Sprint/Samsung is turning the dial up on marketing the brand new Instinct and is targeting the iPhone in saying that the Instinct is mainly just way faster. Well if their video demos are any indication, then it’s true. Here’s one comparing GPS functions (you can see the rest of the videos by looking at what’s related):
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iTunes is much more than a digital music jukebox. It’s capable of handling many different tasks involving digital media. Some of iTunes’ most popular features include buying music and vidoes online, burning CDs, and syncing files with your iPod or iPhone.
But one of the lesser known functions hidden within iTunes is the ability to convert audio files. …
MacRumors discovered a patent application that shows that Apple is looking into integrating solar power into their handhelds and laptops. The most interesting part of this, apart from the green benefits, is that the solar panel could be potentially integrated into the LCD screen themselves, laying right under the glass and LCD layers of the screens.
If Apple pulls this off, this could be the move that gets me to switch my laptop to a Mac. I’m hardly a Windows zealot, but application support has had me sticking to Win32 for a long time, and now that XP has proven its relative stability, I hardly care to switch (the pretty graphics don’t tempt me). However, I’m keenly aware of my carbon footprint, and if there’s a way for me to reduce that without a real decrease in utility, then I’ll gladly use the Windows emulation environment if I have to.
via MacRumors
This small but powerful gadget has three different functions in one. It has the capability of being hands free, a hanging headset, and a stylus for your iphone. Perfect for the person who needs their hand free while working, but who often needs the stylus for the phone. This is the perfect item for people who want Bluetooth headsets but do not want an ear piece on all day long. You can connect to your shirt and have it with you all day long. You won’t have to carry extra pieces for your phone because you can get them all in one. This is a must have for anyone who has to make important calls or store information while on the go.
More info from the manufacturer
Price: $30.00
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
A Japanese company called Solid Alliance is selling an Apple iPod cover that’s designed to look like RAW MEAT. It comes in a cellophane-and-Styrofoam package just like meat does. We’ve reviewed plenty of iPod/iPhone cases before, but this one gets bonus points for originality. I wonder what my dog will think.
iPod… It’s what’s for dinner?
More info at rakuten.co.jp and therawfeed.com
Microsoft are busy bees at the moment with numerous announcements including Windows Server 2008 is go … which version will you get?, Windows XP SP3 is on the way, Office Live Small Business for free? and Microsoft Office Live Workspace BETA. It looks like Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 may soon be released following on from Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is out on release whilst Microsoft and Apple come to some agreement about push email on the iPhone in Apple iPhone and Microsoft Exchange have a cuddle. Basically speaking, pull email is where you configure your device to check for email at regular intervals whereas push email is where you make an initial connection then the server maintains the connection path and informs your device when new mails are ready.
I have been having my own drama trying to change hosting accounts (Web Hosting with Globat) but have finally settled into my new home with Webfusion. I have now consolidated my various activities onto one VPS which should make backing up and general maintenance much simpler – the sites seem a little quicker too.
At the office, progress is being made in our virtualisation project which is trying to consolidate twelve servers down to just four. We already marked another server down having finally decommissioned the print server and we are making huge progress with the decommissioning of the web server in Virtualisation Update … Web Server. We just have one last piece of software to migrate then we can crack on with the project at full speed.
Finally, Monk and Norris have been out for a picnic in the wireless woods whilst reeling from Monks extremely bad Ethernet joke in Monk102: Token Ring vs Ethernet Networks.
Since May 2000, Holland America as offered and constantly sold out GeekCruises to Geeks of all types including PERL, Java, XML, Linux, .NET and their ongoing Mac Mania cruises (they are putting together their eight Mac Mania cruise). While learning about Leopard or how to use an iPhone isn’t my cup of tea, imagine a cruise filling the boring times with learning about PERL or scripting! It’s enough to get any Geeks juices flowing!
You can check out cruises for Geeks at GeekCruises.
With iPhone users now being treated to a desktop like web experience on a portable device, jealous Windows Mobile users have had to cough up twenty-five smackers for Opera Mobile to get a mediocre (but at least functional) mobile web browser. But it looks like Opera’s stranglehold as the only decent mobile web experience may be coming to and an end when Skyfire makes its first public appearance. Promising a desktop like browsing experience, complete with support for flash, YouTube, ajax, and more, Skyfire looks to be heaven sent for Windows Mobile users.
Check out a video demo of Skyfire and get more info at TechLore.com.
The Geeks came across an interesting site for Geeks with too many Gizmos and Gadgets that they no longer need. MyBoneYard.com allow eco-conscience consumers to recycle userd and newly upgraded Gizmos in a simple and safe way.
Using MyBoneYard.com, consumers can recycle those computers that are far less hip than today’s flat-screens and those cell phones that have been replaced by Blackberrys or iPhones…for FREE while getting rewarded for their eco-friendly efforts.
Check out www.myboneyard.com to learn more about the newest revolutionary way to recycle used electronics, and how consumers can get rewarded in the process.
I hope you didn’t buy a new Apple laptop recently. Steve Jobs announced the MacBook Air at Macworld today.
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