Hasta La Gadget!

This is how you make an ad. What you are about to see starts of like any other “Will it Blend” episode, but this special edition is a collaboration between Olympus and Blendtec. Once the second camera goes in, you’ll easily guess the ending, but I won’t spoil it here. We’ll just say that this is the kind of smart, innovative advertising that Olympus was famous for right back to its Olympus Trip/David Bailey TV spots.

Will It Blend? – Take Two: The full Olympus Multimedia Blend [YouTube]

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• More Leaked Shots Show Beautiful Retro Olympus ‘Pen’ Camera …

The equation balances, and the idea is obvious, so we wonder why on earth we never had this idea. We throw corks away by the dozen (daily, in my home) and then go out and buy insulating cork mats to protect delicate countertops from hot pans. Surely there’s some disconnect here?

The Salvamanteles Bakus from Ciclus and designer Nikoline Arns is a simple metal tray into which you load old bottle-stoppers and make yourself an instant placemat. There are spikes punched from the stainless steel to keep the corks in place. We most like the renewability — when the corks start to get burned-out you can pop in a new one while celebrating your green-mindedness with a glass of freshly-opened wine. Can you buy it? Of course not. Can you make your own from a cheap, dime-store cake tin? Sure!

Product page [Ciclus via Noquedanblogs]

As we said following the Pre launch, no new gadget is immune to growing pains — especially when it’s tied to a manufacturing and distribution campaign on the scale of the iPhone 3G S. Statistically, it’s just not possible to walk away from an opening weekend without a few hiccups when you’re pushing this many units of anything; the best manufacturers can realistically hope for is to keep problems minor, respond to issues quickly, and spin the crap out of anything that comes up.

To that end, here’s what we’re tracking on the 3G S from the first three full days of sales:

• Apple is awarding $30 iTunes store credits to individuals affected by lengthy activation times on their new phones. Regular activations shouldn’t take more than an hour or two (ours were basically instantaneous) and ports from other carriers should take a maximum of 48 hours, but some unlucky individuals are still waiting to come online. We probably would’ve destroyed the phone with a hammer or a direct impact with a wall by now, so our respect goes out to those of you who are still waiting and haven’t destroyed anything of value.
• It seems that some users are getting the error message pictured above when attempting to hack tethering support onto their AT&T iPhones using mobile config files available online, though repeatedly deleting and re-adding the configuration seems to help in some cases. Of course, AT&T isn’t supporting tethering on the phone at this point anyway, so we wouldn’t expect a shoulder to cry on if you call in to customer service with this one.
• Boy Genius Report is reporting that sounds played by the phone are immediately followed by some sort of extremely high-frequency tone — the kind little kids and the next door neighbor’s dogs hear, but you may not.

Anything else going on out there in the field? Perhaps more importantly, anyone being driven batty by shrieking blasts of ultrasound they couldn’t identify?

[Thanks to everyone who sent these in]

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Apple iPhone 3G S trouble roundup originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on January 29, 2007 by CyberNet.

Notepad++ is definitely my favorite Notepad replacement because of the extensive features that it has built-in. A lot of applications are going to tabbed interfaces these days and Notepad++ realized the importance of this early on, which is actually why I started using it in the first place. Being able to have multiple documents open in the same window is a huge plus not to mention how much room it saves on your Taskbar.

Version 4 brings some new goodies to the table  and now includes the Explorer plug-in pictured on the left-side in the screenshot above. It actually lets you navigate your hard drive so that you can easily open up the documents without fussing with a popup window. Besides for that there are a lot of bug fixes so the upgrade is highly recommended:

• Fix the crash issue.
• Add Docking feature for plugin dialogs.
• Fix the bug that current “open” and “save as” directory are unchanged with the shortcut Ctrl+Tab.
• Fix the bug that the new added languages in v3.9 can not be hidden from the language menu.
• Fix the volatile search direction bug.
• Fix the Tab display problem.
• Add Haskell, InnoSetup languages support.
• Add the option to open/save files in the last operation directory.
• Enhance Document switcher (MRU and switch crossing view abilities).
• Fix “Find Next” unicode bug for Find Replace Dialog.
• Support Unicode in displayed result of Find in files & Find in all opened files.
• Add Reload from disk feature.
• Fix bug : quite (close or restart Windows) without prompt to save.
• All the shortcuts of plugins commands are customizable via the shortcut mapper

If you’re a programmer then you’ll surely love Notepad++ with its syntax highlighting. It supports all kinds of languages including C++, Java, PHP, HTML, ASP, and much more. When you’re just trying to make a quick edit, whether it be to source code or any text document, there is nothing better than to have Notepad++ a click away!

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The good news is that T-Mobile USA has finally gotten around to announce its second Android handset, the myTouch 3G; the bad news, though, is that you can’t have it just yet. The carrier-customized version of the HTC Magic that has already shipped in parts of Europe, Asia, and Canada features a 3.2-inch 480 x 320 touchscreen, AWS 3G for use on T-Mobile’s high-speed network paired with quadband EDGE for global roaming, WiFi, a 3.2 megapixel camera, Exchange support, and — of course — Android 1.5 with all the virtual keyboardin’ you can handle. Better than the G1? Other than the larger internal memory common to all Magics, that’s strictly a matter of personal taste — but don’t worry, you’ll have a while to sort it out, because T-Mobile won’t even start taking preorders from current customers until July 8 for $199.99 on a two-year contract. Those orders will start shipping in late July, with full national availability following on in early August in your choice of black, white, or “merlot.”

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T-Mobile myTouch 3G announced, starts shipping late July originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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