While we have a cold, dreary rain here: a photo of brighter, hotter times:
This is from September 2007. It is a desert spiny lizard (Sceloporus magister) on a desert willow (Chilopsis linearis) with some desert marigolds (Baileya multiradiata) in the background. The local weather station report indicates that it was 84.2 degrees Fahrenheit (29 degrees C) when the photo was taken.
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According to a recent post on CVG, the publishing partner of PC Zone magazine, the next issue of the latter will drop some knowledge on us regarding Splinter Cell: Conviction's multiplayer modes. CVG reports that the last issue of PC Zone teases an article on Conviction, claiming the piece will feature "hands-on, co-op reveal and a brand new mode."
If the game truly does have co-operative play, then we're kinda bummed about the aesthetic changes the title has undergone over the pastSource: Xbox 360 Fanboy RSS Feed
From everything we can tell, this new Droid Eris deal has nothing to do with the day after Thanksgiving and everything to do with the pure insanity of Walmart Wireless / LetsTalk.com. The same people that brought us the $30 Pixi have slashed the $99 Eris down to $30, which does wonders for removing the Eris from regular Droid comparisons. Judged purely on its own merits, $30 is a pretty smashing price for this handset, but in two years when that hefty Verizon contract is up it's probablySource: Engadget Mobile RSS Feed
[Sprite_tm] has whipped up yet another interesting tutorial – software-based this time. He basically describes how he connected his Wiimotes to an HTPC. A USB Bluetooth receiver, and a little bit of Linux scripting, was all that was necessary to get the system up and running. To add to the fun, [Sprite_tm] configured a the controllers to work with MAME (an arcade machine emulator), allowing one to play Duck Hunt on a computer in its full glory!
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I remember vividly now. I was preparing for my K12 Connect Pro User Group Meeting. I was excited because I dialed in my content for the meeting. I had three computer screens filled with multiple Connect Pro Meetings. I was ready to dazzle my audience with the Acrobat Connect Pro Software Architecture, File Sharing Pods, Polling Pods, and Shared Content. I began to chat with someone online with me before the meeting. We both realized he was over on the next saltwater inlet over from where ISource: Adobe Blogs RSS Feed
After so much speculation and rumor, it's hard to believe that Dell's first modern cellphone is ready to launch. And while we've already seen the official press release announcing the Mini 3 for Brazil and China, today we get a followup release with a bit more detail. As expected, the Chinese Mini 3i variant is quadband GSM/EDGE only (no 3G) and packs a 3.5-inch nHD, 640x360 touchscreen display just like that found on Nokia's N97. The 58.35 x 122 x 11.7-mm OPhone will ship in "Red Passion" and "Oiled Bronze" colors packing Bluetooth, a 3 megapixel auto-focus camera with flash and video capture mode, microSD slot, and GPS with pre-loaded maps. And in case you're wondering why China first, that's easy: Dell's going after China Mobile's 500 million subscriber base when its first handset hits authorized stores later this week.
Dell Mini 3i OPhone detailed ahead of this week's China Mobile launch originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The second worm to infect jailbroken iPhone users reportedly targets customers of Dutch online bank ING Direct.
Surfers visiting the site with infected devices are redirected to a phishing site designed to harvest online banking login details, the BBC reports. ING Direct told the BBC it planned to warn users’ of the attack via its website, as well as briefing front line call centre staff on the threat.
Anti-virus analysts, still in the process of analysing the malware, cautionSource: iPhone News Updated RSS Feed
Through Dec. 11th, Intel and Microsoft are co-sponsoring A Home Server Haiku contest. To enter, simply write a haiku about how a Windows Home Server would help bring peace of mind to your life or simply why you really want one. Your name’ll be entered in a contest to win one of three new home servers, one of ten Zune digital audio players, or one of ten 1TB hard drives. A handy English class refresher on Haikus can be found here, courtesy of Wikipedia (simply put, it’s aSource: D' Technology Weblog RSS Feed
Casio has realized that a ruggedized camera should look tough. Normally these kinds of shock-resistant, waterproof, dustproof machines come in big, bubble-shaped, brightly colored cases. The Exilim EX-G1, though, looks like a stealth fighter with knobs on.
So how tough is it? You can shoot for an hour at ten feet below the water, use it in cold weather down to -10ºC (14ºF), bounce it from seven feet (in tests it survived drops from 26 different angles) and generally treat it like JoeSource: Gadget Lab RSS Feed
It turns out the Boeing 787 isn’t the only new airplane design maneuvering around the company’s factory north of Seattle awaiting a first flight. Boeing’s largest airplane ever, the 747-8 just left the paint shop in preparation for a first flight some time early next year.
At first glance it might not look like a new airplane, but Boeing says more than 70 percent of the airplane’s weight is composed of new materials and components. Developed on the existing 747 airframe, theSource: Autopia RSS Feed
Until now, if you wanted to view real estate listings on Google Maps, your best bet was to select "Real Estate..." from the "More" menu at the top of the map. Now, simply searching for "real estate" will return – real estate search results! You could also try "homes for sale" or "homes for rent". Or while you're at it, check out "apartments for sale", or "homes for rent". Also wanted integrated real estate listings with Place Pages. Now clicking "more info" link next to aSource: D' Technology Weblog RSS Feed
iGoogle is all about personalization and freshness, and in that spirit, unique themes are sure to delight all of us. Be sure to check out iGoogle gallery, where you'll find some tasty new themes from chefs like Alton Brown and Paula Deen, food artists like Carl Warner and James Parker and even famous bakeries like New York City's Crumbs Bake Shop and Magnolia Bakery. In addition to these taste bud tantalizing themes, “we've also partnered with many top food industry names toSource: D' Technology Weblog RSS Feed
Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, O2, Android
Already jealous of the multitouch functionality afforded by Motorola Droids (or Milestones, as it were) sold outside the United States? Well, you might just want to look away for this one -- it seems that that O2 is now practically giving away the phone in Germany. Specifically, it's selling it for a mere €1 with a 2 year-contract, which itself can be had for as little as €20 per month. As with other non-US carries, however, you'll haveSource: Engadget Mobile RSS Feed
Poor Adnan Oktar. The New Humanist published an expos/a>, and he and his organization are clearly freaking out. I've been getting several near-hysterical emails a day from the Turkish creationist mouthpiece, Seda Aral, insisting in many different font colors that the accusations are baseless and are a sign that the humanist movement is melting down. They've also come out with these stilted videos where Oktar goes page by page through the New Humanist.
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We’d almost forgotten about Lotus’ new sports car, the Evora, which joins the more barebones Elise in the U.S. The British sports car will start at $73,500, not including $1,175 in destination charges, when it goes on sale early next year. That’s less than a Porsche 911. It comes fairly well equipped, but adding options can get the total price tag up to $90,000.
The Evora promises to be another pure sports car from Lotus with a more upscale feel than the Elise. ItsSource: KickingTires RSS Feed
ASUS aren’t messing around when they say they want to crash the top three notebook vendors worldwide, even if that means they need to make some acquisitions rather than rely on their own product line. According to ASUS chairman Jonney Shih, the company is eyeing up Toshiba’s notebook division as a potential target for buy-out, the latter company itself having around 5-percent of the worldwide product share.
Shih has revealed that talks are ongoing with Toshiba at the moment,Source: SlashGear RSS Feed
No Righteous Cause is complete without a colored wristband. That’s why I’m so excited that the no-hand shake movement (yes, movement) now has an official blue wristband for people who want to show that they support the effort. Get a ten pack of them here for $20.
Here’s who has (sort of, not really) pledged their support for the No Handshake cause to date:
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No need to scour the interwebs for hot gaming news, Gamertell‘s already done that for you! Here’s a look at this week’s top stories…
Slowly but surely, we're getting an idea of what Google's Chrome OS will look like. We know that it will be Linux-based and that the primary interface will likely be the Chrome browser. Still, the search giant was not content to simply turn a Web browser into an operating system. Soon Google was launching a new programing language, called Go, that would allow programmers to build faster and more efficient applications. Then it announced Native Client, a feature built into Chrome (both theSource: Switched RSS Feed
On November 19, you'll be able to add a little variety to each of the four playable characters in Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 when the costume pack hits the PlayStation Network for $3.99. It will be available in North America and Japan on that date, with a European release to follow. Ryu's white duds are kind of cool, but Rachel's "New York Working Woman's Cstoume" is all kinds of awesome!
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Palm and Telcel today announced that the Palm Pre phone is scheduled to be available Nov. 27 in Mexico on the Telcel network. Palm Pre, which is currently available in North America (United States and Canada) and Europe (the UK, Ireland, Germany and Spain), features a 3.1-inch touch screen, GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi, 3.5mm headphone jack and a physical keyboard that slides out only when needed.
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You guys like games about modern warfare, right? We heard that somewhere. If so, you'll probably be interested in hearing more about Battlefield: Bad Company 2. What, did you think we were talking about another game?
In the G4 video after the break, producer Gordon Van Dyke provides a running commentary of direct-feed multiplayer footage, demonstrating the kind of gameplay you'll be able to help tune (and also enjoy) in the PS3 multiplayer beta. Or, to put it a different way, there's Source: Xbox 360 Fanboy RSS Feed
Last week Microsoft updated the Zune HD firmware to version 4.3 bringing along with it the ability to play 3D games.
Six games are now available for download in the Zune Marketplace, all of which are free. There is an ad at the start-up of each game. The games are:
* Audiosurf Tilt: Audiosurf creates a rollercoaster ride from any song. Choose any song from your music collection and watch Audiosurf turn it into a unique roller coaster track for you to ride. The song you chooseSource: AfterDawn.com RSS Feed
HP and 3Com have come to an agreement at $7.90 per share for 3Com, which has been approved by both boards of directors. The markets are closed; 3Com closed at $5.69 today.
HP is a global leader in a number of technology areas, including personal computing hardware, software, services, and now with the acquisition of 3Com, enterprise level networking hardware.
3Com is a giant, with revenue of over $1 billion annually, and is profitable overall as an enterprise. It is dwarfed in Source: The Next Web RSS Feed
The American Council on Exercise recently conducted a study on the effectiveness of Nintendo's Wii Fit, and was "underwhelmed" by the results (PDF link). The study examined what the ACE dubbed to be the "most aerobically challenging activities," including the Free Run, Island Run, Super Hula Hoop, Free Step, Advanced Step and Rhythm Boxing. The study found that Free Run burned the most calories, averaging at 165 calories burned during a thirty-minute session. The next highest was RhythmSource: Houstonist RSS Feed
While BMW cars have spent the last two decades moving away from the inline-six that made them so famous, it looks like BMW motorcycles are soon going to adopt the configuration for a production bike.
BMW says that an inline-six is particularly suitable for use in motorcycles because they offer, "not only supreme smoothness and refinement, but also superior power and performance as well as a truly emotional driving – or, in this case, riding – experience. A further point is thatSource: Jalopnik RSS Feed
Netherlands-based Startup Tom’s Planner is launching their dead-simple web-based project management and planning system lets users create and visualize an online planning schedule. The application is meant to be used by a broad spectrum of consumers, from project managers, event and wedding planners to busy soccer moms or personal assistants.
Tom’s Planner lets you create color-coded project plans and schedules, share them anyone in a team or groups, embed project schedules, andSource: TechCrunch.com RSS Feed
To all readers, commenters, and other esteemed members of the online video ecosystem:
Please allow me to introduce myself as the newest member of the GigaOM and NewTeeVee team.
For those that don’t know me, I spent the last two years at Contentinople, where I wrote about technology innovation in the digital media realm. When I first started there, I joked in my bio that I covered “all things related to the rapid movement of rich media onto the Web, and the not-so-rapidSource: GigaOM Network RSS Feed
As someone with a promotions background and an interactive background, it's been clear to me for several years how each discipline helps bolster the other. Here are a few numbers to support my line of thinking: A new consumer study of 2000 "digitally connected" consumers commissioned by Razorfish found that 43 percent of those following brands on Twitter do so because of exclusive deals or offers. That tops interesting content (23 percent), current customers (24 percent) and service supportSource: AdPulp RSS Feed
Nokia has just announced that a certain number of chargers manufactured for its phones by a third-party supplier could cause electric shock hazards and they need to be replaced.
The chargers come from Huizhou BYD Electronic and include model types AC-3U and AC-3E manufactured between June 15, 2009 and August 9, 2009, and model type AC-4U manufactured between April 13, 2009 and October 25, 2009.
Nokia says that “the plastic covers of the affected chargers could come loose andSource: Unwired View RSS Feed
Mark Pincus, chief executive of Zynga, said in a blog post today that his company is suspending the use of offers as a monetization option in the company’s games until a better way to police them is found.
The decision stemmed from the launch of Zynga’s new game, FishVille, which had a couple of thousand users before it was shut down this weekend by Facebook. The social network put a halt to the game after scam-like mobile offers appeared in offers. Offers are special ads thatSource: Venture Beat RSS Feed
When I saw a version of Google Maps in HTML 5 earlier this year, I was impressed. I simply couldn’t tell the difference between it and a Maps version coded in some true programming language. Next up on the list is YouTube viewer in HTML 5 that works without using Adobe Flash. NeoSmart wrote up a YouTube viewer in HTML 5 and although it might not work on every browser, it does work on Google Chrome on Mac — I was able to watch one of our latest videos directly in my browser without anySource: jkOnTheRun RSS Feed
Filed under: Cell Phones, Celebrities
When King of Pop Michael Jackson passed away earlier this year, we knew the line of people waiting to profit from his death would be a long one. These bling-tastic exploitations, though, took us by surprise.
The Michael Jackson phone, manufactured by a Chinese imitation goods company, is in the very poorest of spectacularly poor taste. It boasts enough faux gold and jewels to make a Liberace impersonator cringe, and it has the audacity toSource: Switched RSS Feed
You've probably heard of the concept of a space elevator, climbing a 22,000 mile long cable that's attached to a satellite in geostationary orbit over the Earth's equator. Sounds crazy, but the concept is edging ever closer toward reality.
NASA is offering a first prize of $1.1 million to anyone who can create a space elevator that climbs a kilometer at an average rate of 5 meters per second. No one's done that yet, but the second-place prize of $900,000 was just won by a companySource: DVICE RSS Feed
The Germans from Porsche are once again proving their sporting prowess with the new 2010 Porsche Boxster Spyder. A supercar meant as the “purist form of the Porsche sports car – light, powerful, consistently open, and very efficient”, the new new mid-engined roadster will join the Boxster and Boxster S next month when it’s going to be introduced at the Los Angeles Auto Show.
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Short Version: HP sure knows how to make a Windows Home Server. The company has been at it for years now and the latest model does just about everything better than the previous models. That’s how it’s suppose to be.
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Once you can accept the Universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy. -A. Einstein But accepting the expansion of the Universe is easy compared to accepting the existence of dark energy. Why -- and how -- is there some mysterious property inherent to space that prevents the expansion rate from dropping to zero? Why is the expansion rate as large as it is today? Why, of the four options we can reasonably conceive of, isSource: Thoughts from Kansas RSS Feed
We are all feeling the financial pinch! Blue Plate Special is a weekly review of bargain apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Nothing over $.99.
I recently took my oldest son and a few of his buddies to Incredible Pizza in San Antonio for his 5th birthday. We started with the pizza of course, but the boys could hardly contain themselves just staring into the game room. Once I let them hit the games, we headed straight for the skee-ball. They decided tickets were what theySource: Gear Diary RSS Feed
Vuzix Corporation today officially launched its new line of sunglasses-styled Wrap video eyewear products across Europe. The Wrap video eyewear product range provides customers with a virtual viewing choice from 44 inch to 67 inch, compatible with devices which have composite video-out and comes with an iPod/iPhone adaptor. Other devices the Wrap video eyewear connects to, with the appropriate cable adaptor, include: camcorders, portable DVD players, PCs and game consoles.
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Google has launched two new ad types in their AdWords service. The first is called AdWords Comparison Ads and the second is a feature called Ad Sitelinks.
AdWords Comparison Ads
As the name suggests, this new service will make it possible for users to compare offers provided by various advertisers.
Google Comparison Ad unit
The basic Comparison Ad allows users to specify what they are looking for, in a bit more detail than is normally possible on a regular Source: AccuraCast Search Daily News RSS Feed
One of the most common questions we’re being asked in the aftermath of our HTC HD2 unboxing is how its on-screen QWERTY keyboard compares to one of the other eye-catching smartphones of the quarter, the Nokia N900. We’ve staged a quick size and keyboard comparison, and you can find the gallery – and read our early opinions on both devices – after the cut.
In our HD2 unboxing yesterday, we suggested that “Even in the short time we’ve had the HD2, we’re already faster at Source: SlashGear RSS Feed
Reid Hoffman, who joined Greylock as an investment partner for its latest fund announced today, chatted briefly with me on trends in social media as the web goes mobile. For him, the mobile web is tied to the Internet as viewed on the PC, but certain applications will be more appropriate for wireless devices.
“The insight on web 2.0 is the web isn’t this strange place but is actually part of how we navigate our actual life, so with the web delivered to a mobile device, one ofSource: GigaOM Network RSS Feed
The OWLE team is back at it again, and they never fail to impress. Just a week ago, they announced the availability of the OWLE Bubo, their first product, which turns the iPhone into formidable video camera. Now, Harold Smith and Graham Mcbain have gone a step further. They’ve figured out how to access the 30 pin connector, the connector on the bottom of your iPhone that you use to charge it with, for more then just charging. What Harold and Graham have come up with today, could make video Source: TechCrunch.com RSS Feed
With the way Apple’s been making money these days, I wouldn’t have been surprised to hear they were giving out real iPods to any trick-or-treaters visiting their stores yesterday. They weren’t, of course, but the alternative was pretty cute.
Seen here is a magnetized iPod bookmark. If you were a little guy or gal making the rounds in Bellevue, Washington Saturday evening, you got one of these in your candy sack.
Eat less candy? ? Indoctrinating America’s youthSource: iPhone News Updated RSS Feed
