Did you know that your Lensbaby Composer has a removable optic inside? Using the right tool you can extract this glassy core and swap in one of Lensbaby’s new Fisheye or Soft Focus optics. The Lensbaby Composer itself is a twist’n’shoot lens which bends to place the point of focus anywhere in the frame.
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Lensbaby Gets Fisheye and Soft Core Optics
Nokia has today announced that since the 21 January 2010 launch of the new version of Ovi Maps with free walk and drive navigation, there have been over 1.4 million downloads. The one million mark was reached just one week after the launch. “We’re averaging a download a second, 24 hours a day,” said Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Nokia.
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New Ovi Maps with free navigation races past 1 million downloads in a week
“Stop playing with your ring!” This is something you have probably all heard at one time, as you twiddle away with your fingers and annoy the hell out of the people around.
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Gear Ring Is Like Mechanical Catnip to Nerds
The pre-PMA announcements are hotting up, and Nikon has just released the details of its 2010 Coolpix lineup. Like most of the manufacturers compact camera ranges, this one offers a veritable confusion of models, so we’ll just hit the highlights here. Don’t worry: there are some genuine goodies here
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New Nikon Coolpix Range Has Something for Everyone
Olympus has taken the lovely, popular and slightly flawed Pen EP-1 camera, tweaked it to to be more like Panasonic’s equally nice GF1, and in the process created a Frankenstein’s camera, a bloated monster that bears the same relationship to the EP-1 as Marlon Brando’s Colonel Kurtz bore to his Stanley Kowalski. So, what’s new? The Pen E-PL1 is still an interchangeable lens, Micro Four Thirds (M4/3) camera, but it gains a pop-up flash and a direct video-record button (this button, found on the Panasonic GF1, is wonderfully useful for quick clip shooting).
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New Olympus Pen Adds Flash, Loses Good Looks
GpsMid is a Java J2ME mobile application with use OpenStreetMap Data. it’s free, fully offline, vector based map application for your cellphone. It displays your current position on a zoomable map and can be used to search for and navigate to roads or points of interest of your liking
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GpsMid – vector based map application for cellphone
Apple released iPhone OS 3.1.3 just a few hours ago and it it is now available for download directly from iTunes or from our iPhone downloads page. This is a very minor update, and to be honest, it’s almost deceiving. If I had to give my opinion on this, I’d say that Apple released firmware 3.1.3 just to piss off the Dev Team, who released RedSn0w 3.1.2 jailbreak just days ago
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iPhone OS 3.1.3 is Out. Jailbreakers Beware!
Apple on Tuesday officially denied that it has ceased production of its 27-inch iMac as some users have complained of screen flickering and discoloration. Also, the big-screen all-in-one desktop now has a ship time of two weeks.
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Apple denies iMac production halt as shipment times improve
Since it was unveiled last week, there has been no shortage of reactions on why the iPad might just fail and how underwhelming this new product really is. I myself took a good stab at it and trashed the iPad with my list of 17 reasons why the iPad sucks . After torching the iPad, I wanted to come up with an article praising it and showing what a great device it will be.
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499 Reasons to Buy an iPad
Digitimes doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to rumours, so take this with a grain of salt, but they say that they’ve spoken to Michael Hsu, General Manager of Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) Taiwan, and have learned that Nokia isn’t going to make any Symbian 2 handsets and instead is going to jump straight to Symbian 3. For those unfamiliar with how Symbian development works, there are 5 versions of the operating system being built at the same time
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Michael Hsu: Nokia Taiwan: Symbian 2 is garbage, we’re going straight to Symbian 3
A photograph containing one of Apple’s fourth-generation iPhones has been lingering undetected on the web for nearly a week now thanks to having been overshadowed — quite literally — by the company’s new iPad, AppleInsider has learned.
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Photo of Apple’s next-generation iPhone in the wild – sources
RedSn0w has been very hot for the last few days. After releasing the beta version and testing it out for a while, the Dev Team officially released RedSn0w 0.9 , which didn’t contain the IPCC tethering hack that would allow tethering on iPhone OS 3.1.2.
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RedSn0w 0.9.3 Jailbreak Enables Tethering of iPhone 3.1.2
Though iPhone sales grew 18 percent in the fourth quarter, the overall market saw even greater growth, leaving Apple with a smaller market share during the holiday season, a new study has found.
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Despite sales growth, Apple’s iPhone loses market share – report
Those of you who have a jailbroken iPhone will probably remember ContactFlow [iTunes Link], the jailbreak app that brought coverflow-style management to your contacts. Turns out that the dev decided to go legit and removed ContactFlow from Cydia to submit it to the App Store. When you launch ContactFlow, you have access to all your contacts
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ContactFlow Brings Coverflow to Your Contacts
Intel’s new Core i7-980X and Core i7-970 six-core desktop processors are set to debut in March, but could see an early release on Apple’s Mac Pro systems in a matter of weeks, according to a new report.
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Intel 6-core i7-powered Mac Pro rumored to launch this month
Apple’s big-screen 27-inch desktop iMac still has a shipping wait time of three weeks, and one new report has alleged that the company has ceased production of new units until it can address hardware issues.
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27-inch iMac delays continue as production halt is rumored
Numerous reports have alleged that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs discredited Google’s “don’t be evil” mantra as bogus and predicted the demise of Adobe Flash at an internal company meeting.
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Steve Jobs disparages Google, Adobe at company meeting – reports
WeatherEye Mobile alllows to view current weather conditions in realtime using your blackberry. Features Detailed Current Conditions, Short Term, Hourly and Long Term Forecasts Severe Weather Alerts (Canada and USA) Multiple city access (travel, cottage or favourite destination) Radar maps that pan and zoom (On iphone , Android and BlackBerry ) Data available in Celsius or Fahrenheit, Metric or Imperial One touch access to mobile.theweathernetwork.com for additional info (Flight times, traffic, golf and ski reports…) WeatherEye works on devices running BlackBerry version 4.3 and above. Download Install the application via OTA link http://blackberry.theweathernetwork.com
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WeatherEye Mobile For BlackBerry
Motorola XT701 is announced in Korea and will be known by the name of Motorola XT720 Motoroi. This mobile runs on Android 2.0 and will be aiming at those who prefer an ultimate smartphone experience. This will also come loaded with many Google applications and will feature 3.7-inch WVGA multi-touch display with 480 x 854 pixels, 8-megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, DMB-TV support, HDMI port, and 8GB of internal memory with microSD card expansion
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Motorola XT720 in Korea is Motoroi
LG’s first Android device is set to be launched in UK – the LG InTouch Max GW620. There’s actually nothing new in the design of this LG GW620, and features slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 3-inch touchscreen HVGA display, 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, HSDPA connectivity, and a microSD card support.
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LG InTouch Max GW620
Arise, web developers! Our time has come to dominate! A lot of tech commentators seem disappointed that the iPad feels more like an evolutionary step than a revolutionary step. For one group of technologists, though, the iPad is an opportunity for revolution, to take center stage in creating experiences users will want, and even want to buy.
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Web developers can rule the iPad
Samsung is planning on releasing another slider phone for the Indian market. This is actually a low-to-mid end range phone. Features include a 2.1-inch screen, 3.2-megapixel camera with LED flash, FM radio with RDS, quad-band GSM connectivity, Bluetooth, media player, office documents viewer, fake call, and 50MB of internal memory, which is expandable up to 8GB.
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Samsung Metro 5200