Last weekend saw the introduction of an unlock solution for the latest iPhone firmware. The first-gen iPhone users will now be able to enjoy 2.0 firmware with any SIM card. The iPhone 3G is not there yet, but there’s some progress and we hope it would get unlocked some time soon too.
The popular iPhone Dev [...]
This blog is not run by one, but many hands. some of us requesting to write an article in chinese, but when first download and run wordpress 2.5.0, we were wondering and keep trying to write an article with chinese character, but end up symbols ‘???’ replacing all characters.
now that we found how to solve [...]
Buried in a New York Times article on "Low-Carbon Chic" (vomit) comes confirmation the Tata Nano, the $2500 (or maybe a bit more) mini-car will offer a MDI compressed air engine as an option. Tata has been backing MDI for a while now, and off-the-cuff we mused at the idea of the compressed air engine [...]
TweetDeck is a desktop client for Twitter build on Adobe AIR. Nothing new there. That sentence could have described Twhirl, Snitter, or Alert Thingy. But TweetDeck has a few features up its sleeve that other Twitter clients lack.
The most noticeable difference is that TweetDeck has a multi-column view. You can glance at all of the [...]
There have been reports flying around Twitter and several prominent blogs that Twitter is making a move to acquire Summize, a popular Twitter search engine. In case this is the first you’re hearing about Summize, here’s a rundown of what it does. It can search Twitter for any string — most importantly, an @name [...]
Automakers across the globe are in a frenzy to produce highly efficient, fuel saving vehicles that remain relatively inexpensive, yet still offering the modern conveniences and safety features consumers have grown to expect. While development on advanced drivetrains is going strong at almost every automaker, Japan’s big four (Honda, Toyota, Nissan and Mazda) realize that [...]
We’ve been hearing rumors about a partially solar-powered Prius, but Car and Driver’s got some info on the 2010 model scheduled to make an appearance at the Detroit Auto Show in January, and it doesn’t appear that sunlight plays a part quite yet. The popular hybrid gets a more angular shape, but it still basically [...]
Top Gear has been slammed by its broadcaster, the BBC, for glamorising drinking while driving. The corporation’s governing body, the BBC Trust, reprimanded Top Gear after a viewer complained that the “blatant use of alcohol while driving” by Jeremy Clarkson and James May was “grossly irresponsible.”
The incident happened during a a special edition of [...]
Ferrari is planning to cut the CO2 emissions of its cars by 40 per cent before 2012. The company’s president, Luca di Montezemolo has suggested that hybrid power will be part of that process. His comment will be seen as confirmation that Ferrari is developing a road version of the Kinetic Energy Regeneration System [...]
Nutritionist and author Jonny Bowden has created several lists of healthful foods people should be eating but arent. But some of his favorites, like purslane, guava and goji berries, arent always available at regular grocery stores. I asked Dr. Bowden, author of The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth, to update his list with some favorite [...]
