Founder and Editor of Crenk. Im CEO of Insomnia Ltd which owns and operates RouteNote (Digital Music Distributor), Adphilia (Site Representation Firm) and Black and White Music (Music Recording Studio).
Gizmodo had an exclusive regarding the new Tablet PC from Microsoft. The tablet will be call the Courier and man does it look good.
The Courier is currently in “late prototype” stage of development and not exactly a tablet, its more of a booklet. The dual 7-inch (or so) screens are multitouch, and designed for writing, flicking and drawing with a stylus, in addition to fingers. They’re connected by a hinge that holds a single iPhone-esque home button. Statuses, like wireless signal and battery life, are displayed along the rim of one of the screens. On the back cover is a camera, and it might charge through an inductive pad, like the Palm Touchstone charging dock for Pre.
The Courier user experience presented here is almost the exact opposite of what everyone expects the Apple tablet to be, a kung fu eagle claw to Apple’s tiger style.
It’s complex: Two screens, a mashup of a pen-dominated interface with several types of multitouch finger gestures, and multiple graphically complex themes, modes and applications.
This is video of a Japanese air hockey table (possibly manufactured by Sega) that’s designed to give game participants seizures. I couldn’t even see the puck most of the time. And not just because I was rolling around on the floor clutching my eyes, but I was.
Today Google has announced that they have launched Picasa 3.5, a new version of their very popular free photo editing software. This version of Picasa gives the user the ability to add name tags to their photos, using the same facial recognition technology that powers name tags on Picasa Web Albums.
Name tags have been designed to help the user easily organise their photos by what matters most. Picasa identifies similar faces and puts these into an “Unnamed People” album. From there, you can easily add a name tag by clicking “Add a name” and typing the person’s name. After you’ve added name tags to some photos, you can use your tags to do creative things, like quickly find all the photos with the same two people in them, make a face collage with just one click or upload and share people albums with friends.
Additionally, Picasa 3.5 has integrated Google Maps, so it is easy to geotag your photos and then view them according to location. Finally, Google has completely redesigned the import process in which you can now import photos from your camera and upload the photos to Picasa Web Albums in one easy step.
If you like being distracted by projections and badass animations while you play pool, the Obscura CueLight is for you. It uses sensors and an overhead projector to create images that follow the balls as they bang around the table.
The system itself will set you back $80,000, no pool table included. At the Esquire Ultimate Bachelor Pad, where it’s currently set up, it’s projecting on a $125,000 pool table. Bottom line: you can’t afford it.
We have been getting a lot of tips lately about startups we need to check out. Today we receive a nice comment to check our Startup Hire a new job board for venture backed startups.
Startup Hire is a very simple job board in which focuses on venture backed startups and allows users to search for jobs either via location, keyword, job title or company. Startup Hire has partnered with some of the leading startup companies so you are bound to find a huge amount of jobs in a variety of areas. This is a great place to start if you are looking for a secure job that has full backing by venture capitalists. However, please remember that venture backed startups arent always 100% secure.
This is a bit of a strange combination, as Italian motorcycle company Ducati brand their own camcorder.
The Ducati brand is very much associated with quality and luxury, plus it is no surprise that they have moved into branded goods as Ferrari and Lamborghini have already got their own range of notebooks.
The Ducati branded camcorder is made by Toshiba and is an S10 camcorder. The camcorder is white with red accents and the Ducadi logo on the LCD. The LCD is 2.5″ and can record in 1080p resolution. The sensor of the camera is 5 magepixel and there is a 4GB memory card that saves the video. The 4GB can hold about 60 minutes of recording. Price is not yet known.
Ubuntu has quickly become one of the best Operating Systems around and with this it has become easier and easier to add applications.
Appnr is a new web based tool where you can search and install applications directly on your Firefox within Ubuntu.
Appnr makes use of the apturl protocol to initiate the installation process. Since apturl was included as a dependency for Firefox since Ubuntu 7.10, if you are using a later version than Gutsy, you can simply click and install applications directly from Appnr.com. For other debian based distro, you will have to install apturl:
sudo apt-get install apturl
The navigation in Appnr is easy. On the left are the categories and the respective applications on the right. There is an “Install” button on every application entry and you just click on it to install the particular application.
Readtwit is a 3-step service that will seamlessly integrates this aggregation power of the people you follow – into your RSS reader.
Readtwit, a new web service by Lionite does one simple thing – it captures weblinks from your Twitter stream and then publishes the content as an RSS feed. You can then use any feed reading application to read it.
Head over to ReadTwit and hit the ‘Get Fed’ button
Choose your RSS reader (and if it’s not there click the ‘Get me the feed‘ button and paste the feed into your reader)
Readtwit automatically prevents content duplication caused by retweets. It does that by grouping together similar links that are sent in the same time-frame. Once you’ve set up your RSS feed, you can further tweak Readtwit to prevent (or at least minimize) information overload.
First, you can filter out specific users. This feature will help you keep focused on useful content, as you can set it to not display links by people who post too much (and also exclude yourself, in order to not get back the links you post, as retweets).
TorrentScan is a torrent meta search engine which allows users to search across various torrent search engines all in one place. TorrentScan allows you to search Mininova, SumoTorrent, BTjunkie, Isohunt, Fenopy, Torrentz and more. TorrentScan also lets you customise your search and even the entire look and feel of the site itself. With a simple click you are able to see your search results between the torrent search engines.
If you are looking for an easy and simple way to search through multiple torrent sites at once, then TorrentScan should be your first option.
Follow Crenk on Twitter! I havent written an article about our Twitter accounts in a little while, so thought I would just let everyone know about all our accounts.
There are just so many Twitter clients in the market at the moment and Im even finding it hard to keep up. The newest Twitter client is TunesTweeter. TunesTweeter is a web app that lets you show what you are currently listening to in iTunes, and updates your Twitter status with the song and artist.
TunesTweeter seems like an interesting application that adds a nice twist, maybe now someone will also come out with a Last.fm Twitter related client.
