Time put together this concept video as a concept of what Sports Illustrated could be like on a future tablet computer. This is just a concept, but it’s clearly influenced by the iPhone’s industrial design and user interface design, and offers a vivid picture of why people are excited about the idea of an Apple […]

YouTube has announced that it’s counting down the most memorable videos of the year, advent calendar style: Without giving too much away, you can expect to see some well-known YouTube videographers on the countdown, along with breakout viral videos and a selection of the year’s biggest pop-culture phenoms and memes. During December, we’ll be adding […]

Make Magazine is calling on TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington to open source the failed CrunchPad project. When the CrunchPad concept was announced last year, Arrington made open source design a central feature: “Let’s design it, build a few and then open source the specs so anyone can create them. If everything works well, we’d then open […]

If you’ve been hoping for a touchscreen Internet tablet, it looks like you’re going to have to keep waiting. TechCrunch today announced that they were sending their much-hyped CrunchPad design to the deadpool. According to TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington: The CEO of our partner on the project, Chandra Rathakrishnan, sent me an email with the subject […]

Royal Pingdom has taken a look at social network site use by gender, and found that social network site use is dominated by women: Highlights of their research: 84% (16 out of 19) of the sites have more female than male users. The social news sites Digg, Reddit and Slashdot have significantly more male users […]

There’s been a lot of discussion, growing out of the tremendous popularity of Twitter, that blogging is going to be replaced by microblogging, or some other “next best thing”. Last year, for example, Wired magazine’s Paul Boutin weighed in on the subject, arguing that Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004. WordPress creator Matt […]

HandBrake – a free, multiplatform DVD ripper and video transcoder  – has been updated. HandBrake is a great tool if you want to rip DVDs for backing them up or using them with Apple TV or other multimedia system. The update should provide better quality conversions for all users and should work faster for many.

Apple has opened up iTunes LP and iTunes Extras, publishing Templates, Best Practices and a Development Guide so that anyone has the capability to create interactive content that can be played back in iTunes 9 or on Apple TV. iTunes LP lets you create digital albums that include links to listen to album songs and […]

Leading blogging/podcasting/content management platform WordPress today announced that WordPress.com now supports email subscriptions for blogs: This is a very simple way for your readers to subscribe to your blog and receive updates by email. Anyone can subscribe, whether they have a WordPress.com account or not. All you need to do is add the Blog Subscription […]

If you’ve been waiting for Apple to release a cheap Mac netbook or an inexpensive tablet computer, don’t expect it to happen anytime soon. Or ever. Here’s why. While the Mac is a niche computer, Apple’s targeted the most profitable niche and it’s done it very successfully. According to the latest numbers from NPD, Apple […]