Fireplate is a practical, atmospheric fireplace for outdoor use. It is made of black varnished steel or high grade steel; 20 cm high and a diameter of 75cm. This innovative design can be used in conjunction with the optional barbecue grill as it allows food to be prepared directly over an open fire in the traditional manner.
This article was written on March 12, 2008 by CyberNet.
Web Browser Wednesday
Sometimes I can’t believe how many bookmarks users have. I’ve seen people who only bookmark a handful of the sites that they use the most, while others have thousands of bookmarks. I fall somewhere in between with a few hundred bookmarks, but one thing that I’ve come to realize is how difficult it can be to gain access to all of my bookmarks when I’m on-the-go.
Today we’re going to show you five terrific ways that you can access your bookmarks from a mobile device, and each solution presented here has a mobile-optimized version for browsing your bookmarks. It was a little tougher than I thought to find the quality sites that I eventually came across, and I was quite surprised at how few bookmarking sites actually have mobile versions available.
Without further ado we’ll get the ball rolling what’s likely to be a huge fan favorite…
Foxmarks is a Firefox extension that synchronizes Firefox’s bookmarks with an online server. I’ve always used the service as a way to backup my bookmarks, but “ayup” pointed out in the comments last week that they also offer a mobile site. It’s not an extravagant site by any means, but you can fully browse all of your directories and quickly open bookmarks. In my opinion this is what mobile bookmarking is all about, but it would be nice to be able to add bookmarks from this interface.
Opera was really smart when they launched their Opera Link service, which ties your desktop’s bookmarks together with your mobile device. The only catch is that you have to be using the Opera software (on both your desktop and mobile device) to really take advantage of everything Opera Link has to offer. The service is still accessible in other browsers via link.opera.com, but the site is not really optimized for mobile browsing.
I really can’t believe that Del.icio.us, one of the most popular bookmarking sites, doesn’t have an official mobile site. Steve Rubel has come to the rescue by posting some variations of stripped-down pages that display your bookmarks. Just replace USERNAME with your own Del.icio.us username:
http://del.icio.us/html/USERNAME/?extended=body&tags=no&rssbutton=nohttp://del.icio.us/html/USERNAME/?tags=no&rssbutton=nohttp://del.icio.us/html/USERNAME/?&rssbutton=nohttp://del.icio.us/html/USERNAME/?&rssbutton=no&count=100It’s not exactly the best solution, but it works for those of you looking for something simple. The next two mobile bookmarking solutions we’ve listed support Del.icio.us though…
Mobleo is a full-blown mobile bookmarking solution that goes above and beyond anything that I expected. It has a desktop browser interface available so that managing your bookmarks on your computer is a piece of cake. You can make your bookmarks public or private, organize them into groups, grab some or all of your Del.icio.us bookmarks, prioritize them, and much more.
The mobile interface compliments the service very well. You can manage your bookmarks, browse through the different groups, and surf the different sites using the Mobilfier technology. Mobilfier optimizes a site by stripping unnecessary layout information thereby speeding up the load time. Pretty slick, huh?
Mobilicio.us creates a mobile interface for accessing and navigating bookmarks stored on Del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia, and Wieza. You just have to log into your account, and you can start browsing your bookmarks page by page. Alternatively you can filter through them by tag name, URL, or description.
The thing that I really like about Mobilicio.us is that you can customize the size of the text on the page. If you have good eyes you can make it pretty small to conserve screen space!
By default Mobilicio.us will modify the URL’s of your bookmarks so that they pass through Google’s mobile transcoding service. You can turn this off in the settings, but if you’re on a device with a slow connection it will definitely help by having Google optimize (such as remove the CSS) the page first.
Now is your time to chime in! Let us know in the comments below how you get access to all of your bookmarks when you’re on-the-go.
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This article was written on September 13, 2006 by CyberNet.
News in Googleland today is that they’ve joined with Intuit to form a long term alliance. If you’re unaware, Intuit is probably most well known for QuickBooks, Quicken, and Turbo Tax which millions of people rely on. This new alliance would be used to help small business promote themselves with use of Google service. These services would be built right into QuickBooks 2007. According to the press release we received,
‘Intuit is committed to partnering with best-in-class companies to help solve important customer problems,’ said Steve Bennett, president and chief executive officer of Intuit. ‘By partnering with a leading company like Google, we bring together Intuit’s strength in creating easy-to-use solutions with Google’s Web expertise to offer leading-edge online services to help small businesses attract new customers.’
With more and more businesses taking advantage of the Internet as a way to market their product and services, this should come as a huge advantage to business owners. Those using QuickBooks will benefit from the following services:
The Product Listing Service will be in Beta when QuickBooks 2007 is released and will help businesses owners let online shoppers know that they carry a specific product by making their inventory searchable on Google.
This is definitely one alliance I wouldn’t have suspected but yet one that seems so logical. Small Business are always looking for affordable ways to market themselves. When this service is released, it will be a easy convenient solution. I look forward to seeing how this new alliance is all worked out and how small businesses owners will benefit from it.
Screen shots of the marketing tools for QuickBooks along with the search powered by Google that will be implemented are shown. The official press release can be found here if you’d like additional details.
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If you would’ve told someone back in 1984 that Alexey Pajitnov would become world renowned, they would’ve likely laughed you right out of Russia. But on June 6th of that very year, said individual created what’s easily the planet’s most recognizable puzzle game: Tetris. We mean, who didn’t have a childhood obsession with playing this very title on a TI-83 calculator while professors figured you were toiling away on classwork? Ah, good times. Feel free to share your best memories in comments below, and remember, there’s no shame in tearing up. Or longing for a “T” to come along and fill that one last gap there on the right.
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Tetris turns 25 years young, still puzzles the best of us originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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A teardown of the Palm Pre, just hours after its nationwide launch, has revealed an ultra-fast processor and a solid build but a touchscreen module that could become a trouble spot for some buyers.
“It’s a good design with components that, while not quite at the bleeding edge, are at the forefront of their competition,” says Aaron Vronko, CEO of Rapid Repair, the company which dissected the phone told Wired.com. Technicians took about an hour-and-half to slice through the device.
Palm launched the Pre exclusively on the Sprint network Saturday. Reviews of the Pre have praised the phone’s design, its completely rebuilt operating system and its ability to multitask. But they have also pointed out drawbacks such as the device’s cramped keyboard and poor battery life. The Pre will cost $200, after a $100 mail-in rebate, on a two-year contract.
Vronko and his team’s repair toolkit for the Pre included a small Philips screwdriver, a flat head screwdriver, a razor blade, pliers and a solder iron. Removing the back panel was easy since, unlike the iPhone, the battery on the Pre can be replaced.
“We found the overall construction of the Pre to be typical of slider phones,” says Vronko who rates the difficulty of taking the device apart a seven out of ten and comparable to the iPhone.
The Pre’s system board has a Texas Instruments CPU (TWL5030B/ 94A20PW C), an Elpida memory chip and 8GB NAND memory chip from Samsung.
“The processor on the Pre is almost 50 percent faster than the iPhone,” says Vronko. “One reason could be that Apple may have clocked down the speed on its iPhone processor to reduce power consumption and heat generation.”
The Pre stumbles when it comes to its touchscreen says Vronko. In the Pre, the LCD and capacitive touchscreen are permanently glued together. It’s similar to how the first generation iPhone was built. But the subsequent iPhone 3G has the two screens as separate modules. The advantage for users is that in case of a problem with the screen it is easier to repair if they are different modules, says Vronko.
“If the screen is damaged, it’s almost twice as expensive to repair and replace it if they are glued than if the two are discrete components,” he says.
Another likely trouble spot for the Pre is the slider mechanism that could wear out over time, warns Vronko. Still, he rates the Pre a “solid build”. “The phone is in pretty good shape,” he says.
See more photos from the Pre teardown
Palm Pre with its back panel removed
Palm Pre’s front panel exposed
Palm Pre’s front panel board view
For step-by-step view of the Pre disassembly, check out Rapid Repair’s site
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Wait, this thing’s for real? Obviously so, else that’s one awesome KIRF shown in the video just past the break. Sadly, it seems as if Samsung’s AMOLED-equipped S8000 “Cubic” is still quite some ways from shipping to US soil, but those who need to brush up on their Spanish can tap the read link for loads of impressions.
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Samsung’s S8000 “Cubic” smartphone shown on video originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Springwise: If magazines, restaurants and hotels can turn to pay-as-you-want pricing schemes to help them survive the recession, why not an ad agency? Sure enough, Agency Nil offers a variety of freelance branding, media and advertising services without any set price, leaving it instead up to clients to decide how much to pay.
Clients begin by submitting a work request form with Agency Nil. Drawing from its pool of recent grads and between-jobs business and advertising professionals, the agency gets the work done by the deadline requested. It’s then up to the client to decide how much the work is worth—the only charges required to be paid are those agreed upon ahead of time for travel, proprietary research tools and production. If a client decides not to pay anything, “it’s not likely that we will do work for you in the future,” Agency Nil explains; then again, “we’ve yet to have that happen, ever.” Revisions and further work are arranged once a client has valued and agreed to pay for the first assignment.
NEW YORK–The much-anticipated Palm Pre may have gotten almost as much hype as the Apple iPhone over the past six months, but its opening day fell short of the attention iPhones grabbed on their first days.
The Sprint store in the Flatiron building on Manhattan’s Fifth Ave. received nearly 200 Palm Pres for the launch.
(Credit: Marguerite Reardon/CNET)
Unlike the huge crowds of people that formed long lines and camped out in front of Apple and AT&T stores days in advance of the iPhone’s launch, crowds for the Palm Pre were much smaller and tended to arrive in the morning just before stores opened.
Neither Sprint nor Palm have released official figures about how many devices they hoped to sell on the Pre’s first day. But Sprint representatives had been trying to downplay expectations for iPhone-like crowds ahead of the launch. Sprint spokesman Mark Elliott told The New York Times earlier this week that the company not only didn’t expect long lines for the Pre at its 1,100 stores, but that it didn’t want them.
And it looks like the company got its wish. Salespeople at Sprint stores in New York City said a handful of people gathered outside their locations early Saturday morning. But most lines didn’t even come close to the madness experienced on iPhone launch days.
Crowds tended to be bigger at Best Buy stores, which were offering the device for the $199 price without the $100 mail-in rebate. Customers buying a Pre from Sprint, the exclusive carrier of the device, pay $299 at the time of purchase and can get $100 back with a mail-in rebate. According to Rich Pesce, a Sprint spokesman, most new phones offered through the carrier have the mail-in rebate offer.
Many Best Buy locations sold out of the Pre almost immediately. …
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We’ve never been fans of Microsoft’s ability to put hard limits on netbooks with Windows XP; it’s this fact alone that has kept the entire sector from moving forward in terms of specification advancement. Though, we’d probably wager that MSI is even more livid, as bit-tech has reportedly learned that the company’s Wind U115 will soon be yanked from store shelves. The reason? The machine’s hybrid storage system, which puts Windows XP on an SSD and allows other applications and media to be loaded on the HDD. Oddly, the netbook is still for sale on MSI’s webstore, and just a few days ago we saw NEC unveil a hybrid netbook over in Japan. Please Microsoft, reconsider — do it for love, do it for justice.
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Microsoft reportedly bans netbooks with hybrid storage systems, MSI’s Wind U115 caught in the middle originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Sure, it’s Palm’s big day, but that doesn’t mean the Apple rumor mill is taking a break — check out this pic of what might be the new iPhone set to drop on Monday. Yep, that’s a matte black casing with no chrome border, a what looks to be a front-facing camera, and iPhone OS 3.0, so it certainly lines up with what we’ve heard — but it wouldn’t exactly take a Photoshop master to do this one up either. One more pic at the read link — anyone believing this?
Update: Nowhere Else seems to be down at the moment, so we’ve stuck the other shots after the break.
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Is this the new iPhone? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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