• A Twitter Augmented Reality App for iPhone - There's a fascinating new Twitter app in development called TwittARound, an augmented reality Twitter viewer for the iPhone 3GS. With the app, you can see live tweets around your location and you can even see how far away they are. To accomplish this, TwittARound uses a combination of the iPhone's compass and its accelerator-enabled GPS to determine the location of tweets and then layers those on top of a live video feed. Cooool!
• Interplanetary internet gets permanent home in space - While the Earth-bound internet uses a protocol called TCP/IP to allow distant machines to communicate over cables, the ISS payload uses delay-tolerant networking (DTN), which is being developed to cope with the patchy coverage in space that arises when spacecraft pass behind planets or suffer power outages.
• Scientists Develop Echolocation In Humans To Aid The Blind - A team of researchers from the University of Alcalá de Henares (UAH) has shown scientifically that human beings can develop echolocation, the system of acoustic signals used by dolphins and bats to explore their surroundings. Producing certain kinds of tongue clicks helps people to identify objects around them without needing to see them, something which would be especially useful for the blind.

Bookmarks for July 7th 2009 through July 8th 2009

• HTML 5 Cheat Sheet (PDF) -
• Historic Bible pages put online - About 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible have been recovered and put on the internet. Better brush up on your Greek.
• How to tell an Xbox 360 is a Jasper - Since the Jasper model looks identical to the older 360 you have to know what to look for to tell you have/are buying one. There are a few ways to identify it, but the most dependable is to look at the power requirements, which are printed on the serial number sticker on the back. While the older models required 14.2 amps, the Jasper only draws 12.1 amps. Via @bjdraw on Twitter.

Bookmarks for July 6th 2009

• Leaping from Windows XP to 7? Some important stuff to consider - There are a number of important issues to consider before making the jump to Windows 7 on an existing Windows XP machine. via @edbott on Twitter.
• Benchmarking Firefox 3.5 - Firefox 3.5 is fast, all right, but not fast enough to beat Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari.
• BackTweets - track your urls on twitter - This is a brilliant way to see who is linking to your site from Twitter. This is now part of my Information Monitor because it outputs in RSS. Via @steverubel on Twitter.

Bookmarks for June 30th 2009 through July 2nd 2009

• Tweetnews.me - Search application that links tweets to the freshest Yahoo! News articles. The more related tweets an article has, the higher its rank.
• Pedometer Blackberry Storm App - Use your Balckberry Storm to keep track of your steps.
• Xiant Filer - Xiant Filer was created by technology innovator/Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen and engineers at Xiant, whose challenge was to ease management of overflowing Microsoft Office Outlook inboxes.

Bookmarks for June 26th 2009 through June 30th 2009

Starting July 1st, the Beta will start to reboot every 2 hrs and expire Aug 1st.

You have been warned.

via The Windows Blog.

Upgrade Windows 7 Beta to RC Now

• DIM: Digital Image Mover - DIM only does one thing, but it does it well: it copies files from your camera’s memory card to a destination directory determined by your storage scheme. If any directories need to be created in the process, it will create them. In addition, the file can be renamed while it is copied to a more “useful” name than your camera might have provided.
• Major features of each Windows 7 version (SKU) revealed - via @joshpollard on Twitter
• Let's make the web faster - Google Code - Plugin for firebug on Firefox. via @nrek on twitter

Bookmarks for June 24th 2009 through June 25th 2009

The estimated retail prices for upgrade packaged retail product of Windows 7 in the U.S. are:

• Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade): $119.99
• Windows 7 Professional (Upgrade): $199.99
• Windows 7 Ultimate (Upgrade): $219.99

And the estimated retail prices for full packaged retail product of Windows 7 in the U.S. are:

• Windows 7 Home Premium (Full): $199.99
• Windows 7 Professional (Full): $299.99
• Windows 7 Ultimate (Full): $319.99

Good news though is that you will be able to pre-order Windows 7 at a more than 50% discount. In the US, this will mean you can pre-order Windows 7 Home Premium for USD $49.99 or Windows 7 Professional for USD $99.99.

This program begins tomorrow (26 June) in the U.S., Canada and Japan. The offer ends July 11th in the U.S. and Canada and on July 5th for Japan or while supplies last.

Special pricing will be available through Amazon.

Via The Windows Blog

Microsoft Sets Pricing for Windows 7

In Windows 7, Windows Media Center is a more useful tool than ever before for working with audio and visual media. While at first glance, Windows 7’s version of WMC doesn’t look a whole lot different than its predecessor, it includes many improvements. In this article, we’ll focus on improvements in WMC’s TV setup process, support for digital broadcast TV, the program guide, Internet TV, WMC access from the desktop, RAW file support for photos, picture and music playback and sports.

Head over to MaximumPC for the whole article. It is worth the read.

via Windows 7 Feature Focus: Windows Media Center | Maximum PC.

Windows 7 Feature Focus: Windows Media Center

• Microsoft makes a post-RC change for RDP7: no more client-rendered DirectX - Interesting stuff. Wondering how this might change how extenders work with Windows 7 Media Center? via @maryjofoley on Twitter.
• Giant Cowboys Stadium LED wall caught playing Xbox 360 during downtime Update: Video! - This would be a great promotion for fans.
• WARNING: Fake Twitter Invites Carry Malicious Worm - via @PeterSantilli on Twitter

Bookmarks for June 21st 2009 through June 22nd 2009

• Windows 7 Hits a New Low - Working installation on no less than a Pentium II system. Machine consists of a 266 MHz CPU, a whopping 96 MB of memory, and a next-generation 4 MB graphics card.
• Media Browser Beta 2.1.0.0 - Really excited about the new features of Media Browser 2.1. Jas Manghera has all the details in his latest blog post. Hopefully we should be able to get the code in the next day or so. via @molsonfl on twitter
• The definitive guide to creating an audio library across Windows Media Center, Windows Media Player, ITunes and the iPod. -

Bookmarks for June 18th 2009 through June 20th 2009