GoGoStand Holds Your Gadgets for On-the-Go Viewing, Fits in Your Pocket [Stuff We Like]

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GoGoStand Holds Your Gadgets for On-the-Go Viewing, Fits in Your Pocket [Stuff We Like]

[YouTube Video]If you've spent any amount of time trying to watch video on a portable device like the iPhone, you know holding it in your hands gets old fast. That's where the GoGoStand comes in.

Rather than requiring you to carry around a bulky stand wherever you take your portable player, the credit-card-sized GoGoStand fits nicely in your wallet and folds into an on-the-go stand in a jiffy—perfect for watching a video on your next plane ride. According to the creator—who is also incidentally the same guy who showed us how to fold a paper clip iPhone stand—it works with the iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, Android G1, Palm Pre, "and other similarly sized electronics." The GoGoStand will set you back $5, comes in two colors.

GoGoStand [via Gizmodo]

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jQTouch: JQuery for iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, etc

http://jqtouch.com/

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Vuzix Wrap 310: Turn Your iPhone into a Home Theatre

The iPhone’s 3.5″ screen is one of the most gorgeous displays out there on a cellphone, let alone a portable device. It’s always fun to watch YouTube videos and movies on the amazing touchscreen. But what about when you want to take your iPhone entertainment to another level?

Vuzix Wrap 310: Your iPhone = Portable Home Theatre

Coming later this fall, Vuzix is releasing their Wrap 310, a pair of “video eyewear” glasses that are iPhone compatible. Here’s a quick list of highlights:

Video

* Twin high-resolution 428 x 240 LCD widescreen displays

* Ultra-low video distortion

* Equivalent to a 55-inch screen viewed from ten feet (approximately 3 m)

* 24-bit true color (16 million colors)

* Adjustable brightness, contrast and color saturation

* 60Hz progressive scan update rate

* 26 degree diagonal field of view

* 2-3/8″ intraocular distance (IOD)

Audio

* Detachable premium quality noise-isolating earphones

* Includes 3 sizes of noise isolation inserts

Performance

* Supports 4:3 and 16:9 display formats

* Works with 2D video

* Works with all common 3D video formats including side-by-side and multiple anaglyph formats

* Includes “Vuzix Auto-3D”, automatic 3D detection technology

* Six hours use with 2 AA alkaline batteries (included)

* Video Zoom mode

* On-Screen Display for video display adjustment

Versatility

* Connects directly to all video devices with composite video

* Wrap Multi-Connect port for optional adaptors for broad video device compatibility

* Wrap Mini-Port connector for optional expansion devices

* Use with NTSC or PAL video source

* Wearable over most prescription eyeglasses

* Independent +2 to -5 diopter focus adjustment

* Changeable lens

Comfort

* Adjustable, hypo-allergenic nosepiece

* Weighs less than three ounces

* Nine foot visual focus – reading glasses not required

* Ultra-thin cabling

I haven’t tried “video eyewear” before, but it’ll be interesting to see how these perform. I will be getting a sample in a couple months so expect a full review up on the blog. Can’t wait to watch The Dark Knight on my iPhone hooked up to the Wrap 310 while I’m driving or when I’m walking around Stanley Park. It’s gonna be swaa-weeeeeet!

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5 Steps to Write Better Css

http://aceinfowayindia.com/blog/2009/09/5-steps-to-write-better-css/

Free Complete Wordpress Cheat Sheet

Here is my complete wordpress cheat sheet available in pdf file format.

For those who develop WordPress templates or like to modify them, i designed a nice cheat sheet for WordPress.

The cheat sheet is in PDF format so you can download it and print it for later use, post it in a wall and make your life easier.

The Problem With Planning

Hi, this is Kelly, from Agile Software Development Made Easy!

I think I've been pretty successful in my career. But if I was better at planning, I wouldn't have achieved half the things I've achieved in my career! In fact, I wouldn't even have started some of them...


In reality, there are some things you can plan, and some things you can't. The trouble is, in most organisations we've come to expect a plan. And to meet it whatever happens. And that's just not realistic.
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Doing detailed planning pre-supposes you know where you want to go and aren't going to be influenced too much by what happens in the meantime - or at least not without a substantial amount of re-planning. This, at least in my experience, has a tendency to give project managers tunnel vision at times.

Now don't get me wrong - I'm not suggesting for one moment you embark on a project that doesn't have a clear and robust vision. And I'm not suggesting for a moment you embark on a project where you have no idea how to achieve it and whether it's a reasonable (although hopefully challenging) goal with the available resources. And forming that into an outline plan to provide some markers to aim for is certainly a good idea, but ideally it's a high level roadmap rather than a detailed plan.

Coming from a traditional software development environment, I realise this sounds slightly mad. And I must admit it takes a certain amount of maturity and experience to recognise that you can't really plan in detail up-front if you want to retain any flexibility, as the real requirements, risks, issues, priorities and opportunities all tend to emerge when you start to build and see the software in action.

Most organisations are not be ready to accept such a radical idea - the idea of acknowledging you don't really know what you want - certainly not for sure - and you don't really know what you're going to get for your money, or when. So, as a minimum, a clear vision and outline plan are essential, but be careful to keep them to a high level.

Rather than a detailed plan, I prefer to see a strong vision, a strategy, goals, and a roadmap (high level outline plan). The tactics to achieve this, for example the precise features and all the tasks to deliver them, can vary along the way and are best not articulated up-front. This enables the team to discover the details when they are in a better position to do so, and allows them to change direction rapidly in response to changing circumstances.

This, when you think of it, is the very meaning of agile...

Kelly.


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IPhone App Development with JSF

TouchFaces is a new subproject of PrimeFaces targeting the mobile devices mainly iphone. Applications created with TouchFaces have the native look and feel of an IPhone applications and still benefit from the Java/JSF infrastructure. In addition TouchFaces depends on the PrimeFaces UI so ajax is built-in.

There's a 10 minute getting started screencast available online. 

From http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=57877

Sprite Migrate Makes Changing Smartphones Simple

Windows Mobile/Symbian/BlackBerry/Android: If you've got an itch to flee your smartphone for another platform entirely, the prospect of manually dragging over your data is daunting. Sprite Migrate, a free transfer application, makes it easy to transfer pretty much everything.
Sprite's beta Migrate application, free until Dec. 1, should be installed on both the phone you have now and, when you get it, the phone you're moving to. From the phone being left behind, load up Migrate and tell it to grab bookmarks, call logs, contacts, SMS databases, photos, and anything else it can find. It dumps all that into a single file you can transfer by microSD or email, and you simply load up Migrate on a new phone and load that file in.
We lacked a second smartphone to grab and transfer Migrate data with, but Download Squad and online reviewers report that Migrate does exactly what it says. It's a free download for Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Symbian, and Android phones.

Sprite Migrate [Sprite Software via Download Squad]

Google's Data Liberation Site

Google is emphasizing their proclaimed goal to let you easily import and export your Google data when moving services via a new site – DataLiberation.org*. The mission statement from the Data Liberation Front – named after a Monty Python skit about the Judean People’s Front – is that “Users own the data they store in any of Google’s products. Our team’s goal is to give users greater control by making it easier for them to move data in and out.” Thus the team wants to “make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products,” they say.


In a blog post Google clarifies that “a liberated product is one which has built-in features that make it easy (and free) to remove your data from the product in the event that you’d like to take it elsewhere.” When users are locked in, on the other hand, Google says there’s a strong temptation on the product makers side “to be complacent and focus less on making your product better.” Google says they’ve already “liberated” over half of all Google products – like Blogger and Gmail – and in the future want to liberate Google Sites and Google Docs as well.


Any company believing their software can beat competing software when fairly compared does well to push for a fair market, where switching is easy. By releasing export features for their own products they don’t only take away from fears people may have when contemplating a switch to their software. They also create an environment that pushes other companies (like Microsoft in particular) to release export features of their own, helping users leave competing products. That type of environment is a win for users.


Time will tell if Google’s own replacement of the lock-in strategy will become the strategy of heavily cross-connecting its services: for instance, connecting Gmail with Google Docs, Google Calendar with Google Maps, Google search with Blogger, and so on (all things which happen or did happen in the past). Because that too can convince a company to “focus less on making your product better”... as the company can then try switch over their massive user base, if they have one, through the effects the cross-connection comfort brings to users (say you may slightly prefer Acme Docs over Google Docs, but your favorite email client Google Mail just doesn’t offer to open attachments in Acme Docs, so you find sticking with Acme too bothersome to justify its slight advantage). Once we’re truly looking at an OS inside the browser, perhaps we’ll also want a way to liberate our online OS file type associations.


[Thanks DPic and Niniane!]


*I can’t directly access that site from China, as seems to be the case with (several? all? some?) newish domains.
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google's Data Liberation Site | Comments]

Google Fast Flip

"Google Labs has been very active lately. The most recent service launched in Google Labs is Fast Flip, a visual version of Google News that encourages serendipitous discoveries.

'Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers. As the name suggests, flipping through content is very fast, so you can quickly look through a lot of pages until you find something interesting,' explains Krishna Bharat, the man behind Google News.

The homepage shows thumbnails of the news articles and clicking on the thumbnail loads a screenshot of the article. You can't read the entire article in Google Fast Flip, so you need to visit the original source. The service shows articles from a small number of sources, including BBC News, New York Times, Newsweek and Slate.



The nice thing is that you can quickly go to the next preview by clicking on the blue right arrow or by using the right-arrow key. The service provides recommendation based on the articles you read, you email or explicitly like. There's also a mobile version optimized for iPhone and Android phones.

How to Make Your Own iPhone/iPod Touch Dock

Where do you charge your iPhone? For me, it’s on my bedside table in the Apple Universal Dock, which quite frankly is one of the best accessories you can buy for your iPhone. But what if you are on a budget and you don’t want to shell out $50 for a dock (especially after spending $18,000 on data roaming)? Well, the next best thing is to make your own!

How to Make Your Own iPhone Dock Out of Paper

I haven’t tried this but it’s definitely a project for an upcoming rainy Vancouver Sunday. The following is a full DIY print out with a full video tutorial on how to create your own iPhone dock. It actually looks pretty cool and sturdy enough to support your iPhone.

It’s the brainchild of French industrial designer, Julien Madérou. Here’s how to make this dock yourself:






1. Click here to download the dock template (you print it out; detailed instructions included)

2. Watch the following video (it’s hosted by Vimeo, so you won’t be able to view it on your iPhone):




Iphone Paper Dock / Stand from Dessine moi un objet on Vimeo.

I absolutely love how this DIY iPhone dock includes room for the USB charging cable to rest–brilliant! If you’re looking for a great gift to give to your iPhone buddies, make a few of these on some thicker construction paper and pass ‘em around. Everyone will be happy.

Anyone tried this yet? Definitely a fun little project especially if you’re bored at the office…

[via iClarified]

Dual SIM Card adaptor Platinum 3G HSDPA

With Simore Platinum, go up a gear
Platinum is the latest generation intelligent device enabling you to install two SIM cards in one mobile phone. Dual SIM Card is universal and installed directly into the slot of your SIM card.

Platinum has been developed to support 3G and HSDPA networks and designed to be easily integrated into all phones, even those with an extremely thin SIM card slot such as the Apple iPhone, HTC, Nokia, LG, Samsung, Blackberry, etc… This brand new Dual SIM Card supports USIM and SIM cards from all mobile phone operators and allows users to take full advantage of Internet access and video connections via 3G networks – UMTS – WCDMA – HSDPA (High Data transfer speed)

Platinum guarantees connections to GSM, GPRS, EDGE, CDMA, UMTS, WCDMA, HSDPA

- Once inserted into your mobile, the Simore menu will automatically appear in the main menu of your phone. (You can also bring up the menu by dialling the Simore keyboard shortcut # 99) *
- The Simore menu allows you to manage your two numbers and to define your settings.
- You can switch from one number to the other in two clicks.
To achieve high quality products, Simore uses innovative and futuristic designs, together with the latest flexible printed circuit board technologies (Technology CoF)
Our focus on manufacturing quality, combined with excellent product components, allows us to create “best in class” products.
The micro-controller (high capacity) chip is now covered with film protection to ensure a safe use during handling.

Choose quality and enjoy a top-of-the-range product.

Simore Platinum has an active internal memory allowing you to store, manage and protect your contacts and personal information (secret agenda, confidential directory, secret SMS, etc. ..).
This Dual SIM Adaptor includes an encrypted SMS function which allows you to send and receive confidential information.
To use the “SMS encrypted” the mobile phone must support the storing or copying of received SMS messages in the SIM card memory.
The Platinum version requires the cutting of your SIM cards. Our system is reversible. We provide in every pack two recovery tools that enable you to restore your SIM cards to their original form and place each of them into two separate phones.

Integrate 2 SIM cards in your mobile
Certified ISO – 7816
Compatible with both GSM and 3G mobile
Multi-language menu (ENG-FRE-GER-ITA-SPA)
Manual switch
Automatic switch (flexible duration)
Name and display the active SIM card
Protected internal memory
Secret agenda secured by a password
Secret directory secured by a password
Send and receive encrypted SMS
Secured storage of encrypted SMS
Support GSM network
Support GPRS network
Support EDGE network
Support CDMA network
Support UMTS – 3G network
Support WCDMA network
Support HSDPA network
Shortcut function

http://www.mobil365.se/2009/09/13/dual-sim-card-adaptor-platinum-3g-hsdpa/

The BookArc Turns Your Macbook into a Desktop

A few weeks ago, we told you about the Backpack shelf for you iMac. Now we bring you the BookArc, a sleek and aesthetically pleasing product acts as a desktop stand for your Macbook.

Apart from freeing up valuable desk space, the BoookArc turns your Macbook into a mini-desktop tower. This is capable of holding any Macbook design - from the Macbook Air to the 17-inch Macbook Pro - thanks to its three different sized, scratch-free, silicone cushions. It has silicone footpads for extra grip and to protect your desk surface. Twelve South, the designers of this product, also claim that this can speed up the performance of your Macbook. Free Shipping for a limited time at the price of $ 49.99. If you’re with a team or company buying with a group of 6, get a discount at $ 249.99 for a 6-pack.

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