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Devious carrier pigeon caught trying to smuggle cellphone parts into prison {Engadget}
Apr 16th 2009 12:50AM The word Colombia has to be one of the most commonly mispelled words. The spell checkers don't pick it up because Columbia does exist as a word. Annoys me also when I see it mispelled.
iLuv's iNT170 internet radio-alarm appears, no one's too excited {Engadget}
Dec 7th 2008 1:58PM Would this work with Pandora?
Slimmer Xbox 360 spied in the wild? (mystery solved) {Engadget}
Sep 25th 2008 9:41AM that looks more like an old dell desktop next to the xbox.
AT&T adds two international data plans for iPhone, still pricey {Engadget}
Aug 26th 2008 1:09PM With those prices, you are better off either jailbreaking your phone, or buying an unlocked one in Europe if you are going to be there an extended period of time.
AVSForum suffers database failure, loses "tens of thousands" of posts {Engadget HD}
Aug 12th 2008 12:31PM The issue was that they upgraded the database to a newer version and something became corrupt. Unfortunately, the corruption was not visible until they hit the 4.5 gb default max. So since the upgrade they were backing up corrupt data and the problem didn't become apparent until a week later. By then the backups themselves were corrupt.
No way to foresee something like that. Only way would be to have a script that adds dummy records to a test database to see if any corruption shows when it hits the limit. This would be done before deployment to production.
Happy birthday: take a trip in America's largest flying gadget (part 5) {Engadget}
Mar 27th 2008 9:58PM Happy Birthday! I check your site just about everyday to get a quick pulse on what's out there in the tech world. Even buy some of the stuff you review from time to time. Keep up the good work guys!!!! and gals too.
Blu-ray cracked too? {Engadget}
Jan 21st 2007 3:57PM Actually AACS hasn't been cracked. Each movie has to have it's key extraced on a compromised player by retrieving it from memory. That is not a crack. Last count there were 7 Bray movie keys available already.
As for BD+, no movie title uses that yet and i don't there are any players that support it, except maybe the PS3. Also, from the little I have been reading, BD+ will be a hacker's dream. Once hacked, they will have total access to the player, bypassing AACS totally.
Netflix "Watch Now" feature offers movie download alternative {Engadget}
Jan 16th 2007 4:01PM it's sad to see these new services saying near dvd quality. first it was itunes, now netflix.
either way, i have moved on to HD. i simply refuse to watch movies unless they are in HD. for now this limits me to using an HD Tivo, but soon I'll be getting an Xbox 360 with the hd-dvd drive and at that point will sign up with netflix or blockbuster again.
LG's BH100 Blu-ray / HD DVD combo coming February 4th? {Engadget}
Jan 15th 2007 4:27PM a microsoft employee who spoke with LG was told that this product wouldn't last too long before a compliant version was released.
Time Warner expects download-to-burn movies to hit in '07 {Engadget}
Nov 29th 2006 4:44AM i was all gungo-ho for movie downloads like 1-2 years ago. now that hd-dvd/b-ray is here, no desire for dvd quality anymore. hd all the way or bust!
