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After refreshing the BlackBerry Bold, Torch, and Storm, you had to know the BlackBerry Curve wasn’t too far behind. Meet the new BlackBerry Curve models.
Originally posted at Dialed In
So, the trickle of BlackBerry juice is now a flood. Just weeks after RIM launched its high-end Torch 9810, 9850 and Bold 9900 handsets, it’s revealed the refreshed mid-range Curve 9360 (aka the 9350 or 9370, depending on the carrier and region). When compared to the Bold 9900, which can be seen as a richer cousin with a similar form factor, the new Curve clearly comes with key hardware sacrifices in order to meet a lower (but still to-be-confirmed) price point, including an 800MHz processor (instead of 1.2GHz), no touchscreen and a 480 x 360 HVGA+ display rather than the Bold’s full VGA panel. Compared to previous Curves, however, the 9360 is a significant upgrade. It sports the new BB 7, a 5MP camera and a physical design that RIM hopes will entice the “youth demographic” as well as the millions of international users who have helped to turn the Curve into RIM’s globally bestselling range. The question is, is this device enough of an upgrade, considering it’s been a year since the last refresh in the Curve series? Read on for our initial hands-on impressions…
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The Desk-It Weekly Calendar looks rather pointless, whether you prefer paper diaries over electronic or not. Scrawling your dates and appointments onto sheafs of dead trees is fine: The Lady prefers it that way because it is light, easy to read and more portable even than her never-used iPad.
But the Desk-It is always tied to your computer. Once you stick the sheet to the chin of your monitor, it’s going nowhere, so you may as well use the calendaring app on the computer itself. Sure, you could rip the giant Post-It-style sticker off to take it with you, but that’s about as practical as trying to carry a sheet of fly paper.
And if you’re not using an iMac, it seems even more pointless: Without that slab of aluminum behind it, you’ll have nothing to press against with your pen. And if you are using an iMac, you surely just cried out “What?! You expect me to use iCal? That piece of crap?”
My answer is to upgrade to OS X Lion. Despite the annoying leather-look, the 10.7 iCal is around one thousand times better than the old version. Try it out.
Back to the Desk-It. If you want one, a pad of sixty will cost you $10, or roughly $60 for a year’s worth. Available now.
Desk-It Weekly Calendar [Pocketo via Werd]
Photo credit: Desk-It
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This article was written on January 28, 2008 by CyberNet.
With all the buzz surrounding Windows 7 in the last two weeks it comes as no surprise that there is a supposed leaked copy floating around the Internet. Torrent sites quickly picked up on the “leaked” version of Windows, and after that it started to spread like wildfire.
As users finished downloading the 2.19GB worth of data reports of the validity started coming in, and they weren’t good. It turns out that the whole thing is just an empty file that serves no purpose. Yes, it was all just a joke. Funny, huh?
For the curious minds out there doing a Google search for one of the following terms will bring up a list of sites that have the torrent available:
win7.6519.1.071220-1525.lab_internal.milestone1
OR
Windows 7 M1 – REPACKED ISO
I haven’t tried the download myself, but there are several reports of the file containing all 0′s when being opened in a hex editor, revealing that it is not the real deal.
Something is really boggling my mind though. Where’s the sense in wanting to give this a shot ? It looks like Vista, and will act like Vista with only some minor changes. There will probably be hardware compatibility issues, crashing, and more that will plague the operating system when it’s at such an early stage. Even if the download was real I still wouldn’t be enticed enough to want to try it out.
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Stick on these thin silicone-rubber rails and forget about scratches from surfaces.
Fujifilm’s X100 might soon be joined by a little brother. Photo Fujifilm
Fujifilm is planning on making a cut-down version of its hot retro-style X100 to go up against cameras like the Panasonic LX5 and the Canon G12. Rumors spilling out from a couple of different sources say that the new camera, to be called the X10, will be almost exactly the same as the X100, only with a smaller sensor.
The X100, to recap, is a fixed lens camera with an all-metal body, a big APS-C sensor and a fancy hybrid optical/electronic viewfinder. The smaller (but still chunky) X10 would have a smaller sensor, a 4x zoom, similar retro styling and a price half that of its big brother, at $600.
Given that the point of the X100 (apart from the big sensor), is the all-manual knobs and dials and that viewfinder, we’d hope that these features make it into the rumored X10. Otherwise, why wouldn’t you just buy an LX5?
The rumors say that the camera should arrive in the next few weeks, so we don’t have long to wait to see if they’re true. Fingers crossed, though. I’m not spending $1,200 on a fixed-lens camera, but I might be tempted by a $600 one if it has that super-cool viewfinder.
Fujifilm X10 in the next few weeks [Photo Rumors]
Ganan terreno los rumores sobre la Fujifilm X10 [Quesabesde]
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A (non-Kodak) film canister. Photo Brian Turner / Flickr
If you have a hankering to take a teeny tiny packed lunch along with you, and you happen to have some old film canisters around the house, then Kodak has good news. While the plastic tubs aren’t FDA approved for food, Kodak reckons that they’re safe enough, despite not going so far as to actually recommend the practice.
After having made roughly 10 gazillion of the handy little pots over the years, Kodak knows a thing or two about them. The bodies of these canisters are made from high density polyethylene (HDPE), used in kitchen utensils amongst other things, and the lids are LDPE (guess what that stands for), which is also commonplace.
So, while kids might choke on the lids, human adults should be fine if they choose to store and carry food inside the watertight containers. There are no toxic or chemical residues from the film that was once therein, and the containers are “exceptionally clean” upon manufacture.
Which leaves us with one problem. What to put in there? Flakey Maldon salt is one idea, and a lollipop might fit in if you cut off its neck. You could even store a few cherry tomatoes inside for an impromptu (and minuscule) salad. After that, though, I’m stumped. Film-canister picnic ideas in the comments, please.
35mm Film Containers [Kodak via PetaPixel]
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Print to PDF adds a virtual printer to your iDevice. Screenshot Charlie Sorrel
Printing to PDF is one of the coolest unsung features of the Mac. Anytime you find yourself in a print dialog box, you can select a dropdown menu and turn whatever you were printing into a PDF file. It’s great for “printing” boarding passes ready to be mailed to your local print shop for actual transfer to paper, for example.
It’s a feature so fundamentally obvious that when the Lady was forced to use a Windows PC for work last week, she called to ask where to find it.
And now this feature comes to iOS. Print to PDF is an app that runs a virtual print server on your iPad or iPhone. Any time you choose to print, in any app that can send documents to AirPrint, you can instead pick Print to PDF as a destination.
Thanks to the limitations of iOS, the app can only run for a few minutes before being terminated, so you’ll have to launch it and then head back to the app you want to print from. Once there, you just pick the printer that has the same name as your iOS device and print. A dialog pops up to tell you it worked, and you can tap this to view the resulting PDF. All the PDFs can be organized into folders, and anything from the browser or e-mail client is automatically filed into a special folder.
That would be good enough, but there’s more. First, you can hit a button to turn the page of the PDF you are currently viewing into a plain text version, ready for copying and pasting.
You can also opt to have your iPad (or iPhone) to show up on your local network as a printer. Thus, you can print to it from any other iOS device, or even your Mac. It might work with a PC, too, but I haven’t tested that as my only PC is under a pile of dust beneath my bed.
There are other apps which let you create PDFs from webpages, but this one is so easy and versatile it might just become the default. It will also let you send the results to any other PDF compatible app, so you’ll never get locked in.
Print to PDF is available now as a universal app for just $4.
Print to PDF [iTunes]
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