GPS Passion

iPhone 3G, MobileMe and more

Yesterday’s keynote by Steve Jobs was very exciting. Somehow Apple always manages to bring the new you think they will, but features are always better than expected, and this time was no exception.
I don’t think we should see the release of the iPhone 3G as simply a successor for the original iPhone. If you have [...]

TomTom for iPhone

After in fact stopping support for PDA’s and smartphones it is very likely that TomTom will bring a iPhone version of its navigation software to sell to customers, Reuters tells us. The Dutch navigation device maker is not yet telling when it comes to the market, but it is expected that it will be on [...]

Apple’s Keynote: What’s cooking here?

* Update *
The new iPhone 3G is now visible on the US apple site, and, most important for us, on the dutch apple site.
Apple’s keynote by Steve Jobs is going on right now. There’s a lot of talk about the developer stuff for the iPhone, there’s a sneak peak into Snow Leopard (the next Leopard), [...]

WWDC: Next Gen iPhone to come

Dutch local time (19.00h) DIN will be online and watching different sources to stay up-to-date about the new Apple iPhone. We hear stories about people still buying the ‘old’ one (if available), not knowing there is a new version coming very very soon.
This is the first time we are really on to it. You know why? Because [...]

Tech Interest

Tiny laptops. What are they?

Yesterday I spent quite some time into researching something that interested me for a while - tiny laptops. Not for myself to have, but because there is something I don’t get.
Telephone manufacturers tried to create devices that would be between a laptop computer and a phone. Palm had a device prepped that was slashed only [...]

Scribd releases Mac upload client

Wow - good news from our friends @ scribd: a mac client for uploading:

News
Scribd Uploader Released for the Mac
Try our new Scribd Uploader to conveniently upload multiple files straight from your desktop, now available for Mac and PC.
(http://www.scribd.com/)
For who doesn’t know, scribd is my preferred document storage provider. It offers unlimited free storage, all kinds [...]

The iPhone 3G hysteria

Only a few days after the serious iPhone 3G hysteria started there are some patterns to see in how Apple and the local gsm providers deal with things concerning the new Apple fanboy toy. Next to that there are some technical issues. In total:
distribution -> soup kitchen style, people in line to get a glimpse [...]

iPhone released in the Netherlands

As of today, anyone in the Netherlands with a big bag of money can go to the T-Mobile store and purchase an iPhone 3g. The first person to get a hold of one is a guy called Edwin from Den Haag (The Hague), which is my town as well and about 15 minutes drive from [...]

HomeCinemaSecrets

Samsung unveils 82inch Ultra HD LCD TV

Samsung used the LA-based Society for Information Display (SID) international symposium to debut an 82in LCD TV with Ultra Definition resolution.
The so-called UD panel features a pixel resolution of 3,840 x 2,160 (aka 4K2K), which is about 6,000,000 more pixels than a Full HD screen, and refreshes at a rate of 120Hz. RGB LED backlights [...]

Sony LCD HDTVs with built-in Blu-ray

The format war is over, Sony now wants to expand the presence of Blu-ray. The Sony boss says it’s time to start building Blu-ray  players in more product, including HDTVs. The story-between-the-lines is we’re probably about to see Blu-ray players at the bottom-end of the price spectrum.
Blu-ray players have already found their way into laptops, home computer [...]

Beyerdynamic’s Headzone Headphone

On the German homecinema site www.areadvd.de I saw an interesting review of the new Beyerdynamic headphone, the Headzone Home. I say interesting because untill now the surround sound experience from most headphones is somewhat disappointing. But according to the guys of areadvd, the Beyerdynamic is capable of delivering surround sound comparable to the quality of [...]

Are projectors going tiny?

Projectors have seen enormous growth over the last ten years as a result of cinema lovers as well as the need for business projectors. As projectors have evolved from huge devices to smaller ones (mostly the business ones), and as everything electric or electronic is being ‘tinyfied’, it now looks like your cell phone will [...]

Network & Security

Google lets you monitor your Gmail logins

Google, provider of the fastest growing mail on the planet, never sleeps. Recently Google has been concentrating on security related features, and the latest is no exception. Google now allows you to monitor what Gmail sessions you have running, even if by remote programs that you allowed. You are back in control.
Your email account can [...]

Security scanner for online software: WAD

A couple of students at the University of Amsterdam have developed a small piece of software that scans web based software for security leaks and vulnerabilities. The current version of the program, WAD (Web Application Detector) supports three of the most popular platforms on the internet today:

Wordpress
Joomla
phpBB

According to the report that was written by the [...]

Security and blogging

As blogging has become popular, and wordpress has grown to be the most popular blogging software right now, that piece of software has also become a popular target for hackers. Why? Hackers may (ab)use the popularity of your blog to generate more traffic for other sites they run or manage. In short, they might add [...]

Apple puts security guide Leopard online

Apple takes security seriously. With the online publication of the security guide for Leopard, the company answers concerned customers. Although the heart of the operating system is BSD unix, one of the most stable and secure flavors of the unix operating system, certain people are still concerned, and with all the developments concerning hacking and [...]