div style="FLOAT: right"img title="Toshiba Portege R600 Gets 9-Hour Battery Life" alt="Toshiba Portege R600 Gets 9-Hour Battery Life" hspace="5" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/10/toshiba-portege-r600.jpg" vspace="5" border="0" //div pHow long can your notebook last while you're on the road? Well, Toshiba claims that their latest Portege R600 is able to last for a phenomenal nine hours before requiring a trip to the nearest power outlet. I find that great news, but wouldn't want to take Toshiba's word for it since most people who do work on their notebooks might be running many more applications simultaneously compared to test conditions. Still, even if one lops off a couple of hours from the nine hour stated figure, it is still pretty impressive. The Portege R600 comes with the following :- /p p ul li12.1" LCD display/LI LIIntel Core 2 Duo 1.4GHz processor/LI LI2GB RAM (max. 5GB)/LI LI128GB SSD/160GB hard drive/LI LIDVD burner/LI/UL P/PThis sub-1kg notebook will retail for approximately pound;1,225. pa href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/10/toshiba_portege_r600_gets_9hour_battery_life.html#comments"Add a comment/a | From: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/10/toshiba_portege_r600_gets_9hour_battery_life.html"Toshiba Portege R600 Gets 9-Hour Battery Life/a | Visit a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"Ubergizmo/a | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081012194544" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081012194544?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081012194544" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081012194544amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F10%2Ftoshiba_portege_r600_gets_9hour_battery_life.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/fmi5VYVEbpBCbg0YlGB9O6Q64H0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/fmi5VYVEbpBCbg0YlGB9O6Q64H0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=xQTXzkaJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=2yHpZHLD"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=2yHpZHLD" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=4pRDvgTl"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=QuysPJQ2"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=QuysPJQ2" border="0"/img/a /div

Jimmie P. Rodgers brought a whole bunch of color changing LED throwies to Providence recently, and I just had to get some of the LEDs he used for my own enjoyment.

Each piece has three LEDs inside that are under the control of an embedded microcontroller. There are two main variants: fast flashing, and slow flashing. The slow flashing models have more of a gradual change to them as shown in the video above. You can also get diffused and clear versions of either. Unlike the four-lead common cathode or anode RGB LEDs, there is no way to control the mix of colors (you just have to sit back and enjoy them).

The best place I've found to buy these is eBay, where Jimmie and I have both found them for around 25 cents each (shipped) to the USA. A search for rgb led slow or rgb led fast should turn up some.

It may take a couple weeks for them to arrive, but they are well worth it; use them to make some LED throwies, and let the fun begin.

Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
What is the mystery port on the MacBook Pro?  —  So, today's case spy shots would reveal a couple of interesting nuggets if they turn out to be the final designs of Tuesday's MacBooks.  Firstly, the 13 inch-ish case is sans Firewire.  Systems Admins will have to move those Boot images over the network now for all but the Pro models.

In the News: Six Mayan protesters in Chiapas were killed in a police action this week. The protesters had taken over the Chinkultic ruins in early September, arguing that profits from the high entrance fee were not being reinvested in local infrastructure. In the interim they had been charging a reduced fee to tourists and said they were going to use monies collected to fix local roads.

Confronting Old Demons: New guest blogger Emanuel Lusca at anthropology.net rereads Crapanzano’s Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan.

Somehow Involved a Connection is Made: I received an email from Richard Price about his new website, academia.edu. Half social networking site, one-fourth open access initiative, and one-fourth to be decided, Price is “hoping that the site will eventually list every academic in the world—Faculty members, Post-Docs, and Graduate Students. People can add their departments, and themselves, to the tree by clicking on the arrows.” What Price describes as the current “tree format,” for searching for individuals is a bit clunky, and it could be enhanced by a few more rhizomic peer-to-peer features. But maybe that will get worked out in the beta version. And, if it is true that anthropological theory is often taught via intellectual genealogies, then this could be a fun tool to map our incestuous connections.

Hating HTS isn’t just for leftists anymore! Maximilian Forte found this gem of an article from the Christian Clarity Review. Aside from the promotion of the pagan Roman goddess Minerva, project pagan supposedly embeds satanic vices in both the indigenous peoples and American troops.

AAA makes the grade? Inside Higher Ed wrote an article on the AAA’s decision to make their articles sort-of open access. And they mentioned Chris’s and Rex’s commentaries from Savage Minds.
The idea of the association fully embracing open source as a philosophy is so unexpected that one scholar — when contacted for this article and read the headline on the press release — started laughing hysterically. Another started his blog posting by writing “Breaking News! Stop the Presses!!! OMGWTF!!!!”
Hmm…I wonder who responded with uncontrollable laughter. I really do.

Too Cool for School: Columbia undergrads lament that the Natural History Museum is just not hip enough for them.

A Department of one’s own: Following Georgetown’s fission a couple weeks ago, Purdue University’s sociology and anthropology department has split into their respective disciplines.

Best Week Ever? O.k., now I’m really out of titles. Crystal at TravelScrabble wrote a fun travel piece on a week she spent in Durban, the quick ethnographic impressions it made on her, and on the construction of the ‘exceptional.’

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hi everyone

okay so I'm tempted to jailbreak my ipod touch right now, but I'm kind of scared. I dont want to mess it up!... anyway I watched a couple tutorials on youtube.. and I downloaded "quickpwn" (I hope that's the one I'm supposed to use since my OS is VISTA) anyway so I was about to go to the next step which is actually run the quickpwn thing and then it asked me to find the file of the firmware Ihave.. which is the 2.1 version. I went to the folder it was supposed to be but it was not there. I searched everywhere and I couldnt find it... so I tried to find it online and I found IT... so I downloaded the firmware from the following website


so it is already on my desktop but I'm not sure if it is the right firmware... so if you can check the website and tell me if I should use it or not.. I would appreciate it.. thats what I really need to know

aaaan I want to know if there is any risk I mess up my ipod touch.. I dont want to try to jailbreak it and end up messing up with it..

help please

[stuart] wanted a more intuitive way to control his rover platform than the software solution he had been using. He settled on using a Playstation controller with an AVR to operate the rover wirelessly. He found a couple references for talking to the controller using SPI on a PIC and adapted that for his ATMega88. The code is available on his site. He removed the rumble motors from the controller and stuffed the chip plus the transmitter package inside. The Linx TX/RX pair are mounted to pluggable boards so he can use them on other projects. A video of the tank in motion is after the jump.

      

yeah, they made me move my xbox and consoles and computers to the basement, as our house has an alarm and it protects the basement so we can't be down there late at night. it's not all bad, I get to put the xbox on an HD screen and I set up my old dell that can't do crap. But here's the great part, I got to keep the imac g3 in my room. I passed it off to them as at best a word processor and a good music player. They still wanted me to move it but it does match the paint color in my and I got it to pass a decoration. So I still have a descent at best way to browse the internet in my room but it's better than my what my bro has (jack).

but it's meager performance makes me seriously consider getting a job for the G4 upgrade http://fastmac.com/imacslot.php and a maybe for a couple extra dollars to save and use on my sweet sweet neon
-Tyler

Partner to the up of posting about pregnancy is the down of posting about not being pregnant anymore.br /br /Thursday evening, about 4:30am, Angie had a miscarriage. She was sent to the hospital for the usual checkups and all that. They kept her in the hospital for a couple of days with a uterine infection and is now back in the hotel with me and Leif in Quebec city. We're doing well, and will head back to Montreal tomorrow - probably flying back to California on Wednesday.

Produit par la Fox, Phénomènes, nouveau long métrage du très controversé M. Night Shyamalan, suit un couple en crise, accompagné d'une petite fille sans défense, dans une Amérique parano[...]

Deux couples jeunes et intrépides se mettent en tête de quitter les paradisiaques îles Fidji pour partir en Nouvelle-Guinée, à la recherche de Michael Rockefeller, fils du milliardaire disparu en 1[...]

UK couples head to India to solve fertility problems

UK couples head to India to solve fertility problems

    Election toujours plus historique.
Le candidat républicain promet de botter le “you know what” de son adversaire démocrate dès qu’il en aura l’occasion.

    Selon le Washington Times, John McCain s’est adressé dimanche à ses partisans au quartier général d’Arlington. Il a reconnu que la crise financière lui avait causé quelques soucis mais il a annoncé un come-back. 

- “We’re a couple points down, OK, nationally, but we’re right in this game,” McCain said to cheers. “The economy has hurt us a little bit in the last week or two, but in the last few days we’ve seen it come back up because they want experience, they want knowledge and they want vision. We’ll give that to America.”

 McCain doit être lundi en Virginie, deux jours avant le dernier débat.

- “We’re going to spend a lot of time and after I whip his you-know-what in this debate, we’re going to be going out 24/7,” a-t-il dit.

hey guys

im just one of those people who did the front row enabler on my powerbook g4 a couple years ago (2006?). I purposely have not updated my operating system from 10.4.7, because they said if i did it to 10.4.8, it would corrupt my computer or worse, then i tried to find the info 2 years later now and i cant.

well as time has it, i am down to 1.3gb. so i installed a new flash program, but i needed to update my quicktime to run it and i don't have enough room or juice. so im stuck, no flash, no quicktime, no room, etc. so then i went out and bought a new 24 inch iMac, 2 x 3.06ghz, 4 gb ram, and 1000gb HD.

i have had it sitting in my living room for 3 months due to just how extremely busy i have been and also the fact, i am afraid that if i transfered my laptop to my new imac, it would somehow corrupt the files due to the front row enabler.

if anyone has any advice, or has done similar, please let me know :) ive read some stuff on faqs and help for front row enabler and im just not sure about it, so i was wondering if any of you pro's could weigh in, thanks so much, smitt

METAL CHURCH vocalist Ronny Munroe has uploaded a couple of new solo demo tracks to his MySpace page.

By David Lambert - A couple of weeks ago we reported that Peace Arch Entertainment in Canada is getting ready to release The Tudors - The Complete 1st Season: Uncut Edition on Blu-ray and The Tudors -... (more)

I was just customizing my Home screen (wiggling icons) and suddenly, the iPhone made a connection to the Internet via GPRS. 3G and WiFi were both off when this happenend. I pressed the Home button to save the icon arrangement and looked for any changes on my Home screen.

The App Store icon showed a small “1″ which means that there was a new update available for a certain app. The update was for Air Hockey. How is this possible? I can’t believe Apple would allow unwanted connections to be made on the iPhone, even if it’s for a couple of seconds.

Has anyone encountered the same thing? Or is this a known feature?

Edit:

Quote: Whenever you access the App Store, it checks for updates to applications you’ve installed. By default, the App Store also automatically checks for updates every week. The App Store icon shows the total number of application updates available. My bad. I should really read the user's guide.

Dare Obasanjo, a Microsoft employee and the son of a former President of Nigeria, doesn’t like it when people disagree with him. I found that out in 2007 when Obasanjo vandalized the TechCrunch Wikipedia page in response to a post we wrote that was mildly critical of Microsoft’s hiring of a blogger to edit certain Wikipedia entries relating to Open Office standards. His actions as an individual and as a representative of Microsoft were outrageous.

Today he writes a post accusing us of “encouraging…garbage” on TechCrunch because we’ve reported on the market fall over the last week, pointing to three examples (out of over 100 posts last week) where we the fall of Yahoo and Google stock, and the Seesmic layoffs.

“The last thing we need is popular blogs AND the mass media spreading despair and schadenfreude at a time like this,” he says.

Our job isn’t to cheerlead the startup scene no matter what happens. Our job is to report the news as it happens and add our opinion as we feel is appropriate. So even if we were reporting nothing but doom and gloom, the criticism isn’t appropriate.

But in face we’ve been fairly cheerful over the last week, reporting on a couple of dozen new startups and products, focusing as much as possible on the positive, and trying to defocus the mobs from blaming the venture capitalists for what’s happening in the markets.

In other words, the tone of our coverage hasn’t changed.

So what happened? You guessed it. We dared to disagree with something the Obasanjo had to say over on TechCrunchIT, which he immediately characterized as a personal attack. A few days later- zap! - he finds three posts that aren’t all roses and butterflies and makes a subtle accusation that suggests TechCrunch may be partly to blame for the hysteria in the market right now.

This isn’t ok from anyone, and it really isn’t ok from a high profile Microsoft blogger. This is the second time Microsoft, through Obasanjo, has attacked us when we disagreed with them. No other large companies as far as I know use their employees as attack dogs to silent dissent. It’s time for Microsoft to stop this nonsense.

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Does anyone know if there is a way to back up voice mails? AT&T deletes voice mails after a month. I have a couple that I would love to be able to save somehow. I use syphone for SMS. Is there anything similar? Thanks.

So today is my last day to return my 2G 16GB iPod touch.
The reason why I want to return it is because of a dead pixel.
I'm not sure if they will replace it with a refurb, fix the screen, or give me a new one.
I went online to make an appointment at the Genius Bar.
There was the most perfect slot open.
Well, my dumb a$$ decided to use my iPod to make the appointment and Safari crashed when I was almost done, thus leaving the spot open for someone else.
I called my local Apple Store to see if I had gotten far enough for it to make the appointment, turn out I didn't and...
Somebody took it!
The guy told me there weren't any other spots open today and I asked him if there was anyway he could possibly squeeze me in today since it was my last day to return it.
He said that they will try to get me in when I am there.
So hopefully they will be able to find some time for me when I leave in a couple hours.

Do you guys have any suggestion involving your past experiences at the Apple Store?

Thank You. ^_^

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/green/" rel="tag"Green/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/audi/" rel="tag"Audi/a/pimg hspace="4" border="0" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/kevin-q7.jpg" alt="" /br /br /As the AMM fleet rolls across north Texas, my co-driver Steve Ewing and I are currently on the tail of the Q7 piloted by Kevin Kelly and the legendary Jim McCraw. Jim, a veteran of four One Lap of America events, is used to these long slogs. Actually, for Jim this is more like a luxury cruise. On the One Lap, the teams circumnavigate the country in only a week, often end sleeping in cars and cheap motels. For us, the longest leg was the run from Chicago to Memphis, a trek of nearly 550 miles (more for those whose nav systems got confused among the Chicago skyscrapers). br /br /Jim and Kevin managed to top the charts yesterday on the stage from Memphis to Little Rock to Dallas with 30.3 mpg while Steve and I only got 28.6. Jim managed to get hooked up behind a semi that was cruising at a good clip for an extended period of time, while we had trouble finding any trucks running faster than 60-65 mph. The day before, on the trip from Chicago, we tied at 28.8 mpg although Jim and Kevin had a slightly higher average speed at 63 mph vs our 60 mph. We've since become aware of a couple of tricks that seem to be helping, which I'll divulge at a later time. Never let it be said that journalists aren't competitive. As I finish writing this paragraph, a slightly faster truck passed us, and Steve has slipped in behind it. As we slid past, I glanced over to see a very unprofessional finger gesture from Mr. Kelly. Kevin and I will be discussing that tonight over steaks in Amarillo.h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://audimileagemarathon.com/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/12/audi-mileage-marathon-digital-gestures-in-texas/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1339511/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/12/audi-mileage-marathon-digital-gestures-in-texas/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=vnKpvJ"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=vnKpvJ" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=Olbrm"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=Olbrm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=MYz0m"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=MYz0m" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/418783168" height="1" width="1"/