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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Glue Suggests Movies, Music, and More [Download]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/6eiMJPoYw78/glue-suggests-movies--music-and-more

Firefox: Glue fuses together suggestion engines with your tastes, the tastes of your friends, and what's popular so you can easily find your next favorite movie, album, book, or even bottle of wine.

If you've been hesitant to mess around with a suggestion engine, Glue packs in quite a few features on top of just suggesting new things, including movie previews and integration with popular sites like Amazon.com and Last.fm.

Once you sign up for a Glue Account, you can begin flagging things you like to build a profile of tastes. What kind of things? Glue can suggest books, music, movies, video games, wine, artists, and movie stars. You can log in using Facebook or Twitter and Glue will not only suggest items based on your own tastes but on the tastes of your friends.
Watch the video below to see it in action:

Glue Promo from AdaptiveBlue on Vimeo.

Already a Glue user? Trying it out for the first time? Have another suggestion service you love? Let's hear about it in the comments. Glue is a web-based service and really shines with the addition of the Firefox add-on which is free and works wherever Firefox does.

GetGlue

Google Voice Offers Voicemail Without a New Number [Google Voice]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/6y-3GtPr_qI/google-voice-offers-voicemail-without-a-new-number

Want in on Google Voice's web-based, transcribed, custom-greeted voicemail, but you're not quite ready to adopt a new number? Starting tonight, Voice users can choose to keep their number and still get Google's upgraded voicemail features.

You'll still need a Google Voice invitation to get started, which you can request for yourself or beg a friend for. Once you're in, you can choose to either pick up a new number for the full Voice service—voicemail, SMS, selective call forwarding, and more—or keep your number and walk through Google's forwarding setup for your cellphone, in what the search giant is branding as "Google Voicemail."

Your voicemail will be routed to Google's servers, transcribed and sent to you by SMS or email, if you'd like, and accessible from your Voice web page (or playable in Gmail). It's a similar offering to what services like YouMail have been offering for some time for phones of all kinds, but with seemingly unlimited transcription and storage space. You'll also be able to set up custom greetings for each caller to your voicemail.

Google touts those features, and their concept of helping you keep your voicemail consistent between carriers, in this just-released video:

Does voicemail alone and the promise of being able to keep your number tempt you toward Google Voice—if you're able to track down an invite? Te! ll us wh at you think of Google's new pitch for your phone traffic in the comments.

Google Voice with your existing number [Google Voice Blog]

Intel May Postpone USB 3.0 Support on Chipsets Until 2011 [Unconfirmed]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/A9Y7Rge4Jmk/intel-may-postpone-usb-30-support-on-chipsets-until-2011

A report has surfaced alleging that Intel has pushed back the implementation of USB 3.0 in its chipsets a whole year, to early 2011. It's unconfirmed, and we hope it's not correct—it'd seriously slow down USB 3.0's adoption.

Without Intel supporting the standard, motherboard manufacturers and gadget makers alike would probably hold off on using USB 3.0, since it would require a relatively expensive third-party controller (as it does now). An Intel rep said he hadn't heard of such a delay, but with Intel focused on its next-gen Nehalem chips (and given the company's neglect of wireless USB), it's not impossible. We'll keep you updated if we get confirmation either way. [EE Times via Tech Report]

MSI's eReader Will Have Nvidia Tegra Graphics in 2010 [EReaders]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/kAeMDONHPps/msis-ereader-will-have-nvidia-tegra-graphics-in-2010

That rumor about an MSI eReader looks good-to-go: their chairman acknowledges a reader with Tegra graphics is coming, but they're ironing out some problems at the moment. Meanwhile, Asus also has some some cool-sounding readers in the works. [DigiTimes]

Sony Ericsson Equinox 3G Clamshell Phone: Exclusive to T-Mobile on October 28 [Cellphones]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/o5d20yPojK8/sony-ericsson-equinox-3g-clamshell-phone-exclusive-to-t+mobile-on-october-28

The Equinox (aka T707) may be a mid-range quad-band dumbphone...but it's pretty. It's got trippy light effects for incoming calls, GPS, 3.2-megapixel camera, FM radio, and Bluetooth. A motion sensor also controls certain functions. $50 (with 2-year contract). [T-Mobile]

Size: 93 x 50 x 14.1 mm (approx.)
Weight: 95 grams (approx.)
Available colors: Carbon
(Custom light features come in Amber, Sapphire, Beryl, Diamond, and Amethyst.)
Main screen: 2.2"(5) QVGA 262K TFT
Resolution: 240 x 320 pixels
Networks: GSM/ EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 + HSDPA 2100/1700