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iPod docks are becoming a thing of the past thanks to multiroom systems like Play-Fi.

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How do you listen to your music at home? Is it through a radio, an iPhone connected to a hi-fi system, or even an old-school CD player? While music on the move is arguably standardized now — many people use a smartphone and a pair of headphones — there are myriad ways to listen to music at home.

For many people, the holy grail is a whole-home wireless audio system, but the current options, like Sonos and AirPlay, tend to be expensive, proprietary, and lacking some high-end audio features that enthusiasts are looking for. That’s the niche the DTS-backed Play-Fi standard is trying to fill.

What is Play-Fi? Play-Fi is a multidevice standard that makes it possible for users to control playback on a variety of different speakers in the home. It is available in the form of both Android and iOS apps, and as a plug-in for Windows.

Play-Fi was designed by Phorus’ Dannie Lau, an engineer who worked on one of the first Apple AirPlay speakers for Harman (JBL). He told CNET that after working with Harman he formed Phorus to design a multiroom system that could work like a Sonos setup, but without the price or bandwidth limitations.

Though it has the potential to function as a Bluetooth speaker, Play-Fi goes one better by connecting via your Wi-Fi network, and is capa… [Read more]

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It’s not yet directly challenging the likes of Pocket or Instapaper, but Pinterest has taken a step in that direction today. The social networking site has announced that it’s begun rolling out a new type of “pin” for articles, which will include things like the headline, author and a short description or excerpt of the article right in the pin (as seen above). Where it differs from other “read it later” services is that it doesn’t pull down the entire article for you to read later — you still need to click through to the original site. As you may recall, this latest move follows an expansion of another sort just last week: an “experiment” with promoted pins. According to the company, Pinterest users should start seeing the new feature on the web immediately, with a rollout to its mobile apps promised soon.

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Beer glorious beer! It’s Oktoberfest time. And to celebrate, Gizmodo photographers took one for the team, cracked a few beers, and got to work. Here are the results of this week’s beer Shooting Challenge.

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A few weeks ago we mentioned a new JavaScript version of the Google Notebook that was popping up on search results pages. We guessed that the next thing someone would put together for this would be a bookmarklet…and we were kinda close.

Much like the Google Talk gadget you can also put your Google Notebook in a Firefox sidebar. This gives you easy access to all of your notes no matter which site your on, and the best part is that you don’t have to install an extension. The process of getting the Notebook in your sidebar is actually pretty easy:

1. Right-click on this URL: http://www.google.com/notebook/ig?hl=__MSG_locale__ and bookmark it.
   
2. After you have saved the bookmark, go back to the Bookmarks menu and right-click on the bookmark. Choose the Properties option.
   
3. Now check the box that says Load this bookmark in the sidebar:
   
4. Now each time you open that bookmark it will appear in the sidebar:
   

It worked so smoothly that I thought I would try it in Opera. Just like Firefox, in Opera you can set bookmarks to open up in the sidebar (which Opera calls Panels). This is an option you can set when bookmarking a link in Opera as seen here:

The Google Notebook site looked fine in Opera’s sidebar just like with Firefox, but there was a lot of functionality that didn’t work quite right. So for the time being there is still no way to get Google Notebook to work properly in Opera, but maybe a fix will eventually emerge.

Thanks to Trip for sending in the tip!

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Many cloud-based productivity apps start on the web and eventually make their way to mobile devices. Not CloudOn: it just launched a web version of its previously mobile-only document editor. Mac and Windows users can now run a virtual Office session using a small plugin for either Chrome or Safari. They may have to pay for some functionality, however, as CloudOn is launching a paid CloudOn Pro service at the same time. Subscribers to the new tier get access to Office’s more advanced features, including PowerPoint’s presentation mode and Word’s change tracking. The web app is available for free; those who want to go Pro can pay $30 per year ($3 per month) if they sign up before 2014, or $80 per year ($8 per month) afterwards.

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