Tag: ENGADGET

Just like iTunes did for file sharing music, Warner Bros. is going to start selling movies and TV online. While this is clearly an effort to legitimize the whole download yer entertainment thing, what's interesting is the use of BitTorrent as the tech behind the downloads. I don't think it's unusual though, as BitTorrent's technological solution to moving packets around is quite clever. It's a ...

Your MacBook Pro has a built-in tilt sensor and camera. Since using Apple products for their intended purpose (like, say, running Mac OS X), here's a cool way to repurpose those features: iAlertU is theft alarm software that monitors your MacBook's camera and tilt sensor and, if it thinks your laptop is being manhandled while you've stepped away to grab another latte, sounds a loud alarm. ...

Over at Engadget, Ross Rubin's "Switched On" article has an interesting analysis: Adobe has a unique opportunity to stomp Microsoft in the e-book sector. Ask anyone who's tried using ebooks of all flavors, be it a PDF crammed onto a Palm device, or a dedicated piece of hardware using an even more proprietary format (Sony I'm looking in your direction), and they'll likely tell you that ...

I am both delighted and alarmed by the winners of Engadget's birthday cake contest. In case you hadn't heard, Engadget has been celebrating its 2nd birthday and ran a contest for the prize was a really sweet Alienware PC. The challenge was to bake the coolest gadget-themed birthday cake. I knew they'd get a lot of entries, but I had no idea the lengths Engadget's crazy readers would go to. I don't ...

When they said "shortly" I didn't realize just how shortly. narf2006's $13,000 solution for booting Windows XP on your Intel Mac is available right now, in the form of a 777kb zip file. In order to accomplish the feat you'll need a PC on which you'll create a custom slipstreamed XP install disc. In case it's not obvious, this is not for the faint of heart, but the distribution contains ...

Hardware isn't really among our core competencies here at Download Squad, but since we keep getting comments on our previous posts about Origami, Microsoft's vastly successful viral marketing campaign slash upcoming "ultramobile lifestyle PC," I figure I ought to keep you up to speed. The other day Microsoft updated the Origami Project web site for "Week 2," which isn't much ...

Does it really have to be so difficult? I seem to remember the CEO of Motorola waxing poetic early in 2004 about "liquid media," that elusive, end-to-end solution where you buy some content, and you almost effortlessly push said content to any device you own. And then we get the gotchas: as long as it's from Motorola, or as long as it's from iTunes, or as long as it Plays for Sure... Who ...

Our pal Eliot Phillips over at Engadget has written an awesome how-to on building a practical Home Theater PC for about $1,000. The end result is a beautiful black Pentium 4 machine with a gig of DDR2 RAM, 250GB of SATA storage rounded out by and a nice Hauppauge dual-tuner card with on-chip MPEG2 encoding and a MythTV install. If you want a solid HTPC without spending a fortune, listen to Eliot, ...

On Friday Engadget asked readers what features they'd like to see added to Gmail, and the response was phenomenal. They got hundreds of suggestions ranging from exporting contacts to hierarchical folders/labels and, of course, "How about a delete button??" Some of them are really out there, and others are fairly common sense, and I'm sure some of them will wind up in Gmail sooner rather ...