Hasta La Gadget!

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

Some people do not realize that the Google Page Creator has experimental features that you can tinker around with. The most recent experimental feature is the Gadgets pictured above and you can now add these gadgets to your very own Google Site. I think all of gadgets that they have listed are the ones that you can add on your Google Personalized Homepage. Here is how you can use them:

1. Go to the Google Page Creator Homepage.
2. Select “Site settings” located on the right side of the page.
3. Press the button that says “Enable experimental features”.
4. Select the button that says “Yes, I understand what I’m getting myself into.”
5. Now go and either create a new page or select an existing page to edit.
6. Place your cursor where you would like to insert the gadget.
7. Press the “More” button on the left-hand toolbar. The button has a picture of a piece of pie on it.
8. Find and select the gadget you want to add. Then press the “Add Gadget” button.
9. You will then see a preview of the gadget. Some gadgets will also have configurable settings (color, zip codes, etc…) that can be adjusted here. After everything looks good press the “OK” button.
10. That’s it, you now have a Google Gadget on your very own site!

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• EX-01 Homme ($15) Entering the boardroom at 8:30 AM – everyone awaits a decision. Mentally going over the broader picture. Calmly sitting down at the end of the table. Placing the phone quietly on its black glass surface. Time: 8:31. Let the meeting begin.
• F-01 M’elle ($7) Strolling down Rue Saint-Florentin. New dress: Check. Artichokes: Check. Hometown Crémant: Check. All is ready. Thinking about his smile on the last date. Loving the scent of vanilla from the bakery across the road. 7:10 PM. Incoming text message: “Chéri – Can’t wait to see you tonight.”
• M-01 Jaune ($3) Finally got around to reading Fritz Neumeyer’s essay on Mies Van Der Rohe. 3:05 PM, Sunday afternoon – Coldplay in the background. Sitting comfortably with a tall glass of Chablis. The patterns of rain on the terrace windows are simply amazing. Page 122.
• M-02 Verte (Coming soon!) 12:30 PM, Singapore. Lunch break at the School of Art & Design. On the rooftop enjoying a Katong Laksa. Green as far as the eye can see. Remembering a Murakami sentence. Watching a plane go by. How time flies. Have to return to the lecture. Guess that’s ok.

At this point you’re probably asking yourself if this is all a joke, or if these guys are serious — and to be honest, we can’t tell either. But we do know this: $15 is quite a lot to spend on a watch app, even if it does display hours, minutes, and seconds. PR after the break.

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A woman is suing Google after one of the company’s Street View cameras managed to snap a picture of her undergarments, which were hanging outside of her home in Fukuoka, Japan. According to the woman, the images caused a good deal of anxiety over the possibility that she “might be the target of a sex crime,” adding, “It caused me to lose my job and I had to change my residence.”

The woman claims that the images aggravated her obsessive compulsive disorder over fears that everything she did was being video taped. She is suing the search giant for 600,000 Yen–or around $7,000. Sounds like the company is getting off pretty easy on that front.

Of course this is only the latest in a long line of privacy concerns and lawsuits that have sprung up in the wake of Google’s Street View feature.

The early numbers are in for Microsoft’s brand-new phone operating system Windows Phone 7: 1.5 million handsets sold to date. However, that number requires some explaining.

Microsoft on Tuesday morning published a faux interview with Achim Berg, vice president of business and marketing for Windows phones, who says Windows Phone 7 is growing fast.

The “sales” number is a bit tricky.

“Another is phone manufacturer sales — phones being bought and stocked by mobile operators and retailers on their way to customers,” Berg said. “We are pleased that phone manufacturers sold over 1.5 million phones in the first six weeks, which helps build customer momentum and retail presence.”

To be clear, that means Microsoft has sold 1.5 million phones to mobile operators and retailers to put on their shelves, not 1.5 million phones activated by customers.

Then again, I’d be surprised if 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 handsets were activated already: Microsoft is entering a market already dominated by Google and Apple.

Google claims it’s activating 300,000 Android phones a day, and Apple claims 270,000 iPhones are activated each day. Microsoft has a lot of catching up to do before it can start boasting similar numbers.

However, Berg’s statements generally give a modest overview on a fresh, new start. Berg adds that after just six weeks, Microsoft has recruited 18,000 developers, and there are 4,000 Windows Phone 7 apps available in its app store. The number the company gives — 1.5 million “sales” — isn’t a sales figure we’d usually care about, but it shows that the software giant has a solid foundation of partners to help Windows Phone 7 potentially gain a foothold in the smartphone market in the coming years.

Next year will provide a better glimpse into Windows Phone 7’s performance on the market. A software update introducing copy-and-paste and other new features is due sometime early 2011, and we’ll probably see Verizon getting on board to carry Windows Phone 7 devices, as well.

See Also:

• Why Windows Phone 7 Will Make Android Look Chaotic
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Photo: Mike Kane/Wired.com

Not too long ago we got news of the world’s first electric street sweeper, and now the world’s first electric garbage truck has come along.

The zero-emissions truck features battery system containing five strings of seven battery packs, provided by manufacturer Dow Kokam, which provides around 250 kilowatt hours of power. The truck can reach a top speed of 70 kilometers per hour, can collect nearly 16 tons of garbage, and, according to manufacturer PVI, will eliminate 130 tons of CO2 per truck per year.

“Today’s unveiling of our first fully electric refuse truck, arguably the largest electric truck on the market, is a great accomplishment in vehicle electrification because these trucks place unique and high demands on their operating systems due to specific designs for urban cleaning,” Michel Bouton, CEO of PVI, said.

“The ability to introduce a completely electric truck of this size that doesn’t sacrifice performance or power is due to PVI’s extensive history in vehicle electrification and the selection of Dow Kokam’s advanced lithium polymer battery technology, which provides ready solutions to meet the high performance needs of working trucks operating daily in urban environments.”

The first truck is expected to be deployed just outside of Paris early next year, with a fleet of 11 expected to be on the street by 2011’s end.

Via Wired