Astro Gaming intros A30 gaming headset

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Astro Gaming on Tuesday introduced the A30 headset, which can be used as headphones for digital audi...

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Monkeybread adds quartz filters to Combine PDFs
5.0

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Monkeybread has announced Combine PDFs 5.0, updating its PDF merge/split software for the Mac. Combi...

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Briefly: Strainer file renaming utility, Free
iWeb themes

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BKTools recently announced the launch of its first Macintosh software product, Strainer. The new app...

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Android Market apps double to 30,000 in three
months

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The number of apps in the Android Market has almost doubled in just three months, Google confirmed t...

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Apple files for patent covering projector systems

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Apple has filed for a patent covering a variety of technology relating to projector systems. The fil...

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Wall Street Journal, NPR to Open iPad-Only
Websites

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At least two major news media outlets aren’t going to let the iPad’s lack of Flash support keep owners of Apple’s latest creation away from their content. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and National Public Radio (NPR) are working on iPad-specific versions of their websites, set to launch next month alongside the official ship date of the iPad.

The websites will launch automatically whenever someone navigates to either NPR.org or WSJ.com, and will replace the standard sites, both of which feature pretty significant quantities of Flash content. Peter Kafka at MediaMemo also notes that this workaround ensures that iPad owners will be able to access content from the two news sources without the organizations having to rush out a dedicated iPad application.

According to Kafka, NPR is in the process of developing such an application, but it won’t necessarily be ready in time for the iPad’s launch. Also, having two options available for iPad owners means that no matter what a customer’s preference, they should be able to access all of NPR’s content. Just after the device hits the streets, consumer frenzy will probably be at its most heady, so anyone ready to go on day one stands to benefit the most by way of picking up new readers and/or customers.

The Wall Street Journal, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is doing something along the same lines, although it will be more sound and fury than substance. While NPR’s site is getting a complete overhaul, the WSJ will have a Flash-free front page, but if you start delving deeper into content, you’ll run into those annoying little mystery Lego icons. The WSJ and other sites using this tactic will likely wait and see how popular the iPad actually becomes before devoting many resources to a full-scale conversion.

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The Truth About Karl Roves Courage and
Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight

post from Daring Fireball on 16 March 2010 04:59:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Pitch-perfect parody of the political attack ad, from 37signals and Steve Delahoyde at Coudal Partners.

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AT&Ts Success at SXSW This Year

I said I’d believe when I saw it, and I’m delighted to report that AT&T’s 3G network was simply stellar at SXSW all weekend long — this, in contrast to last year, when it was pretty much worthless all weekend long. It’s worth noting, too, that SXSW Interactive attendance was way up once again this year, and, as far as I could tell, just about every single attendee was using an iPhone 3G or 3GS. Kudos to AT&T.

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NPR, WSJ building iPad-native sites without Flash

At least two major websites have said they will make iPad-specific versions of their pages instead o...

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Apple Delays Ship Dates for Some iPad Accessories

The keyboard dock is now slated to ship in May, and the case is shipping in “mid-April”. I think this is for new orders, though — when I checked my account just now at Apple’s web site, the case I ordered on Friday is still slated to be delivered on April 3.

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