The wait is over! as covered earlier, the long awaited and hyped Dell Streak android tablet is now on sale in the UK without the bounds of a carrier. The price tag at 449 ($676) is significantly lower than the 16GB iPhone 4, but wait till next month and you can get it from USA for $500 as promised…mighty tempting isn’t it?
Twitter has been out of service since early morning PST, which means only half the breakfast for geeks and internet junkies like me.
Globally, Twitter has been down for more than a couple of hours as of writing of this post and it seems you may be getting ‘the whale’ for another sometime.
A note on the Twitter Status blog reads
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“We are experiencing site-wide availability issues due to scheduled maintenance. We’re currently working to address the issues. We’ll update with more information as it is available.”
“Update: We’re currently experiencing site availability issues resulting from the failed enhancement of a new approach to timeline caching. Our infrastructure and operations engineers are currently working to resolve this. We’ll update you soon with an ETA.”
The outage was caused during a slick new feature being added, which supports geolocation. With it, you can tag your tweets to a specific place you’re at, or check-in from Foursquare and Gowalla, nothing we haven’t already been doing thanks to 3rd party clients.
The site may experience hiccups for upto 5 hours, and its a good time to catch up on your real-life friends on facebook, linkedin or wherever you can browse to. We’ll have the updates as they come from Twitter.
Update: 10:17 PM PDT: Users may temporarily experience missing tweets from their timelines. They will be restored shortly.
Update: 11:51 PM PDT: We’re recovering from the site outage. Remember, users may temporarily experience missing or duplicate tweets from their timelines. Normal timelines will be restored shortly.
Twitter is slowly coming out of the outage and the internet globe seems to be moving again.
Share your comments on the outage below.
The Dell Streak is undoubtedly one of the best hybrid devices out there, filling that specific market overlapping the smartphone / tablet spectrum.
According to Dell website, the Streak shall be available to US customers direct from its website from next month for $500. This is an official ‘unlocked’ version, which only means I need to make some quick dirty money so I can order it.
As exciting as the news is, that’s pretty much it on the announcement but I’ll surely be following on the developments.
For teaser, here’s some pictures of the device. Click on any thumbnail to view full size:
Credits: Engadget
Dropbox is everyone’s favorite online storage. While they have officially launched support for Desktop, iPhone and now Android, it was only a matter of time that support for Windows Mobile was added in the feature list. The guys at xda however, don’t seem to be in a mood to wait and have gone ahead and developed their own sync application.
Droppboxx enables Dropbox file browsing on Windows Mobile phones, file synchronization, and has several features especially convenient on a mobile phone. You can download and upload files easily with simple no-nonsense clicks. DroppBoxx is freeware, and can be downloaded here.
Official screenshots:
Launched in 1980, Pac-Man is one of the most successful arcade games of all times. This year, Pac-Man turns 30 and Google created a playable Pac-Man doodle on its homepage on the launch day (22nd May).
The Google Pac-Man doodle was so popular that it is now permanently available at http://www.google.com/pacman/
Not only that, it is estimated that world over, 4.82 million hours have been spent playing the Google Pac-Man on the launch day alone, translating in $120 mn loss in economy. Nothing short of any record, the next time your company sends out those lay-off notices, you know who to blame. While that happens, all you need to do is Insert Coin to be a part of the Google doodle community.
Insert Coin to play
The Chinese Consumer Electronics Company Aigo has announced a gorgeous 7-inch tablet called the N-700 (pictured above) that is sure to make you think twice before you hold out your wallet. And the specs make it all the more juicy!
The tablet is rumored to feature 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor and NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 graphics chipset. There’s also 512MB of DDR2 memory, an 800 x 480 pixel multitouch display, 4/16/32GB of inbuilt storage, a USB socket, microSD slot, HDMI output, inbuilt WiFi, optional 3G WWAN, audio in / out and a 3,120mAh battery. It is said to be running Android 2.1 at the time of shipment, sadly the dates of which are not clear. The price tag, though not confirmed yet is expected to be around $300.
We’ll keep an eye out for the availability and specs confirmation.
Stephen Hawkins, the legendary cosmologist is a super-hero to many space enthusiasts and science geeks. He’s out with another brilliant article on time travel. According to the theory, all you need to do to travel through time is to go fast, really fast!
“Time travel was once considered scientific heresy. I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labeled a crank. But these days I’m not so cautious. In fact, I’m more like the people who built Stonehenge. I’m obsessed by time. If I had a time machine I’d visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens. Perhaps I’d even travel to the end of the universe to find out how our whole cosmic story ends.
To see how this might be possible, we need to look at time as physicists do – at the fourth dimension. It’s not as hard as it sounds. Every attentive schoolchild knows that all physical objects, even me in my chair, exist in three dimensions. Everything has a width and a height and a length.
But there is another kind of length, a length in time. While a human may survive for 80 years, the stones at Stonehenge, for instance, have stood around for thousands of years. And the solar system will last for billions of years. Everything has a length in time as well as space. Traveling in time means traveling through this fourth dimension…..
…Given enough power and advanced technology, perhaps a giant wormhole could even be constructed in space. I’m not saying it can be done, but if it could be, it would be a truly remarkable device. One end could be here near Earth, and the other far, far away, near some distant planet.
Theoretically, a time tunnel or wormhole could do even more than take us to other planets. If both ends were in the same place, and separated by time instead of distance, a ship could fly in and come out still near Earth, but in the distant past. Maybe dinosaurs would witness the ship coming in for a landing.”
Click the link below to read the entire article.
I’m super excited to blog this update, though I didn’t get the time to post about all the amazing stuff it has to offer.
I would take this opportunity to tell you how awesome this new device is, with its social capabilities and a combo of windows phone 7 & zune engine at the back, but the official kin website does it in way cooler way. So head over to the site and set your stop watches to May 6th, 2010 for pre-order over the air.
My personal favorite is the Kin Two. There is however, something I want to let out at Microsoft.
See, the Kin is supposed to be about being social, always connected and sharing stuff at the touch of a button, but its also supposed to be a full-time multimedia player with that HD camera and Zune engine in the background. Wouldn’t it be sensible to launch the device ‘without’ any carrier contract? I mean, what’s Zune got to do with Verizon?
Not everyone has been lucky enough to get the OTA update which fixes the pinch-to-zoom / multitouch on the Nexus One. Incase you’re one of the so-called ‘unfortunate’ ones, no need to fret anymore cause we have a solution for you right here!
Here is how you manually update your Nexus One:
* Download the update file and save it to your SD card (may require two additional clicks)
* Rename to “update.zip” without the quotes
* To reboot into the bootloader, turn off the phone. Then power on while holding down the trackball.
* Navigate to the option ‘recovery’
* When the Android w/ caution logo pops up, hold down the power+volume up
* Select ‘apply sdcard:update.zip’
That’s pretty much it! be sure to log your success in the comments below
