PL @ NET HTC’s New Mobile Network Services Platform
PL@NET stands for “Play at Internet” is a new mobile portal created by HTC for Asian market only. The portal offers few application for free download and other online social services. The main app to connect to the services called My Connect 2.0.
Since the site is in Chinese and the translation is not always 100% accurate, please chime in if you know more about the services!
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Some available apps include:
Watch the flash demo of the TouchBook app, a sleek magazine reader. Read more HERE! |
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[Via PocketNow]
PhotoBoard Multi-Touch Photo Browser for iPhone
We should wait until iPhone firmware 2.0 is released to see if this super PhotoBoard will make the list of Apple approved freeware. PhotoBoard adds pictures from Camera Roll by touching the screen and loading them from the popup menu.
PhotoBoard will help you zoom in and out on pictures, move them around the screen, similar to the way Tom Cruise looks through the pre-crime video streams from the Precogs, in the movie "Minority Report"
Weekend Watch: Speedo LZR Racer Swim Suit
The world greatest swimmers continue to shatter the world records with the controversial new swim suit made by Speedo called LZR.
The LZR ("Laser") RACER suit, tested in wind tunnels used by NASA to test the aerodynamic qualities of space shuttles, makes elite swimmers 5% more efficient in their oxygen intake so it is ‘easier’ for them to swim faster for longer . Let’s discover here how it is made in next tab!
Test performances have led experts to believe the new suit will help swimmers shave valuable seconds off their times, which athletes are confident will result in more medals being won and more world records being broken by Speedo swimmers this year.
The suit works by reducing the friction (or ‘drag’) that slows a swimmer down. Since the properties of water can not be changed, the goal is to make the swimmer’s body as smooth and streamlined as possible.
Developed over the past three years, the LZR RACER is made from an ultra light-weight fabric that actually repels water. It is ultrasonically welded together to form the world’s first fully bonded suit, cutting down friction even further.
By scanning more than 400 elite athletes including Michael Phelps (US) and Grant Hackett (Aus), the R&D team were able to place laser-cut ultra low-friction ‘panels’ specifically on those areas, which, along with the suit’s corset-like compression, makes each individual swimmer as hydrodynamic as they can be.
This means that each swimmer is held in the optimum shape and position to cut through the water in the most effective way, therefore saving them valuable energy which they can then use to swim faster!
In tests the new suit reduced passive drag (the position a swimmer is in following a dive or a turn) by 10% compared to the Speedo suit worn in Athens in 2004. It also reduced skin friction or ’surface drag’ (i.e. when the swimmer is on top of the water), by a massive 24% compared to the Speedo FASTSKIN (2000) and 38% more than standard Lycra.
The results led World Record holder, Libby Lenton (Aus), to describe the experience as being "like swimming down hill"! [Source Speedo]
Watch Tour De France Online with Google Map & YouTube
The Tour de France is the world’s best-known cycling race, a three week long road race that covers a circuit of most areas around France, and sometimes neighboring countries. The race is broken into stages from one town to another, each of which is an individual race. The time taken by cyclists to complete each stage becomes a cumulative total in order to decide the outright winner at the end of the Tour.
Le Tour de France and Google Maps invite you to ride the 2008 route using Street View. Now, you can feel like part of the race, no matter where you are. Go to next tab for more!
How do I use Street View?
Watch the official video below or take a tour in Google Maps.
Tour De France YouTube Channel
Thanks to YouTube, you can get Tour de France Channel; so you can follow at your own pace and own schedule of “Etape du Jour”. Check out the official Tour de France website.
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Better YouTube Extension Available for Firefox 3
Life Hacker’s Gina Trapani puts together 3 popular scripts in to this useful extension for Firefox, is now available for version 3.
Better YouTube is a compilation of user scripts written by several Greasemonkey scripters. The full list of Better YouTube user scripts and their authors is as follows:
- YouTube Alternate Video Player (No Autoplay)
Replaces the youtube flash video player with FlowPlayer flash video player (flowplayer.org).
By Yansky - YouTube Download
Adds a small download button to every video on YouTube (alternative solution HERE)
By KayKay - YouTube Theater
Enlarges video full-screen and clears away other page elements.
By Erik Nomitch
Download the extension HERE. Click the Better YouTube download button below in Firefox. Click on the "Install Now" button in the dialog, and restart Firefox.
Stream Netflix From Your PC to TV
Last year Neflix started offering the ability to stream movies over the Internet to your PC and recently the ability to stream to the Roku set-top box.
For Windows Media Center that comes with Vista Home Premium and Ultimate along with the stand alone WMC PC. There are plug-ins that are designed by an active developer community for WMC to allow Netflix streaming.
If you have an Xbox360 connected to the living room TV. You can install Windows Media Extension to take Netflix to your home TV without the need of the $99 Roku box.
Go to On10 to read the review of the 3 most popular plug-ins and find out which one is the right one for you: vmcNetflix, MyNetflix, and NetflixMC.
Meet The Windows Mobile 7 Development Team
Microsoft WM Team Blog posts a photo of the Windows Mobile Phone team enjoying a much needed day off.
These guys (and gals) are responsible for Smart Dial, Call History, Speed Dial, Call Progress, Voicemail, Wireless Manager and a whole bunch of phone UI and APIs.
They’re all hard at work on building a great phone and connectivity experience for the next version of Windows Mobile
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Introducing the team from left to right: (click on the photo to enlarge)
JJ (test), Arturo (test), Darin (dev), Kerry (PM), Robert (dev lead), Howard (dev), Ritu (dev), Kelly (test), Thairu (dev).
Promise, when you get back, could you please give us 7 quicker!
[Source WM Team Blog. Thanks MTechAddicts for the finding]
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Weekend Watch: Grocery Shopping With Your Mobile Phone
A supermarket in Germany thinks most if not all the shoppers carry a cellphone; why not put that device to work for them. The idea is to have the shopper scan each purchased item barcode with a client software on their cellphone. At checkout, the total purchase will be represented by 1 barcode displayed on the cellphone. There are few more technologies shows on the below video that you might find interesting.
I still think the RFID would be more effective than the barcode scan considering the human (intentionally or unintentionally) error factor.
[Source BBC via CrunchGear]
Diamond Clock and Weather fully Animated (flash today plug-in)
Thanks to TWolf, a member of LakeridgeSoftware for this animated clock and weather flash theme, it works only of you have flash installed and a today plug-in like Animated Today
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3 buttons on the plug-in:
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To use it:
- Install flash: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashp…ds/player.html
- Install any today flash plugin, like Animated Today: http://www.gigabytesol.com/anitoday.htm
- Copy this TSK to \my documents and select it.
To configure:
- Open myConfig.txt (included in zip) with notepad and change as necessary.
- Copy myConfig.txt to Windows folder
- Reload the TSK
If you want to know your city weather code:
- Go to: http://www.accuweather.com/includes/…EUR&country=UK
- Change the end of the link to your country (US users only need a 5-digit area code), PT=Portugal etc…
Mylingua=1&END // English=1, Portuguese=2, German=3 Italian=4 Spanish=5 Chinese=6 Hungarian=7 French=8 // Want your language? Ask it here. &MyClock=1&END // 24h=1 12h=2 &MySecs=1&END // Seconds on=1 Seconds off=2 &MyColor=1&END // Black=1 White=2 &MyWeather=20009&END // Place your code here &MyMetric=1&END // Celsious=1 Fahrenheit=2 &Loaded=OK&END // Don't change this value, so that the flash file confirms the new variables.
Knight Rider’s Kitt Voice For Driving Directions
The portable GPS devices have emerged like wildfire on the road. The manufactures are looking the way to differentiate their products by providing either technologically innovation such the DASH GPS or in this case with Mio, the company gets help from nostalgic memories of an old TV series.
Mio released the Mio Knight Rider GPS, the popular TV show in the 80’s. Knight Rider’s main character is Michael Knight, a kind of modern-day "knight" who drove an advanced smart car with artificial intelligence named Kitt.
The GPS unit uses the real Kitt original recordings instead of computerized voices giving you directions. You can set up the device, so Kitt can address you by the first name instead of Michael. On the exterior design, Mio gives many cues from the TV series.
MSRP is about $270 when it releases in August, Watch the video on next tab.
[Via Knightrideronline]
Sing Along has never been easier with MyPlayList Lyrics
Myplaylist Lyrics
, an online service that lets user search songs to playback with the song related photos and song lyrics mashup.
The service scouts the Internet for pictures and audio files with best quality for you.
For your next gathering, you can bring a connected laptop for a great sing along party.
If you just want to playback tunes from your computer. We showed you how to display the lyrics within Windows Media Player.
FriendMobilizer: Facebook App for Windows Mobile
FriendMobilizer, a free application for Windows Mobile Professional and Standard Smartphones that puts Facebook into the palm of your hand.
FriendMibilizer highlights
- Get notifications sent directly to your home screen
- Set your status
- Approve friend requests
- View Group/Event invites
- Check your wall and inbox
- Send your friends messages, pokes, and wall posts
You can get FriendMobilizer at http://faceofmobile.com/.
MSI Wind Got Reviewed
Bit-tech just posted a review of the upcoming MSI Wind Subcompact Notebook. The review covers the topics of unboxing, hardware, usage and overall impression.
The reviewer contrasts the $500 Win/XP MSI Wind with the more expensive competitor Asus’ 8.9" Eee PC 900. The strong points are its price, almost full size keyboard, 2h30 Li-On battery (might need extended 6 cell bat), etc..
- Intel Atom 1.6GHz with Hyperthreading
- 10" Widescreen with 10.1" 1024×600 LED backlit screen
- Intel 945GMS northbridge (GMA950) and ICH7-M southbridge
- 1GB DDR2-667 Memory
- 80GB SATA hard drive
- 3-Cell Li-ion battery
- 802.11b/g Wireless and Bluetooth
- 1.3MP Webcam and Stereo Speakers
- Windows XP Home
Read the full review HERE!
Weekend Watch: Planets Align for the 4th of July
In the US, we are ready to celebrate July 4th The Independence day with BBQ, parade and firework shows throughout the cities later.
While the US enjoy the 4th of July fireworks the entire world can look up in the western skies after twilight to witness the red planet Mars and ringed planet Saturn converge just to the left of the bright star Regulus. The three lights make a pretty 1st-magnitude line in the heavens: sky map.
But that is just the beginning. On Saturday, July 5th, with weekend fireworks at fever pitch, a lovely crescent Moon joins the show. Saturn, Mars, and the Moon trace an even brighter line than the night before: sky map.
If you are lucky to have a small telescope. You’ll see Saturn’s rings, the little red disk of Mars, a grand sweep of lunar mountains and craters, and just maybe—flash!—a manmade incendiary. How often do you see fireworks through a telescope?
[Thanks NASA for the tip]
Use a Mobile Broadband USB Modem on EeePC
The low cost sub-notebooks have tremendous capabilities especially in the cloud computing environment, which requires Internet connection.
Unfortunately WiFi hotspots are not omnipresent and mobile users often use a mobile broadband device (PCMCIA, PC Express or USB form factors) for their laptop to connect to Internet. On the EeePC, on USB port can be used.
Windows or Apple laptop users would install the provided driver and a dialer client software. Unfortunately, there is no official support for Linux on the low-cost-subcompact notebook, which often runs a flavor of Linux OS. (e.g., Asus EeePC runs with Linux Xandros). Thankfully, there is a way to make it work….
Thoughts Aside: Laptop and camera bags are widely used and provide proper protection for these devices. Apart from camera bags , there is range of other accessories to enhance and protect laptop and cell phone camera . Also if your film camera supports advanced connectivity options, you can attach it directly to the digital projector to enjoy high quality videos on big screen. However you might need software driver available from pda software collection.
