Archive for July, 2007...
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when if your apartment, dorm room or palatial mansion smelled like Cheetos, Diet Coke and unwashed laundry, there was simply nothing USB-related you could do about it. Sure, there were wall outlet fragrance “plug ins,” scented candles, canned air fresheners, and of course windows which could be opened — but not one of those was USB-powered. Of course, those days are long gone, because a random Chinese sweatshop has dreamed up another modern-day marvel: the USB oil burner. If you’re like us (and we think you are), there’s nothing you want to do more than pour scented oil into something that plugs into your computer. Available in rose and peppermint, $7 each.
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
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The Charlottesville, Va., school division is harnessing the efficiency of technology to make scripting lesson plans easier for its teachers. A cadre of city teachers is being trained for the fall to use “wiki” Web sites — sites that can be directly edited by anyone who has access to them. The success of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that is maintained by volunteers and revised by almost anyone with Internet access, has sparked an interest in fostering open source online communities that focus on the free sharing of ideas.
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Frosty Piss writes “MIT researchers have created a schizophrenic mouse that pinpoints a gene variation predisposing people to schizophrenia. Research with the mouse may lead to the first genetically targeted drugs for the disease, which affects 1 percent of the population worldwide. This is the first study that uses animals who demonstrate an array of symptoms observed in schizophrenic patients to identify specific genes that predispose people to the disease.”
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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
One awfully clever Brazilian programmer couldn’t stand not being able to experience the sometimes-maddening act of typing on the iPhone’s notorious keyboard — so he wrote an iPhone keyboard app for his Nokia N800. In what appears to have been a fairly short amount of time, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri put together an Apple-copyin’, typepad act-alike using Python, Edje, and a little elbow grease. Without ever actually using an iPhone, Gustavo seems to have clearly captured the essence of the keyboard, which is either really good or really bad for him… only he knows for sure. Check the video after the break to see the app in action.
[Via jkOnTheRun]
Continue reading Tenacious hacker brings the iPhone keyboard to a Nokia N800
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
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Web analytics usage has reached mainstream status, with 82 percent adoption among companies surveyed recently by Aberdeen. However, a vast range of maturity exists regarding analytics process, data analysis and corporate understanding of Web metrics. A fundamental impediment precluding many companies from building a successful analytics program is a lack of skilled employees required to manage, distribute and analyze Web analytics. There is a good reason for this widespread lack of qualified employees: Web analytics is hard.
