Jul 27

Digital City 135: Diving into the new MacBooks

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Ep. 135: Diving into the new MacBooks

This week: there’s plenty to see as we talk about getting hands-on with the latest MacBook Air laptops and Mac Mini desktop. Following a quick tutorial on fixing some of the gestural quirks in OS X Lion, the gang gets quizzed on the most popular Web sites of 1996 and wins a few prizes for the chatroom audience (reminder: hop into the live chatroom every week for a chance to win rare video game promo items and other cool stuff).

Bonus: Download the show’s jaunty theme song as a free MP3 here.

Double supersecret bonus: We guest-hosted Buzz Out Loud last Thursday. If you missed this very special episode, check it out below.

Ep. 1515: There’s something Buzzing in the Digital City

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Jul 27

Vodafone axes EVO 3D before it even hits shelves

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HTC EVO 3D

Keen-eyed observers, or those who registered to be notified about the EVO 3D, may have noticed a sudden dearth of glasses-free 3D phones coming to Vodafone. Apparently, the British carrier’s execs are not the patient type. After several delays, Vodafone has decided to simply ax the handset rather than wait out HTC’s supply issues, and has removed it from the company’s “Coming Soon” page. Lets just hope its customers are a bit more understanding — especially those who signed up to get first-crack at the now canceled phone.

Vodafone axes EVO 3D before it even hits shelves originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 27

Oslo Killer Emailed Plan to More Than 1000 People One Hour Before Massacre

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That bloody bastard Anders Breivik sent his plan to kill people in Oslo and Utoya to more than one thousand recipients one hour and 17 minutes before the first explosion. His deadly spam even contained a 1500-page attachment. More »

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Jul 27

Piano Keyboard for iPad Teaches You to Tickle Those Ivories

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Piano apprentice

Piano Apprentice is a different kind of external keyboard for your iPad

Here’s one for all the luddites who whine that “the iPad doesn’t have a proper keyboard.” Piano Apprentice is an external keyboard for your tablet, only instead of adding QWERTY, it brings do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.

The keyboard comes with a free iPad companion app which plugs in via the 30-pin dock connector. With these two parts, you can learn how to play the piano by following the on-screen instructions and/or pressing the keys as their internal LEDs light up.

But that’s not all. The 25-note keyboard is also Core MIDI compliant. This means that you can use it as a controller for other MIDI-aware apps on the iPad — Garage Band, for example. The keys are even touch-sensitive, so you won’t lose Garage Band’s excellent velocity-sensing when you use it.

The Piano Apprentice will go on sale in September, ready for the cool days and early nights of Autumn, and will cost around $100. The companion app will be free.

Piano Apprentice [Ion Audio via Oh Gizmo!]


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Jul 27

Olympus launches SP-810UZ, packs 36x wide-angle zoom in a compact camera

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Travelers often must choose between carrying a pair of powerful zoom lenses and tackling the weight of a full DSLR kit, or bringing along a point-and-shoot, in turn sacrificing image quality and versatility. The Olympus SP-810UZ sets out to eradicate that latter obstacle, pairing a 14-megapixel image sensor with a massive 24-864mm, f/2.9-5.7 optical zoom lens. The result is a 36x superzoom point-and-shoot camera, with 720p HD video, 3D image capture and a 3-inch LCD. Olympus hasn’t hinted at a release date for the $330 cam, but you hit up the gallery below for a trio of glamour shots.

Gallery: Olympus SP-810UZ

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Jul 27

Android Market update reportedly rolling out to the dessert-themed faithful

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Android Market
Fans of frozen, cultured dairy products and holiday cookies, it’s time to get your handsets ready — that new, not-so-shiny Android Market appears to be making its way to users now. Both our inbox and the Twitterverse are afire with news that the redesigned market is delivering, not just apps, but books and movies to Android phones across the US as you’re reading this. Of course, as we’ve already mentioned, you could just skip the waiting game and start perusing the Editor’s Choice section right now by downloading and manually installing the APK. If you don’t remember why you’re supposed to be excited, check out the video after the break.

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Android Market update reportedly rolling out to the dessert-themed faithful originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 27

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 gets Gingerbread

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The update is available to folks who connect the device to their computers and run Sony Ericsson’s PC Companion software.

Originally posted at The Digital Home

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Jul 27

Canon, Ilford team up to offer free photo prints

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Test out a professional Canon photo printer and see what a difference high-quality photo paper makes–all for free.

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Jul 27

Engadget comes to your TV on Boxee, Roku, Yahoo and DivX starting today

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Gather round everyone, while you may have gotten used to accessing Engadget via the browser or any one of our mobile apps, starting today we’re ready to come home in one more way: on your TV. Launching on Boxee, Roku, Yahoo! Widgets and DivX is a new AOL HD package which includes a channel full of our videos ready for viewing on big screens. This way, when you want to kick back and enjoy a new hands-on video, The Engadget Show or any of our other content it’s only as far away as your remote control, which is probably also your phone, PC or tablet. There’s plenty more to come in the future — we’ll figure out an in-app Screen Grabs submission tool somehow — but for now we’re happy to have an official outlet on some of the most widely available connected TV platforms out there. The AOL HD app will begin showing up today, check out the gallery for a few screenshots of us on each of the platforms.

Gallery: Engadget on AOL HD

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Jul 27

Alleged iPhone 5 case design points to big changes

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A U.K. Web site, Mobile Fun, says a Chinese case manufacturer sent it a design document for an iPhone 5 case. It points to a big redesign for the iPhone 5. Is it real or not?

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