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Remember that second generation Pogoplug we unboxed last December? Meet its corporate cousin, fresh out of LinkedIn and ready for that 40 hour work week. For all intents and purposes, the Pogoplug Biz is really a Pogoplug with just a few extra features that business owners may appreciate, such as enabling said owners to use their own domain name(s) and customize (or “skin”) the user interface and email templates. The device — which can connect up to four external HDDs to the internet — also keeps track of how many visits, streams and downloads your files rack up, and you can even claim your own custom email addresses to let clients email files directly to the Pogoplug. The full list of extras awaits you past the break, and you can pre-order one for $299 (with lifetime Pogoplug service) down in the source link.
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With tongue wedged firmly in cheek, Adobe has named its latest little bit of demo software FlashTime and given it a quick spin to whet our appetites. Built using the forthcoming Air 2.5, this peer-to-peer video chat client harnesses your smartphone’s camera to get some direct visual communication going with your fellow Android lovers. Okay, so Android users already have other options for doing just this very thing, but the point being made here is that you can do just about anything with Flash, and since it’s Flash it’ll be easy to port around to other platforms. Skip past the break to see the demo, which has a multipeer chat session with a desktop Mac thrown in for good measure.
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Update: Just for clarification’s sake, Adobe’s Mark Doherty got in touch with us to say there are no plans to release this little mockup client and that indeed the FlashTime moniker is a mere placeholder. Ah well.
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On this week’s episode, we look back at the Steve Jobs iPhone 4 “Antennagate” news conference, which had Dan and Scott busy last week providing talking head commentary for TV news stations; …
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If your iPhone 4 is suffering signal loss and you’re not enamored with the assortment of bumpers and cases that are available for it, the Antenn-aid may be the near-invisible solution for you. With tongue firmly in-cheek, the Antenn-aid pokes fun at the iPhone 4’s antenna woes with a simple vinyl sticker that you can attach to the lower corner of your iPhone 4, right over the area that, when pressed, can result in the dreaded “death grip” signal loss.
The Antenn-aid comes in a six-pack for $4.99 plus shipping and you can order them now. Each of the bandages in the six-pack comes in a different color, including the standard flesh-tone, light and dark gray, green, blue, and purple.
So, we’ve good news and bad news. Given that we aren’t accepting votes for which you’ll be fed first, we’ll go ahead and extol the virtues of cramming a full terabyte of space into a 2.5-inch form factor. Not that this feat hasn’t been accomplished before, but the 2.5-inch 1TB HDD realm could certainly use the competition. Now, the rough part — Samsung‘s Spinpoint MT2 boasts a 12.5mm height, which is 3mm too high for your existing laptop. Unless, of course, you’re rocking one of those otherworldly Clevo machines with enough space for a Karmann Ghia in there. There’s also the fact that it’s humming along at just 5,400RPM and rocks just 8MB of buffer memory, meaning that this one’s entirely more likely to find a home within a portable HDD case than inside of Apple’s next MacBook Air. Oh, and there’s no price being made public, but honestly, we’re sort of glad Sammy didn’t bother teasing us.
Update: We’re hearing that 12.5mm drives fit just find in Apple’s newer unibody MacBook Pro machines.
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You’ve heard about it for months, and now the universal remote that looks nothing like a universal remote is finally on sale in 52 nations. Thinkflood’s RedEye Mini — which simply plugs into the headphone jack of your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch — can now be procured for $49, and when used with the gratis app in the App Store, can control anything in your home entertainment setup that accepts IR commands. ZDNet was fortunate enough to get a little hands-on time with the device, and their early impressions are quite positive. In fact, they recommend skipping the Harmony hoopla and heading right for this if you’re already an iDevice owner (who doesn’t use an imposing case or Bumper), and at a buck under a Grant, we certainly aren’t in a position to argue.
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Not to be outdone by Kindle for iPad, Apple has updated its iBooks e-reader app to handle audio and video. Version 1.1.1 is ready for any iOS device.
The rivalry between Amazon and Apple clearly shows how competition benefits the consumer, with Apple making updates to iBooks much more frequently than it makes them to its other apps (something helped greatly by releasing iBooks as a standalone app which isn’t tied to OS updates). Now, with wireless inter-device syncing and the new AV capabilities, iBooks only lacks Kindle’s huge store catalog.
IBooks gets other new features, too, likely to me more appreciated in the short term (until some multimedia titles show up in the store). First is PDF handling, which has improved hugely on the pathetic first attempt. Browsing is smoother, the PDFs are faster to load and searching is also quicker. The zoom-effect on opening a new PDF is still rather jittery, though.
Finally (well, finally apart from bug fixes) is the ability to zoom in on images. Double-tap an image in a book and it will grow to fill the page as the text fades behind it. It is typically Apple-slick, but if you only have low-res pictures you’ll get some pixelation. The zoom trick works on books bought in the iBooks store, and on EPUBs you have added to iTunes yourself. Once zoomed, you can pinch and swipe around the image, which could be very useful if hi-res diagrams are included in text books.
The update is free, and makes iBooks an even more competent e-reader. All Apple has to do now is sign up a few more publishers and get those shelves stocked. If not, the only losers are those publishers, and the winners are Amazon and the people who sell ads on BitTorrent sites.
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Yes, the world needs another high-definition media streamer like it needs a shot in the foot, but never let it be said we passed up the chance to try a promising product simply because the competition was good. We’re talking about the Uebo M200 –a never-before-seen box from storage company UIT — whose claim to fame is a $130 price for everything-but-the-kitchen-sink media center functionality. Out of the box it’s your standard streamer, playing loads of media formats from memory cards, attached storage and thumbdrives, plus ShoutCast internet radio, RSS feeds and UPnP shares from your PC, but also the usual suspects Hulu, Netflix, CBS and more via PlayOn media server. Pop in a 3.5-inch SATA disk, however, and things get more entertaining, as the box itself turns into an external hard drive, a network-attached storage device and even a Bittorrent client. It also doesn’t hurt that the Uebo can hook up to most any entertainment system, with not only HDMI, component and composite connections but also every standard (HD, NTSC and PAL) video mode, there’s a $30 optional wireless dongle, and the digital audio front includes both optical and coaxial jacks for output.
Sadly, in practice the above functionality isn’t as streamlined as it sounds — as is usually the case with these devices image quality can suffer slightly, and Uebo’s GUI has a face only a mother could love. While the device admirably played the vast majority of one editor’s anime music video collection (though it stumbled over XviD and Sorenson Video 3), sorting through nested menus to get to our content was a hell of a chore. PlayOn and Bittorrent seemed to work, though their roundabout implementation left much to be desired, with the former only accessible through a deep dive of the UPnP menu, and the latter requiring torrent trackers to be uploaded from a separate PC using a web client. We had a couple of crashes when testing the device, too, including a Bittorrent-related one where the Uebo completely stopped responding to input, but the majority of the time we enjoyed HD and SD content on the fairly capable little TV server. All in all, it’s not the most polished product and shouldn’t distract you from popcorn-eating elephants in the room, but if you’re looking for a cheaper alternative it’s hard to argue with Uebo. Take a brief tour with our gallery below, or hit up the more coverage link for a full datasheet.
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