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Don Lee makes paintbrushes. Only his brushes aren’t designed to go anywhere near paint. Instead, the only surface the Nomad Brush will stroke is the glassy screen of an iPad.

The Nomad Brush, which will go on sale in February, works just like any other capacitive touch-screen stylus. It has a conductive shaft and tip, only in this case the tip is made from fine bristles, not a foam or rubber nubbin.

I have been using the rubber-tipped Alupen stylus on my iPad for the last few days, and it makes a huge difference to drawing and writing on screen. Would a brush be even better?

Maybe, but perhaps not this one. A painter will use many different brushes, and not just for size but for feel. I prefer a short, worn and stubby hogs-hair brush for oil-painting, and if you’re painting watercolors you’ll need something like a sable brush that you can load up with liquid and smoothly lay it onto the paper. The Nomad looks more like a watercolor brush, and this might make it too soft to give a good feel on a screen.

The only way to find out is to test it, but as the iPad’s screen doesn’t allow for any kind of pressure variations, a pen will probably do just fine.

Nomad Brush product page [Nomad Brush]

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The teases over at iriver are ready to show you what they’ve got: the neon-colored U100. We reported on the PMP, along with the P100 and the D2000 last month, but it looks like iriver is going to leave us guessing on the last two. The U100 sports a 3.1-inch (320 x 480) touchscreen, up to 16GB of internal memory, WiFi, microSDHC, and an FM tuner for those who still listens to the radio. It plays 720p video and touts 50 hours of battery life for audio playback and 11 hours for video. iriver isn’t ready to give us all the details quite yet — an official release date and pricing are still under wraps — but they have provided another video to keep us interested. Hit up the source link to see for yourself.

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This article was written on October 23, 2007 by CyberNet.

One of the things that annoys me the most in Windows is the system beep. It’s loud and often happens at the most inopportune times, like during a meeting or a class. All heads turn towards you as people wonder what idiot would have the sound turned on.

On most operating systems when you mute your audio it has no affect on the system beep. To me that’s like turning the ringer off on your cellphone, but still have it make a sound each time you press a key. It just doesn’t make much sense.

Drastic times lead to drastic measures. You can mute the system beep by turning it off in the Windows Registry:

1. Press the Windows Key + R to bring up the Run command. Type regedit into the box to start the Registry Editor.
2. Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound and double-click on the Beep entry. Replace the yes value data with no:

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3. Press OK and exit out of the Registry Editor.
4. Reboot Windows, and enjoy your refreshing beepless computing!

A world without beeps is a peaceful one. Beep free is the way to be … go disable the system beep!

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That lovable vacant-eyed monkey, Julius, is back, and he wants to hold your iPod. Paul Frank and SpeakerCraft have just announced the Julius Dance Machine, an iPod docking station that promises high audio quality combined with creative packaging. It’s built so that Julius holds your iPod in his lap. It offers a rechargeable NiMH battery and is compatible with all iPod models. You’ll get up to six hours of playing time between chargings. It looks like the little guy’s ears are volume buttons.

If you want to snap up this dock–and you might just want to, if you can’t find a good Hello Kitty model at an affordable price–check for it at Paul Frank retail shops or at PaulFrank.com. It lists for $99.95.

The Sunswift IV (aka IVy) might look like a mobile dinner table, but it’s actually the world’s fastest solar-powered vehicle. The table-top on wheels got the official nod from the Guinness Book of World Records last week, for hitting a top speed of 88km/h (about 55 mph) — nearly 10 km/h faster than the previous record-holder, the GM Sunraycer, which bears a striking resemblance to a disembodied Android monster. IVy, designed by Sunswift, a student-run non-profit at the University of New South Wales, reached its top speed using 1050 watts, about 400 watts less than the Sunraycer, and performed its record-smashing run without the 25kg battery it’s usually packing. Faster runs have been clocked, including by IVy, but Guinness has not been on hand for confirmation.

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