Tag Archives: wired

Breaking: Apple C&D’s Wired Gadget Lab over OS X-on-netbook tutorial

Posted on January 14, 2009 by John Brownlee

Wired’s Gadget Lab blog is being sued by Apple for posting a tutorial on how to hack OS X Leopard to allow it to be installed on a MSI Wind netbook. According to the author of that guide, Brian X. … Continue reading →

Play basketball with EA’s severed virtual head

Posted on October 1, 2008 by John Brownlee

My definition of photorealism is different than EA-Sports, but whether or not each rivulet of oily sweat or pucker of a sucking pore can be clearly descried on Dwayne Wade’s virtual head, the ability to make a basket dunk in … Continue reading →

Wired reviews Palm Treo Pro. Verdict: stylish, not very good

Posted on August 27, 2008 by Rob Beschizza

Steven Leckart plays with Palm’s new flagship handset for a while, and finds it a middling and compromised device: “this re-worked, dolled-up device is as good as it gets for the once-mighty smartphone company.” Good is its slim form, decent … Continue reading →

Wired’s Found gone without a sound?

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Rob Beschizza

Wired magazine’s Found is no more. A weird extrapolated gadget, photoshopped receipt or fake mag cover ostensibly stolen from the future, it always added a bite-size note of happy futurism to an issue. Metafilter has a compendium of the last … Continue reading →

HTC Shift UMPC Reviewed (Verdict: Avoid Unless You Enjoy the Plague)

Posted on April 7, 2008 by Joel Johnson

Gadget Lab‘s Danny Dumas trounces the HTC Shift, which is a bit of a disappointment to me; I’d thought its form factor obviously ludicrous, but still intriguing. WIRED Built-in CDMA WWAN radio, which lets you access Sprint’s data network when … Continue reading →

Wired Issue 1 Admired

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Joel Johnson

Rex Sorgatz cracks the spine of Wired issue 1.1, the very first. I don’t think I ended up getting Wired until a couple of issues in, shoplifted from my local Quiktrip, so it’s especially interesting to see what all the … Continue reading →

Twelve Open Phones for Hackers

Posted on October 12, 2007 by Joel Johnson

Wired‘s Rob Beschizza has collected twelve unlocked, open phones which can be purchased and tweaked to your heart’s desire. Speaking Freely: Unlocked, Open Source Phones for Weary iPhone Hackers [Wired.com]

Gadget Glyphs Guide

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Joel Johnson

Wired has a short piece up explaining what some of the symbols that appear on your electronics mean. I’ve reproduced all eight from the article here sans description. If you can tell what all of them are, then you have … Continue reading →