Smart Globe Oregon Scientific SmartGlobe

An excellent tool for those who wish to explore the geography will SmartGlobe gadget from Oregon Scientific. This globe that allows for interactive lessons, as well as testing for a variety of topics relating to life on our planet: the countries, their capitals, major cities, population, language, currency, distance, history, science and current events. Globus connects to a PC through a USB port and weekly updates, as well as download a wide variety of games on geographical issues. SmartGlobe will be an excellent assistant in the classroom learning geography and entertainment at home. Price device - $ 199.95.

EDITT Tower - environmentally friendly "green" skyscraper

The idea of creating a greener «green» skyscrapers that could provide electricity itself, in a sense, is not new, but in most cases, there is still only at the project level. That's another similar project, EDITT Tower in Singapore. About half the surface of the skyscraper on the idea of sponsors of the draft will be covered with plants, but at the «Environment» building does not end there. Because Singapore is known for its downpours, the building will collect rainwater and it will be used for watering plants, and technical purposes (for example, to drain water in toilets). In addition, the building will be located 855 square meters. meters of photovoltaic panels, which provide nearly 40% of the building's electricity needs. In addition, the plan - the conversion of waste and sewage into fertilizer and biofuels.

What is a real design talent

Resource Petitinvention published materials on a very remarkable concept mobile phone, and I should say, these designs is not just a fan of modern portable electronics, but this design talent. The author himself compares his work of art with another famous concept - Nokia Aeon, although in this case, we clearly are dealing with something far more original. The device is equipped with a virtual qwerty-keyboard and digital visible on the shiny white surface. As such, touch your phone as if no borders, closing the entire surface of the front panel. Perhaps the software platform that can be beautiful as MacOS X, and Google Android, but can we consider them worthy of such sverhgadzheta?

Full package iGO8, the last card / home / POI as at 05.10.2008

Location: entire world.

Format: Program navigation.

Number of entries: Do not think so.

Last update: 05.10.2008.

Description: New maps of Namibia, South Africa.

Added Card (POI, attractions), Brazil, the updated map (POI, attractions) of Thailand. Added Thai language and Thai vote. 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Microsoft's Next OS To Be Called "Windows 7"

Microsoft has announced that the latest version of Windows, due in the next couple of years, will be called - drumroll please - Windows 7. It’s about time Microsoft adopted a naming system that might actually make some sense to users, but I can’t wait for hordes of customers to start asking if they somehow missed Windows 1 through 6.
Windows has had one of the most ridiculous naming schemes in the history of software. First there were logical (but ugly) version numbers, like the once commonplace “Windows 3.1″. Then with the release of the overhauled Windows 95 the company adopted a naming system based on the year of release, which it continued until Windows 98.
Windows Me (perhaps the worst operating system I’ve ever used), sacrificed the scheme for a chance to be clever (it stood for “me” and the millennium at the same time!) Next up we hit Windows XP, which has served most of us reasonably well since 2001. It sounds sort of cool, it’s catchy, and we have no idea what it means. Fine.
Finally we had Windows Vista, which seemed to stick with the naming convention of “something that sounds sort of cool” but didn’t really mean anything. It had been more than five years since the release of XP, so there was little chance of confusion.
Microsoft is now in a hurry to push out its next operating system after the generally dismal response to Vista. And so we’ve come to Windows 7, which is apparently tied to the build numbers and not the actual releases.
The new naming scheme lends itself well to faster, more incremental releases similar to what we’ve seen from Apple (about once every 18 months), but it’s probably going to confuse everyone and couldn’t be more bland.
You can read more at the company’s blog post here.

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is no longer hides behind curtain secrecy, since October 2 in London and Singapore, Nokia introduced its first phone with a touch screen that works on the basis of platform S60. And, despite the fact that most of its features have been disclosed in advance, OS touch management does not lose its charm.


Desk phone simply fascinating. Sensory key Media Bar gives you access to music, images and video, a key Contacts Bar displays the extended information about selected contact, including the history of letters, calls and sent a list of files.


The set comes with the Smartphone and stylus, but for those who are afraid of losing it, the developers devised an alternative - triangular mediator.


For those who have forgotten, recall that the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic - this is the first phone with a touch screen that works based on S60 platform and has a 3.2-inch diagonal screen, and extension - 640 x 320 pixels. Smartphone is equipped with 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus and the ability to record VGA video at a frequency of 30 frames per second. The device operates in four bands GSM, networks, 3G and HSDPA. Among other features worth noting GPS, 3,5 mm standard audio output, stereo dynamics and expansion memory slot microSD. There also will be a memory card to 8GB, but if you want to stand and 16GB.

Specifications Nokia 5800 XpressMusic:
* Network: GSM / GPRS / EDGE, WCDMA / HSDPA
* Operating system: S60 5th Edition
* Display: sensory, tactile output, 3.2-inch, 640 x 360 pixels, 16 million colors
* Camera: 3.2 megapixels, autofocus, dual LED-flash
* The amount of internal memory: 140 MB
* Slot expansion: microSD
* A-GPS
* Wi-Fi
* Bluetooth 2.0
* 3.5 mm jack
* TV-Out
* Dimensions: 111 x 52 x 14,5 mm
* Weight: 104 grams

IncrediMail 5.85.3813

Information about the program:
Name: IncrediMail 5.85.3813
Released: 2008

Tablet: Not required

Language: English

Platform: Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista

Developer: IncrediMail

Size: 10 Mb

About the program: IncrediMail 5.85.3813 - Very original mailer, with its main feature - not a set of functions for processing correspondence (though they are many), a completely new, not available in any other mail programs, the possibility of processing letters through animation, creating a "jump around the text included in the text, graphical emoticons, and many others, including a variety of 3D-effects.
The result of all this would be that most ordinary letter to turn into this work of art (unless, of course, you do not overdo effect) with your personal signature - built-in editor allows vytvoryat and not so (incidentally, this option can be very useful for training blanks "business" letters). The appearance of the program is also unusual - cheerful colorful and, moreover, it is amenable to change through the skin, unusually, and that the program used for voice synthesizer reporting accounts for almost, and other events.

Otherwise, same IncrediMail - quality email client that supports working with multiple mailboxes, with the possibility preview messages directly on the server and removing those that are not needed, with a convenient system for sorting messages by establishing rules for their treatment and all other attributes, inherent in modern email programs, including support for safe including support for SSL-connections.

Naturally, you can send messages, not only in HTML, but in text format, as well as (!) In the form of an audio message. Take care of developers and those who do not want in the transition to a new email program already available lose Postal Service - the program has a feature import mail and address book data from most popular email programs (Mouse, unfortunately in this list is not) and the opportunity to work with mail Hotmail.

Nokia Communicator

Nokia presentations utek next photo-collage. As can be seen, apparatus resembles a horizontal camp-cot E90 and pre okreschenny "Nokia Communicator" would be virtually the entire touch - and the display and keyboard. The operating system is a new smartphone Nokia, will likely be on the Symbian S60 5th Edition, and his colleagues - Nokia 5800. When you receive the Nokia Communicator and how much it will cost far nezvestno. But I think no earlier than February 2009.

Netvibes Partners Rambler.ru

Netvibes, the site that lets users customize their homepages with a variety of widgets, has partnered with Rambler.ru to bring its widgets to the massive Russian web portal. Rambler is the Yahoo of Russia, with an estimated 40 million users and 3 billion monthly pageviews. The deal is being described as “multi-year” and worth “multi-millions”, but further details haven’t been disclosed. Netvibes availability on Rambler.ru is expected to begin in November.
This marks the first time Netvibes has licensed its platform for installation and distribution to an independent third party, and probably won’t be the last. In order to stay competitive with other widget hubs like iGoogle, Netvibes would do well to spur its growth by offering its widgets to other region-specific portals (that said, Netvibes has been doing well, with a reported 500 billion widgets served montly). According to the press release, the Rambler homepage will include Google Search, Blinx video search, and a number of Russian services like Price.ru.
In July Google acquired Begun, a contextual ad service, from parent company Rambler. As part of the $140 million deal, Rambler has been using Google for some of its advertising and search functions.

Qooxdoo 0.8 Released

Qooxdoo have just released version 0.8, one of the most interesting open-source, enterprise-level AJAX/RIA frameworks. Leveraging object-oriented JavaScript allows developers to build impressive cross-browser applications. No HTML, CSS nor DOM knowledge is needed.
It includes a platform-independent development tool chain, a state-of-the-art GUI toolkit and an advanced client-server communication layer. It is open source under an LGPL/EPL dual license.
While at first qooxdoo 0.8 looks like a minor jump in version number over the previous 0.7.3, the actual changes are huge. In particular the UI capabilities as well as the developer tool chain were improved substantially.

YUI 2.6.0 Released

Nate Koechley has announced YUI 2.6.0 final:
2.6.0 introduces a new Carousel Control, offers the Paginator Control for general use (it was previously bundled with DataTable), includes more than 450 total fixes, enhancements and optimizations, graduates eight components out of “beta,” and now ships with more than 290 functional examples.
To go along with the carousel and paginator controls, you will also find details on updates too: TreeView, Calendar, Rich Text Editor, Drag & Drop, Uploader, DataTable, AutoComplete, and Container.
With Christian around, you can be sure that accessibility is taken seriously, and we see improvements there:
We’ve continued to work hard to make YUI accessible. The Carousel, Button, Menu, TabView, and Container all have enhanced accessibility support in addition to what’s otherwise noted in this blog post. We continue to count accessibility amongst our highest priorities; stay tuned for a few more blog posts on the topic in the coming days and weeks.

KickApps Launches Drag-and-Drop Advertising Service

KickApps, a company that provides on-demand social media applications that enable web publishers to monetize online audiences announced today that it’s trying to make it easier for website owners to add video advertising to their own videos and websites using the KickApps Widget & Video Player Studio.
Using drag-and-drop, KickApps’ clients can add translucent overlay, interstititial, and pre- and post-roll advertising to any of their videos running on KickApps’ video players with the help of a mouse. The company also announced that along with its drag-and-drop feature, it now supports integration with Google AdSense for Video, Scanscout, Adap.tv, and 24/7 Real Media. So far, it doesn’t support DoubleClick’s DART, but the company promised that it will be made available over the next few weeks.
In order to use the KickApps’ Widget and Video Player Studio, web publishers need to buy out ad inventory based on a set CPM rate. In return, the publishers can then place the KickApps advertising modules onto their sites on-the-fly.
The KickApps Widget & Video Player Studio is available now for any publisher that signs up for the service.

Website: kickapps.com
Location: New York, New York, United States
Founded: March 1, 2004
Funding: $17M
KickApps provides on-demand social media applications that enable web publishers and marketers to grow, engage, and monetize online audiences. Its SaaS platform is powered by the first Social Graph Engine for web publishers. The platform includes…