Check out the MoTR show to hear what James and Matt think about the EVO 4G after a few weeks, plans for iPhone 4 purchases, concerns about HTC ROMs, thoughts on a couple new smartphones, and more.
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MobileTechRoundup show #212; The EVO 4G is the best kickstand phone
MAKE’s science and chemistry author, Robert Bruce Thompson, has a new installment of his video series The Home Scientist , on acquiring chemicals for your home lab. This video is a nice companion to Bob’s piece in the Make: Science Room on the same subject: Chemicals on the cheap . See Bob’s YouTube channel for all of the videos in the series.
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The Home Scientist video: Where to get lab chemicals
The world of open source solutions for business telephony keeps getting surprisingly more sophisticated.For example, Twilio Cloud Communications has had an open API for telephony applications for some time, but this week has announced OpenVBX , targeted at delivering Google Voice-like features… OStatic – Twilio’s OpenVBX Expands Open Source Business Telephony Tech Crunch – Twilio Releases OpenVBX, An Open Source Google Voice For Businesses
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Twilio’s OpenVBX Expands Open Source Business Telephony
The folks at Willow Garage taught their p2r robot to play pool . Pretty impressive feat for only one week of work: With only a small team of developers and a week’s worth of development, the PR2 can now play pool! The “Poolshark” team started last Monday and began making shots on Friday
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Robot takes cue, learns to play pool
A year ago today many of us were standing in line outside our local Apple Store waiting to get our geeky little hands on the iPhone 3GS , then king of the mobile space. Twice the speed, video recording, and VoiceControl were the killer features, even if the form factor was unchanged. Over the last twelve months, iPhone 3GS has served us well, and at its soon-to-be $99 price point, rocking iOS 4 , no doubt it will serve many budget smartphone shoppers well for another year to come.
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Happy birthday iPhone 3GS
Acer on Friday announced new netbooks based on chips from Advanced Micro Devices, a win for the chip company’s efforts to grab market share from rival Intel. Acer, the world’s largest netbook vendor, announced two Aspire One netbooks with AMD’s Athlon II Neo K125 processors. The Aspire One…
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Acer Picks AMD Chips for New Netbooks
Don’t forget that the purveyors of fine toolboxes for your belt, The Leatherman Tool Group , is giving one lucky MAKE reader a new Super Tool 300 (19 tools in 1). To be eligible, all you have to do is go to the original post and submit a reminiscence about your dad and his relationship to tools. Eligible entries will end at noon tomorrow (6/20) and the winner will be announced a few minutes later.
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Father’s Day tool giveaway reminder
Instructables user indestructable created this guide on connecting AC fixtures (light bulbs, in this example) to your computer using a USBmicro U451 . If you have ever wanted to control electronic devices from your computer to control or regulate your environment, this instructable will guide you
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Control AC devices from your computer
Natal outed as Kinect while 360 slim rumor gains speed: On the eve of the E3 conference, Microsoft’s official name of its Natal control system has been outed as Kinect. On a similar token, the Xbox 360 “slim” rumor is starting to look more and more credible by the hour. Then the Xbox 360… PC World – Fear and Loathing at E3: Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony Computerworld – E3 2010 News Wrap LA Times – E3: Nintendo booth tour, 3DS wows crowds
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Week in gaming: all E3, all of the time… well, mostly
The broadband industry and some politicians have reacted strongly to an FCC effort to have an open dialogue. In response to a Thursday vote by the FCC to open a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) period to consider the options for reclassifying how broadband service is governed, some broadband providers..
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The Broadband Providers Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks
News Analysis: There are strong indications that Motorola will introduce the Droid X the week of June 21. Exactly what it has planned for the device is unknown, but if it wants it to be a success, it will need to find the sweet spot between functionality and price. That’s the only way it will..
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10 Things Motorola Must Do to Make the Droid X a Success
Using SIP I set up a voice over IP call between two E72 models using two accounts at SIPgate service provider. I had to configure SIPgate account settings: compatibility “on” and ensure call routing was only to VoIP phones. Then, using Nokia’s SIP settings client from Forum Nokia, I disabled all voip speech codecs except wide band AMR and the call succeeded 
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Nokia E72 over VoIP
Another entry into the voip world, and its about callmyworld.com !! The latest buzz in the international calling market is the arrival of CallMyWorld.Com offering you a multitude of international calling options at really affordable rates. Today I received… This is only content summary.
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Free International Calls from CallMyWorld.Com
Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher’s D8 conference interview with Steve Jobs has been posted in its entirety on iTunes for your higher quality, uninterrupted viewing and/or listening pleasure. It’s quite a good interview and we get to see Jobs excited, pensive, and — to quote him — pi$$ed off. A few of the points I found most interesting, after the break.
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Complete Steve Jobs D8 interview now on iTunes
Here’s an interesting little tidbit from Japan’s financial newspaper Nikkei . According to an article translated by andriasang — who also provided information this morning on a wireless ebook reader — Nintendo’s 3DS will be able to copy multiple games to internal memory and selected from…
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Nintendo 3DS to allow for game installs?
Sometimes it is not only those you know that give you a call; some strangers call as well. When such is the case, do you normally ask a question like; whose cell phone number is this? How far do you go in trying to identify the person behind such call?
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Whose Cell Phone Number is This? Trace Someone by Phone Number Without Stress
Fun on the floor (www.funonthefloor.com) is rewarding every visitor to it’s website with a voucher entitling the holder to a wide range of free services from recommended carpet retailers including planning and installation advice and measuring and on-site surveys.
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Fun on the Floor offers site visitors a voucher offer for free carpet services
The company Of motorola presented its sequential industrial KPK from a series EDA (Enterprise Of digital Of assistant) – ES400. Its basic difference from the previous models of this series – large similarity with usual keyboard [smartfonami], to what strictly contributes the external design of device and it to small weight. The device Of motorola ES400, which is built on the base of the platform..
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Motorola presented new industrial KPK with the support of vocal functions
The operator of mobile connection MTS and GUP “Moscow metro” they declared about the collaboration in the region of the development of the innovation methods of the payment of passage in the metro. Within the framework the Petersburg international economic forum of company they demonstrated the finished technological solution for the payment of passage with the aid of the cell phone for… [[ This is a content summary only
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MTS and Moscow metro represented the new method of the payment of passage in the metro with the aid of the cell phone
The HTC technical support email team has been known to leak bits of information about software updates that otherwise go untold by HTC public relations. In a recent exchange with HTC, XDA user jonnobright reports that an HTC rep revealed that the HTC Desire (review) will be getting an over the air Anroid 2.2 Froyo update in less than two weeks.
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HTC Desire Getting Froyo in Next Two Weeks?
Windows Live Hotmail is slated to officially receive Exchange ActiveSync support sometime this summer. However, while nothing has been announced, it appears this support is already active. Liveside.net is reporting some users are having success in syncing their Hotmail accounts through ActiveSync.
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Hotmail gets Exchange ActiveSync support
Crab fisherman rejoice! You’re getting some hot Android hardware! HTC recently announced that its Desire smartphone would be coming to the US via regional carriers. Cellular South was the first to officially announce it and now, GCI, a regional carrier in Alaska, has announced it as well. In addition to the HTC Desire, the Motorola Milestone is also heading to the US’ largest state
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HTC Desire & Motorola Milestone going to Alaska via GCI
Red Hat’s Fedora 13 open-source software can serve in a full gamut of Linux roles, as long as users are prepared to upgrade their systems about once a year. Since its first version, in 2003, Red Hat’s Fedora Linux has been the best place to track what’s on the leading edge of Linux and open-source software. Of course, the trouble with running on the leading edge is that it’s easy to get cut, and..
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Fedora 13 Boasts Many Leading-Edge Enhancements
Being a Doubting Thomas is not a new thing especially when we are faced with some challenges about knowing the root of something of paramount importance to us. It might be challenges concerning one’s problem, about a friend who needs one’s help or that of a relative, but a challenge of intellectual test is somewhat rare and more difficult, this is because most people do not want to think, rather they prefer people to think for them.
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The Best Reverse Cell Phone Finder
Customs officials on Friday nabbed a passenger trying to smuggle in a gold chain worth Rs 51 lakh. Finding his movement suspicious, a team led by superintendent G D Lotlikar intercepted Sayeed Muhammed of Bhatkal, Karnataka, who had arrived from Dubai via Doha on a Qatar Airlines flight.
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Man held with 3.8kg of gold at Goa airport
Ron Newman’s fantastic page on DIY room-temperature anodizing of aluminum parts was last revised in 2007, and looks like it may be significantly older than that. Ron’s selling a how-to book, now, and a bunch of anodizing supplies, from the same page, but to me it looks like there’s more than enough free info there already for a savvy person to figure it out for him- or herself
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How-To: Anodize aluminum
This month’s theme is Physical Science and Mechanics , which makes it the ideal time to chat with the multi-talented members of Applied Kinetic Arts (A.K.A.), “a community of artists working within the medium loosely defined as ‘kinetic’.
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Applied Kinetic Arts: Jeremy Mayer interview
Finally I am to announce that ZONE ( www.zonetel.com ) is now officially become one of the HK VoIP provider. (Hong Kong VOIP Provider), a better choice than 2b Our services include HK DID Number HK Outgoing calls service A-Z IPPBX Our services support all major hardware vendors and try before you pay. please visit http://www.zonetel.com/did.shtml
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ZONE – HK VoIP Provider (www.zonetel.com) vs HKBN 2b
How do I find the location for a phone number owner is one question many of us have asked in the past and that some of us are still asking today. You might have had situation where you need to find the location for a phone number or you might have received repeated calls on your phone continuously and you are just wondering who the caller really is.
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How to Find Location For a Phone Number Right From the Comfort of Your Home With Ease
(Credit: CNET) Probably like many people reading this blog post, I experienced firsthand the trouble Apple and AT&T had with the overwhelming number of preorders for the iPhone 4 on Tuesday. I thought I was being smart by deciding to skip the long lines and get the iPhone 4 delivered to my house, but I ended up getting nothing but errors after only the first few steps into the process. After several attempts, I decided to wait a couple of days before trying again and ended up buying the black 32GB model through Apple on Thursday
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Start your streak and swing to win: iPhone apps of the week