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Monday, May 10, 2010

Grab Free Vector Art Images at Love Vector Free [Design]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5535149/grab-free-vector-art-images-at-love-vector-free

Grab Free Vector Art Images at Love Vector Free Next time you're hunting for icons, buttons, or other images to mock up or finish off a design, give Love Vector Free a look. It's a decent collection of free images that scale to whatever size image you're working with.

It's nowhere near the scale of the previously mentioned repository Open Clip Art Library, but Love Vector Free is pitched more toward web designs, buttons, and other functional pieces that designers and dabblers might be looking to use or draw from. Got a favorite source for free vector art elsewhere on the web? Pitch in a link in the comments.

Love Vector Free [via etc.]

South Korea First Country To Broadcast 3DTV On Terrestrial Channels [3dTv]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5534935/south-korea-first-country-to-broadcast-3dtv-on-terrestrial-channels

South Korea was first to market with a 3DTV, but on May 19th the country will begin the world's first terrestrial broadcasts in 3D.

The Korea Communications Commission made the announcement that all four of the channels, KBS, MBC, SBS and EBS will start trialing it in a little over a week, with the first thing to broadcast in 3D being the 2010 Colorful Daegu Pre-Championships Meeting, on the KBS channel. Following that, SBS will show the FIFA World Cup in June, with 25 of the matches being shown in 3D. [Korea Times via Akihabara News]

Sunday, May 09, 2010

Word Finder Finds the Right Word When You Draw a Blank [Language]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5534168/word-finder-finds-the-right-word-when-you-draw-a-blank

Word Finder Finds the Right Word When You Draw a Blank Even serious crossword puzzle enthusiasts get stuck now and then—and if you've got nowhere else to go, free web tool Word Finder will help you figure out that missing word and save you hours of agonizing.

Word Finder is pretty handy for any situation in which you draw a blank and can't figure out a word—whether you're doing a word jumble, a crossword puzzle, or just can't put your finger on that word that you know is in your head but isn't coming to you. There are a few different search parameters, too; you can define the length of the word, what letters it starts with, ends with, or has somewhere inside it, and even unscramble them. You even get two dictionaries to choose from, one of which is the official Scrabble dictionary (though if you try to whip this out during Scrabble, that probably counts as cheating). Hit the link to check it out, and never wait for the next day's crossword answers again.

Word Finder [via Download Squad]

Surprise! Your iPad Camera Connection Kit Supports External Hard Drives [Ipad]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5533668/surprise-your-ipad-camera-connection-kit-supports-external-hard-drives

The iPad Camera Connection Kit may be selling itself short with its name; turns out you can also use it to hook your iPad up to an external hard drive. Here's how it's done.

The video above, from Maxwell Shay, walks you through part of the process. It only works after you jailbreak your iPad, something we wholeheartedly recommend you do anyway. Once you've done that, download the iFile app and the Nano terminal text editor from Cydia. That's the easy part.

The hard part involves all kinds of SSH and PLIST file editing. For that, check out Max's written step by step tutorial here. And seriously, this is tricky stuff, so be careful.

It's a neat proof of concept—and of what all iPads should be able to do right out of the box, if only Apple would let it—but once you get through all the grunt work it's also a handy way to share and store files.

HOWEVER: if you're not an experienced jailbreaker, your best option is probably to hold off for now. It wouldn't be surprising to see a much more streamlined approach packaged into an extension or utility in Cydia in the coming weeks. Meaning you'd be able to install this hack directly from the jailbreak store, saving you from a whole mess of potential problems. [Time-More via Wired]

Fujitsu breathes new life into color e-paper: brighter, faster, lovelier

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/fujitsu-breathes-new-life-into-color-e-paper-brighter-faster/

Fujitsu's been dabbling in the color e-paper market for years, showing off prototype readers during a time when the iPad was simply a twinkle in the eye of Steve-o. Now, the e-reader realm as a whole is having to reevaluate itself with the explosion of multifaceted tablets, but we're not giving up hope just yet -- Qualcomm's downright stunning color Mirasol display could turn the tables once more later this year, and Fujitsu's new and improved color e-paper might do the same later this month. Scheduled to debut at the Fujitsu Forum in Japan, this newly developed color electronic paper utilizes a redesigned panel structure and image re-write methods, and there's also an improved contrast ratio to boot. Unfortunately, there's no public commercialization plans just yet, but we're hoping it'll hit a few products sooner rather than later -- time's a wastin', Fujitsu!

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