Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Flickr Opens an App Garden Full of Photo Tools [Photos]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/yHXrrKpYxRY/flickr-opens-an-app-garden-full-of-photo-tools

There are a whole lot of mobile, desktop, and helper apps tied to Flickr. The team at the photo sharing service decided to make those apps easier to find and install by opening a free "App Garden" to everyone.

Like you might expect, the App Garden is an uncluttered, keen-looking showcase for the efforts of Flickr-happy developers and companies that have made it easy to download and upload photos to the service from many platforms. Apps are tagged by developers, making it fairly easy to find, say, a desktop Mac uploader or Android-based tool.

To help users stumble across great apps, Flickr has also started tagging photos with the tools they were uploaded with, with a link back to that app in the Garden. Share some of your favorite Flickr app finds in the comments, and read up on Flickr's API if you're interested in developing an app yourself.




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Posted by Augustine at 10:38 AM

Allmyapps Bulk-Installs Your Favorite Apps to Make System Rebuilding Less Painful [Installation]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/HHh8k9ACmfQ/allmyapps-bulk+installs-your-favorite-apps-to-make-system-rebuilding-less-painful

Windows/Linux: One of the most irritating things about reinstalling your operating system is installing all the non-OS applications you love. Allmyapps lets you select all your favorite apps and roll them into a bulk installer to make rebuilding easy.

At Allmyapps you can browse over a hundred of popular applications in a dozen categories to build a master list of applications you want to install. You don't have to install immediately after building your list, you can save your list for later installation. Check out the video below to see how Allmyapps works:

For another great time-saving bulk installation tool, check out previously reviewed Ninite. Have a way to get your favorite apps installed quickly? Let's hear about it in the comments.

Appmyapps is a free web-based service and provides bulk-installation on both Windows and Ubuntu Linux.




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Posted by Augustine at 10:38 AM

Litl Webbook Banks On Cute, Overlooks Practical [NetBooks]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/zhJ8_zbP3xU/litl-webbook-banks-on-cute-overlooks-practical

How did Asus, Acer and all the other netbook manufacturers miss such an obvious ploy? The word "Litl Webbook" must be the most cutely named gadget since the "Chumby." And it's also an interesting product in its own right.

But I did say "interesting," not "buyable."

The Litl Webbook is a 12-inch netbook that can flip from laptop to easel, making it ever so more aesthetically pleasing while watching movies or displaying photos. Extra design touches like a nob and optional remote smooth the transition from laptop to artsy laptop, but the Litl Webbook is not a tablet—it lacks those last few degrees of flexibility, plus there's no touchscreen.

As for the hardware specs, it's a typical 1.6GHz Atom, 1GB RAM and...wait...just 2GB of flash storage? Yes. The Webbook wants to be a cloud computing machine that runs widgets (on top of Linux, we assume) instead of a full OS. So you're supposed to store all of your precious files somewhere else and rely on the service's automatic software updates.

The idea is alright, but not for $700. At that price, you're in full-out capacitive multitouch laptop territory.

And you know what? Double-checking my spelling on "Litl Webbook" has gotten super annoying by this point, too. Drop the price by $300, hook a guy up with some extra vowels, and then we'll talk.
[Litl via Slashgear via Netbook Choice]




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Posted by Augustine at 10:10 AM

Litl Easel Webbook now official, unbelievably overpriced

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/litl-easel-webbook-now-official-unbelievably-overpriced/

How much would you pay for a netbook? $200 on contract? Maybe as much as $599 for a so-called premium model? How about $699 -- a price that doesn't even include the $19 remote control? Well, what if we told you that the Litl Webbook, a 1.6GHz Atom-based machine running a proprietary web-optimized OS that pumps accelerated H.264 content at 720p over HDMI-out, has a unique hinge that allows it to bend backwards and stand upright like an easel? Sorry, no touchscreen... but that display is 12.1-inches and you get Flickr and Facebook content as well as custom "channels" like The Weather Channel displayed in a "fun" and "engaging" way. You can even scroll between content via that baby-blue scrollwheel on the hinge. Not enough? What about the 2GB of storage, 1GB of memory, 802.11b/g WiFi, headphone and USB 2.0 jacks? Still not sold? Us neither.

[Via Netbook News]

Litl Easel Webbook now official, unbelievably overpriced originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted by Augustine at 10:09 AM

RAmos gives its T10 PMP the RK treatment, supports video formats galore

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/ramos-gives-its-t10-pmp-the-rk-treatment-supports-video-formats/

RAmos gives its T10 PMP the RK treatment, supports video formats galore
Good 'ol RAmos, producers of a series of lovely PMPs and MIDs that captivates the eye and, like a chaste romance, will never submit to your touch -- unless you live in Asia or happen to know a guy. The latest is the T10RK, a slight upgrade to the earlier T10, sharing the same simple form and seemingly lovely 4.3-inch, 800 x 480 screen as the earlier model, but now sporting the RK2806 chipset found in the T11RK, allowing for decoding of more video codecs than you'll know what to do with. No mention of price or availability yet, but such questions matter not in love.

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