Pulled Verizon video shows an unannounced tablet, could it be the Xoom 2?

By Vlad Savov posted Jun 17th 2011 4:34AM Oh Verizon, did you just spill confidential information all over your YouTube channel? The guys over at Droid-Life spotted a VZW ad starring a mysterious new Honeycomb tablet, which to our ninja-trained eyes looks to exhibit many of the design elements of Motorola’s Xoom. It could, of course, be just about anything, given that Verizon yanked the video almost as soon as the above screengrab was lifted, but the rear of this 10(ish)-inch tablet looks very much like a Xoom designed to be used in portrait orientation. We know Moto has a Xoom 2 cooking in the oven and it’s not unreasonable to surmise that Verizon is putting together the finishing touches on a promo campaign for it. Now if only we could get a look at that video with our own eyes…

Sony tablet teaser video is breathtaking, not overly informative

Woosh. Plonk. Snap. Like a highly atmospheric scene from your favorite film noir, Sony’s teaser video for the S1 and S2 tablets starts off with isolated sounds and a bit of quick motion before settling into a sumptuous, deliberately paced feast for your eyeballs. You might say it’s high art posing as a consumer electronics promo, particularly if you compare it to ASUS or Huawei’s efforts in the field. There’s sadly little in the way of new information, all we really get to witness are the reassuring Android Honeycomb software keys on the larger S1, but this «first impression» clip is the start of a series of ads revolving around a pair of alabaster figurines and their tablet-assisted love affair. Give the play button a bash for your recommended daily dose of awesome.

Don’t tell us where you’re going, Nissan Leaf driver, we already know (video)

That cute little bugger above certainly looks innocent enough, but it might have been spreading some pretty detailed gossip behind your back. Leaf-driver Casey Halverson was playing around with the RSS reader in his Carwings system when he discovered that it wasn’t just collecting feeds from RSS servers, it was also telling those servers his car’s current location, speed, heading and even the destination he’d set in the sat nav. Strangely, Halverson’s undercover tattletale appears to have halted its indiscretions after he posted the discovery on his blog, but we’re surmising there’s still hundreds of server logs up and down the country that prove it really happened, not to mention his video after the break. Cue Rockwell, fade to black.

Harvard’s Kilobot project does swarm robots on the cheap (video)

We’ve certainly seen plenty of swarm robots before, but few of those are cheap enough to let you easily build something that can truly be called a «swarm.» These so-called Kilobots developed by Harvard’s Self-organizing Systems Research Group, however, can apparently built for just $14 apiece, and can each be assembled in just five minutes to boot. Despite that low cost, the bots are still capable of plenty of swarm-like behaviors, including the ability to follow the leader, disperse in an environment, put on a synchronized LED light show. Head on past the break for a pair of videos.

Parrot AR.Drone floats into damaged New Zealand cathedral, returns with haunting video

Whenever disaster strikes, robots are among the first to scope out the damage. Rarely, however, do they return with footage as eerie as what this Parrot AR.Drone recorded in Christchurch, New Zealand. In the wake of Monday’s 6.0-magnitude earthquake, engineers sent the $500 bot into the city’s Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament — a 106-year-old Roman Catholic church that had sustained significant damage, rendering it too dangerous for humans to enter. The iPad-controlled quadrocopter swooped in and captured rather depressing images of the cathedral’s battered interior. The video’s quality may be low, but its creepy quotient is high: shattered stained-glass windows, piles of debris, stray pieces of iconography — it’s all quite heavy. Head past the break to see it for yourself.

 

Flixtime: Online video Editor free to create them with music and photos

Thank you very much I remember always that expression in the propaganda of Open English where that plays clumsy said that «that the Internet will happen fashion»; much laughter to me gives me because every day we are really innovating; practically we are more than necessary in a world that is rapidly changing. It is my perception. And I’m right.

And this time I will speak about Flixtime, a practical, versatile video editor to which we can get much benefit because it allows editions online without problem.

The main thing you need to do the user before you can use Flixtime is to create an account for free, what seems a little negative, since many will no longer use it for your little desire to do that, the fact of registration. Although it is free, just that bothers, all alike. The truth is that it is available now in Spanish as you can see.

Flixtime allows you to add your photos, videos/songs, to create new videos from the same, although it has a restriction that only you can create videos of 60 seconds. By the way that this web tool generates hosted videos in flash format on the same site and you can share them with your friends giving the URL. A fairly complete page, and versatile.

Now that I am speaking of sharing, I commented that with Flixtime , you can share the videos in a vast majority of the sites social as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, among others; It generates the video files in various resolutions, such as HD or Full HD-quality. A good utility!

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Web link | Flixtime

3DP Chip: download drivers of card sound, video and network in Windows XP

Once we have gone through the process of format and install Windows from scratch, it is a rather cumbersome procedure for some and for others not because everything depends on what motherboard we are dealing with and above all of the manufacturer. The drivers give you a capacity to each physical component, interact directly with any operating system.

In that vein, we are always looking for how to get the drivers to facilitate everything; And we have ways of finding them directly with free software, such as DriverEasy or MyPCDrivers, which are two of the best, facilitate us work than anyone else. However, today I bring you another option that I recommended Jesus, called 3DP Chip.

As we know the main drivers that we need in any team are the network and of course the graphics card as the audio; with these three, we could survive.

3DP Chip clearly understands this, and for that reason is that his free program we will, once execute you (does not require installation is portable software), detect what they have installed in our computer at the physical level, and allow us to download the driver, of course, up to date. That is, detects the drivers and tells you if they are outdated.

Each detected item, you click and takes you to its database which allows you to download the updated driver. 3DP Chip is a very powerful program, small; I recommend it to the users who will update their drivers, but do not want to do it manually.

This program, in addition to being free, portable, is available in English and is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003 Server, etc., and almost all versions of Microsoft’s system.

And finally, thank you, Jesus, by the notice and good contributions such as these.

Web link | 3DP Chip

Free Media Catcher: download the video and audio that you want from Internet

Many do not know, but when you surf the Internet, your computer is downloading all what you’re seeing (files web page, images, audio or video, etc.), and that content is accessible without many problems. That is precisely the purpose of free Media catcher.

But with a different operation mode, free Media catcher allows you to download the user everything what is seeing (in terms of multimedia content: audio and video) while it is surfing the Web. It is fully compatible with sites like YouTube, DailyMotion and the like, as well as with pages where listening to music online as Last.fm, among others.

free Media catcher has an intuitive, simple to use interface. Click on the option «Reduce in Taskbar» order to start to expect the content to that way, download them to your computer. Supports files of audio MP3 / OGG, as regards videos supports FLV and new Google WebM, also with MP4 format. Program is compatible with Windows 7.

Once you start the «capture» process, i.e. when it begins to download the files that the user will see on the Web, not may be detained, which I think is a bug, that in the future should be corrected. Rest, free Media catcher is a quite effective, and above all to web pages where we do not know tools for multimedia files.

By the way, free Media catcher is available only in English and French.

I’ve seen it in ArtugroGoga.com
Web link | Free Media Catcher