Each protective costume was carefully painted to match the environment.
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Friday, 30 September 2011
Camouflage Art
Series of creative photographs by talented French artist Laurent La Gamba features people dressed in camouflage suits.
Each protective costume was carefully painted to match the environment.
For more incredible camouflage art, check out: The Invisible Man
Each protective costume was carefully painted to match the environment.
For more incredible camouflage art, check out: The Invisible Man
Nexus Prime, Droid HD, Vigor show in Verizon Cellebrite unit (Electronista)
Electronista:
Nexus Prime, Droid HD, Vigor show in Verizon Cellebrite unit — Nexus Prime and more tracked in Verizon system — Three flagship Android phones Verizon have surfaced in the Cellebrite catalog system that both confirms their Verizon attachments as well as that they will ship soon.
Nokia Completes Accord to Contract Out Symbian to Accenture
Nokia Oyj, the world’s largest mobile phone maker by units, completed a deal to contract out its Symbian software development to Accenture Plc as the manufacturer shifts to Microsoft Corp. as a platform supplier.
$199 Amazon tablet costs $209.63 to make
Amazon.com Inc's new tablet computer costs $209.63 to make, IHS iSuppli estimated on Friday, highlighting how the e-commerce giant is taking a financial hit upfront to get the device into as many hands as possible.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44734351/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/
Xtrafolio is a useful, yet a bit pricey, portfolio app
Continuing from Monday's review of Portfolio for iPad, today we're taking a look at Xtrafolio. Then, on Friday, we'll do a head-to-head comparison of the apps and whether the built-in Photos app is the best choice after all. We'll also summarize a few more options our readers gave us after Monday's review.
Interface
Xtrafolio starts out with a flowchart indicating how a portfolio is made and provides the very important shortcut of making sure to tap the bottom left and right corners at the same time to bring up settings. In the settings view, all the options are anchored in a menu on the left.
After the first time setting up the app, a logo page will be visible when it's launched. If you don't have a logo, you get a blank screen. To access your portfolio, single-tap the initial screen. The options are layered in different sections and go into a good bit of detail about what you can do with the app. Since the options are all in one location, it makes it easier to jump back and forth between different sections of the portfolio.
Use
You can add media to Xtrafolio from the iPad, iTunes or via Dropbox. Xtrafolio will accept images, videos and PDFs. Instead of galleries with different portfolios, you can subdivide a single portfolio is subdivided into categories, then folders within that category. It's useful for when you specialize in different things. In my case, I set up Xtrafolio for my newspaper design work and comics writing. Within the categories, you can drag around files to customize the order. However, there is no tagging and no ability to edit the file name.
While there are a lot of customizations, it's fairy basic when it comes to presenting the portfolios. You can set up a sideshow with basic transition styles and enable high-resolution images. For some reason, song selection only works in portrait mode. Captions are available, but they're hard to read. One really nice feature is that you can enable a watermark so no one tries to rip off your work if you email it out. You can also set stuff back to default with a single tap if you're unhappy with your selections.
Xtrafolio has a single layer of passcode security, and this is to prevent people from accessing settings. You also can't enter settings while browsing a portfolio. You can add a basic resume and set it as your info page, which is a good way of showing a client right off the bat what you can do. There's a save stage option where Xtrafolio can return to the same position where you were if you close out of the app.
Xtrafolio is $16.99 in the App Store, which is a bit pricey for this category. With its feature set, I'd price it more around $14.99. Like Portfolio for iPad, it's well-recommended for the amount of options it has, even though it doesn't have quite as many importing options or tagging features.
Xtrafolio is a useful, yet a bit pricey, portfolio app originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Kennedy Space Center prepares for facelift
Space exploration is changing, and the Kennedy Space Center is about to change along with it ? big time.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44708877/ns/technology_and_science-space/
Asymco graphs Apple's performance under Steve Jobs
Asymco always has great graphical analysis of Apple's performance, and the site's latest is no exception. Dirk Schmidt has analyzed Apple's market cap during the Steve Jobs era, and the graphs show just how dramatic Apple's turnaround was during Jobs's time as CEO.
At the beginning of Jobs's tenure, Apple's market cap was lower than every one of its competitors. But after an average 42 percent increase in market cap from 1997 to 2011, Apple became the most valuable publicly-traded company in the world.
Asymco's second graph, which shows Apple's of combined market cap among its competitors, shows how dramatic an effect Apple has had on the tech sector. Almost everyone is getting squeezed by Apple's ascendancy, but it seems Microsoft has been hit hardest of all; the company that Windows built has gone from over 50 percent of the market cap share down to measurably less than Apple's share.
If you're a graph junkie, definitely head over to Asymco and check out their analysis for yourself.
Asymco graphs Apple's performance under Steve Jobs originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/09/28/asymco-graphs-apples-performance-under-steve-jobs/
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Red 5 Singapore Pte. Ltd. Will Substitute Webzen, Inc. for Publishing Firefall
SHANGHAI, Sept. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- The9 Limited (NASDAQ: NCTY) ("The9"), an online game developer and operator in China, announced today that The9, Red 5 Singapore Pte. Ltd. ("Red 5 Singapore"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of The9, and other subsidiaries of The9 have...
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Thursday, 29 September 2011
Speed through Lapland's northern lights
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The glories of the northern lights flash by in a two-minute time-lapse video from Finnish Lapland.
Source: http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/28/8023253-speed-through-laplands-lights
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Angry Birds Speaker Docks Coming Soon for iPhone, iPad [PICS]
Now you can complement your collection of Angry Birds games, cases, cookbooks, plush toys and baby clothes with these speaker docks, decked ou…
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Twitter video-sharing service nabs $6.5 million
Plans for Twitvid's new funding, led by Azure Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, include expanding the company's team, growing usage opportunities, and scaling infrastructure.
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Mobile app usage: active all day, spikes in prime time
Just like TV, mobile usage is highest during prime time, peaking at 9 p.m., according to Flurry. But just as important is the fact that mobile app use is relatively higher throughout the day than both Internet and TV, only eclipsed by TV in prime time.
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Android tablet growth outpaces market down under
But Apple's iPad is still very dominant
The iPad commands three-quarters of the Australia and New Zealand tablet market, so Apple doesn't have to worry about Android growth rates just yet.?
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Camera Inspired iPhone Cases
Beautiful wooden cases designed for iPhone owners who love photography.
Made out of sustainable bamboo and walnut, Camera iPhone Cases use natural strength of wood to protect the phone. Intricate laser engraved designs help create the look and feel of a classic camera.
For more cool designs, check out: 12 Unique Cases for your iPhone
Made out of sustainable bamboo and walnut, Camera iPhone Cases use natural strength of wood to protect the phone. Intricate laser engraved designs help create the look and feel of a classic camera.
For more cool designs, check out: 12 Unique Cases for your iPhone
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Earlybird Invests $2 Million In Social Media Analytics Firm Socialbakers
Social media analytics company Socialbakers, previously known as Facebakers, has raised $2 million in funding in a round led by Earlybird Venture Capital. The funding will enable Socialbakers, which was founded in 2009 and says it is already profitable, to extend its offerings for social media monitoring. Read on at TechCrunch Europe.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/1akFGUqJ57k/
Ten things we don't know about the Kindle Fire
For every interesting thing we learned about the Kindle Fire today, there were one or more important questions not answered.
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
How Copyright Extension Is Harming Classical Music
With all the talk of the EU's decision to retroactively extend copyright from 50 to 70 years, despite no evidence that this is needed or useful, very little attention was paid to the massive harm this causes. Multiple studies showed that such an extension wouldn't provide much, if any, money to musicians, but most of the money would actually be diverted from artists to major record labels. And it gets even worse. Copycense points us to some reports about how copyright extension is guaranteeing that plenty of classical music won't be heard:
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Last week, the EU ratified a new law extending copyright in music recordings to 70 years. That, argued Bob Stanley, was a bad thing for most musicians, and for music itself: much would now remain locked in the vaults of the big record companies. Stanley had been looking at the world of rock and pop, but PristineAudio, who runs a label specialising in out-of-copyright recordings, explained the ruling had far-reaching implications for classical music as well. "One major release of ours earlier this year illustrates well something this new act most certainly will kill off. A historic concert given in 1960 by British conductor Leopold Stokowski with the Philadelphia Orchestra … fell into the public domain in Europe [in 2011], and we were able to transcribe the conductor's own copies of the master tapes, prepared for him by the radio station, and release in the highest quality a concert that has long been of great interest to collectors.That's not the "irony" of copyright. It's the design of copyright, which has always been about granting monopolies to a few players, while limiting the market. It's a protectionist plan designed to protect a few industry leaders, rather than do what it says on the face of the box: promoting progress by increasing cultural output.
"The irony of copyright law as it stands is that historic orchestral broadcasts are often almost impossible to reissue by anyone, until they pass into the public domain. The standard contract with an orchestra would allow for an initial broadcast and then a single repeat transmission. Thereafter, a new contract would need to be drawn up with the musicians for any further use of that recording. Trying today to track down the performers (or their estates) for a symphony orchestra that existed in 1960 is well-nigh impossible."
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Blog - 'Darker Than Black' Metamaterial Promises Better Solar Cells
Scientists devise a trick to make a material absorb 99 percent of the light that strikes it.
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Is a 10-inch Kindle Fire coming? Amazon says 'stay tuned'
Is a 10-inch Kindle Fire coming? Amazon says 'stay tuned' originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Skype update for iOS adds anti-shake, Bluetooth connectivity and ads for freeloaders
Skype update for iOS adds anti-shake, Bluetooth connectivity and ads for freeloaders originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Amazon fires on Netflix
Amazon's new Fire tablet, which comes bundled with a 1-month free subscription to Amazon Prime is a significant offer that will put some heat on Netflix.
Will Amazon's Tablet Raise Any Patent Issues? (Ina Fried/AllThingsD)
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Will Amazon's Tablet Raise Any Patent Issues? — While most of the attention surrounding Amazon's about-to-be-introduced tablet is around its feature set, it will also be interesting to see if the device raises any patent issues. — Oracle, Microsoft and Apple have all sued over Android, albeit in different ways.
Source: http://www.techmeme.com/110928/p26#a110928p26
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Ellison rides SPARC T4 SuperCluster into data centers
Four star general purpose, sir!
Just putting out four new entry and midrange servers based on its new eight-core SPARC T4 processor is not sufficient to get SPARC/Solaris customers fired up about buying gear from and paying system maintenance to Oracle. Every CIO wants to know ? in fact needs to know ? that there is headroom in their systems in case their workloads grow.?
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Firefox 7 released, scores well in performance tests
Firefox 7 is out, and the release has prompted the folks at Lifehacker to run some performance tests on the current crop of browsers. The latest version of Firefox is pitted against Chrome 14, Internet Explorer 9, and Opera 11.51 in a battery of tests that probes everything from load times to memory usage. Somewhat surprisingly given its history, Firefox 7 has a smaller memory footprint than its competitors when multiple tabs are open.
That said, Firefox isn't the fastest kid on the block. Opera launches faster than any of the other browsers, and it's quicker to load a collection of nine tabs and crunch ...
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Tuesday, 27 September 2011
No, You Aren?t Going to Quit Facebook
Dear Facebook Users, With the all of the new changes to Facebook, especially the new Facebook Timeline, some of you have indicated that you̵…
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First major Windows Phone update starts rolling out to (almost) everyone
The first major update to Windows Phone, version 7.5, codenamed "Mango," is finally nearing its consumer release, two months after being released to manufacturers and networks for testing. Microsoft is now delivering the update to every handset on every carrier in the US and the rest of the world, with a handful of exception. Handsets should start receiving update notifications at any time over the next few weeks.
The biggest exception is for Telefonica customers in Spain. Telefonica is still "testing" the update, with no indication of when this testing will be complete or what the cause of the delay is.
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DirecTV Admits Almost No One Wants To Pay $30 To Watch A Movie At Home
Back in April, when DirecTV officially announced its plan to let people see movies for $30 at home, we were not alone in suggesting the price was ridiculously high, and were somewhat shocked to see theaters complaining that they'd never be able to compete. Looks like our thoughts on the price turned out to be exactly right. As a few people have sent in, DirecTV has admitted that there's been very little uptake of the $30 movies, and flat out admits that the price is too high:
The end result, then, is just a big question of why anyone bothered at all with this plan. It made no sense for anyone involved. If you're going to offer video on demand to consumers, offer them a reasonable product at a reasonable price or don't bother.
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The service is part of an attempt by studios to harness pay-TV as they seek new ways to sell movies and counter shrinking DVD sales. Few customers will purchase the premium rentals unless the quality of the movies improves and the price comes down, White said in an interview.Of course, the studios forced that price because they're petrified of pissing off the theater owners (who were already pissed off), because the big studios still think that the "movie business" is defined solely and completely by how well a film does in the theaters on its opening weekend. The theater owners, at the same time, don't want to have to compete and actually improve the quality of their service -- so they whine and complain any time the studios do anything to make accessing content outside of the theaters any easier.
“They’re priced too high for consumers,” White said. “We didn’t choose that price, but that’s where the studios forced us to be.”
The end result, then, is just a big question of why anyone bothered at all with this plan. It made no sense for anyone involved. If you're going to offer video on demand to consumers, offer them a reasonable product at a reasonable price or don't bother.
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Banshee music player now works in Windows, supports Amazon MP3 downloads
The most notable new feature is support for the Amazon MP3 store -- you can buy and download music from within Banshee -- but unfortunately it's only available in the Linux build at the moment (OS X and Windows support are planned, however). There have also been some significant improvements to artist, album, and queue interactions -- and yes, you can finally right click a track, album or artist and select 'play after' to insert it into the queue.
Beyond actual playback, the user interface has been tidied up -- it now looks a whole lot smarter -- and the Ubuntu One Music Store and SoundMenu extensions have been made official. For a complete list of changes, additions and bug fixes, check the change log.
When Windows support initially appeared in February, we found it rough around the edges and fraught with stability issues. With version 2, Banshee for Windows is still a bit unstable, but it's shaping up to be a good alternative to Winamp, iTunes, or whatever other music library manager you use. It's almost as attractive as its GNOMEish brother, too!
Download Banshee 2 for Linux and Windows (Mac OS X coming soon)
Banshee music player now works in Windows, supports Amazon MP3 downloads originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Black holes may shed light on dark matter
Scientists may be able to spot evidence of elusive dark matter by watching for ripples on the surfaces of stars, a new study suggests.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44687634/ns/technology_and_science-space/
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