Wow Disney doesn’t waste any time shutting down promising projects. Although, in this case I think they may be on to something:
In the film, Buzz Lightyear would have been recalled to Taiwan after a series of malfunctions. Learning of a productwide recall, all the toys in Andy’s room, under Woody’s leadership, were to head to [...]

Every time I think that we have reached the smallest die size that anyone can make, something happens, and someone reduces it that one more time.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip giant has created test chips made on the 45-nanometer process and will likely begin shipping processors, flash, and other chips based on that process [...]

I was rumored and expected, it failed to meet the date where the announcement was predicted, but big N has finally stepped forward and introduced us to the redesign of their latest portable console. If Apple ever made a portable console, I think that this is pretty close to what it would look like.

And bigger:

Via [...]

As everyone knows by now, Pixar has been taken over by Disney. I found out because every blog I read had something to say about it. The conference call features Steve Jobs, Bob Iger, and various other figures. The total call runs for over 30 minutes. Not much else to say.

I am sure most of you have heard of this by now, but Google has released a study of common web authoring statistics across 1 Billion pages. They looked for things like the number of pages in a site, the number of elements used on a page, and common classes given to elements.
Interesting stuff if [...]

Have a few hours to kill? This game is kind of fun. Fastr loads 10 images from Flickr that all share a common tag. Keep typing until you guess the tag and move on to the next group.

Here are some current deals at Amazon that I thought looked pretty good.

Epson Stylus Photo 1280 Inkjet Printer for $261 after $100
Logitech diNovo Cordless Desktop for $60 after $30 rebate
ZoneAlarm Pro 2006 for FREE after $15 rebate
Logitech mm22 Portable Speakers for iPod for $20 after $10 rebate - these list for $80
Fujifilm Finepix Z1 [...]

Did you know that the blue colour of your DS in North America is not the same as the one in Japan?
Well now there is an all in one spot to check out all the different DS variants.
The Nintendo DS has been released in many different colours, with many special editions and many bundles - [...]

Google announced today a new initiative against spyware and trojan horses.
What this site allows you to do is:
independently evaluate downloadable applications, publish objective information for consumers, and provide an easy web-based way for users to describe problems they’ve encountered.
In short it’s a place you can resort to when you have spyware problems, so it should [...]

Alex Walker has brought to the headlines of his SitePoint blog a great new extension that is basically:
FireBug is a new tool that aids with debugging Javascript, DHTML, and Ajax. It is like a combination of the Javascript Console, DOM Inspector, and a command line Javascript interpreter.
Via SitePoint Blogs

Sony has announced today their latest laptops that are headed to the Japanese market.
These are perhaps their answer to the recently released Apple MacBookPros.

This first laptop is Sony’s SZ series which will replace the current Sony S series laptops, so it fits under the ultra-portable/powerful category for laptops, and it can make a decent gaming [...]

Sony Japan has introduced today a new CMOS Sensor with a similar layout to Fujifilm’s SuperCCD. What’s good about this new sensor? Well, Sony claims that it will improve vertical and horizontal resolution 1.4 times compared to the existing ones, and also there will be more sensitivity per pixel than with the current sensors.
This new [...]

Disney has formally announced the aquisition of Pixar for the purchase price of $7.4 billion. Pixar CEO Steve Jobs will become Disney’s largest shareholder as a result of the deal.
Pixar CEO Steve Jobs will become Disney’s largest shareholder, giving him an extraordinary position at the confluence of technology and entertainment, computers and film, as well [...]

Extreme Tech has an article talking about what kind of computers will run Windows Vista in all its Aero glass wonderfulness.
When I worked at a computer store, I had people asking me if a computer or laptop would run Windows Vista just fine, and while it was easy to say yes, since Microsoft has said [...]

I am not sure how many of you are actually going to care about this, and it barely made me take notice, as the transition between most of Google’s beta projects, and the final project are more or less the same.
Google News has matured a great deal, and we’re proud to see it graduate from [...]

Amazon has the new Intel Duo Core MacBookPro and iMac with $125-$150 rebates.

Apple MacBook Pro 1.67 GHz Intel Core Duo: $1995 - $150 Rebate = $1845 Shipped
Apple MacBook Pro 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo - $2495 - $150 Rebate = $2345 shipped
Apple iMac Desktop 17″ 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo - $1295 - [...]