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Remember Jack Skellington from the movie ‘Tim Burton’s The Night before Christmas’? Well for some reason that movie became a big cult and now Adata for some reason has turned the main character into a USB Flash Drive. Made of rubber and comes in capacities 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB it is also resists to spill water and external shock. Its USB connector is hidden inside the Jack and can be accessed by removing his head.  It also comes with an extra USB cable in case you can’t easily stick him into a USB port on your computer. Jack may just scare your other funny looking USB shaped flash drives.

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Tim Burton’s The Night Before Christmas Jack Skellington Becomes a USB Flash Drive

Nokia Conversations reports that the N97 is now supported officially (some may have already found N97 mini’s ovi maps .sis to have worked for them) for the new Ovi Maps which brings users free turn-by-turn walk and drive navigation The new Ovi Maps is available through the software update client in the device . You simply open the Applications Folder, Software Update client (big green arrow) and choose the new Ovi Maps from the list. [You might even get a prompt from Ovi Maps itself telling you an update is available, and it'll bring you to SW update] At the big announcement last week, N97 users were shocked to find out they were not on the list of supported handsets for free turn-by-turn navigation. But very quickly, Nokia said that it would be available a week later on the 28th (technically tomorrow) You will need to be on firmware V2.0.x (some N97 users may not be able to get it yet but Nokia are apparently working on it) My N97 is on V20.0.019 – Nokia Software Updater on computer says that’s the latest firmware update

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We’ve heard of a few inventive ideas for detecting tsunamis, and it looks like a group of researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (or NOAA ) have now come up with another: put all those undersea internet cables to a second use. While they haven’t moved beyond computer models just yet, the group has apparently found that voltmeters attached to the end of an undersea cable are able to detect the small electric field stirred up by tsunamis, which measure around 500 millivolts. As New Scientist reports, however, the idea does have some considerable limitations, including that it wouldn’t be able to pinpoint the exact location or direction of a tsunami, and that any such system would first need to filter out noise caused by other natural events and even the cable itself. Other researchers also caution that it’s just as important to develop a system to quickly pass on a warning to potentially affected areas once a tsunami has been detected. Researchers propose using undersea internet cables to detect tsunamis originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:02:00 EST.

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Researchers propose using undersea internet cables to detect tsunamis

As part of our coverage of 3D printing, laser-cutting, CNC routing, and other forms of desktop fabbing — to coincide with the new “Your Desktop Factory” issue of MAKE — we’re thrilled to welcome guest contributor Shawn Wallace. Shawn is a member of AS220 , the Providence, Rhode Island community arts space

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Letters from the Fab Academy, Part 1

ColorWare has been around for a long time and in the beginning, the company mostly offered custom painting services for notebooks and other computers. The company now also offers coloring solutions for all sorts of gadgets today including smartphones. The latest smartphone to get the ColorWare treatment is the Google Nexus One. The handset can be colored with glossy or soft touch hues to your liking. The company will paint the frame, back, bottom, and camera surround.

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Unlike the iPhone, the Apple iPad “uses a display technology called IPS (in-plane switching) and has a wide, 178-degree viewing angle.” Plus, “the A4 chip inside iPad was custom-designed by Apple engineers to be extremely powerful, and yet extremely power efficient.” Click here for first picture in gallery. To maximize battery life, Apple engineers took the same lithium polymer battery technology they developed for our notebook computers and applied it to the iPad. As a result, you can use iPad for up to 10 hours while surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching videos, or listening to music. [via Apple ]

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Official Apple iPad Picture Gallery

In the passing tough year best remembered for crisis, loss of jobs, and overall uncertainty, the outsourcing industry has made many gloomy headlines in the news resources. Interesting enough to note that the end of the year brings forecasts for the IT community as optimistic as long not heard. After the brutal 2009, we’re glad to receive some encouraging news again. With the leading and most trusted Forrester and Gartner at the front of the line, most other analyst houses and industry associations including IDC, IAOP, NOA echo with optimistic releases. Rejoice, IT! We’ve made it through! The Forrester’s loud statement “Tech downturn officially over” gave way to numerous sequential prognostications the quintessence of which sounds as follows: IT spending is set to grow in the coming year

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Outsourcing Potential 2010 – How Does It Look Like? (Part 1)

Bletchley Park , the historic site of secret British code breaking activities during WWII and the birthplace of the modern computer, is again in the news thanks to John Graham-Cumming ‘s book The Geek Atlas . O’Reilly pledged to give 50p per copy of the book sold in the UK to the Bletchley Park Fund and we are delighted to send our first cheque for £1000. Unfortunately not everyone has heard of the plight of Bletchley Park. The Bletchley Park Trust is aiming to preserve the core heritage of the site and to build on the work of the wartime pioneers through education and technology innovation

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O’Reilly donates £1000 to Bletchley Park

Found this cool tip on CNET on how to turn off that bugging camera notification one gets every time an iPhone or iPod Touch is connected to a computer using USB sync cable. These instructions works for both Mac and PC users. Steps for Windows Vista and Windows 7 1. Connect your iPhone or iPod touch to your computer. 2.

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How To Turn Off Camera Notifications?

Maybe you haven’t heard of Gunnar Optiks , the digital eye-wear that eases the strain from long hours behind a computer (or marathon gaming sessions).   These spectacles have earned high praise from Major League Gaming ,  the Consumer Electronics Show and even Gear Diary’s own Larry Greenberg . In fact, Larry’s pos t back in June is what prompted me to order my own pair of Phenom Gunnar s soon thereafter to deal with long hours spent behind a computer screen that used to lead to headaches and severe eye-strain.  If the price-tag has kept you from  purchasing a pair, now may be your chance to win a free set of MLG Phantoms . Interested?  Read on to enter the February 1st Gunnar Optiks Giveaway … … [ visit site to read more ] Related posts: Enter Gear Diary’s Grand Prize Holiday Giveaway!!! Tags: Contests & Giveaways , Tech Clothing Related posts Win Big as BlackBerry Motion Celebrates Their One-Year Anniversary (6) Nothing says Classy like shiny new set of PDA cufflinks (2) Meeting Tomorrow Audio Visual Wants To Help Today’s Kids (3) Scottvest: New Year, New Sales, New Video, New Email Options (1) A-DATA Celebrating the Launch of Their New Corporate Image With A Contest (1)

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Got Game? Win A Pair of Gunnar Optiks from JustEyeWear

Aside from the classic scary maze , there’s also the stink mouse, art film, mobile desktop, and other pranks that will definitely turn friends into enemies if performed correctly. Continue reading to see five of the funniest that we’ve come across

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5 of the Funniest Computer Pranks Ever

For those who don’t want all those computers and other cables to ruin their interior design there is now “Wireblooms”. These are nail-in cable clips to keep your cables to the wall while being decorative to the room interior. While personally I would like everything to be wireless, like electricity cables, monitor cables, etc. We are not completely there yet so these will have to do.

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Decorate your cables

Are you addicted to Merscom’s Create a Mall ? Do you find yourself enjoying this building simulator hours on end at your Mac or Windows computer? Well, now you can take it everywhere you go! Merscom and 99 games, have released this popular Mac and Windows title for the iPhone and iPod platform. Create a Mall is a building simulator where you assume the role as Kelly, a rising star in a mall company. As Kelly, players are challenged to become world-class mall developers by filling their venues with enticing stores for customers in six different cities throughout the world

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99Games brings Create A Mall to the iPhone

I stumbled upon something fun and interesting today that I thought would be worth sharing. Pingdom compiled and released a bunch of cool data from  different resources on 2009 online usage. Here are some of my favorite stats I thought you’d enjoy.You can check out the full report here . Email 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009. 247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.

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2009 Internet Usage: Fun Stats and Email Data

This dude is Hans Christian Ørsted, whose 1820 discovery that electric current produced magnetic fields was, supposedly, entirely accidental: He was preparing a voltaic pile for a lecture demonstration and there happened to be a compass lying nearby. He has become a sort of mascot for the Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results (JSUR) , a new open-access journal initiative that hopes to provide a forum for life and computer scientists to publish results they lucked into and maybe can’t fully explain. From their website: Can you demonstrate that: * Technique X fails on problem Y. * Hypothesis X can’t be proven using method Y. * Protocol X performs poorly for task Y.

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Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results

Apple’s event in San Francisco tomorrow could ultimately prove to be more than just a routine product launch or the exciting update of a familiar mobile device. Tomorrow’s event at the Yerba Buena center could be a game changer for the mobile marketing industry. Is that an exaggeration?

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Will Apple’s Tablet Change The Future of Mobile Marketing?

Are you all about an ergonomic workspace? Me, I’m a slouching, crossleg sitting, traditional mouse and keyboard using geek. That doesn’t mean that I don’t ‘think’ about trying alternative input devices though. I happened to run across the Emotion Trackbar Ergonomic Mouse and it seems more unusual than most. It has two 1000 dpi optical sensors.

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Forget Trackballs, Get Ergonomic with a Trackbar

Today, Google released an updated version of its Chrome web browser for the Windows platform, adding a highly requested feature: extension and bookmark syncing. Linux fans, although currently able to install extensions, won’t have access to bookmark and extension syncing just yet. As for Mac users, Google had this to say, “hang tight — we’re working on bringing extensions, bookmark sync and more to the beta soon.” Firefox users who leverage the XMarks (formerly FoxMarks) extension know the value of bookmark syncing, and many FF users — present company included — lust for an easy way to keep extensions synchronized between multiple computers. Perhaps this latest move by the Chrome team will spark the likes of Apple and Mozilla to think about building more synchronization functionality into their respective browsers? Until that does happen, all interested parties can head over to google.com/chrome to check out the latest build.

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Google enables extension and bookmark syncing for Chrome on Windows

Apple reported its financial results for Q1 2010 which ended December 26, 2009 and the results were nothing short of impressive. Apple posted its all time highest quarterly revenue, its all time highest quarterly profit and when annualized, these numbers will push Apple into a $50+ billion per year company. Dollar figures that are so impressive they don’t require an explanation, so we will let the numbers speak for themselves: Revenue of $15.68 billion ($11.88 billion in Q1 2009) 58% of revenue derived from international sales Net quarterly profit of $3.38 billion or $3.67 per diluted share ($2.26 billion, or $2.50 per diluted share in Q1 2009) Gross margin of 40.9 percent (37.9 % in Q1 2009) $5.8 billion generated in cash Sales of Macintosh computers and iPhones went through the roof in Q1 2010 with Apple selling 3.36 million computers and 8.7 million iPhones, representing a 33% unit increase for Macintosh sales and 100% unit growth for the iPhone when compared to Q1 2009

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Apple reports record revenue and profits for Q1 2010

Section: Computers , Laptops , Features , Contests Back in December we here at Gadgetell, along with HP ran a contest that was offering an HP Envy 15 notebook to one lucky (and deserving) person. That contest is long since over, but it seems that the winner was never properly announced here on the site. So, a little late, and without any further adieu, a big congrats goes out to Sergio Molina. You can see his winning entry above, and also feel free to check out his YouTube Channel for some more cool videos. And in addition I also wanted to send out a big thanks to everyone else that entered

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Gadgetell Announcement: Here was the winning entry for the “win an HP Envy 15 notebook” contest

Expected to be unveiled on January 27 (in two days from now), the Apple Tablet / iTablet / iSlate might be a device even more important than the iPhone (which was named “the best invention of 2007”).

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Steve Jobs about the Apple Tablet: “the most important thing I’ve ever done”