As many expected, Sony announced today that they have dropped the retail price of their PlayStation 2 game system from $149 to $129.
Effective immediately, consumers can purchase the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system for a suggested retail price (SRP) of $129.99/$139.99 CND. The company expects this latest price move to fuel consumer demand even […]

Google has officially released an API for its latest online tool, the Google Calendar (or GCal, as some have started calling it).
There are many possible uses for the Calendar data API. For example, you can create a web front end for your group’s calendar that uses Google Calendar as a back end. Or you can […]

UPDATE - my response to Kevin’s (non)response
As a follow up to an earlier post (Digg Army: Right in Line), there have been some vibrations that I think not only our readers would find interesting, but also all Digg users.
To quickly summarize the earlier post, I had noticed two submissions by SpitF1re were on the front […]

Here’s a lesson to would-be crime overlords: use stronger encryption (not that we’d encourage anyone to do bad stuff–just expressing a point on security). Poorly-encrypted notes exchanged for years within Bernardo Provenzano’s organization led to the arrest of the Sicilian Mafia Boss, with the police quite easily decoding the messages. So much for security!
The recently […]

Kyle MacDonald wants a house of his own. And he’s willing to trade a big red paperclip for one. Well, not a direct trade, actually, but he planned to barter the paperclip up one item at a time until he gets to achieve that dream of his. And he’s using the community/collaborative power of the […]

Apple will use a large presence at next weeks National Association of Broadcasters conference to introduce its flagship notebook, the 17″ Intel Core Duo MacBook Pro.
The over-sized portable, which will be built around a stellar 17-inch TFT widescreen display and look very similar to its 15-inch counterpart, will round out Apple’s professional line MacBook Pro […]

Digg is 99% fantastic. Fast furious news, troll comments, sites being hammered
to oblivion - its Slashdot for the masses!

So while I was on the site today, I noticed two frontpage diggs for A List Apart. Also a wonderful site, it piqued my interest how both were submitted by
Spit1ire. So I did some digging of mine […]

Here is a nifty service. If you have a cameraphone with at least 1-megapixel of resolution, ScanR will take an image from it and create a searchable PDF file.
Scan, copy and fax with your camera phone or digital camera.
scanR uses advanced imaging processing and data extraction technologies to convert photos into legible, searchable PDF files.
Document […]

You’d better hold your breath before trying to say what this player can do:
supports VHS, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW and RAM for video recording, This Media Recorder can also read DivX movies as well as MP3 and WMA audio files. A multi card reader is included too, and this one supports MS/SD/Mini SD/CF/XD/MS Duo/MS Pro/MD/ST1/ MD/MMC/MMC Plus/RS […]

Just when you thought the DVD format was on it’s last leg (in terms of the approach of new formats) Sony goes and surprises everyone with it’s first DVD Walkman. But, what exactly is this DVD Walkman?
Well, basically it’s just a portable DVD player with the typical functions and…
It supports DVD±R/RW, DVD+R/-RW DL and CD-R/RW […]

Thanks to a talented coder known only as PSMonkey it seems that we will soon have a functional Nintendo 64 emulator to play on the go. I’ve been following this project ever since it only ran N64 homebrews and from the last videos I must say that my hopes are higher than ever.

Despite the obvious […]

Apple sent out e-mail invitations today to many of its Developer Connection members that confirmed a sneak peak at the latest version of OS X, Leopard (10.5).
Personally, I am pretty happy with Tiger. It works well, it has a great GUI and I can not see much room for any major improvements. Sure, Spotlight could […]

Here is something I had not heard about before. Use at your own risk if you have such problems, but it might be something worth jotting down for later on, as I have had to deal with many Windows XP problems where files were missing and I just had to start over with a fresh […]

Three years ago, the concept of professional blogging was unheard of. Perhaps the concept of blogging for income or revenue was there, only that it was not mainstream enough to even merit a name.
Here, I share a story about a part of my life which is perhaps most interesting to my fellow geeks. I wouldn’t […]

Here is a how-to on streaming music wirelessly from iTunes to your PSP. Here is what you need.

PSP With Firmware v2.60
Networked XP Home/Pro Comp.
WiFi (802.11b) Network Router
Apple iTunes v6.0.4 Installed
Songs in iTunes Music Library
At Least 1 Playlist With Music

Get the 5-step procedure at the site.

Here’s what search engine optimizers have been telling us all along. A study by Jupiter Research and marketing firm iProspect has determined that most search engine users usually find what they’re looking for at the first page of results. Users would dig down up to the third page at most, before giving up on a […]