Go Live 1000 navigation device, set for a European launch this summer, will offer real-time connection for traffic, weather, and fuel info on the continent. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20003504-94.html” class=”origPostedBlog”News – Wireless/a/p
Took you long enough, eh TiVo? Just under five months after the AN0100 802.11n WiFi adapter splashed down in the FCC’s database, the company responsible for the Premiere has finally decided to ship this here dongle. The newly christened TiVo Wireless N Network Adapter is designed to function with all dual-tuner TiVo boxes (though it won’t play nice with the DirecTV DVR with TiVo), enabling those who’d rather not run a 50 foot Ethernet drop to still access web features. Fortunately, it’s available now for those who’ve waited; unfortunately, it’ll cost you a staggering $89.99. Check it out now from TiVo’s website or pick it up later this week at your local Best Buy.
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There’s no going wrong with HDR photography. At its most sensitive, the technique allows for color/tone gradients rarely appreciated by anything but the naked eye. At its most aggressive, HDR’s a hyperreal spectacle. This week’s Shooting Challenge celebrate both schools: More »
Flamboyantly attired in a flowing fuchsia scarf, the Mini Game King is probably guilty of countless copyright violations, but we don’t care. The real question is whether this latest KIRF PSP can actually play games, and we’re happy to say it does. Summoning the full might of its infringing power, the King can emulate eleven classic consoles and handhelds when it’s not playing AV files from 4GB of internal memory, and its Chinese manufacturer triumphantly claims that the device “will make you happy unlimited” if you hook up an wireless six-axis controller as well. “This controller does not come with the console, you have to pay for it,” reads the box, but we’re dying to try “3Dthergame” and “Othergame” as soon as we can dig one up.
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For panorama-obsessed French photographer Steven Monteau, every photo is better if lengthened or widened with others. For him, even exposing a single, elongated image spanning a good six inches of 35mm film and spilling out across the sprocket holes is not enough. No, Steven would only be happy stretching three lengths of film out in parallel, and shooting onto all of them simultaneously. Still not crazy enough for you? Then why not make it a pinhole camera?
Above you see the result of Steven’s crazed concept, dubbed the Battlefield because it looks like, um, a battleship. It is constructed of cardboard, tape, aluminum foil (for the pinholes), plastic tubes, nails and bottle-tops. The three reels of film run along the length of the box, and its odd shaped ends are due to the three 35mm cartridges being offset to get the film strips close enough together. The results are stunning:
Inside, the mechanics are complex, as you’ll see if you follow the step-by-step tutorial Steven has written for DIY Photography. While one crank winds all three reels forward, and a neat rubber-band-and-nail assembly keeps the film in tension, there are three separate knobs to rewind the film.
I’m not sure what I like most here. The meticulously-made camera, the crude and beautiful images complete with sprocket holes and the mix of different films stocks, or the intricate and detailed illustrations accompanying the how-to. One thing I do know: I want one.
The Battlefield Pinhole Camera [DIY Photography]
Photos: Steven Monteau/Flickr
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While RIM’s WES 2010 keynote is still ongoing, the company’s YouTube channel has kindly released the first teaser video for the incoming BlackBerry 6 operating system. There’s a lot of movement on screen — so much, in fact, that it’s almost like RIM really doesn’t want you to see the OS at all. We did catch sight of a Cover Flow-aping music organizer, an onscreen keyboard engaging in some threaded messaging, Facebook and Twitter clients, and even the briefest of glimpses at that famed WebKit-based browser. Interaction in the video is done via touch, but you’ll naturally be able to utilize the new interface on more conventional, touch-less devices as well. Skip past the break for the moving pictures.
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We’ve just returned from a ride with the TomTom Go Live 1000. In general, the device met our relatively high expectations set by a purported flagship navigator from the likes of TomTom. Unfortunately, the prototype unit guiding our vehicle was limited to a scripted demonstration on pre-selected routes. And when we did veer off course thanks to an unhelpful, but rather posh, voice guiding us to turn left a bit early, it took about 8 seconds for the ARM 11 device to reroute — not bad but not exactly the 0 seconds we were promised during the pitch. Again, we were told that this was the result of using a prototype device… though it must be a near production-ready model given the summer launch timeframe. The unit also wasn’t equipped with the automatic volume adjustment that raises and lowers volume based on the ambient noise around it. We did witness the Webkit UI in action and it does seem significantly improved based on our brief 15 minute test ride with it. However, it was still cumbersome enough to give our tour guide (a TomTom quality manager) fits as he tried to jump between 2D and 3D navigation modes. And the capacitive touchscreen was a mixed bag: at times it seemed to require the kind of finger mashing usually reserved for resistive screens; at others it was a bit too sensitive to effectively target street names from a pick list while being jostled about on a Dutch road (accidentally brushing the display selected the entry either above or below the street desired). As bad as all this sounds, we had the good fortune to have a Garmin nuvi 1690 in the vehicle with us to go head-to-head, flagship-to-flagship, and the Go Live 1000 was the clear winner in getting us back to our starting location. Check the Go Live 1000 in action after the break.
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A big problem for bloggers is that there are always a lot of people that steal your content. In some instances they don’t even try to paraphrase the article so they just copy it word-for-word. I have seen this in many instances with articles that I have written and if you contact those people you’ll often get a funny response like “oh, I didn’t know I was doing that.”
If the site credits the source then that is one thing but there are many people that pass the posts of as their own writing. Copyscape makes it easy to try and find anyone who is copying your posts by looking for other blogs that match a large number of your words.
The service doesn’t cost a thing if you use less than 20 searches per month and after that it will cost $0.05 per search. If you decide to pay that money for the premium service you’ll also be able to choose sites to exclude from the search in case you already know about them.
Copyscape is a great idea and if they offered a flat monthly fee for the premium service I’m sure it would be much more popular. I could then see people creating plug-ins for blogs that make it easy to monitor for plagiarism. At least you’ll be able to track some of your more popular articles at no cost though.
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Nokia’s new N8 smartphone has managed to squeeze everything into its slim and sleek aluminum case. And we mean everything. The spec-sheet reads like a laundry-list of all the things missing from (and all those included in) a certain other 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen cellphone.
So what’s new? A ridiculous 12 Megapixel camera (plus 720p video), with Carl Zeiss lens and Xenon lamp, 802.11n Wi-Fi, 16GB on-board storage expandable by microSD, HD-video plus HDMI-out for watching on the big screen, GPS navigation via OVI Maps (plus access to the OVI Store for applications) and of course, multi-touch and “full multitasking.”
All that would be worthless if the software wasn’t up to much, and Nokia has loaded the N8 with the new Symbian S^3 operating system, a much prettier revamp of the tired old businessman’s Symbian of old. It even comes in a range of bright colors. You know – for the kids.
There must be a catch, right? Well, yes. The handset will be $500 off-contract and probably will never actually make it into the US in a subsidized form. It also won’t be available until the fall, by which time Apple and Android will surely have better models to buy. A shame, to be sure, and one that proves that, no matter how many boxes the engineering people tick on the marketing department’s want-list, it’s for nothing if you don’t got some buzz. Sorry, Nokia, but these days you’re the square at the party.
Introducing Nokia N8 [Nokia]
It was just a few weeks ago that we lost Dr. Henry Roberts, the pioneer whose company created the Altair 8800, and while this project isn’t exactly a tribute to the man it is at least a sign that his legacy lives on. Bob Alexander had always wanted an 8800 of his own, but now that he could afford one didn’t want a gigantic blue case filling up his life. So, be bought a repurposed Altair 680, little brother of the 8800, and set about stuffing it with an Intel Core i5-650 processor on a Mini-ITX motherboard with 4GB of RAM, 80GB of SSD and 500GB on platters. That’s all standard fare, but the front of the case pulls it all together, a custom-made, USB-powered circuit board with LEDs that turn on and off similarly to how the 8800’s would. Those blinkenlights and the rest of the project are demonstrated after the break, but sadly there’s no word of whether Kill the Bit is playable.
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