Been a busy week, working on the Gift Guide, scheduling CES meetings, and getting the site ready for CES. Had to do emergency work on SlashGear forum with some XSS vulnerability hole to cover and interface makeover. SlashGear blog should run much speedier now, ironed out several useless MySQL queries. Heading to a local pizzeria [...]
I did gave them permission to quote SlashGear, but was not aware it will show up on video/tv ad – but I don’t mind at all. When I went to Fox.com to watch Sarah Connor Chronicles, was surprised to see the man in the ad mentioned SlashGear. Figured I captured and share it with you [...]
You can’t win if you don’t enter the giveaway. So hop over on SlashGear and win it! Specs: Intel Quad Core Q9300, 2GB DDR ECC RAM, nVidia Quadro FX1700 512MB PCIe Graphics, and Vista Business.
It was a fun weekend and our Android Community party had a pretty good turnout in Dallas. Got to meet some cool people at the party, there were Jason from Big In Japan (ShopSavy), The SoftLayer guys (love them), Travis from Dallas Morning News, and many others. While we only have one G1 phone to [...]
Earlier this week (on the 9th), Apple held a press event called “Lets rock” announcing several new things related to iTunes, iPod, and iPhone. As usual, SlashGear is covering the event live and I want to share some stats. Unlike the past, we did not hit 447k users during the livecast, that was our record. [...]
After using it for a week, I have come to conclusion that the iPhone 3G is not quite what I expected to be (in not so great way). There are many shortcomings on it including battery life and lack of copy and paste functionality. While not all Apple’s fault, 3rd party applications need tighter quality [...]
The iPhone 3G is here and almost everyone on R3 gets one. Vince, Chris, Scott, and me gets the black iPhone 3G while Satsuki gets the white one. We have posted an iPhone 3G review at SlashGear – Japanese readers can see the quick hands-on video on SlashGear Japan. We encountered problem activating the iPhone [...]
If you have not heard of miniBB, it’s a very lightweight forum web application – we use it on SlashGear discussion forums. Prior to WordPress 2.5, miniBB integration to WordPress was fairly straightforward and easy. WordPress 2.5 introduces new password hashes, phpass and it breaks many 3rd party application integration, including miniBB. While you can [...]
