Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on May 20, 2006 by CyberNet.

Garett Rogers noticed that Google placed “/music” in their robots.txt file. This means that the Google Music service must be inching a little closer so keep your eyes peeled.

Google also has Pearl Jam’s “Life Wasted” music video available for viewing and download. This download is available until next Wednesday but I am not sure if we will see the Google Music service up before that time.

News Source: Googling Google

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The WebOS nuts at PreCentral have received an anonymous tip-off that HP’s imminent slate won’t be able to edit Office docs out of the box. As much as we’d like to dismiss this as a retaliatory rumor put out by BlackBerry, it emits an unfortunate whiff of truth. While HP has previously made a big deal of the TouchPad’s inclusion of the Quickoffice app, it has only said it’s “working with Quickoffice” to include document editing, and it has never demoed editing in action. The company has recently been trying to boost its app count, but perhaps it should have put more effort into securing core functionality instead. A glimmer of hope, though: the same tip-off also suggested that at least some editing capabilities will be introduced “via a downloadable update in Q3 2011”. Hey, what’s the rush?

HP TouchPad rumored to lack document editing at launch originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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New EchoSystem 4 from Echo360 sends the classroom experience in HD to iPads, Android tablets, laptops, and desktops. The platform emulates the classroom experience by supporting real-time collaboration tools including question submission, polling and commenting.

This article was written on August 07, 2006 by CyberNet.

AOL released a list of 20 million search queries yesterday that was made up from 500,000 users. You didn’t need special permission to download the file but you had to be willing to wait for the 439MB to finish downloading. In the end it didn’t take long for them to remove it from their servers but by that time it was already a little too late.

TechCrunch has already reported about a mirror that is still up where you can download the file. If that ever goes down then the P2P networks will always be available since the torrent is already wandering around the Web.

The Paradigm Shift noticed one user in particular, with the ID number 17556639, that was constantly doing searches like “how to kill your wife.” That user appeared to be looking for anything they could find like decapitation and car crash photos. If that is just one user, it makes you wonder what you’ll find going through the other 499,999 that are in the list!

The biggest reason why this was stupid, in my opinion, is that no one will trust them anymore. They just released information regarding a free 5GB file storage account that users will be able to sign up for in September but who would do that when your data could possibly be given to the public. I’ll be holding out for Google who has proven that they fight for my privacy.

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This article was written on May 02, 2008 by CyberNet.

Ever since Post-it notes became popular in the 1980′s by 3M, no one has really managed to modernize them. I guess that saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” applies here. There’s never been any reason to try and come up with something better because Post-it notes just work! While it works, MIT must have thought there were ways to improve it and make it a little more modern because they’ve reinvented the Post-it note with something else called “Quickies.” As you can imagine, coming from MIT it’s all about the electronics involved.

TFOT Gives a good explanation of what Quickie is all about, and they also had some great pictures as well:

A newly-written Quickie is a simple Post-it note, which is scribed on a sensitive pad that allows the computer to capture and store the written information. This is done using commercially available digital-pen hardware, which translates the movement of the pen on the surface of the paper sticky note into digital information. The data can be viewed at any time through the Quickie software, which stores the sticky notes as images and converts the hand-written notes into computer-understandable text using available handwriting recognition algorithms.

Take a look at the video below and you’ll get a great idea of what the Quickies are all about:

After watching the video, I have to admit that it is impressive how text messaging and adding appointments to a calendar are so simple to use. And of course each note has got RFID embedded into so that they’ll be easy to locate, but is that what people are looking to do with their post-it notes? I noticed in the comments of the video that someone said, “one word, over-engineered” They pointed out how it’s simply not practical. While it’s definitely a cool concept, I think post-it notes are popular because they’re simple and they aren’t digitized.

Do you see this as something that could actually be useful? Or is this not what you’re looking for a post-it note to do?

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