Iron Man’s soundtrack comes out May 6. Though the film is scored by various composers, Iron Man’s sonic branches reach back into heavy metal territory.
Archive for May 3rd, 2008
California teen gives birth in shower, walks to hospital (AP)
Posted in May 3rd, 2008
AP - A 17-year-old girl gave birth secretly at home, then walked four blocks to a hospital with the baby still attached by its umbilical cord.
Screen Grabs: Nokia’s N95 appears to appear on the small screen
Posted in May 3rd, 2008
Filed under: Cellphones
Screen grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dt com.
What say you? Is resident Big Bang Theory brainiac Howard Wolowitz super-stoked that Penny is conked out on his shoulder? Or is he just incredibly jovial to have his hand around what appears to be a Nokia N95? We’re thinking a little bit from column A, a little bit from column B.
[Thanks, Matt]
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Microsoft Walks! Says Yahoo Demands Don’t Make Sense
Posted in May 3rd, 2008
Microsoft walks away from Yahoo after offering $33 a share — $4 less than Yahoo was seeking. The announcement came at the end of a long, tense week of deliberations and three months after Microsoft first submitted an unsolicited offer for the web company.
Microsoft pulls bid for Yahoo!, Microhoo will never be
Posted in May 3rd, 2008
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Well, that’s that! Microsoft has officially pulled its bid for Yahoo! — inflated for good measure this weekend by another $5 billion — after the company did “not move toward accepting [the] offer”, asking again for even more, another $4 bil (totaling $9b more than the original offer). In a letter from Ballmer to Yang, he states that Microsoft also won’t be looking at its option for a hostile takeover, stating that Yahoo! likely “would take steps that would make [it] undesirable as an acquisition”; Ballmer then goes on to make a few backhanded criticisms of Yahoo’s possible new partnerships with Google (which is no surprise). Good night, Microhoo, the monstrous, hamstrung, lumbering mega-merger that might have been.
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This Week’s Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
Posted in May 3rd, 2008
by admin in lifehacker
- TotalTunes Control Swallows the Best iTunes Add-Ons (Mac OS X)
“Freeware application TotalTunes Control is an all-in-one iTunes controller and add-on that rolls track notifications, Last.fm integration, Growl notifications, keyboard shortcuts into one beautiful, fun to use package.” - Search Commands Adds Find-As-You-Type in the Office 2007 Ribbon (Windows)
“If you still have trouble getting to the functions you need in Office 2007’s Ribbon interface, give Microsoft’s new experimental Search Commands add-in a try.” - CCleaner 2.0 Decrapifies Your PC (Windows)
“One of our favorite PC cleansers CCleaner (which stands for “Crap Cleaner”) saw an upgrade this week.” - AutoGK Rips DVDs to DivX and Xvid Formats (Windows)
“Freeware application AutoGK rips DVDs to hard drive-friendly DivX and Xvid formats for quick, easy, and high-quality backups.” - Translate.Net is One Desktop Translator to Rule Them All (Windows)
“The desktop app puts your words or phrases through 17 different language translation engines and dictionaries, letting you scroll through and compare results.” - AppMenuBoy Adds an Applications Menu to Your Dock (Mac OS X)
“With Leopard’s Stacks you can’t easily navigate subfolders from a folder on the Dock, but small utility AppMenuBoy aims to change that—for your Applications folder, that is.” - Z-Cron Automates Tasks (Windows)
“Freeware utility Z-Cron replaces the Windows task scheduler with a more robust, cron-like alternative (but with a graphical interface).”
OLPC reshuffles, gets new president and COO
Posted in May 3rd, 2008
Filed under: Laptops
There’s been a rash of defections at OLPC lately, with NickNeg himself looking to leave soon, so it’s nice to hear that the charitable endeavor is filling in the vacancies. Only it’s not, really. Although Negroponte has said that’s he looking for someone “similar to Kofi Annan” to lead the project, it looks like he’s just shuffling people around, instead promoting part-time CFO Charles Kane to President and COO. Negroponte is going to focus on fund-raising and promotion, while Kane will handle the day-to-day matters of actually manufacturing and distributing the laptops. That’s certainly a good first step — and perhaps Charles Kane is really Kofi Annan’s long-lost twin — but with developers suddenly miffed over Negroponte’s overtures to Microsoft and talent leaving from the top, it seems like OLPC would do well to bring in some fresh vision and leadership, no?
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Microsoft Withdraws Bid for Yahoo!
Posted in May 3rd, 2008
Microsoft withdrew its $42.3 billion bid to buy Yahoo Saturday after last-ditch efforts to come to terms on a price proved unsuccessful. Microsoft was willing to pay $33 a share, but Yahoo wanted $37. “Clearly a deal is not to be,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wrote in a letter to Yahoo.
Tall Tee
Posted in May 3rd, 2008
by admin in urbandictionary
A long T-Shirt that goes down to someone’s knees, and commonly worn by people into HipHop culture.
Im be rockin’ my tall tee at tha club tonight.