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1. Nvidia auctions "ultimate" gaming system on eBay

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... built" by veteran case modder Richard "Darth Beavis" Surroz and is valued at over $10,000. "With a one of a kind Nvidia themed paint job created by Smooth Creations, the system features two watercooled ...

2. Painted ladies fly to ISS

   (Space/Space Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   The prettiest astronauts yet In a project known as Butterflies in Space, the Atlantis space shuttle will next week carry a butterfly habitat containing monarch and painted lady adults and larvae to the ...

3. Traveling with the MacBook Air Butt Kicking Dell Adamo 9.99

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   ... get me wrong, if this were my laptop and not a loaner I’d still be tempted to have it custom painted, but in its current form you don’t feel like you should be handling the notebook with velvet gloves.  ...

4. Smartphone users make lousy partners

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Friday, 06 November 2009

   ... their mobile device. Retervo concludes: "This data could lead to creating unfair stereotypes but you have to admit, it sure paints a picture of a group of smartphone owners that 'think different'.  ...

5. Twitter turns UI thinking on its head

   (Software/Software Features)

   Friday, 06 November 2009

   ... all avatars among those I follow, but, while it shortens urls flawlessly, its multistep process is a pain. On the iPhone Echofon is straightforward, if limited, so I'm beginning to think Twitterific is ...

6. Peek ships Twitter gadget for the terminally-sad

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Tuesday, 03 November 2009

   ...  From what we can discern, the $100 TwitterPeek was apparently designed to facilitate the affordable, yet painful transmission of insipid one-liners to the masses. 
Find Twitter dull? Well, so do we. ...

7. Karmic Koala displays bad karma

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 03 November 2009

   ... Effects were enabled - in short - painless. The only minor tweak I had to make was to install some Language components. I just followed the prompts and again, no problems. I can't wait to get home and ...

8. My 10 favorite Windows apps

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 27 October 2009

   ... and then you can format stuff inside your net CMS. 10. JASC Paint Shop Pro. I'm using version 8. It's such a versatile image editor and imports and exports just about anything you will throw at it. Yeah, ...

9. Daylight Saving is a waste of time

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Sunday, 25 October 2009

   Opinion: We all know what a pain it is when we head out for a day's plowing before the sun's even risen. The oxen grumble as you prod them into wakefulness; the ground is crisp with frost; and that ...

10. Otellini: Intel ‘knew nothing’ about insider trading probe

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... outfit Clearwire from Goel. Otellini was at pains to stress that insider-trading problems were ‘extremely rare’ during his time at Intel and that the company has procedures in place to prevent them. ...

11. The best IT vendor CEO of the decade is...

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    Depending on how you count, January begins the second decade of the 21st century. While a painful 10 years in many ways, the information technology industry saw some phenomenal changes during that time. ...

12. Windows 7 Starter Edition: The best version of Windows yet

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... 3 application limit that initially made it look like Starter Edition was more of a crippled product and it now has the typical Paint, Notepad, Calculator, Windows Fax and Scan, WordPad, Windows Firewall, ...

13. IBM’s head is in the clouds

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... the rest of their organization and manage their calendar and contacts, using a shared corporate directory. IBM is at pains to remind us that more than half of the largest global 100 corporations use ...

14. Fat used to generate stem cells for heart conditions

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... low perfusion, these regions may become populated with angiogenic ASCs, thereby potentially improving blood supply to the scar and reducing scar size." Adipose tissue extraction is far less painful than ...

15. Faulty chip causes defibrillator recall

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    ... small number of FR2+ units manufactured in 2007 and early 2008. The company is at pains to point out that these failures were detected during routine self-tests, not during emergency use of the AED. Failure ...

16. TSMC ramps production to build Intel Atoms

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 25 September 2009

    ... Larrabee graphics chips, although Intel was at pains to point out that the ones showcased at IDF this week had not been sourced from the Taiwanese outfit.  ...

17. Jetpack ride for sale on Ebay

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    It might not be everybody's idea of the perfect Christmas present, but if you've already given your partner a flight in a glider and a paintballing session, it's got to be worth considering. It might ...

18. COBOL is fifty years old today

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 18 September 2009

    ... tranquilizers is 50 years old today. COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language and despite its reputation, wasn't designed by sadists to inflict pain on programmers. Ihe name was agreed, according ...

19. HP debuts aluminum notebooks - at a price

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    ... and full versions of Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 and Corel VideoStudio Pro X2. Unsurprisingly, it also comes with a top end price tag - $1,799. Refreshingly, the machines come with what HP describes ...

20. Apple retires 40GB TV model, lowers 160GB version to $229

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    ... home entertainment simple and solves a pain point for consumers." ...

21. Motorola aims Android phone at social network users

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 11 September 2009

    ... Cliq with Motoblur will be available exclusively through T-Mobile by the end of the year. Elsewhere, it comes through Orange in the UK and France, Telefonica in Spain and America Movil in Latin America. ...

22. Dell starts to sell uninterruptible power supplies

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 09 September 2009

    They may not be the most exciting products on the planet, but if you're a business you don't want to suffer the pain of brown outs that make you black out.They may not be the most exciting products ...

23. Merger creates new UK mobile leader

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 07 September 2009

    ... sales in excess of nine billion euros ($13.5 billion). With 27 percent of the market, O2, owned by Spain's Telefonica, will be knocked off its current top spot and Vodafone will be a distant third with ...

24. Freedom is slavery and here's $30 from Amazon

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 07 September 2009

    ... earlier this month.   The spokesman added that Big Amazon's 'solution' to the problem was 'stupid, thoughtless and painfully out of line with its principles'. "It was wholly self-inflicted, and we ...

25. Updated: Google 'feels the pain' of Gmail downtime

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 01 September 2009

    ...  "We definitely feel your pain," said Engineering Director David Besbris. "We don't usually post about minor issues here (the Apps status dashboard and the Gmail Help Center are usually where this kind ...

26. Samsung opens app store in Europe

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 31 August 2009

    ... by the end of the year. It will initially launch in the UK, France and Italy. More than 30 other countries will be added in time, including Germany and Spain. It's also working on opening up in Asia ...

27. IBM: Malicious web links up by 508 percent

    (Security/Security Features)

    Wednesday, 26 August 2009

    ... point in terms of the convergence of technology that powers the web, as well as threats and threat scenarios. However, while the report paints a grim picture and may appear rather daunting, it also reveals ...

28. Paint your house green with solar cells

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    Solar cells could soon be printed like newspaper or painted onto rooftops. Austin, Texas - Solar cells could soon be printed like newspaper or painted onto rooftops. Brian Korgel, a University of ...

29. Analyst sees shiny Apple TV set by 2011

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 20 August 2009

    ...  "Such a device would command a premium among a competitive field of budget TVs; we believe Apple could differentiate itself with software that makes home entertainment simple and solves a pain point for ...

30. Electric bikes impress English folk

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Wednesday, 19 August 2009

    ... Raven of Electric Bike World (EBW) which already has six outlets in England and one in Spain. He claimed that battery life is no longer an issue with regular electric  bikes being able to last for ...

31. Self-cleaning materials will cut detergent use

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    ... They include household cleaners, easy-to-clean paints, water filters that separate water from oil, sealants for concrete floors and walls that repel oil in home garages and auto repair shops. In addition, ...

32. Top secret US spyplane blamed for spate of UFO sightings

    (Space/Space Features)

    Sunday, 16 August 2009

    ... of the runway is painted four times a year, to match the surrounding undergrowth. The massive runway length is necessary so it can be used as an Emergency Airfield Over-flow (EAOF) site. It is one of ...

33. Motorola Morrison surfaces: The iPhone the ROKR should have been?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 10 August 2009

    ... himself, but obviously was the iPhone Apple never wanted. It entirely failed to appeal to customers. It was a lesson that repackaging the then successful RAZR phone and painting it Apple-white simply did ...

34. Captain Kirk declares war on HP

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Wednesday, 29 July 2009

    ... painted the words "Hazardous products" on the roof of the building, while Shatner's message was broadcast to staff. He said: "Please ask your leader Mark Hurd to make computers that are free of toxic ...

35. New Ferrari F458 a waste of money

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 29 July 2009

    ... obscenely expensive to service and painted red. So it has a 4.5 liter V8 producing 570 horsepower, will top 200 mph and do 0-60 in 3.4 seconds. You could buy 100 used motorcycles for the same price ...

36. Amazon founder apologizes for “stupid” deletions of Kindle ebooks

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 24 July 2009

    ... handled illegally sold copies of 1984 and other novels on Kindle. Our "solution" to the problem was stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles. It is wholly self-inflicted, and ...

37. Yahoo to get new look

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 20 July 2009

    ... the home page, the revamp we are expecting to see today is still only a beta. The change will also be rolled out to the UK, France, and India next week, in Spain and Mexico next month and in Asia next ...

38. Google Chrome OS: Gcrap reveals the next Netscape

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 20 July 2009

    ... I mean a product that embraces the Windows XP installed base and promises to save those users from future painful migrations while allowing them to enjoy most of what they enjoy now.   Snow Leopard ...

39. US game sales down 31%

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 20 July 2009

    ... against a stellar first-half performance last year," says NPD analyst Anita Frazier. "This level of decline is certainly going to cause some pain and reflection in the industry. This is one of the first ...

40. Apple App Store downloads top 1.5 billion in first year

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    ... you Apple: an apology iPhone boozers keep tabs on livers  Pain in the ass? Get an iPhone Next-gen iPhone to lose telephony fuctions    ...

41. BlackBerry to get music download service

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    ... 7Digital, and will launch in the UK, US, Canada, France, Italy, Germany and Spain in September. According to marketing manager Peter Davias, the application will be free. There won't be an unlimited ...

42. It does help to swear

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

      I b****y well knew it. Swearing really can lessen pain, according to scientists at Keele University. Keele, UK - I b****y well knew it. Swearing really can lessen pain, according to scientists ...

43. Kickstand streamlines character animation with StretchMesh

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 10 July 2009

    ... of a collision object can now be painted, giving users per-vertex control over a collision and impact. Curve attractors provide the ability to pull vertices toward the closest point on a curve. This technique ...

44. Palm Pre headed for Europe

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 07 July 2009

    The Palm Pre smartphone will be available in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Spain, in time for Christmas. The Palm Pre smartphone will be available in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Spain, in time for ...

45. Anyone can use echolocation, say researchers

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Wednesday, 01 July 2009

    You may have heard of Daniel Kish or Ben Underwood, two blind people who learned to detect objects through echolocation - but you can do it too, according to Spanish researchers.  Madrid, Spain ...

46. Windows 7 flying off the shelves four months before it appears

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 26 June 2009

    ... European users upgrade as painlessly as possible. "We know we have a job to do educating users about how to upgrade to Windows 7 via a clean install and will make sure that consumers have the relevant ...

47. Intel + Nokia: In search of relevance

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 25 June 2009

    ... benefits. Changes represent risk and there is little in the way of margins in this segment, so mistakes can be incredibly painful for a cellphone company.  In general, they practice the "better the ...

48. From Charles Babbage to Atari: A visit to the Computer History Museum

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 24 June 2009

    ... grand cathedral. Dear reader, you may find elements of this tale beyond the realm of reason and possibility. Nevertheless, I beg you to reserve judgement until casting your eyes over the painstakingly ...

49. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ...  Simply create a free ServiceLive.com account and purchase two hours (or more!) of handyman help for Dad - giving him more time to enjoy with the family and less time cleaning the gutters, painting, ...

50. Netbooks slow decline of PC market, but bring new headaches

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 11 June 2009

    Oh dear, this is not what PC makers hoped for. In times of a troubled financial world, PC sales are dropping at a dramatic pace and netbooks were brought to market to alleviate the pain. But netbooks ...