Oct 25

iPod Nano 12GB Expected This Fall

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This article was written on June 26, 2006 by CyberNet.

iPod Nano 12GB Expected This Fall

Apple is preparing to release an updated version of the iPod Nano this fall and some reports suggest that Apple can afford to increase the capacity:

Gartner forecasts that a 16Gb (2GB) device will be available in the third quarter for about $30, down from its current price of about $35. Due to Apple’s procurement power and investment, it is conceivable that it could get pricing for a device at $25 or even $20. This pricing would enable capacities of 12GB, leaving enough room for the remaining component and manufacturing costs as well as Apple’s margin, while still reaching a $250 price point.

This will be nice for those people looking to purchase iPod Nano’s around the holiday season but it could also result in a short supply. With the rising popularity of portable music Apple needs to make sure that they can properly stock store shelves with the MP3 players that many people were scurrying around to find last holiday season. Hopefully this year Apple will plan ahead.

News Source: Mac Rumors

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Oct 25

Opera 9 Leads The Way With New AJAX Technology

Posted in: Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on September 01, 2006 by CyberNet.

Opera 9 Screenshot Opera is a terrific Web browser and they continue to develop it to be very feature rich. I don’t use Opera as my primary browser because of the lack of compatibility with many Google services, but I do use it from time to time. The best thing about it is that I never have a memory leak!

Opera has stepped up the game even more by offering a new AJAX feature which sounds really great. Here is how the new system works:

With the traditional AJAX implementation, the browser continually polls the server, sending requests to the server, asking to get data back, making new HTTP requests for every single poll, putting more strain on the server than needed.

In Opera 9 you can instead open a persistent connection to the server, sending data to the client when new information is available, eliminating the need for continuous polling.

Since continuous polling is no longer needed it relieves some of the strain from the servers. If you want to see how smooth it runs you can try out this example that Opera setup for a RealTime Web Chat (view a screenshot). Sure this is only a chat system but if Google implemented this AJAX system into their services then they would reduce the load on their servers which could make it easier for them to add even more features.

I give credit to the Opera Team for developing such a secure, stable, and advanced browser. Hopefully other browsers will soon see the benefits this could have.

News Source: Opera Watch [via Digg]

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Oct 25

Nokia 800 gets pictured, ready for its close-up

Posted in: exclusive, mango, Microsoft, mobilepostcross, nokia, Today's Chili, Windows, windows phone, windows phone 7, WindowsPhone, WindowsPhone7
Thus far, evidence of the Nokia 800 has been the stuff of slow but reasonably steady leaks in the form of ads, product shots and dev stats. This latest one doesn’t do much to change the state of things, but its real world setting should help hold some of the Mango faithful over until the handset formerly known as Sea Ray gets officially official, most likely in the very near future.

[Thanks, Anonymous]

Nokia 800 gets pictured, ready for its close-up originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 25

Windows Vista 5381 Designated As Beta 2

Posted in: Software, Today's Chili, Windows

This article was written on May 05, 2006 by CyberNet.

Windows Vista 5381 Designated As Beta 2

With WinHEC right around the corner (about two weeks away) people are starting to find out which build of Vista Microsoft will hand out to attendees. Paul Thurrott has said that Microsoft is going to hand out Vista 5381 and this will be branded as Beta 2. Here is what he had to say:

Microsoft continues work on Vista build 5381, which will be finalized as Beta 2 on May 22. Attendees of the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2006 will receive Vista Beta 2 on DVD, and Microsoft plans to seed the build with testers, other partners, and millions of consumers via a widely distributed Community Preview Program (CPP) in the following days. If you’ve been waiting for a chance to get your hands on Vista, that day is finally coming.

The recent builds of Vista have definitely been getting progressively better. With the release of Beta 2 we might see an operating system that will be usable on a daily basis. I have heard many people talk about incompatible drivers which either causes the system to frequently crash or not even install. I am sure that these issues will be quickly addressed since Vista should have all of their features implemented by this point.

News Source: WindowsIT Pro

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Oct 25

The Many Insane Flavors of Improvised Prison Weapons

Posted in: Hacks, Today's Chili, top

Heading to the place where a prison’s homicide evidence is kept, you might expect to see a few sharpened objects—maybe a bludgeon or two. You would be underprepared. More »

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Oct 25

The Engadget Show – 026: A visit from Intel, a trip to New York Comic Con, haunted houses and costume contests

Posted in: engadget, engadget show, EngadgetShow, TheEngadgetShow, Today's Chili, video

Hope you weren’t planning on falling asleep tonight. We’ve got a very spooky episode of The Engadget Show coming at you this week. We get a behind the scenes tour of the technology that goes into running Manhattan’s Nightmare haunted house. And we swing by New York Comic Con, to discuss the state of digital comics and shoot the breeze with geek legends Mark Hamill and Stan Lee.

We also announce the winners of our Frankengadget contest and give away the clothes from Tim’s back to the winner of our in-studio costume contest, courtesy of Halloweencostumes.com — oh, did we mention that Tim and Brian and dressed as Darth Vader and a storm trooper this whole episode? Because they are.

Intel’s staff futurist Brian David Johnson stops by to talk about the near future of the chipmaker and the role science fiction plays in his daily work. We pay tribute to Steve Jobs with the help of some eager Apple fans. And we take a look at the iPhone 4S, Amazon Kindle and the ASUS Zenbook UX31.

Gallery: Engadget Show — October 2011

Hosts: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater
Special guests: Brian David Johnson
Producer: Guy Streit
Director: Alexander Vietmeier
Executive Producers: Joshua Fruhlinger, Brian Heater and Michael Rubens

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Oct 25

Social Bookmarking del.iciou.us Easily Accessible for Internet Explorer Users

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This article was written on July 15, 2006 by CyberNet.

Social Bookmarking del.iciou.us Easily Accessible for Internet Explorer Users
 

Social Bookmarking site del.icio.us has recently made bookmarking for Internet Explorer users easier with a new extension which adds a ‘My del.icio.us’ button and a ‘Tag This’ button to the browser. If you’re an Internet Explorer user, you can find the extension here. Up until now, it was only available for Firefox. The Firefox extension can be found here. If you’re using Opera, someone has created a widget so that your del.icio.us bookmarks are easily accessible, it can be found here.

Del.iciou.us has also added another feature that helps you keep track of new links that people have sent you. When someone tags a link for your username, on the top of the page it will show how many links are waiting for you to be seen, just an extra added convenience!

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Oct 25

Mosoro Bluetooth LE iOS accessories improve your golf, if the weather’s right

Posted in: app, apps, bluetooth, ios, ipad, iPhone, ipod, mobilepostcross, Sports, Today's Chili

So far the appcessories — yeah we said it, APPcessories — we’ve seen include some good ideas, and some less so. The Bluetooth LE 3D-Sport and Weather offerings from Mosoro fall into the former category (if they make their way into a shipping product that is). The 3D-Sport is a motion capture device you attach to sports equipment. The on-board accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer beam motion data to your iOS device, where it can be analyzed by Rocky-style Russian coaches to see where your throw or golf swing is going wrong. The latter is a mini weather station that reads temperature, humidity, elevation, and barometric pressure to tell you the conditions where you are right now. More usefully, it nabs your GPS location and uploads it all to Mosoro’s aptly named “Cloud” Server that presumably maps out some crazy real-time crowdsourced weather report. Both also use Bluetooth 4.0’s low energy technology so they won’t need to see a charger for a long time. Now we just need a company that likes collating personal data, perhaps with a weather service, to snap this one up… any takers?

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Oct 25

Google Ditches Froogle for Google Product Search

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

This article was written on April 19, 2007 by CyberNet.

Google Product SearchI have been using Google’s Froogle shopping service for several years, and now they have finally decided to switch the name to Google Product Search. I actually liked the name Froogle quite a bit because it was easy to remember and short to type. Now the official site can be found at http://google.com/products which will take a lot more for me to remember. For right now they make Froogle.com redirect to the new address, and hopefully they keep it that way.

Here is what Google’s Marissa Mayer had to say about the change:

You may be familiar with our product Froogle (a pun on “frugal”). Froogle offers a lot of great functionality and has helped many users find things to buy over the years, but the name caused confusion for some because it doesn’t clearly describe what the product does.

So we’re renaming Froogle as Google Product Search. We’re taking the opportunity to refocus the user experience on providing the most comprehensive, relevant results in a clean, simple, easy-to-use UI. We’re also excited about how Google Checkout can help searchers have a fast and secure purchase experience, so the new interface makes it easier to buy with Checkout.

I can see how there is some confusion about what Froogle’s purpose was, but do all names clearly describe the associated services? I believe it isn’t always about having the instant name recognition because it is also important to have something that is catchy. “Froogle” was just that…it stuck in my head and was something I wouldn’t forget. Whenever I think about searching for a product or price comparisons Froogle is one of the first things that comes to mind.

One thing that has been pushing me away from using Froogle (now Google Product Search) is the increasing amount of junk listings being served with the search results. They need a better method of refining, and one that I think they should offer is the ability to only show stores with a minimum number of ratings. Not only does that help cut back on spam, but it will also help you choose a more reputable store. They do, however, let you show sellers with a minimum rating (0 to 5 stars) but a store where only one person has rated it could achieve a perfect 5, and therefore skew the accuracy of the results.

Visit the Google Product Seach Homepage

Thanks for the tip Cory!

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Oct 25

Cheap Sony 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo High Speed MSX-M2GN

Posted in: General, Today's Chili

This article was written on December 24, 2005 by CyberNet.

Sony MSX-M2GN 2GB Memory Stick Duo

I recently received the Sony DSC-T5 Digital Camera. Of course, with any digital camera you need a good sized memory card. I decided to opt for the 2GB memory stick duo from Sony, but not the normal speed one, I got the High Speed! Now, if you order the card from Sony directly, it can run you $449 for this, and doing a Froogle search you can find it for around $250. This was still a little high for compared to what I wanted to pay, so after doing some shopping I decided to pay eBay a visit. That is where I found the best deals on this 2GB card…just $135 and it wasn’t coming from Hong Kong, it shipped from America. It is, however, still a Japanese memory card (all the writing on the whole package is in Japanese) but it does not function in my camera any differently than a normal memory card and also comes with the Memory Stick Adapter. So, I just want people know that there are other options out there other than the overpriced stores online.

Check For Yourself On eBay!

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