Sep 25

Add Tabbed Feeds To Your Google Homepage

Posted in: Google, Today's Chili, Web Sites

This article was written on November 04, 2006 by CyberNet.

Google Tabbed Feeds Adding feeds to your Google Personalized Homepage is easy to do but it isn’t nearly as efficient as what Netvibes has to offer. If you like the Google Homepage better then you might find this to be useful though.

The Feeds in Tabs module will let you add up to four feeds and it will place them in tabs so that you can easily view the news from multiple sites in just a few clicks. This is a great solution because it doesn’t clutter up the screen and it gives you the option to not show a summary, show a short summary, or show a long summary of the article.

If you have a ton of feeds you are trying to track then you should consider using the Google Reader module. It lets you see your recent unread feeds and also lets you filter them by labels. However, when using this module you cannot sort the articles by the source, which is why I like the Feeds in Tabs module a little better.

If you’re looking for the most powerful feed reader that you can get on a personalized homepage then you should look into Netvibes. You can view the full feed from a website using their intuitive RSS modules that they provide. In my opinion no homepage has come close to what they have to offer.

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Sep 25

QReo is for cookie, that’s good enough to scan (video)

Posted in: cellphone, cellphones, marketing, Today's Chili, video

The medium is the message. That’s really all you need to know about this junk food marketing. Integrated ad agency RedPepper, which prides itself on communication via “human-centered, highly-spreadable ‘things’,” assembled a group of stoners employees to answer the age-old question: can cookies convey QR codes? No, never pondered that ultimate mystery before? Well, bust out the smartphone and get to scanning this collection of 441 black and gold Oreos for the answer. We won’t ruin the URL-directing surprise for you, but prepare to be minorly underwhelmed — it’s not like the company’s heralding the return of glorious trans fat. Curiosity piqued? Then head past the break for the how’d they do that? hyper-speed video and its Daft Punk backing track. (Disclaimer: No cookies were harmed in the filming of this project, only consumed.)

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Sep 25

Switched On: No new wires, one new caveat

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Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

In the decade that WiFi has blanketed home networks across the United States, several technologies aimed at using existing wiring in the home have met with limited success. These have included MoCA (Multimedia over Coax, which has been adopted by some service providers for implementing multi-room DVRs) and HomePNA (originally for phone lines but later expanded to coax cable as well). At least three dueling standards have also sought to bring high-speed connectivity over electrical wiring. HomePlug, the most successful of these, has had several iterations. The latest – HomePlug AV – is rated at a theoretical throughput of 200 Mbits/sec. However, power line technologies have been held back by high prices and occasional interoperability problems.

But a new approach seeks to be the one protocol to rule them all, operating over phone lines, power lines or coax. Dubbed G.hn, the ITU standard promises up to 1Gbps theoretical throughput, with real-world usage over electrical lines expected to reach between 250Mbps and 400Mbps. If that sounds appealing to you, you’re not alone. Service providers like the idea of G.hn since it allows them more flexibility than previous efforts. In fact, they like it so much that — despite G.hn’s capacity — they have insisted on quality of service standards that could limit or prevent consumers from installing it themselves after they buy adapters from retailers.

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Switched On: No new wires, one new caveat originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 25

Rogers getting Samsung Galaxy S Glide in time for the holidays

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Sure, Rogers will soon be launching its flagship Samsung Galaxy S II LTE, but sometimes you just gotta have a tangible keyboard. That’s where the Galaxy S Glide comes in: the folks at MobileSyrup were able to take a brief tour of the device, and discovered that this previously unannounced phone has a four-row QWERTY with a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, 1.2GHz dual-core CPU and 8MP rear / 1.2MP front-facing cameras. Not quite up to par with its 4G-equipped older brother, but anyone not needing the fanciest toy on the market but craving high performance may find this option particularly intriguing. It’s expected to show up sometime between now and the end of the year (that narrows down the timeframe quite a bit) and has no established price point as of yet. We could see the device hovering around the mid-range for now, at least, and will likely be much more popular than the tragically-unrelated Samsung Glyde.

[Thanks, TheMetrix]

Rogers getting Samsung Galaxy S Glide in time for the holidays originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 25

Dynamic Time-Based Earth Wallpaper

Posted in: Freeware, Software, Today's Chili, Windows

This article was written on June 30, 2010 by CyberNet.

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Are you a big fan of having images of Earth set as your desktop wallpaper? If so then Desktop Earth is definitely something you’ll want to checkout. This free app will rotate your desktop wallpaper on an interval that you specify, and things such as the sunlight will be reflected across the map based upon the time of day.

The program uses maps provided by NASA as the source, and it includes several different viewing options:

  • Adjust the amount of cloud cover
  • View city lights (regular or “abundant”)
  • Moonlit surfaces
  • Simple shadows (basically no city lights)

It’s nothing extravagant, but is pretty darn cool. The best part may be that it only uses about 3MB when running… so you can get a cool dynamic wallpaper without compromising a lot of system resources.

Desktop Earth Homepage (Windows only; Freeware)

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Sep 25

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: Solar Decathlon, hydrogen jet and a solar LED installation

Posted in: eco, gps, green, LED, mit, solar, solar power, SolarPower, Today's Chili
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.

This week an incredible crop of sun-powered prefabricated houses popped up in Washington DC for the 2011 Solar Decathlon, and Inhabitat was on the scene to bring you exclusive coverage of this year’s stunning homes! We took a look at all 19 of this year’s ultra-efficient projects, we rounded up seven stellar teams set to take the competition by storm, and we’ll continue to keep you posted as the results roll in, so stay tuned. We also highlighted several inspiring projects from MIT’s $1,000 house challenge, we saw a massive solar LED installation light up the night in Croatia, and we spotted plans for a futuristic floating island paradise at sea.

Green transportation got things rolling this week as Chicago launched a lush green subway car filled with plants, and Edison unveiled an electric version of their X-Prize winning Very Light Car. Two-wheeled transportation took off as well as an all-electric Tron Lightcycle hit the streets for the first time and researchers developed a nylon bike that is as strong as steel using satellite technology. We also took a spin in the 2012 Honda Insight Hybrid and we showcased plans for a Lockheed Stratoliner hydrogen jet that can travel anywhere on earth without refueling.

As September winds down schools across the county are now in session, but if you’re still scrambling to pick up a few last-minute supplies don’t miss our roundup of 14 green gadgets for back to school and ten solar-powered designs to charge your life. We also saw eco-fashion go high-tech as researchers developed a smart t-shirt that can monitor hospital patients’ vital signs, designers created a motion-sensing interactive window display and a Star Wars fan made a remarkably realistic stormtrooper helmet entirely from Adidas sneakers. Finally, we shined a light on a Swedish daycare center’s plans to track kids with GPS tracking devices.

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: Solar Decathlon, hydrogen jet and a solar LED installation originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 25

Motorola’s Xoom 2 tablets pair up for a portrait, both at around 9mm thick

Posted in: exclusive, leak, moto, motorola, MotorolaXoom, slate, speculation, tablet, Today's Chili

There’s nothing like a family portrait, and the Xoom 2 brothers have paired up for this year’s Christmas card shot — or at least for an anonymous tipster’s latest leak. These pictured tablets give us a better look at the rear-facing buttons we heard about last week, which appear to be a power button and a volume rocker. The smaller sibling sports the same “Fleming” moniker we saw in yesterday’s images, the same 8.2-inch screen size as previously reported, and appears to be about as thick as a 9.3mm iPhone 4. Combining with This is My Next’s intel, it appears that both tablets are of very similar thickness. Around back? A few stickers, again spelling out the smaller tablet’s codename and outing LTE compatibility.

Interestingly, our tipster tells us that both slates share the Fleming codename, along with Android 3.2 goodness and five-megapixel HD cameras on the rear, though both prototypes are also “buggy as all hell, with frequent reboots and crashes.” This could mean that we’re still some time away from seeing the original Xoom’s successors, so for now, check out our gallery below to get an eyeful for yourself.

Update: Our tipster has confirmed LTE for both devices.

[Thanks, Anonymous]

Gallery: Motorola’s second-gen Android tablets leaked

Motorola’s Xoom 2 tablets pair up for a portrait, both at around 9mm thick originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 25

Murata wants to take couch potatoes by the hand and do the remote control twist

Posted in: remote control, RemoteControl, solar power, SolarPower, Television, Today's Chili

We’ve seen Murata’s marketing future and it involves either Chubby Checker, or that ’90s Helen Hunt movie. The Japanese electronics maker’s cooked up a flexible sensor device that’ll let you twist and shout bend your way to remote television control. Dubbed the Leaf Grip Remote Controller, the prototype UI design makes use of a special pyroelectric effect-free piezoelectric film that translates twisting into channel changing, rapid twisting to swap video inputs, bending for volume control and rapid bending to power the set on / off. The company’s also outfitted the non-clicker (which we’ll henceforth refer to as “the Twister”) with a photovoltaic cell, giving it the ability to charge — from your man cave? Kinks in its planning aside, sample shipments are expected to be delivered sometime next spring. But, before they rush this product out to market, may we suggest the inclusion of a sports-induced rage-proof mode?

Murata wants to take couch potatoes by the hand and do the remote control twist originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 25

PortableApps Needs Some Beta Testers

Posted in: Freeware, Newly Released, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on November 16, 2006 by CyberNet.

Sandisk Cruzer John Haller from PortableApps.com just posted requesting some Beta testers for all kinds of software before it officially gets released. If you feel up to the job head on over to the forums and you’ll find the following programs eagerly awaiting your tests:

These versions should work well with Windows Vista along with several other kinks that he has worked out. I have been playing with the Firefox Portable 2 and I was very impressed with the initial “setup” screen when I started the program for the first time. It prompted me to accept Mozilla’s license agreement before continuing and it actually looked exactly like a window from the normal installation. Well done John!

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Sep 25

Samsung moves ten million Galaxy S II smartphones, pats itself on the back

Posted in: Android, galaxy s ii, GalaxyS, GalaxySIi, mobilepostcross, sales, samsung, Today's Chili
Galaxy S II

Since its debut in April, Samsung claims to have moved 10 million Galaxy S IIs — not quite iPhone numbers (which sold 20 million units in Q2 alone), but still quite impressive. It’s especially noteworthy since, at the end of July, only five million had passed into customers’ hands. In just eight weeks the number of Galaxy S IIs sold has doubled, and Sammy’s flagship device has yet to even make a dent here in the US. At this rate the S II is set to far eclipse its ubiquitous predecessor’s sales figures, which took over seven months to hit the same milestone. Check out the self-congratulatory PR after the break.

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