If you’ve got 90 seconds to spare the video above will explain what fire is. It’s an excellent watch, and one that might get you hooked on the Minute Physics YouTube channel. It might seem like the sort of question a child would ask, but “what is fire?” probably isn’t something you could answer so […]
Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging to get updated. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don’t escape without notice, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery from the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy!
Official Android updates
Unofficial Android updates, custom ROMs and misc. hackery
Other platforms
Refreshes we covered this week
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Aw, this little cutie is so adorable — until she denies you pizza and cheese fries. Autom, the 15-inch talking droid we first caught a glimpse of last year, is back and available for pre-order. Using the LCD touch screen, hungry dieters are prompted to enter daily calorie consumption and exercise habits — to which the robot will respond kindly to keep you motivated. With face-tracking capabilities and a killingly sweet death stare, Autom is always watching, which might just make you feel guilty enough to skip the dip. The lady bot costs $195 for the deposit and $670 for the device through company’s website. Slated to ship in 2012, apparently aiding the impending robot apocalypse doesn’t come cheap. Check out little Autom in action after the break.
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If you have a Windows PC, the best way (as you may already know know), to keep your operating system updated is by using Automatic Updates. They’ve come a long way since they were first introduced, and while they’re great and serve a purpose, they only keep your operating system updated. There are so many other elements involved in keeping your PC updated, and to do that there are multiple software solutions.
—Filehippo.com Update Checker—
File Hippo has always been one of my favorite resources for software downloads. Recently they added an Update Checker which will scan your computer, and check to see if there are any newer releases for the software that you have installed from their site.
The image to the right shows what you’d see in your browser after running the client, and the process of checking your installed software only takes a few seconds.
As you can see, they’ll display a list of everything that needs updated so that you can download the latest. It’s free, and works with Windows 98, 2000, 2003, XP, or Vista.
Thanks for the tip “Jack of all Trades”!
—Google Pack—
When you download Google Pack, a program called Google Updater is included and will download and install of the software that comes with it like Google Earth, Picasa, Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar, Adobe Reader, etc.
Along with downloading and installing all of the software, it will monitor for the latest versions of software. When there’s a new version available, an icon appears in your system tray so that you’ll know.
The updater can also be configured so that it will only update software developed by Google —versus checking all software included with the Google Pack.
—Secunia Software Inspector—
Another option for you to try which we’ve mentioned before is called Secunia Software Inspector. Secunia checks for insecure versions of applications that you have installed on your computer that need updates.
It’s Java based so it uses your web browser on your Windows PC. On their website is a “start now” button which activates the Java Application, and the process gets started. When it’s all done, you’ll get a report that will let you know if there’s anything that’s insecure that needs updated. The entire process takes only a few seconds as well.
—General Maintenance—
Besides keeping your software and operating system updated, you need to keep the computer itself updated. Likehack.org put together a good list of general things you need to do when you initially set it up, and then things you need to do on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis.
For example, do you delete your Internet files, run a defragmentation program, and clear your browser history weekly? Do you delete or un-install unneeded programs monthly?
Another aspect to the general maintenance of your computer is keeping a clean hard drive and registry.One of the best solutions for that purpose is CCleaner which we’ve also mentioned before.
If you know of any other software update checkers that we can add to the list, let us know. File Hippo’s service in particular is a really great way to keep updated on some of the latest software. Keeping track of all the latest software for your PC can be a daunting task, and File Hippo’s service, makes it that much easier.
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This article was written on December 18, 2006 by CyberNet.
I have thousands of songs on both my computer and my iPod. Most of the time, I find myself listening to the same songs, the ones I’ve put into a “favorites” playlist. The other songs that didn’t happen to make it into my favorite list just sit there. Up until now, I hadn’t thought about how nice it would be to have all of the songs placed into playlists for me! I’m sure you’ve found yourself saying “Wow, I didn’t even know I had this song.” One solution to this problem is Soundflavor, the free iTunes DJ that will place your songs into playlists based upon the “flavor” of the sound. As of now, it’s available for Windows only, but it’s worth checking out (they’re working on a mac version as well).
Soundflavor works by “flavorizing” the music in your library by matching a type of music that you’re listening to with another song with similar qualities. There are five different “flavorizer” settings that will determine how the playlists are formed. The “full flavor” setting creates a well balanced list. Some of the newer songs won’t be recognized like older songs because songs that Soundflavor recognizes have been analyzed by one of their 45 analysts. They’ve gone through over 350,000 songs to place the euphonic makeup of the songs into a database. Playlists are determined by era, genre, songs previously listened to, and/or the track’s aural qualities.
While there may be a few glitches that need to be worked out, it is a free plug-in worth experimenting with. You may not end up with perfect playlists, but you’ll probably end up with some new tunes to listen to that you didn’t even realize you had!
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A big week, a very big week for sure. Look at all of those phones, look at all of those news items. We’ve brought along our good-natured, well-rounded, and slightly-pottymouth’d associate Mr. Christopher Trout to help us make sense of it all with an edgy feel. It’s a good one, if we do say so ourselves. Sit back, crack open a vintage flip phone, and enjoy the show.
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Music: Daestro – Light Powered (Ghostly International)
00:02:15 – Introducing Engadget Distro!
00:04:10 – HP’s unreleased white TouchPad and Pre 3 for AT&T (hands-on video)
00:15:00 – Review score review
00:20:14 – HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio, we go ears-on (video)
00:26:30 – HTC Rhyme with Sense 3.5 hands-on (video)
00:28:58 – 4G variant of HTC’s Radar spotted in the wild, flying a magenta flag
00:30:52 – HTC Raider 4G arrives bearing South Korean LTE, looks a lot like the Holiday
00:32:45 – Sprint reportedly capping its mobile hotspot plans October 2nd
00:35:23 – Sprint to launch Direct Connect October 2nd, confirms mobile hotspot capping
00:35:52 – Sprint’s Motorola Admiral quietly displayed on YouTube as America watches dancing cats
00:35:55 – Kyocera Duramax is in the batter’s box, launching with Sprint Direct Connect October 2nd
00:41:19 – AT&T flips 4G LTE live, nearly 97 percent of America wonders where the party is
00:43:47 – Samsung Galaxy S II makes its AT&T debut October 2nd for $199 on contract
00:46:13 – Game on: Sony Ericsson Xperia Play 4G ready at AT&T for $50
00:46:28 – Motorola Atrix 2 peeks out (again) from the wild, destined for AT&T’s faux-G?
00:49:25 – Pantech Breakout now available to bring LTE to the light-walleted
00:51:36 – Samsung Nexus S 4G updated to Android 2.3.7, brings Google Wallet support
01:01:45 – ‘Personalized Wireless’ launching September 26th (update: it’s Cellular South, and it’ll be regional)
01:03:47 – Verizon starts ‘optimizing’ (read: throttling) network for the most data hungry users
01:11:36 – T-Mobile CMO: no iPhone 5 on our network this year
01:14:08 – LG LU6200 spotted in the wild, with 720p HD display taking center stage
01:14:55 – Samsung SHV-E120L comes out of the development dark, is the Xtina to LG’s Britney
01:16:09 – LG unveils Optimus Q2 QWERTY slider, slated for Korean launch next week
01:17:05 – 4G Samsung Galaxy S II X coming to Telus, still as Herculean as ever
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ExoPC may not have bowled folks over with its own Slate last year (or met its own promise of some all-in-one PCs this summer), but the company did produce an unquestionably unique UI, which it’s since been trying to license to others. Now it’s found what appears to be its first taker in Skytex, which has adopted the custom touch layer for its new Skytab S Series Windows 7 tablet. This one packs a 9.7-inch capacitive display (as opposed to the 11.6-inch on the ExoPC itself), and the internals expectedly get a bit of an upgrade to a dual-core Atom N550 processor, which is paired with 2GB of DDR3 RAM and an as-yet-unspecified amount of storage. ExoPC also describes this particular version of the UI as a “special edition,” although it’s not showing off too many of the changes just yet. There’s no word on a price yet either, but the tablet’s expected to ship in early October.
Update: We’ve just heard from ExoPC, which has clarified that the company has also licensed its UI for use on the Motion Computing CL900 tablet, and confirmed that it is indeed “focusing on software only now.”
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This article was written on June 09, 2006 by CyberNet.
Most people will purchase something from Newegg.com at some point in their geeky lives, but have you ever thought of how big they really are? Well, if you haven’t thought about it before then this will put it into perspective:
Newegg.com anticipates its worldwide sales will grow 30% to US$1.7 billion in 2006, up from an estimate of NT$1.3 billion in 2005. Every day, the online retailer generates US$5-7 million in sales, with about 550,000 visitors to its website on average every day.
I would say that Newegg.com has quite a business going on. They are also planning on making their way into Europe so that they can capitalize on markets all around the world. Now if only they had retail stores that had their online prices, then I would finally be able to say goodbye to Best Buy.
News Source: DigiTimes
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This article was written on June 24, 2006 by CyberNet.
Messenger Plus! Live was just launched today, however, the new site msgpluslive.net has already crashed. You can still access the download file for those people who just want to install the software.
The author said that the site will be back up soon but in the meantime you can still download the file using the link above. While it is exciting to still be able to download the software it is a little disappointing to not see what the new site looked like. I am the site will be back tomorrow for those people as excited about the new site as I am.
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Do you live in one of Bell’s LTE markets and own a laptop? Do you wish your machine could hitch a ride on the Canadian carrier’s 4G waves? Well sir or ma’am, may we submit for your consideration, the Novatel U679 Turbo Stick — an LTE USB modem that can hit a maximum speed of 75Mbps. (Though, generally you’re looking at between 7Mbps and 14Mbps.) When LTE is unavailable, the U679 falls back on 42Mbps, dual-carrier HSPA+ or plain ol’ 21Mbps HSPA+. You can pick one up today for just $60 with a three-year contract, but those with a fear of commitment will have to plunk down $120 to avoid being locked into a service contract. If you’ve still got questions, might we suggest peeping the PR after the break.
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