Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Haiku Deck Is The Easiest Way to Create Gorgeous Presentations with an iPad [Video]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5940617/haiku-deck-is-the-easiest-way-to-create-gorgeous-presentations-with-an-ipad

iPad: Haiku Deck makes creating beautiful presentations a cinch and a joy, whether you have design skills or not. You can quickly apply new layouts, photo backdrops, and font styles to get the perfect look for your pitch or story.

The free iPad app comes with a handful of themes to quickly stylize your deck, and additional themes are available for purchase at about $2 a pop.

In addition to the themes, Haiku Deck lets you dress up your slides with background images from millions of Creative Commons licensed photos (easy to search through using keywords) or you can import your own.

To add text, change the layout, reorder slides, or do anything else, it's just a matter of tapping and swiping. The app is designed for simplicity and the navigation is intuitive and fluid.

Most importantly, the presentations Haiku Deck creates are simply stunning. Audiences will be grateful you use this app; rather than slides stuffed with too many ideas, ugly clipart, and other hallmarks of terrible business presentations, the Haiku Deck slides are elegant and emphasize your points.

Presentations can be shared via email, Twitter, or Facebook, and shared decks can be viewed in any browser (at Haikudeck.com). Decks can also be exported to PowerPoint or PDF.

You can download the app now on iTunes and have a beautiful presentation in less than half an hour.

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NVIDIA working on Linux support for Optimus automatic graphics switching

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/05/nvidia-linux-optimus-driver/

NVIDIA working on Linux support for Optimus automatic graphics switching

Linux godfather Linus Torvalds may have a frosty relationship with NVIDIA, but that hasn't stopped the company from improving its hardware's support for the open-source operating system. In fact, the chipset-maker is working on the OS' compatibility with its Optimus graphics switching tech, which would enable laptops to conserve power by swapping between discrete and integrated graphics on the fly. In an email sent to a developer listserv, NVIDIA software engineer Aaron Plattner revealed that he's created a working proof of concept with a driver. There's no word on when the Tux-loving masses may see Optimus support, but we imagine that day can't come soon enough for those who want better battery life while gaming on their mobile machines.

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Contour+2 review: the best consumer helmet camera on the market

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/05/contour-plus-2-review/

DNP Contour2 review the best consumer helmet camera on the market

It's been a little while since the two major players in the helmet cam industry, Contour and GoPro, refreshed their wares. Contour launched its Contour+ and Roam models last summer, while GoPro delivered the HD Hero2 late last year. As our extensive testing can attest, both companies put out great cameras, but with Sony about to get in the game with its $199 Action Cam, the pair need to raise their games -- and that's exactly what Contour is doing with the Contour+2.

This logically named fol! low-up t o the Contour+ is a big step forward on many levels, still delivering 1080p recording while offering many design and software improvements, including the ability to use your smartphone not just as a viewfinder, but to start and stop recording, too. Plus, at $400, it's $100 cheaper than last year's offering -- and that's despite coming with a fully waterproof case. Join us as we put it through its paces.

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Watching 49 Quadrocopters Fly and Swarm Across the Night Sky Is Pretty Freaky [Video]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5940510/watching-49-quadrocopters-fly-and-swarm-across-the-night-sky-is-pretty-freaky

There's something unnerving about watching quadrocopters fly and dart around. It gets even creepier when the quadrocopters team up and become a giant swarm, morphing into different shapes like a living organism. So you can imagine what watching 49 quadrocopters littering the sky feels like. It's like seeing aliens on Earth.

The awesome show was blasted on the sky of Linz, Austria. According to DVICE, The AscTec Hummingbird quadrocopters teamed up for a show called, "The Cloud in the Web" and was programmed by Ars Electronica Futurelab and Ascending Technologies GmbH. I would probably pee my pants if I saw these flying killers in the sky. [AEC.at via DVICE]

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$49 Cubieboard for developers is heavy on specs, light on the wallet

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/05/cubieboard-for-developers/

The $49 Cubieboard for developers is heavy on specs, light on the wallet

You've already got plenty of options if you're in the market for a developer board, but it might be worth taking a look at the new $49 Cubieboard, which packs quite the specs given its price point. The board hosts a 1GHz AllWinner A10 Cortex A8 CPU with Mali-400 GPU, 1GB of RAM and 4 gigs of onboard storage. For ins and outs, you're looking at 1080p HDMI, Ethernet, one MultiMediaCard (MMC) slot, a SATA port, two USB hosts, an IR sensor and 96 extender pins for solder junkies. Cubieboard's Wiki page lists an additional MMC slot and USB OTG, but as this doesn't check out in the pictures, we assume they've either been scrapped, or they'll be added on for later production runs. As you would expect, several versions of Linux and Android are supported by the Raspberry Pi bully, which is expected to start shipping to select developers sometime this week. There's no word on when it may be available for general consumption, but by then you'll hopefully have a better product anyway -- if the pros have done their job, that is.

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