the mini Blog

I’ll be sort of live blogging the event, ready to upload as soon as I can get back to civilization across the street. There’s a display up on stage of the history of Sony consoles: the PlayStation, PSone, PlayStation 2, PS2 slim, PSP, and–of course–the PlayStation 3.
[10:36] GDC director Jamil Moledina takes the stage. Says [...]

Ever wonder what 3000 iBooks looks like? Or how you might go about configuring them? What if you only had three days to do it? Apple consultant Jaron Brass has an amazing gallery of photos. [TUAW]
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Millions of New Yorkers who bought personal computers could score $12 coupons or more, no questions asked, as part of a massive antitrust settlement from Microsoft, headed by Bill Gates. “Almost all of your readers could be eligible,” said David Stellings, a lawyer who helped negotiate the $350 million deal. “They are throwing away cash [...]

To clear any confusion, a Sony representative, speaking with Yahoo! Games, has confirmed that the PS3 will ship with a 60 GB HDD, with an option to upgrade. No PS3 bundles will be sold without a hard drive. However, it’s unclear if by upgrading, purchasers will have the option to buy the console with a [...]

So, not only did we get all those PSP goodies this morn from Sony’s Ken Kutaragi at a hastily called press conference, but we also received official confirmation that indeed, the PS3 will ship worldwide in November, delaying the Spring launch that we all expected. As recently as just a few weeks ago Sony had [...]

The new Windows LiveTM Messenger Beta is the next-generation MSN Messenger and, as always, it is free to download.
It has everything you already love about Messenger – your contact list, emoticons, and plenty of ways to access to your friends via text, voice and video – plus new ways to connect and share documents with [...]

If you are into tech, like me, you are cursed [or blessed, depending on how you look at it] with wondering how everything works, sometimes you aren’t even able to enjoy things because you’re pondering what is going on behind the scenes. Well today I plan on answering one of your questions [if you didn’t [...]

This morning at the CeBIT conference in Germany, we revealed the new visuals for the Office 2007 user interface.
You can see a few screenshots of the new look on the Office 2007 UI Preview Site. If you’ve got a craving to see even more, I’ve created a mini-gallery of full-size screenshots from a recent [...]

Today was the day that just about everyone that ordered a mini on the 28th received it via FedEx. Tons of pictures of the Intel Mac Mini’s internals flooded the internet this morning. Shots of the double-layered DDR2 200pin SO-DIMMs slots, the IR port next to the optical drive responsible for the Front Row [...]

Here’s a tip for all you folks out there that have a Front Row enabled Mac (and I mean one that Apple recognizes as having Front Row on it, sorry hackers).
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Wrong. You can put your Mac to sleep using the included Apple Remote Control. Simply hold down the Play button for a few seconds [...]