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Coby intros Snapp pocket camcorders, for those with small pockets

By admin | Published: March 9, 2010
In a world full of stylish pocket camcorders , there are few reasons to recommend Coby's ho-hum Snapp series, which has only just now managed the transition from cheap plastic junk to tasteful Flip knockoff with today's introduction of the CAM3001, CAM4505 and CAM5001 Snapp HD. Recording 640 x 480 footage over MJPEG, the cheaper two models are still not much better than your average VGA webcam, and with only megabytes of internal storage, all three will require a sizeable memory card to capture any real content. But when you consider the price of these things -- Amazon shows preorder prices of $30 and $50 for the budget cams and $80 for the 720p CAM5001 HD -- you might yet find yourself combing desk drawers for that spare SDHC card. Coby intros Snapp pocket camcorders, for those with small pockets originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:17:00 EST
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Facebook Is the Web’s Ultimate Timesink [STATS]

By admin | Published: February 17, 2010
The average U.S. Internet user spends more time on Facebook than on Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Microsoft, Wikipedia, and Amazon combined . Think about that for a moment. New numbers released by Nielsen today confirm what we’ve known for a while: Facebook is the web’s #1 time sink. What’s more interesting though is just how much more time we spend on the world’s largest social network today than we did 6 months ago.
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BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express: Free Synchronization Software For ‘Berrys To PCs [BlackBerry]

By admin | Published: February 16, 2010
It's not an OS update like we were hoping, but BlackBerry has taken the lid off its free Enterprise Server Express software which syncs the smartphones to Microsoft Exchange and Windows Small Business Servers. It's a less-whizzy (ie, free) version of BES for small businesses or individuals who don't want to fork out for the full service. It'll still wirelessly synchronize email, calendar, contacts, notes and tasks, allow for edits of Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and access files on the business network, which should be enough for the average user. Out in March.
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Fear and Loathing On a Tech Support Call [TechSupport]

By admin | Published: February 12, 2010
A lot of people incurred the wrath of Hunter S. Thompson over his long career, and we can now add the "fools," "bastards," and "idiots" who worked at his local electronics shop to that list. Warning, the video is NSFW if you work with old people or humorless prudes. Take your average septuagenarian's frustration with technology and add Thompson's well-documented volatility. That will only offer a hint of how amusing this call—an expletive-ridden threat to the people who set up his new JVC DVD player—really is.
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The Scale That Thinks It’s a Rug [Concepts]

By admin | Published: February 9, 2010
This concept scale that doubles as a decorative rug might— might —be the thing to finally get me taking better care of myself. Designer Kwan Sunman's Rug With Scale project does away with the cold, judgmental form factors of your average bathroom scale, ensconcing it instead in a warm and inviting rug. The readout from the scale shows up on a small red tag that illuminates its user's current weight, previous weight, and goal weight to help chart progress.
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Samsung’s Touchscreen AMOLED Phone Shown Off Ahead Of Big Reveal Next Week [Phones]

By melissa | Published: February 8, 2010
Seen here is the first SUPER AMOLED PHOOOONNNNEEE from Samsung, which is so SUPER you must wear a protective suit to touch it, lest you become SUPER too. We knew their integrated AMOLEDs were on the way soon , and while the first device (which supposedly has a 3.3-inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen) hasn't been named/specced-out, at least we know it'll have more sharp corners than the Motorola Droid. Crazy boasts are already being thrown around, suggesting the AMOLEDs will be five times brighter than the average phone, and will perform 20 per cent better when used outside—which is definitely an important issue, for anyone who struggles using their phone in direct sunlight. [ Korea Times via OLED-display ] UPDATE: Yes, they're just panels, not the actual phone.
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The Creative Examples Of Colorful Splash Pages

By melissa | Published: February 6, 2010
You may have often noticed some splash pages that appear to welcome you to certain website and then never appear again. These pages are called Website Splash Pages which are not being used frequently. Some of these splash pages are bright and creative, some are dark yet appealing, and some appear only once while some are permanent one, but overall they are a source to enlighten your creativity and imagination to your web design skills.
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Online Video Continues Steady Growth Streak [STATS]

By melissa | Published: February 5, 2010
Online video viewing is more ubiquitous than ever. According to comScore , in the month of December 178 million people watched 33.2 billion videos , with the average viewer watching 187 videos per month in the U.S. The astronomical numbers for December mean that viewers tuned into two billion more videos than in November , and that, as expected, a majority — nearly 40% — of those videos were YouTube videos, with Hulu still coming in a very distant second place and accounting for 3% of video views.
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Database Created by FCC for Devices Using White Space Spectrum [WhiteSpaceCoalition]

By melissa | Published: December 1, 2009
After the FCC approved the use of the free spectrum which exists between TV channels, known as white space, little's been done since, thanks to a whole heap of other ongoing issues. The FCC is now starting up a database for cataloging them, so devices can grab some of the spectrum that's going spare. Microsoft, Google, Motorola and Intel have all shown interest, with devices needing to be GPS compatible—much like your average smartphone. [ eWeek via Engadget ]
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LessLoss BlackBody: improve your sound for just $959 and your sense of reason

By melissa | Published: November 25, 2009
The high-end audio market has always been more about marketing than about music, but it's hard to say if we've ever seen a product as phenomenally insane as the LessLoss BlackBody, a $959 block of plastic that designer Louis Motek says "takes advantage of the quantum nature of particle interaction" to improve your stereo's sound quality by simply being in the same room. How? "Your gear's radiation is transformed into room-temperature blackbody radiation." Yeah -- and that's just the tip of this crazy iceberg. We can't say we believe it for a second, but LessLoss says that the BlackBody is so effective at altering "electromagnetic ambient conditions" that the quality improvement is obvious to "even non-audiophiles" listening to "a noisy home PC playing through your average SoundBlaster." That sounds like a challenge to us -- hit us up, LessLoss.
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