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Thieves Clean Out an Apple Store in 31 Seconds – Video

Nerd Grind — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:04:28 +0000

In Marlton, New Jersey thieves broke the store front window of an Apple store, then proceeded to steel 23 Macbook Pros, 14 iPhones, and 9 iPod Touches, all in 31 seconds.

The thieves fooled a security guard into thinking they had a gun in the security surveillance video obtained by WPVI-TV.

The loss was nearly $100,000 worth of merchandise that was on display. At the moment police have no idea who the thieves are because they all kept their faces covered.

This takes smash-and-grab to a whole new level.

Keep reading to see the video.

Apple iPod Touch Gets Google Street View Hack – Runs Game Faster Than iPhone 3G

Nerd Grind — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:19:12 +0000

The iPod Touch can finally join its brother, the iPhone 3G, in offering Google Street View. You’ll have to jailbreak your Touch in order to use it, however. Click here for step by step instructions so you can creepily eye the house your ex-girlfriend used to live at. Apple offers no word on when and if the iPod Touch will receive a legitimate use of Google Street View. It probably won’t be long considering the recent iPhone firmware 2.2 upgrade featured legit functionality.

Also, the video below highlights another coup for the iPod Touch. The 2G Touch is pitted against an original Touch, an original iPhone and a 3G iPhone in a game of TouchSport Tennis. It handily beats all three in load times. Not bad, little guy.

Hitachi Maxell Releases Noise-Canceling iPod Headphones – No Separate Power Required

Nerd Grind — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:25:29 +0000

Hitachi Maxell has released a pair of noise-canceling headphones that work a bit differently from their cousins. The HP-NC20 headphones don’t require separate power. They simply connect to iPods via the dock connector. They manage about 20dB of noise reduction via their "Active Noise Rejection" system. They also manage to reduce your battery life by as much as 50%. The headphones will also only work with 4th gen or later iPods and iPod touches. They do not work with the iPhone. They are available now for about $80.

German Company Releases Bacon Case for iPhone and iPod

Nerd Grind — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:39:04 +0000

A German company has created The Bacon Case, a pork-styled case for your iPod. It comes in different sizes, and at least one can even fit the iPhone. The Babe-hating cases sell for 25 Euro and can be purchased on the company’s website here.

Target Black Friday Ad Leaked – Many Deals to be Had

Nerd Grind — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:26:19 +0000

The ad featuring Target’s Black Friday specials has leaked and there are certainly deals to be had. They are offering a 750GB USB 2.0 drive from WD for $88.88, AND AN 8GB iPod Nano with a $15 gift card for just $145. They are also offering a Nintendo DS with a copy of New Super Mario Bros. for Just $150.

There are other deals as well, get to your local Target on Friday to see what is up.

Toys “R” Us to Start Selling iPods and Eee PCs

Nerd Grind — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:51:33 +0000

Toys "R" Us will begin to sell iPods and Eee PCs in the aisle right next to your favorite Iron Man and Batman action-figures. Well, kinda.

iPods will be available at retail stores from the "iPod boutique" wall where they will also be selling accessories and iTunes gift cards. Toys "R" Us will carrying four models of the Asus’ Eee PC priced at $269 and $299.

I might have to start shopping at Toys "R" Us this holiday season.

iPod speaker system designed by Jean-Michele Jarre is stylish and expensive

Nerd Grind — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:28:52 +0000

Jean Michele Jarre has put down his synthesizer and colored cigarette in order to cobble together this stylish iPod dock/speaker system. It’s dubbed "Aerosystems" and it looks pretty dang cool. Not to mention phallic. We won’t be getting into that last part though .This is a family website.

Aimed at the high end audiophiles, the system is designed to produce high quality tune-age. The circuitry in the amp is able to add some back of the quality that is missing via MP3 encoding. Finally, we can end the digital versus analog debate once and for all!

The unit retails for around $570. Click here for more information.

New Beatles box set – gigantic – comes with 120 GB iPod

Nerd Grind — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:39:24 +0000

Goo goo g’joo g’joob! Bloomingdale’s says it wants a revolution with it’s new limited edition Beatles box set. The set is absolutely massive. It includes thirteen original Beatles’ CDs, an engraved guitar pick, two masters and the "Love" CD. Only 2,500 of the sets are being made, however. All you need is love, and $795 bucks, in order to get one.

Also, you may have noticed the fab four and their team of musically inclined lawyers have not been exactly forthright with their love of the iTunes music store. Don’t worry. The set also includes an engraved 120GB iPod so you can rip here, there and everywhere until you achieve happiness.

Guy who got Zune tattoo somehow one-ups himself

Nerd Grind — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:12:04 +0000

Once upon a time there was a legendary fanboy nicknamed "Zuneguy." Why you may ask? Well because he was the one person in the entire tech-iverse who loved Microsoft’s "iPod killer" so much that he had the logo forever emblazoned on his skin.

However, time has finally caught up with poor Zuneguy. He has had a change of heart. We don’t know if it was spurred on by the Zune’s pisspoor adoption rate or reported problems with the DRM. However, ZG decided it best to cover up that Zune tattoo, um, sort of anyways.

Not quite sure why he went with the "Zune logo acting as sort of pentagram in evil Dick Cheney’s head" thing but I’m pretty sure in thirty years when he’s an older Zuneguy he will remember the decision fondly. Tattoos are permanent, donchaknow.

Softalk Announces Spreadsheet Application for the iPod

Nerd Grind — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:28:19 +0000

Softalk has announced a new application they have released for the iPod called simply Spreadsheet, which offers most of the traditional functions of a spreadsheet program, including the ability to zoom in and out. Additional features include:

Including Date/Time, Math, Statistical, String and Trigonometric functions.
Including cell formatting options – bold, italic, text and background color, cell sizes and alignments.
Including support multiple cell types such as Numeric, Date, Time, Currency, Percentage and Text.
Copy, Cut, Paste, Delete Row, Insert Row and other operation.
Support to send via the iPhone email to other people to be opened in other spreadsheet application like excel 2003 or higher.

Spreadsheet sells exclusively at iTunes for $7.99.

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