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We’ll warn you that we have nothing but the word of an alleged Sprint employee that this is the real deal, but we don’t know what else it could be — if it walks like a duck and quacks like an EVO with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, we’re inclined to believe it’s the HTC EVO Shift 4G. Factor in the noticeable lack of front-facing camera, silver trackpad and those throwback flat keys, and we’re even willing to forgive those hastily penciled watermarks on the keyboard and on top of the clearly ‘shopped screen. Even if this shot is legit, we haven’t seen the full device yet — it sure looks like this Knight is wearing a suit of plastic armor around the edges.

In possibly related news, Android Central nabbed an alleged screenshot of a Sprint database showing an “HTC A7373” handset coming to Sprint on January 9th, and while one Russian e-tailer seems to think that codename refers to the GSM-friendly Desire Z, we have to imagine a Knight / Speedy / EVO Shift release is far more likely than a T-Mobile G2 redux on Sprint’s CDMA frequencies.

Update: Just to be clear, there are a few things about this image that irk us, not least of which that pasted-on screen. We’re inclined to think this might be a dummy unit that was touched up to look like a real phone.

HTC EVO Shift 4G (Knight / Speedy) gets leaked picture, January 9th release date? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on December 14, 2006 by CyberNet.

The above image was taken from the PDF for the patent that Google just received for their search interface. I’ll warn you right now that there isn’t much content in the PDF and the screenshots don’t get any clearer from what I have pictured above. Somehow after being submitted for more than two years Google got the patent approved, but I wonder if there are any sites that they are going to try and target for copying off them?

What’s even more intriguing, and unexpectedly a lot of fun, is their new Patent Search Engine. You can obviously do searches for patents and the advanced features let you search by patent number, title, inventor, assignee, classification, and date. How could something so boring be so fascinating? Simple, on the homepage of the Patent Search they will show you five random patents…just sit there and keep refreshing the page to look for interesting ones. Pictures are worth a thousand words so I’ll just link to the fun results that I found:

• Jumping snail (Pictured to the right, no explanation necessary.)
• Device for cooling an infant’s brain (I need one of these for me.)
• Candy forming machine (Don’t we all have one of these?)
• Computer (I think Sony’s computers have come a little further since then. I wonder if their batteries were just as dangerous back then? Oh yeah, this thing probably wasn’t battery powered. )
• Zipper (Doesn’t look as easy as you would think.)
• Pocket protector (Wowsers, this goes back to the early 1900′s! Who knew nerds were so geeky even back then.)
• Shark protector suit (Carry one of these with you at all times.)
• Finger puppet (Yes, a finger puppet.)
• Toupee (For those that have a hair management problem.)
• Underwear (We all wear it don’t we? Well, at least I hope so.  Note that this was just filed in the year 2000.)
• Beer Faucet (Way better than tapping a keg!)

Hope you got as much amusement out of those as I did! Leave any other funny or interesting ones in the comments below.

News Source: SlashDot

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Paul Thurrot has a great article for those people who plan on sticking with Windows XP even after Vista is released. He discusses some of the applications that you can use in XP that will give you the same functionality as the ones offered in Vista. Here is a brief overview of the software replacements that that he mentions:

• Windows Search: Windows Desktop Search
  • Windows Desktop Search
  • Google Desktop
• Windows Defender: Anti-spyware
  • Windows Defender
  • ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware
• Internet Explorer 7: Web browser
  • Internet Explorer 7
  • Mozilla Firefox
• Windows Sidebar and Gadgets: Mini-Applications
  • Yahoo Widget Engine
  • Google Desktop
• Windows Backup: File Backup and Restore
  • Windows Live OneCare
• Windows Mail: Email
  • Mozilla Thunderbird
  • Microsoft Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta
  • Yahoo Mail
• Windows Calendar: Standards-Based Scheduling
  • Mozilla Sunbird
  • Google Calendar
• Windows Photo Gallery: Photo Management and Sharing
  • Google Picasa 2
• Windows Media Player 11: Digital Media Jukebox
  • Windows Media Player 11
  • Apple iTunes 7
• Windows Movie Maker 6: Digital Movie Editing
  • Windows Movie Maker 2
• Windows Media Center: Digital Media in the Living Room
  • Snapstream Beyond TV 4.x

As you can see he did a pretty good job covering all of the different aspects of Windows Vista. The funny thing is that I haven’t used many of those applications in the few weeks that I have been using Vista as my primary Operating System. From that list I have used the Windows Search and Windows Defender. Microsoft may be good at some things but there will always be applications that I like better than what they include.

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It was kind of a depressing week in Twitter. The buzz on the Twits was about the 30th  anniversary of John Lennon’s murder, Elizabeth Edwards succumbing to cancer, Julian Assange being arrested for rape allegations, and so on. There were a few uplifting things in the mix as well, so don’t let that holiday spirit fall too much. If you missed out on the most talked-about subjects from the week, we’ve got you covered.

Check out the top trending topics on Twitter for the week ending in December 10:

1. John Lennon
December 8, 2010 marked the 30th anniversary of John Lennon’s death. #Lennon

2. Pearl Harbor
Sixty-nine years have passed since the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. On December 7, 1941, Japan dropped a bomb on the US base in Pearl Harbor, which started World War II in the Asian and Pacific oceans. #PearlHarbor

3. Elizabeth Edwards
Wife of former candidate for Vice President John Edwards for the Democratic Party passed away on Tuesday at age 61 to cancer. #ElizabethEdwards

4. All I Want
People are tweeting about things they want sooner or later. For example, all I want: is peace on earth, for Christmas is my two front teeth, etc. #Alliwant

5. Julian Assange / Arrested
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in connection with Swedish allegations of sexual assault. People are suspicious of possible political motives behind these allegations, after the recent publication of confidential documents on the Wikileaks site. #Assange

Check out the next five topics after the jump!

Updates have been coming fast and furious to Google’s Android Market for a couple weeks now, but this is the biggest shift yet — that rusty tab-based interface is out, replaced with a rotating carousel of downloadable content, and a single scrolling pane of info for each and every app. What’s more, it seems that Mountain View has heard the cries of game companies in particular, as it’s got a couple of very special changes largely targeted at them — the size cap on individual apps has been upped to 50MB, and Android Market’s famous 24-hour return policy is no more. You’ll still have 15 minutes to decide whether you want a piece of software or prefer a refund, perhaps long enough to give it a basic test, but there’s no longer enough time to finish a game in one sitting before slyly giving it a pass. There’s also a number of behind-the-scenes changes that should help make sure you only see apps your device can actually run, based on screen size, pixel density and OpenGL support. Google’s pushing the update to every Android 1.6-and-above device over the next couple of weeks, so you can expect your app purchasing world to turn upside-down in time for Christmas cheer.

Update: There are also two new categories being added: widgets and live wallpapers.

Update 2: Of course, no self-respecting hacker waits for an OTA to get what they can sideload right now, and so XDA-developers is now distributing the new Android Market APK — we’d suggest you give it a try too, but we’re hearing that some folks are having difficulty downloading apps at all after the update. Still, the folks at Android Police seem to have it working, and have taken a host of screenshots of the interface. Go give them a peek at our more coverage link.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Android Market update streamlines content, nukes tabs, dismantles 24-hour return policy to appease devs originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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