Calculator Digital Camera For Number Nerds Hits

Now you don’t have to pack both a digital camera AND a calculator when you go on vacation. The poetically named DIGITAL CARD CALCULATOR CAMERA does it all — badly. The two gadgets are so clumsily integrated that the calculator doesn’t even tap into the camera’s battery — it’s solar powered, just like a stand-alone calculator. It even features USB 1.1 connectivity, for those nostalgic for the connection speeds of yesteryear. (props to Oh Gizmo!)

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Numeric Keypad Mouse For Number Nerds Hits

Japan’s Sanwa managed to build a NUMERIC KEYPAD INTO A MOUSE, which they shout the NT-MA2. The innovation should help the average user save 13.2 seconds per week considering they don’t have to move their hand from mouse to keyboard for numbers, according to my calculations. (props to Akihabara News)

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Downgrade 1.1.1 iPhone firmware instructions

If you went ahead an installed 1.1.1 only to end up with a Jonathan Ive-designed paperweight at the end of it, you’ve got a couple of choices: go to your nearest Apple store, tail within your legs, and hope they take pity on you and fix your iPhone somehow, or turn to your friendly neighbourhood hack-community and see what functionality they can restore.  by at the Apple-Touch forums we’re pointed in the direction of some instructions that promise at least a partial restore; in that case, use of all but the GSM functionality unless you’re using the original AT&T SIM. 

So, whether you can invent do with WiFi connectivity, that might just be your salvation; basically it downgrades all but the baseband to firmware version 1.0.2 - not perfect but we’re told that the team are still beavering away.  Full directions after the cut…

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iPhone 1.1.1 full rundown including hidden features

With the tail end of Sunday in sight, I’d imagine quite a few iPhone owners have been spending the weekend getting to grips with Apple’s 1.1.1 firmware upgrade, downloading the 152.3mb file and bringing their shiny handset up to Steve-speed.  The headline feature is of course the iTunes WiFi Store, but there are plenty of other tweaks and improvements that might not leap out at you instantly; should you have missed them, or whether you’re wondering what a shop-fresh iPhone will come with, here’s the full run-down of the 1.1.1 handset including some of the features Apple hasn’t mentioned…

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Burma Another Reason to Boycott China Olympics

I told you August 11 that everybody wants to boycott China’s Beijing 2008 Olympic games but nobody agrees on why (cultural genocide in Tibet; regular genocide in Darfur; defective and dangerous products; catastrophic pollution; animal cruelty; slaughter of endangered species; repression of citizens; censorship; repression of the Falun Gong — take your pick). Now everyone from EU ministers to San Francisco protesters are calling for a boycott based on China’s active support of the CRACKDOWN IN BURMA. Why don’t we all come together and boycott the Olympics considering of the entire list?

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Burma Another Reason to Boycott Beijing 2008

I told you August 11 that everybody wants to boycott China’s Beijing 2008 Olympic games but nobody agrees on why (cultural genocide in Tibet; regular genocide in Darfur; defective and dangerous products; catastrophic pollution; animal cruelty; slaughter of endangered species; repression of citizens; censorship; repression of the Falun Gong — take your pick). Now everyone from EU ministers to San Francisco protesters are calling for a boycott based on China’s active support of the CRACKDOWN IN BURMA. Why don’t we all come together and boycott the Olympics considering of the entire list?

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China Is rigid On IP Theft … When It’s China’s IP

The government of China allows and even protects the thousands of Chinese companies that blatantly steal the intellectual property of companies worldwide. But when someone steals IP belonging to the government, the hammer comes down. The government ordered police to arrest a man that week for running a FAKE BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008 web site. The government’s entire approach to IP law has nothing to do with fairness, internationally accepted norms or any other criteria other than what lines the pockets of the corrupt communists who rule China.

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