HDD Stage Rack grows an eSATA port
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/222924627/
Filed under: Storage
[Thanks, Tyson W.]
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Friday, January 25, 2008
[Thanks, Tyson W.]
Toshiba and Panasonic double OLED lifespan -- exceeds LCDs
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/222896428/
Filed under: Displays
[Via techradar]
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
Make a Mobile Friendly Version of your Blog with Google Reader
Source: http://www.labnol.org/internet/design/how-to-create-mobile-phone-optimized-blog/2132/
They are not interested in the sidebars, navigation areas and other design elements - all they want to see is a simple listing of your blog posts in reverse chronological order. If they like to read a post, they can click the title and a mobile friendly version of that page should open on the screen of their cell phone.
You may not be a geek or may have the time to create a mobile edition of your blog so here are two simple hacks to help you out - your blog content won’t just look extremely readable on a mobile phone screen, it will also load very fast.
1. Google Reader - The Ten Second Solution
Google Reader can generate an excellent mobile view of your RSS feed without any effort. Just append your feed address to the following URL and your mobile blog is ready.
http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/[feed_address]
And here’s a live example - use your mobile phone to see the awesome page rendering
http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://feeds.labnol.org/labnol
Call this link "Mobile Site" and place it somewhere at the top of your blog design so mobile phone users will notice it instantly and switch to the mobile view.
2. The next solution is to create a free account at mofuse.com and they’ll give a personal mobile website with a .mobi address - something like http://labnol.mofuse.mobi/.
If you have self-hosted blog like on WordPress or Blogger Custom domains, you can easily setup the mobile edition of your site on a subdomain (e.g. m.labnol.org) - it is short and your users can easily guess the URL since almost all popular sites now follow the m. convention.
WordPress users are lucky as there’s a plugin that will automatically detect if the client is a mobile phone browser and it then renders a mobile friendly version of the blog to the visitor.
Related: Create Printer Friendly Blog with PDF Support
Make a Mobile Friendly Version of your Blog with Google Reader - Digital Inspiration
Create MP3 Files From Text in Emails and Web Pages
Source: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/convert-email-text-to-mp3-files/2140/
You just have to copy the text from a web page or an email and paste it inside the Vozme text box.
While there are tons of solutions that convert text to spoken words, what I liked about Vozme is the clutter free interface and the fact that it runs inside the browser without requiring any downloads.
Bloggers can easily integrate the Vozme feature in the site so visitors can either listen to your full blog posts or they can select a portion of text and have Vozme narrate it like a speech.
Vozme.com - Accepts Spanish, English and Italian languages. Thanks Jane.
Related: Listen to Email, Word Documents on iPod
Create MP3 Files From Text in Emails and Web Pages - Digital Inspiration
Africa: small-scale generator powered by sugar and yeast (video)
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/221909009/africa-smallscale-ge.html
Afrigadget recently blogged about an inexpensive power source for Africa created by Dr. Cedrick Ngalande in Malawi. Today, the blog points to videos of the invention in action:Link to post with video.The rotor moves slowly most of the times but does pick up at certain intervals. This process continues for many hours. Since the rotor is quite heavy (and hence more inertia) a small geared DC motor can be connected to the rotor to generate power for cell phones, $100 laptops, and other things in Africa. People can leave this thing to charge their phones/$100 laptops overnight.
Basically we have two chambers on either end of the rotating (pivoted) rod. The arrangement of the chambers is such that on either side of the rod, one chamber sits on top of the other (this is important). At the beginning of this operation, I fill the bottom chamber on each side with a yeast sugar solution. Each bottom chamber is always locked under pressure by special valves. Due to pressure the solution starts moving from a bottom chamber into its respective top chamber. Note that by moving upwards, the fluid's center of gravity shifts, resulting in a mass imbalance which causes the wobbling.
Sleeveface pool on Flickr
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/222441038/sleeveface-pool-on-f.html
Sleeveface is my new favorite Flickr pool. There are more than 700 examples and they're a total laff riot. Seen here are contributions from John Rostron (left) and Godesinge (right). Link (Thanks, Jess Hemerly!)
AT&T hands out free hotspot access to broadband customers, ups its bandwidth
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/222466758/
Filed under: Wireless, Networking
AnyTV Streams Internet Video to Your Desktop [Featured Windows Download]
Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/221360527/anytv-streams-internet-video-to-your-desktop
Windows only: The free AnyTV streaming video player gives you access to dozens of internet media streams (television, radio, and other video) from one interface for easy viewing at your computer. AnyTV isn't quite as slick as our favorite Joost, but for TV junkies, it does offer an eclectic collection of streams from around the world. I had trouble getting some channels to play in AnyTV, but did wind up watching a bit of Eyewitness News while testing. After the jump, see a full screenshot of AnyTV in action.
AnyTV is a free download for Windows only.
AnyTV [via Download Squad]
Turn Any Content into a Start Page Widget with Orchestr8 [Start Pages]
Share Your Keyboard and Mouse Across Computers with Input Director [Featured Windows Download]
Input Director [via FreewareGenius]
E-Paper Slap Bracelets: Like the 80's...Except Different [Concept]
Fujifilm's FinePix F100fd, Z20fd, and new J-series of compact shooters
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/222239667/
Read -- F100fd
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Philips READIUS Materializes With Fold-Away Screen [E-reader Phone]
Monday, January 21, 2008
Should You Cancel All Your Advertising?
Source: http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/01/06/should-you-cancel-all-your-advertising/
He understood that, in an increasingly transparent environment, being truly customer focused would matter more than telling customers about how great your service was.
Recently, Joe Nocera of The New York Times told millions of people that Amazon puts customers first in his part article, part testimonial, part morality tale, "Put Buyers First? What A Concept." You should read it in full but here are a few excerpts:
"They care about having the lowest prices, having vast selection, so they have choice, and getting the products to customers fast," [Mr. Bezos] said. "And the reason I'm so obsessed with these drivers of the customer experience is that I believe that the success we have had over the past 12 years has been driven exclusively by that customer experience. We are not great advertisers. So we start with customers, figure out what they want, and figure out how to get it to them."
Anybody who has spent any time around Mr. Bezos knows that this is not just some line he throws out for public consumption. It has been the guiding principle behind Amazon since it began.
[…] Amazon says it has somewhere on the order of 72 million active customers, who, in the last quarter, were spending an average of $184 a year on the site. That's up from $150 or so the year before. Amazon's return customer business is off the charts. According to Forrester Research, 52 percent of people who shop online say they do their product research on Amazon. That is an astounding number.
[…] Indeed, in a presentation to analysts in late November, the company's chief financial officer, Thomas J. Szkutak, showed one slide that read, "Over $600 Million in Forgone Shipping Revenue." And that was just for one year.
Wall Street, however, has never placed much value in Mr. Bezos' emphasis on customers. What he has viewed as money well spent — building customer loyalty — many investors saw as giving away money that should have gone to the bottom line.
[…] There is simply no question that Mr. Bezos's obsession with his customers — and the long term — has paid off, even if he had to take some hits to the stock price along the way. Surely, it was worth it. As for me, the $500 favor the company did for me this Christmas will surely rebound in additional business down the line. Why would I ever shop anywhere else online?
Clearly, it was worthwhile for Amazon to cancel its advertising.
Am I advocating that you cancel your ad budget? Perhaps. How are your products, service and customer experience doing?
Your customers' delight matters even more tomorrow than it did yesterday, especially online.
When a visitor comes to your website, will they brag to their friends about what they bought and who they bought it from, or will it be somebody else they rave about?
Can you tell me why they shouldn't brag about you, your products, and your service? After all, it's the customer experience that matters. So why aren't they buying?
Do you need help figuring out why they don't buy from you? We can't fix your products or services but we can help you improve your online customer experience, increase your conversion rates and help you understand your customers better.
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