Archive for February, 2008

Pakistan: Scores dead in funeral explosion

An explosion at the funeral Friday of a district police officer killed earlier in the day in northwest Pakistan has killed 30 people and injured between 50 and 55, province police said.

A little kinetic scrolling with Smart Scroll X

Filed under: Hardware, Software, Video, Odds and endsApple has already stolen the multitouch interface from the iPhone for the MacBook Air and the new MacBooks, but they haven’t yet borrowed that other scrolling “feature,” known here as “kinetic scrolling.” If you’d like to steal it for your own Mac, however, jkOnTheRun has just the thing: […]

Mission hits press, prince pulled from duty

Prince Harry is being withdrawn from Afghanistan immediately because of fear for his safety after news of his deployment was made public, the British defense ministry said today. The prince, third in line to the British throne, has been deployed to Afghanistan since December.

Slain girl cried ‘I’m sorry’ in final moments

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Rape allegation against Marine dropped

Japanese authorities on Friday released an American Marine accused of raping a teenager in Okinawa after the girl dropped the allegations, the U.S. military said.

Boy charged with killing deputy mom, sisters

A 17-year-old boy was arrested Friday and charged with killing his mother, who was a sheriff’s deputy, and his two small sisters, authorities said.

Killer poison, low-budget hotel mystify cops

Police in Las Vegas are investigating the discovery of what they said is the deadly poison ricin in a hotel room. Preliminary tests show the substance is ricin, authorities said, but other tests to confirm it are under way.

iPod nano + slide viewer = bigger screen

Filed under: Audio, Hardware, iPod Family, Cool tools, Hacks
Retro Thing, one of my favorite blogs, points out this clever hack. The iPod nano is great, but that screen is a little small for watching movies. How do you solve that problem? Well, if you have some time, a 35mm slider viewer, and some small speakers […]

Michael Jackson late on house payments

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Engadget unboxes a Time Capsule

Filed under: Accessories, Hardware, AppleMy Time Capsule is sitting somewhere in China at the moment, but our friends over at Engadget managed to get their hands on one, and they have even posted some unboxing pictures. They note that the device itself is a little larger than you might think it is based on looking […]

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