Question by Sid: I will soon be updating my Sprint phone. What’s the best Sprint phone to get that has a physical keyboard? I will only be using it to text, make quick posts to Facebook and Twitter, and check my Yahoo mail. But I really won’t be doing a lot of web surfing other than that and I won’t be watching any movies on it.
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Answer by clintonThese two are the best sprint has to offer for what your looking for http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/htc-arrive-sprint/4505-6452_7-34195351.html This runs wp7
http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/htc-evo-shift-4g/4505-6452_7-34467083.html this runs android
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Using Microsoft’s Kinect to replace a mouse is often considered the Holy Grail of developers; there have been hacks and other tricks to get it working well before Kinect for Windows was even an option. A lead Technical Evangelist for Microsoft in France, David Catuhe, has just provided a less makeshift approach. The 1.2 update to his Kinect Toolbox side project introduces hooks to control the mouse outright, including ‘magnetic’ control to draw the mouse from its original position. To help keep the newly fashioned input (among other gestures) under control, Catuhe has also taken advantage of the SDK 1.5 release to check that the would-be hand-waver is sitting and staring at the Kinect before accepting any input. The open-source Windows software is available to grab for experimentation today, so if you think hands-free belongs as much on the PC desktop as in a car, you now have a ready-made way to make the dream a reality… at least, until you have to type.
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Question by : Is there anyway I could make a physical camera button on my android x2? I know from the first android there was a button to take pictures but on the new android there isn’t now. Is there anyway I could make a physical button for the camera? Like assigning a button or something? It would make taking pictures a lot easier.
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Answer by Jackno,because now most of phones use the screen to take photos
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120227014951AALsbwm
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Related Posts:Question by Donald Mume: Is there a WP7 Phone that has a Physical Portrait Keyboard? I was going to buy the Dell Lightning (Venue Pro) But they only released it for AT&T, and I NEED a physical keyboard…help???
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Answer by YumYumI’de check in the users manual to find out.
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Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak offered more details this afternoon during an analyst earnings call about the company’s disappointing fourth quarter
When it comes to physical media, Szkutak said the biggest hit to revenue came in the area of video game sales, which includes both console and game sales (but not games sold digitally, say from Amazon’s app store). Even though he didn’t offer specific numbers on that front, he noted that video games sales are seasonal and normally take a big leap in the last quarter of the year — and that happened this year, but it wasn’t enough to match 2010 revenue. In part, that’s because more of those sales are going to Amazon’s third-party sellers, rather than Amazon itself. So video game sales, as measured in units, were up, while revenue was down.
As far as the Kindle goes, Szkutak would only repeat Amazon’s previous statement that Kindle sales (including the Kindle Fire tablet) grew 177 percent compared to the same period last year. When asked if the Fire might be cannibalizing sales of Kindle e-readers, Szkutak said, “Both devices, meaning the readers and Fire, did very well.” And if you’re curious about Amazon’s original staple, physical books, those sales saw double digital growth too. As Szkutak noted, that’s “impressive given the shift to Kindle.”
Meanwhile, digital content sales were up across-the-board, he said.
The Pirate Bay, the torrent and magnet link hosting giant, has created a new category of downloadables enable a user to 3-D print physical objects. Many believe this will become all the rage in the coming years. Awesooooooome! *starts downloading all the action figures I had as a child and foolishly sold for $ 1 apiece at a yard sale*
…a Pirate Bayer calling himself WinstonQ2038 explained the thinking behind the new category: “We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical.”
You’ll need a 3D printer to take advantage of the files on offer, meaning it is not quite as simple as downloading an MP3, but the move opens up the possibility of intellectual property infringement for physical objects.”
Are you thinking what I’m thinking? “Printing 3-D dildos of all our favorite celebrities?!” WHAT? NO. We have to create an online shop first, THEN start printing the dildos. You know I’m really starting to question you as a business partner.
The Pirate Bay file-sharing site offers 3D objects [newscientist]
Thanks to don d and Petra, who are gonna print themselves 3-D printers. Whoa.
Related Posts:Question by wiscoteach: What is the best iPad case for someone with a physical disability? I am a special education teacher and I’m looking for the best iPad case/stand that is easy to open and set up for someone with limited strength and dexterity. Any suggestions? I need something that also has a stand for typing angle, not just a protective case. The apple case with the little tab in the back is too difficult for my student to set up.
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Answer by Rose DI think Apple’s case is probably the best as far as weight. It’s very light. You might also consider a case by Otterbox if it needs to provide extra protection. Another possibility is an iPad case designed for kids. There are several on the market that offer drop protection as well as ease of use.
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It’s hard to believe, but it’s been exactly ten years since the iPod was first unveiled, ultimately changing the music industry forever. The iPod wasn’t the first, it wasn’t the smallest, it didn’t have the largest hard drive, but it did have an iconic style and simple to use interface that led march away from CDs. When the history of Apple is written the iPod (perhaps more than the iMac, OS X or the iPhone) will be credited with helping spearhead the company’s second coming. Over the years the music player has seen countless iterations and redesigns, and an expansion of the product line to include smaller devices and touch screens — but for most it’s the scroll wheel and white earbuds that define the iPod. Sure, what is now called the iPod classic hasn’t seen a serious update since about 2007, but it still holds a special place in our hearts, especially for those of us who don’t measure their music collection in a few dozen iTunes downloads.
The iPod turns 10, celebrates a decade of destroying physical media originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Unless you’ve got a penchant for going the ultralight route, chances are you’ve got a DVD or other optical drive in your laptop that you rarely, if ever, actually stick a disk in it. This concept, dubbed disk+Mouse plans to put that space to good use holding a pointer that stores flat, but pops up in a conical shape when needed. Of course, by this time next year we’ll all probably be looking at physical media the same way we did floppies in the post iMac world and this will be nothing but a cutesy throwback with no place to go — just like those cassette-shaped USB drives.
CD-shaped mouse is perfect for our physical media-free future originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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A couple weeks ago, a stealthy startup called Prism SkyLabs was formed in San Francisco. Already it’s creating buzz among angel investors. It’s site is not much more than a place holder right now with this vague description:
We are pioneering ways to bring physical spaces online, creating new places for people and businesses to understand and engage each other.
A few more clues can be uncovered by looking at the two co-founders: CEO Steve Russell and president Ron Palmeri. Russell previously founded 3VR, a digital video security company where he is currently chairman. But Prism Skylabs is his new full-time gig.
Palmeri was Halsey Minor’s right-hand man at Minor Ventures, where he backed and incubated GrandCentral (now Google Voice), OpenDNS, and Scout Labs, a social CRM and brand-monitoring service sold to Lithium Technologies (which turned into a lawsuit)
So you’ve got a video surveillance expert and a Silicon Valley investor with a background in the consumer Web and social media analytics, and they want to “bring physical places online.” My bet is that they do that through video. Beyond that, we’ll have to keep digging. But it sounds like this startup is aiming squarely for the ever-expanding online-to-offline market.
We’ll keep our own video cameras trained on this one.
