American Airlines goes live with in-flight WiFi service (7)
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Filed under: Transportation, WirelessAt long last, "you are now free to surf the intarwebz while flying." Okay, so maybe it has been possible in the past, but American Airlines is taking a huge leap forward in the US market today by giving passengers aboard long-haul Boeing 767-200 flights the option to hop online during the trip. The GoGo service, which is being provided by Aircell, will charge customers $12.95 for access to the world wide ...
DSTwitter Proves DS Users Need To Share Intimate Details Too [Twitter] (8)
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DSTwitter brings Twitter Shitters the ability to broadcast their current activity to the world via their DS. Is this something you couldn't do before with your cellphones? Of course not. But if you can read Spanish and can run homebrew apps on your DS, grab DSTwitter and start broadcasting the consistency of your turds to everyone in the world. We have. [Mashable via PMP Today via Pocket Gamer via Kotaku]
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Ben said:
The DS ranks high up there on devices I don't need to tweet from.
Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Show/Hide Login Panel Built with MooTools (3)
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Conserving screen real-estate while still providing good content to the user has always been a challenge for designers and developers and while larger screen dimensions are becoming more prominent, it's still important to take full advantage of the space available to you. Jeeremie over at Web Kreation came up with a very cool method of display a login panel using MooTools v1.2's built-in effects capabilities: Some of you were wondering what script I used to ...
World's Largest Record Collection is Worth $50 Million; No One Wants it for $3 Million [Physical Media] (28)
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If you're looking for a sign that we live in a digital world that cares not for the physical manifestations of our analog past, you need only look at Paul Mawhinney's record collection. At over 3 million records, it's the largest in the world. He's trying to sell it due to his advancing age and health problems. Unfortunately, as he puts it, "no one gives a damn." Paul's been building his collection for most of ...
An In-Depth Video Tour of Android 0.9, an (Almost) Great (Almost) OS [Android] (10)
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Earlier today Google released the Android 0.9 SDK r1 Beta, boasting of a pile of API updates and a visual refresh that moves it one solid step closer to actually, you know, showing up on a phone. A long changelog and a few screenshots are great, but we've fired up the SDK's emulator for a guided tour of Android's salient features. 0:02: Main menu is contained in a drawer that slides from the bottom of ...
HTC Dream FCC approved, Android clear for launch? (13)
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Filed under: Cellphones The long rumored HTC Dream handset -- once referred to as "The Googlephone" -- just received FCC approval. The handset is listed as type, "Dream' with a model of "DREA100." The same model also appears with a WiFi Interoperability Certificate touting 802.11b/g WiFi. If indeed this is the long awaited Android phone, then T-Mobile, HTC, and Google are free to announce in September with an October launch as originally planned. FCC label ...
Lenovo's IdeaPad U8 makes official Olympics debut (9)
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Filed under: Handhelds Well, there it is, the Lenovo IdeaPad U8 launched official at the Beijing games just as we expected. With the launch come the final specs for this Asia-only MID we've seen incubating now for months: 4.8-inch touchscreen; the latest, sub-3 watt processor from Intel (uh hem, that'd be a Silverthorn-class Atom); 350-grams and 21 x 173 x 84-mm; up to 2GB memory and 6GB flash storage; dual-cameras; support for China Multimedia Mobile ...
La veste FPS pneumatique est disponible en France (2)
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La veste de simulation d'impacts de TN Games est à présent disponible en France chez LDLC. Ca tombe bien, nous en avons commandé une la semaine dernière au Canada et nous devrions pouvoir vous proposer un test dès que notre correspondant à Montréal sera de retour sur Paris."Avec la veste 3rd Space Vest, ressentez sur votre torse les impacts subis en jeu par votre personnage : ressentez les balles, les coups de poing et les ...
L'ostréiculture connaît sa crise la plus grave depuis 40 ans - Economie - Le Monde.fr (1)
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Le Monde.fr - Sur le naissain de 12 mois, 85 % de perte, sur les jeunes huîtres de 18 mois, 40 %. La surmortalité des jeunes huîtres va ruiner les productions de 2009 et de 2010.
More App Store sales figures (3)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPhone, App StoreLast week, iPhone app shop tap tap tap released preliminary sales data for its iPhone applications. The figures were interesting (and impressive), but at the time, only seven days of data was available. As Steve Jobs told the Wall Street Journal on Monday, the App Store's first month generated about $30 million US in sales, and I was interested in how that would translate on a micro level. ...
Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene on Vimeo (24)
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The work presents a system for automatically producing a wide variety of video enhancements and visual effects. Unlike traditional visual effects software (e.g., After Effects, Shake, Boujou, etc), the system is completely automatic and no manual labor is required from the user. The major limitation of the work is that it can currently handle only videos of static scenes (i.e., videos shot with a moving camera but containing no moving objects in the scene). Efforts ...
History Proves the iPhone Will Never Win the Handheld Gaming Wars [Iphone Gaming] (5)
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Super Monkey Ball is arguably the current zenith of iPhone tilt gaming. The gameplay involves navigating your bebubbled monkey through a series of elevated, edgeless mazes without letting him fall—it's fun, if repetitive. Nintendo’s Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble is similar: The player guides Kirby through mazes using tilt-sensitive control, collecting stars along the way. Both games are entertaining, and both won positive reviews for nearly identical control schemes. So why is Monkey Ball getting all ...
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I gotta admit they are right: ever tried to play Super Monkey Ball in a moving taxi? I have. The taxi turning, accelerating and breaking made the whole thing completely unplayable.
Simplify Media For iPhone Streams Your iTunes Library (Plus 30 Of Your Friends') To Your Phone [IPhone Apps] (8)
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The previously jailbreak-only Simplify Media has just hit the iTunes App Store, allowing you to stream your entire iTunes music library (plus up to 30 of your friends') to your iPhone. The official app has all the features of the old version, including album art, lyrics and artist bios, plus works over EDGE, 3G and Wi-FI. It's free for the first 100k downloaders, so we can't think of any reason why you wouldn't want to ...
Twitter arrete l'envoi de SMS en Europe (2)
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Je ne sais pas si vous receviez des messages de Twitter via SMS de la part de certains de vos amis, mais en tout cas c'est fini, vous n'en recevrez plus. Cette annonce a été faite sur le blog de Twitter . Le service de SMS continuera au Canada, USA et en Inde mais est stoppé dans les autres pays du monde car Twitter n'a pas réussi à passer d'accord valable avec les différents opérateurs ...
