Friday, October 31, 2008

advertising slogans

source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/List_of_advertising_slogans

Electronics

  • Sharp Minds, Sharp Products
  • like.no.other
  • Life's Good
  • The Perfect Experience
  • Connecting people.
    • Nokia, 1992 Ove Strandberg
  • Hello Tosh, gotta Toshiba?
    • Toshiba, 1984, Gold Greenlees Trott
  • It's a Sega Genesis, it's a SegaCD, and it's a Portable CD Player!
    • Sega of America, marketing the Sega CDX console in 1994.
  • It takes AGES to be as good as SEGA
  • Thousands of possibilities. Get yours.
  • PSP. Hells Yeah. , Dude, get your own.
  • Do me a favor, plug me into a Sega
  • The Look and Sound of Perfect
  • The Audience is listening

[edit]Computing

  • What Do You Want the Internet to Be
  • Enabling Transformation
  • The Way It's Meant To Be Played
  • Powered by Intellect. Driven by Values
  • On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984.
  • Buy Opera today... And make this banner go away
  • e-business solutions
  • on demand
  • Yours Is Here
  • In a world full of Windows, we're handing out rocks
  • [It's] so easy to use, no wonder it's number one
  • So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous
  • sound.vision.soul
  • Where do you want to go today?
  • Your Potential. Our Passion. Microsoft.
  • Your Source of Digital Inspiration.
    • Multimedia InfoCenter
  • Prestigious IT jobs
    • Jobs Consulting
  • The Difference is Dell
  • Simplicity At Work, Better Buy Adobe
  • Where Information Lives
  • We Are Building A New Technology Company
  • Buy it. Sell it. Love it.
  • The World's Online Market Place
  • Experience, Results
  • If you have a reason, we have the job
  • Your Transformation Partner
  • Performance Defined,Results Delivered
  • Releasing Your Potential

[edit]Mobile and telecommunications

lift songs do the time


  • Pure Communication
  • Make The Most Of Now/How Are You?
  • The Future's Bright; The Future's Orange
  • See what you can do - O²
  • An Idea can change your life
    • Idea Cellular India
  • Express Yourself
    • AirTel Cellular Service India
  • Wherever you go, our network follows
    • Hutch Cellular India
  • Stick together
    • T-Mobile
  • Raising the bar
    • Cingular
  • Can you hear me now? Good.
    • Verizon
  • Outthinking. Outdoing
    • Convergys
  • Connecting You.. No Matter where
    • Platform Integration SA.
  • Switch to tataindicom, experience the difference
    • Tataindicom India
  • Do more, live more
    • Tataindicom India
  • BSNL best hai mere liye
    • BSNL(Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited)
  • Connecting people
    • NOKIA
  • Enabling Technology Reach Masses
    • beetel
  • What Business Demands
    • Satyam

[edit]Stock exchanges

  • The World Puts Its Stock In US
  • Stock Market For The Digital World
  • The Index Company
  • Edge Is Efficiency

[edit]Recordings

  • Comparison With the Living Artist Reveals No Difference


  • If it's a King, It's a Hillbilly— If it's a Hillbilly, it's a King
  • Is it live, or is it Memorex?

[edit]Financial services and insurance

[edit]Financial services

  • The World's Local Bank
  • Much more To Do, With YOU In Focus
  • Hum Hai Na.. ("We are there for you.")
  • Enjoy Better Banking With RBS
  • Be rewarded
  • So rewarding

[edit]Insurance

  • I have good news...I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO.
  • So easy a caveman can do it.
  • Gets you back where you belong
  • The Strength to Be There
  • Be Life Confident
  • Your Partner For Life
  • Trust Thy Name Is LIC
    • LIC [Life Insurance Corporation Of India]

[edit]Healthcare

  • Working For A Healthier World
  • Where Patients Come First
  • Science For A Better Life
  • Guidance when you Need it Most
  • Inspired People. Inspiring Results.

[edit]Fashion

  • A diamond is forever.
    • De Beers Consolidated Mines, 1948–present (invented by Frances Gerety)
  • Between love and madness lies Obsession.
  • Can't stop walking
    • Titas Footwear India
  • Create a storm
    • Monsoon
  • Easy, Breezy, Beautiful, CoverGirl
  • Every kiss begins with Kay
    • Kay Jewelers
  • For successful living
    • Diesel
  • Impossible is nothing.
  • Just do it
    • Nike, Inc. (foot wear), 1988-on, Wieden & Kennedy
  • Lifts and separates
  • Makes fashion fashionable
  • Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline
  • Rugs, It's what we do. It's all we do. And we do it better than anyone else.
    • H.A.G Carpets
  • Who wears short shorts? Nair for short shorts!
  • Fuel your instinct
    • Salomon footwear

[edit]Food and drink

[edit]General

  • Amul, The taste of India
    • Amul, a dairy co-operative movement (India).
  • When pizza's on a bagel--you can eat pizza anytime.
    • Bagel Bites
  • Beanz Meanz Heinz
  • Beef. It's what's for dinner.
    • Cattlemen's Beef
  • Bring out the Hellmann's, and bring out the best
  •  How do you handle a hungry man? The Manhandlers.
  • Is it soup yet?
  • If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our Club
  • It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.
    • Perdue, 1972, Scali, McCabe & Sloves
  • King of good ** Kingfisher Beer, (India).
  • Jazz it up!
    • Zattaran's rice products
  • The man from Del Monte, he says yes
    • canned fruits
  • Nowt taken out
  • Once you pop the fun don't stop.
  • Only the best for the Captain's table
  • Ore-Ida! It's all-righta!
  • Pork, the other white meat.
  • There's always room for J-E-L-L-O.
  • They're waffly versatile
  • You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife
  • We answer to a higher authority.
    • Hebrew National hot dogs
  • When it rains, it pours.
    • Morton Salt (1911)
  • You don't have to be silly to drink TK, but it helps!
    • TK minerals (Irish fizzy drinks)
  • With a name like Smuckers....it has to be good
    • Smuckers
  • Delightfully Tacky, Yet Unrefined
  • Leggo my Eggo
    • Eggo Waffles

[edit]Beverages

  • Watch out, there's a Humphrey about!
  • Tang! It's a kick in the glass!
    • Tang citrus juice.

[edit]Beer and liquor

  • Australians wouldn't give a Castlemaine XXXX for anything else
    • Australian Beer
  • Don't be vague, ask for Haig - Haig Scotch Whisky
  • Every Tom Jack or Walt who likes the taste of malt will like the malt in a colt 45.
  • For all you do, this Bud's for you
  • Foster's. Australian for Beer
  • From the Land of Sky-Blue Waters
  • It Starts Here
    • Molson Canadian beer - 2005
  • It's a great day for a Guinness!
  • It's Tankard that helps you excel - after one you'll do anything well!
  • Tastes Great. Less Filling
  • No Nonsense
    • John Smith's
  • Old Milwaukee, tastes as great as its name
    • Old Milwaukee, circa late 1970s
  • Probably the best lager in the world
  • Red Barrel men say the same again to a fistful of flavour - first class beer!
  • Refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach
  • Schaefer's is the one beer to have when you're having more than one!
  • Tick follows tock follows tick follows tock
  • Tonight, let it be Löwenbräu.
    • Löwenbräu, circa 1970s-1980s (United States advertising campaign by Miller Brewing Co.)
  • We drink all we can. The rest we sell.
  • Weekends are made for Michelob
  • Red Stripe: It's beer. HOORAY BEER!
  • Probably the best beer in the world!
  • You dont have to be posh to blow on becks
  • Enjoyed by mates for 130 years
  • We Make Really Good Beer. Make Of It What You Want.
    • New York Harbor Ale (Old World Brewing Company)
  • Smooth Like No Other.
    • Newcastle Brown Ale

[edit]Coffee

  • Celebrate the Moments of Your Life
  • Sanka...Everything You Love About Coffee
    • Sanka
  • The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup.
    • Folgers Coffee (Procter & Gamble)
  • Get back your 'oo' with Typhoo
  • Time out for tiny little tea leaves in Tetley Tea
  • Typhoo puts the T in Britain, the T that stands for taste
  • Fill it to the rim...with Brim
    • Brim
  • Life is short... stay awake for it.
    • Caribou Coffee

[edit]Carbonated soft drinks

  • "A soft drink for hard bastards"
    • Ginger Beer
  • All the sugar, and twice the caffeine (of regular cola)
    • Jolt Cola, 1980s
  • Every bubble's passed its fizzical
  • Made in Scotland from girders
  • Scotland's other National Drink,
  • The totally tropical taste
  • What's the worst that can happen?
  • Who's your soda?
  • You know when you've been Tango'd
    • Tango soft drink, 1994, HHCL
  • Make 7-Up Yours!
  • World Famous in New Zealand
    • L&P, 1990s

[edit]Coca Cola
  • 11:30, Diet Coke break...
  • It's the real thing
    • 1971
  • Just for the taste of it...Diet Coke
  • Life is Good
    • 2001
  • The pause that r
    • 1929
  • The real thing
    • late-1980s
  • Real-2003-2006
  • Thanda matlab Coca Cola (in Hindi, an Indian language). It means "If its a cool drink, Its a Coca Cola"
  • Its your Heimspiel
    • coca cola (for the FIFA Soccer Worldcup 2006 in Germany)
  • Have a Coke and a Smile -1979
  • Coke is it! -1982
  • Live on the coke side of life - 2006
  • Enjoy
  • The Un-Cola - 7UP
  • Sabka Thanda Ek, Coca Cola ( in Hindi, an Indian language). It means everyone's has the same cool drink,coca cola

[edit]Pepsi Cola
  • Ask For More and you shall receive
  • All the taste, 1/3 of the calories, Pepsi Max, 1993
  • Lipsmackin' thirstquenchin' acetastin' motivatin' goodbuzzin' cooltalkin' highwalkin' fastlivin' evergivin' coolfizzin' Pepsi
    • 1973, Boase Massimi Pollitt
  • Pepsi
    • for those who think young
  • The Joy of Cola
  • Nothing official about it [during cricket world cup 1996]
  • Yeh Dil Maange More (in Hindi, an Indian language) - "My heart is asking for more!"
  • Pepsi. The Choice of a New Generation[1984]
  • Have a Pepsi Day! [1977]
  • Yehi hai right choice baby...AHA... (in Hindi) - "This is the right choice, baby!" [Slogan of pepsi when launched in India]
  • Yeh Hai Youngistan Meri Jaan ...New Pepsi Ad slogan in India..[2008]
  • Ithu Youngistan.. Chellam!!!!!!!!.....Pepsi slogan in Tamzhil[2008]
  • Is It In You?
  • Gatorade

[edit]Breakfast cereals

  • Apples, hazlenuts, bananas, raisins, coconuts, sultanas
  • The one and only.
  • Breakfast of Champions
    • Wheaties, 1935, Blackett-Sample-Gummert (later The Breakfast of Champions into the 1990s)
  • Central heating for kids
  • Cocoa Wheat, Cocoa Wheat, can't be beat!
    It's the creamy hot cereal with the cocoa treat
    To be big and strong, have lots of fun
    Eat Cocoa Wheat everyone!
    • Cocoa Wheat
  • I'm Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
  • Just like a chocolate milkshake, only crunchy
  • Kid tested. Mother approved.
  • Makes Red Blood!
    • Grape-Nuts
  • Nobody can say no to the honey nut Os in Honey Nut Cheerios
  • Not too heavy, not too light, it's just right!
    • Kelloggs Just Right
  • Race for the taste, the honey sweet taste!, the honey-nutty taste of Honey Nut Cheerios
  • Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids
  • Tell them about the honey, mummy
    • Sugar Puffs
  • The One and Only Cereal that Comes in the Shape of Animals
    • Crispy Critters
  • They're Magically Delicious [Lucky Charms]
  • Kiwi kids, are weetbix kids
    • [Weetbix]

[edit]Candy

  • The mint with the hole
    • Polo
  • A glass and a half of milk in every pound
  • How do you eat yours
    • Cream egg
  • Earth; What you'd eat if you lived on Mars
    • Mars Bar
  • A hazelnut in every bite
    • Milky Way Today. At work, rest and play! (Milky Way is also made by Mars)
  • All because the lady loves Milk Tray
    • Cadbury's Milk Tray chocolates, 1970s
  • Do you eat the red ones last?
    • Smarties, 1970s or 80s on until the early 90s, revived around 2002 or 2003
  • Do you love anyone enough to give them your last Rolo
    • Rolo confectionery
  • Give me a break! Give me a break! Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar!
  • The longer lasting snack
  • Need a moment? Chew it over with Twix.
  • Not going anywhere for a while? Grab a Snickers.
  • See the face you love light up with Terry's All Gold
    • chocolates
  • The lighter way to enjoy chocolate
  • The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand.
  • The sweet you can eat between meals without losing your appetite
  • Two For Me! None for you- Twix
  • What would you do for a Klondike Bar?
    • early 1990s, early 2000s
  • Where's the cream filling? Hostess cakes
  • Skittles...taste the rainbow Skittles


 * When you've got a snack gap, Twix fits. 
  • makes a nice light snack Coffie Crisp

[edit]Fast food

  • Pasta so good we've changed our name to 'Pasta Hut'(April 2008 Advertisement, to promote new pasta menu)
  • The greatest tasting pizza under one roof.
  • If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face
  • Nobody does chicken like KFC
    • KFC, 2000-Present
  • Finger lickin' good!
  • Think outside the bun.
  • Do what tastes right.
    • Wendy's Restaurants
  • You've always got time for Tim Hortons
    • mid-to-late-1990s-on
  • In-N-Out, In-Out, That's what a hamburgers all about. In-N-Out Burger
  • Quality you can taste. In-N-Out Burger
  • It's jack-a-licious!
    • Jack-in-the-Box fast-food chain (coined by RuPaul)
  • Always Fresh, Tojours Frais
    • Tim Hortons
  • Can't beat that taste.

[edit]McDonalds

See: McDonald's TV campaigns and slogans

  • It's the things that make you go Mmmmm.
  • Where would you be without,,McDonald's?
  • Did somebody say...McDonald's?
  • Smile.
    • Put a smile on, put a smile on. Everybody come on, put a smile on
    • (advertised to children)
    • We love to see you smile
  • You deserve a break today
    • Have you had your break today?
  • (Bah dah buh, bah bah)
    • sung non-sense words, 2003
  • I'm loving it - India, 2005

[edit]Pet food

  • In tests, eight out of ten owners said their cats preferred it.
    • Whiskas
    • Quoted in the title of a television programme as 8 out of 10 cats, a reference to the original rendering of this slogan (8 out of 10 cats prefer Whiskas) which was subsequently changed to the above.


  • Meow Mix, tastes so good cats ask for it by name.


  • It's Bacon!!! - - - -Dogs don't know it's not bacon
    • Beggin' Strips


  • Top breeders recommend it.
    • Pedigree Chum

[edit]Recreation, entertainment, and travel

What Happens Here, Stays Here. Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority



  • Don't just book it. Thomas Cook it.
  • Get out there
    • Royal Caribbean cruise lines
  • Escape Completely


  • Incredible India!
  • More than the usual
    • WOW Philippines~ Department of Tourism, Philippines
  • If it is from SEIKO, It must be Good - Seiko Films, Philippines
  • Malaysia, Truly Asia, Malaysia Tourism Board
  • Enchanting Tamil Nadu
    • Tamil Nadu, India
  • Experience Yourself
    • Tamil Nadu, India
  • Vietnam. A Destination for the New Millennium
    • Vietnam Tourism Promotion Campaign ¹
  • Where Else But Queensland Beautiful one day, perfect the next
    • Queensland, Australia²
  • Pure. Natural. Unspoiled. Iceland. The Way Life Should Be.
    • Iceland Tourist Board ³
  • 100% pure New Zealand - New Zealand Tourism Promotion Campaign
  • Spain is different - Slogan coined by Manuel Fraga (Minister for Tourism of Spain during Franco's dictatorship).
  • We'll leave the light on for you. -Motel 6
  • A Kingdom of Unexpected Treasures
    • Brunei Ministry of Tourism
  • One state many worlds!!
    • Karnataka, India

[edit]Tobacco

  • Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet
    • Hamlet cigars
  • It's that Condor moment
    • Condor tobacco

[edit]Giving up

  • Tobacco is wacko if you're a teen
  • Nicorette, nicorette, you can beat the cigarette! - Nicorette Australia
  • No Gary no, no Gary no. Nooooooo Gary! No Gary no, no Gary no, no Gary, no Gary, no Gary NO! - Nicorette Australia (Note: this add was done with an all-male cheersquad performing infront of "Gary", who was reaching for a cigarette)

[edit]Transport

  • We keep your promises
  • See what brown can do for you
  • When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight

[edit]Airlines

  • The Best Care in the Air
    • Midwest Airlines
  • Because you were born to fly
    • TAM Brazilian Airlines
  • Catch Our Smile
  • When you got it, flaunt it.
    • Braniff Airlines
  • Shining Through - Philippine Airlines
  • Making the sky the best place on earth - Air France

[edit]Automobiles

  • The Power of Dreams
  • AAMCO. Double A, <honk! honk!>, M-C-O
  • chevy drives the motor city
  • Ask the Man who Owns One
  • Bigger in Texas, Better in a Dodge
  • Born from Jets
  • Born to lead
    • Yamaha
  • Créateur d'Automobiles
  • The car in front is a Toyota
  • The Best Built Cars in the World
  • Drivers wanted.
  • Everything we do is driven by you
  • Ford is the Best in Texas
  • Grab life by the horns
  • Have you driven a Ford lately?


  • If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen
  • It's a Skoda. Honest.
  • Obsessed with perfection since 1897
  • The lion leaps from strength to strength
  • Move your mind
  • Pay me now or pay me (i.e. the auto mechanic) later. - Fram filters.
   Zoom-Zoom   Mazda 2007 
  • Passion For The Road
  • The Power Of Dreams
  • Quality is job one
  • The Real Thing
    • Ford Australia, 1970s
  • Right service. Right price.
  • Sheer driving pleasure
  • State of Independence
  • Think Small
  • Time to Re-Tire
  • The ultimate driving machine
  • Vorsprung durch Technik


  • You're the fuel
    • Maruti Swift, India 2005
  • Welcome to the big world
    • Maruti Esteem, India 2005
  • Let's go
    • Maruti Alto, India 2005
  • The Josh Machine
    • Ford Ikon, India
  • The Pursuit Of Perfection -- ad agency: Team One
  • Driven By Passion
  • The Beauty of All Wheel Drive

[edit]Tires

  • Tires With Muscle
  • Power is nothing without control
    • Pirelli
  • Sooner or later you'll own General
    • General

[edit]Gasoline

  • A Leading of Oil and Gas Multinational of Choice
  • Beyond Petroleum
  • Pump your money back into Canada
  • You can trust your car to the man who wears the star
  • Growth Is Life
    • Reliance [Indian Petrochemical Major]
  • A Positive A++itude
  • Gas And Beyond
    • GAIL [Gas Authority of India Limited]
  • Making Tomorrow Better
    • ONGC [Oil & Natural Gas Commission, India]
  • Bring Energy To Life
    • IOC [Indian Oil Corp]
  • Energising Lives
    • BPCL [Bharat Petroleum, India]

[edit]Retail

  • Every little helps ~Tesco
  • Fresh to your family from Jewel (Jewel-Osco)
  • More reasons to shop at Morrisons
    • WM Morrison's
    • The slogan is intended to be read in a Northern English accent, which makes More reasons sound similar to Morrisons
  • Vision. Innovation. Dedication.
    • The Black Rabbit Group
  • The Leader in Business to Business and Marketing Solutions!
    • Ethan's Paper Products
  • Quality food, honestly priced. (2001-2008)
  • Everyone deserves Waitrose. (2008-)
  • Why pay more
    • ASDA
  • That's ASDA price
  • Better ideas better life
  • Save money. Live better.
    • Wal-Mart
  • Don't shop for it, Argos it
    • Argos
  • Make a house a home
    • Homebase

[edit]Manufacturing and engineering

  • Steel Solutions For A Better World
  • Forever New Frontiers
  • The Miracles Of Science
  • Theres A Bit Of SAIL In Everybody
    • SAIL [Steel Authority Of India Ltd]
  • Powering A Greener Tomorrow
  • Exceed Your Vision
  • Everyday Solutions
  • Setting The Standards
  • Powering Change
    • Pratt & Whitney (A United Technologies Company)

[edit]Government, military

See also political slogans


  • Be all you can be
  • Only you can prevent forest fires
    • United States Forest Service
  • The Army National Guard, You Can
  • The Army. The Edge
    • Australian Army
  • We Fly High - Republic of Singapore Air Force
  • Accelerate Your Life. - US Navy
  • Do you have it in you. - Indian Army
  • Britons (a picture of Lord Kitchener) 'wants YOU' join your country's army! GOD SAVE THE KING- British army released in late 1914 (first year of world war 1)
  • Full speed ahead.
    • US Navy
  • Army Strong.
    • US Army
  • Aim high.
    • US Air Force
  • Cross into the blue.
    • US Air Force
  • America's Air Force. No one comes close.
    • US Air Force
  • Do something amazing.
    • US Air Force
  • Above all.
    • US Air Force
  • Strength for now, strength for later. - United States Army (GOARMY.COM)
  • The only easy day was yesterday. - United States Navy Seals
  • Be a Man Among Men - Rhodesian Army
  • Terrorism Stops Here! - Rhodesian Army

[edit]Social, public service

  • Parents who use drugs have kids who use drugs
    • The Partnership for a Drug-Free America
  • This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?
    • The Partnership for a Drug-Free America
  • If you drink then drive, you're a bloody idiot
    • Australian road safety campaign [4]
  • Don't mess with Texas - Texas Anti-Litter campaign
  • Vote for Me - Bantay Bata 163 Election Campaign for Children's Future (ABS-CBN, Philippines)
    • Hi mum, I'm about to drive back home and, if something happens, I want you to know that... I love you and that you've been a wonderful mother, say dad I'm sorry.
    • Darling, I'm going there just in a minute. I love you... and, please, tell our children I'll miss them.

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Ooohhhh: $200 Eee PCs Next Year? [NetBooks]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Jen9kLFmTVI/ooohhhh-200-eee-pcs-next-year

On a recent earnings call, Asus explained some of their plans going into 2009. The big one? The company expects to have a $200 entry level Eee PC—which we assume has no Windows. But that $200 announcement is even more interesting when coupled with another announcement—Asus intends to phase out all 7" and 8.9" models for 10" netbooks. So will the smaller systems go for $200, or will we see a $200 10" netbook in 2009? I guess we'll have to wait to find out. [Digitimes]


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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Intel's Moblin OS for netbooks and MIDs gets a boost from Taiwan

by Donald Melanson, posted Oct 30th 2008 at 3:46PM


Intel's Linux-based Moblin OS may have lost some considerable ground to Windows XP in the netbook space, but it looks like the company is far from ready to throw in the towel, and it's now getting a bit of a helping hand from the Taiwan government. Apparently, the government will be helping Intel open up a new development center in Taiwan, which will be tasked with furthering the development of the OS and, hopefully, attract the interest of local companies like ASUS and Acer. Any further specifics are expectedly a bit light at the moment, but the development center is apparently on the fast-track, with it reportedly set to open in December of this year.

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New in Labs: Calendar and Docs gadgets

Posted by Dan Pupius, Gmail engineer


Gmail Labs has been a really fun way to easily try out new ideas and get some of our pet feature requests implemented quickly. We wanted to take this to the next level and let you start adding your own stuff to Gmail. Today we're launching a few Labs experiments that let you add gadgets to the left-nav, next to Chat and Labels.

To get you started, we've worked with the engineers from the Calendar and Docs teams on two highly requested features: a simple way to see your Google Calendar agenda and get an alert when you have a meeting, and a gadget that shows a list of your recently accessed Google Docs and lets you search across all of your documents right from within Gmail.

There's a third Lab that allows you to add any gadget by pasting in the URL of its XML spec file (e.g. http://www.google.com/ig/modules/youtube_videos.xml). We realize this isn't very user friendly right now; it's a sandbox mainly aimed at developers who want to play around with gadgets in Gmail. We're not tied to the left-nav as a primary way to extend Gmail -- in fact we think it is relatively limited and doesn't offer scalable real estate. There are also some downsides to the iframe-style Gadgets we're using today -- they can sometimes slow down the page. We're fanatical about speed, so we'll be keeping a close eye on performance.

This is also a chance for us to test the developer infrastructure in! volved. We're using common gadget infrastructure, such as the Apache Shindig project, and working with other gadget containers to make gadgets more portable.

We're looking forward to your comments in the Labs forum, so send us your ideas, let us know how you like the Calendar and Docs gadgets, and if you've written a gadget that you think works well in Gmail, post it and let us and other users try it out.

A couple of notes:
(1) Try out Anatol's Navbar drag and drop Labs feature so you can easily re-order all the boxes on Gmail's left hand side.
(2) Not all gadgets are fully compatible with https, so if you're connecting to Gmail via https, you may see mixed content warnings caused by parts of the gadgets being served over http. We're working on fixing this where we can.

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Pixolu Finds Images by Similarity [Search Engines]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/agNrh_eNN3w/pixolu-finds-images-by-similarity


Web-based application Pixolu helps you find images by their similarity to each other. Enter a search term and Pixolu searches the image indexes of Google, Yahoo, and Flickr. Once Pixolu returns results, you can further refine them by dragging images to a holding area on the lower right corner of the interface. In my test run, I searched for pumpkins. I specifically wanted pictures of lots of pumpkins gathered together but not pictures of Jack o' Lanterns or pumpkin pie. By dragging and dropping pictures of multiple pumpkins from my initial search into the sidebar and refining the search, Pixolu narrowed down the remaining images into just those of tons of pumpkins clustered together.


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Ubuntu 8.10 Released, Includes Bootable USB Maker [Featured Download]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/OZeQky9dXfI/ubuntu-810-released-includes-bootable-usb-maker

Ubuntu 8.10, the "Intrepid Ibex" release of the free, open-source Linux distribution, is officially out and available for download. This release doesn't bring much huge or startlingly new to Ubuntu, but does smooth out some rough edges and improves the Wi-Fi, 3G, and portability experience. Check out our full screenshot tour of Intrepid Ibex to see what's inside, and if your ISO downloads or upgrades are going slow today, read up on upgrading using BitTorrent or grabbing updates and ISOs from a mirror server. There's also one or two new tools we didn't catch earlier this month in the final release, which we'll peek at below. Ubuntu 8.10 is a free download; it can run as a live CD or install on most Intel-based systems.

Ubuntu 8.10 includes a simple, working tool that puts a bootable Ubuntu system on a memory stick and lets you use persistent space on it to store settings and documents—in other words, keep a real Home folder there. I really wish, however, that you didn't have to download an Ubuntu ISO to make the disk, or that it could at least point you to a list of mirrors to find one on. In a perfect world, it would just create your USB disk from your current system, removing any specific hardware references and the like. As it is, though, it's a pretty handy tool for any spare thumb drives you've got.

Also new in the release candidate and final version! s of 8.1 0 is a "System Cleaner" applet. I couldn't dirty my brand-new desktop quick enough to give a good screenshot, but the Cleaner will apparently show any unneeded and abandoned software packages hanging around your system, and will also alert you to bad or leftover lines in your /etc/fstab (drive configuration), /etc/X11/xorg.conf (display and device manager), and all the other files you want to back up before messing with. If it works as promised, it's a pretty good step toward that "for humans" slogan the distro touts.

Tell us your impressions of the final Intrepid Ibex in the comments.


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Samsung Shows Off Giant 40-inch OLED HDTV [Televisions]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/DR2tShstxX8/samsung-shows-off-giant-40+inch-oled-hdtv

Way back in 2005, Samsung technically showed off a 40-inch OLED screen. We didn't want to be rude and say anything at the time, but it wasn't sporting HD resolution and the contrast ratio was a measly 5,000:1. Now Samsung is showing off their new 40-inch OLED (that's a mere 8.9mm thick), and needless to say, its specs are more than a little worth our attention.

The prototype runs at a full 1080p resolution and features an overkill contrast of 1,000,000:1. (Most scientists will tell you that the eye cannot distinguish such contrast, but marketers will disagree.)

Its color gamut is 107% of the NTSC standard and it features a luminance of 200cd/m2 (peaking at 600cd/m2).

Unfortunately, Samsung is quick to explain that their main assembly lines are not equipped to produce OLED screens beyond 31 inches (earlier roadmaps slated 40 inchers for 2010). Nevertheless, our home theater system is suddenly feeling extremely inadequate. [NYT and Tech-On]


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Cara Lamp is Crystal-Like LED and Silver Circuit-Board Beauty [Lighting]

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Those little interlaced blades of ice you sometimes get on the edge of ultra-cold things in wet air: that's the image that popped into my head on seeing the Cara lamp. It's by designer Andreas Ostwald and that fragile crystal-like shape is composed of interlocked flat white circuit boards with silver tracks, sprinkled with 70 white LEDs. How lighting should be to my mind: simple, elegant and stunning. Though presumably it's designer status gives it a price premium that'll place it beyond my lustful reach. [Contemporist via LuxuryLaunches]


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HP Wants To Sell You a Carrier-Subsidized Netbook For Cheap With 3G Data [NetBooks]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/00kZDSgHRng/hp-wants-to-sell-you-a-carrier+subsidized-netbook-for-cheap-with-3g-data

We've seen netbooks bundled with a cellular data service contract popping up in other parts of the world, but a report today by the WSJ finds HP considering the same tactic here in the US, where it hasn't been done effectively yet. This would let you buy a Mini 1000 or any other HP netbook at a steep (hopefully), smartphone-esque discount on carriers that may include AT&T and Verizon.

HP is mum on exactly which carriers they're talking to, but those two were mentioned as possible candidates. HP hopes to quadruple their netbook sales to 40 million by 2012 with this plan, so hopefully the subsidy will knock enough off the price to make it worthwhile. Netbooks are mass-market now, but the overlap with people who already pay for a 3G data plan on their phone and want to just tether it will be one issue to surmount. [WSJ]


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