Netbook Posture, it Could Save Your Life... well, not really

Ricardo Trejo Dec 18, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Gadgets

While drawing up concepts and designs for an interactive device that could be handled in our "the tinier, the better" world, students at found the Savannah College of Art & Design the most comfortable posture to be in while operating a netbook.  The most ideal being the one where you lay down and have your knees up, supporting the netbook with your thighs and palms - which I find a bit annoying since my hands tend to feel uncomfortable as I continue use for long periods of time. 

And I don't know if I'm the only one but recently I've been very mindful of my lower back, and any position I'm in needs to have good support for my back, otherwise it's impossible for me to focus on anything for long periods of time. By doing the laying down I've been able to accomplish this, but like I said earlier, the whole hand thing gets annoying, but what are you going to do?

[Core77 via Gizmodo]

Twitter Hacked by the "Iranian Cyber Army" - working again

Brandon Davenport Dec 18, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Hacks, Internet, News, Twitter, Websites, breaking

Today, one of the biggest take-downs in social media history, took place. The target? None other than little Twitter, completely innocent and un-prepared. A group called the "Iranian Cyber Army" successfully hacked twitter down to nothing but an ugly homepage and evil message:

Iranian Cyber Army

THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY

iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM

U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don't, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….

NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?

WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST ;)

Take Care.

Not only was the Twitter homepage down, but status.twitter.com, and other parts of the service remained down as well. We reccomend that you change your passwords just to be safe. -- if this is the new trend in terrorism, where no-one gets hurt, nobody dies, and it can be fixed, I would rather this than anything else.

[via TechCrunch]

Magazines of the Future are Smart and Stylish

We're in a unique position in time right now - a period where the wheel is being redesigned. Print, audio, and video mediums are finding new places to call home as we enter the truest digital age to ever come our way. It's a privilege to be in such a place where innovation is visible at every turn, with everyone having their own vision or interpretation of what the future will look like.

AT&T offering 'incentives' to people willing to limit their data usage

Brandon Davenport Dec 18, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Mobile, News, World, breaking

AT&T is going to ruin their customer loyalty. They want us to limit our data usage and maybe make us pay more, even though nobody can ever get the 3G working in the first place.

They are going to offer "incentives" so we won't storm their offices with pitchforks, but what incentives will apply? We have no clue.

"A senior AT&T Inc. executive dismissed speculation that the telecommunications carrier is planning to change the way it prices data plans for its wireless customers, but said it will give customers incentives to limit their use of its wireless network for surfing the Internet or downloading mobile applications."

WSJ - NIRAJ SHETH

Maybe WiFi hotspots, maybe perks like more calling time (when it works) or more device upgrades. What would you like to se as an "incentive".

[via WSJ]

The Nexus One a.k.a. Google Phone detailed

Ricardo Trejo Dec 18, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Google, Mobile

Right off the bat the latest known details are: 

• It looks much nicer in person compared to images posted online
• Contains a 4GB mini-SD card 
• Screen is OLED with 480 x 854 resolution
• Unlocked right out of the box
• T-Mobile 3G yes, At&t 3G no, Edge yes
• Calls are not connected via VoIP
• No Multi-touch support inside of Browser or Google Maps
• Super fast and snappy
• Uses Micro-USB port

 The Nexus One is taking over Droid's spotlight, and Google wouldn't have it any other way.  Thanks to TnkGrl for shelling out all the details. Can't wait to get my hands on one of these guys to play with.

[TnkGrl via Engadget]

Final Fantasy XIII Dumbed Down for Casuals (Image)

Not so sure if it was meant for casuals or not, but what other reason could there be for turning the game into a race to the finished line? I've played a ton of Final Fantasy's in my day, taking down FF3 and FF4 recently, but this is stretch after the sort of areas and dungeons you had to traverse through in FF12. The underground Japanese are already baggin' on the game before it was released, seeing it as a the equivalent of what Halo and Madden are for gamers in the US, and this just adds more fuel to their firey rage. If there's anything that makes the fans go wild is less hand holding and more innovation, but then again we're talking about an RPG here - the genre in which change can be met with certain death.

But THIS (below) is ridiculous.

Twitter App now Available on Zune HD

The Zune HD is a super sexy little music player. And now that sleek shiny (that's a lot of adjectives that start with S) has got itself a native Twitter app for all your tweeting needs.... or does it? Before you go off and run to get the latest addition to Microsoft's love child though, you may want to a couple of crucial details on how it runs and what it does, or doesn't do.