Amazon will gladly sell you awesome phones for a penny. But what if you need that penny? Here’s the best free phones on every carrier. More »
Welcome to the Engadget Holiday Gift Guide! The team here is well aware of the heartbreaking difficulties of the seasonal shopping experience, and we want to help you sort through the trash and come up with the treasures this year. Below is today’s bevy of hand curated picks, and you can head back to the Gift Guide hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the holiday season.
We’re not going to lie, buying a laptop as a holiday present can be seriously scary. Not only are there tons of systems to choose from, but you’re about to put down quite a bit of cash on something that’s probably going to end up being someone’s primary machine for a few years. Does your giftee need a netbook for just getting on the web to check e-mail? Or something thin and light with enough power to watch HD movies on the go? How about a Core i7-powered rig with discrete graphics to handle that Call of Duty: Black Ops that was in the stocking? You see, it’s a daunting task, but fear not, we’re here to ease the pain. Our breakdown of the best laptops is after the jump.
Continue reading Engadget’s Holiday Gift Guide: Netbooks and laptops
Engadget’s Holiday Gift Guide: Netbooks and laptops originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | | Email this | Comments
Nokero has unveiled its second generation light bulb, the aptly named N200, which is now available. Like its predecessor, the N200 is solar powered and water proof and designed as a way of reducing the need for kerosene fueled lighting in developing countries.
The bulb can be hung via an adjustable hanger so that it can always be in the best position for maximum solar absorption. The gathered solar energy is then transfered from the solar panel located on top and used to power a rechargable, replaceable battery inside. It also features three different settings: on, off, and turbo-task. While operating in regular on mode, the N200 can last around six hours on one day’s charge. When you brighten things up for turbo-task, that number shrinks to about two and a half hours.
As for life, Nokero says that the rechargable battery has a lifespan of two years, and could last as long as five years after that, with a new battery of course. In order to make the N200 a financially viable option for people in developing countries, Nokero is hoping to sell them for $15 or less.
Via Engadget
Christmas is coming early over at the Attachmate Corporation. The IT company is set to acquire Novell for a cool $6.10 per share–an amount that works out to roughly $2.2 billion. The amount is nine percent higher than the stock price the company carried when the market closed on Friday.
Novell is also set to sell intellectual property to the technology consortium CPTN Holdings for $450 million. The group is headed by Microsoft. According to TechCrunch, the “payment is reflected in the merger consideration to be paid by Attachmate Corporation.”
Attachmate, interesting, seems to have less brandname recognition than Novell in the IT world. Quoting TechCrunch again,
The company primarily focuses on terminal emulation, legacy modernization, managed file transfer, and enterprise fraud management software. It is the largest privately-held software company in Washington, USA.
The company’s CEO Jeffrey Hawn was sentenced to 10 days in jail for animal cruelty for slaughtering 32 of his neighbor’s bison, after they ended up on his land.
The transactions are expected to close in the first quarter of next year, assume both companies’ bison stay in line.
You’ve waited a long while for this day to come, but here it finally is. Apple is today rolling out iOS 4.2 to iPads and qualifying iPhones (3G, 3GS and 4) and iPod touches (second, third and fourth generation) across the globe, delivering the long-awaited multitasking and app folder enhancements to a tablet that was already supposed to be magical and revolutionary. To see whether this new update — replete with Game Center, AirPlay and AirPrint additions — really helps the iPad step up to doubleplusgood territory, check out our full review; everyone else, hit up your nearest iTunes 10.1-equipped computer to get your update on.
Update: Plug in your iPhones and iPads, the 624.3MB update is rolling out now. Looks like it’s starting in Europe, given the joyous cackles from our editors across the pond. Screenshot after the break.
Update 2: Now available within US borders as well.
iOS 4.2 available today, brings the iPad into the multitasking era (update: it’s live) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | | Email this | Comments
Black Friday, Schmack Schmriday: here are the best iPhone apps for shopping all year round. More »
We’ve seen cars that run on human power, solar power, biofuels, and more, but a new concept unveiled by Volvo at the Los Angeles Auto Show reveals a car that runs on nothing more than thin air.
Dubbed the Air Motion Concept, the car is powered entirely by compressed air, which is stored in a tank. And for a car that runs on air, it shouldn’t be surprising that the vehicle is very light. The Air Motion Concept features a carbon fiber body and weighs less than 1,000 pounds. It also runs on a pneumatic motor that is much simpler than a traditional combustion engine.
As for how you refill a gas tank full of air, Volvo predicts that we’ll one day have wind powered stations where you can top up your car’s fuel.
The Air Motion Concept is just one of many entrants in the LA Auto Show’s design challenge, which also features unique designs like a Mercedes that’s literally grown from a seed and a Smart car knit together by robots.
Via Wired
Viacom channels, such as Comedy Central and MTV, are now blocking Google TV devices from streaming content.
This article was written on March 31, 2009 by CyberNet.
Windows only 
Searching for a specific image on the Internet can be like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Some sites, such as Google Image search, try to make the process easier, but shuffling through one page after another of results can quickly get tedious.
That’s where the free desktop application called Ginipic comes into play. You can view hundreds of results at a time, and inserting an image into an app like PowerPoint is as easy as dragging-and-dropping it. To see how easy it really is checkout their video tour.
Here are some other features that make Ginipic worth it:
This is definitely a slick app, and truly handy for those heavy images searchers out there. Give it a whirl and let us know what you think.
Get Ginipic for Windows [via Lifehacker]
Thanks Sanji for the tip!
Copyright © 2010 CyberNet | CyberNet Forum | Learn Firefox
Related Posts:
Sharp Electronics today announced that it has been chosen to provide a “countdown clock” from the upcoming 9/11 Memorial and Museum set to open at the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2011–the tenth anniversary of the attacks.
The company’s CEO Kozo Takahashi will join the museum’s president Joe Daniels and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg for tomorrow morning’s unveiling at the 9/11 Memorial preview site.
The clock will be embedded into a 13 by seven foot video wall made up of nine Sharp LCDs, which will both count down the time until the memorial opens and feature renderings of what the site will look like finished.
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A., during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
