Friday, January 25, 2008

P-Per Design Concept is Sweet, Shames My iPhone

P-Per Design Concept

We recently informed you of the oh-so-awesome E-Paper Slap Bracelet, but now we also feel obligated to show you the P-Per. Don’t get me wrong, I like my iPhone, plenty, but the P-Per video (below) offers promises of pure awesome. This is a concept mobile device by the people over at Chocolate Design Agency. It employs the same multi-function E-Paper technology used in their bracelet; what’s more, it is also eco-friendly. Its design is efficient - it uses their energy-saving e-paper (which won them the red dot design award), only four layers of sustainable materials, and an Organic Radical battery. So, if you’re green, then you should probably see a doctor, but if you love the environment and mobile devices, then this cell phone looks to be your next communication device of choice.

Thanks, Karole, for the tip.

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Posted by Augustine at 10:28 AM

HDD Stage Rack grows an eSATA port

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/222924627/

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You already loved it in its USB 2.0 incarnation. Now check the HDD Stage Rack with an additional eSATA interface. Who couldn't use an extra 315MB/s transfer rate for their 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch disks? Yours now for $57.15 before those excessive shipping costs are factored in.

[Thanks, Tyson W.]

 

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Posted by Augustine at 10:05 AM

Toshiba and Panasonic double OLED lifespan -- exceeds LCDs

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/222896428/

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While we love the low power consumption and ultra-high contrast achieved by OLEDs, there's one thing we hate: OLED's short lifespan. Toshiba and Panasonic are looking to change the game by announcing a new technology today that doubles the life of OLED displays. We're talking a bump from the stated 30,000-hour lifespan of Sony's XEL-1 TV to somewhere beyond that of your typical 50,000-hour LCD panel. Tosh and Panny's trick is to use a new metal membrane inside a prototype 20.8-inch panel to move light more efficiently. Let's see if this new development brings forth Toshiba's timeline for an OLED TV any. Please Toshiba, with sugar?

[Via techradar]

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Posted by Augustine at 8:26 AM

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Make a Mobile Friendly Version of your Blog with Google Reader

Source: http://www.labnol.org/internet/design/how-to-create-mobile-phone-optimized-blog/2132/

labnol mobile view You blog design may be perfectly optimized for the desktop screen but there are lot of people out there who frequently check your website for new content using their mobile phones.

They are not interested in the sidebars, navigation areas and other design elements - all they want to see is a simple listing of your blog posts in reverse chronological order. If they like to read a post, they can click the title and a mobile friendly version of that page should open on the screen of their cell phone.

You may not be a geek or may have the time to create a mobile edition of your blog so here are two simple hacks to help you out - your blog content won’t just look extremely readable on a mobile phone screen, it will also load very fast.

1. Google Reader - The Ten Second Solution

Google Reader can generate an excellent mobile view of your RSS feed without any effort. Just append your feed address to the following URL and your mobile blog is ready.

http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/[feed_address]

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And here’s a live example - use your mobile phone to see the awesome page rendering

http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://feeds.labnol.org/labnol

Call this link "Mobile Site" and place it somewhere at the top of your blog design so mobile phone users will notice it instantly and switch to the mobile view.

2. The next solution is to create a free account at mofuse.com and they’ll give a personal mobile website with a .mobi address - something like http://labnol.mofuse.mobi/.

If you have self-hosted blog like on WordPress or Blogger Custom domains, you can easily setup the mobile edition of your site on a subdomain (e.g. m.labnol.org) - it is short and your users can easily guess the URL since almost all popular sites now follow the m. convention.

WordPress users are lucky as there’s a plugin that will automatically detect if the client is a mobile phone browser and it then renders a mobile friendly version of the blog to the visitor.

Related: Create Printer Friendly Blog with PDF Support

Make a Mobile Friendly Version of your Blog with Google Reader - Digital Inspiration

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Posted by Augustine at 4:58 PM

Create MP3 Files From Text in Emails and Web Pages

Source: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/convert-email-text-to-mp3-files/2140/

create mp3 text filesVozme is web based tool that turns any snippet of text into an MP3 audio file that you can either listen online or download to your local hard drive.

You just have to copy the text from a web page or an email and paste it inside the Vozme text box.

While there are tons of solutions that convert text to spoken words, what I liked about Vozme is the clutter free interface and the fact that it runs inside the browser without requiring any downloads.

Bloggers can easily integrate the Vozme feature in the site so visitors can either listen to your full blog posts or they can select a portion of text and have Vozme narrate it like a speech.

Vozme.com - Accepts Spanish, English and Italian languages. Thanks Jane.

Related: Listen to Email, Word Documents on iPod

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Posted by Augustine at 4:57 PM

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