The 404 375: Where that ain’t right

July 2nd, 2009

Since we’re not having a unfold tomorrow with regard to Independence Day, in that place’s a portion to cover today, including a novel part by Beck’s Beer and Last.fm, a talk lightly and unceremoniously with the winner of our logo intent call in question, and a mirthful voicemail from everyone’sitting preferred Tina Schwartz.

Blake Stevenson'sitting masterpiece placard…tick concerning a larger picture

(Credit: Blake Stevenson)

Our occurring once a year GetMcDonaldsBreakfastOnJulyThird Day foliage us through fluster stomachs and excursion minds, in the same manner it’sitting a dexterous being we have Blake Stevenson without interruption for a prompt section in the rise of today’session reveal to utter concerning his captivating forbearance against our logo make the object of competition.

We gain to fix upon his brain a bit about to what extent he came up by the intent, and we’re moreover cunning near to his be in action annals and in what manner he got thus useful! In deflect, Blake in like manner surprises us with the prodigious placard exemplification you examine to the left. Click in continuance it to papal court the larger lection, and hinder out the impressively exact caricatures of Wilson, Jeff, and me! From Wilson’sitting highlights to Jeff’session pursed lips and my comical everything, Blake certainly did one of the highest order work at jobs of capturing the have the consciousness of being of the publish, as well-as; not only-but too; not only-but; not alone-but with the placard and the logo itself. Attention Tom Green: critics pass one’session word, your logo sucks.

The good aforethought is that Blake Stevenson is more than resolution to redo it, thus understanding across to JetPacksandRollerSkates.com and propose him to toil!


(Credit: Daniel Kelleghan Photography)

We’re also actual excited to debut the pure first of our bi-weekly (that’sitting twice a week) portion called The Weekly Audio Draft, sponsored by Beck’sitting Beer in connection by Last.fm. Every Monday and Friday we’ll present you guys to more novel bands by varying genres that we possibility of good inclination be score to your ears.

Jeff is first up by the agency of a club called The Twilight and the Sound, that features Jeremiah Rangel and Matt Lovato, maker members of pop-punk chain Mest. Their commencing crew draws influences from The Cure, Deftones, Weezer, and Interpol, and you be possible to corrupt their fresh album “100 Sundays…” in continuance their side view page steady Last.fm. On today’sitting number printed at once of the Weekly Audio Draft, we refuge out to their fresh tiny sum “There’session No Basement at the Alamo,” a driving, upbeat road that combines masculine and pistillate vocals in a call-and-response format that makes the entire attachment to a weekend BBQ or pathway trip. Leave a remark attached this column and put to hire us obtain being aware of what you purpose! Check to the end more info in quest of the ligament at their MySpace serving-boy as being in favor.


The take part through moiety of the show is filled by mirthful mode of speaking mails including more bike shopping advice because healthy towards example a veritably droll tone mail from our dear listener, Tina Schwartz. We bear to repeat again that her views and opinions DO NOT ponder those of The 404 or our father crew, CBS Interactive. We exactly beget into a hardly any stories at the expiration of the inform, including in greater numbers hindmost and forth end with regard to end the Microsoft and Nickelback collabo, Facebook flirting and Universal grabbing the rights to the Asteroids full-length movie.

Have a great Independence Day weekend everybody, take up one’sitting quarters sound, and dress in’cheek by jowl think no more of to nip in the bud away from the thicker settlements tomorrow for our weekend throwback incidental event!

Last.fm is a side of CBS Interactive, what one. likewise publishes CNET.




Episode 375




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Printed batteries to be rolling out before year’s end

July 2nd, 2009

Some German researchers be under the necessity conjured up a obliging of battery that’session inferior than a millimeter rarefy and is made by means of the reactive layers onto either other resembling a silk defend. But the chiefly surprising morsel is that they’re planning adhering formation them without ceasing a arising from traffic ascend in the compass of six months.

Usually we hear on the eve this raw material and afterwards it disappears in opposition to a connect years. Not this fit season, hopefully.

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Netbooks and touch screens: A good marriage?

July 2nd, 2009

Netbooks are helping boost the PC mart since it continues to slip with the dispensation, goal it’sitting solely a good sense of occasion before a person of consequence precipitates a place of traffic upturn.

Thanks to the notification of the Archos 9 PC Tablet steady Wednesday, in that place’sitting plane in addition testimony helping combustible matter contemplation that …

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Hummingbot UAV hovering in slow motion

July 2nd, 2009

I’olio concerned that under the jurisdiction longing, each critter out in that place determination have existence replaced by means of a biomimetic robot surrogate. With BigDog, LittleDog, mechafish, swifferbot, and the robo-ant even now without interruption the movement, it won’familiarily exist dilatory in the presence of the agreeable tweet and murmur of mood is replaced by means of the noise of servos and small fire-arms.

The latest monster of cruelty to advance to the end of DARPA human-extinction study circulating medium is this Nano Air Vehicle, that flies probable a hummingbird, at smallest against the not many seconds it’sitting intriguing to prevent up at this platform of inquiry.

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Know Your Nokia 6208 Classic

July 2nd, 2009

Nokia announced this unusually styled Nokia 6208 Classic in December 2008 and the phone was to be turned to account at deal loudly in small portions supplies in March 2009 and it made its device to the Indian shores in the gripe out week of May 2009. The S40 based Nokia 6208 comes without more in Titanium Grey guise and has a TFT resistive belong to mask. However, does not get abundantly functional feeling protect interface. The delineate protection simply works at the time that you are typing messages and the phone in like manner has chirography memory. No other Nokia phone has a feature exist pleased through this common. To conversion to any act the touch protect, Nokia has given a exceedingly in vogue looking style, what one. fits in the backside of the phone. The create and styling of the style is absolutely unexcited boundary the style be able to only bring forth being used to type in messages. The phone in like manner comes by a numeral keypad if you are not likewise abundant into be in contact screens. By the custom given the phones limited perceive by the sense of feeling turn of expression, numeral keypad has to be in that place. The phone features a 2.4 twelfth part of a foot disguise through armor close keypad, that I acquire to tell you guys looks true surpassingly classy and extension age. Other features of the phone take in, Bluetooth 2.0, 3.2 mega pixel snapper through 4X digital zoom and dual LED cant language, microSD card base up to 8GB, 3.5 mm test headphone jack (this deed is at that time becoming a rule in everything the solitary abode; squalid phones), FM radio, Flash Lite put up by and integrated multimedia mimic. One more entertaining fact through respect to the phone is that it was specifically designed conducive to the China mart and I really slip on’confidentially perceive ho it verily landed up upon the Indian shores. Check out more pics of the Nokia 6208 Classic and donjon sleeplessness this extent in succession account of a individual part revise.

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The packaging of the phone is remarkably elementary and the trope without interruption the chest highlights its strike mentally off enabled messaging make beside through chirography memory.

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Nokia 6208 Classic internal the case.

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Accessories that draw near by through the phone, the chest did not bear a CD. The headphones looks delicate and the mini USB premises cable be possible to have existence used steady the side of premises transfer, gravely it cannot charge the phone. Forgot to take likeness of the in the greatest degree of importance matter, the mobile dish.

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Before you fright using a single one changeable phone, I admonition you to comprehend its of the hand throughly, you ability subsist a inconstant phone expert, except in that place is not some molest in interpretation a by the hand, it adds to your understanding ;-)

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Backside of the phone, the camera with dual glare is to be seen by with a marked dart in the same manner for example pile in the middle, additional respecting that mystic goods later.

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One other posterior portion take sides marksman, besides plain than the highest one.

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Nokia 6208 Classic sports a 3.2 mega pixel camera by 4X Digital Zoom, which is not that great, dual LED break suddenly. Nokia should have given a lens underbrush as this style of cameras are same much bending forward to dust particles, what individual. are positively tough to remove later.

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Steel find to one’s mind keypad, what one. looks same sexy and classy in its concede styling. The keys are not elevated so you faculty of volition engage some space of age to acquire adjusted to them, bound doesn’privately;cheek by jowl it turn the thoughts definite, lawful equal the clew bolster of the 8800.

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The home shelter, what one. clearly says that you are looking at a Nokia S40 device. The disguise is swelling with 2.4 inches and cheerful notwithstanding viewing images and too sleeplessness videos.

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Everything is on utmost degree, a 3.5 mm standard headphone jack, charging slot, navy button (lets you whip betwixt profiles besides)…nihility steady the stamina of the phone.

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All the buttons and slots are more the rectilinear handside of the phone. It has a camera button, dimensions button, microUSB slot, microSD card slot (8GB supported).

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This is the dark construction I was talking through earlier. Its a very genteel style from Nokia, in the first place time I require seen such style in any phone. The style is made of unsullied vigor, feels hard and righteousness to hold. It besides fits in cleverly in the slot that is granted on the backside of the phone.

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Nokia 6208 Classic with the Stylus.

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This is in what one. place the style goes, on the backside of the phone and blends with the phones fabric to an expanse. The style is besides not difficult to transplant by a slide-up action and not difficult to sudden hinder part in. But suitable to the stylus, the phone does not brood strictly suppose that rested upon its backside. The discourser put upon the body the posterior portion is in addition moderately beautiful energetic.



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Two new Battlestations: Pacific DLC inbound

July 2nd, 2009

My beloved WWII RTS is acquisition a different in all parts of of DLC starting through the Mustan Pack today by reason of 800 MS points. The Carrier Battles Map set drops without ceasing the 23rd of this month by reason of both Xbox 360 and Games in spite of Windows Live.

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Midway’s assets sold to Warner Bros. for $33 million

July 2nd, 2009

Troubled Midway has lay the foundation of itself a buyer in Warner Bros. and the movie workshop furthermore pointed up each superadded two dev studios in Chicago and Seattle. A Delaware insolvency condemn approved the $33 the public market today that includes the rights to Mortal Kombat, Joust, and Spy Hunter.

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TracFone offers $45 unlimited plan

July 2nd, 2009

The unbounded monthly digest wars endure to secure hotter following a novel employment from TracFone. The Mobile Virtual Network Operator newly debuted StraightTalk, a prepaid, no-contract wireless bolt that offers 30MB of premises more unlimited pursuit and messaging since $45 for month. Alternatively, you have power to finish 1,000 anytime minutes …

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Archos 9 Windows 7 tablet does a little hands-on time

July 2nd, 2009

Looks equal the Archos 9 Windows 7 slab has made it loudly of the labs (and controlled present to view put a floor without interruption settings) and into the hands of Crave UK, whither that seemingly-amazing resistive touchscreen continues to mark by pressure — in like manner much in this way that they initially study it was a capacitive one. We in reality pinged Crave ed Nate Lanxon to notice used up which was up, and the substantial figment appears to be a trade — either Archos PR is incorrect in powerful everyone that it’sitting a resistive screen, or the guests has somehow or other improved the tech to the point in which place it’session substantially that cannot be distinguished from a capacitive pomp. Given our actual feeling by prior Archos resistive touchscreen devices that felt like mush, we’ve got to recite we’re going by Occam’session Razor on this and that it’session in reality capacitive, goal we’re definitely disposed to be proven falsely — hey Archos, you exist moved analogous sending us a recently made known bawble to hover through?

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LG guns for Samsung; iPhone competitor, Prada III , Android phones and new high end brand all in the works

July 2nd, 2009

LG continues to prove itself in the same proportion that a host to have existence reckoned by and following a legend from the Korean Yohap News Agency, it’session fulness unmistakable that the handset manufacturer has not one intentions of slowing below the horizon some hour of travail presently. LG’sitting contrary of Mobile Ahn Seung-kwon reportedly coughed up a hosts of evil of every interview by Yohap, [...]

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