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2008年4月9日星期三

The USB Smart Cable: cheap and flexible, just like your prom date

We like small, we like convenient, and we love cheap. As such we're dripping our super-happy nerd juice all over this new $9.00 USB Smart Cable. The charging cable doubles as a microSD card reader and is available in three versions supporting mini-USB, mini 18 pin, or Nokia DC 2.0 devices. Sassy.

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水果：Time Machine 不支援 AirPort Disk 功能喔！AE 又掰了？

Filed under: 無線相關

Time Machine 又再度讀不懂 AirPort Extreme 了...

根據 TidBITS 的 Glenn Fleishmann 報導，蘋果正式跟他確認，表示 Time Machine 並不支援 Airport Extreme 的 Airport Disk 功能；Fleishmann 認為，之前 Time Machine 能讀到 Airport Extreme 上頭的 USB 外接硬碟，應該是因為工程師在產品測試之後，忘了拿掉的一段悲傷往事。總之，事情又變成這樣了，就是要逼大家敗 Time Capsule 的樣子啦！

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時代雜誌評選最好25個部落格：Engadget 第5名

Filed under: 網站公告

時代雜誌評選最好25個部落格，Engadget 得到第五名的殊榮，身為中文版的一份子我們也倍感榮幸，其中我們的戰友Boingboing 以及我們的死敵Gawker都名列其中，表示在部落格的世界中大家都相當努力，爭取各位朋友的目光而不敢輕忽。

繁體中文目前沒有Gizmodo，但CNET的Crave由當家優秀的編輯撰寫的文章，以及優質的翻譯文章都是鞭策我們進步的動力。

這也給我們中文版更加警惕，一方面文章翻譯的速度要更跟的上美國，另一方面文章內容要更符合大家的胃口，翻譯的部份我會想辦法加強，在地化部份現在的主筆 Yeager 這方面也是相當努力，當然 Capser、小薑和 Flow 三位作者幽默的文筆也是我們要努力維持，我相信以幽默風趣的角度寫科技新品/新聞，以及誠實不欺騙讀者寫產品新聞一直是癮科技最重要的靈魂所在。

另一方面，眼尖的朋友應該可以發現癮科技都是以2小時一篇作為文章發表的時間表，以確保大家每次上癮科技時一定有新聞章看，另一方面也透過這樣的方式來維持所謂我們這些作者的紀律。但有時美國主站如雪片般飛來文章時我們真的招架不住，所以增添更多文章量看來是一定得走的路線。

我在幾次的聚會中問道一些熱心參與的讀者，到底幾篇文章才夠，大部分的讀者都跟我說「愈多愈好」，這個答案可是傷透我的腦筋，所以這裡想要問大家一下：現在癮科技一天平均的文章量為12篇，你認為加到幾篇適當呢？又想要增加什麼種類的文章呢？拜托大家說一下囉~

小記：

Engadget 開站日期 2004,07,24；繁體中文開站日期 2005,07,01
Engadget 的爸爸：Peter Rojas（Peter 也是 Gizmodo 的爸爸）
Engadget 競爭對手：Gizmodo；

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Super-Talent Pico USB drives: lose 'em even faster

Filed under: Storage

Score, another "world's smallest" USB drive. Never seen one of those before. Super-Talent's latest Pico drives are mighty small though, and if one of you is somehow running the Tiny USB Hall of Records, it measures just 1.5 by .5 inches and holds 8GB in swivel, retractable, and waterproof versions. $35, should be out now.

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2008年4月8日星期二

Windows 7 still slated for 2010 says Microsoft, Bill Gates just crazy-talking

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

If your pants / panties were in a "bunch" upon hearing news that Windows 7 would be headed into your ever-loving arms "next year," you might just want to hold off on those party invites for a little bit. Sure, Bill Gates just happened to mention that we'd see a new version of the OS "Sometime in the next year or so," but it's looking like that "or so" makes a world of difference. Microsoft wants to chill everyone out with the somber news that its got no plans to introduce Windows 7 any earlier than January 2010 (three years from the launch of Vista), and reassure us that crazy old Gates may have just been talkin' developer speak. "As is standard with the release of a new product, we will be releasing early builds of Windows 7 prior to its general availability as a means to gain tester feedback," a spokesman for Microsoft said, downplaying Gates' statement. Of course, this means that XP's cutoff will suddenly move even further down the line, which makes us wonder what the point of setting that June 2010 date was in the first place. Why are you toying with us like this, Microsoft?

[Thanks, Tony]

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Van Der Led推出多彩Jisus 筆記型電腦電腦

Filed under: 筆記型電腦

現在Eee PC已經成為眾多產商的敵人，十面埋伏。也許你可能沒聽過Van Der Led，不過他們最新的Jisus絕對是低價便攜筆記型電腦的有一個新軍：採用的是800 x 480, 8.9吋顯示螢幕，處理器是1GHz Loongson CPU，512MB 記憶體， 4GB 容量的卡，802.11b/g無線，還有一些你熟悉的埠，立體聲喇叭，價格約299元歐幣，約新台幣一萬四，4月25日發售，點進來看介紹影片：

[感謝 Gydo]

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