Saturday, January 26, 2008

World's First Phone With Fold-Away Screen

New phone is the size of two business cards. This gadget is no bigger than other mobile phones by making a screen that folds up when not in use. The 5-inch display of Polymer Vision's "Readius" is the first that folds out when the user wants to read news, blogs or email and folds back together so that the that the device can fit into a pocket.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Twitter Opens Their Messaging Platform

In the first post on the new Twitter Technology Blog, Alex Payne announced that Twitter is releasing their underlying messaging platform, which they call, “Starling”, to the community.

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Monday, January 21, 2008

Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

This article provides hand-picked professional Flash tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works. Most sources can serve as the entry point for further tutorials.

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Digg-like navigation bar using CSS

This tutorial explains how to design a digg-like navigation bar using a liquid design with rounded corners for links.

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Sunday, January 20, 2008

IBM to launch Lotus Notes for iPhone & iPod touch

E-mail software from IBM will be made available on Apple iPhones and iPod Touch devices under a new partnership that brings together two big rivals of Microsoft.

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Friday, January 18, 2008

Sink or Swim? The Top Moving Sites Of 2007

With 2008 now more than two weeks old, it’s a great time to look back at last year and see how the web has changed. What sites experienced a surge of traffic in 2007? Has anyone fallen off the map? We compared the top 1000 sites in December 2007 with those in December of the previous year to find out.

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Friday, January 11, 2008

Sign Of The Times: Web 2.0 Outsourcing Humor

Something that you don’t often see a lot written about in new media is the strong trend by startups to outsource a lot of their work. Digg for example was originally designed by Kevin Rose outsourcing the job on elance... "doubtsourcing" is a webcomic exploring the lighter side of "Outsourcing 2.0"

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Thursday, January 10, 2008

Ultra-mobile future beckons for PCs

The desktop PC's days of dominance could be numbered as laptops and ultra-mobile PCs begin to reap the benefit of ever greater, and more efficient, computing power."Soon you will be able to have a connected experience everywhere you go," said Mr Moore.

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New sun-spot activity threatens mobile phone networks

A new 11-year cycle of heightened solar activity, bringing with it increased risks for power grids, critical military, civilian and airline communications, GPS signals and even mobile phones, showed signs it was on its way late Thursday when the cycle's first sunspot appeared in the sun's Northern Hemisphere.

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Building a .com in 24 hours

This is about how I spend 24 concentrated hours spread out over 4 days during Holidays to build the online service Wigitize.com. What I tried to do for this project is use some new methods/tools out there to solve practical problems in my weakness area: design, frontend coding, system administration and SEO.

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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Ten Common Objections to Social Media and to Respond

here is a list of the Top 10 Objections to New Online Tools and What You Can Say in Response. surveyed nearly 1300 friends on Twitter and got all kinds of thoughtful replies. Below is that list;

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SlingPlayer 2.0, SlingModem, and SlingCatcher details

The makers of the Slingbox are updating their software making it easier to flip channels and record clips. They've also announced the SlingModem, a cable modem with SlingPlayer features built right in. And the SlingCatcher which lets you stream internet video to a PC gets an updated release date.
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Monday, January 07, 2008

Windows Mobile 7 Details Leaked--Multi-touch, Motion Gesture

This isn't Windows Mobile 6.1—which we've seen leaks of recently—but the next full version of Windows Mobile that fixes a bunch of problems we've seen with the platform. The huge changes are multi-touch gestures (including flicking, swiping and drawing on the screen), motion gestures (shaking the phone), Windows Vista-like redesign.

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Thursday, January 03, 2008

Pointui Skins Windows Mobile phones, fixes the OS

Pointui, the app that sits on top of Windows Mobile 5/6 in order to skin it into something actually usable. It's so awesome that I actually made a movie out of it, including Jesus-style subtitles, so that you guys can see just how awesome it is. (Have I said that it's awesome?)

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Wednesday, January 02, 2008

5 Make it or Break it Characteristics of Web Designers 2008

The Independent Web Designer in 2008 | 5 Make It or Break It Characteristics2007 is almost over. Time to start thinking about the future.

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Time Magazine's 50 Best Websites 2007

Our 2007 picks are the best examples of what's new and exciting about the Web right now. Here we honor sites with exceptional style and smarts, sites that offer new and improved ways to access and share content, generate our own and otherwise enrich the online (and off-line) experience.

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Remote Desktop for Mobiles

Access your PC from your phone remotely. You can copy, cut, paste files or folders, send, receive e-mails, surf web and a lot of other things. Just download RDM+ to your PC

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New Digg Like Site for Designers

Check out this Digg like site for graphic designers, web designers, multimedia designers, interior designers, etc.

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Most Popular Content on Social News Sites

Ever wonder what kind of content is most popular on the various social news sites? Well wonder no more… We analysed over 500 front-page stories for Digg, Reddit, Propeller, StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us to try and determine what type of content is generally popular on each site.

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The Year of the New Mobile Operating System

The entrance of two new operating systems from well-known brands shakes up the plans of some mobile operators and indicates some fundamental changes in the mobile industry.

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Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike

IT’S a pickle of a paradox: As our knowledge and expertise increase, our creativity and ability to innovate tend to taper off. Why? Because the walls of the proverbial box in which we think are thickening along with our experience.

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5 Things I Had to Unlearn to Become Self Made

When I went into business for myself, I knew there would be an ‘unlearning’ process - and I was excited to discover just how deep the rabbit hole would go.

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3 down, 1 to go: Warner Music Group drops DRM

Warner is making all of its music available as MP3 files for sale at Amazon's music store.

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