Hasta La Gadget!

Let’s take a break from Apple and Adobe’s back-and-forth, shall we? Instead, we’ll let the latter company talk about its work with Google, specifically the Android platform. Flash-based CTO Kevin Lynch said today in a post, “We look forward to delivering Flash Player 10.1 for Android smartphones as a public preview at Google I/O in May, and then a general release in June.” Good news, indeed, but with all this talk of Froyo having native Flash support, and this month’s conference serving as the largest gathering of Android developers, we can’t imagine a better platform (pun intended) for Andy Rubin and company to unveil its fragmentation-curbing Froyo update. Might Flash 10.1’s May preview / June release schedule line up with the OS, as well? Just some fat-free food for thought.

[Thanks, Steven]

Adobe CTO says Flash 10.1 for Android in June — will Froyo follow suit? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While shrink-wrapped pork-meat products might make great faux-fingers for chilly Koreans to operate their iPhones with gloves on, a new product from Quirky is higher-tech and much less gross.

The Digit is a button, designed by Brian Shy, which pins onto the finger of your glove. The safety-pin fastening pokes through top the inside whereupon it conducts the electricity from your finger and transfers it to the conductive fabric on the button itself. The Digit comes in packs of four. Put one on each thumb, and one on the index and middle-fingers of your preferred hand and you’ll have toasty fingers and full control of your iDevice, be it the Nexus One, the iPad or any other gadget with a capacitive touch-screen.

Ingenious, and just $14. Sure, you could buy 14 Korean wieners instead, but this solution is just so much less icky.

Digits [Quirky. Thanks, Brian!]

See Also:

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What do you do once you’ve broken your own record for the world’s highest-grossing picture film? Well, you go offworld, of course. James Cameron, in his infinite benevolence and multidimensional wisdom, has convinced NASA bigwigs not to forgo the inclusion of a high-res 3D camera on the Curiosity (aka Mars Science Laboratory) rover, which is set to depart for the red planet in 2011. Budget overruns had led to the scrapping of the autostereoscopic idea, but the director-man — who has been involved with this project for a good few years now — felt the results of the mission would be far more engaging if people could see them in 3D. Hey, if he can make us watch the Blue Man Group reenactment of Fern Gully, don’t bet on Cameron failing to make extraterrestrial rubble interesting with his 3D voodoo.

James Cameron convinces NASA to use 3D camera on next Mars mission originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tokyo Girls Collection organizers F1 Media have started a new fashion portal, Tokyo girls blog. It aggregates Ameba blogs by the popular models who appear in the fashion show, which famously brings young female audiences close up to their idols and allows them to purchase the clothes on the catwalk almost immediately via their phones.

Subtitled “blogroll of fashion mania in Japan”, Tokyo girls blog also introduces official blogs by brands, so users can connect directly with their favorite clothes.

The site is continuing the theme of creating close proximity between normal consumers and models, as well as acting as a marketing tool for the event and the brands it involves.

There are also timepiece blog parts (below):

[Hat tip to the ever-reliable Kokoku-kaigi.com.]

This article was written on December 09, 2007 by CyberNet.

Vista’s Flip3D is one of the most notable features, and something you frequently see in demonstrations of the operating system. It presents a unique way to flip between your open applications, and for the longest time I didn’t think it would ever make me more productive. I was proven wrong when Logitech launched a new version of their SetPoint software that gave their mice a quick way to launch Flip3D without needing a keyboard shortcut.

I ran into a problem, however, when I was using my laptop’s Touchpad mouse which didn’t have such capabilities. It left me yearning for a way to launch Flip3D from my Touchpad so that I wouldn’t have to touch the keyboard, and after thinking about it for a minute I got an idea! Using AutoHotKey I could doing something similar to my middle-click Touchpad script.

Note: Vista is required for this to work. It is not a Flip3D clone or anything of that nature!

So what do you need to get it working? Download Mouse Flip3D and run it. There’s nothing to install, and the only indication of it running will be a Vista-like Orb in the System Tray. Anytime you press and hold the left mouse button, and then press the right mouse button you should see Flip3D come up:

If you want the program to start with Vista just copy it into your Startup folder, and you should be all set! Here are a few pointers on why this is great and how exactly the script works:

• One of the reasons that I never thought Flip3D was productive was because of how much time it takes to shuffle through all of the windows to find the one you want. With the mouse that is obsolete because you can click on any of the windows to bring it to the front! Go ahead and try it, and you’ll see just how fast it really is.
• If you decide that you still want to flip through the windows just use the scroll wheel on your mouse or Touchpad. Alternatively you can hit the Tab key to shuffle through the windows, and use Enter key to select the foremost application.
• You may not have realized it, but there are two different ways that you can launch Flip3D from the keyboard. The WinKey+Tab is the standard way that most people know about, but you can also launch it using Ctrl+WinKey+Tab. The difference between the two is that using the Control key makes Flip3D remain open until you click on one of the windows. That’s what we ended up using for the script. For the code junkies out there here is the entire AutoHotKey script for launching Flip3D with the mouse:
  

  ~LButton & RButton::send, {lwin down}{lctrl down}{tab}{lwin up}{lctrl up}

Some mouse gestures that you use, such as navigating forward in Opera, may not work because of the overlapping shortcut that is used for this script. Personally I’d rather have Flip3D at my finger tips than anything else, so I was willing to sacrifice that mouse shortcut.

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