I got my brand spanking new Chronulator 2 kit in the mail! I had big plans for opening it all up and taking photos of the parts. I figured I go out and find an amazing case to build it into. I have a two-year-old with a cold. I figured wrong. I got as far as the PCB and the two meters before she, shall we say, grew tired of my reindeer games. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Kits | Digg this!...
AutoLyrix is a small cross-plattform software program that can automatically identify the song that is playing in a media player to display the lyrics and album art of it. Compatibility seems to have been of utmost importance to the developers of the software. AutoLyrix is able to detect songs in dozen of music players including Winamp, iTunes, Windows Media Player, Last.fm, XMPlay, AIMP2, Screamer Radio and provides a way to make it compatible with practically any player that is not supported. The software will automatically search the Internet for information about the current song and display the album art and...
When I reminisce about the Best of 2008 I can't help but think Google. Their biggest addition to the geek world in 2008 is probably the Android platform (which now runs on the T-mobile G1 phone), but other features and updates like the Chrome Browser, Gmail themes and additions, iGoogle (and themes), Knol (Google’s Wikipedia), Mail Goggles for Gmail, Picasa 3.0 and Video Chat for Gmail all provided their own unique function and entertainment. What Is Your Favorite New Google Feature? Android/T-mobile G1 Chrome Browser Gmail Themes iGoogle Themes Knol (Google’s Wikipedia) Mail Goggles for Gmail Picasa 3.0 Video Chat...
Google Desktop's integration with Gmail has always been slow and unreliable: Google Desktop could fetch and index the messages from a Gmail account, but this could take days. The new Gmail gadget for Google Desktop doesn't add your messages to the index, but it's a small version of Gmail's interface that sits in the sidebar. You can read your mail, send replies, star messages, perform searches directly from the gadget.Here are some potential uses for the gadget:* check your inbox from a fast-loading simplified interface* find the email address of a contact: compose a message and use Gmail's auto-complete feature...
(Credit: Google) Google has put out an official Gmail gadget for its Google Desktop product, giving users the option to run multiple instances of different Gmail accounts as standalone gadgets. The tool includes several useful Gmail features like keyboard shortcuts, mail, and contact search, along with the option to star messages. Users can also compose messages in a little pop-out window, which keeps them from having to fire up their browser. The app is currently Windows-only and requires Google Desktop version 5 or higher, leaving Mac and Linux users of Google Desktop out in the cold. Anyone looking to use...
This post is part of Mashable’s Startup Review series, which highlights great unsung startups. The series is made possible by Sun Startup Essentials. Company Name Send 20-Word Description Send is a free, easy-to-use email encryption service. CEO’s Pitch It’s not that there aren’t other secure methods to send an email … It’s just that they’re too hard to use. We think everyone should be able to send a secure email … and we all have better things to do than spend an afternoon installing and configuring an encryption solution. We don’t require you to maintain encryption keys - Though we...
Download, view, resize, attach, upload, wait, then receive message the file is too large. While taking photos is fun, sharing them often isn't. Until today that is, with the launch of PhotoCannon, whose sole mission is to deliver photos at jaw-dropping speed.For just $5 you can upload 100 photos—an entire folder at a time—and send them to up to 10 people. It's as easy as inserting your email address and theirs, selecting your photos, and waiting about three minutes. If you don't have a lot of friends or just need to quickly send image to someone, sending five pictures or...
Our GigaOM mail is using GMail and normally everything works just fine. I can either interact with the mail using the standard web interface or with Apple Mail under IMAP. The iPhone can interact with the mail using IMAP too and everything is hunky-dory. When it works. The past two days everything works as advertised when I'm in my home office but as soon as I leave my cocoon of happy WiFi things start going bad. I can connect to an external hotspot via WiFi and everything works as expected except the IMAP portion of GMail. I can interact...
Walruses can be cute -if they can play the saxophone like Sara! The flippered, whiskered creature is delighting audiences with her human-like skills, playing the saxophone, blowing a whistle, or simply adopting the universal expression for ‘I’m bored, get me out of here’. When handed the brass instrument she gripped it with her flippers and simulated an energetic jazz performance to some backing music. Sara is one of the star attractions at the Istanbul Dolphinarium in Istanbul, Turkey. See more pictures and a video at the Mail Online. Link -via Unique Daily...
The news is flowing hot and heavy from Barcelona, and the latest succulent tidbits to land in our laps are these. First up, a fresh version of Nokia Maps is on tap, which includes "a number of new features such as high-resolution aerial images, 3D landmarks for 216 cities and terrain maps, as well as a new route overview during routing and during Drive, the purchasable turn-by-turn car navigation guidance." Furthermore, users will find new options such as access to real time information (camera alerts, safety spots, traffic information, etc.) and Wcities event guides that give real time information...
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