Sony Retracts Bloatware Removal Fee

-from The Washington Post
So A few days ago Sony announced that they wouldn’t instal all the crappy software that slows down for computer slower than molasses in the Alaskan winter. The catch? They would do that for 50 buck. Yep, you pay them not to instal something on your computer. Well Today they announced that they are no longer charging you the $50. All because people were angry about it. I guess the power of the people finally worked for once. Click the link at the top for more info.

MacBook Air hack unearths more relatively inaccessible USB connectors

– From engadget

So the MBA come with 1 USB port from what I hear, and unless you have a USB hub to help you fix that. Now a hacker decided to try to fix this problem, and with some hunting he found a way. He reworked some pins and got it to talk with a USB Flash drive. So while you ponder on making new ports on t5he slims peace of metal, heres a nice guie to making the MBA read the extra USB’s
guide for doing this

Mozilla CEO: Apple Auto-Installing Safari 3.1 “Borders on Malware”

-From Gizmodo and Znet

So most of you probably saw the thrust that the apple auto updater pushed on windows machines even if they didn’t have Safari already installed. This was bold on apple’s part in my opinion, even through I always says cancel.
This what Mozilla CEO John Lilly had to say about it

-from John Lilly’s Blog

What Apple is doing now with their Apple Software Update on Windows is wrong. It undermines the trust relationship great companies have with their customers, and that’s bad — not just for Apple, but for the security of the whole Web. What they did yesterday was to use their updater for iTunes to also install their Safari Web browser –what follows is some background and analysis.

What do you guys think of this push by Apple?
Also before I forget check out the gizmodo link for a nice poll on the topic

File Dropper

well this is a nifty little gadget that I found while browsing Digg today. A file uploader allowing 5gb upload, then you just share the link it gives you. I am not at my computer so I have no files that I can test but if one of you guys tries it out tell me how fast it is.
Heres the the link.
File Dropper

MacBook Air reviewed… as a Windows machine

-From xbit
Those new tiny MacBooks are out and about in the world now. So the guys at Xbit decided to run test vista on them and it runs about the same as OS X. After the troublesome task of wiping OS X from the machine. So check out the link for more info, I’m sure you’ll like it.

Unlimited Tunes from Apple? Not So Fast

-from BusinessWeek
So by now you’ve all heard about the “all you can eat” music plan. While it sounds like a subscription service Job’s argues that it’s not. For those who have not heard what this plan covers, it basically allows Apple to raise the prices of the Ipods so you can have a lifetime of free downloadable music tracks from itunes.
While the insiders on both Apple and the Music industries wouldn’t talk about it, they did say that something like this would take at least a year to hammer out the details, so don’t get your hopes up to high now. check out the link at the top for more details

Eyes on NVIDIA’s GeForce 9800 GX2

engadget
So here’s the new graphics card from nvidia. The sexy 9800, still no word on a release date that I have heard of. But this card is supposed to be very beastly.
Here’s the gallery of the card

click here to see what overclockingwiki has to say about the card.

PROJECT PHENOM

Want a Phenom 9900? I know I do, but how about in a case that could very well fly away for even start walking around your room. While I doubt it’ll spark the machine revolution this case will most certainly be the most badass thing I’ve ever seen.

to see mod click here

MSI ECOlution motherboard transforms chip heat into fan power

-from engadget

Okay, try not to let your mind get blown by the possible time-space paradox we’re about to illustrate, but MSI’s supposedly introducing a new ECOlution motherboard at CeBIT with an “air powered cooler” that operates on the Stirling Engine Theory to transform the thermal output of its chipset into the kinetic energy necessary to power that same chipset’s fan. Of course, as the fan cools the heatsink it deprives itself of energy, supposedly the piston affixed to the crankshaft pulls back down, giving it another potential surge when its heat rebuilds. Supposedly it works at 70% efficiency, so we’ll just let the thermodynamics geeks in the audience mull over the possibility and audacity of it all — they certainly seem to have given up on Steorn at this point.

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Rock’s Xtreme XL8 promises twin GeForce 8800M GTXs

-from engadget

Merely two days after Dell added NVIDIA’s GeForce 8800M GTX to its beastly M1730, it seems that Rock is looking to up the graphical ante as well. Reportedly, the firm is gearing up to unleash the (likely rebadged) Xtreme XL8, which will house an Intel X6800 quad-core processor, a delightful pair of NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTXs, up to 1TB of storage space and a 17-inch 1,920 x 1,200 resolution panel to boot. Furthermore, you’ll find an Ethernet jack, Draft-N wireless card, an obligatory (no, really) HD DVD drive and a presumably laughable battery life. Waiting for the sting? Try £2,500 ($4,976) to £3,000 ($5,971), with pre-orders going live later this month.
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