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iPhone 2.0 Tips: Safari Shows Embedded YouTube Clips

Matt Hickey — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:40:00 EDT

Much like the way Safari has handled Quicktime videos on former versions of the firmware, the new 2.0 release now allows you to see embedded YouTube content with your iPhone or iPod touch on Safari. Click and it hands off video duties to the YouTube player. Really, that's better than watching it embedded, and makes the handheld Web browsing world that much closer to its desktop version.

Windows 3.11 to Sing its Last (MIDI) Song On November 8th, 2008

John Herrman — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:00:00 EDT

In a short and slightly poignant posting on his MSDN blog, a Microsoft systems engineer has announced that Windows 3.11 will be officially discontinued four months after XP's unceremonious removal from the consumer market. The secret to 3.11's 15-year lifespan was the embedded space, where it has dutifully provided a platform for countless low-horsepower cash registers and train schedule displays.

To be completely fair, 3.11 has only been "available" in the sense that embedded systems OEMs could buy it through limited channels, just as they will be able to purchase XP Embedded (which is a full-featured Pro version of the OS) into the foreseeable future. At least you can fudge a little and tell your kids that XP has "gone to a better place," but don't even try to pull that crap with 3.11. It's dead, and those spoiled brats have to learn what that means someday. [John Coyne]

Credit Card-Sized PC

Charlie White — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:48:38 EDT

Computers are getting even smaller, and this CM-X270 from Compulab of Israel is the size of a credit card. It's a real PC, with four USB ports, a PCI bus, 128MB of RAM, a 512MB flash memory card, AC '97 audio, all running on an Intel XScale processor. Plus, it hooks up to the rest of the network with WiFi. Intended to be embedded inside various products we'll be seeing fairly soon, if you buy 10,000 of them, they'll run you $47 apiece. – Charlie White

Product Page [Compulab, via OhGizmo]