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screensavers
Sprint NOW Screensaver Is Full-On Sensory Overload
When my computer puts up its screensaver, I like to give it a little rest—maybe a nice analog clock or peaceful image of a meadow. But Sprint's NOW screensaver tracks an exhausting amount of information we guarantee you don't need, refusing to cut your overworked computer a break. More »
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By Dan NosowitzComment by Software_Goddess: This seems like the kind of RAM hog that would cause me to throw my computer out the window when... 9 Responses | Other threads
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review
Verizon Hub Phone Review
The Verizon Hub is unstuck in time. It's a 2006 device that's just getting here, now, in 2009, begging the question, "Is it better to be late than never?" More » -
verizon hub
The Verizon Hub Widget Phone Just Got a Lot More Exciting
I'm reviewing the somewhat anachronistic Verizon Hub connected phone. Now that I've seen its future—an open platform built on Linux with sleek hardware from this decade, like capacitive touchscreens—it's way more exciting. More »
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Comment by dimithrak: Yay!.. i first time to post the first post.. hehe.. well.. anyways. yup that does look sweet. hmmm.. but I... 11 Responses | Other threads
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iphone apps
Dashboard Widgets For Jailbroken iPhones: Hot or Not?
This work-in-progress Dashboard implementation (seen here running through the SDK) looks like it's coming along nicely; I just can't decide if it's something I'd want. What do you guys think? More »
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By John MahoneyComment by Crispy Aardvark: I'd just like to see the Weather icon reflect the true temperature for the current location, just like the Calendar... 4 Responses | Other threads
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chumby
Chumby Is Merging With TVs and Blu-ray Players
I'm not sure if Chumby's widgets, minus the Chumby, are all that appealing—while everything with a power button has widgets nowadays, Chumby's adorable, squishy form factor was why we liked it. More » -
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Downloadable Dashboard Apps for Cars Coming in 2010
Why leave your car out in the cold while your smartphone gets all the app fun? Hughes Telematics is aiming to bring downloadable apps to car dashboards, and the possibilities are pretty crazy. More » -
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Verizon Hub Widget Phone Is the Amazing Desktop Phone We Always Wanted
An interesting side effect of the anxiety about the decline of the hardline has been these beautiful widget-y desktop phones that do amazing things you always wanted phones to do, like the Verizon Hub here. More »
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Comment by Samu Wade: This looks like something from a different 2009. Kind of Back To The Future II. Cool, but just kind of... 2 Responses | Other threads
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pmps
Samsung YP-P3 Boasts Haptic Touchscreen and Widgets
Samsung's YP-P3 looks like a solid followup to the slick-but-limited P2 portable media player. The P3's UI gets a huge update, along with some welcome new features. More »
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By Dan NosowitzComment by Larry Ryan: Just another typical samsung phone. This phone has nothing that the iphone or g1 doesn't have. It actually has less.... 16 Responses | Other threads
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pandora
Pandora Web Radio Goodness Now Playing On Chumby
Everyone's favorite music-genome-powered web radio service Pandora is now officially available on everyone's favorite ambiguous-use plush-paneled Linux appliance, the Chumby. Fitting of their strategy to be on every hardware platform possible, Pandora can now provide soothing wakeup tunes (major key tonality, mild rhythmic syncopation, a good dose of acoustic guitar pickin') via Chumby's own alarm clock before you smash its vulnerable soft parts and go back to sleep. Full release following. More »
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By John MahoneyComment by bxstrb: I'd buy a Chumby...if it was $99. With my cellphone being able to do all the stuff this thing does... 1 Responses | Other threads
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verizon
Verizon Launches Dashboard Flash-Based Mobile Storefront
Verizon has quietly gone live with their new Dashboard flash-based mobile storefront. So far, the app is only available on the LG Chocolate 3, but more phones are expected to be added by the end of the year. That would make it one of the largest implementations of Adobe's flash in the US. The service will allow users access to widgets that function as most widgets do—offering up easy access to news, weather and entertainment. If only the iPhone would get on the Flash bandwagon. [Washington Post] -
sony bravia
Sony Japan Releases SDK For Bravia TV Apps
Sony became the latest to jump on the app trend bandwagon, but not with a product you'd automatically equate with downloading itty bitty widgets. The company has released an App development kit for its line of Bravia television sets. It expects people to create things like small multiplayer online games, weather and news data aggregators and anything else you can program onto 1.3MB of memory. More » -
intel
Intel's Latest System-On-A-Chip is For Web Enabled TVs, Set-Top Boxes
Only a month or so after announcing intentions to dabble in the SoC game for embedded systems, Intel's showing off its first iteration at the Intel Developers Forum. The CE 3100 (previously known as "Canmore" in Intel speak) combines HD video processing, "home theater quality" audio and 3D graphics with the internet connectedness to run widgets from Yahoo's Widget Channel on TVs and STBs like the mockup you see here. Great, another web-connected TV platform. More » -
gadgets
CBS, MTV and MySpace Get Chummy With Chumby Network
While chumby has been available in beta for a while and we had our hands on the final version last week, today is the official public launch of the little Wi-Fi beanbag, as well as the Chumby Network, with big media content partners CBS, MTV, The Weather Channel, AOL Shoutcast, Scripps and more. The network is ad-supported, but you'll be able to watch Letterman Top 10, grab MTV news (the scrolling app I sorta complained about) and more. We'll have a full review later this week of the new fully loaded chumby. More »
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Comment by ninjatales: I would get a chumby too if I didn't have an $80 alarm clock. more » | Other threads
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chumby
Hands On chumby Wi-Fi Widget Beanbag (Cuddly in More Ways Than One)
After about an hour of playtime with the final version of the squishable $180 Wi-Fi widget ball chumby, I want one on my desk. Is it essential gadgetry? No. It's not meant to be. Until you're addicted to it. More » -
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By Mark WilsonComment by jblade: Very cool idea it would be neat to see viral widgets like Clearspring, [www.clearspring.com] implemented on the television's platform! more » | Other threads
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tivo
Now Playing: TiVo2Go For Series 3 on a Mac for Free
The most recent update to Now Playing widget for OS X gives it the ability to download shows from your TiVo Series 3 and have it automatically decode for playing using TiVoDecode. This looks to be the free alternative to Roxio programs for watching TiVo2Go on your Mac. Although it's missing functionality to burn discs and sync to iPods, since you're decoding your content to MPEGs, it should be only a few more steps to get them to DVDs or portable media players. [Dashboard Widgets via TUAW] -
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The huggable Chumby Wi-Fi widget box is on sale for $180 in latte, black or pearl. But it's still just for the hardest core: "The Chumby Store is currently only accessible to customers by invitation only." [Chumby]
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Comment by TommySez: My bed-side table has a power outlet, but not a network jack. That's where mine will sit. more » | Other threads
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nokia
Apple Dashboard Widgets on Nokia S60 Phones
With Nokia's Web Run Time, due to be released in the next S60 operating system update, Nokia users can actually run slightly modified Apple Dashboard widgets right on their phone. The basis of this is that Nokia's widgets and Dashboard widgets both use the WebKit browser engine (the same fact that also allowed Nokias to use some of the iPhone webapps), so porting Dashboard widgets over is a pretty straightforward and manual process. No specific date on the Web Run Time rollout, but it could be as early as January, which is likely before the iPhone will get widgets. [NokNok] -
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iPhone Kinda Gets OS X Dashboard Widgets
Erica over at TUAW just managed to get OS X Dashboard widgets working on the iPhone. We say kinda, because some apps (Weather, ESPN and Calendar) work fine, but others work horribly. To get it on your iPhone, you have to upload the Widgets.app, copy over a support folder from your Mac, and then copy over each individual widget manually. See TUAW for further instructions. [Widgets Download via TUAW]
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By Jason ChenComment by JustEaton: So has Apple locked up any of the 3rd party apps yet? I keep thinking they have, for some... more » | Other threads
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gadget strip
Chumby Unboxing Video, Looks Chumbalicious
Remember the Chumby? It's that kinda fat, always connected Widget browser. A few production models have gone out to the public, and it's looking pretty good if you fall for their marketing, referring to it as "cute" instead of "obese." (Note: I think it's ugly in black but I dig the leather grips.) More » -
mining for gold
Tantalizing Hints at New iPhone Capabilities Uncovered in Firmware
The guys at iPhoneology didn't have anything better to do this weekend, so they were poking around in the iPhone's firmware, and look what they found: four applications they hadn't seen before, including one for mobile radio that's not even supported in the iPhone's hardware. They also found a few widgets that aren't on the iPhone yet, either. More »
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Comment by shogun3d: Hey NOSAUTEN I just made the switch over to a Macbook Pro and just to let you know buddy you... more » | Other threads
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gadgets
Oregon Scientific Weather Hub Predicts the Weathery Future
This little device from the weather junkies at Oregon Scientific is like bringing a desktop widget to real life. It has two circular displays that will display the current temperature and the upcoming temperature. It does the magic future-predicting with an internal barometer. I wish it included Wi-Fi or something to more accurately predict the weather over the net, but for $20 I'm not expecting much. More »
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Comment by Jeff the Riffer: Yeah, I picked one up at Target as well, primarily for the temperature reading and because it has a nice... more » | Other threads
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gadgets
Touchscreen Smart Mirror: Widgets in the Mirror
A team of students at the University of Waterloo, lead by William Lam (no relation to our Brian Lam), have designed a touchscreen Smart Mirror. Widgets can be placed on the mirror and it can also play music, video and more. Check out the video above and see for yourself. -
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Koloroo Come Up With a Pair of Widgets for Your iPod
Two gadgets for your iPod from newbies Koloroo. The $4.99 TipKalc can work out how much you need to leave for that nice waiter who spat in your soup after you complained it was cold (my tip for that is a fat zero and a slap in the chops). It can also calculate how to split your bill, as long as there are not more than five of you at the table. Might as well use your cellphone calculator, IMHO - it is free, after all. More »
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Comment by Omega: Oops. I made a typo. "...every five or minutes..." Meant to read: "...every ten minutes..." more » | Other threads
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gadgets
A Closer Look at Asus's Sideshow-Capable Motherboards
We knew that Asus was releasing Vista-optimized motherboards, but we didn't know they were going to bundle an actual SideShow device with it. More »
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By Jason ChenComment by howard_scott: I agree. Whilst this looks very interesting, and extremely cool, what's the point if it's not wireless? I think a... more » | Other threads
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gadgets
WidgetStation Update: Info, When and Where You Want It
This little palm-sized WidgetStation that we reported on two months ago is for real, and was demonstrated at CES. It shows the widget of your choice on its dual screens, and accesses its info via Wi-Fi, Ethernet or a USB connection to your PC or Mac. The left screen features pure data on its monochrome LCD (think time, temperature, any numbers available on the Internet), while the right brings you the prettier widgets (think Gizmodo stories) in full color. Check out a video of the unit in action, plus more info: More »
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Comment by Omega: It's supposed to sell for around $300 USD. It looks nice, but it's not worth the money. First of all, both screens... more » | Other threads
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cellphones
Alltel Celltop Widgets Hands-On
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peripherals
emTrace WidgetStation Provides Desktop-Free Widgets
This device is the winner of a CES Innovation Award, which might be bullshit. The WidgetStation takes the desktop out of desktop widgets. It is essentially an LCD display with touch-sensitive buttons, USB connectivity, memory and Ethernet connectivity. It will actively display the widget of your choosing. And with the enormous amount of widgets now available, the WidgetStation provides endless possibilities. No word on pricing or availability, but we will have more info live from the CES show floor in January. More » -
cellphones
Nokia's Widsets: Widgets For The Phone
Not only is Microsoft jumping on the widgets bandwagon (and calling them gadgets), Nokia's also appropriating and renaming widgets to "Widsets". Widgets + Handsets, or Widgets + Set? More »
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