Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on August 16, 2007 by CyberNet.

The latest nightly build of Firefox 3 has a nice new feature that the eye-candy lovers out there will like. In Firefox when you open too many tabs they overflow and scrollers on each end of the Tab Bar appear. That way you can navigate between all of your tabs without having them shrink down to the size of a pea.

Firefox 3 is looking to spruce that feature up a bit my animating the scrolling motion so that it isn’t so choppy. It’s a little hard to explain so I threw together a quick video to demonstrate the new feature:

You’ll also notice at the end of the video I demonstrate the new resizable toolbar elements.

I think that this is a pretty cool feature, but it is of little use to me. Don’t get me wrong…I’m a sucker for eye candy, but I actually modify Firefox so that it almost never scrolls my tabs. I’d honestly rather see tabs that are super small than have to scroll to find what I’m looking for.

Sources: Asa Dotzler & Mozilla Links

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The battery on the now-shipping 17-inch unibody MacBook Pro may not be removable for average, warranty-abiding users, but that didn’t stop the folks at iFixit from removing it and just about everything else that isn’t soldered on. As you might expect, however, apart from that over-sized battery, the internals aren’t too different from the 15-inch unibody MacBook Pro, although the 17-incher unsurprisingly has a pair of noticeably larger fans to keep everything cool, and iFixit describes the component density as “amazing.” Hit up the link below for the complete teardown, and try your best not to imagine a matte black MacBook Pro after catching sight of that battery.

[Via Mac Rumors]

Filed under: Laptops

17-inch unibody MacBook Pro gets disassembled, examined originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While Acer unveiled its plan to launch a pair of Android phones this year via the slightly ancient pen-and-paper method, Samsung used an even trustier method: spoken word. According to Reuters, the company’s head of product strategy Won-Pyo Hong affirmed that Sammy would sell “more than three” Android phones by the end of this year, and furthermore, it would “definitely” unwrap a phone using the LiMo Foundation‘s Linux-based software before 2010 dawns. Hong wouldn’t disclose whether those Google-powered handsets would hit America, Europe or elsewhere first, but he did remark that both the US and Europe would be covered by the year’s end. We’d love to say we’re totally unaffected by such a tease, but c’mon, who has that kind of patience?

Filed under: Cellphones

Samsung: at least three Android phones and a LiMo handset in 2009 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Windows Home Server parade has slowed to a crawl, but we figure we speak for each and every streaming media lover out there when we invite more companies to give this whole thing a go. CyberPower, a firm that generally sticks to gaming towers, has apparently done just that with its Windows Home Server 100, a plainly styled SFF machine that automatically backs up local PCs and provides networked access to all sorts of files. But for those who look closely, you’ll realize that the model name here is just coincidental, as it’s “Windows 2003 Server OEM version” running the show. If you’re still interested, the rig boasts a 1.6GHz Atom 330 processor, a mini-ITX motherboard, GMA 950 graphics, gigabit Ethernet, a 500GB SATA II hard drive and 2GB of DDR2 memory. Shame on you for getting our hopes up, CyberPower.

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Storage

CyberPower intros Atom-powered Windows Home Server 100 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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With VIZIO and Pioneer jumping out of the plasma game, we can totally foresee sales of Panasonic’s 103-inch PDP skyrocketing. All kidding aside, a startup arcade would be ludicrous to not shove one of these into the center of the action. What you’re looking at above is a mutltitouch air hockey table, made possible by Panny’s ginormous plasma and a U-Touch overlay from uicentric. The table was on display over in Amsterdam at ISE 2009, and quite frankly, we’re intensely envious of the attendees who were able to blow off some steam by grabbing a game on this. Obligatory video is just past the break.

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Panasonic’s 103-inch plasma repurposed as multitouch air hockey table originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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