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Posted on March 13, 2008

A look at hulu

hulu has finally left its private beta status and is now open for anyone with a U.S. internet connection to look at. hulu is basically a TV on-demand website that also happens to host some good movies, and is perfect for a boring evening with nothing on the TV. The service is impressive for its [...]

Posted on March 11, 2008

Hands-on :: iTunes-enabled Blu-ray (Hitman)

The first Blu-ray movie disc with Fox’s Digital Copy has been released today. For those who were wondering, it’s exactly the same deal as the Digital Copy DVDs, such as the one we looked at, Blue Harvest. Inside the specially marked Blu-ray case you’ll find two discs — the Blu-ray movie, and a regular DVD [...]

Posted on March 7, 2008

Software Review :: CDFinder 5

There are few applications available for the Mac that can be boasted of how it’s being used by NASA, and CDFinder is one of them. Actually, I haven’t heard of any other Mac apps being used by NASA… but at least we now know of this one. But straight to the point, CDFinder is [...]

Posted on March 6, 2008

iPhone/touch SDK unveiled

UPDATE - The video of the presentation has been posted by Apple. Click here to see it.
After much anticipation by the development community, Apple has finally revealed its plans on how they’re going to promote the design of applications within their successful mobile devices. Some were pleased at what was outlined, but certainly others were [...]

Posted on March 5, 2008

Free Mac newsreaders for everyone

If you’ve been keeping an eye out in the newsreader market, you’ve probably noticed an interesting trend — some have endured a great price drop: down to free! And these are quality apps, which made some question whether your patronage is more important than ever for these developers. Anyway, the Mac has some great newsreaders [...]