software that can simulate chatroom flirt exchanges. And we aren’t talking about those bots that are all like “14/f ...

In an announcement made to calm anxious business men and XP fans alike, Toshiba has announced that they will be shipping their Satellite T31 notebook with both XP and Vista included in the box. While most of you will only install one of these OS’s, we assume that installing both on partitions is possible. The T31 will ship in two ...

After all of the trouble Radiohead went through on their DRM-free “name your own price” online retail of their newest (and one of their greatest) album “In Rainbows”, we never expected the band to be in talks with Apple on releasing their album on iTunes. That is exactly what seems to be happening. Radiohead’s current representatives, Courtyard Management, is reportedly ...

If you spend most of your time in a alternative world, you might as well start integrating your real life right into it. Online virtual world Second Life is looking to roll-out a system that would allow you to receive real life phone calls in the Second Life game. Second Life developer Linden Lab has created a way for online ...

Microsoft has announced they will be testing out the One Laptop Per Child device with Windows XP, sexing up the current Linux based system. Microsoft hasn’t announced how likely an official Windows version of the OLPC XO device will appear, though if tests are successful we can expect a better idea by the second half of 2008. Adding XP to ...

Deutsche Grammophon, one of the world’s most prominent classical music labels, and a subsidiary of Universal, has decided the wave of the future is high-bit DRM-free MP3 files. Deutsche Grammophon have launched their own web store, featuring 320 kbps MP3 files for its entire classical music catalog. Universal (as well as the U.K.’s EMI has also been experimenting with their ...

Back before Vista was even released, we were confused as to what the “Vista Ready” or “Vista Capable” stickers on certain displays were all about. As it turns out, even MS execs are hard strung to come up with an explanation. A current lawsuit against the company focuses on the “Vista Capable” branding as being confusing to PC buyers, and ...