Hasta La Gadget!

PreThinking, the forward-looking Palm Pre dedicated blog, has been sent a fistful of new screenshots of the WebOS in full effect. The first thing that hits you is the design — these interfaces are polished and pretty. Whether this means that the Pre will be an iPhone killer (which everybody in the world but me seems to believe) or even successful enough to keep the debt-collectors from Palm’s door, remains to be seen.

As a quick fix to get your anticipatory juices flowing, though, the gallery is a good one, if a little hard to navigate. We’ve included a couple more pictures below.

Palm Pre Early SDK: New WebOS Screenshots [PreThinking. Thanks, John!]

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This article was written on November 27, 2007 by CyberNet.

Have you ever been on a computer at a cafe, library, or school that doesn’t have a PDF reader? In cases like that you need a handy online PDF viewer that will do the dirty work for you, without installing a single thing on the computer.

Samuraj Data is the perfect online PDF reader because it doesn’t require any registration, and it’s fast! All you have to do is specify the location of the PDF file, which can be on the Web or a file on the computer, and then hit the View button. You’ll instantly see the download and conversion status on the screen in a terminal-like fashion. All PDF’s are converted to images, and after the download is completed the process will wrap up rather quickly. It took under 30 seconds for it to download and convert most of the PDF’s that I threw at it.

As you can see in the screenshot above the interface for navigating a PDF is rather bare, but in return you get a fast and intuitive experience. There are keyboard shortcuts available to navigate from one page to another, or you can click the View All link to have all of the pages displayed one after another. And clicking on an image will bring up the full-size version.

There might be better online PDF readers or viewers out there, but it will be hard to find one that is as simple and fast as Samuraj Data. And in addition to handling PDF files it can also open PostScript and Microsoft Word DOC files.

I would give it a 10 out of 10 if they offered a slightly better interface and more than 256 colors when viewing the PDF’s.

Samuraj Data [via Techie Buzz]

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This article was written on May 18, 2007 by CyberNet.

I’m sure you’ve heard at least something about the recent happenings over at Engadget with the phony iPhone email? It’s been plastered all over the blogosphere, and for good reason.  We had decided not to write about it, but after reading more commentary around the web, we decided we would.

I’ll catch you up to speed in just a minute in case you haven’t heard about it, but I decided to write about this event simply for that fact that on Wednesday, everybody saw first hand just how extremely powerful a blog can be, and a few lessons were learned.

In a nutshell, on Wednesday, Engadget (a popular gadget blog) received news from a trusted source who they know works at Apple, saying that they received an internal memo from Apple corporate stating that the iPhone and the next OS X have been considerably delayed.  It looked just as any other internal Memo would in format, and there was no reason for the handful of Apple employees who received the memo to doubt its accuracy. 

Engadget tried to contact Apple PR for comment and to confirm, but got no immediate response, so they posted the news. Within six minutes Apple stock plunged, and went from $107.89 to $103.42. The result? $4 billion was erased from Apple’s market capitalization for a short period of time.

Apple finally responded and said that the email that came from their internal system was in fact a hoax, and Engadget quickly posted that it wasn’t true.  Apple stock recovered, and the blogosphere has gone crazy over it since then.

Engadget has received a lot of heat for all of this, and posted yesterday explaining in further detail what happened because many people lost trust in their reporting skills.

What came out of all of this was proof that blogs do have power, more than anybody probably ever thought or expected. One post by Engadget cost many people a lot of money in a very short period of time. And it’s a good thing Apple responded to Engadget which is another lesson for big companies out there – they need to be sure to respond to blogs because the companies can undoubtedly be impacted by what they say.

I also thought it was interesting that people were hinting that Engadget employees were involved in a stock scandal with this, except that Engadget noted yesterday that no one at Engadget is allowed to own stock in the companies that they write about.

I’m also wondering who it was that sent out the email, and why. Was it a disgruntled employee who was headed out anyways and wanted to make one final ripple in the water?

It was a big week of lessons learned in the blogosphere. I don’t think any company will ever underestimate the power of blogs, because they move information quick, and it spreads fast. And I don’t think bloggers, particularly those who know they hold a lot of influence, will take reporting on big issues lightly. It’s not just a small buzz around the web that they’re capable of starting these days, it’s a big whirlwind that grows almost instantly and can cause damage.

Update:Apple is now saying that the email did not come internally, it was just made to look like an internal email.

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This article was written on March 04, 2007 by CyberNet.

If you’re looking for a great way to spend the rest of your Sunday afternoon, maybe you should do it playing some Grand Theft Auto (GTA). There is no doubt that GTA is best known for it’s car stealing madness as you rush around trying to avoid the cops and complete the jobs you’re hired to do…but that is what makes it so fun!

The most popular version of GTA is probably Vice City, which I happen to own myself for the Xbox, and it is quite addicting once you start playing it. There were two versions of GTA prior to that one and Rockstar, the creators of GTA, recently released Grand Theft Auto 2 as a free download for PC users.

You can currently download GTA 1, GTA 2 and another game called Wild Metal at no cost to play on your computer. They do want you to register before downloading the games, but they just redirect you to another site to finish the download process. Here are the those direct links for anyone who doesn’t want to register (yes, the URL is an IP address which I also thought was weird…but you can always register at the above address if you don’t trust these URL’s):

GTA 1 Download – 328MB
GTA 2 Download – 344MB

I tried both versions on Vista and I couldn’t even get GTA 1 to install, but GTA 2 worked flawlessly. If you’re using XP you shouldn’t have a problem with either of them though. 

One thing that I really like about those games is that they aren’t graphics intensive so they work great even on slightly older PC’s! So if you’re looking to keep yourself occupied tonight this might be do just the trick, but watch out for those pesky police officers because they don’t like when you steal their cars.

Source: Kotaku

Thanks for the tip Mike!

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We haven’t seen too many Snow Leopard screenshots leak out, but it looks like a few more have finally surfaced, and they seem to show some interesting — if minor — interface enhancements. Most notably, Stacks now allows nested browsing, so if you click on a folder in the stack view, the old stack drops back and you can navigate the folder contents — the old way just opened a Finder window. Other improvements include a Put Back menu item for accidentally-trashed items, a redesigned Keyboard Shortcuts prefpane that might encourage people to actually use it, and what looks like a welcome new installer option to only install printer drivers for printers that have been used with your machine. That alone should cut down on Snow Leopard’s install size — now if Apple would just figure out that we don’t need 200 language packs by default, we’d be really getting somewhere. All the images in the gallery, and video of the new Stacks behavior after the break.

Update: Flickr user Stellarolla pinged us to share one more shot showing some preset HDTV modes, check it after the break!

[Via AppleInsider]

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