The latest in company poaching comes by way of eBay, which has nabbed Apple executive R. J. Pittman who will now reported to the retail company’s president as eBay’s Chief Product Officer. The move comes after what is said to be a couple months of talks going on behind the scene, and is unrelated to […]
Generally, your choice of cutting board comes down to two basic options: wood or plastic. While there are plenty of subcategories (Flexible? Bamboo?), you’re generally not presented with a list of specs when it comes time to pick a board for chopping up meat or veggies. If a Sharp intern has her …
Daily Roundup: Peripheral Vision, Ubuntu 13.10, potential dedicated messaging app from Twitter and more!
Posted in: Today's Chili You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on …
Google made $14.9bn in revenue in Q3 2013 despite Motorola Mobility sales continuing to shrink, with CEO Larry Page making one final earnings call to praise the Chromecast and namecheck smartwatches as one of the next big things in digital. Overall, revenues were up 12-percent versus the same quarter last year, with cash or cash-equivalents […]
Read RSS Feeds in IM’s
Posted in: Today's ChiliThis article was written on November 12, 2007 by CyberNet.
Have a hard time keeping up with your favorite RSS feeds? Feed Crier is here to help you. It’s a free service that requires no registration, but with it you can get notified of new items in some of your favorite RSS feeds.
If your’e using AIM, MSN, Jabber, or Google Talk you just need to add the following bot to your list of friends:
- FeedCrier on AIM
- feedcrier@feedcrier.com on MSN, Jabber, and Google Talk
After Feed Crier has been added as a friend in your instant messenger you can send it one of the following commands to manage your feed subscriptions:
- subscribe [URL] – Subscribes to the web site at URL.
- unsubscribe [URL] – Unsubscribes from the web site at URL.
- list – Shows all the sites you’re subscribed to.
- help – Shows this list of supported commands.
I tried it out and it’s actually pretty nice. As you can see in the screenshot above each feed item includes the title, hyperlink, and a brief summary of the article’s content. You definitely won’t want to use this for any highly active sites because it will be popping up with messages all of the time. If you only want to track a site that posts a few times a day it shouldn’t be too bad.
Feed Crier [via Lifehacker]
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The "National #Selfie Portrait Gallery" displays a rotating series of videos, 30 seconds or less, installed on two screens.
(Credit: Marina Galperina/Animal New York)
Chances are you’ve taken one or two (or a dozen) selfies in your day. And if you’re like the majority of selfie-snappers, your digital self-portraits have probably involved pointing a smartphone at yourself and hoping you manage to capture both your nose and mouth in the same frame.
Then there’s Alexander Porter, who took a selfie involving a digital 3D scan of his face, unfurled in pastel moving images like a pillowey landscape canvas.
He’s one of 19 emerging artists whose short-form videos engaging with the “selfie” medium appear in the “National #Selfie Portrait Gallery,” a curated installation that opened Thursday at the Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair in London.
Selfies like you’ve never seen them (pictures)
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An exciting thing happened in the world of dinosaur bones this week: News broke that a rare Diplodocus longus skeleton will go to the auction block next month. This must have thrilled everybody’s favorite beat jockey, Diplo, who took his name from the dinosaur.
Archos Titanium smartphone budget series brings Jelly Bean and Dual-SIM support
Posted in: Today's ChiliArchos has rolled out the red carpet for four new budget smartphones under the new Titanium series. The phones are being targeted at those who don’t want to shell out for higher end handsets, but who need certain aspects to be robust in their offerings: Google services access, network support, and such. The prices range […]
AMD rides semi-custom business back to profitability, cites net income of $48 million in Q3 earnings
Posted in: Today's Chili We had our doubts when AMD promised to bounce back from its second quarter slump, but the company has held its word, reporting a net income $48 million in its Q3 financial reports. Why the jump? AMD cites growth in its Graphics and Visual Solutions (GVS) division, which is responsible for …
Google still makes lots of money, Motorola doesn’t, and Larry Page wants to spend more on ‘speculative’ R&D
Posted in: Today's Chili “Great is just never good enough,” according to Google CEO Larry Page. And on today’s Q3 2013 earnings call, the state of Google mirrors its CEO’s statement pretty well. Google itself is doing as well as it ever has financially, raking in almost $15 billion in revenue for the quarter. Motorola, …