Archive for April, 2007

Pop-up Moleskine

17th April

2007

Jim Woodring has added an extra dimension to the legendary Moleskine notebook. More pictures here and here.

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Samsung concept PCs

17th April

2007

Samsung have released 3 concept PCs, including the following “witches hat” model. No, I don’t understand either, but hey, credit to Samsung for being original. More photos available at akihabaranews.com.

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Azul De Corso, a nice portfolio

16th April

2007

Argentinian graphic designer Azul De Corso’s online portfolio is a real visual treat. Its bold, colourful, inventive - check it out.

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Google buys DoubleClick

16th April

2007

Search behemoth Google has acquired DoubleClick for $3.1 billion, following a bidding war with Microsoft, AOL and (allegedly) Yahoo!. The sale gives Google access to DoubleClick’s online advertising software and, crucially, its relationships with publishers, advertisers and ad agencies, including MySpace and The Wall Street Journal.

Google’s winning bid is almost three times the amount DoubleClick fetched when it went private in 2005 for $1.1 billion.

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Space Invaders with Sole

13th April

2007

Kotaku’s Crecente has had some custom Space Invaders footwear made-to-order. More photos here.

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Love for the C90

13th April

2007

Behold the humble audio cassette in all its plastic beauty. tapedeck.org has an extensive collection of tapes for your viewing pleasure.

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Those of you born after 1990 should refer to the compact audio cassette page on Wikipedia to find out what the hell these things are.

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Monkey Kick-Off

13th April

2007

Monkey Kick Off features both a monkey and a football - genius! Try and use your primate soccer skills to beat the Include Digital personal best by clicking here.

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Apple delay Leopard

13th April

2007

Following weeks of rumours, Apple have officially announced that the Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard operating system will be delayed until October 2007. A brief statement on the Apple Hot News page states that:

[to finish the iPhone on time] we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard’s features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us.

So, Apple’s venture into mobile telephony bumps their new operating system. I can’t say I’m surprised, but fair play to Apple for being upfront and honest. The statement concludes:

We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we’re sure we’ve made the right ones

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Apple release new Mac Pro workstations

5th April

2007

Apple’s new Mac Pro workstations have finally hit the Apple store. Available with quad-core and 8-core Xeon processors, the evil, Skeletor-class, beast machines start at £1,699.

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