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Pictures drawn on Doodle look to be every bit as bad as those on a real Etch-a-Sketch

Get ready. I’m about to blow your mind with something so obvious, so clearly right, that I’m amazed you never thought of it before: Etch-a-Sketch on a Kindle.

That’s right. There’s an app — called Doodle — which turns the e-ink on the Kindle into the same hard-to-control lines you find on the frustrating magnetic drawing toy. Doodle, which costs a buck, actually looks better than the original, control-wise at least. Instead of annoying knobs which you twist to snake out a wobbly line, you can use the “5-way” or the keyboard to move the line. The keys will also let you move diagonally, something nearly impossible on the Etch-a-Sketch, and you can choose to draw in black on white or white on black.

Doodle, from the folks at web development company 16 Hands, looks just about perfect for entertaining the kids on a long journey (assuming they’re too young or too stupid to just read a book), and because this is the Kindle, the battery will likely outlast the attention span of the most avid jaggy-line enthusiast.

Doodle is available now, in the U.S Kindle store only.

Doodle product page [Amazon. Thanks, Eli!]

See Also:

• Etch A Sketch iPad Case
• Automatic Etch-A-Sketch Clock

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Last year on May 31st we saw Google push Google Gears out the door, their open source browser extension project. One of their goals with the project was to provide a way for web applications to interact naturally with your desktop. More recently they decided to drop the “Google” part of the name and just go by “Gears” so that people realize that it’s for everyone to get involved with. People have accepted Gears well because it does offer amazing functionality and now Yahoo wants to do something similar with new software called Yahoo! BrowserPlus.

Like Gears, Yahoo says that Yahoo! BrowserPlus was designed to extend the capabilities of your web browser, “to make richer web experiences possible.” What they mean by this is that they want people to be able to drag and drop from their desktop to their browser. They want to make uploading files easier, and more efficient, and they say they want to “secure acquisition of feeds and information, and native desktop functions.” Sounds similar to Gears, doesn’t it?

Now we know that Gears has allowed web applications to come offline, so does this mean that Yahoo! will eventually use BrowserPlus to enable web apps to come offline? They could, and they’d be smart if they did. What both Google and Yahoo (and others) are trying to do is bridge the browser and the desktop together so that they don’t feel completely separate. Yahoo mentioned that they’d like to be able to support native desktop notifications which would be so nice – an example of how this could be used is with email. Say you have a Yahoo Mail account. When you received a new email message in your inbox, you would be able to receive a notification on your desktop saying so.

At this point Yahoo says that because it’s just a “Sneak Peek”, you can only run BrowserPlus on sites operated by Yahoo! or its partners, but once they’ve received some feedback and improve the software, they’ll open it up. They currently support Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac Leopard, and Mac Tiger (Intel only). It’ll definitely be interesting to see what kinds of web applications developers are able to come up with, that take advantage of Yahoo! BrowserPlus and have desktop capabilities.

To see BrowserPlus in action, checkout the Demos page where you can see how it’s used in a Photo Uploader for Flickr so that users can drag, crop, rotate, tag, and upload photos to Flickr from a web page. Two other demos are available (an IRC Client, and a JSON Inspector) as well.

Source: Webware

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No need for the bookshelf speakers? No problem. Aperion Audio just introduced the second-generation Zona Home Audio Link system, enabling cable detesters to send music from any USB / 3.5mm-enabled source to, well… just about anything. The basic HAL package is comprised of a compact wireless transmitter and receiver, and since there’s no proprietary shenanigans going on, it’s about as universal in nature as you’ll find. Needless to say, folks who’ve been trying to find an easy(ish) way to convert their existing indoor / outdoor speakers into wireless speakers should certainly have a gander, and given that it’ll stream uncompressed 16 bit/48 kHz CD-quality audio to up to three simultaneous zones, the $149 price tag just might be justified. Hit the source to learn more (or place your order, if you’ve heard enough).

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