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New Apple iPhone 3GS» Palm Pre Fans Avert Your Gaze
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The Apple iPhone 3GS. We’ve known its coming for some time and the day has finally arrived. The new Apple iPhone 3GS comes with all those things we’ve been waitng for, a front facing camera, 3.0 operating system, cut & paste functionality and a system wide search feature. Read the full breakdown of all the Apple iPhone 3GS’s features below. Palm Pre fans look away now (The ‘S’ in 3GS stands for’Speed’ BTW. According to apple, it is faster than the old iPhone but we’ll wait for advertising standards to confirm that one…)
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Speed
• The iPhone 3GS has a new processor built-in. Apple claims that it is up to two times faster than the previous generation: Launching messages is 2.1 faster, load the NY Times in Safari: 2.9 times faster. It also consumes less, which has an impact on the improved battery life.
Camera
• Increased resolution to 3 megapixels, and—according to the Apple—much better quality under all conditions.
• New camera, with auto focus, auto exposure, and auto white balance.
• You can also tap to focus, changing white balance in the process. That is really neat, if you ask me.
• Special macro and low light modes.
• The camera also supports photo and video geotagging.
• Any application can access all the camera functions now.
• It supports video, 30 frames per second VGA with auto focus, auto white balance, and auto exposure.
• Can trim video with a tap of the finger, and share it with MMS, email, MobileMe and YouTube.
Connectivity
• It supports the 7.2 Mbps HSDPA standard.
Graphics
• Includes hardware to support the OpenGL|ES standard, for faster and more complicated 3D games.
Design
• Same design as before, including the glossy finish of the back (so much for all the rumors about the matte back.)
• Same size as the old iPhone 3G: 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.48 inches.
• The weight increases a bit: One ounce to 4.8 ounces (135 grams vs 133 grams).
• Greener materials: Arsenic-free glass, BDF-free, Mercury-free LCD.
Special features
• It has a compass application, which works with the included magnetometer. It’s integrated into the new maps, showing orientation, alongside longitude and latitude.
• Voice control. You can now talk with your iPhone, Enterprise-style. You can instruct it to play similar songs to the one you are playing, or call people.
• Nike + support built in.
• Supports accessibility features, like zooming on text, inverting video, and voice over when you touch whatever text is on screen.
• Increased battery life.
Price and availability
• 9 for 16GB version.
• 9 for 32GB version.
• Available on June 19th.
For those who like pictures, we’ve also got the comparison chart below: iPhone 3GS vs iPhone 3G
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MotoCzysz Erpc » Superbike With iPhone Dashboard
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The MotoCzysz Erpc superbike stylishly integrates the iPhone into its dashboard to up the cool stakes by 10. In fact, the iPhone isn’t just integrated into the dashboard, it is the dashboard.
Some clever bods figured out a way to hook up and integrate all the clever wizardry of America’s favorite mobile device (the iPhone), into a souped up electric superbike (the MotoCzysz Erpc). We’ve seen some cool superbikes before but this takes the biscuit.
If your wondering about price, release date etc etc, forget about it. The MotoCzysz Erpc iPhone superbike is a custom jobby and the only place you are going to get to see it is at next Friday’s (12th June) zero emissions TTXGP race on the Isle of Man.
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Panasonic HDC-SD10 TM10 Camcorders
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Another day, another HD camcorder but wait, this time it carries the tag ‘World’s Lightest HD Camcorder’. How Panasonic’s lawyers got away with that one for the Panasonic HDC-SD10 and TM10 1080p camcorder’s we’ll never know.
The standout features of these two hand held camcorders are the price and weight. At sub 0 prices, the Panasonic HDC-SD10 and TM10 camcorders definitely tick the cheap(ish) and lightweight boxes. On the specification front however they are more or less run-of-the-mill.
The Panasonic TM10 comes with 8GB of internal storage and a SDHC slot. The SD10 comes only with the SDHC slot which pretty much sucks. Apart from that they both share 1080p AVCHD video recording; 2.1MP still shooting;an inbuilt Optical Image Stabilizer; a touchscreen fold-out LCD; a three second pre-record funciton; and a 1.9-second startup time.
Price-wise the Panasonic HDC-SD10 will cost you 0, and 0 for the Panasonic HDC-TM10, both available from September.
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Black Nintendo Wii « Any Color As Long As It’s Black
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The Black Nintendo Wii. Remember the phrase ‘you can have any color as long as it’s black?’ Nintendo have finally got onboard with this sort of thinking and are planning to release a Black Nintendo Wii this August. The only color (apart from white) that is officially endorsed.
Along with the Black Nintendo Wii, there will be a whole host of black accessories include a black Wiimote, Wii nunchucks and even a black classic controller pro. The good news is that the Black Nintendo Wii will be available for the same price as the white one. The bad news is that it will only be available in Japan comes August 1st with no word of an American or European release of the Black Nintendo Wii in the works.
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USB Vacuum
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A USB Vacuum would come in handy of you were a mouse with a penchant for keyboards and tidying up. For the rest of us it’s just a neat little gadget that would look cool on your desk.
As an added bonus the, er, ‘vacuum mechanism’ (sucking dirt up) actually works so that you can get rid of all the crumbs that you leave on your keyboard whilst eating lunch at your desk. The USB Vacuum is available on UK shores for a paltry .99 but if you want it Stateside, you’re going to have to splash out a further for shipping the USB Vacuum to your slave cubical.
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Lego DeLorean « Remote Control Lego
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The Lego DeLorean is awesome. Awesome enough to get us wishing it was 1988 all over again when Back To The Future was in its heyday. Back to the present, the Lego DeLorean is a remote control Lego car that’s just uber wicked cool. Did we mention how awesome it is yet?
Built by Lego afficiendo Tyler Clites—aka Legohaulic, the only downside to the Lego DeLorean is that there are no plans or instructions on how to built it. Yet. Better believe that when they do become available we’ll have our own fleet of 88mph Lego DeLorean remote control cars to play with. Puts the Lego Barricade to shame IMHO.
Check the video of the Lego DeLorean below.
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SONY PSP GO
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Sony’s PSP Go, long rumoured and soon coming, will be released this fall and is apparently 43% lighter than the PSP-3000 with a 3.8-inch screen. DSi better watch out.
The Sony PSP Go comes with the following feature list:3.8-inch screen, 43% lighter than the PSP-3000, 16GB flash memory, Bluetooth support and all digital content so the UMD drive goes away - download straight to a hard drive. Games already available are Gran Turismo, LittleBigPlanet, Jak & Daxter and there’s even a new Metal Gear Solid on the way….
Available in the Autumn, now actually word on price as yet but we will find out more after the official announcement on the Sony PSP Go come next Tuesday.
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Twitter is huge and everyday it’s becoming more popular in the crowd. Everyday from a geek to a carpenter uses twitter in many different ways to enhance knowledge, relationship and reaching a mass audience which eventually brings passive business. Today I am introducing another twitter tool called Foller.me. Foller.me is a creative and research initiative by one of my great twitter contact @kovshenin. Today is the live date of this product. So lets take a look at his startup.
So basically what does Foller.me do? In simple words it lets you know more detailed useful information about your followers. It’s a pretty short version of analytics of a twitter user to understand them and the tweets they mostly talk about, who mostly they connect to. Foller.me is a third-party Twitter service that renders instant detailed information about a particular Twitter user’s latest 200 posts. It would generally take hours of scouting and pulling together information from hundreds of posts to scrape up some sort of insight into the user’s topic interests on Twitter. Foller.me does this in a flash, providing 3 tag clouds which represent the user’s key topics on Twitter.
How does it work? Foller.me gets access to the profile of a user via the Twitter API, scanning all the public info and his/her latest 200 tweets. It builds up three tag clouds: topics, #hashtags and @mentions, based on the user’s recent activity, excluding all stop words.
You enter your desired username you want to know about and press enter
Foller.me will look up the user profile via twitter API in a blaze and bring out the
details, such as the users recent topics
Addition to that it will also scan and bring out recently used #hashtags, mentions
of other users (from RT and conversations)
For example let’s say you’ve received 25 new followers today and you cannot decide whether to follow back or not. You do NOT have the time to read 200 tweets on each of them, correct? Nevertheless, you can’t just follow everyone, since you’ll get unwanted tweets in your friends timeline. Here comes Foller.me into the picture: Just take a peek at his Foller.me profile and you’re done!
Best of all you don’t need to put your username and password OR you don’t have to signup. So why don’t you give it a shot and share your thoughts about it. Found a little bit more about the service. Don’t forget to check out the authors announcement too, that might be the place you want to give your response. It’s still early beta and there are much room for improvement, my thoughts would be Twitter OAuth integration.
Everyday millions of users reaching each other using Twitter. It’s today, it’s trend and it’s now. Even for micro-blogging, users might want to share photos and videos included into their twitter posts. Now there is few other services that allows users to upload a photo to a site like TwitPic and create a short url for them to include it in their twitter posts. But how do you add a video, or upload a video and create a short url for it? Finally it’s possible via Twiddeo, they enables users to upload, capture or send video from their mobile phone and tweet about it together. Now thats something I wanted to see for a long long time. Twiddeo was first created as a proof-of-concept mash-up between the Twitter API and vSocial’s Social Media API. After receiving some great feedback from our users, they decided that it would be worthwhile to redevelop the UI, integrate some new features and really make it look spiffy.
The Problem:
- Twitter post is limited to 160 characters, so it’s difficult to post a long link to a video. Only possible way to do it is to upload the video to any video hosting site such as YouTube and shorten the video direct link and paste it to twitter. A kind of hassle it is.
- Twitter post only can contain simple links and text
The Twiddeo Approach:
- Use your current twitter username and passwords to login to the site
- Upload a video straight from your computer and tweet about it right from the Twiddeo site or
- Record directly via your webcam and tweet about it or
- Send an email from your phone including the video and Twiddeo will process and post it as a video and use the email subject as the tweet text
- It automatically creates a short direct link for the video
- It uses own flash video player
- Enables you to embed the video with the player anywhere
- Social sharing tools integrated
- Comments on the video
Under the hood (Powered By):
Future Expectations:
- I would love to see more video formats support
- Interface and usability improvement or re organization
- Make the short link shorter
- More player features
Now lets take a look inside the site:
Standard Video upload Interface, Max 113 chars for twittering and rest is for the video link
Public Timeline view of the uploaded videos
The vSocial media player interface
Video sharing, Embed, Linking and Comments options
Twiddeo is still in early beta stage, please provide feedback to them and help them improve this handy little tool. I can see a lot of potentials for this application. I’ve just send and email with a video and it took few minutes to make the video encoded and tweeted you can see the video here. Why not give it a try by yourself? All you need is a twitter username and password. If you like to post your feedback via twitter you can add them into twitter too.
ClosR, the simplest way to share and zoom your images.
Simple, easy and fast solution to help you in solving the common task of displaying images on the internet, more over if they are big images.Even though ClosR looks very similar to the product from Microsoft Labs PhotoZoom, yes I’ve written about it before. But Microsoft PhotoZoom uses silverlight instead of flash. Both of these products comes with high quality image streaming. Actually I meant when you zoom to a specific area, it streams that certain area, rather than downloading the whole image. Here are some shots of the product:
This is the standard view of the large high quality photo
This is a zoomed area of the high quality photo
Widget sharing options including Embed codes
Since it’s free, why not try by yourself and give us some feedback about the product. If you sign-up (free) then you can manage your images and widgets too.
