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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Make Your Own Stabilized Video Collage [Digital Photography]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/311807044/make-your-own-stabilized-video-collage

One of the most creative uses of Flickr video support is the "stabilized video collage," a beautiful way to capture a scene in a multi-frame moving portrait, as shown. Out of respect for the producer's copyright, we didn't embed the actual video example in this post, just a reduced thumbnail—so go here to see it in action. Then check out a how-to video on making your own collage, which involves combining two videos into one frame using Motion for Mac. Neat!

Stabilized Video Collages, How-To [Flickr via Waxy]

EFiX USB Dongle Will Boot and Install OS X on Any PC, Supposedly [Hackintosh]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/311253416/efix-usb-dongle-will-boot-and-install-os-x-on-any-pc-supposedly

Not up to the messier parts of building a Hackintosh? EFiX is a USB dongle that promises to take care of all of that for you, automagically on any PC. Pop it into the port and you can install OS X straight from the DVD "without having to worry about patches, replacing files and anything like that." Update: There's a video demo of this black magic here.

If you're thinking it sounds too good to be true and that the site looks a little scuammy, you should know that it took a lot of time to craft this voodoo stick and required the developers to thwart "various problems, including sabotage." After six months of testing, it's due on June 23. Our advice? Let someone else be the guinea pig. Hey guinea pigs, if you buy this, let us know how it goes! [EFiX via Insanely Mac via Hack a Day]

Intel Launching Cheap Quad Core Processors to Battle Budget AMD Triple Cores [Intel]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/311322935/intel-launching-cheap-quad-core-processors-to-battle-budget-amd-triple-cores

Digitimes is reporting that Intel is about to pop a series of cheap quad core processors (Q8000) to slap back at AMD's budget triple core offerings. The first will be the Core 2 Quad 8200, which'll run at 2.33GHz with a 4MB L2 cache, supporting a front-side bus of up to 1333MHz for around $200. Difference between these and standard Q9000 series is that these don't support Intel's Trusted Execution or Virtualization Technology.

These seem kinda redundant, since you can pick up a Core 2 Quad 6600 for that much (or the newer 45nm Q9300 for not a whole lot more), both of which trounced AMD's fastest quad core in benchmarks. And AMD's triple cores ain't exactly anything to sing about to begin with. [DigiTimes via Tech Report]

Nokia 6205 flip official for Verizon

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/311143042/

Filed under: Cellphones

Nokia's got a new no-frills handset coming to Verizon on June 15th, the Nokia 6205. Specs like a 1.3 megapixel camera, 58MB of memory and the Verizon UI -- no thank you -- won't have us in a hurry to turn in our N95, but the real news here is that the phone was designed by Nokia itself, and they're promising even more phones for Verizon in the future -- though S60 might not be in the cards. The 6205 has a 2-inch 176 x 220 screen on the inside, and a 1.28-inch 128 x 128 LCD on the back, there's a microSD slot, plenty of audio codec support, Bluetooth and a paltry 4 hours of talk time due to the EV-DO connection this thing wastes on a WAP 2.0 browser. It comes in the standard blue version, available in July, or you can pick up "The Dark Knight" edition we heard about (pictured), complete with movie-based ringtones and a pre-loaded trailer, on June 15th. Both will retail for $119 with contract.

In need of some hands-on of this phone? That's weird. Check it out at Engadget Mobile.

Gallery: Nokia 6205 flip hits Verizon

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NeuScreen multi-touch screen engine shown on Nokia N95

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/311158481/

Filed under: Cellphones

Call us loony, but it sure seems like Nokia's heralded N95 ends up in the middle of quite a few DIY endeavors. Sure enough, said mobile is at the heart of Sittiphol Phanvilai's latest project: NeuScreen. Put as simply as possible, the project creates a multi-touch engine for the N95, and in the demonstration waiting after the jump, a simple pen light is used to control objects on a TV screen that is connected to the aforementioned handset. Confused? Give the video a look, that always clears things right up.

[Thanks, Moses]

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