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- Griffin Technology Unveils Woogie 2 for iPhone
- Corsair Outs 32GB DDR3 Quad Channel RAM Kit
- AT&T iPhone 4S Shipping Change To 3-4 Weeks
- Lego Volkswagen T1 Camper Van Timelapse Construction Movie (video)
- Rockstar Launching GTA III On iOS And Android Devices
- Google Wallet Updated With New Transaction Screens And More
- Apple’s Siri Has A Sense Of Humor
- Apple Custom Ringtones Now Available Direct From Your iOS 5 iPhone
- RIM’s CEO Issues Video Apology For BlackBerry Outage
- The Large Hadron Collider Now Has Its Own Android App (video)
- Apple Orders More iPhone 4S Handsets From Suppliers Due To Demand
- Sigma SD1 Special Wooden Edition Announced
- Mass Effect M-29 Incisor Sniper Rifle Replica
- iPhoto 9.2 Update Enables iOS 5 iCloud And Photostream Support
- iOS 5 Tethered Jailbreak Relased By iPhone Dev Team
- Samsung Galaxy W Coming To T-Mobile As Exhibit II 4G
- Calibur11 Battlefield 3 Vault For PS3 And Xbox 360
- Google+ Adds Real-time Search & Improved Hashtag Support (video)
- RIM Responds To BlackBerry Service Outage
- Facebook And eBay Team Up To Create New Social Shopping Experience
- Nokia 603 Symbian Belle Smartphone Announced
- Starr Labs iTar Transforms Your iPad Into A Guitar (video)
- Apple Releases iOS 5 Cards App
- Forza 4 vs GT 5–Video Comparison Side-by-side (video)
- iOS 5 Benchmarks Show Speed Improvements
- Apple iPhone Configuration Utility 3.4 for Mac OS X Launched
- Microsoft Is Looking For 360 Dashboard Beta Testers
- CyanogenMod 7 For TouchPad Becomes More Functional (video)
- Apple’s iCloud To Get Movies?
- iOS 5 Demand Causes Update Problems For Many
- Apple TV 4.4 Software Update Released
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Banned In Australia
- New Wii Coming To Europe November 4th
| Griffin Technology Unveils Woogie 2 for iPhone Posted: 13 Oct 2011 10:41 AM PDT About a year ago now I mentioned the original Woogie for the iPhone that Griffin made. This was a little stuffed star plush toy that had a pouch on the front you could place your iPhone into. The idea was that the padded Woogie device would allow your kids to play with your iPhone without you worrying they would drop it. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| Corsair Outs 32GB DDR3 Quad Channel RAM Kit Posted: 13 Oct 2011 10:33 AM PDT Corsair has added a new product to its line of computer hardware. The company has tons of RAM, SSDs, and power supplies along with lots of other stuff on its website for sale already. The new product is a gigantic RAM kit for the new quad channel mainboards. The RAM will also work on dual-channel boards as well. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| AT&T iPhone 4S Shipping Change To 3-4 Weeks Posted: 13 Oct 2011 07:17 AM PDT It looks like people who are ordering the iPhone 4S through AT&T may have a longer wait to get their hands on Apple’s new handset, as the shipping estimates have now been changed to 21 to 28 days. We just checked Apple’s online store and it is still showing a shipping time of 1 to 2 weeks for new orders, we wonder how long it will take for Apple’s shipping times to change considering the high demand for the iPhone 4S.
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| Lego Volkswagen T1 Camper Van Timelapse Construction Movie (video) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 07:12 AM PDT You might remember the fantastic Lego Volkswagen T1 Camper Van we featured here on Geeky Gadgets back in August. Well a great timelapse video has been created showing the mechanics and build skills required to create the classic Lego construction kit containing 1,322 Lego bricks. The highly detailed Lego kit includes a cooker, sink, lights and dinning area, on the interior together with a split screen highly detailed exterior. Complete with pop-up roof. Watch the time lapsed video after the jump. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| Rockstar Launching GTA III On iOS And Android Devices Posted: 13 Oct 2011 06:48 AM PDT If you are a Grand Theft Auto fan you might be pleased to know that the classic GTA III game by Rockstar will be making its way on to iOS and Android devices in the not to distant future. The launch of GTA III on to the mobile devices is to commemorate the game's 10th anniversary. To also commemorate GTA III 10th anniversary, Rockstar are also launching a a limited-edition action figure of lead character Claude, created by renowned collectible manufacturer Sideshow, will be available for pre-order in limited quantities at the Rockstar Warehouse for around $150. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| Google Wallet Updated With New Transaction Screens And More Posted: 13 Oct 2011 06:19 AM PDT Google has today rolled out a new update for its Google Wallet Android application, which brings with it a number of new features including new user transaction screens and new offers directly in Wallet. Other new features of Google’s Wallet service include, merchant name and amount now available for Google Prepaid Card purchases, improved button to turn your cards on and off, five minute default PIN timeout and for new users an improved tutorial to get you started. Watch the video after the jump to see its creators give you a guided tour. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| Apple’s Siri Has A Sense Of Humor Posted: 13 Oct 2011 06:04 AM PDT One of the main new features on the iPhone 4S is its voice activated virtual assistant, Siri, which you can ask question and it will respond to you, we have already seen a couple of videos of Siri in action. Joshua Topolsky, from This is My Next, has been playing about with Siri, and considering some of the answers he has received it would appear that Siri, or someone at Apple may have a sense of humor.
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| Apple Custom Ringtones Now Available Direct From Your iOS 5 iPhone Posted: 13 Oct 2011 06:00 AM PDT As well as all the other goodies that Apple has launched over the last 24 hours another neat little feature is the ability to now purchase ringtones directly on your iOS 5 equipped iPhone. So if you fancy customising your ringtones and alerts a little more with clips from Star Wars and Jaws, boot up your iOS 5 device now. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| RIM’s CEO Issues Video Apology For BlackBerry Outage Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:43 AM PDT Earlier today we had an official statement from RIM on the status of the BlackBerry services around the world, and now RIM’s CEO, Mike Lazardis, has issued a video apology to RIM’s customers which you can see below.
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| The Large Hadron Collider Now Has Its Own Android App (video) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:38 AM PDT If you ever wondered how the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland was constructed or what it is actually hoping to achieve. A new Android application has been released by the team which hopes to shed a little more light on goings-on at the Large Hadron Collider. Using the Large Hadron Collider scientists are trying to answer fundamental questions about the nature of the universe, the origin of mass, and structure of space and time. With the help of the new Android application you can now dig a little deeper into the Large Hadron Collider project and keep up to date with events as they happen. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| Apple Orders More iPhone 4S Handsets From Suppliers Due To Demand Posted: 13 Oct 2011 05:08 AM PDT Apple’s iPhone 4S hasn’t even gone on sale yet, it will be available from tomorrow the 14th of October, and it is expected to be Apple’s most popular iPhone yet, with Apple announcing the other day that more than 1 million people had pre-ordered the iPhone 4S in the first 24 hours. Now according to a recent report, due to the huge demand fro the new iPhone 4S, Apple has already placed more orders for the iPhone 4S from one of its suppliers, and they have apparently ordered another 5 million iPhone 4S handsets, on top of the 10 million that had already been ordered. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| Sigma SD1 Special Wooden Edition Announced Posted: 13 Oct 2011 04:57 AM PDT If the regular Sigma SD1 wasn’t expensive enough, Sigma re now releasing a special wooden edition SD1, which features a wooden casing made from Amboyna Burl, which is the deformed wood of the Southeast Asian Padauk tree, or something, and according to Sigma each casing takes around 60 hours to make. The Sigma SD1 features a 46 megapixel 24×16mm APS-C X3 direct image sensor, and the lightweight body made which is normally made from magnesium alloy. has been replaced by wood.
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| Mass Effect M-29 Incisor Sniper Rifle Replica Posted: 13 Oct 2011 04:48 AM PDT Prop building master Zander Brandt has put his skills to use and created a replica of the Mass Effect 2 M-29 Incisor Sniper Rifle. The one that within the game fires three shots at once. Zander first got his taste for building props when his was a child used to scratch building Warhammer models which at the time he couldn’t afford to buy. Zander is now working on a TF2 prop, a small anime pistol, another bryar pistol or two, and potentially a sword and gundam helmet. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| iPhoto 9.2 Update Enables iOS 5 iCloud And Photostream Support Posted: 13 Oct 2011 04:37 AM PDT As well as all the other goodies rolled out by Apple over the last 24 hours a new update to its iPhoto application for Mac has now enabled support for Apple’s new iOS 5 iCloud storage and Photostream features. The new update brings compatibility with iCloud and iOS 5 together with a minor stability, performance and compatibility issues. New features within iPhoto 9.2 now include: left and right swipe gestures can now be used to navigate between photos in Magnify (1-up) view, previously imported photos are now displayed in a separate section of the Import window. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| iOS 5 Tethered Jailbreak Relased By iPhone Dev Team Posted: 13 Oct 2011 04:24 AM PDT Apple only released iOS 5 yesterday, and the iPhone Dev Team has already released their first iOS jailbreak, in the form of a tethered jailbreak for the iPod Touch 3G and 4G, the iPad 1, iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| Samsung Galaxy W Coming To T-Mobile As Exhibit II 4G Posted: 13 Oct 2011 04:11 AM PDT Some of our readers will remember the new Samsung Galaxy W that was announced recently, and went up for pre-order here in the UK, it looks like its is headed to T-Mobile in the US and it will be called the Samsung Exhibit II 4G. The Samsung Exhibit II 4G will have similar specifications to the European Samsung Galaxy W, and it will come with a 3.7 inch multi-touch touchscreen Super LCD display, and Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
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| Calibur11 Battlefield 3 Vault For PS3 And Xbox 360 Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:51 AM PDT If you are looking forward to the official launch of Battlefield 3 later this month, but think your console might not look the part. Don’t worry you can now encase your PS3 slim or Xbox 360 in the new Calibur11 Battlefield 3 Vault. The Calibur11 Battlefield 3 Vault has been designed to add a little Battlefield 3 styling to your boring console and adds a Battlefield 3 smoke body, a 3-mode LED light up claymore, DICE logo smoke grenade and enhances the cooling of your console by increasing airflow. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| Google+ Adds Real-time Search & Improved Hashtag Support (video) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:38 AM PDT This week Google has started rolling out some new features to its Google+ social network, which have been designed to provide you with improved real-time searching. Together with the ability to search using Hashtags. Now if you place a hashtag in your Google+ updates, that hashtag it will now automatically link to the search results for the term automatically. Watch a video after the break in which Google+ engineer Vic Gundotra takes you through the new additions.
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| RIM Responds To BlackBerry Service Outage Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:33 AM PDT Over the past few days many BlackBerry users have been unable to access BBM and other BlackBerry services, the problem started in Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa, and users in the US and Canada had similar problems yesterday. RIM has now issued an official statement, and have said that they are seeing significant increases in service levels and are continuing to work to fix the problems.
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| Facebook And eBay Team Up To Create New Social Shopping Experience Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:18 AM PDT Facebook and eBay have announced today at the Innovate, eBay’s developer conference, being held today through Friday in San Francisco. That the companies will be joining forces to create new social shopping experience for consumers and Facebook users, with eBay integrating Facebook’s Open Graph 2.0 into its commerce platforms. The new global commerce systems, will come under the umbrella of a new business unit called X.commerce and include eBay, PayPal, and Magento. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| Nokia 603 Symbian Belle Smartphone Announced Posted: 13 Oct 2011 03:07 AM PDT Nokia has announced its latest smartphone that will come with Nokia’s Symbian Belle, the Nokia 603, and it feature a 3.5 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 640 x 360 pixels. Processing is provided by a single core 1GHz processor, and there is also a rear facing 5 megapixel camera which can record HD video in 720 at 30 frames per second, plus some on board photo editing software.
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| Starr Labs iTar Transforms Your iPad Into A Guitar (video) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 02:57 AM PDT Starr Labs the creators of MIDI Guitars, MIDI controllers, alternate MIDI instruments have unveiled their latest creation over on the Kickstarter website called the iTar. The iTar has been designed to transform your humble iPad into a 21st century guitar. At it’s heart the device is a button-based guitar fretboard (Starr Labs patented fingerboard) integrated with a dock for the iPad. The fingerboard has already been used on instruments built for the likes of Vernon Reid, the Chemical Brothers, Pendulum, Linkin Park and Lou Reed to name just a few. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| Apple Releases iOS 5 Cards App Posted: 13 Oct 2011 02:52 AM PDT When Apple announced the new iPhone 4S, which will go on sale tomorrow, they also announced a new iOS 5 that would be available with iOS 5, called ‘Cards’, which is basically an application that will let you create a personalized card and send it to one of your friends direct from your iOS device. The Cards app will work with your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch as long as your device is running iOS 5, and once you have created an purchased your card it will be sent directly to the person and address you have nominated.
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| Forza 4 vs GT 5–Video Comparison Side-by-side (video) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 02:31 AM PDT With Forza 4 already launched in the US and arriving here tomorrow, if you are still undecided as to whether to make the plunge. A great video has been put together with compares the two great driving games Forza 4 and GT5 side-by-side. The video has been created by GameTrailers and provides a good comparison between the two games sound the differences in graphics, sound and motion. Check it out after the jump and let us know your thoughts on which you think is better in the comments below. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| iOS 5 Benchmarks Show Speed Improvements Posted: 13 Oct 2011 02:16 AM PDT Yesterday Apple released iOS 5, and if you finally managed to get it after some long download times and a few other problems, you may have noticed that iOS 5 is slightly faster than the previous version on certain devices. The guys over at GigaOM ran some benchmark tests on the original iPad, the iPod Touch 4G, the iPhone 4, and the iPad 2, and the results revealed that all the devices were faster in all areas, except the original iPad. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| Apple iPhone Configuration Utility 3.4 for Mac OS X Launched Posted: 13 Oct 2011 02:10 AM PDT As well as rolling out their new iOS 5 software yesterday, Apple has also updated and released a few new set of tools for enterprise in the form of the Apple iPhone Configuration Utility 3.4 for Mac OS X which also rolled out yesterday. The neat little utility enables you to easily create, maintain, encrypt, and install configuration profiles, track and install provisioning profiles and authorise applications. Using small XML files that contain encrypted device settings, and can be used to store Exchange account information and other sensitive network certificates and VPN configurations as required. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| Microsoft Is Looking For 360 Dashboard Beta Testers Posted: 13 Oct 2011 01:54 AM PDT Do you want to be one of the first to get your hands on Microsofts new Xbox 360 Dashboard? Well Microsoft are currently looking for beta testers to put their new 360 Dashboard through its paces and provide them with a little feedback. To whet your appetite there is a demo of the new 360 Dashboard after the break and is expected to be officially launched on November 15th, and has been designed to be controlled using Microsoft's Kinect motion controller device. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| CyanogenMod 7 For TouchPad Becomes More Functional (video) Posted: 13 Oct 2011 01:43 AM PDT If you are patiently waiting to be able to load Android on to your HP Touchpad you will be pleased to know the latest CyanogenMod 7.1.0 is now coming close to a working solution with more functionality being continually added all the time. However even in this for it is still buggy and under development so be prepared this is not a fully working finished CyanogenMod for TouchPad, and their calling this one the “lower your expectations” edition for a reason. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
| Posted: 13 Oct 2011 01:39 AM PDT Yesterday Apple launched iOS 5 and its new cloud service iCloud, which will come with iTunes Match, when it launches later this month that will let you store your music collection in the cloud, iTunes Match will cost $24.99 a year when it launches. We have heard rumors in the past that Apple has been in discussions with the major Hollywood movie studios about bringing movies to iCloud, and according to recent reports, Apple may be close to a deal to bring movies to iCloud.
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| iOS 5 Demand Causes Update Problems For Many Posted: 13 Oct 2011 01:06 AM PDT Yesterday Apple released the latest version of its mobile OS, iOS 5, the update was released at around 6PM BST, and with millions of users trying to update at the same time, Apple’s servers struggled to keep up with the demand. Some downloads of iOS 5 were taking up to 2 hours to go through, and then when users tried to update their iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, many were met with an error message, the main one was Error 3002.
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| Apple TV 4.4 Software Update Released Posted: 13 Oct 2011 12:39 AM PDT As well as releasing iOS 5 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, Apple also released a software update for the Apple TV, the latest version of the software is Apple TV 4.4 and it brings a range of new features to Apple’s set top box. New features in Apple TV 4.4 include PhotoStream, where you recent photos and video taken with your iOS device are pushed to your PhotoStream in iCloud, another new feature is AirPlay Mirroring, where you can now stream anything that is on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch screen to your Apple TV.
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| Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Banned In Australia Posted: 12 Oct 2011 11:31 PM PDT Just over a week ago we heard that Apple had rejected a settlement deal with Samsung relating to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia and now the court in Australia has ruled in the case, and put a temporary ban on sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the country. It isn’t clear as yet how long the ban will last, but it could mean that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 may never go on sale in Australia, and the Federal court in Sydney’s ruling said that Samsung had a case to answer with regards to two of Apple’s patents.
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| New Wii Coming To Europe November 4th Posted: 12 Oct 2011 03:19 PM PDT Sick of being able to play Mario Kart Double Dash or Super Mario Sunshine on your current Wii? Eager to spend yet more money on a console that’s now two generations out of date? Nintendo’s redesigned part time console / full time paper weight is hitting European shores November 4th – and there’s nothing you can do about it. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
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