Instagram has helped foster an impressive community of iPhone photographers, but it’s a community whose body of work is almost entirely digital. Which is a shame! Thankfully, Postagram will let you send real, printed postcards of your Instagram masterpieces for a buck a pop. More »
Like many universal remote controls, the Andi-One boasts compatibility with thousands of devices; unlike most, however, it runs on Android 2.1. This 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen clicker can check email, browse the web, control your HTPC’s mouse and keyboard, run over 100,000 Android apps, act as a VoIP phone, and even kick movies directly to your TV through an HDMI enabled charging cradle. It doesn’t just control your entertainment devices — it is one. For the first time ever, your remote control is giving you the choice between changing the channel, and playing Angry Birds — if that’s not innovation, we don’t know what is. She’s available now for $350 — a bargain to some, but not exactly compelling for those who already own a smartphone.
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Users who are still running Vista Beta 2, RC1, or RC2 will all have to forfeit their evaluation versions in the coming weeks. This is something that most users understood when signing up for the Vista pre-release program, but many still wanted to see what the next generation Windows was all about.
There are several dates that are important for people still using the pre-release versions of Vista:
Microsoft is providing some sort of relief for the pre-release testers of Vista though. Instead of having to purchase a full retail copy these users can actually purchase an upgrade license as Slashdot recently pointed out. The Windows Vista Beta site gives some of the details these users might be looking for:
To install the final version of Windows Vista on any of these pre-release versions of Windows Vista, you may purchase the desired Windows Vista Upgrade. The Windows Vista Upgrade must be the same language version as the pre-release version you are replacing.
To purchase the upgrade you need to head over to the Windows MarketPlace. The pricing for the upgrades are as follows (in U.S. dollars):
You do, however, have to upgrade to the same version of Vista that you were using while testing. For most people that will mean that they have to upgrade to Vista Ultimate since everyone wanted to get the best version when testing. I guess it’s better than nothing. 
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For developers not quite ready to offer their iOS creations in the App Store, a new service promises to suck the grunt work out of bouncing works-in-progress off others. Pieceable Viewer is the magical program in question, launching today to let devs publish a copy of their apps to a private website, whose link they can share with beta testers, clients, and fellow code monkeys. Viewer generates a single line of code for sharing and, irony of all ironies, uses Flash to simulate apps inside the browser. It could be compelling for freelancers working with clients who don’t happen to own an iPhone, and, adds the company’s CEO, it helps devs circumvent Apple’s 100-device limit. All this from a company whose existing product enables people with no coding experience to build apps.
You can try it for free, with one person able to view one app, and a link that expires after an hour. Upgrade to a $30-a-month plan for three simultaneous views of up to five applications, and links that don’t expire. (For unlimited apps, you’ll have to spring for the $60 monthly plan, which lets up to ten people peep at once.) As for all you Android enthusiasts, your version is up next (surprise, surprise).
Pieceable Viewer lets devs share iOS apps, personal feelings through a browser originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Though NBA Jam for the iPad isn’t out quite yet, several videos and reviews for it are up on the Internet and have been for months. What’s the deal?
The retro-looking Flip Mino from 2008 contained 2 GB of memory for storing up to one hour of video. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com
Cisco is shutting down a business unit that it bought for over half-a-billion dollars: the Flip camcorder division.
That’s a shame, considering how high the Flip was flying a few short years ago. It’s also a waste, considering that Cisco bought Flip from Pure Digital only two years ago for a cool $590 million. But Cisco probably had to act fast, because its earnings fell 18 percent in the second quarter of 2011, and CEO John Chambers had to show he was doing something decisive to stanch the flow.
It’s not like the Flip was doing that well of late. When was the last time you saw someone actually using one of these low-quality, “good-enough” Flips? Probably about two years ago.
Just what murdered those cheap, adorable camcorders? The obvious culprit is the general-purpose smartphone. When iPhones and Android phones began shipping with decent cameras for shooting stills, the Flip seemed excessive. When phones got HD video recording, the Flip was downright redundant.
But the smartphone wasn’t the sole cause of the Flip’s fate. The Flip would still be around if Cisco had bothered at all to adapt to the market. After all, there are plenty of camera businesses like Canon that are still alive and well.
Here are a few reasons why the Flip flopped.
Let’s get the obvious reason out of the way first. When Steve Jobs introduced the camera-equipped iPod Nano in 2009, he made it clear that the Flip budget camcorder was Apple’s primary target.
“We want to get in on this,” said Jobs regarding the budget-camera industry, while showing a slide of the Flip at the 2009 iPod event.
Why buy a cheap camcorder if you could buy an iPod Nano that shot video, too? In addition to the Nano, Apple had already released the iPhone 3GS, also capable of capturing standard-definition video.
Eventually, a slew of Android smartphones also shipped with video-capable cameras, and so did Apple’s iPod Touch. The iPhone 4 and others brought HD video recording to smartphones, eliminating the Flip’s last possible advantage. Suddenly, the notion of carrying around a cheap camcorder in addition to a general-purpose smartphone or iPod seemed impractical — extra bulk in your pocket. A slew of general-purpose devices made the Flip irrelevant.
The Flip probably wouldn’t have been murdered so easily if Cisco had caught on to something that’s been trendy for years: real-time social networking. To make that work, the Flip would have required an internet connection.
You’d think that would be an easy addition, considering that Cisco is a networking company.
After Apple released the video-equipped iPhone 3GS, Cisco should’ve quickly shipped a Wi-Fi–enabled Flip for customers to immediately shoot and post media on social networking sites such as Flickr and YouTube.
Instead, existing Flip camcorders require a wired connection to a PC in order to transfer the files and upload them to a website. That’s old-school, PC-centric social networking. These days, people like to share their media wherever they are, when it’s happening. Because the Flip lacked a wireless connection to the internet, this was another reason to just buy a smartphone.
Here’s where the Flip had a chance to survive. Kids love social networking and sharing pics and video, and they can’t afford smartphone plans. An affordable, cheap camera with an internet connection would’ve been pretty compelling.
Furthermore, Flip customers didn’t particularly have anywhere they belonged to feel special. Cisco could’ve bolstered an internet-enabled Flip with a unique social network made just for Flip users.
To be fair, evidence shows Cisco was trying to ship a Wi-Fi–enabled Flip, but it moved too slowly. At this point, smartphones are already too far ahead, with popular social media apps such as Instagram and Ustream making them even cooler.
Cisco’s line of “high-end” Flip products are yawn-inducing. The high-end Slide HD ($230) includes 16 GB of storage, 720p video and 2x video zoom. For the same price, a low-end iPod Touch includes 8 GB of storage, 720p video, an internet connection and access to hundreds of thousands of apps in the App Store. Which would you choose?
If Cisco had focused on optimizing the high end of its Flip camera line, it would’ve offered a compelling reason to buy a Flip versus a smartphone or iPod.
Imagine a high-end Flip with a Wi-Fi or 3G internet connection, 1080p video, a decent zoom lens, and a touchscreen with apps made just for Flip video and photo. A solid, premium multimedia device would’ve enabled Flip to stand out among the “jack-of-all-trades” multifunction devices out there.
But alas, the Flip is dead. RIP, Flip.
What’s that? You can’t get enough of Intel? Well, it’s your lucky day, because we just got our hands on the chip maker’s roadmap for 2011 and 2012. According to the leaked slides, we can expect to see the Sandy Bridge E-series in Q4 of 2011. Alternately, the 22nm Ivy Bridge is slated for a somewhat less specific release in the first half of 2012. We’re also likely to see the new Pentium and Celeron-based Sandy Bridge models in Q3 this year, and the Atom-equipped Cedarview in Q4. The roadmap’s also giving us a rather vague look at pricing for the chipsets, and from what we gather, we can expect the E-series to sport a hefty price tag and Cedarview to bring the value. If that’s not enough to sate that animal appetite for Intel news, you can hit the source link for more roadmap goodness.
Intel Roadmap charts rollout dates for Ivy Bridge, Cedarview, Sandy Bridge E-series originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Hey, guess what? Adobe has found yet another serious security flaw in Flash. We can already hear the iOS fanboys warming up their commenting fingers. The vulnerability affects all platforms, including Android, though only attacks on Windows have been seen in the wild so far. Just like last month’s exploit, this one is spreading via malicious .swf files embedded in Office documents, only this time it’s Word instead of Excel being targeted (a hacker’s gotta keep it fresh, after all). Once again Reader and Acrobat are also vulnerable, but attacks can be thwarted using Reader’s Protected Mode. When exactly Adobe plans on plugging this hole is anyone’s guess, so when a deposed Nigerian prince tells you about the fabulous sum of money he’d like you to transfer, you’ll have yet another reason not to open the Office attachments in his email.
Adobe finds another ‘critical’ flaw in Flash, Steve Jobs smiles smugly originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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