Hasta La Gadget!

Mozilla might be scaling back its official support of Thunderbird, but it still has love left for those who yearn for more in their e-mail clients than OS developers can give. The newly-released Thunderbird 15 update’s most conspicuous change is a deliberate visual harmony with its Firefox cousin: the company wants its apps to have more in common than just a shared name on the About screen. Under the hood, there’s now a live chat feature to skip the wait for e-mail, a Do Not Track option for web searches and the choice of using Ubuntu One cloud storage for large attachments. It’s hard to know if future Thunderbird releases will be as substantial once the community takes the reins. For now, though, Thunderbird aficionados can relax.

[Thanks, Keith]

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LG has announced its latest Android smartphone, the Optimus L9, delivering a sizable 4.7-inch IPS display and Ice Cream Sandwich for the budget to midrange market. Slotting in beneath the LG Optimus G revealed yesterday, the Optimus L9 has a 1GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM, running the company’s customized reskin of Android 4.0.

There’s also a 5-megapixel main camera on the back, and a VGA-resolution front facing camera for video calls. LG isn’t talking screen resolution right now, but it has used an IPS panel which should offer broader viewing angles and improved brightness over regular LCD.

Otherwise, there’s 4GB of onboard storage and a high-density 2,510 mAh battery using the company’s SiO+ technology; no actual runtime figures, beyond an “all day long” prediction, however. LG manages to squeeze that into a 131.9 x 68.2 x 9.1 mm and 125g casing with a few metallic highlights to help the L9 look as though it’s worth more than it is.

As for software, there’s an on-screen keyboard that can change layout depending on whether you’re using it right- or left-handed, along with QMemoTM for recording notes (with handwriting support, though there’s no included stylus). QTranslator uses OCR and either online translation tools or – useful if you’re roaming abroad with no data connection – a local dictionary to convert foreign text to your native language in real-time.

LG isn’t talking price or release date for the L9, but we’re expecting to hear more about it at IFA 2012 this week.

LG Optimus L9 packs big screen, big battery and clever translator is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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If you are an avid Iranian gamer within the confines of the World of Warcraft, I am quite sure that having invested a fair amount of your time in the game, you would have made short work of all those nasty creatures running through dungeons and plains, ranging from elves to trolls and other magical creatures. Well, no matter the equipment you carry or how high your level is, you are still unable to match the power of the U.S. sanctions regime.

Word has it that Iranian players of World of Warcraft actually found themselves frozen out by Blizzard Activision Inc. Over the course of the last week, World of Warcraft players from Iran have shared their frustrations at this sanction against them on Blizzard’s message board, with Blizzard being unable to do anything about it since it is the long arm of the U.S. law that held the power to carry out this gaming sanction. (more…)

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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean might be all the rage these days, but the team over at CyanogenMod has yet to forget about CyanogenMod 9.1, where it will now come with support for SimplyTapp NFC (Near Field Communication) system. SimplyTap is more or less the blood and sweat of a couple of dedicated CyanogenMod users, where they intend to broaden NFC payment usage through a more open implementation of the embattled standard. At point of publishing, Tapp app is only compatible with CyanogenMod 9.1, as CyanogenMod 10 is touted to move a wee bit too fast for the two of them to reliably add the relevant and necessary code.

Needless to say, in order to take advantage of the SimplyTapp service, you will also need to rely on an NFC-enabled device. Right now we do know that the Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus and the Galaxy S2 are the only officially supported devices, although in theory, it ought to play nice with virtually any CyanogenMod 9.1 device which comes with an NFC chip. U.S. dollars are the only viable currency at the moment.

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