Hasta La Gadget!

This week was packed with news on the mobile front, so it was easy to miss a few stories here and there. Here’s some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of wireless for the week of October 10, 2011:

• US Cellular launched the BlackBerry Curve 9350 this week, and is now available for free (after rebate) with new activations, and $50 with upgrades. [Unwired View]
• That wasn’t the only smartphone added to US Cellular’s lineup this week: the HTC Hero S has also finally made it into loving hands. [US Cellular]
• O2 unveiled the Samsung Galaxy Ace, a Gingerbread device with an 800MHz CPU and 5MP camera, in purple this week. [EuroDroid]
• MetroPCS debuted a couple new basic feature phones, the Kyocera Presto and LG Beacon. The former is a candybar with the standard numberpad, while the latter is a 2.8-inch touch screen device with a full slide-out QWERTY. The two phones retail for $30 and $70, respectively. [CNet]
• Research in Motion may be planning to launch an all-white BlackBerry Bold 9900, according to a few shots taken in Dubai. [Electronista]
• Motorola Mobility is sponsoring the NFL internationally in the UK, and is launching an extensive marketing campaign to highlight it. [Motorola]
• We’ve heard about the LG myTouch and myTouch Q a few times so far, but this is the first time we’ve seen the two devices in the wild. [TmoNews]
• Nokia’s announced the winner and runners-up of its ringtone contest. Sadly, the Great Marvelous didn’t make the cut. [SlashGear]
• Samsung announced a new group messaging service called “ChatON.” Sammy’s definitely not the first to come out with a group messaging service, but it does offer the functionality across the board — iOS, Android and Windows are all present and accounted for. [TheNextWeb]

Mobile Miscellany: week of October 10, 2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on September 12, 2007 by CyberNet.

Microsoft is doing all they can to stop people from pirating their software, especially students. College students today are more tech savvy than ever, and a good handful know how to go about getting software like Microsoft Office 2007 illegally.  Sure, it may take them some time to download the software and find a crack, but they do it willingly because it’s free. And when you’re a college student, free is good. That’s why college students are the focus of Microsoft’s effort to curb piracy by offering them a copy of Office Ultimate 2007 for just $59 bucks. It’s quite the steal, and the program starts today.

Microsoft has an official website setup for it at www.theultimatesteal.com where they currently have a countdown displayed until the program launches at 1:00 PM PDT. If you want, there’s also the option of entering in your email address so that you can get notified when it launches. Considering Office Ultimate 2007 is priced at $500, this really is the ultimate steal for students.

Unfortunately this deal isn’t available to students globally. The Ultimate Steal program from Microsoft is only offered to students with a valid email address from their institution in the United States, Canada, and the UK.  Starting September 20th, it will also be offered in France, Italy, and Spain. Microsoft originally experimented with the program in Australia where they had a lot of positive feedback. The promotion ends on April 30th, 2008 which means students have a good 7+ months to get in on this offer.

So for $59, here’s what you’ll get:

• Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Outlook
• Access
• Publisher
• OneNote
• Groove
• InfoPath

Get your Ultimate Steal here if you’re a student with a valid email address.

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Fun Friday

Today we’re having some fun and presenting you with a few riddles that need to be solved. There are 15 in all, and the answers are found below. Have a great weekend!

1. In almost every language, this word begins with the “m” sound.
2. What number when multiplied by itself equals 12,345,678,987,654,321 (which is numbers 1-9 forwards and backwards)?
3. I do not breathe, but I run and jump.  I do not eat, but I swim and stretch.  I do not drink, but I sleep and stand.  I do not think, but I grow and play.  I do not see, but you see me every day. What am I?
4. There’s one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.  What is it?
5. An old fashioned bike wheel has 21 spokes.  How many spaces are between the spokes. Is it 20, 21, or 22?
6. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
7. Read the following sentence:
   FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
   SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
   IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
   THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
   Now count how many F’s are in the sentence just once. How many are there?
8. A girl is twice as old as her brother and half as old as her father. In 22 years, her brother will be half as old as his father. How old is the daughter now?
9. Someone at a party introduces you to your mother’s only sister’s husband’s sister in law.  He has no brothers.  What do you call this lady?
10. NASA was considering sending canaries into space to study them under zero gravity.  The project was scrapped when someone realized that in spite of having sufficient water supplies, they could die of dehydration within a few hours.  Why?
11. What is 1/2 of 1/4 of 2/9 of 3/7 of 84?
12. Continue this pattern: 1, 2, 3, 5, ?, ?
13. What does this mean:
    
14. A snail is at the bottom of a well and wants to get out.  He manages to crawl up the wall 3 feet each day, but at night he must rest and so he slips back down 2 feet.  If the well is 30 feet deep, how long will it take him to get out?
15. What is one thing that you can only touch with your left hand and not your right?

ANSWERS

1. Mother
2. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
3. I am a leg.
4. Boxing
5. 21 – draw it and then count
6. Charcoal
7. 6
8. She is 22
9. Mother
10. Birds, unlike humans, need gravity to swallow.  Humans can swallow even while hanging upside down.
11. The answer is 1.  3/7 of 84= 36.  2/9 of 36=8. 1/4 of 8 = 2. 1/2 of 2 = 1.
12. 1=2=3, 2=3=5, 3+5=8, 5=8=13. The 4th digit is 8, the 5th digit is 13.
13. Big Bad Wolf
14. 28 days…..the snail averages 1 foot each day, so after 27 days he has reached 27 feet. On the 28th day he crawls up 3 feet during the day, but since he is now at 30 feet and out of the well he no longer slips back 2 feet.
15. Your right elbow.

Sources: www.webriddles.com, www.justriddlesandmore.com

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Google announced today that they will be stopping development on several different services. Among those being given the ax are Google Notebook, Google Video, Google Catalog Search, Dodgeball, Jaiku, and Google Mashup Editor.

I can’t say that I’m really surprised with most of those because you never hear too much about them. What makes me happy is that Google isn’t completely throwing in the towel on the services. For example, Google Video won’t accept any new submissions, but videos already posted will remain online. And the Jaiku is being ported over to the Google App Engine where it will then become an open source project.

The one service I was a bit surprised to see on the list is Google Notebook. Luckily Google is planning to leave this untouched, but as their blog describes there will no longer be any development work done:

Starting next week, we plan to stop active development on Google Notebook. This means we’ll no longer be adding features or offer Notebook for new users. But don’t fret, we’ll continue to maintain service for those of you who’ve already signed up. As part of this plan, however, we will no longer support the Notebook Extension, but as always users who have already signed up will continue to have access to their data via the web interface at http://www.google.com/notebook.

I really love Google Notebook, and it’s too bad they won’t be taking it any further. My wish was that it would someday become an integrated part of Gmail, but that never happened. With the addition of Gmail Labs I still have hope that someday Gmail will get a feature that would prevent having to send those pesky “note to self” emails.

It’s time to bid farewell to these Google services. Some of them have served us well, and some will live on in our hearts. We’ll be telling stories of Jaiku and Dodgeball to our great grandchildren as we reminisce of the times we walked to school/work uphill both ways in hurricane-like weather. Those were the days, weren’t they?

[via Search Engine Land]

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Finding apps that make you more productive is always something that I look forward to, and DonationCoder is once again on top of that! Just a little while ago they started a Getting Organized Challenge to see what programmers could come up with.

My first thought was that this was going to be a roundup of existing programs, but instead they required that any submitted apps not be released prior to November 1, 2007. There are 10 programs in total, and all of them are offered completely free of charge. How can you beat that?

I think my favorite out of the bunch is Evaluweight (pictured above). It’s helpful when you’re wanting to compare, well, anything. All you have to do is specify the features you want in the left column, and assign an importance/weight to each of them. Then for each of the products you give them a score (out of 10), and the program will automagically calculate the overall score based upon all of the features. You can save all of the data to a file for easy retrieval, but what would have really been nifty is some sort of HTML export tool for people who post comparisons on websites.

Among the other programs are:

• Interruptron – Helps monitor how much time you waste because of interruptions.
• AnotherOneDone – Keeps track of how many tasks you have to do, and shows a progress bar displaying how many you’ve completed.
• HowLong2It – Counts down to a date in the future, or even one in the past. If you specify a past event, such as a wedding anniversary, it will say how many days have passed since the anniversary.
• Timer Assist – A timer that is designed to repeat at a specified interval.
• Simple Multi-Alarm Utility – Create multiple alarms to alert you of upcoming events/tasks.
• PlainTextWiki Toolkit – Lets you have wiki text support in several different text editors.
• CFDButton – Provides more filetype filters in the Open file dialog box. You can also set your favorite directories so that they are just a click away.
• MyHelp – A program where you can quickly store things that you often forget.
• JRHourlyMarker – Adds hourly markers to mirc and xchat.

View all of the apps in DonationCoder’s Getting Organized Challenge

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