Amidst stories of war-dogs, secret choppers, and hard drives chockablock with porn, there was a small furore on Twitter about Osama bin Laden watching hit UK TV show The IT Crowd—or was it Big Bang Theory? Turns out, it was all an elaborate hoax by The IT Crowd‘s writer. More »
Rock out with your iPad out, with the Trubador hands-free case
At the end of a post about Pix and Stix, the conductive guitar pick and drumsticks for the iPad, I joked that “I’m sure that the inevitable guitar-shaped iPad holder is already on a designers drawing board somewhere.” Well, it turns out that this was (partially) true.
The Trubador is an iPad case which holds the tablet down where God intended all rock-and-roll instruments to be held: in front of a thrusting crotch. It’s not guitar-shaped, but that would be pretty tacky anyway. The case has two design considerations that set it apart.
The first is a pair of guitar-strap buttons for attaching it to your favorite strap. These are the same conical metal buttons you’d find on any solid-body electric guitar, and this is what lets you sling the case in front of you.
The second part is less obvious. The case folds into a triangle, making it jut out slightly from your hip. This holds the iPad at an angle so you can actually see what you are doing.
There is a second angle which lets you use the iPad on a table to watch videos, and when not in use the ramped section folds over to protect the screen. I really like that you can also just wear your iPad slung over a shoulder.
The Trubador is in the prototype stages, and you know what that means: Kickstarter. To get a case, you’ll need to pledge $40. If the designers, Casey and Pat, make it to their $15,000 goal, then you’ll get a neat Trubador case, ready for rocking out on stage with Garage Band.
Trubador: the Hands-Free iPad Case for Awesome People [Kickstarter. Thanks, Casey!]
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Microsoft’s proper preview event for the next big release of Windows Phone may be mere hours away, but there’s still time for a bit of good old fashioned web sleuthing before then. Latest on our radar is this Microsoft Developer Network page listing out all the APIs in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7.1. That’s right, your eyes do not deceive you, there’s a whole extra decimal added to the OS number, ostensibly signifying the move to the Mango update we’re all so hungry for. We’d previously heard the moniker of Windows Phone 7.5 bandied about, but that was based on supposition more than anything else, and a .1 upgrade makes sense in light of the curent 7.0.7 version number. Fuller details will be forthcoming later on today, but for now, pencil in the number 7.1 alongside the dream specs of your next Windows Phone.
[Thanks, Garret]
Windows Phone 7.1 is the likely name for Mango OS update originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 May 2011 05:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Don’t mistake the relative quietness from AMD on the APU front for inactivity. Ever since announcing the first shipment of its Llano Accelerated Processing Unit in April, the company’s been working behind the scenes to ramp up availability to OEMs, and somewhere along the supply chain a gracious soul has been found who’s leaked the bulk pricing for those chips. The new quad-core A Series processors start off at $110 for an A6-3450 and max out at $170 for an A8-3550P, but there’s also mention of octa-core FX processors, which will weigh in at $320 a piece and reputedly compete with Intel’s 3.4GHz Core i7-2600K. The latter are built around AMD’s Bulldozer modules (wherein one module counts for two cores) and look to be the manifestation of the company’s Zambezi CPUs, which could come without an integrated graphics processor as is available on the Llano and the rest of AMD’s Fusion line.
Just to whet appetites further, we’ve also come across an HP dv6 on an obscure German retail site, offering a 1.6GHz A6-3410MX APU, 6GB of RAM, and a most reasonable €590 price. There’s obviously no promised delivery date, but this should be the first of many such appearances in the coming days as we build up towards Computex 2011. Something tells us AMD won’t be holding back when the Taipei electronics show gets started.
[Thanks, Shashwat and Vygantas]
AMD Llano quad-core APUs and Zambezi octa-core CPUs get priced, the former listed inside an HP dv6 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 May 2011 04:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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This article was written on November 05, 2009 by CyberNet.
I’m sure at one point or another you’ve wanted to share a link with a friend, but knew that when they went to visit the page that the content would change. Unfortunately you don’t have control over when services like the WayBack Machine make archives of a site, and often times the backups available there are at least a year old.
That’s where a service like BackupURL comes into play. With it you can create an on-demand backup of the current state of a website. You can then share the backup with anyone you want using a shortened URL that it will provide.
I tried the service on several different sites, and for the most part it was pretty fast at creating the backups. Most of the time I had a working URL in my hand within 10-seconds of clicking the “backup” button.
The one thing I don’t like is that, unlike the WayBack Machine, there’s no way to navigate past archives of sites. If you lose the URL you’re simply out of luck. I’d have to imagine that it would be simple for them to add some sort of interface to flip through the archives, but I’m guessing they have a reason for not providing this information to us yet. Hopefully that’s something that will come though.
This is another site that I’d recommend putting in the “may be useful someday” folder in your bookmarks.
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Thanks Mark!
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This isn’t the first time Windows has been invited to the AirPlay party, but Thomas Pleasance’s AirPlay for Windows Media Center addin seems to already be one of the smoother combinations we’ve seen and it’s still in beta. Unsurprisingly, it does what the name says, so after installing Apple’s Bonjour service and the free client on your Media Center PC you should be able to stream video or pictures to it (there’s no support for music yet) from an iPad or iPhone with a simple click. The Digital Lifestyle has already gotten a quick hands-on with the app and got it working seamlessly as seen above, check that out for more details or hit the source link to download the necessary software to make it all work.
AirPlay for Windows Media Center does exactly what you’re thinking it does originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 May 2011 03:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
The US already knows when Samsung will launch its updated Galaxy Tab models and for how much, but that picture hasn’t been quite as lucid over in Europe. Amazon.de is doing its best to dissipate the mists of unknowing by listing the 16GB Galaxy Tab 8.9 at a price of €606.50 ($852), whether you’re buying the version with a black or white back. That sounds a relatively steep price, but it’s not clear whether we’re talking about the WiFi-only or 3G-equipped model. Notably, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 option is also listed alongside its 8.9-inch brethren, but there’s no price attached to it yet. All we can really say for now is that the wheels are in motion and these Honeycomb tablets look to be on their way to the Euro market at about the same time as they’ll hit the American one. Égalité!
Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 priced at €606 by Amazon.de, joined by 10.1 model in a pre-order dance originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 May 2011 03:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
‘The Big Lebowski’ is coming to Blu-ray on August 16.
What do you do just before you decide to upgrade your old device with some new hotness? You sell the old stuff on eBay, right? Well, B&N doesn’t seem to have any better ideas than you as it’s started offering its classic Nook e-reader for $99 on the online auction site, undercutting its own price by $50. This is the WiFi-only dual-screen unit, as you might surmise, not the Color tablet that’s been treading dangerously close to being a fully fledged Android slate. If you’re an E Ink loyalist on a budget, this might just be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for, though don’t blame us if Barnes & Noble comes up with a fancier, more lustworthy model in the time it takes for that free delivery to reach your door.
[Thanks, Sheldon]
Barnes & Noble selling Nooks for $99 on eBay originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 May 2011 02:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If Dell’s latest 17-inch powerhouse is too beastly for your next business trip, HP has begun selling its trio of new EliteBook mobile workstations, with screen sizes as small as 14 inches. In the case of both the 14-inch 8460w and the 15.6-inch 8560w, you get discrete graphics standard and can choose a $1,000 Core i7-2820QM processor, among less pricey options. (With the 15-inch iteration, you can also opt for a 1 billion-color DreamColor display.) Admittedly, you will have to step up to the 17-inch 8760w if you want a Core i7-2920XM CPU, AMD FirePro or NVIDIA Quadro graphics with up to 4GB of memory, and up to three hard drives with RAID 5 support. As promised, they’re going for $1,299, $1,239, and $1,899, respectively — in case your corporate card’s just begging for its next hit.
[Thanks, Fuzzball]
HP EliteBook 8460w, 8560w, and 8760w mobile workstations all go on sale originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 May 2011 01:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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