If you’re familiar with the emulation scene (and let’s be honest, you are reading Engadget), then you know the name ZodTTD — the brain behind some of the best jailbroken emus for the iPhone, including variations on the PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, and most importantly… the Turbografx-16. Now the master-hacker has brought his goods to the Pre, cooking up a version of psx4all on the Palm device, with the aforementioned GBA and TG16 ports on the way! Interestingly, he reports that the performance on the Pre is actually better than that of the iPhone 3GS, and of course he’s hacked access to the keyboard, allowing for (more) proper control of games.
This guest post is written by Mary Hodder , the founder Dabble . Prior to Dabble, Hodder consulted for a number of startups, did research at Technorati and wrote her masters thesis at Berkeley focusing on live web search looking at blog data. Real time search is nothing new
Bet you didn’t see this one coming. Back in 2007 we wrote about a service called Dial Directions which lets you call a special phone number and verbally ask for directions, which are immediately sent to you via SMS. Today comes news that the company has been acquired by Sakhr Software , a development house specializing in Arabic natural language processing (NLP).
Daytime photo tricks don’t always translate when you’re trying to capture the perfect night shot. The Photography Bay web site outlines tips for taking a stellar post-sunset shot without relying on a tripod or expensive flash system.
We shy away from workplace touching, watch as the Firefox downloads roll in, and learn how to shoot better, or at least more professional, news videos. Is Touching Colleagues Ever Appropriate? Short version: No, not if they’re “cute interns, pregnant women (or) your boss.” Long version: It’s hard to avoid uncomfortable random awkwardness, yet still be part of the team.
Joining Gmail, Yahoo, and other mail services, Windows Live Hotmail launches incoming POP3 access for the U.S., Canada, and Brazil, meaning Hotmail users can aggregate all their other email accounts into one inbox. As we’ve previously reported , Microsoft recently allowed outgoing POP3 access.
Electronic musicians are always looking for new ways to do the same old things. Case in point: OTTO, developed by Luca De Rosso at the IUAV University of Venice for a master’s thesis.
Over the last six months Google has been ramping up Friend Connect, its social online identity platform that’s a direct rival of Facebook Connect (both products opened up to the public last December). Since then Google and third party developers have released a slew of gadgets and features, including the Social Bar , Recommendations , and Comment Translation . One of the latest to join the fray is ClackPoint , a powerful new gadget that integrates realtime text chat, voice conferencing and basic document sharing with Friend Connect.
Reader Stephen writes in with an excellent, time-saving Windows 7 tip: you can create Outlook templates for boilerplate emails and pin them to the Windows taskbar for easy access. This technique is not limited to readers using Windows 7, since you can pin a folder to the taskbar in any version of Windows—but the new Jump lists in Windows 7 make it a lot simpler.
Dell has released a new 14-inch Inspiron laptop called the Inspiron 14. Similar to the Studio 14z , the new Inspiron 14 sports 16:9 LED-backlit LCD and optional 7-in-1 Media Card Reader. The newest 14-inch Inspiron laptop will be powered by latest Intel Pentium Dual-core / Core 2 Duo processor.