ubergizmo.com - 1/19/2009
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We've seen what an optical illusion the Floppy CD-R Disc was last week, and here we are with another unique design - the CD Disc Packaging by designer Adam Faja. Adam Faja has decided to use a black floppy disk case (of the 5.25" variety, of course) to hold a pink CD inside, complete with ...
Photos of Snow Leopard Disc and Retail Packaging?
macrumors.com 8/16/2009 — MacRumors has received a set of images claimed to be the retail packaging and disc for Apple's forthcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard. If the images, which appear to depict the Portuguese version of Snow Leopard, are in fact authentic, it would mean that...
The irony of Apple packaging
blogs.zdnet.com 1/28/2009 — Readers of these page know that I love irony. Today’s installment is from Apple’s eco-blind fulfillment operation in Jonestown, PA who lovingly shipped my copy of iLife ‘09 which arrived today (thanks guys!).
The problem is with its ...
Rumor: mini packaging and an Apple event
tuaw.com 3/2/2009 — It's time to take part in a late winter tradition. I don't mean digging out from beneath another Nor'Easter . We're talking Apple rumor time, and we've got two. The word on the street is that Apple will hold a press event on March 24th to announce ...
obsolote floppy disk becomes equally obsolete cd-r disc
technabob.com 1/14/2009 — Feeling retro? If you’ve got a hankering to cram an old 3.5″ floppy disk into your computer, but it has no floppy drive, now you can live out your floppy fantasies by stuffing one into your almost as outdated CD-R drive.
These CD-R ...
Hello Kitty CD player with iPod dock
newlaunches.com 1/2/2009 — Clad in bright shiny red is the Hello Kitty CD player. It is one of those products which bears the famous Kitty and yet scores in functionality. It can playback audio CD's and sports a AM / FM tuner, backlit LCD display and an iPod dock. The onboard ...
A freeware CD emulator for Windows
wincdemu.sourceforge.net 1/2/2009 — Welcome to the WinCDEmu homepage. WinCDEmu is an open-source software that allows mounting CD/DVD images by clicking at the image files in Windows Explorer. It supports both Windows XP and Vista, is open-source and completely freeware.
Amazon opens "Frustration-Free Packaging" store
core77.com 11/6/2008 —
Packaging designers take note. After years of complaining about user-unfriendly clamshells, wasteful overpackagaing and other ill-conceived wrappers, consumers are starting to vote with their cash, and no less than Amazon.com is helping them do ...
MSI NetTop Looks Like 1980s CD Player
blog.wired.com 1/15/2009 —
Take a bunch of cast-off 80s CD players, stuff in a distinctly modern dual-core Atom 330 processor, a couple gigs of RAM, a DVD superdrive and 7.1 surround sound and you have MSI's new NetTop D130.
MSI is calling it Nordic Simple ...
Products with Frustration-Free Packaging
amazon.com 11/3/2008 — Amazon Frustration-Free™ Packaging relieve wrap rage with Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging, a multi-year initiative designed to alleviate "wrap rage," features recyclable boxes that are easy to open and free of ...
Best Buy to Get Exclusive Palm Pre Action? —
I4U News 1/15/2009
One of the bright spots to come out of a very lackluster CES 2009 was the Palm Pre smartphone. The Pre marks the first time in many years that the smartphone world has been buzzing about a Palm product. According to WebOSArena a credible source has ...
10 Things to hate on a BlackBerry and on an iPhone —
I4U News 1/21/2009
No smartphone is perfect - at least not yet. The Palm Pre might be getting close, but only time will tell when we actually get to see it in use every day.
Boy Genuis Report put together some interesting top 10 annoyances you can find on ...
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