Hasta La Gadget!

We don’t see it in the FCC database yet but Notion Ink’s charming Rohan Shravan just penned a post on the company’s blog with news that Adam has official clearance from the US government. That’s right, after several delays the tiny startup will finally condense its occasionally vapory molecules into a solid slab of shipping tablet starting “around Wednesday” after the hardware receives its FCC tattoo. Remember, Adam was that tablet good enough to earn a Best of CES 2011 honorable mention at an event absolutely flooded with tablets from a who’s who of consumer electronics companies. While our first impressions of the production unit were positive, we’re holding off on making a final judgement until we’ve had the chance to perform a full review. Having said that, Adam’s final NI3421A01 product code is so nerdy — the “3421” continues Rohan’s tradition of numbering product iterations along the Fibonacci number sequence — that we’re almost tempted to place an order ourselves. Almost.

[Thanks, John]

Notion Ink Adam clears FCC, begins shipping ‘around Wednesday’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 15 Jan 2011 04:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on July 26, 2006 by CyberNet.

So you have been a long time Firefox user but you really like Internet Explorer 7 and want to switch, huh? Well, there is now a conversion utility available that Microsoft should have made themselves. It will convert both your Firefox bookmarks/favorites and your feeds and send them to IE7.

If Firefox is installed on your system then it will be extremely easy because it will find your bookmarks for you, but if it is not installed you can manually browse for the bookmarks.html file which is located in Firefox’s profile folder. I haven’t heard of any information from Microsoft that said they will be making this feature available themselves but it should definitely be included with the import process. Also, I wonder if Firefox has any plans to not only import Internet Explorer 7 Favorites but also the RSS Feeds? That would make the transition much easier for new users.

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Oh the benefits of competition are a sweet thing, really! It took Apple approximately three weeks to respond to the launch of Amazon’s DRM-Free Music Store. It was a simple as this- Amazon started selling DRM-free songs for 89 cents to a maximum of 99 cents while Apple’s iTunes was selling DRM-free songs for $1.29. When we wrote about the whole Amazon deal, we said that Amazon’s move may have actually caused Steve Jobs to get a bit concerned now that iTunes has a real competitor, and it appears this was true. Apple made the official announcement today that DRM-free songs from iTunes Plus will now be sold at 99 cents, obviously to match the competition.

Prior to this change, users were able to upgrade their DRM-infested songs to the DRM-free version for 30 cents, the difference between what they originally paid for the song (99 cents) and what the going rate for DRM-free was at the time ($1.29), which made sense. From the sounds of it though, Apple is still going to charge users the 30 cents if they want to upgrade, despite the fact that there’s no difference in price between songs from iTunes and iTunes Plus. This hasn’t been confirmed, so if you decide you want to upgrade some of your songs to DRM-free, let us know if you were still charged the 30 cents.

All that’s left to say is, YAY for competition! For once Apple was left squirming and had to respond, and thankfully they did!

Source: Ars

Thanks for the tip Cory!

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You may or may not be old enough to remember Sierra On-Line, makers of such fine games as Leisure Suit Larry, the King’s Quest, and Police Quest, but none of that matters anymore. Thanks to the folks over at Sarien, you now have access to these glorious titles via your iPad‘s web browser. The entire catalog has been ported over, and the games which were previously available via the web only are now there on your Apple tablet! The whole shebang is now hosted on Amazon‘s content distribution network, and the games have been extensively tweaked for that multitouch interface. Sarien hasn’t apparently been issued a cease and desist from Activision — owners of the catalog — yet, so get these free gems of yesteryear while you can.

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Who could have guessed, in January 2011, that we would publish 453 stories on Apple’s yet-to-be-announced iPad?

And yet that’s the number we did publish, and four people guessed exactly that number.

A little over a year ago, we challenged you to guess how many stories we’d publish in 2010 on the topic of Apple’s forthcoming tablet.

We knew it was a hot topic: Every story we’d written to that date on an “Apple tablet” got tons of attention, and lots of comments (both pro and con). We’d seen tantalizing rumors, and figured it would either be a hot product or a spectacular flop. We knew we’d be writing a lot of stories on the topic to meet the demand for information on it.

Little did we know that we’d average about 2 stories for every workday.

We received over 10,000 entries for the contest. Guesses ranged from 0 to 99999999999999999999 (followed by a lot more nines). There were some nerdy guesses too, like 3.14159 and 6.0221415 × 10²³. There were some snarky answers, like “365*x where x=# tablets sold” and “0 (i hope).” Someone even tried to inject a function in order to capitalize on the wisdom of the crowd, with an entry that read: =AVERAGE(A2:A1000)+1. Sorry, that formula did not compute.

Eliminating the truly absurd guesses (anything over 10,000), the average of all remaining guesses was 309. Not too far from the actual number, but not nearly close enough for the averaging function to have worked in any case.

To count the number of iPad stories, I used a Google search to find all stories published on Wired.com from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010 that included “iPad” in the title. I turned off any content filtering and told Google to show me all the duplicates.

Searching on the titles was the easiest objective way to determine if the iPad was a major focus for the story, and not just something mentioned in passing.

In addition, because the name “iPad” was only used after Apple’s iPad unveiling on Jan. 27, 2010, I also did a search for stories with “Apple tablet” in the name published from January 1 to January 30, 2010.

I put both search results into a spreadsheet, sorted by name, and eliminated duplicates as well as any automatically-generated category and tag pages.

The resulting total was 453. I found four entrants who had guessed that number, so used a random-number generator to pick between them. I did so blind: The columns showing any personally-identifying information were hidden from the moment the contest started. It was only after picking the winner that I revealed the columns containing his name.

And so our winner is Mike Gorman.

Mike, you’ll be getting an iPad from Wired. Congratulations.

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