Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on March 06, 2009 by CyberNet.

Windows only
It seems like I am always finding myself being overloaded with a dozen or two different windows open at any given time, and it can become a bit tedious to manage them. This is where applications like GridMove or WinSplit Revolution have come in handy, and today we’ve got another great alternative called MaxTo.

With MaxTo you’ll be able to define regions on your monitor(s) that can serve as constraints when maximizing windows. Setting up your regions is pretty straightforward: just select a region and choose whether you want to split in half horizontally or vertically. From what I can tell you can split all of your monitors into as many sections as you’d like.

Here are some of the features for MaxTo:

• Easily change regions
• Easily disabled by holding Shift
• Move windows using shortcut keys
• Multi-monitor support
• Light-weight (less than 200kB to download)

Programs like this take a little getting used to because you’ll have to analyze your workflow if you want to get things just right. With a little bit of effort you can see some amazing benefits though. Once I started using a program like this to help manage my windows (particularly for Windows Explorer) I found that I was way more productive than I was without it.

Get MaxTo for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit [via Lifehacker]

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Could these photographs show a hardware prototype of the next generation iPhone? Sent by a reader to Engadget, the pictures are claimed to show a next-gen handset which was found inside a case for an iPhone 3G, and outside a San Jose bar.

The tipster says that the phone was working, but now it won’t boot. This iPhone also has a front-facing camera and a rather odd 80GB of storage. Weirder still is what seems to be a glass back.

Is it real? On the yes side, we have Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, who writes that his sources inside Apple “have confirmed to [him] that the back is made out of some sort of fancy glass”, and further cites a 2006 Apple patent application for a glass-like panel made out of a very tough and scratch resistant ceramic. Why ceramic instead of aluminum? Radio waves go right through it.

Engadget raises the stakes with another picture which it (and Gadget Lab) posted back in January, which showed the the then still secret iPad locked down in a frame. That picture turned out to be legit, and also showed a slightly chunky iPhone, similar to this new shot.

Further, Twitter member The Ultimate Dream posted very similar photos to these new ones on TwitPic back in February. A closer look at his stream of photos shows rather a lot of Chinese “iPhone 4G” knock-offs, so take that one as you will. This is his picture:

Andy Ihnatko also joins the discussion, calling foul. He points to the rather excellent iPhone knock-offs he saw in China as evidence against this leak, along with a lack of the labels and stickers usually found on prototype hardware.

Next, over at the MacRumors forums, we see yet more pictures, found on Chinese website WeiPhone. They too seem to show the same model, with flat front and rear panels sitting on a rather sharp-edged frame.

I’m convinced. I’m not sure that the Engadget photo shows the actual production iPhone 4G. It’s far too poorly finished, with those ugly buttons and obvious seams in the case, But it certainly looks like an Apple-like design, reminding us of the original squared-off iPod, today’s sharp-edged MacBook Pros and especially the rather brutal Apple Universal Dock. I expect the final design to be a sleeker version of what we see here.

And the mysterious non-booting iPhone found outside a San Jose bar? The iPhone that worked once, and then suddenly died? Do you think Apple would allow a testing unit in the wild without some kind of remote kill switch? One thing we can all be pretty sure of, though: if this is a real prototype iPhone, lost by an Apple employee on a drunken night out, you can be sure that somebody will be looking for a new job this week.

iPhone 4G: is this it? [Engadget]

iPhone 4G: proof [Engadget]

Apple patent application [USPTO]
The Miraculous Mysterious Engadget iPhone 4G [Andy Ihnatko]

Inside of iPhone 4G [MacRumors]

iPhone 4G? [TwitPic/TUDream]

Tablet Photos Look Like Real Deal [Gadget Lab]

You’ll recall, wise and knowledgeable as you are, that we weren’t exactly bowled over by Sharp’s keyboard-equipped PC-Z1 portable when we got to play with it at IFA last year. Coming back for another bite at the cherry, the Japanese company has just announced the NetWalker PC-T1, which does away with the disappointing keyboard but retains the crazy pixel density (1024 x 600 resolution on a 5-inch display) and Freescale i.MX515 CPU of its predecessor. Also on offer are Bluetooth and 802.11b/g wireless options, Ubuntu 9.04 as the OS, and USB and MicroSD ports for a nice bit of expandability. An Anglo-Japanese dictionary comes pre-installed plus you’ll get access to Sharp’s e-bookstore, which has over 25,000 titles on offer. Of course, all that good stuff is tempered by a mediocre 6-hour battery life and a ¥47,000 ($510) price tag. Look for this MID archetype to hit stores in Japan next month.

Sharp’s NetWalker PC-T1 is the very definition of a MID, coming in May originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple has just updated its online store with a shipping date for the 3G-equipped variants of its iPad. As you can see, all varieties of the hallowed Apple tablet should be out and about by May 7th — meaning that some deliveries could sneak out even earlier — and you can expect AT&T will be ready and waiting for you to activate that $30 a month unlimited data plan. Just for the European record, that means the iPad will be out in full force for American consumers three days ahead of the announcement of specific international availability. Ah well, at least that gives the UK and others hope that they might see the 3G and WiFi-only slates coming out at the same time, which should be somewhere around the end of May.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Update: We’ve heard from numerous tipsters that 3G iPads pre-ordered before today are still on track for a somewhat woolly “late April” delivery. It seems, therefore, that the new date relates to pre-orders being taken from here on out. Here’s the direct quote from Apple’s email:

“To Our Valued Apple Customer:

Thank you for your recent order of the magical and revolutionary iPad 3G.

We would like to confirm that your order will be shipped in late April as communicated at the time you placed your order. You will receive a confirmation notice when your order has shipped.”

iPad 3G coming by May 7th originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Benesse is currently running an online competition where parents are invited to submit videos of their babies crying — and then being soothed by some unexpected technique.

It might be turning on the vacuum cleaner, sticking an ear pick in their ear canal — or just showing them their favorite cuddly toy. Whatever it is, the secret weapon (thankfully) immediately stops the infant from wailing.

The Nakipita Contest (泣きピタ！コンテスト, or “suddenly stop crying contest”) site aggregates entrants’ YouTube videos and viewers can vote for the “best” until May 13. After that the winners will be decided, rewarding the parents with up to 100 thousand JPY ($1000+) in gift vouchers!

Japan being a nation obsessed with kawaii (cute) things, perhaps not unsurprisingly the website is proving very popular.