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Even though you don’t want to admit it, you probably still got a stash of floppy disks hidden around somewhere, just like you probably have a stash of cassette tapes hidden in a pile of old stuff. For some geeks, it’s hard to throw out old technology-related stuff, kind of like how some fashionistas have trouble throwing out old clothes. Heck, I probably have 4-6 old computers in storage at home. I don’t know why, but I still do.

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nick gentry’s floppy disk paintings offer recycled memories

This may only be of interest to a small subset of you gadgetites out there, but I found it interesting nonetheless.  The Manta Ray from Advanced Fitness, Inc. is a patented device that can help alleviate neck pain when performing a squat exercise.  Made of molded polyurethane, it features a notch that grips the squat bar while the contoured shape distributes the weight of the bar across a greater surface area of the neck, upper back and shoulders to relieve some of the concentrated stress in that area.  Available in one size for $39.95.  Also available in a front squat version called the Sting Ray for the same … [ visit site to read more ] Filed in categories: Miscellaneous , News Tagged: Exercise Manta Ray helps reduce neck pain during squats originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on February 3, 2010 at 9:45 pm.

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Manta Ray helps reduce neck pain during squats

Oh, Symbian, you tease ! For an organization as committed to openness and sharing its roadmap (and its code) as the Symbian Foundation , it’s pretty unusual that they’d be counting down to a big unveiling of anything — but sure enough, they’ve been tweeting decreasing numbers with the hashtag “#symbiancountdown” starting back on January 26 with 108. Today we’re down to 12 (it’s hard to say what sort of jacked-up counting system they’re using here) with a note of “what will tomorrow bring?” so it looks like we can expect this all to go down in just a few short hours. One thought is that they could announce that Symbian^3 has gone Functionally Complete, a key milestone in getting it pushed to devices — but that’s a shot in the dark

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Symbian’s revealing something tomorrow, but what? (update: open source!)

The Nexus One in my pocket has just been blessed with Google ( NSDQ: GOOG )’s software update , which enables multi-touch pinch zooming in the web browser, photo gallery, and Google Maps apps. The lack of multi-touch support on the Nexus One’s Android 2.1 OS is considered by many to be the biggest drawback that’s keeping the N1 from truly challenging the iPhone 3GS. But, now that Google is rolling out the N1 software update over the air, the multi-touch argument no longer holds water. Which is the better smartphone? Well, here’s a little video demonstration of me multi-touching the N1 like it’s going out of style.

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Video: Nexus One multi-touch pinch zooming demo

Amazon is proving they’re taking rumors of Kindle’s demise less than seriously. In fact, they are proving their commitment to the platform by giving the development team a big present: a touchscreen company ! Yes, it’s everything the Kindle development team wanted and more! Now they can compete with the Sony Touch and Daily Editions on one end, and the iPad on the other! Supposedly the touchscreen has excellent clarity, which is huge if Amazon sticks with e-ink; compare a Sony Touch Edition and a Pocket Edition and it is shocking to see how much the touch overlay can affect the screen. … [ visit site to read more ] Related posts: Oh eBook(stores), Where Art Thou? Kindle’s DRM Rears Its Ugly Head… And It IS Ugly Tags: Amazon Kindle , Rants and Raves Related posts State of the eBook: Copyrights, DRM, and Amazon Versus Macmillan (4) iPad Detractors Need To iChillout and Take a Longer View (18) Amazon Kindle: Millions and Millions Served (3) What We’re Not Giving Up for the iPad (5) More Apple Publisher Rumors; One Author You Won’t See Through Apple (6)

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Amazon Kindle Gets Touchy

Today I’m going to look at how not to handle user authentication in a web application , taking BeTwittered.com authenticating with Twitter as an example (sorry,

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How *Not* To Implement A Web Application That Handles External …

Acer pulled closer to HP than ever in the third quarter of 2009, when it shipped 8.86 million laptops compared to HP’s 9.91 million, but it looks like things swung well back in the other direction during the fourth quarter. According to DigiTimes , HP shipped a whopping 11.38 million laptops worldwide in Q4, while Acer moved 9.5 million units during the same time period — an sizable increase in itself, but likely not enough to cause too much celebration at Acer HQ. As you might suspect, the holiday shopping season was largely responsible for the jump in sales from both companies, with strong sales in North America in particular said to be the main reason behind HP’s widening lead. HP increases lead over Acer in worldwide laptop shipments originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds

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HP increases lead over Acer in worldwide laptop shipments

The world’s most populous smartphone platform (330,000,000 shipped), Symbian, is now fully open source. Members of the foundation include Nokia, AT&T, LG, Motorola, NTT Docomo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. In 2008, Nokia bought the rest of Symbian for $410 million…. and then gave it away. In February 2009, Nokia received $630 million 5-year loan from the European Investment Bank to drive and support Symbian’s R&D

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World’s number one mobile OS, Symbian becomes fully Open Source [#symbiancountdown]

Katie Shoultz Thursday, February 4, 2010 Students checking Facebook in class may no longer be ignoring what the professor has to say. Students checking Facebook in class may no longer be ignoring what the professor has to say

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Facebook application connects classrooms online (The State Press)

I thought I was really into coffee until I met John Edgar Park, host of Make: television, contributing writer to Make: Online, and author of several MAKE magazine articles. John takes his coffee seriously

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Flashback: The Florence Siphon Arabica Brewing & Extraction Apparatus

This program is designed to read 2D barcodes with the help of integrated mobile phone’s camera. 3GVision i-nigma 2D barcode Reader reads the next data: text messages, phone number or text, Email address or the URL of the Internet site. Download People Who Liked This, Also Liked The Following: February 4, 2010 — Mobileways Gravity v1.30.6316 For Nokia 5800XM, N97, s60v5 (0) February 4, 2010 — GyPSii v5.0.4 S60v5 SymbianOS9.4 Signed {A NewWay To Share The Places InYour Life} (0) February 4, 2010 — Killermobile Advance SMS v2.0 For Nokia 5800XM, N97, s60v5 (0) February 4, 2010 — ThinkChange FingerPrint v2.60 For S60v5, Nokia 5800XM, N97 (0) February 4, 2010 — Syntonetic Playlist DJ v1.01(48) S60v5 SymbianOS9.4 Signed (0) February 4, 2010 — Smartphoneware Best TaskMan v2.4 For s60v3, s60v5 (0) February 4, 2010 — Smartphoneware Best Timer v2.00 For N97, 5800XM, s60v5 (0) February 4, 2010 — Aims Migital SMS Hider v2.0 S60v3, S60v5 SymbianOS9.x (0) February 4, 2010 — Aldea SafeStore Gold Edition v3.00 J2ME (0) February 2, 2010 — Quran Encyclopedia For Nokia s60v5 (0)

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3GVision i-nigma 2D Barcode Reader v3.5.3 S60v5 SymbianOS9.4 Signed

GyPSii is a social networking, search & location based suite of integrated mobile and web applications that allows users to share, view & upload pictures, video, text and POI.

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GyPSii v5.0.4 S60v5 SymbianOS9.4 Signed {A NewWay To Share The Places InYour Life}

Did you know that there is a common thing to all of us? Now you may say there are many common factors like hair, nose, eyes and ears, etc., but it goes much deeper than that. The common thing that we all share is that all of us have experienced faulty or low broadband speeds at one time or another

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Are you looking out for cheap broadband deals

Found under: Motorola , Devour , Verizon , , Verizon will sell yet another hot Motorola device. The Motorola Devour a phone which we have already mentioned here has become officially official. Although similar to the Droid in looks the Devour might not be as powerful

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Motorola Devour Becomes Official, Verizon to Sell It Next Month

HT4Sight seems like something only available to rogue agents who break people’s legs and shout out their lungs every time they want to know where a nuclear head is, and nobody – except a hacker with permanent PMS – believes in them.

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HT4Sight Plugs Aerial Surveillance Video Into Any Mobile Phone

Apparently the dizzying expansion of mobile coverage in India has proceeded a little quicker than the regulatory process there — Indian carriers are in a bit of a tizzy after authorities shut down 300 allegedly illegal towers in a suburb of New Delhi called Noida. The gub’mint says the towers are on private land that’s not approved for commercial use, but the carriers say the move is “arbitrary and uncalled for,” and even “inhuman” because the loss of service means people can’t make emergency calls. That’s a strong card to play — let’s hope this gets sorted out soon. Indian mobile carriers scramble as illegal towers are shut down originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .

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Verizon Wireless will launch the Motorola Devour Android-powered handset. Too bad, Verizon hasn’t confirmed a price yet, but we’re assuming that the Devour will be cheaper than the Droid because it has a smaller screen and a slower processor. The Motorola Devour features a touch-sensitive navigation pad, a 3.1-inch capacitive touchscreen, several pre-loaded applications (Gmail, Google Talk, YouTube, Google Search and Google Maps), a pre-installed 8GB microSD card, and Bluetooth.

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Verizon To Release Motorola Devour

Quickie is a well-designed to-do application for your iPhone.  It features a great interface and some nice functionality that the standard Apple notes app doesn’t provide.  It was designed for those that have a difficult time keeping track of the variety of tasks in their lives. If that sounds a lot like you, you may want to keep reading. (…) Read the rest of Review: Quickie for the iPhone [iPhone App Reviews] © Brandon for Just Another iPhone Blog , 2010.

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Review: Quickie for the iPhone [iPhone App Reviews]

Found under: Motorola , Android , Zeppelin , , Its not every day that we see new Android phones from Motorola. Well actually it is every day that we do see them particularly because Motorola plans to launch anywhere from 20 to 30 new Android handsets this year.

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Motorola Android Prototype Phone Makes an Appearance in Brazil

In a puzzling move, Comcast announced today that they are going to be rebranding their broadband services under a new moniker: Xfinity. Seriously. Starting next week, Xfinity TV, Xfinity Internet, and Xfinity Voice will be rolled out to current Comcast customers in 11 markets, those being: Boston, Philly, Baltimore, DC, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Hartford, Augusta, and Chatanooga, along with parts of the Bay area

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Comcast rebranding services as Xfinity

Starting today, the Symbian operating system has gone open source and can be downloaded for free. The Symbian Foundation says that “the transition from proprietary code to open source is the largest in software history.” More information . Symbian, which powers most of Nokia’s phones, has been shipped in more than 330 million devices worldwide

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Symbian OS is Now Open Source