Exploding star detailed–in 3D
Posted in: Today's ChiliNew computer models from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics offer further insights into how supernovae obtain their shape.
New computer models from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics offer further insights into how supernovae obtain their shape.
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Microsoft has finally taken Windows Defender out of Beta and the free download is available. So if you are looking for a great anti-spyware solution this is one that I would highly recommend.
If you’re still using Windows Defender Beta 2 then you’ll have until December 31 to make the upgrade because it will expire then. There is no update available for Windows Vista users which sucks because Vista can be used up until June 2007 but your spyware protection is only good until the end of this year.
These are the improvements that Windows Defender has received since the previous release:
Windows Defender Download Page
Direct Download Link for Windows Defender 32-bit
Direct Download Link for Windows Defender 64-bit
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Even after years of demos, we’re not aware of Toshiba Mobile Display’s OCB (Optically Compensated Bend) LCD panels actually making their way into shipping products, so here’s hoping these large-bezeled 3D glasses on display at SID 2010 will be the ones to break through. Sure, the last time we saw OCB it was supposed to show us the way towards no-glasses-needed autostereoscopic screens but that was in 2009, when Law & Order was on, prototype iPhones weren’t floating all over Korea and the company was called Toshiba Matsushita display. In this iteration the high speed, high contrast characteristics of the curiously aligned crystals in those LCDs are claimed to make the ideal 3D glasses technology with brighter images, less crosstalk and a wider field of view, but with similar specifications to existing hardware from RealD and others we’ll probably be in for another all new / all old tech demo and more vapor in 2011.
Continue reading Toshiba’s latest use for OCB LCDs: 3D glasses
Toshiba’s latest use for OCB LCDs: 3D glasses originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 May 2010 06:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Stanza, our favorite iPhone e-reader application, has not yet been updated for the iPad. Maybe it’s coming soon and will be awesome, or maybe the current owner, Amazon, has killed it to reduce competition for its money-making Kindle app.
Either way, unless you want to read your e-book collection on a blocky, pixel-doubled screen, you’ll have to switch readers.
But what about all the books you already have in your Stanza library? Here we show you how to extract you books from Stanza, pretty them up and put them into iBooks on your iPad.
Getting books into Stanza is easy. You can beam them across your Wi-Fi network using the companion desktop application or with the clunky but powerful e-book manager Calibre. You can buy them from within the application itself, or you can add online repositories of varying legitimacy.
Once the books are on there, though, they’re stuck. You can jailbreak your iPhone and go fishing around in the file system, looking for the books. Or you can download a Java app that will churn through the iPhone backups on your computer and sift out the books within.
Download the app, called “Stanza Book Restore Tool”, from Lexcycle, the developers of Stanza. Point it at your backup folder (on the Mac you’ll find it in Users/yourname/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup), choose a destination and hit “Recover Books”. All the books will be copied to your computer.
But what then? Now you have a bunch of EPUB files littering your desktop. You could drag them straight into iTunes, where they’ll be imported into your book collection, but the lovely cover artwork you enjoyed in Stanza will be gone, replaced by text on a generic, plain book cover. What you need is the aforementioned Calibre, previously seen on Gadget Lab in the service of adding Instapaper and other newspapers to your Kindle.
Download the free Calibre app for Mac or Windows, drag in the EPUB files and then go to work. Your books’ title and author data should be cleanly filled out already, but if you right-click on a book (or hit the e key) you can edit the metadata. The easiest way is to let Calibre pull the info down from the internet.
Once this is done, click the “Download cover” button to do just that. Calibre gets it right 99 percent of the time. If you don’t like the cover, you can add your own from an image file.
The next step is essential if you want to import all the new keywords and cover art along with the books into iTunes. You need to convert the books to EPUB.
But wait. They’re already EPUB files, right? Yes, but right now the newly added metadata isn’t baked into the files. Running an export won’t create new files, but it will replace the old one with the newly enriched versions.
Do this as a bulk action and go make a coffee. If you’re using a Mac, don’t get too scared when its fans start to spin like a leaf-blower.
Next, you need to separate out all the EPUB files and just drag them into iTunes. The problem is that they’re stuck inside subfolders. On a Mac, the best way is to run a spotlight search on the Calibre catalog folder, choosing “file extension=epub” as your search term. Drag those files onto the iTunes icon and wait.
Once the import is done, you’ll see a beautiful library of e=books ready to sync to iBooks on the iPad.
Restoring Stanza books from iTunes backup [Lexcycle]
Calibre [Calibre-ebook]
Stanza [Lexcycle]
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As promised by yesterday’s leak from Vietnam, Apple has updated the plastic unibody MacBook. The new model, which appears on Apple’s traditional new hardware day – Tuesday – gets the NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor and the new aluminum MagSafe power-cord. It also gets another feature not revealed in the inexplicably leaked Vietnamese MacBook: a claimed ten-hour battery-life.
The battery life estimates keep on growing as Apple squeezes better power management out of its machines, but the biggie for buyers of the $1,000 MacBook is the new graphics chip, which is made by NVIDIA exclusively for Apple and also found in the 13-inch MacBook Pro. The 320M shares system memory and uses PureVideo HD to decode hi-def video within the GPU, helping to keep the fans from spinning up when watching video with compatible apps.
The new MacBook is available now, in Vietnam and elsewhere.
MacBook [Apple]
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Rejoice, oh Android lovers. Thy OS of choice has finally graduated to the point where its latest variant is also the most used — a statistic that is likely to last for only a day given Google’s intent to reveal Android 2.2, or Froyo, at its I/O conference tomorrow. For the first time since El Goog’s been keeping these platform version stats, 2.1 has risen above 1.5, the previous incumbent, having grown from 32.4 percent on May 3 (chart after the break) to 37.2 percent on May 17. This rapid ascension can only be expected to accelerate with more devices getting their Eclair permissions slips, and let’s not forget that Google will be trying its hardest with 2.2 to make upgrades easier for phone makers to implement. Onwards and upwards we go.
[Thanks, Chris D]
Continue reading Android 2.1 becomes most used version, just in time to be obviated by Froyo
Android 2.1 becomes most used version, just in time to be obviated by Froyo originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 May 2010 06:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Visa has been trying to finagle its way onto mobiles for quite a while, and its latest attempt, done in partnership with DeviceFidelity, has now been named as the In2Pay system for iPhones of 3G and 3GS varieties. Built around an app ensconced on a MicroSD card inside that oh-so-special iPhone case, this offers contactless payments anywhere that Visa’s payWave is available, as well as secure access to buildings and computer networks. Yep, that sounds like it’s definitely going to end in tears, but the brave cash collectors are pressing ahead. Trials are still set for the second quarter of this year, which makes them imminent, and soon thereafter we’ll all be making our ill-advised purchases with even greater ease. Video and full PR after the break.
Continue reading In2Pay is the name of Visa and DeviceFidelity’s money-grubbing iPhone case
In2Pay is the name of Visa and DeviceFidelity’s money-grubbing iPhone case originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 May 2010 05:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You don’t hear a lot about exciting baby trends in Japan (other than crying baby videos and iPhone apps), no doubt due to its declining birth rate.
It’s full marks to Rezon, then, for this new innovation: a very stylish stamp that you can customize with your child’s hand or footprint. Called the Otete & Anyo (おててとあんよ) (cute Japanese words for a baby’s hands and feet), it is designed to be a special gift that your infant will cherish until they are much older. It even comes in a collectible wooden box, with the name and birth date of the subject engraved on the stamp.
Of course, getting this stamp made is not like popping into your local convenience store. You first need to make a print of your child’s hand or foot with ink. Then you scan this and send it in, and Rezon get to work making a unique stamp. It’s a bit of a process but we think the results are impressive.
In Japan it has also become customarily for some young parents to make commemorative calligraphy brushes (筆, fude) using the locks of their infant’s hair. Writing with your own hair might seem a bit strange but we presume the final brush is meant to be mostly decorative. Some of these gift sets also include hand prints. For examples, see AkachanFude.co.jp.
You can get the Otete & Anyo stamp from the JapanTrendShop.
Nah, it’s no Core i5 ULV-powered X series, but MSI’s latest does use a Core i5 processor and does have an X in the model name. Mind-blowing, right? The outfit’s latest 15.6-incher is a multimedia powerhouse, humming along with a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce 310M GPU, twin DDR3 RAM slots (plenty of space for 4GB), a 1,366 x 768 resolution display, six-cell battery, 1.3 megapixel webcam and a pair of stereo speakers. There’s also a 320GB or 500GB SATA hard drive, 4-in-1 card reader, 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, HDMI / VGA outputs, twin USB 2.0 ports, an eSATA socket, audio in / out, Ethernet and a “film print coating” over the palm rest area to minimize wear. Mum’s the word on a price and release date, but we suspect we’ll know a bit more on both of those points when we touch down at Computex in a fortnight.
Continue reading MSI brings Core i5, GeForce 310M to 15.6-inch CX623 multimedia laptop
MSI brings Core i5, GeForce 310M to 15.6-inch CX623 multimedia laptop originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 May 2010 05:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Kindle continues its mission to let you read your Amazon-bought e-books anywhere. Amazon has announced the forthcoming Kindle for Android, and it is almost exactly the same as other software-only implementations, like those on the iPhone or Blackberry.
Almost. The big difference here is that you can buy books from within the application (this also works on Blackberry). On the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, you are redirected to the Kindle web site as soon as you choose to buy a new book. On Android phones, you can browse and purchase books from within the Kindle app. This is likely because Amazon doesn’t want to give Apple 30% of each and every transaction, the usual cut taken for in-app transactions.
The Kindle for Android app is “coming soon” and will run on any Android device (v1.6 or newer) that has an SD card installed.
Kindle for Android [Amazon via ★]
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