After transitioning from vinyl to laptop computers, could the Apple iPad represent the next revolution for DJ technology? pOriginally posted at a href=”http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-20000822-49.html” class=”origPostedBlog”MP3 Insider/a/p
Impossible Project’s Polaroid film goes on sale this week originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Viliv S10 Blade gets reviewed, Best Buy now selling Viliv devices originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
If you head to Google.cn, you’ll be re-directed to Google.com.hk with a message saying “Welcome to the new home of Google China search.” So that’s that, I guess. More »
It looks as if Lightroom 3 will get basic video handling, better image noise reduction, and tethered shooting support. A second beta version appears imminent. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000914-264.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Deep Tech/a/p
iTunes gifting has always been a nice, lazy way to wish a friend a happy birthday or holiday, but until now that feature has been exclusive to iTunes audio and video media. Now, Apple has added the ability to send iPhone apps as gifts.
After agreeing to the new iTunes Store terms and conditions, you’ll be able to select a “Gift This App” option from the pull-down menu next to an app’s price. From thereon, you can punch in the name and e-mail address of your desired recipient, along with a personal message, and iTunes will send him or her a redemption code to download the app.
It works the same way as gifting music or movies, which has been a popular feature in the iTunes Store. This is especially good news for iPhone developers, as the gifting feature can induce brand new iPhone owners to download their first paid app ever. Gifting might just work as a gateway drug that gets iPhone owners hooked on the addictive experience of paying for new apps and digital media in general, which would further stimulate the app economy.
A hat tip to Rana Sobhany, who first noted the change in her blog.
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A little gear news from today’s DEMO Conference in Palm Desert, California: MEDL Technology showed a prototype of The Panel, the first fully functional portable LED monitor. It’s meant for laptop users, to give them a lightweight second display that they can easily pack up and take with them. It has a 13-inch screen and weighs just 2.2 pounds. The Panel is battery-operated so it can work in any location.
Connect The Panel to a Mac or Windows computer via a USB port and it’s ready to go in less than 10 seconds. The company claims a 5-hour battery life, fantastic LED brightness, and high-resolution clarity. While laptop users are the target audience, MEDL is quick to say that it can be used with portable video players, iPhones, gaming consoles, and more.
No word on when The Panel will reach stores or how much it will cost, but you can sign up for updates on the company’s site.
Samsung’s world-beater — you know, that Wave S8500 that debuted back at Mobile World Congress — was revealed without one of the most vital statistics, but that’s being remedied today courtesy of a product listing over at Amazon’s German portal. The Bada-equipped device, complete with a Super AMOLED display that’s supposedly viewable in broad daylight, has found a €429 MSRP across the pond, which equates to around $579 using today’s highly volatile exchange rates. Granted, that’s a contract-free (read: unsubsidized) price, but we’re still going to hold out for a late-night session with the new OS before pinging our importer. Plus, those funky European AC adapters do nothing at all for us. Sorry.
Update: Looks like some other German outlets have it priced even lower. Huzzah!
Samsung’s Super AMOLED-packin’ Wave S8500 priced in Germany: €429 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
This article was written on November 16, 2007 by CyberNet.
Mozilla has been taking some heat the past few days because of a post by Computer World’s Gregg Keizer. In it he quoted the latest Firefox 3 Meeting notes saying that 80% of the Firefox 3 bugs will not get fixed by the time the browser is released.
It is true that Mozilla, in one of their plans, had said that they would leave 80% of the bugs in the browser, but there was nothing set in stone. Their meeting notes were essentially a brainstorming session where they were tossing ideas around. One of the disadvantages of operating an open source organization is that they can’t really discuss ideas without the public being clued in. The Quality Assurance leader, Asa Dotzler, called Keizer’s claim “simply horseshit.” He said that they have “already fixed over 11,000 bugs and features in Firefox 3 and now we’re discussing how to handle the remaining 700 issues.“
The truth of the matter is that they can’t possibly fix every single bug that is found before they release the next version of Firefox, otherwise it would never get released. The subsequent releases of Firefox are what’s supposed to fine tune the browser.
The meeting notes have since been edited, and the guilty section has been removed. I’ve copied the missing sections below so that you can see what was said, particularly in “proposal 2″:
Beta 2 criteria, proposal 1
- Should go in for beta 2:
- Bugs likely to cause regressions — it is better to land risky patches for beta 2 than later!
- Bugs that prevent many users from browsing the web on a daily basis
- Security issues
- Top crashers
- Can go in for beta 2:
- Memory leaks
- Performance issues
- Major regressions from Firefox 2
- Functionality in support of a P1 PRD item (?)
Beta 2 criteria, proposal 2
[…]
- Should go in for beta 2:
- The 10% most important blockers
- Anything risky (likely to cause regressions) among the next 10% most important blockers
- Should go in for beta 3:
- The next 10% most important blockers
- Should be cut from Firefox 3:
- New features that have not gone in yet.
- Any patch with too much risk of regressions to go in at the beginning of the beta 2 cycle (because there will never be a safer time to land them)
- The rest of the “blockers” (80% ?)
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