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The first time we saw the YikeBike we couldn’t help but think it was a little too stylistically shaped, a bit too svelte, and a lot too carbon fiber to actually exist in the real world as anything but a prototype. But now, over a year later, here we are looking at a little green “Add to cart” button on the company’s website. Yes, the 6 mile range, 15mph top speed foldable cycles are starting to roll out of the warehouse with an estimated ship date of just one week. The best news? The price is $3,595, far from cheap but about $2,000 less than they were originally estimated to cost and a downright bargain for something that offers this unique blend of bizarreness and fun. How much fun? Get a refresher course in the video after the break.

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YikeBike foldable electric bike now available for the low, low price of $3,595 (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on September 12, 2007 by CyberNet.

Simple Interface – Click to Enlarge

A few days ago I claimed that ReNamer was the best free file renamer available, and Mouser over at Donation Coder decided to prod their readers to see if they had come across any that were better. One member, iphigenie, mentioned a program called Flexible Renamer (a.k.a. FlexRenamer) that I decided to test out.

This free file renamer isn’t all that different from the last one, but the good news is that Flexible Renamer has a live preview feature. This makes it easier to see what you’re renaming your files to since the changes are shown, but not executed, in real-time.

When you launch Flexible Renamer it will start in a "simple" mode (pictured above) where it offers a lot of common file renaming operations right there at your fingertips, such as inserting a number at the end of the file names. Just choose your poison, and rename the files!

The only thing I don’t like about this program is that you have to perform one operation at a time, meaning to insert a hyphen followed by a number would actually require two different operations. In ReNamer you could prepare and order operations in bulk before going through with the file renaming process. That may not sound like a big deal, but it would suck having to wait a few minutes between each operation if you’re dealing with thousands of files.

Advanced Interface – Click to Enlarge

If you’re a bit more adventurous you could also switch over to the advanced mode. Here you can use wildcards, regular expressions, and translations for renaming the files. ReNamer also supported the use of regular expressions, but Flexible Renamer is a bit better mostly because of the powerful live preview. If you’re not familiar with using regular expressions then it will take awhile before you get used to them, but they are often considered to be a programmer’s best friend. To help you along the way Flexible Renamer does have some preset regular expressions:

Here are some of the other things Flexible Renamer can do:

• Rename a media file based on tags
• Batch edit file attributes
• Add context menu entries for when you right-click on files
• Copy and move renamed files to another directory preserving the originals
• Recursive renaming (can find files nested in folders)
• Drag & drop files from Windows Explorer
• Customize the font (size, type, etc…) that’s used throughout the program
• Save folders to favorites for one-click access

Flexible Renamer (for Windows – no installation required)

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That slide above is no joke — it comes from a marketing webinar put on by two companies that count Verizon, AT&T and Vodafone as clients, and it describes a system that identifies customer internet activity and charges a different rate for using Facebook than watching YouTube, while allowing access to Vodafone services for free. Yes, that’s basically the nightmare scenario for net neutrality advocates. The two companies behind the slide are Allot Communications and Openet, which sell subscriber-management tools to carriers around the world — tools that Allot’s director of marketing says can scan even encrypted packets to determine what service customers are using and charge accordingly. We’re not making this up — here’s the direct quote from the webinar:

[We use] a number of different methods to accurately identify the application — methods like heuristic analysis, behavioral and historical analysis, deep packet inspection, and a number of other techniques. What’s key is that we have the best application identification available on the market, which means that even applications that are encrypted or use other methods to evade detection will be correctly identified and classified… We essentially feed this real-time information about traffic and application usage into the policy and charging system. Each subscriber has a particular service plan that they sign up for, and they’re as generic or as personalized as the operator wants.

Yeah, that’s not how anyone actually wants the internet to work — except carriers, who’ve been saying increasingly insane things about charging even smartphone manufacturers for customer data usage lately. What’s more, it’s rumored that the FCC will cave to Verizon and AT&T and exempt wireless internet service from major parts of net neutrality regulation it’s expected to pass next week, so this nonsense could very well hit the US sooner rather than later. We’ll be keeping a close eye on things — we’ll let you know. Meanwhile, listen to the webinar yourself immediately below.

Wireless carriers openly considering charging per service (update: audio) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It sounds like all of NVIDIA’s wrangling and cajoling finally paid off, if a couple of analysts are to be believed — both say the company’s dual-core Tegra 2 chipset is racking up wins in the tablet space. We’ve seen it seemingly raise the bar for smartphone silicon in the LG Star and tease us in slate after slate, but Citigroup’s Glen Yeung says that Samsung has “placed a sizeable order with Nvidia for Tegra 2 chips in the first half of 2011, geared for both tablets and smartphones,” and BMO Capital Markets analyst Ambrish Srivastava anticipates the next Galaxy Tab will be one of the devices that use it. If that sounds obvious, remember that Samsung was supposed to be producing a dual-core chip of its own. What could cause companies to embrace Tegra 2, if that’s indeed what’s happening? Any number of reasons, to be sure, but Glen Yeung also says that Google has made Tegra the reference design for Honeycomb, aka Android 3.0, and so Tegra 2 may sound like a fast track to victory in the budding tablet space. Here’s hoping it’s a good choice for consumers, too.

Samsung nabs Tegra 2 for Galaxy Tab 2, Google makes Tegra the Honeycomb reference platform? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on November 15, 2007 by CyberNet.

It’s Ryan’s Birthday today and knowing how much he dis-likes attention on his birthday, I thought the only appropriate thing to do was, well…. give him attention! It’s more fun that way. So Happy Birthday Ryan!

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