Friday, October 17, 2008
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.
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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.
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What is a real design talent
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Full package iGO8, the last card / home / POI as at 05.10.2008
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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.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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
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IncrediMail 5.85.3813
Name: IncrediMail 5.85.3813
Released: 2008
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.
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Nokia Communicator
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
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.
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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.
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Friday, October 3, 2008
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.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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…
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The T-Mobile G1
The long-awaited for many days now - the operator T-Mobile and Google officially presented the first smartphone on the platform of Android, called G1 (formerly known as the HTC Dream). G1 has a 3-inch touch screen organization submitting an application for QWERTY-keyboard and Internet navigation buttons, and among other technical merit, smartphone supports all applications Google, including search, maps, Gmail, contacts, calendar, Google Talk and You Tube, as well as Android Market - «shop» applications for phones on Android, where any application can be downloaded free of charge. All the details - further. There you will find the first spot, orientation and very detailed work on videotur G1 of three videos Perov, "live" video, and, of course, a lot of live photos.
- Network: GSM / GPRS / EDGE and UMTS / HSDPA (850/900/1700/1800/1900/2100);
- 3.17-inch touch-sensitive display, 65K colors, the resolution HVGA (480 × 320);
- 3-megapixel camera;
- GPS; - WiFi;
- Bluetooth;
- 1 gigabyte of internal memory and microSD-slot (for cards with capacity up to 8 GB);
- 5 hours of talk, 130 hours - in standby-bye.
With a two-year contract, the phone will cost 179 dollars, without him - 399 dollars. Sales start on 22 October.
The G1 event has come and gone and it looks like we’re seeing an epic paradigm shift in the mobile space. iPhone started the ball rolling and Android is about the finish the job. The change? Phones are now officially computers and the expectation for most users is that they behave in the same way a powerful laptop or desktop PC would perform, albeit in a considerably more compact package.
I was struck by something during the G1 presentation today and it took me a quite a while to figure out what it was. Back in 1997-98 while I was at Carnegie Mellon we were at a crossroads in IT. The web was taking off in a general way and email was king for college students. The school was full of computer clusters - some Mac, some PC, and some greenscreen Unix dumb terminals in the library running X Windows. While the Macs and PCs were easy to understand and run, you could just tell that the Unix machines were like an iceberg - 98% of the power is under water, unseen by the average user. Putting the G1 through its paces showed a intense attention to detail on the part of Google and a tacit promise from the phone that it was far more powerful than originally described. This is G1’s blessing and curse.
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Go28Days
Ok listen up if you are part of the population that has to deal with monthly fertility cycles. Newly launched Go28Days may be the thing for you if you are really trying hard to get pregnant, or really trying hard not to get pregnant. Like a bunch of other sites, they monitor your cycle days, temperature and other stuff I’m not going to talk about, and let you know the days you are most fertile. But the site also has a number of nice touches, including sharing of information with select friends. And soon they say they’ll have a Facebook app (of course) and a mobile version to for adding data and, presumably, making a last minute fertility check before engaging in behavior you’ll likely regret in the morning.
The service is newly launched, but is a sister site to a Polish version that launched late last year. Users of the Polish service have created 100,000 fertility charts, the company says, and over 2 million comments have been added (users can add information daily about their…bodies I guess).
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Do You Know the Richest People In Tech?
Forbes has once again released its list of America’s richest people and, not surprisingly, Bill Gates topped the list with an estimated wealth of about $57 billion. But Gates isn’t alone as the only technology titan on the country’s list of the richest people. On the list again this year is Gates’ old partner Paul Allen, Sergey and Larry from Google, and Steve Jobs. New to the list is Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who sneaked in ahead of EMC’s Richard Egan.
The Richest People in Tech
1. Bill Gates (Microsoft), $57 billion
3. Larry Ellison (Oracle), $27 billion
11. Michael Dell (Dell), $17.3 billion
12. Paul Allen (Microsoft), $16 billion
13. Sergey Brin (Google), $15.9 billion
14. Larry Page (Google), $15.8 billion
15. Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), $15 billion
33. Jeff Bezos (Amazon), $8.7 billion
47. Rupert Murdoch (News Corp.), $6.8 billion
54. Pierre Omidyar (eBay), $6.3 billion
59. Eric Schmidt (Google), $5.9 billion
61. Steve Jobs (Apple), $5.7 billion
84. Gordon Moore (Intel), $4.4 billion
84. John Sall (SAS Institute), $4.4 billion
91. David Sun (Kingston Technology), $4 billion
91. John Tu, (Kingston Technology), $4 billion
105. Richard Shulze (Best Buy), $3.5 billion
144. Ray Dolby (Dolby), $2.9 billion
161. Mark Cuban (Broadcast.com), $2.6 billion
246. Irwin Jacobs (Qualcomm), $1.9 billion
246. Omid Kordestani (Google), $1.9 billion
262. Henry Samueli (Broadcom), $1.8 billion
281. David Filo (Yahoo), $1.7 billion
321. Amar Bose (Bose), $1.5 billion
321. Todd Wagner (Broadcast.com), $1.5 billion
321. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), $1.5 billion
355. Richard Egan (EMC), $1.4 billion
355. Vinod Khosla (Sun Microsystems), $1.4 billion
355. Theodore Waitt (Gateway), $1.4 billion
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WEbook
So far, it looks like WEbook’s efforts are working. The site’s unique visitor count is on the rise, according to Compete data, and it witnessed 17 percent growth over the past month.
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Ajax Framework Ext GWT 1.1 Released
Darrell Meyer has announced the release of Ext GWT 1.1 which is said to “shortens the feature set gap between Ext JS.”
New Features
The Grid component wraps the Ext JS grid, and it includes support for grid plugins which fit into component lifecycles. You can also use a subclass, EditableGrid which…. allows you to edit content on the fly.
Auto complete has been added to the combo boxes a la Google Suggest.
Portal is a custom layout container that uses a multi-column layout on contains Portlets. Each Porlet can be drag and dropped to change order or move to another column. Each Portlet can contain any content and supports icons to expand / collapse, close, etc.
The desktop mimics the behavior of the operating system look at feel. It is now possible to create multi-window applications with support for a task bar and start menu. Windows support normal, maximize, and minimize states. The start menu is a custom menu that allows new menu items. In addition, there is support for a “task” area for adding additional items.
Forum search is an example of a combo box, using a custom XTemplate, and remote data. The data can be paged with built-in support for a paging toolbar.
Image Chooser shows loading a ListView in a Window. Each item has a linked details view, and the ListView supports custom sorting and filtering.
This example shows a Dialog using an AnchorLayout to “anchor” the form fields to the dialog dimensions. When resized, the fields will adjust their size to match the dimensions of the dialog.
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Friday, September 12, 2008
Voice Stick: portable scanner text for visually impaired users
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Sony Ericsson with the full support USB
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Sony prepares alarm clock-radio to iPhone / iPod
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IAMNEWS
Website:iamnews.com
iamnews is a global open newsroom powered by you. With iamnews anyone can assign news tasks. Everyone can participate.
It is for independent reporters, photographers, media moguls and anyone who wants to connect with reporters from the world and … Learn More
Iamnews is a news assignment hub for blogs and news Websites. It is a tool for crowdsourcing news. A blog or any Web publisher can use it to solicit submissions from citizen journalists—videos, photos, links, Twitters, notes, or full articles The Web publisher then takes all the submissions and pulls together the best ones to create a post or article..
Israeli founder Nir Ofir, who is also the founder of Blog.tv, explained:
The problem is most small to medium publishers do not have the resources to tap copyrighted news and photos. We allow publishers to create news assignments, invite reporters to come in and collaborate in the creation of news. You can invite your own reporters, or we can match you with reporters.
So a blog that wants to cover an event like next year’s TC50, for instance, could put out an assignment and solicit reports, photos, and videos from other bloggers at the conference and attendees themselves. Crowdsourced journalism just took a step forward. The site is still in private alpha, but we will have invites soon.
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TrueCar, Car Dealers Must be More Honest
TrueCar aggregates data from a variety of (mostly unnamed) sources to determine how much money other people have paid for new cars around the country. It then places its findings at your disposal so you can determine whether or not that dealership down the street is offering you a good deal. The outcome, hopefully, is that you save not only hundreds and possibly thousands on your new car but the time it would have taken to comparison shop as well.
To use TrueCar, you just have to enter your zip code and the model you’re interested in buying. The price data is offered to you in a variety of visual formats such as bar graphs and charts. And it can be narrowed down to a local, regional, or national level. You can also view the history of how a car’s price has changed over time.
The site currently accounts for only about 25% of all relevant transactions. The founders want to hold off from launching it publicly until they’ve reached at least 50% and they are confident that one day they will hit 75%.
The expert panelists were concerned in particular about the sources of TrueCar’s information and its uniqueness. Jeff Weiner asked where the company got its information and why the pricing information offered by other sites like Edmunds didn’t stack up. The founders insisted that all of the data was out there and publicly available; it was just hard to tie it all together and make sense of it. And since they had built a sophisticated system to synthesize it all, their pricing insights were deeper and more informative.
Don Dodge and Sean Parker were also skeptical that the provision of this pricing knowledge would actually change consumer behavior, since people are lazy and subject to price discrimination, even when it comes to commodities.
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
Ra-ajax, New Ajax Library By The Creator Of Gaia
Thomas Hansen the creator of Gaia Ajax Widgets have recently announced that he is no longer with Gaiaware and already started a new ASP.NET Ajax library Ra-Ajax and a new company Ra Software AS. Thomas have quit Gaiaware due to disagreeing on the future of the company with the others, you can read his very long blog post on the current situation.
Ra-Ajax his new Ajax library is under LGPL 3 license is an ultra lightweight, slick and small Ajax library for ASP.NET and Mono which tries to completely abstract away JavaScript from the developer. It's true that the library is new, but its size zip-compressed already exceed the 7Mo ! The website provide some good samples including Event system, Effects, Dynamic Controls, Button, Checkbox, DropDownList, Image, Labels, Panel, TextBox, Accordion, Calendar, InPlaceEdit, RichEdit, Timer ... and more. More information and download at http://ra-ajax.org/.
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Google Chrome, the new Browser by Google
Google have just announced their entrance to the browsers war to join Microsoft IE, Mozilla FF, Safari, Opera and others. Chrome the new google browser, is very simple and very fast ! Chrome uses components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox, among others - and that's not everything because Google is willing to make it Open Source.
For more information and download : http://www.google.com/chrome
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Develop web Applications using the MVC CakePHP Framework with New Book + Sample chapter
CakePHP is an open source web application framework written in PHP. It uses well-known design patterns and provides a structured framework that enables PHP users to develop robust web applications, without any loss of flexibility. The user can code faster, better, and it makes writing Web 2.0-style applications easier.
The book introduces the user to installing the MVC Framework and building his first application, and follows with looking at each main component of a CakePHP application in detail. The book also teaches how to build Web 2.0 style applications using a case study application. PHP Magazine Readers can download freely the chapter 4 Controllers: Programming. Application Logic [PDF 909KB]
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
Big Buck Bunny
Big Buck Bunny tells the story of a giant rabbit with a heart bigger than himself. When one sunny day three rodents rudely harass him, something snaps... and the rabbit ain't no bunny anymore! In the typical cartoon tradition he prepares the nasty rodents a comical revenge.
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license bigbuckbunny.org
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Vimeo: Video online HD
Vimeo a major player in the field of online video today announced support for sending and playback of video in HD format. The high quality of the new format is really impressive and Vimeo is the first to support High Definition. Think that the resolution of online video is 1280 × 720… enough to see everything full screen without loss of quality. Of course… it takes a little 'of banda to be able to see movies!
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Saturday, August 9, 2008
Teen Social Network myYearbook Gets $13 Million
myYearbook, a social network for teenagers that launched in 2005, has raised $13 million in a Series B funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners, US Venture Partners, and First Round Capital. The new round brings the company’s total funding to $18.6 million.
myYearbook says it sees 10 million unique visitors monthly, and also makes the claim that it is the third largest social network in the US. (Not quite. It is only a fraction of the size of MySpace or Facebook, and Bebo and imeem also attract more monthly unique visitors. According to comScore, myYearbook had 4.5 million unique visitors in June, versus 5.2 million for Bebo and 6.4 million for imeem). When we last wrote about them, there was speculation that the site may have more high school users than Facebook. This is almost certainly no longer the case. Facebook has seen dramatic growth since that time, with 37.4 million uniques in June, with 10 percent of those between the ages of 12 and 17, says comScore. MyYearbook has a larger percentage of users in that age group (23.8 percent), but less than a third as many total.
Still, myYearbook continues to produce impressive stats if you look at Hitwise, with 384% in year-over-year growth.
The site intends to use the money to further expand its feature set and reach out to new members. As part of the deal, Norwest Venture Partners’ Sergio Monsalve will join the company’s board of directors.
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Jajah Launches Instant Chinese/English Voice Translation
Jajah, a popular VoIP service provider, has released a new English/Chinese translation service called JAJAH.Babel just in time for the Olympic Games. The service, which was developed in conjunction with IBM, allows users to call a free number to get a near-instant translation of spoken sentences. The service isn’t meant for voice calls abroad - instead, it’s a handheld translator. After speaking your message into the phone, you hand it to the person you’re speaking with, and the phone spits out the translated message.
Using the service is fairly simple, and should work from any phone line:
How does JAJAH.Babel work? From English to Chinese or in reverse:Dial JAJAH.Babel from any phone. U.S. local access number: +1.718.513.2969Choose which language you want your message translated into (either English to Chinese or Chinese to English)Say your message and press #You will be able to confirm that your message was properly understood by the system.The message will automatically be played back in Chinese. If you wish, simply hand your phone to the other person or put the phone on loudspeaker so they hear the message.The other person can then record a message in Chinese, following the steps above, and you will hear their message in English.
To help test the service I recruited TechCrunch intern Matthew Schulz, who is fluent in Chinese. His conclusion was that it worked surprisingly well. The translation from English to Chinese sounded a little bit awkward, but the meaning was obvious. As for speech detection, the service had some trouble when he spoke Chinese in his normal tone, but when he enunciated a bit more than usual the results were almost perfect.
For now, the service is limited to translations between English and Chinese Mandarin, but the companies plan to release new languages in the near future. You can get more information about the service along with more local access numbers here.
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Social Travel Site TripSay Opens Up To The Public
After about four months in private beta, social travel site TripSay is now open to all travelers. TripSay combines travel search with user-generated travel guides and ratings. When you enter a city or place, it comes up on a map, along with recommendations from other TripSay users that can be sorted by restaurants, hotels, bars, beaches, transportation, sights, and other categories. I described the service in my initial review:
TripSay combines social recommendations with a travel search engine that auto-suggests cities, pubs, hotels, and the like as you type them in. They appear as icons on a map, with a photo (pulled from Flickr) and description on the side, a tag cloud below, and minifeed of all the places you and your friends have rated or recommended. The detail page for each city shows other TripSay members who have visited, tips from members, the most interesting Flickr photos tagged with the name of the city, links elsewhere on the Web, and a list of the top-rated places shown on a map.
Since then, the site has added a few more features, including better editing tools, ways to collect and save your favorite tips, group message boards, and the ability to filter recommendations by groups. And, of course, it’s kept its signature rating system, which goes from smiley face to a full moon. TripSay competes with Dopplr, Driftr, and many other social travel sites, but it is worth a look.
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mloovi translates RSS feeds into 24 languages
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Twitterfone Releases Full Audio Interface For Twitter
Today Twitterfone will start converting your Twitter messages to audio, too, giving users a full audio interface to the service. As of today, when you call Twitterfone the service offers to let you record a new message, listen to messages from your friends, and reply to messages publicly or privately. Users can listen to the first ten messages.
For now, only English is supported, but Japanese is next up. The service is free and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
If you are a Twitterer, you’re gonna love this. Below is a quick demo video I did via Qik that shows the functionality.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
4D releases 4D Web 2.0 Pack v11 Release 2
Major release features the world's first Flex-to-Database direct connectivity, iPhone 2.0, HTML 5, Google Gears and Adobe AIR Support
July 24, 2008 - SAN JOSE, CA - 4D, Inc., maker of an integrated software platform that simplifies the process of developing and deploying business applications, announced today the release of 4D Web 2.0 Pack v11 Release 2. The new version, a combination of two products - 4D Ajax Framework and 4D for Flex - brings a powerful set of tools, plug-ins, and components that allow 4D developers to easily harness the power of Web 2.0 technologies, and deliver live web and rich internet applications to browsers, desktops, and portable devices such as the iPhone.
"With the advent of technologies like Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) both Flex-powered and Ajax-driven, the iPhone, Adobe AIR, HTML 5, and Google Gears, web applications are making their way to more mobile devices, desktops and, yes, browsers than ever before,"said Laurent Ribardière, President and founder of 4D.
4D for Flex provides the world's first Flex-to-database direct connectivity. All other Flex-to-database solutions require complicated, overweight middleware solutions. 4D for Flex offers a simple, integrated Flex-to-SQL database direct connection. With zero overhead, 4D for Flex not only provides a revolutionarily simple, integrated architecture, but also high-performance connectivity to 4D Server v11 SQL and other industry standard SQL databases.
4D Ajax Framework is an integrated Ajax framework and application server that combines the power of Ajax and 4D databases, bringing 4D application data to your browser, RIA, iPhone, and more. Using the power of HTML 5 and Google Gears, users can now access their web applications even when they are offline. Fully data-interactive iPhone 2.0 applications can be built with zero coding, or completely enhanced for 100% customized data applications.
"4D's commitment to working with its Web 2.0 Pack customers (in providing timely and responsive solutions) is clearly evident in the 11.2 release," said Steve Orth, President and CEO of Aquila Group. "This feature packed release provides the necessary tools for Developers to quickly - and professionally - bring their applications to the web. It's a required product/upgrade if you are serious about harnessing the power of 4D and Web 2.0!"
4D Web 2.0 Pack v11 Release 2 is available for purchase immediately, with pricing beginning at $599. 4D products are available for download and purchase at http://www.4d.com/.About 4D
About 4D
4D Inc., located in San Jose, CA, offers companies and developers an integrated platform for creating and deploying business applications. The 4D product line is used in more than 50 countries by a network of 7,000 professional software developers and millions of end users. 4D Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of 4D SAS, headquartered in Paris, France. 4D Inc. can be reached at (408) 557-4600, or online at http://www.4d.com/.
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Monday, August 4, 2008
MS Student With Encarta Premium 2009 [MULTI]
Compatible system: Win2000, WinXP, Vista
Language: Multilingual
Developer: Microsoft (Microsoft Corporation)
The home of: http://www.microsoft.com/products/encarta/default.mspx
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Tarkan - Metamorfoz Remixes (2008)
Released: 2008
Number of tracks: 13
Quality of sound: 128kbps
01] Arada Bir (Be Funkee Mix)
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Friday, August 1, 2008
Folder Lock 5.9.5
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
PIMOne v5.35
By creating PIMOne, its developers decided not to reinvent the wheel, but simply copy the interface with a paper organizer. Thus, on the first page of the programme arranged assignments and meetings to date, and all the additional features are hidden for bookmarks right, as in the conventional notebook. And although after the impressive C-Organizer appearance PIMOne no longer amazes imagination, it is an example of this programme can not be a better assessment of all the benefits of transition from traditional paper-based organizer at its electronic analog - "seamless" integration with the browser and mail client not seen in the speed and instant retrieval of data. Is that a laptop computer or a unesesh not as easily as notebook.
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A collection of 40 thousand fonts, icons, buttons
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
Object Oriented JavaScript book released and Sample chapter
Packt publishing have recently released a new and interesting JavaScript book that teaches users how to create scalable and reusable JavaScript applications and libraries using the concepts of object-oriented programming. Written by Yahoo! Web developer Stoyan Stefanov, Beginning Object-Oriented JavaScript will teach users to solve web development problems using smart JavaScript. Ajax Magazine readers can download the sample chapter (PDF 872Ko) to have an idea on what the book is all about.
For years, JavaScript has been a handy hacker's tool for adding interactive elements to web pages, now it can be used to build large libraries, multi-tier application architectures, and advanced logic. With these new applications of JavaScript, you need a new way to learn and write it. This book treats JavaScript as a serious object-oriented language. It shows how to build robust, maintainable, and powerful JavaScript libraries, applications, and classes as well as cover many of the recent JavaScript innovations such as AJAX, JSON, and interesting design and coding patterns.
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