WizbangTech: August 2007 Archives

Introducing the zunePhone

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: August 24, 2007

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Minesweeper: the movie

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: August 9, 2007

This video game to movies trend has just got to stop... [Full Story]

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Vimeo is so much better than YouTube

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: August 6, 2007

Reggie Watts: Lost in the Options from Jakob Lodwick and Vimeo. Other than the dumb video on the home page, it's a much nicer experience. Plus, Vimeo is a home for videos made by the users, not just stolen from somebody else. Or videos timeshifted from television. Plus, the... [Full Story]

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Movable Type 4.0 Release Candidate 2

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: August 4, 2007

We've covered this quite a bit, as we're really excited about the impending un-beta-ing of the latest version of Movable Type (the content management system that powers this site). Now those wacky Six Apart folks give us Movable Type 4.0 Release Candidate 2, with the requisite list of fixed stuff,... [Full Story]

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Who says Apple spends too much time on stuff that doesn't really matter?

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: August 3, 2007

Somebody got paid good money to think this up. Read the instruction at Flickr. This is the package for the paperclip to get the SIM card out for your iPhone. This is completely real. UPDATE: Now people are starting to rebel, and the hacker community has started an open source... [Full Story]

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Slashdot launches Firehose

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: August 2, 2007

Slashdot gets into the social news scene with the public launch of Firehose: The Slashdot Firehose is a collaborative system designed to allow users to assist our editors in the story selection process. The hose contains submissions, RSS Feeds, journals and Slashdot stories, each color-coded along the color spectrum to... [Full Story]

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This one's for you, Elton

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: August 1, 2007 · Comments (2)

This is what happens when you get the internet CLOSED DOWN. Sir Elton John, internet idiot.... [Full Story]

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Hard times befall a once great cover band

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: August 1, 2007

Sad to see The Rock-afire Explosion lowering itself to doing Fergie songs. I guess it's 'cause times is tight, and we gots to do for me and mine. (Come to the site to see the video) The explanation video of this video is even better than the London Bridge video.... [Full Story]

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