People love easter eggs. There are a number of humorous yet undocumented features hiding beneath the surface of some of the most popular open source software applications. We ran down five of our favorites .
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Week in tech: easter eggs, pirates aren’t cool, and thinking robots
Rose Martin has been questioned by police some 50 times in eight years, stemming from her involvement in crimes ranging from robbery to murder. Of course, she’s not actually involved, but the NYPD’s computers continue to think otherwise. More
If you’ve been sitting around all week wondering how you could combine smoke, speakers, and a love of novel physics experiments into an excuse to tinker in your workshop this weekend, building a smoke-shooting vortex cannon should cover everything nicely. More
Imagine a format that lies somewhere between photos and video, and a device that takes that format automatically, without you having to click a button. Microsoft’s SenseCam is a prototype that hangs around your neck, lifecasting everything you see. More
There’s nothing like a clear blue sky in real life, but it doesn’t create for the most interesting photos—Weblog MakeUseOf has a nice tutorial for easily creating clouds to spice up the skies. More
If you recall, about a month ago Sprint tweeted that it was working on delivering Android 2.1 upgrade for its HTC Hero and Samsung Moment in early Q2 this year. An optimistic guess would be April, right? Funnily enough, Techie Buzz has heard that two eager customers managed to squeeze a more precise date out of Sprint over a phone call — end of March or even March 26th. Don’t go reaching for that champagne just yet, though — a self-proclaimed Sprint employee shared a recent internal memo on XDA-Developers forum, revealing that it’s “actively working on having the Android 2.1 platform available to our Hero and Moment customers over the coming weeks,” and that “more information coming in April.” Oh Sprint, you do love playing with our little minds, don’t you? Sprint to release Android 2.1 update for Hero and Moment ‘over the coming weeks’ originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:27:00 EST
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Sprint to release Android 2.1 update for Hero and Moment ‘over the coming weeks’
In the wee hours of the morning on March 28, RIM will roll out Blackberry Internet Service 3.0 . During the four hour upgrade, Blackberry users can expect their email service to be a bit wonky, but it’ll be worth it: BIS 3.0 brings with it support for WMA and OpenOffice files, and, more importantly, two-way syncing with Gmail. [ Crackberry via Boy Genius Report ] More
There are plenty of good reasons you might want to prop up your iPhone. Say you’re using it as an alarm clock. Or ( sorry David Lynch ) watching a video. MoviePeg, without being cutesy or funny or DIY-y, just does it. More
The official Bing app only dropped in December , but the Bing blog reports that a new and improved app is now available for free from the App Store . Some new features include the incorporation of bookmarks, copy and pasting URLs, and direct sharing via e-mail, along with a host of other new features and tweaks. More
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MSI Wind12 U230 unboxed and benchmarked, trounces netbooks of yesteryear
It’s no Pine Trail when it comes to power consumption, but AMD’s Congo platform is no slouch, either. TestFreaks recently received the Congo-powered MSI Wind12-U230 for review, and discovered that its dual-core Athlon X2 L335 CPU and speedy Seagate drive made neat work of last year’s Atom netbooks, including the formerly formidable HP Mini 311. After shooting the requisite unboxing video and posing the slender machine for a few close-ups, TestFreak s praised the large, comfortable keyboard and touchpad, while scoffing at only four hours of net browsing as the entirety of its battery life. You’ll find pics, a host of benchmarks and even CPU-Z screens at the source link; now, we just want to see how the netbook handles a contemporary competitor.
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MSI Wind12 U230 unboxed and benchmarked, trounces netbooks of yesteryear