One of the things I’ve always wanted to do with my smartphone — whether it was my original Palm Treo 650, or my current iPhone — was to read books while on-the-go. Unfortunately, the screens on these smartphones have all been way too small to make reading comfortable for anything more than a screenful or two. Even reading long email messages can be a strain on my eyes.
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iPhone app review: GoodReader
Geeksoap has unveiled the latest in their line of handmade cartridge-shaped soaps, the Atari 2600—which is the perfect segue to announce the winners of our recent giveaway . So congrats to Todd Chilson and Kristi Lynn ( and kudos for taking an interest in personal hygiene. The world would be a much better place if all nerds followed suit). Product Page ($5)
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Atari 2600 Cartridge Soap Is a Good Segue To Announce Our Contest Winners
I can certainly understand that the print publishing industry is taking a beating with the poor economy, and many marketers moving ad buys online. I get that the print industry needs to sell issues to stay afloat. What I don’t get is the rationale behind charging more for a cheaper-to-produce digital edition of the publication than the print version costs.
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Swype , makers of the innovative touchscreen keyboard input technology, says its “swype” keyboards will be installed on over 10 million smartphone devices by year’s end. Swype speeds up the process of typing on a touchscreen device by letting users swipe their fingers across virtual letters. The software recognizes words that users want, adding spaces and punctuation automatically. The system can be learned in minutes and doubles the speed of text entry, according to the company
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Apple announced on Monday that it has sold over one million iPad devices over the internet and in its retail outlets, following the Friday release of the 3G version of the device, which can connect to the internet via cellular data networks in addition to WiFi. Naysayers who jokingly derided the device as a large iPhone with no phone function have been proven wrong about people not wanting exactly that — a testament to the powerful allure of these devices, which sit in a new category of computing somewhere between the smartphone and the netbook. “One million iPads in 28 days — that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs. “Demand continues to exceed supply,” he claimed, “and we’re working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers.” This 28-day figure doesn’t seem quite as impressive if you correlate the 3G iPad to the iPhone, and the WiFi-only iPad to the WiFi-only iPod Touch, because the iPhone and iPod Touch reached the combined one million mark about as fast as the iPads did. In addition, Apple said it shipped 500,000 units of the WiFi-only iPad within the first week, so sales have slowed since then, relatively speaking, even with Friday’s introduction of the 3G model.
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The new Philips Xenium X510 is another device from Philips with dual Sim capabilities. This slider phone will be marketed in Russia, China and some other parts of Asia. Other features in this low-to-mid range phone include a 3.1-inch QVGA touch sensitive display with Philips handwriting recognition, a 2-megapixel camera, built-in java games, media player, Bluetooth, email, dual-band GSM connectivity, and also an expandable microSD memory card slot
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Philips Xenium X510
Today Deutsche Telecom AG’s CEO Rene Obermann said during its annual shareholder meeting that Deutsche Telecom AG is still committed to T-Mobile USA. And despite admitting that he’s not been “fully satisfied,” with the company’s performance in the U.S., he said that “it is making us a great deal of money.” In February rumors surfaced that Deutsche Telecom could be shopping for a buyer for T-Mobile USA, or may be preparing an IPO, but then in March the company said it had no plans to sell the carrier. Read the full story here.
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Deutsche Telecom AG says it’s still committed to T-Mobile USA
This amazing origami model, which appears to be a skull when resting on a mirror, was designed in the late 90s by renowned paper-folding artist Herman Van Goubergen , who seems to have no web presence of his own. The upper model was made and photographed by Flickr user M_V_origami . Instructions for folding the model are included in OrigamiUSA’s 1999 annual collection , which is available for sale here . More: Super skull roundupalooza Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Paper Crafts | Digg this!
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Origami model + reflection = skull
Between Friday, April 3rd, and Friday, April 30th – the release dates of Apple’s WiFi iPad and the iPad 3G, respectively – the Cupertino-based tech giant successfully logged better than one million units sold of the revolutionary tablet computer. Over the weekend, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster estimated that some 300,000 iPad 3G units had been sold since Friday’s nationwide release. “Near-term, this may put downward pressure on launch day/weekend statistics, but long-term we see it as a positive, as consumers are definitely interested in the iPad as a new category,” wrote Munster.
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1 Million iPads Sold In April
It is time for this weeks Geeky Gadgets giveaway, this week we are giving away another brand new iPod Shuffle, and the lucky winner can choose which color iPod Shuffle they would like as their prize. The contest is free to enter, and it is open to Geeky Gadgets readers from anywhere in the world, just follow the instructions below on how to enter. How to Enter If you want to win a 2GB iPod Shuffle, all you have to do is subscribe to our RSS feed, and leave a comment below. Please state in your comment which color iPod Shuffle you would like, the colors available are silver, black, blue, green and pink. Full details on how to subscribe can be found on our Free Newsletter page
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I really like my iPad, but I don’t have the need to carry the thing everywhere. I usually have my iPhone on me and can do most of the same tasks with it. If you do want to carry your iPad with you everywhere and like the idea of the iPad 3G in your car Scosche has a new product for you. Scosche is showing off a new in-car mount for the iPad .
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Scosche Shows Off Car iPad Mount
If you’d rather not be sent to slave away at the Spice Mines of Kessel, this R2-D2 Pepper Mill from Star Wars Shop may be more your speed. Just fill this trusty astromech droid’s body with pepper and twist his dome to add a dose of spice to your meal. This R2-D2 stands 4.3 inches tall and is made from ABS plastic. … [ visit site to read more ] Filed in categories: Kitchen Gadgets , News , Spotlight Gadgets Tagged: Food related , Star Wars Spice up your next meal with this droid originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on May 3, 2010 at 12:15 pm.
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The red and black edition of the Nokia X6 16GB has now been released as a SIM Free handset, joining the original 32GB model the 16GB Nokia X6 may offer half the memory capacity but is a full £130 cheaper and offers exactly the same great features of its bigger brother. The X6 16GB does omit
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Aus dem Hause Motorola konnten wir euch vor geraumer Zeit bereits das Motorola Nexus 2 (aka Shadow) erstmals präsentieren, wobei es sich damals um Gerüchte gehandelt hat. Nun sind neue Gerüchte im Umlauf, die einen weiteren Vorgeschmack auf die Features des Motorola Nexus 2 geben sollen. Das Nexus 2 soll laut den neusten Informationen mit einem 4.3-Zoll großen Touchscreen Display ausgestattet sein, einer zusätzlichen QWERTZ-Tastatur für die Eingabe und einer 8-Megapixel Kamera mit Autofokus. Hinzu folgt Android 2.2 (Froyo) als Betriebssystem, ein MicroSD-Kartenslot für Speicherkarten bis 32GB Kapazität, WLan 802.11b/g/n und Bluetooth 2.1. Ab wann wir allerdings mit dem Motorola Nexus 2 rechnen können, ist noch nicht ganz bekannt
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Motorola Nexus 2: Neue Gerüchte deuten auf Android 2.2 Betriebssystem
Like most of the world, mobile advertising in general is surging in consumer adoption and usage. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the U.K, where a new report suggests the mobile adverting market grew by an estimated 32% during 2009 alone
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Mobile Advertising Stong In The UK, Market Grows 32% In 2009
Ryan at Make:NYC writes in about this special Make:NYC lab meeting : You asked, we’re delivering. We’ll be covering various casting and molding, materials and techniques in this very awesome Make:NYC. We’ll be focusing on small object replication for rapid prototyping. Participants will be making their own rubber molds and casting resin parts with provided materials
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Make:NYC meeting this Thursday
People want smartphones, as evident by a new report indicating global smartphone shipments totaled an estimated 54M units during Q1 2010, growing 50% from Q1 2009 when 36M units were shipped. The report, published by Strategy Analytics under the name “Global Smartphone Market Share Update,” also indicates Nokia shipped a record 21.5 million smartphones worldwide in Q1 2010, rising an above-average 57% from 13.7 million units a year earlier. According to the report, RIM shipped 10.6 million smartphones worldwide in Q1 2010- beating Apple’s record 8.8 million units during the quarter, and positioning itself as the largest mobile device vendor of North American origin, ahead of rivals Apple and Motorola. RIM’s annual growth rate slowed to just 45 percent in Q1 2010, however, and its new Blackberry OS 6.0 upgrade due in Q3 2010 is badly needed. Smartphones now account for 18% of total handset shipments, with sales being driven largely by healthy operator subsidies, vigorous competition between vendors and a growing tide of lower-cost models using operating software like Symbian and Android, the report suggests
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Smartphone Shipments Jump 50% During Q1
Section: Computers , Peripherals , Mice / Keyboards Coming a little while after we saw the pre-orders go live, and after an unboxing —but still, the Asus Eee Keyboard has finally been made official. The “official” comes in the form of a press release which was posted on the Asus website offering the complete details including specs. That said, the Amazon listing we mentioned last week , is still listed as a pre-order at this time. Keep reading to check out the full release below… Read [ Asus ] ASUS Launches the EeeKeyboard PC It’s a Stylish Keyboard on the Outside, a Smart PC on the Inside Taipei, Taiwan, May 1, 2010 – ASUS today continues to deliver on its promise of cutting edge technological and design innovations with the launch of the EeeKeyboard PC—a fully-functional PC concealed within a svelte and stylish keyboard
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Format USB Stick as NTFS File System Flash drives are getting very large in size these days, the new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 sticks are getting over 256GB capacity. With these larger sticks, the option to format the device as a NTFS file system is available, but what about the smaller USB sticks? By default, any USB stick under 4GBs in capacity will not have the Format USB as NTFS file system option, but we can fix that. Here is the How To: Format USB sticks as NTFS: Click Start > My Computer > Right click on the drive letter for the USB stick and select Properties . Now, click the Hardware tab of the Properties pop-up window and select the drive letter of which you’d like to change. In this case, it’s drive letter F shown as “ Simple Flash Disk 2.0 USB Device “ From here click the Properties button.
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The New York Post is reporting that the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission are, “locked in negotiations over which of the watchdogs will begin an antitrust inquiry into Apple’s new policy of requiring software developers who devise applications for devices such as the iPhone and iPad to use only Apple’s programming tools.” The Post, claiming to have “sources familiar with the matter,” goes on to say that the two government agencies, “are days away from making a decision about which agency will launch the inquiry.” The Post speculates that the inquiry is a byproduct of Apple’s hard-line on Flash, however, 9 to 5 Mac speculates (probably more accurately) that the inquiry is driven by Apple’s recent ban on third-party “rapid app development tools” and restrictions on “unauthorized programming code” as mandated by the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement . Whatever the reasoning, it looks like Apple’s General Council will continue to earn their keep. What do you think? Should Apple have the right to exert totalitarian control over their development ecosystem… or, should they play nice and let others join in the fun
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DOJ and/or FTC may launch antitrust inquiry against Apple for developer policies
What’s that? RPG’s haven’t always been played on small, touchscreen devices? Are you sure about that? Because Square Enix’s Chaos Rings feels perfectly at home on the iPhone.(…) Read the rest of First Impressions: Chaos Rings for iPhone © Ragart for Just Another iPhone Blog , 2010. | Permalink | | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: iphone rpg , JRPG
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