Saturday, December 29, 2012

Invitation on addressbook

Oliver Yatco, another addressbook.net user would like to add your card to his addressbook.

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Please follow this link to signup to addressbook.net and accept this request.

Friday, December 28, 2012

This Fully Loaded Laptop Is Your Poor-Man's-Windows-rMBP Deal of the Day


This Fully Loaded Laptop Is Your Poor-Man's-Windows-rMBP Deal of the Day

Start 2013 with a new laptop. This 15-inch Vizio is way over-specced for the price: you get a 1080p screen, a 256GB SSD, and a top of the line dual-core Intel mobile processor. Plus, it comes with Windows 8—this is a new machine, after all. We liked its unibody design when we reviewed it, and by most accounts it's a really nice laptop. The one concern Kyle had when he reviewed it is that he found the touchpad unsatisfactory, but the Microsoft listing says that the touchpad is optimized for Modern UI touch gestures. Most places are selling this laptop for $1050 and up (including Amazon!) but the Microsoft Store has it for $800. A screaming deal on the laptop you actually wanted for Christmas. [Microsoft Store] More »



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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

TimeWorks 1.2.6 - View iCal events in a window or as screensaver (was iCalViewer).. (Demo)


TimeWorks 1.2.6 - View iCal events in a window or as screensaver (was iCalViewer).. (Demo)



TimeWorks displays the events from Apple's calendar application, iCal, in a window. Each event is displayed in a similar way to iCal and marches towards a finish line which is the time now.
  • You set how far you want to see into the future.
  • Events are displayed in a window on the desktop, over the screen saver.
  • An Exposé hotkey brings the display quickly into view when you need it.


Version 1.2.6:
  • Minor fixes


Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later

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Original Page: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/macupdate/~3/C6iGPd4lZXo/timeworks






RIM's QWERTY BlackBerry 10 device shows up in pictures


RIM's QWERTY BlackBerry 10 device shows up in pictures

Images of the forthcoming BlackBerry 10 N-Series handset with a physical keyboard have leaked once again, giving the best view to date of what the handset will look like when it launches some time next year. The device pictured in the new images looks largely unchanged from what was seen earlier this year in leaked press images, with a large, squarish touchscreen above the QWERTY keyboard that is the signature of the BlackBerry line. The N-Series is expected to launch after the all-touchscreen L-Series, which will debut in media events around the world on January 30....



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Monday, December 10, 2012

Facebook data suggests Microsoft has sold 4.2 million Windows Phone handsets since October


Facebook data suggests Microsoft has sold 4.2 million Windows Phone handsets since October

Screen Shot 2012 12 09 at 10.01.02 AM 520x245 Facebook data suggests Microsoft has sold 4.2 million Windows Phone handsets since October

It was big news when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the world that Windows Phone devices were selling at four times their rate from 2011. That, along with several other positive factors, led TNW to declare that the time of Windows Phone's youth has come to a close.

Today, fresh external data appears to confirm the statement.

In early 2011, TNW found that a ratio existed between the number of monthly active users (MAU) of the Windows Phone Facebook application and the total number of handsets sold. Naturally, this MAU figure can but help us describe the number of recently sold handsets, as retired phones would not appear in the figures.

Now, where do we stand? According to WMPowerUser, Windows Phone's MAU figure is surging when compared to last year:

Using the number of Monthly Active Facebook users as a guide, we can see around 627,000 MAU of the built-in Facebook app has been added since the 1st October 2012, the start of the quarter. Last year over the same period less than 150,000 was added by the 15th December.

As you can deduce, 627,000 is roughly four times 150,000 mirroring the rate that Steve Ballmer let fly to the public.

In our initial reporting, a ratio of 6.756 handsets sold per active user of the Windows Phone Facebook application. That ratio could now be quite dated, as Facebook usage patterns change, and the Windows Phone userbase changes demographically. However, as that ratio allowed us to predict nearly perfectly the 2 million handset sold mark for the platform, it does carry some weight.

And so, that mathemagical calculation would yield as the guess that 4,236,012 have been sold since the start of the quarter. We leave the figure to your gut for a check.

However, for context, our friends over at WMPowerUser who brought the latest MAU data to our attention have a much larger figure in mind:

Last year according to Gartner, who claims to measure units actually sold to end users rather than shipments, said 2.759 million Windows Phones were sold in Q4 2011.  The data suggests already 7 million Windows Phones were sold so far this quarter, and we may finally be heading to a + 10 million Windows Phone quarter.

The moral of the story this fine Sunday is that one of the most accurate external pieces of extrapolatable data confirms what Microsoft has told the market.

Top Image Credit: Vernon Chan


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Instagram photos vanish from Twitter as policy finalized


Instagram photos vanish from Twitter as policy finalized

Photo sharers who operate across both Twitter and Instagram likely woke this morning to find that the hand-in-glove interoperation of the two sites has come to an end, as Instagram finally cut off support for Twitter's Twitter card feature. The Twitter feature that displays an image of shared photos within the Twitter stream will now show a blank white space when a photo is shared from Instagram. The photo sharing site's decision to kill part of its compatibility with Twitter epitomizes the growing competition between the two sites, a competition that has only intensified since Facebook bought...



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Monday, December 3, 2012

New Apple Patent Outlines The Wireless Charging Future We're All Dreaming Of


New Apple Patent Outlines The Wireless Charging Future We're All Dreaming Of

Truly wireless charging, it's a tech utopia we all long for. Sure, we're getting there, but it still requires contact, which is only slightly better. If places like Starbucks starts putting pads in their tables, hooray, but it's a far cry from a real charging zone. A recent Apple patent outlines just that, the wireless charging dream we've all been dreaming. More »



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Saturday, December 1, 2012

HTC confirms the Windows Phone 8S will not be coming to the US

HTC confirms the Windows Phone 8S will not be coming to the US

The HTC Windows Phone 8S was announced as a lower-end alternative to its bigger brother, the flagship Windows Phone 8X, but the company has remained relatively quiet about it since. While we're still awaiting official details on pricing and availability across the globe, HTC has filled us in on one crucial nugget of information: it won't be coming to the United States. While we've been suspicious that this might be the case, we had been holding out hope that it might have at least some amount of reach in the US market. Essentially, HTC is focusing all of its stateside efforts on the 8X, its signature device. With that said, we'll still likely see the 8S show up as an unlocked and unsubsidized smartphone on various etailers, so Windows Phone enthusiasts with a penchant for bright colors will want to keep their eyes peeled. Now that we know more about the markets that won't be graced by the presence of the 8S, all we need now is a confirmation on when we can expect it elsewhere. Stay tuned past the break for HTC's official statement.

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