Video: Green Nokia N8 Hands On
It’s in Chinese but you don’t need to understand to oogle at the Green N8! One does have YouTube’s transcribe feature but that seems to be translating N8 stuff into politics (it only works for english videos so it’s changing chinese words into phonetic english words) If anyone catches anything particularly interesting being said, please comment away. nxgxqxsx
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Four short links: 22 April 2010 – Whitehouse Source, Hot Android on iPhone Action, Geomapping, Open Data Fights Fraud
Whitehouse Released Open Source Code — four modules for Drupal with features the White House needed, including integration with the Akamai CDN.
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A few weeks in, a third of iPad Books are Fiction
Measured in terms of number of titles, half of the over 46,000 (paid and free) books available that we detected as being offered through the iBooks app are from 6 categories1. Fiction & Literature alone account for close to a third of all available iBooks titles: The current set of titles is indicative of the publishers (and/or imprints) that Apple…
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Actually, half of all iPad Books are Fiction
Suggestions to my previous post inspired me to normalize our metadata1 for titles available through the U.S. iBooks app. A comment prompted me to rollup iBooks publishers into publishing conglomerates2: Comments from other readers gave me the idea to map the 100+ iBooks categories to the more familiar BISAC categories.
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Four short links: 10 May 2010 – Barcodes, Python’s Innards, Informed Elections, and Data Literacy
zxing — barcode library for iPhone, Android, Java, and more. Guido’s Python — how the compiler and interpreter see your Python programs. It wasn’t until I had this level of knowledge of Perl that I really know what the hell I was doing.
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Revision3 TV Partners for Social Networking on iPhone
Internet television network, Revision3, is working with Miso to drive awareness and cement a stronger community for its over twenty online shows, which include Diggnation and Tekzilla, the company announced today. Miso (free, available here) is a new social networking…
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Listen to the new LG Home Entertainment Podcast
Hands up who knows the difference between an HD ready TV and an HD TV? Thankfully for you LG have teamed up with LBC to create a dedicated podcast which will guide you through the definitions of High definition TV, as well as giving a good overview of the differences between plasma, LED and LCD as well as the benefits of each. A new podcast will be posted weekly, and will cover the latest LG news as it breaks along with details of LG products
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The Tek Blogger: LLAADD’s Own Voice for Ovi Maps
Hi all, I have recently created my own voice for Ovi Maps, and uploading it for your voice navigation pleasure, if you would like to check it out, head over to The Tek Blogger for the full post: http://thetekblogger.com/2010/05/10/ovi-maps-voice-pack-by-llaadd/ p.s. for this week only I will be posting links to posts for my new blog on Jay’s “mynokiablog.com” to get the word out, after this, I hope you will join me over there for Nokia and other technology News, Reviews, and general Rants!
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Laws are made to be ignored?
A former Director General of Police of Karnataka files a complaint against the highest officials in the state for non-implementation of the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act. Saint, in a short but hard-hitting post , points out the significance of this complaint: This is the first time such a high level police complaint has been lodged against some of the top officials of a state govt. It must be quite obvious that an ordinary citizen of India or a villager will never be able to file such a police complaint, it never happened thus far.
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A north Indian caste wants laws changed to match honor-killing codes
When a Haryana court handed down the death sentence to five family members this spring for murdering a young couple who’d married in violation of an arcane incest taboo, women’s rights activists hailed the decision as a landmark judgment. But now a new challenge from the village councils that order such killings threatens to bring more violence
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