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Mobile Miscellany: week of April 15th, 2013

Dave — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:11:27 +0000

If you didn’t get enough mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we’ve opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This week brought a possible arrival date of the Lumia 521 to T-Mobile, our best look yet at the Lumia 928 for Verizon and news of a new Android compatibility option for Tizen. [...]

Inhon Carbon Tablet uses optional Surface-style keyboard

Dave — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:11:27 +0000

img align=’left’ src=’http://cdn.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1366503181_inhoncarbontabletthumb.jpg’ border=’0′ width=’176′ height=’120′ /Taiwanese manufacturer Inhon has revealed a tablet that shares aspects of its design with the Microsoft Surface. The Carbon Tablet, following on from the 10.7mm-thick Blade 13 Carbon notebook shown yesterday, is able to vary its processing power depending on if it is held closed like a tablet, or [...]

Need To Trim An MP3 File? Do It Online for Free

Dave — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:11:26 +0000

You’ve downloaded an MP3 file from the web, or recorded a track onto your PC. Or maybe you’ve extracted the audio from a YouTube video. You have the MP3 file, but there’s some stuff at the start or the end, or both, that you want to remove.br / br / Do you need to download [...]

The technology of Stanford’s Laptop Orchestra (video)

Dave — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:04:21 +0000

SLOrk’s not the most elegant name, so far as acronyms go, but Stanford’s weird and wonderful Laptop Orchestra wears it pretty well. The group dates back to 2008, an outgrowth of the school’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, culled together from a mishmash of parts, including car speakers, pillows and salad bowls, [...]

Nokia Lumia ‘Catwalk’ with aluminum case surfaces in the wild

Dave — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:04:20 +0000

img align=’left’ src=’http://cdn2.macnn.com/news/1304/nokia-catwalk-sm.jpg’ border=’0′ width=’176′ height=’120′ /The first purported images of the long-rumored aluminum Nokia Lumia smartphone codenamed ëCatwalk’ have appeared in the wild. The photos surfaced on the Chinese social networking site Sina Weibo. The device takes design cues from the current Lumia range, but wraps the device in an aluminum shell instead of [...]

Store, Send and Convert Documents With This Great Free Service

Dave — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:04:20 +0000

CometDocs is a very neat web-based system that allows you to store document files online. You can then convert those files to different formats, or make them available to others for sharing. If you need a web-based document conversion utility (Word to PDF, say), then it’s a handy system to use. And if you want [...]

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: algae-powered building, ionic wind thrusters and 3D-textured solar cells

Dave — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:05:21 +0000

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. This week, Inhabitat reported that the world’s first algae-powered building officially opened its doors in Hamburg. It’s called the BIQ House and it features an impressive bio-adaptive algae facade that [...]

Briefly: Lovefilm Warner Bros TV deal, sub-$2,000 4K HDTV

Dave — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:05:21 +0000

img align=’left’ src=’http://cdn3.macnn.com/news/1203/lovefilmin.jpg’ border=’0′ width=’176′ height=’120′ /Lovefilm has signed an agreement with Warner Bros International TV Distribution, adding more content to its on-demand roster. The Amazon-owned British subscription streaming service will now offer a number of extra TV series, including seasons one to seven of The West Wing, all nine seasons of One Tree Hill, [...]

NEW: Best Free Windows 8 Start Menu Replacement

Dave — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:05:21 +0000

One of the most controversial things about Windows 8 is the missing Start button and Start menu. After relying on the Start menu through one version of Windows after another, PC users have found themselves floundering around in Windows 8 trying to find where everything is. It doesn’t help that Windows 8 boots up to [...]

Honeywell Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat learns habits, matches your neon decor (video)

Dave — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:09:32 +0000

Honeywell has had WiFi-capable thermostats on the market for some time, but few of them would be a great match for home interiors that have escaped 1980s beige chic. The company’s new Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat is going a long way toward bringing that design fully into the present century. Owners can color match the touchscreen [...]