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If athletic events were accessorized with coffee, comfy pajamas, and a particular knack for sedentariness, well, we’d be champs. Alas, sports are more typically characterized by movement which, we’re told, increases the participant’s pulse, breathing, and likelihood of turning an arm into a tattooed sleeve. Nevertheless, we can’t help but be intrigued by the Under Armour E39 (“E” for electric) compression shirt. The performance tee features a removable “bug” sensor equipped with a triaxial accelerometer, processor, and 2GB of storage flanked by additional monitors that measure the wearer’s heart rate and breathing. A system provided by Zephyr can then analyze the athlete’s individual movements and biometric data to help identify performance issues like when the body is moving out of sync thereby slowing down an athlete’s linear speed. Scouts, coaches, and trainers can collect the data over Bluetooth from smartphones, tablets, or PCs to measure and potentially improve performance. An athlete measuring a low G-force for their particular sport could, for example, be put on a strength training regimen to help improve explosiveness. In the future, Under Armour sees the data being collected and analyzed in real-time allowing coaches to replace under performing players right on the field. The NFL has already equipped a handful of players with the E39 shirts during its annual Scouting Combine event — the results of which you can see in the video after the break.

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This article was written on April 25, 2007 by CyberNet.

I have seen several sites reporting that the Google Calendar is going to be down nearly all day tomorrow. This is actually a misconception that came from an email Google sent out to Google Apps subscribers:

We wanted to inform you that we are planning to conduct routine maintenance to Google Calendar between 8AM and 9PM on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 .  During this time, this service may be unavailable to some of your users.  Please inform your users about this planned maintenance appropriately.  We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work to improve Google Calendar.

If you have any questions, you can contact the Google Apps Support team through the Google Apps Help center (http://www.google.com/support/a/).

Sincerely,
The Google Apps Team

Please do not reply directly to this message. Please contact us through the Google Apps Help Center (http://www.google.com/support/a/) if you have any questions.

When I received the email I began wondering what they meant by maintenance? I tried contacting Google, and then before I could get a response back they sent a follow up email that included the following clarifications:

Why are we doing an upgrade?
We are updating some of our servers as we continue to improve Google Calendar. This is a normal maintenance update, and as with all updates we look to minimize the impact to our end users.

How will this impact my end users?
The impact to your users should be minimal. Only a subset of your users should be affected by the upgrade. These users may have trouble accessing their Google Calendars for a short period of time, generally less than 5-10 minutes each.

Will Google Calendar be down from 8AM to 9PM PDT?
No. This is the window of time that the maintenance upgrade will take place. During this time some users will experience issues accessing their calendar, but only for a short period of time each.

So if you’re a Google Calendar user you don’t have to worry about not being able to access your calendar for the 13–hour period that some people are reporting. What I don’t like is that Google only sent this message out to Google Apps subscribers, and typical Google Calendar users aren’t receiving the notification. The least they could do is put some kind of warning on the Google Calendar site itself so that everyone can be aware of what’s going on.

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T-Mobile cares about you. It cares so much that it’s spending all its advertising dollars lately making sure you know full well that the iPhone 4 can’t do “4G” the way its own phones can. The latest salvo in this crusade of enlightenment includes the above graphs showing just how much faster and further your money can go if you ride along on the Magenta network. It conveniently ignores the fact that AT&T and Verizon offer other phones besides Apple’s iPhone, some of which can handle speeds above the 3G threshold, but such is the price you pay when you want to have a really pretty and eye-catching chart. Hit the source link to soak up more of T-Mobile’s priceless wisdom.

[Thanks, Ramon]

T-Mobile continues campaign against iPhone 4 with new ‘State of the Smartphone’ infographic originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on September 14, 2007 by CyberNet.

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It’s hard to believe that Winamp will be celebrating its 10th anniversary next month, and they plan to do it in style! To mark the occasion they will be releasing Winamp 5.5 on 10/10 at 10:10AM, but a Beta version of the application has already been made available to testers.

Winamp 5.5 has been in the works for over a year, and I have to admit that the new Bento skin (pictured above) is among the best that I’ve ever seen for the media player. What makes this skin more unique is that it’s a single interface instead of being composed of several individual windows. I was a little skeptical of how nice that would be over the standard skin, but I quickly fell in love with Bento.

Here’s a list of the new features in Winamp 5.5:

• Winamp Bento (SingleUI Skin)
• Winamp Remote lets you access your media from anywhere via the web
• Unified File Editor, with Album Art tab (for mp3, m4a, wma, ogg, flac)
• Album Art window for Winamp Modern skin
• Global ‘playback thread priority’ setting for decoders
• Option to not show playlist item number in classic songticker
• Version History drop-down selector and Search (in About dialog)
• Multi-channel mp3surround support
• Tree Options tab in Media Library Preferences
• 3 pane view options in ‘Add/Edit View’ dialog
• Smart View Presets
• Album Art support/pane and retrieval service
• Toolbar buttons to control view options
• Winamp Playlist Generator (powered by Gracenote MusicID)
• New fields, configurable filter panes & columns, 3 pane view
• Album Art view & support for iPod and P4S Devices
• Separate view for video files

That’s not even the half of what’s changed since the last stable version. The list goes on and on with dozens of bug fixes and enhancements all of which will make your Winamp experience that much better.

And in case you’ve forgotten what started it all we thought it was time to open the vault to Winamp 0.2 (pictured to the right), which was released back in 1997. Here’s what Wikipedia had to say about that fine release:

Its windowless menubar-only interface showed only play(open), stop, pause, and unpause functions. A file specified on the command line or dropped onto its icon would be played.
…
The acronym "AMP" stood for "Advanced Multimedia Products".

Get Winamp 5.5 Beta – "it really whips the llama’s ass!"

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This article was written on July 20, 2007 by CyberNet.

One feature that I’ve always wanted in Gmail was the ability to organize my labels in a folder-like structure. By that I mean that I want to nest the labels one inside of another so that my list isn’t quite so long. This kind of structure is probably referred to the most as sub-labels.

The other day Lifehacker posted an awesome Greasemonkey script that does just that. It’s called Folders4Gmail and has instructions on installing it for Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer. Just make sure you follow the steps because I was a little confused since I didn’t realize that I needed to create a parent label. Here’s what I had to do to get my "ISU" structure in the screenshot to the right:

1. Create a parent label:
   Create a label named ISU
2. Rename your labels:
   Com S to ISU\Com S
   General to ISU\General
   Senior Design to ISU\Senior Design
3. Now there are four labels:
   ISU
   ISU\Com S
   ISU\General
   ISU\Senior Design

The script automatically treats the slash ("\") as a folder divider, and you must have a parent label created otherwise it doesn’t work. One of the other cool things is that you can actually deeply nest multiple labels, which means you can have "folders" inside of "folders"! Ahh…I’m really lovin’ this script!

Folders4Gmail is also part of the Lifehacker Firefox extension called Better Gmail. That extension offers a great list of Gmail-related scripts that can make your email experience so much better. Be sure to check it out if you haven’t already!

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