“A surprising New Year starts this Friday. The special one-day Apple Store shopping event. January 14 only.
Get back to the Apple Online Store this Friday for a special one-day-only New Year shopping event. You’ll find dozens of iPad, iPod and Mac gifts for everyone on your list.
Mark your calendar now. And until then, get started by browsing the Apple Online Store for great ideas.”
Odd ball this is, it sure is rare to see Apple getting into the mood of Dong Dong Qiang. Well boys and girls, prepare your credit cards!
Sudoku originated to occupy a large amount of your time when you have nothing better to do, but if you cheat and solve them within seconds, that’s just not how the game is meant to be. Nowadays, who needs pencils, erasers, or even calculators to solve the number puzzle? Just turn on Google Goggles, take a picture of the puzzle, click solve and Google will do the magic for you in approximately couple of seconds. Still, it’s indeed quite a breakthrough as we see Google Goggles going head on with the national Sudoku champion in 2009, Ms Tammy McLeod.
iPhone fans have their FaceTime, and those Android users have their Skype, but Microsoft wanted something more unique like Apple had. So here we have a leaked picture suggesting that Microsoft is working on apps that use the forward facing camera to not waste those gorgeous screens on Windows Phone 7 handsets. Also according to Neowin, they have heard from a reliable source that video calling and a forward facing camera will probably be a requirement in the next iteration of the mobile OS. No surprises there if this app will be linked to Windows Live Messenger in one way or another.
The president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, told Japan’s Wall Street Journal that the company plans to ship 4 million units of the 3DS console worldwide by the end of March, including the 1.5 million units sold in Japan. Big dream?
Currently, the only Nintendo published 3D title on launch will be the famous Nintendogs & Cats and by 26 February, the company will be launching a series of game titles including the Ridge Racer 3D, Street Fighter IV and Winning Eleven 3D Soccer. Iwata also mention that although they issued a warning earlier stating that the console is not good for children under 6 years old, the console is not actually dangerous. It’s just that kids tend to think of the 3DS as candies.
Here’s something for you to imagine what future bikes will look like. A three-wheeled personal transportation system which functions as a self-balancing dicycle in lower speed mode, and can be transformed into a full fledge motorcycle at high speed. Not quite what your Gundam or Transformer can do, but something more of like the old school Mospeada, but less of the guns. With a top speed of 48 to 56 km/h, the all-electric bike is expected to be mass-produced in one year time. The designer claimed that he got the inspiration “witnessing the horrible pollution in China made by motor vehicles.” Not sure how this can actually save the environment, but well, just check out the video below.
When iPhone 4 is launched, there’s no mobile hotspot function (tethering), and this has been something that US consumers have been crying out for since the original iPhone debuted on AT&T roughly 4 years back. Now that Verizon has launched their iPhone 4, there’s more reason for those of you in US with an existing iPhone 4 to cry out loud. CDMA isn’t the only thing the Verizon iPhone 4 has that the rest of you don’t. They now also have mobile hotspot function.
Verizon revealed at launch that the CDMA version of the iPhone 4 will feature WiFi Hotspot like internet tethering for up to 5 devices, something Android OS has had for quite a while. It looks like it’s built into the CDMA iOS 4.2.5 and not a standalone app so no telling when it will come to the rest of the world. Probably won’t.
Last we heard from Firefox 4’s beta was a few months ago, but Mozilla developers have posted the first builds of Firefox 4 Beta 10, which is planned to be the final beta before the release of Firefox 4 RC. What does that mean? Well, the gold for the fourth is nearing the horizon!
The pre-Beta 10 builds arrive as Mozilla is getting ready to put Beta 9 into a freeze and release the software possibly later this week. Even with the revised release schedule in place, Mozilla has fallen behind again: Beta 9 was originally planned for a December 16 release. However, the most recent Beta was not published until December 22.
According to Mozilla’s buglog, Beta 9 has still three blocking bugs that need to be fixed, while there are 227 blocking bugs for Beta 10. In fact, the number of bugs may be overwhelming for the final beta and Mozilla may decide to add Beta 11 to the schedule. In the most recent meeting, the developer team mentioned that there will be “at least” one more beta after Beta 9 and a new release schedule was under development.
Google created a new WebM video standard that’s royalty free and high quality in May 2010, but now they’re ready to fully push this new standard. Though, they’re doing it in a very harsh way, and that is by dropping off support for rival H.264 codec in its HTML 5 video tag in chrome. That’s right. Chrome will not be able to playback H.264 videos anymore. From now on, Chrome users will have to download a H.264 plug-in to play most web video that’s not bundled up in Flash. Talk about open standard. Well, don’t worry; we still have Firefox at least.
Last we heard from Firefox 4’s beta was a few months ago, but Mozilla developers have posted the first builds of Firefox 4 Beta 10, which is planned to be the final beta before the release of Firefox 4 RC. What does that mean? Well, the gold for the fourth is nearing the horizon!
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