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Kamis, 31 Maret 2011

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter


Cars 2: The Video Game to Get 3D on PS3

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 09:05 AM PDT

If you have been to a movie lately that is aimed at kids, you have probably seen the preview for Cars 2. It’s been years since the original Cars hit theaters and the movie was very popular with all age groups. Along with any kids flick today comes video game tie ins.

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Roku XD Streaming Box Lands at Best Buy, RadioShack and more

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 08:56 AM PDT

Pretty much ever since the Roku streaming boxes landed, if you wanted one you had to order the thing online and wait for it to get to your house. If you prefer to go to a real store and walk out with your gadget you were out of luck. Roku has announced new retail channels for its streaming XD player.

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Plasticine iPad, Stopmotion Creativity At Its Best (Video)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 08:28 AM PDT

If your still waiting to get your hands on Apple’s new iPad 2 then this stopmotion video of a iPad made entirely from plasticine might help ease the pain a little and put a smile on your face. I have always enjoyed creating things from plasticine, but this innovative creation is an example of some fantastic modelling skills.

The video has been shot for a Post Digital Brief at the British Higher School of Art and Design (Moscow) and shows some great creativity. Watch the full video animation of this wonderful plasticine iPad after the jump. Enjoy!

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Worlds First USB 3.0 To HDMI Graphics Adapter

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 08:08 AM PDT

Sunix have developed what they say is the world first USB 3.0 to HDMI graphics adapter, designed to take advantage of the SuperSpeed interface and utilise the USB 3.0 bandwidth to even allow multiple HD monitors to be connected.

Due to the SUNIX VGA2788 Super-Speed USB 3.0 graphics adapter design it only draws a maximum of 400mA current allowing it to also be backward compatible with USB 2.0 ports as well if required.

Its also capable of being used with four USB 3.0 graphic adapters simultaneously and has automatic recognition of monitor type, resolution, and features. The high performance USB Graphics Engine supports resolutions up to 2048 x 1152 @ 32bit and supports widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9 Full HD 1080P video streaming.

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Digital Music To Overtake CDs In U.S. Sales By Next Year

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:46 AM PDT

The Mayan apocalypse of 2012 might be total hogwash, but that doesn’t mean a lot of grief isn’t coming next year. The music industry in particular is scheduled for some heartache thanks to iTunes and its ilk. Physical album sales are expected to drop 40% (that’s a loss of more than a billion dollars) and it only gets worse from there.

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GoPano 360 Degree Lens Creates Panoramic Video On Your iPhone (video)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:46 AM PDT

The GoPano micro is a new Kickstarter project looking for funding to create a lens to be added onto the iPhone 4 to help you create 360 panoramic videos.

The GOPANO micro simply clips onto your iPhone 4 and using the accompanying application allows you to take 360 degree video. The developers already have the lens design completed and a web platform to host and share 360 video footage taken with the new system. Watch a video of the new GoPano micro after the jump.

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Paul Allen Memoir Paints Not So Flattering Portrait Of Bill Gates

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:38 AM PDT

Bromance over? Not quite. Apparently, lawsuits against Apple have lost their zest, so Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has embraced a different pursuit: a memoir that has some longtime Microsoft stalwarts upset.

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Continuance Rechargeable USB Batteries

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:29 AM PDT

A unique rechargeable battery concept called Continuance has been designed by Haimo Bao, Hailong Piao, Yuancheng Liu & Xiameng Hu. Which provides a new and innovative redesign of the traditional AA battery to now include a simple USB port.

The battery can either be charged via a USB connection or the device can use use to charge mobile and other devices via USB. As the design is still only a concept at the moment its still a little tricky to estimate how much juice would be lost to accommodate the USB port within the battery. But may with today’s advances in rechargeable materials the lose due to the reduced space might be negligible.

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Logitech Unveils New Propeller Style Wireless Router

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:16 AM PDT

Logitech have unveiled a new addition to their wireless router range, with the unveiling of the LAN-WH450N/GR wireless router. Its very unique tri-tenna design, which makes it look like its going to take off once its turned on, has been designed to provide its IEEE802.11 n/a/g/b connectivity the best chance to achieve its theoretical speeds of up to 450Mbps and supporting the 5GHz bandwidth.


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Asus Eee Pad Transformer To Cost £379 In The UK

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:10 AM PDT

The new Asus Eee Pad Transformer tablet got official recently, and now Acer just dropped us an email to let us know the UK pricing. The Eee Pad Transformer will go on sale in the UK on the 6th of April, and will cost £329 for the tablet on its own a £429 for the tablet and the keyboard dock.

The Asus Eee pad Transformer features Android 3.0 Honeycomb, and it features a 10.1 inch IPS touchscreen display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, processing is provided by a NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and it also comes with 1GB of RAM.

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WIN&I Touchless Gesture Control Software For Windows 7 And Kinect (Video)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:50 AM PDT

We have already seen lots of cool Kinect hacks here at Geeky Gadgets, now a company called Evoluce has released some software that will let you use your Microsoft Kinect with your Windows 7 PC to control a range of functions on your PC, called WIN&I.

You can see the software in action in the video below, and some of the features look pretty interesting, and certainly looks a lot more fun than using your keyboard and mouse.

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Gmail Adverts Become Even More Targeted Using Your Priority Inbox

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:49 AM PDT

Google is preparing to gear up its advertising within Gmail to be even more personal than ever using your email and priority inbox to help advertisers target their adverts more effectively.

You may already have noticed the small banner notifying Gmail users of the up an coming changes to their accounts as yellow alert just under the search buttons. Google have also confirmed that they are currently in the process of rolling the ne advertising out worldwide.

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Official HTC Flyer Video Shows Off New UI And Features

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:38 AM PDT

The HTC Flyer was announced last month, and we have already seen a brief promo video from HTC, and they have released a new one which gives is a much better look at the Flyer.

In the video below, you will see the HTC Flyer’s UI in action as well as a range of features, including HTC’s new stylus, and it looks pretty impressive from the video.

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Google Looks To Put And End To Android Fragmentation

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:25 AM PDT

Fragmentation has been a problem for Google’s Android OS for quite some time, with some companies taking for ever to update their version of Android on handsets to the latest version.

Now it looks like Google is trying to do something about Android Fragmentation, according to a recent report from Business Week, and it looks like companies who want to tweak Android with custom UI’s will now need approval from Google, and it looks like the head of Android, Andy Rubin will be responsible for the approval.

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Twitter Embedded Tweets Receive New Functionality Via Update

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:42 AM PDT

Twitter has today unveils a new update that is has rolled out to developers that allows them to make embedded tweets more functional and interactive for users, and are now much easier to setup and install on your website.

The new functions comes from a new Twitter tool called Web Intents that provides popup-optimised flows for working with Tweets & Twitter Users. Using the new embedded tweets allows visitors to a web site to interact with the context of your site, without have to leave the page or the need to authorise a new app, making it easier to re-tweet and reply or share information.

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Sony PlayStation Emulator Removed From Android Market

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:31 AM PDT

Some of our readers will remember the Android PlayStation emulator app, PSX4Droid that we featured on the site a while back, it has now been removed from the Android market, just a day before the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play launches.

The PSX4Droid app has been available in the Android Market for about eight months, so why has Google decided to remove it one day before the official launch of the Xperia Play.

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Adobe Unveils ‘Real’ Photoshop App For The iPad

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 04:53 AM PDT

During the Photoshop World 2011 Keynote Adobe took the opportunity to unveil their new ‘Real’ Photoshop iPad application which is currently under development by Adobe.

The live demo showcased the layer animation feature within the new app together with a couple examples of some of the standard functions any Photoshop user would expect. Taking a more advance approach to photo editing when compared to the already available Adobe Photoshop Express application, that allows a few tweaks to be made on photos.

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Microsoft Shares WP7 Stats Charting Progress In Its First Year

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 04:40 AM PDT

A year has now passed since the first release of Windows Phone 7, and Microsoft has now released figures measuring the progress of their new Windows Phone 7 platform over the past year.

From the figures released by Microsoft it shows that their app store now contains over 11,500 apps of  which 7,500 are paid apps for WP7. Microsoft also notes in their release that they have concentrated on quality rather than quantity, which would explain while they are a little way behind Apple’s 350,000 applications.

 

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8-Bit Pocket Camera App Turns Your iPhone Into A Game Boy Camera

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 04:37 AM PDT

We have featured quite a few different camera apps for the iPhone here at Geeky Gadgets, the latest one certainly looks like a lot of fun, and will appeal to all the Game Boy fans out there who remember the Game Boy camera.

Thee 8-Bit Pocket Camera app will give your photos a cool retro video game look, and it comes with a range of effects that will make your photos more fun.

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HTC Pyramid, More Photos And Specifications

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 04:12 AM PDT

We have been hearing about the new HTC Pyramid Android smartphone for some time now, earlier this month we showed you some photos and specifications of the yet to be announced HTC Pyramid.

Now we have some more photos and details, thanks to the guys over at the XDA Developers, and these latest photos also give us a look at the UI on the HTC Pyramid.

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Samsung Galaxy S Plus Smartphone Announced

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 03:58 AM PDT

Samsung has released details of a new smartphone in the Samsung Galaxy S range, the Samsung Galaxy S Plus, which will go on sale in Russia and will be called the Samsung Galaxy S 2011 edition.

The Samsung Galaxy S Plus features a 1.4GHz processor, and a 4 inch WVGA Super AMOLED display, plus 8GB of built in storage, the ability to record HD video and it also features a larger 1,650mAh battery.

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HSPA+ USB Modems Arrive At Three UK

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 03:19 AM PDT

A new line of HSPA+ USB modems have now arrived at Three the UK mobile phone provider and will start shipping n April 7th 2011. The new HSPA+ USB modems provide a 40 percent increase in connection speeds when compared to their existing HSDPA dongles.

Three UK will start selling the dongles on a number of different packages including a 1GB ready to go packages for £69.99 or on a monthly tariff for £15.99 per month for 5GB  with the modem costing £49.99 initial. Or if you prefer a longer contract with no payment for the modem a 5GB for £18.03 per month on a 24 month contract. Three UK are also offering an upgrade path for existing Three dongle owners for a one-off payment of £59.99.

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Dell Streak 7 To Cost £299 In The UK

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 03:18 AM PDT

Dell has confirmed the pricing of the Dell Streak 7 tablet here in the UK< it will go on sale in the UK at the end of April and will retail for £299, which includes taxes and shipping.

The price of the Dell Streak 7 in the UK is for an unlocked version of the tablet which can be used with any mobile operator, without having to sign up to a new contract.

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Mac OS X Lion Preview 1 Update Released

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 02:48 AM PDT

Apple has now release an update to the Preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion which was first launched to developers on 24th Feb 2011. The new update is only small 2.2 mb and will be rolled out via the software update service.

The new Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Developer Preview Update 1 is required to redeem downloads of Mac OS X Lion seeds that will be form now on be published to the Mac App Store and not via the software update service.

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Microsoft Complains To European Commission About Google

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 02:47 AM PDT

Microsoft has announced that they have filed a complaint with the European Commission against Google over competition issues and Microsoft is claiming that Google has taken a pattern of actions to entrench its dominance for search and search advertising.

Microsoft is basically saying that Google is using anti-competitive practices, and the announcement says the Google have been blocking Bing from indexing YouTube content, and also blocking Microsoft smartphones from accessing YouTube.

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Angry Birds Rio Lands On The Android Market

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 02:15 AM PDT

The latest installment in the Angry Birds saga, Angry Birds Rio, which recently launched on Apple’s iOS devices has now landed on Google’s Android platform.

It has been available for Android through Amazon’s App Store, since the app store launched last week, and the Android Market version is also free but it does come with adverts.

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Flickr Adds Easy Social Sharing Options

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 02:14 AM PDT

Flickr the image and video hosting website, has announced a new addition to its website in the form of a new social sharing feature, that now makes it easy to share your images with the larger social networks.

The feature has been created by Flickr to reduce the amount of uploaded you need to do to share a photo. Allowing you to only upload your images once, but share them everywhere.

The new options have been integrated as a key part of the photo page just next to the actions drop down. Previously Flickr would only allow you to share your photostreams, sets and groups to your friends and family via email.

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Google Bringing Super Fast Broadband To Kansas

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 02:02 AM PDT

Last year Google announced that they would be testing out a new super fast fiber optic broadband network in the US, when it was announced Google invited cities in the US to apply to the program, and it has now chosen the first city it will trial the hew broadband in, Kansas City.

Google said that over 1,100 cities applied to trial the new broadband, and the trial will begin in Kansas City in 2012, and they will also be talking to other cities who are interested in the project.

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Boxee Box Receiving iPad Support In May (video)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 01:56 AM PDT

Boxee has confirmed via a blog post that its iPad support will now be arriving in May when Boxee rolls-out a new firmware update. Boxee also explained that further updates to both to its Boxee Box and other Boxee-based devices will now arrive every three months from there after.

The new iPad support will allow users to video content from you iPad to any device on your network loaded with the Boxee software, whether its your PC system or MacBook Pro. Watch a preview video on the Boxee for iPad application after the jump.

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Samsung 22 Inch Transparent LCD Display Goes Into Production

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 01:34 AM PDT

Samsung today announced their new transparent LCD displays, which were showcased at this years CES are now in mass production, the world’s first mass production line for transparent LCD panels. Yes, that is a room you can see behind the monitor pictured below.

Samsung’s new transparent LCD displays will be available in two models, a black-and-white and a colour , will both have a contrast ratio of 500:1 with WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050) resolution. The new displays also consume 90 percent less energy compared to conventional LCD displays.

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Google Launches +1 Button For Search (Video)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 01:01 AM PDT

Google has added a new feature to Google Search, called +1, a new social sharing button that will appear in Google Search results, and it is designed to let you share recommendations withing Google Search.

The +1 button appears in search results next to search results and also next to Google adverts, and it looks like Google is attempting to take on Facebook and their Like button.

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HP Releases webOS Beta 3.0 To Developers

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 11:45 PM PDT

HO has released a beta of webOS 3.0 to developers who are enrolled in their Early Access developers program, so if you are a developer who wants to download the SDK you will need to sign up to HP’s Early Access developers program.

HP has said that this is the first webOS release which is designed for their new webOS tablet, the HP Touchpad, which was announced back in February.

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EA May Have New Ultima Online In The Works

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 06:24 PM PDT

EA has apparently been throwing its weight around trying to get freeware sites to stop offering Ultima IV, like they’ve been doing for a hefty span. Couple that with inklings of a massive MMO project in the works, as well as EA’s stated interest in reviving beloved franchises and we might just have the makings of one of the most spectacular franchise relaunches since Fallout.

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Team Fortress 2 Hats Raise $300k For Japan

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 06:00 PM PDT

It’s probably a drop in the bucket compared to the amounts in aid already heading there, but still. Take a moment to think this through. This amount was raised by one solitary company by selling tiny imaginary hats to people for  their tiny imaginary character which they use to habitually murder other tiny imaginary characters. I’m somehow hoping that if I keep typing this will start to make sense at one point.

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