Just Another Gadget Blog

Channel 4’s 3D week is on 16th November and they have partnered with Sainsbury’s to distributing the required 3D glasses.

Get yours instore, available from 4 November to 22 November 2009

[Source: Sainsbury's FREE 3D Glasses]

All Mac users get yourself 6 great Mac apps for free. Yes, you’ve read it right, completely FREE.

Buy them individually, and you would pay a wopping $154 for them. However, in the MacHesit’s NanoBundle, they for free.

You still reading this post? Why, don’t lose anytime , get downloading from macheist.com.

The MacHesit’s NanoBundle includes:

• ShoveBox
• WriteRoom
• Twitterrific
• TinyGrab
• Hords of Orcs
• Mariner Write

Source: macheist.com
Ends: 6 days from today..

What a shocker, the best ever invention voted by visitors to the Science Museum in London (and online) is not the computer. Its way down in sixth place…

The Science Museum’s curators selected 10 items from its collection and asked visitors to the museum and online to vote on the inventions that has made the biggest mark on history to mark its centenary in June. The results are quite surprising….

1. X-ray machine – 9,581 votes
2. Penicillin – 6,825 votes
3. DNA double helix– 6,725 votes
4. Apollo 10 capsule – 4,649 votes
5. V2 rocket engine – 3,985 votes
6. Stephenson’s Rocket – 3,533 votes
7. Pilot ACE Computer – 3,472 votes
8. The atmospheric engine – 3,457 votes
9. Model T Ford – 3,231 votes
10. The electric telegraph – 2,694 votes

The invention that has made a big difference in MY world is the Computer followed closely by the Car. The medical inventions have helped (when I’ve sprained my ankle) but without the computer this blog would not exist

[Source: Read more at NewScientist]

Google Chrome Beta Adds Bookmark Sync, Speed Boost

Windows: The latest beta release of Google’s Chrome browser ups its dynamic page building speed by quite a bit. What users are really going to notice, however, is the built-in bookmark syncing, a feature previously available in bleeding-edge development builds.

If you grab the beta of Chrome 4, either as a version upgrade from Chrome or a new install, you’ll get an option in your “wrench” menu to synchronize bookmarks, enabled through your Google account. We’ve shown you this feature when it was an optional switch, but this feature looks to make it into the final build of Chrome’s Windows release.

Google touts Chrome’s DOM Core speeds (i.e. jQuery powers) at its blog post, continuing in the tradition of browser makers constantly changing their speed metrics. The other big change users might notice is that extensions are disabled in the latest beta build, as the developers are said to be reworking the add-on framework. If that sounds like a reasonable trade for more dynamic page speed and bookmark syncing, Chrome 4 Beta is a free download for Windows systems only.

[Google Chrome Blog via ReadWriteWeb]

For all those Firefox users who have the pleasure of using the Add-on “SearchPreview” for Google, Yahoo and Bing results, this won’t be anything new.

Those using Internet Explore, Google Chrome or Safari good news, if you’re looking for a particular web page rather than a particular result, Google has added “Page Previews” to the top-left options bar to make that much easier. This will help you avoid clicking on sites that have registered good domains but are full of adverts.

Got to say though, I don’t know how often the low-resolution images are refreshed which may cause some concern.

[Source: Google Operating System]

A survey commissioned by researchers Demos found that people who claim to have downloaded music illegally using peer-to-peer file sharing sites such as The Pirate Bay also spend on average £77 a year buying it legitimately. Those who claim not to on average just spend £44 (I’ll keep my opinion to myself…).

1008 people aged between 16 and 50 in the UK took part in the online poll.

Outcome:

• One in 10 of those questioned said they downloaded music illegally.
• Eight out of 10 of that group also bought CDs, vinyl and as MP3s.
• 50% accessed music officially
• 22% listened to internet radio
• 4% had used Napster (One of the founders of peer-to-peer file sharing)
• 21% have not heard of Napster
•  9% had used Spotify
• Most had not signed up for Spotify’s paid-for premium service.

How much would you pay?

• 75% of 16-24 year olds said they were prepared to pay for MP3s.
• The most favourable price was 45 pence for an individual track,
•  Just 2% would pay more than £1.

Current chart topper Fight for this Love by Cheryl Cole is priced at £0.99  on Apple iTunes and £0.79  on Amazon in the UK.

Demos researcher Peter Bradwell said

Politicians and music companies need to recognise that the nature of music consumption has changed and consumers are demanding lower prices and easier access to music

These types of surveys are becoming very popular and need to be treated with caution. This particular survey backs the governments three-prong approach set out this week –

1. education
2. enforcement
3. attractive new commercial deals

I don’t know how much of the results I believe as is it just coincidences that the results help back the governments’ recommendation?

google-ebook

Google is planning to release an ebook store with over 400,00 books online. You can either walk down to you local library to read a book or just google it. With google coming up with yet to say more books, there need not to worry about book availability in libraries. Amazon has a smiler service but unlike them google’s Ebook should be usable on any device.

Google Editions will utilise three business models;

• The first will allow consumers to purchase directly from Google EBooks. This model would gives Google a 37% share of the sale, with the rest going to the publisher.
• The second model would consist of purchases made from partner retailers, with Google getting 55% of the sale.
• The last model Google is looking at will have customers going directly to a publisher’s website to make purchases. No decisions have been made on the split for this option.

This service should be arriving early 2010 so, surfs up.

Remember those days with portable pet keyrings, now you can have a portable fish tank. Some chineese guy has made a video showing a waterproof LG GD900 Crystal in a fish tank. Have you ever watched Simpsons where ‘Disco Stu’ had those see through shoes with dead fish inside. He couldn’t take them out, watch this video below…

Looks like the phone still works after this sort-of-upsetting experement, the fish did survive as he put them back into the fish tank. Disco Stu is not a figure to be emulated. This video was probably a promotional stunt by a random guy. What do you think?

Get your hands on full albums from Metallica, MGMT, Abba, Coldplay, Madness, Fleetwood Mac, Placebo, Bruce Springsteen, Massive Attack and a load more from Azamon’s MP3 store at a fraction of the price.

This is an opportunity not to be missed; you can get DRM (download rights management) music for a fraction of its face value. It looks like a massive cock-up in pricing. Hay ho, who we to complain. We’ve just tried it, and yes, it works.

Go to Amazon store now

The BBC has updated its list of iPlayer-compatible mobile handsets today allowing you to watch quality TV and Radio on 13 models that are capable of streaming over Wi-Fi.

The BBC iPlayer can be streamed on the following 13 handsets over a Wi-Fi connection or over a 3G connection if you’re a customer with 3 Mobile or Vodafone (except the iPhone).

1. Apple iPhone
2. Nokia N85*
3. Nokia 5800*
4. Nokia E71*
5. Nokia N95
6. Nokia N96*
7. Samsung Omnia
8. Sony Ericsson Xperia X1
9. Sony Ericsson W705
10. Sony Ericsson W715
11. Sony Ericsson C905
12. Sony Ericsson W995*
13. HTC Touch HD

* Also allow users to download TV over WiFi and can watch the TV show in the next 7 days before the nasty DRM bug catches up to you and it expires.