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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
NVIDIA revs up pro graphics lineup
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/nvidia-revs-up-pro-graphics-lineup/
Read - Workstation graphics press release
Read - SLI Multi-OS press release
Filed under: Desktops
NVIDIA revs up pro graphics lineup originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | Email this | CommentsWestern Digital enters SSD market via $65m SiliconSystems acquisition
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/
Filed under: Storage
Western Digital enters SSD market via $65m SiliconSystems acquisition originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsAsus makes optical-endowed Eee PC 1004DN official
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/asus-succumbs-makes-eee-pc-1004dn-official/
Filed under: Laptops
Asus makes optical-endowed Eee PC 1004DN official originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsLG Xenon, Neon join Samsung Magnet and Impression on AT&T
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/lg-xenon-neon-join-samsung-magnet-and-impression-on-atandt/
Filed under: Cellphones
LG Xenon, Neon join Samsung Magnet and Impression on AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsSkype Coming to iPhone Tuesday, BlackBerry in May [Skype]
The iPhone client feature set is more or less what we've come to expect from Skype mobile apps: free Skype-to-Skype calls, SkypeOut support, pretty interface integration (they went with the iPhone aesthetic over the Skype desktop aesthetic, thankfully) and instant messaging to other users. You can even snap a profile picture from within the app. The app will also support 2G iPod Touches with external mics.
But! For those of you who held onto the vain hope that an official client might be able to somehow skirt the universal App Store ban on voice over IP over 3G (VoIPo3G?), forget it—you won't be able to Skype unless you're connected to a wireless network, and text messaging has been entirely excluded. You can't even top up your SkypeOut account or purchase other services like voicemail, which, by the way, can't be accessed from the app.
Not to poop on Skype's party, but this announcement leaves me with questions—specifically, why should I download this? Third party apps like Fring picked up Skype's slack a long time ago, and lump in multiprotocol IMing, something which gives them a distinct advantage over this official client on the one-app-at-a-time-plea! se iPhon e. Skype told CNET that their app will have better voice quality (and probably lower latency), but aside from that was unable to offer many significant advantages over other apps. [CNET and NYT —Images from CNET]
GeoBulb LED light bulb uses just eight watts, rings up at $120
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/29/geobulb-led-light-bulb-uses-just-eight-watts-rings-up-at-120/
[Via Times-Standard]
Filed under: Household
GeoBulb LED light bulb uses just eight watts, rings up at $120 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsAT&T pulls trigger on Nokia E71x and Samsung Propel Pro
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/atandt-pulls-trigger-on-nokia-e71x-and-samsung-propel-pro/
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
AT&T pulls trigger on Nokia E71x and Samsung Propel Pro originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsLG's GD900 with (multi-touch?) transparent keypad gets S-Class UI
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/lgs-gd900-with-multi-touch-transparent-keypad-gets-s-class-u/
[Via Akihabara News and Engadget Korea]
Continue reading LG's GD900 with (multi-touch?) transparent keypad gets S-Class UI
LG's GD900 with (multi-touch?) transparent keypad gets S-Class UI originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsNokia 5800 XpressMusic software update available: faster, better, updater
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/nokia-5800-xpressmusic-improved-with-free-software-update/
Nokia's hot selling 5800 XpressMusic handset just got a little bit better. Available now, the free update promises faster Internet data, built-in dictionary with text-to-speech support, an improved overall UI and eMail experience, and better in-device search. Nokia's also tweaked the cameras adding still image support to the front-facing video-call camera and a burst mode for capturing multiple snaps while holding the shutter button. There's also a new Application Update feature that identifies and downloads updates to your installed applications automatically. Giddy up.Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic software update available: faster, better, updater originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsSunday, March 29, 2009
Foldable Bicycles: How Real Today?
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/yankodesign/~3/Fgob48lbOt0/
Perhaps you’d enjoy such a thing? Consider the following: not from the Twilight Zone, but for your approval: folding bikes. Seen any lately? At Yanko, we’ve had several. Lots of them have parallel features, the most common being the amount of collapsing the bike does. With this most recent inception into the folding hall, the “Antares Lift,” we get front stem, handle bars, seat, and back wheel, all folding up into the bike.
Above: “Antares Lift” by Hideki Kawata. It’s folded shape is inspired by a tear drop and an orchid leaf. Single-speed drive, LED lights. To fold the bike: lift up center latch and let the wheels roll together to click.
Entered and logged…
In no particular order, the Yanko Bike Folding Archive!
GrassHopper The Folding Recumbent Bike : 96 x 60 x 70 cm at it’s smallest size. GrassHopper The Folding Recumbent Bike
A-Bike : Weight: 5.5 kg, folding time: 10 seconds, enclosed chain system (it’s like a secret bonus!) : A-Bike - Folding Bicycle by Daka Design
GrassHopper (electric) : This version is an electric bike that can be folded down as well as charged, for those times when pedaling is crappy : This Grasshopper Folds and Generates Electricity
One : Statisticless but rendered in a way that makes the bike appear (basically) intuitive : maybe the lightest of the bunch? : 'One' - Folding Bicycle by Thomas Owen
Fold much? How close are any of these to a functional design that you’d be unable to resist? What do you look for in a folding bike? Is it really necessary to fold a bike in an environment that’s been built to cater to bikes nearly everywhere? Where will I put my folded bike once I’ve brought it into the office?
All these questions for the folded few. Bike on.
Designer: Multiple Designers. Click each picture for more info.
Top 10 Tools for a Free Online Education [Lifehacker Top 10]
Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/AHuvhabq5xY/top-10-tools-for-a-free-online-education
Photo by Sailor Coruscant.
10. Teach yourself programming
9. Get a Personal MBA
8. Learn to actually use Ubuntu
Too often, newcomers to Ubuntu, the seriously popular Linux distribution, find that their questions about any problem great or small is answered with a curt "Search the forums," or "Just Google it." From experience, that's like telling someone there's maple sap somewhere in that forest, so here's a nail and get moving. With a brand-new installation sitting on your computer, few resources are as straight-forward and comprehensive as the Ubuntu Guide, which is packed with common stuff like installing VLC and getting VLC playback, but spans across topics including Samba and remote printing configuration. Author Keir Thomas also offered Lifehacker readers a little preview of his Ubuntu Kung Fu in two excerpts that tweak one's system into a faster, more efficient data flinger.
7. Get started on a new language
6. Trade your skills, find an instructor
5. Academic Earth and YouTube EDU
4. Teach yourself all kinds of photography
3. Get an unofficial liberal arts major
Whole-mind learning doesn't end the day you declare a major and start sending out resumes. A huge number of universities offer up some of thei! r most u nique and fascinating resources for free online, posting up databases, image galleries, and all kinds of stuff you wish you had time to dig through during your undergrad years. Learn everything you ever wanted to about Picasso at Texas A & M's Picasso Project. Indulge your inner geo-geek with super hi-res images from Hirise at the University of Arizona. Tour the world's spaces in 3D with The World Wide Panorama at UC Berkeley. Wendy Boswell discovered those resources and way more in her discovery of the .edu underground, and you can find a lot more down there, too.
2. Learn an instrument
1. Learn from actual college courses online
Where do you turn when you have to teach yourself something? What skills or topics would you like to see more coverage of on Lifehacker, or just anywhere on the web? Help us plan a curriculum in the comments.
Timelapse Garden Video Camera Watches Your Garden Grow So You Don't Have to [Cameras]
The Timelapse Garden Video Camera (henceforth TGVC) is a weatherproof digital camera that'll take interval photos and combine them into a neat 1280x1024 video file presumably via some custom software. The intervals can be anywhere from every five seconds to every 24 hours, and can shoot objects as close as 20 inches away or as far as a 54-inch wide view. It comes with a removable 2GB of storage and the battery will last for up to 4 months while taking a picture per hour. It costs $159.99, which is awfully cheap considering you'll pay about the same for a half-decent point-and-shoot that'll explode upon the first morning dew. Then how will you watch your tomato crop wither and die because you counted on God to water it for you? [Hammacher Schlemmer via OhGizmo]
New Airplane Interior Design Allows for Romantic Dinner for Two [Airplanes]
The new design—which will debut in their new A330 airplanes—is quite a change from traditional my-cabin-is-my-oyster first class designs. According to the airline, it's more "architectural" which goes with the "design language of the brand." According to Paul Estoppey, senior manager and head of cabin interior development for Swiss International:
Our product drive is primarily intended to [lots of corpospeak here] I think that in the context of the current economic climate there may be opportunities for [blah blah blah. blah] while at the same time maintaining very high levels of comfort.
Quick translation: "New seat for rich people. The rest of you please keep eating your cardboard chicken." [Flight Global]
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