Monday, April 20, 2009

New in Labs: Suggest more recipients

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Posted by Ari Leichtberg, Software Engineer

Have you ever realized you mistakenly left someone important out of an email, or just spent too much time trying to decide who from your long list of contacts to include? Well, some of us on the Gmail team feel your pain, so we wrote a new Gmail Labs feature called "Suggest more recipients."

Once you've enabled it from the Labs tab under Settings, you'll see suggested recipients while composing messages. Gmail will suggest people you might want to include based on the groups of people you email most often. So if you always email your mom, dad, and sister together, and you start composing a message to your mom and dad, Gmail will suggest adding your sister. Enter at least two recipients and any suggestions will show up like this:


Click on a suggested name, and they'll get added to your email.

Hopefully having lots of friends and co-workers just got a bit less onerous for you. (Oh, the burden of popularity!) Enjoy, and as usual, please let us know what you think.

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Prezi Makes a Zooming Map of Your Presentations [Webapps]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/HQ59YAwUG7I/prezi-makes-a-zooming-map-of-your-presentations

Prezi is a Flash-based online presentation maker that doesn't believe all slides are the same. Prezi allows creators to zoom in, slide over, play videos, animate, and do other eye-catching stuff with your information.

It's hard to capture exactly what a difference custom zooming and framing have on a presentation until you see it yourself. Prezi, unfortunately, doesn't offer embedding of its hosted presentations (at least with its free license), but anyone can check out Prezi's showcased works to see what the deal is about. Editing itself is done with a neat wheel/cog corner tool and a drag-and-drop grid background. The site offers a lot of tutorial videos and demonstrations, like this nice overview of editing and presentation:


Even a free account gets an offline player to use, which is a big plus, and upgrading to "Enjoy" or "Pro" accounts for €39 or €119 grants access to "Private Prezi," upgrades your Prezi.com storage space, and removes Prezi's logo from your presentations. It's similar to Microsoft's very protoype-level pptPlex, but with a refined interface and pretty impressive looks. Free to use, requires a sign-up and email activation.



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SprintCam V3 HD Shoots Breathtaking Full HD Video at 1,000 FPS [Slo Mo]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/ruNV90v8YRU/sprintcam-v3-hd-shoots-breathtaking-full-hd-video-at-1000-fps

Sure, the Casio EX-F1 shoots great slow-mo footage for a consumer camera. But it can't touch the footage that the SprintCam V3 HD pumps out. Good lord.

This is a professional broadcast camera that is likely to cost as much as a house, so it's not something you'll be picking up at Best Buy anytime soon. But you can bet that we'll start seeing incredible HD footage like in the below video on sports broadcasts in the very near future. Get ready to analyze the throws of pitchers and quarterbacks in a whole new way. [SprintCam V3 HD via NotCot]



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LaCie Debuts 8TB 4big Quadra Bundles Including a 32TB RAID [LaCie]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/sjbdmbY7L2c/lacie-debuts-8tb-4big-quadra-bundles-including-a-32tb-raid

LaCie's new series of RAID bundles include an 8TB model of the 4big Quadra, which is actually just two 4TB hard drives put together.

The 8TB model joins the 4big Quadra series—a 4-bay RAID solution that features swappable disks and seven RAID modes—that boasts transfer speeds up to 700MB/s and capacities as big as 32TB. The hard drives with higher capacities, like the 8TB, are also just bundles of smaller drives placed together.

Available in the May and starting at $1,199, the 8TB LaCie 4big Quadra Bundle will include two 4TB 4big Quadras, an eSATA II PCI Express Card and 4 ports. The 16TB and 32TB—besides having higher capacities—come with everything the 8TB bundle contains, as well as LaCie Rescue Kits, which consists of spare hard disks and power supplies. [Lacie via Engadget]



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Get ready for another co-processor: further details on Caustic Graphics's RTPU

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/get-ready-for-another-co-processor-further-details-on-caustic-g/

Get ready for another co-processor: further details on Caustic Graphics's RTPU
Ray tracing is the current holy grail of gaming graphics, the rendering technique that might finally make the licensed game based on Pixar's latest look as good as the film itself. But, the typically random nature of rays has made rendering them on traditional hardware inefficient, a problem Caustic Graphics claimed to have solved, and is now backing that up by giving PC Perspective some further details and demos. The company's tech will rely on a new graphics co-processor called the Ray Tracing Processing Unit (RTPU), working in concert with existing 3-D accelerators to deliver rays at frame rates high enough for interactive applications. How high? Early hardware dubbed CausticOne (that giant slab of silicon above) manages 3 - 5 frames-per-second in the demonstration video after the break. That's not nearly enough for twitchy first-person shooters, but second-gen hardware due next year is looking to deliver 14 times that -- plenty to get your high-reflectivity frag on.

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