Digg For Bargains: Deals.Woot Is Now Open To The Public

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Tech Eruption

[Originally posted by Tech Crunch]

Woot, the popular bargain site that offers one good (sometimes great) deal a day, has just launched a new portal at deals.Woot. The new site is a fairly major departure for Woot, which up until now has been driven by product selections from a team of Woot employees (aside from the main Woot.com site, which is often tech/geek focused, there are special subsites for shirts, wine, and a handful of others). Unlike these sites, Deals.Woot is run by its users — it’s essentially a Digg for bargains.

The new site features a list of top deals, as voted on by the community and chosen by the Deals.Woot algorithm. This will be going head to head against other deal sites like SlickDealsand FatWallet, which have well established communities. Woot already has plenty of fans, but it may take some time to build out a base of deal hunters.

But the very top of the site actually isn’t dictated by users. Instead, it’s dedicated to “Sponsored Deals”. Woot explains that these deals are paid for by advertisers, but that they’re still bargains:

OK, yes, companies pay a little something to be Sponsored Deals. But we don’t allow just any old crap in this section. Sponsored Deals are proposed to us by other retailers, manufacturers, and even other daily deal sites. If we find the deal compelling enough that our members will appreciate us bringing it to their attention, we’ll feature it here. Believe it or not, we have a reputation to uphold.

The site has been available for weeks before now, but was only available until members up until a few hours ago.

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Black Friday For Apps: Lots of iPhone Software on Sale Over the Hols [Originally Posted by Cult of Mac]

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Tech Eruption

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It’s not just HDTVs that are on sale this Black Friday. Lots of iPhone developers are dropping prices for the holidays also.

App Cubby, for example, maker of the popular Gas Cubby app for tracking gas mileage, is dropping the cost of its apps by 30 percent through the Thanksgiving holiday. Several other developers have also temporarily dropped prices, including DOOM Resurrection and BeejiveIM.

A good way to track apps on sale is to check App Shopper’s “prices” view. There’s a lot of crap, but to spot the good stuff, keep an eye on an app’s icon. A good icon generally means a good app. A good icon

Here are some links for apps on sale:

Please let us know if you see other good ones we should highlight.

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Seinfeld Cast Reunites: George is iPhone Developer [Video]

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Tech Eruption

The Seinfeld cast has been reunited for the season finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm in which Larry David is watching an episode of Seinfeld set in 2009.

George is an iPhone developer who made a fortune with “iToilet,” a GPS app that tells you the location of the nearest public restroom. Unfortunately, George lost it all by investing with Bernie Madoff.

Take a look at the video below…

[via CultofMac]

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QuickWidgets for Your iPhone Lockscreen

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Tech Eruption

iSoft has announced QuickWidgets, a new app which provides many useful widgets for your Lockscreen.

QuickWidgets is one app from the QuickBoard package. Now QuickBoard contains four apps. They are QuickSMS, QuickBirthday, Calendar and QuickWidgets.

You can set such widgets as Events, Notes, QuickReply, Dial, Google Search, Camera, Calendar, Clock, Weather and Flashlight to be displayed on your Lockscreen. More widgets will be available in future updates.

The widgets can be moved, switched on/off (all or separately), changed in size, or changed in color (font).

To set the widgets press and hold it until it does not shake, double tap changes the size, red dot opens the settings of this widget (for quickreply or weather)

You can download QuickWidgets from the QuickBoard package on the isoftru.ru/beta Cydia Repository.

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A New Springboard Expose App for iPhones

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Tech Eruption

Ryan Petrich, the developer of Clippy, has released a new Springboard Expose app for iPhones called Overboard.

The app shows an overview of Springboard pages and allows you to jump between them. It supports Winterboard themes, advanced customization and multiple activation methods (home button, Springboard icon, and pinch!).

Overboard also extends the Springboard page limit.

You can download the Overboard app from the Cydia Store for $1.99.

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27inch iMac Benchmarked as Fastest Stock Mac Ever

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Tech Eruption

The 27 inch iMac has been benchmarked as the fastest stock Mac ever, according to MacWorld tests.

Our tests of the built-to-order Core i7 iMac (which, other than the processor, has identical specifications as the stock Core i5 iMac) showed even greater performance prowess. With a Speedmark 6 score of 225, the $2199 Core i7 iMac was nearly 8 percent faster than the Core i5 iMac. The Core i7 was nearly 11 percent faster than the $2499 2.66GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro and 9 percent faster than the 2.26GHz 8-Core Mac Pro, which sells for $1100 more. In our tests, there were a few tasks where having eight physical processing cores was beneficial, like our MathematicaMark and Cinebench CPU tests.

If you don’t need the expandability of the Mac Pro it seems the iMac is finally a great option for those who need the performance.

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[Speedmark Scores: Longer bars are better. Blue bars in italics represent reference systems.]

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Apple’s Next Super Product [Concepts by the Press]

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Tech Eruption

Five Apple experts brainstorm Apple’s next super product and have their ideas brought to life in the form of MacLife mockup designs.

iRead: Veronica Belmont
A foldable tablet concept using two screens, 8 inches high, multitouch-enabled, and full-color-capable.

iTenna: Brian Lam
An iPhone add-on that allows users to tap into any cell network other than AT&’s.

iVision: Michael Brook
Glasses that place augmented reality mere millimeters from our corneas, letting it integrate perfectly with our natural vision.

exerPod: Mark McClusky
An Apple handheld devoted wholly to physical fitness making the act of tracking your exercise and health totally transparent.

iMake: Mark Frauenfelder
A desktop manufacturing system based on the RepRap, an open-source 3D rapid prototyping technology. Make your own small products at home, such as Bluetooth headsets, iPods with unique form factors, wristwatches, eyeglasses, door knobs, and more.

Hit the link below to read a lot more detail about these concepts and the vision behind them.

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Shareholders Question Ballmer About Apple

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Tech Eruption

TechFlash reports that during a meeting with shareholders yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is questioned about Microsoft’s poor reputation as compared with Apple among young computer users and college students.

“I’m just wondering why your marketing group can’t do something to try to rein in this next generation, because you’ve got a real bad image out there,” a shareholder asked, while noting that Apple’s ads make the company look “like a buffoon.”

“There’s certainly always opportunities for improvement,” acknowledging that there “is a group of people with whom our market share is less.”

“You take any country, including this one, and you say, how are we doing?” he continued. “The truth of the matter is, we do quite well. Even among college students, we do quite well. Do we have an opportunity for improvement? We do. Some of that is marketing some of that is phase of life. It is important to remember that 96 times out of 100 worldwide, people choose a PC with Windows, that’s a good thing. Even in the toughest market, which would be the high end of the consumer market here in the U.S., 83 times out of 100 people choose a Windows PC over a Mac.”

He acknowledged that Apple has “picked up a couple of tenths of a percent of market share.” Some shareholders scoffed at the seemingly minimal gains but Ballmer corrected them saying every couple of tenths matter.

“They matter when we’re increasing our Bing market share, too,” he said.

He added, “We’re working hard on it. Windows 7 I think gives us a real opportunity to come back again at some audiences that have been tougher for us. Frankly, the economy is good for us, because people do understand that Macintoshes are quite a bit more expensive for essentially the same computer … but we have opportunities to improve among exactly the constituency that you identify.”

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iPetals Solar Powered iPhone Charger [Concept]

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Tech Eruption

Mac Funamizu, an in-house web/graphic/industrial designer working in Tokyo, Japan has posted a concept for a collapsible flower shaped iPhone solar charger and stand.

The idea was inspired by Fandi Meng’s great “Sunny Flower” concept.

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Camino 2 Browser Released

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Tech Eruption

After over a year, the Camino Project has announced Camino 2.0, a major update to their web browser.

Camino 2.0 includes a number of new features and enhancements, including rearranging tabs by drag-and-drop, a new Tab Overview feature, phishing and malware protection, full content zoom, Growl notifications for downloads, improved support for Full Keyboard Access in the browser window, and displays web content using Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9 rendering engine.

FEATURES LIST:
Improved tabbed browsing
- The Tab Overview feature displays a grid of thumbnails of the tabs in the current window.
- Tabs can be rearranged by dragging and dropping.
- Command-click now defaults to opening links in new tabs instead of new windows.

New security features
- Camino now supports the Google Safe Browsing service to provide warnings about many potentially malicious websites.
- Camino now displays error pages for secure web pages using invalid or untrusted certificates.

Full content zoom
- Camino now has support for making the entire contents of a web page bigger or smaller.

Download notifications
- If Growl is installed, Camino will generate notifications when downloads begin and finish.
- On Mac OS X 10.5 and higher, Camino will bounce the downloads folder in the Dock when a download finishes.

Recently closed pages
- The History menu now contains a sub-menu listing the last 20 closed web pages.

Improved support for Full Keyboard Access
- When Full Keyboard Access is enabled, tabbing now moves correctly through the entire browser window.

Enhanced annoyance blocking
- Camino now includes an exceptions list to allow disabling “Block Flash animations” on a per-site basis and an “Allow Flash From This Site” contextual menu item to ease adding sites to the exceptions list.

New AppleScript capabilities
- AppleScripts can now obtain the HTML source or text of an entire web page or of a selection.
- Added AppleScript support for setting the active tab in each browser window.

Web content support
- Camino now uses version 1.9.0 of Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine, which contains thousands of bug fixes, better web plug-in compatibility and performance, enhanced support for web standards, and new technologies like JavaScript 1.8.

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