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Comme vous avez peut-etre pu le constater, de la nouveaute sur le blog de Ti-Agile!

- Un nouveau style
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GScreen's Dual-Screen Spacebook Coming Soon(ish)

This is one of the first photos of an actual gScreen's dual 15.4-inch screen Spacebook—two full screens (not just an extra 10-inch one like Lenovo's W700. Really. There were renders before, but here are the photos.

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The Alaska based company, started by Gordon Stewart (yep, that is where the G in gScreen comes from), is aiming its dual screen laptops at professional designers, filmmakers, photographers and really anyone who can't live without a dual screen for everyday productivity. They have also been in talks with the military. The chassis (which we expect is at least 12 pounds) is built around the 15.4 inch screen (though the first units that come to market will have 16-inch or 17-inch screens) and its twin, identically sized screen slides out from behind the first using a uniquely designed sliding mechanism.


"We designed this knowing that many may not need the extra screen at all times," Gordon told me. But when you do use both screens you'll get about 30-inches of screen space. GScreen plans to release dual 13-inch models at some point.


Gordon plans to have the first Spacebooks being sold through Amazon.com by December of this year. Currently they are making tweaks to the power source (as you can see from one of the images) and to the screen slider.


They will run Windows 7 and be powered by Intel Core 2 Duo processors (we would love to see some mobile Core i7 love here), 4GB of RAM and high-end Nvidia GF900M GT discrete graphics. The plan is for fast 7,200 RPM hard drives and six or nine-cell batteries. It will also have a DVD player so you can watch a flick on one screen and refresh Giz on the other. "It is absolutely the opposite of a netbook," he told us. Yea that is no kidding with a price tag that he is hoping to keep under $3,000.


Now we are skeptical about them meeting their end of the year production date considering this model's power cord looks like more than a work in progress, but seeing as Santa is close by to gScreen's Alaska headquarters we don't see why he can't just drop off some dual screen craziness in time for Christmas.


From http://gizmodo.com/5346996/gscreens-dual+screen-spacebook-coming-soonish

Easter Egg In Yelp Application Activates Augmented Reality (3GS Only)

Augmented Reality was not meant to hit the iPhone 3GS until at least the release of iPhone OS 3.1. Augmented reality uses your iPhone’s camera, GPS, and compass to show virtual items in the real world. Now Yelp comes with an application that can show information ofrestaurants etc. but the beauty is there’s an easter egg called Monocle. This features enables you to use Augmented Reality.

The easter egg can be activated by shaking the iPhone 3 times. Then a button called ‘Monocle’ will appear. Click on the button and voila the Augmented Reality  can be seen.

“Download the new Yelp app. So you shake your iPhone 3 times. That activates a feature called Monocle. A message should come up if you activated it. A blue box will come up saying “the Monocle has been activated.” It will create a button in the top right corner. Now you should be able to look at the bars, restaurants, etc. Only works on iPhone 3GS.”

 

From http://iphonefreakz.com/2009/08/28/easter-egg-in-yelp-application-activates-augmented-reality/

BREAKING: Facebook For iPhone 3.0 Now In The App Store

Facebook 3.0 is populating the App Store now. Here's the link. There's really nothing more I can say about it here because you probably didn't read this far.

On the off chance you do despise Facebook and aren't installing it right now, here's a link to all the new features.

So what do you like about FB 3.0? What do you hate? Bugs?

Konami Code: Overview, Examples and Best Practices

http://www.instantshift.com/2009/08/27/konami-code-overview-examples-and-best-practices/

Pillar Technology Announces Automated JUnit Test Solution for Java Code

Pillar Technology has addressed the lack of JUnit test coverage in legacy Java J2EE applications and solved the extreme hassle of manually written JUnit tests. Pillar announces Verdé, a tool that automates the code quality analysis and characterization testing of all Java J2EE applications, delivering JUnit tests dynamically at run time.

The velocity of development teams using test-driven software development techniques improve by a significant margin when leveraging the automated capability of Verdé. Clients using the Verdé tool report a 70 percent reduction in the cost of manually produced JUnit code.

"Leveraging Verdé allows users to create a safety harness for users' existing applications,” said Gary Gentry, CEO of Pillar Technology. "Imagine the ability to make significant modifications to your code base with the comfort of knowing that your existing functionality isn't at risk.” Verdé measures and reports: Code Quality, Code Testability and Test Coverage (Cyclomatic Complexity, Injectability/Mockability). Verdé also provides a detailed actionable report with specific recommendations allowing a developer to improve the testability of the code. For more information, go to: http://pillartechnology.com/index.php/verde

From http://www.devagile.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=426

Snaptu Packs Dozens of Social and Information Apps into a Phone-Friendly Platform [Downloads]

Snaptu Packs Dozens of Social and Information Apps into a Phone-Friendly Platform [Downloads]: "

Java-enabled phones: Hate the interface on your phone when it comes to wrangling social sites like Facebook and Twitter? Wish the layout gave the info you wanted like movie times and weather? Snaptu is a java-based phone interface that does.

If you can run java applications on your phone you can run Snaptu. The application provides an iPhone-esque tiled interface with a variety of tools like a Facebook client, a weather checker, and an interface for Google calendar among over a dozen other tools.

The Snaptu interface is easy to navigate whether you're using a touch screen or directional pad—all of the menus are numbered and keypad friendly. Before downloading you can check out the catalog of applications on the Snaptu site and see what the interface and menus for various tools look like.

Snaptu is a free download and requires a mobile phone capable of running Java. Thanks Dirkhaim!

Snaptu

Super Macro Your Cellphone Camera With A DVD Lens

From http://www.diyphotography.net/super-macro-your-cellphone-camera-with-a-dvd-lens

I'll admit, Super Macro Your Cell Phone Camera With A DVD Lens is one weird title.

However, if you just moved to a blu ray DVD player and you're looking for some good use for your old DVD, cnflikt (who also took the shots for this tutorial) came up with a hack to enable you to take super macro shots with your cellphone. Of course you'll need a camera phone for that. cnflikt uses the notorious, yet old-skooled K800i, but any camera phone will work here.

1. Lensectomy Your old DVD Player

First thing is to get a lens for your camera phone. Make sure your old DVD player is not connected to power. Then take the screws off. This is a great way to void your warranty. It is also dangerous and you should really never do this.

Anyhow, if you went against my advice, you'll find the lens under the place where the disk goes. Take it out.

2. Prepare A Lens Mount

Ok, I'm only kidding on this one. You don't really need a lens mount, you can use duct tape if you wanna go really ghetto or mount it on some cardboard.

If you opt for the cardboard option, just make a round hole in the cardboard.

3. Mount Your Lens

Just use some duct tape (as indicated before) to mount your lens directly, use or blue Tack to hold the card mount.

4. Macro Away

WOW. This is some powerful macro. Enjoy.

DEADLINE Post-it Stop Motion – Post-it Art!

Pure genius! If ever in doubt about what to do with your used post-it notes, here’s some inspiration!

It only took 6 months to plan, four days to shoot and… 6000 post-it notes!

Sit back and enjoy – a film by Bang-Yao Liu.

Gmail Adds a Contact Picker (C'est pas trop tôt!)

Gmail Adds a Contact Picker: "Gmail is probably one of the last Google services that adds a very simple feature: a contact picker. When you compose a message, you may want to see the list of contacts so you can select some of them. But this feature wasn't available in Gmail, although you could find it in Google Docs, Google Calendar and in almost any mail client and webmail service. Some people even wondered if you can send messages to more than one address: questions like 'Why can't I load multiple contacts when I go to compose?' or 'How do I compose using my address book?' were very popular in Gmail's help group.

'Auto-complete is convenient and fast, and usually does the trick. But sometimes seeing your list of contacts can help you remember all the people you want to include on your email,' admits Google.

The wait is over and now you can finally use the contact picker in Gmail: just click on 'To' when you compose a message, select the contacts and click 'Done'.


Some of the cool things you can do using the contact picker:

* select contacts from one of your groups: just use the drop-down to choose from 'Friends', 'Family', 'Coworkers' and other groups.

* easily remove the contacts you've picked by just clicking on them.


* manually add email addresses by clicking on an empty space from the picker's 'to' box.

* if you've already typed some addresses in the 'to' box, the contact picker will include them when it launches.

* add all the results of a search by clicking on 'Select all'.

* the feature also works for 'cc' and 'bcc'.