As if you didn’t have enough with the Google case map and CDC’s Twitter, here you have the Swine Flu Tracker for your iPhone or touch. Unfortunately, it may not reach your hands soon enough.
The reason: It still has to go through the authorization process. If it goes through before everyone dies in California, then you will be able to get it for free. If you are alive yourself. [TechCrunch]
Okay, so first things first — we all know the world’s on track to end in 2012, so it’s not like this really matters. But if, just if it manages to survive (à la Y2K), you can pretty much bank on a mass reversal of culture as we all push aside our netbooks and return to the playground. According to some “research” slated to be fully published “later this year,” PCs and laptops are apt to “operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the internet an unreliable toy” from 2012 onward. The reason? Massive growth in internet demand, which is undoubtedly on pace to crush existing infrastructure that can’t ever be improved upon by anyone, regardless of their market capitalization or determination to expand. It’s noted that the internet itself will somehow survive, but that users will begin to see “brownouts,” which are described as “a combination of temporary freezing and computers being reduced to a slow speed.” Thank heavens for FinallyFast, right?
Psst… the solution to all of this is just past the break.
[Thanks, Colin]
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If you’re looking for a backpack that carries both a laptop and camera gear, check out the memorably named Think Tank Streetwalker Hard Drive backpack bag ($180 street). It’s a worthy competitor to the Lowepro Vertex 200 AW (see review). Both carry a 15-inch laptop and a ton of camera gear. My first impression of the Hard Drive was unfavorable because there’s less padding in the Hard Drive backpack. Over time, I came to prefer the compromise: The thinner padding (not no padding) allows for more camera gear yet you’re still protected from routine bumps and jostling. There are other advantages:
Luxeed‘s got a fine history of making the keyboard a fantastical piece of wonder, and its newest offering is not exception. The U5 LED keyboard has pretty much everything one could ask for in a colorful peripheral — programmable, patterned LEDs which are guaranteed to brighten up your day. It boasts support for Windows, Linux and Mac (previous versions were Windows only), so if it’s ever made available outside of Korea, we can guarantee you we’ll be getting one for every member of our dance posse. They’re available for pre-order in Korea now for KRW 99,000 (about $77 USD). One more mountain-moving shot after the break.
[Via Technabob]
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Color changing Luxeed U5 LED keyboard is a rave at your fingertips originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Palm Pre will be the first device to feature the new webOS from Palm
Palm is yet to release its much-awaited Palm Pre phone but there are already reports of another device in the works running the same operating system that Pre is based on.
A new phone from Palm called the Palm Eos is likely to debut on the AT&T network, says Engadget. Palm Eos will run webOS, the new operating system first shown on the Palm Pre earlier this year.
Palm hasn’t commented about Eos but the phone is seen as the successor to Pre. The candy bar style Eos will be slim (about 10.6 mm thick) and will have a 2.63-inch display. It will also be a quadband GSM/HSDPA phone with 4GB storage and a 2 megapixel camera.
The Eos could be priced at $349, excluding a rebate. Check out Engadget’s photo of the Eos.
Without the slide-out keyboard of the Pre, the Eos looks similar to the BlackBerry Bold. The pre-rebate pricing on the Eos seems high for now but if Palm can work with the telecom carrier to bring that down for consumers, it may have a worthy successor to its inexpensive and successful Centro smartphone.
See also:
Palm Pre May Launch in May; Rumor Machine Goes Into Overdrive
Six Reasons Why the Palm Pre Is Special
Palm Unveils Its Long-Awaited Smartphone, the Pre
Video: Hands-On With the Palm Pre
New WebOS Is Palm’s Secret Sauce
Up Close and Personal With the Palm Pre
Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com
HP's new MediaSmart Server LX195 has only one hard drive and comes in a more compact foot print.
(Credit: HP)
I just got my hands on the details of Hewlett-Packard’s upcoming MediaSmart Server, the LX195. Originally, HP had planned on announcing the new network storage server on …
Man, that was fast. Really fast. Not like we’re shocked at all to hear that T-Mobile customers weren’t really digging the idea of paying ten bones per month to keep a digital photo frame alive, but hey — it was worth a shot, right? As of today, T-Mobile’s quickly forgotten Cameo connected digiframe has dropped from $99.99 to $39.99 up front, while the recurring charge to keep the media flowin’ has nearly vanished by going from $9.99 per month to just $1.99 per month. Reviewers over at ZDNet seemed to be quite pleased with the value proposition at the new price point, noting that it was perfect for technologically illiterate family members who yearned to see digital images of you and yours. Sadly, you still have to walk into a T-Mobile retail store to actually buy one, but at least it’s finally worth your while to do so.
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It won’t exactly provide an Ion-level boost in performance, but it looks like the GMABooster app that’s been floating around for a little while does indeed deliver on its promise of providing a small helping hand to the stock Intel GMA 950 graphics found in the majority of netbooks out there. More specifically, the application boosts the clock speed from the standard 133MHz or 166MHz to a full 400MHz, or the same as the non-low voltage chipset found on standard laptops. According to the folks at UMPC Portal, that translates to about a 20% gain in Crystal Mark benchmarks, although you can also unsurprisingly expect to take a slight hit in battery performance as a result. Better still, the app is even available for OS X and in addition to Windows and Linux, so folks that have already been busy tweaking their netbooks in other areas aren’t out of luck.
[Via TweakTown]
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(Credit: Al & Ed’s Autosound)Alpine Electronics broke from the pack a couple of years ago and launched a new series of in-dash radios designed specifically for the iPod user. The company’s studies had shown that iPod listeners rarely listened to the CD format in their vehicles, and almost exclusively used their iPods for listening to their favorite artists.
Alpine reasoned that if it dispensed with the CD mechanism and focused on features that iPod users would appreciate, it would have a hit. It was partially right, but momentum is gaining.
These “mechless” head units were a real break from tradition, and many of the Alpine dealers ran into a mental stumbling block selling radios that could not play CD format. Their iPod customers didn’t care, though and soon the “IDAX” series of products were some of Alpine’s best sellers. They keep getting better and better each year, and recently I had the opportunity to test drive their newest unit, the IXAW404.
(Credit: Alpine)The Alpine IXAW404 is their first double-DiN offering in the iPod lineup. Most cars built today use this size radio, and it offers a lot of advantages over the aftermarket’s standard single-DIN design. Besides looking more factory-like when installed, the double-DIN format provides more physical real estate for the designers to work with, so the consumer gets the benefit of a larger display screen, larger and easier-to-use knobs and buttons and a generally less-cluttered appearance.
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Originally posted at The Car Tech blog
This article was written on May 29, 2008 by CyberNet.
One thing that Google is quite adamant on is making sure that you’re using a browser they officially support, and more times than not Opera users are left in the dark. The new Gmail interface is no exception. If you try visiting the email service in Opera you’ll be forced to use the old-school version of Gmail that doesn’t have color-coded labels, among other things.
If you’re using Opera 9.5 Beta you’ll be happy to know that the new Gmail works pretty well… if you know how to get to it. We’ve previously talked about how you can bypass browser detection in Gmail, and it’s as simple as pointing Opera to:
mail.google.com/gmail?nocheckbrowser
You’ll also want to bookmark that URL so that you have quick access to it in the future, but by using that you should be able to gain access to what’s commonly called Gmail 2. If you don’t see the new stuff right away you’ll want to click the “Newer Version” link in the upper-right corner.
I’m sure many of you are wondering why the heck Google is blocking Opera from using the new interface if it works so well. First off the current stable build of Opera (version 9.27) has some serious issues with Gmail 2. I couldn’t even compose a message using it. Opera 9.5 is a heck of a lot better, but that’s still in Beta, and so Google isn’t going to officially support that yet. Although even in Opera 9.5 Beta the contact manager doesn’t work quite right.
Unfortunately fixing the remaining Gmail 2 problems lies in the hands of the Opera developers, because Google obviously doesn’t see enough value in making their services fully compatible with Opera. The main functionality works fine in Opera 9.5 Beta, but you’ll have to remember to use the special URL above if you want to get the latest and greatest Gmail 2 features.
Thanks for the tip Cody!
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