Apple I Motherboard from 1976 sells for $374,500 at Sotheby’s Auction

Apple I Motherboard from 1976 sells for $374,500

On June 16 2012 an Apple I Motherboard from 1976 sold for $374,500 at Sotheby’s Auction. Sotheby’s was hoping to get between $120,000 and $180,000 for the extremely rare item. The motherboard was one of around one hundred fifty made, one of around fifty to known to currently exist and one of six in working condition.

Although the buyer still needs a keyboard, monitor, case, and power supply to make it work; the original user manuals and some marketing materials are included.

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Sharp Neon Genesis Evangelion SH-06D Android Phone

Sharp Neon Genesis Evangelion SH-06D Android Phone

Neon Genesis Evangelion will love this phone, Sharp Neon Genesis Evangelion SH-06D Android Phone. Only be 10,000 of the phones available, but they will only be sold in Japan. It features a heavily customized case, hardware buttons and 3D Android 2.3 skin designed to reflect its heritage. Pre-orders start today, and the phone officially goes on sale June 29.
The Sharp Neon Genesis Evangelion SH-06D Android Phone will be priced at around ¥25,000-¥30,000 JPY (approximately $315-$377 USD).
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Apple WordPress App Sends Photos to WordPress Instantly

“If you’re passionate about posting great photos on your blog, you might just fall in love with this new feature. If you have Camera+ 3.0 on your phone (and WordPress for iOS 2.9.5 or higher), you’ll be able to quickly post photos using the Camera+ app! Simply launch the WordPress app, and tap the Photo button.

Posting a photo from the Camera+ Lightbox is dead easy. Tap “Add Photo from Camera+,” and your phone switches to the Camera+ app – select a photo to load it into the WordPress app. Add a Title and a Description (both optional), and boom! You’re done.

Using Camera+ to snap your photo is just as easy. Tap “Take Photo with Camera+” to switch to the Camera+ app’s camera. Make a “meow” sound to locate your cat, add effects, borders, and crop your photo. When you’re done, just press “Use” and your photo is imported into the WordPress app where you can add details if you want.

What’s Next

As more camera apps open up their features for other apps, we’ll look into making more options available. Camera+ was the first to open their app up for integrations, but hopefully more will follow.

For now, the Camera+ options are only available for the Photo button on iPhone, but we’re hoping to add it to the Post Editor very soon as well. If you don’t have Camera+ on your phone, the options simply won’t be shown. Be sure to subscribe to this blog and follow us on Twitter to get the latest news first.”
– http://ios.wordpress.org/2012/03/15/camera-plus/

 

WordPress announced Thursday that the latest version of WordPress for iOS and Camera+ app will allow bloggers to post images from their photo library straight to their blogs without a third party application or waiting to post on the computer.
The news is great for a variety of bloggers whose daily lives play an integral role on their blogs, whether the focus is on street culture, food, or fashion. With the update, bloggers can post their photo essays like they could with Instagram on Twitter, but take the time to add more than just 140 characters to describe their pictures.

Mobile photography is easily becoming a great resource for bloggers because they no longer need to lug around bulky DSLR cameras or even the already portable point-and-shoots. If you own an iPhone, chances are you might also have Camera+, one of Apple’s top 10 bestselling apps of all time worldwide. The app recently reached its 7 millionth download, making Camera+ the most popular paid photo app to date despite Instagram being free.

“Posting a photo from the Camera+ Lightbox is dead easy,” WordPress said on its official blog. “Tap ‘Add Photo from Camera+,’ and your phone switches to the Camera+ app – select a photo to load it into the WordPress app. Add a Title and a Description (both optional), and boom! You’re done.” Users can also take photos from their Camera+ app and select to use the photo on WordPress, so order doesn’t really matter.

Other updates to Camera+ 3.0 include new app icon, focus and exposure locks, multiple photo library import, improved MSM sharing and web links, and new VolumeSnap settings for those who prefer to use their volume up button as the shutter like a traditional camera. Users can also send Camera+ photos to more than just WordPress, but also Tweetbot, Twitterific, and Foodspotting.

The ability to post photos on the go is a large trend in micro-blogging as bloggers continue to scavenge their city for interesting takes on what they see in their daily lives, or hidden gems that could only be described by photos. Camera+ also stated on their official blog that it hopes the integration will encourage other photography apps to follow suit. At the moment, the mobile app for Tumblr lets users upload photo from their library as well, but not as directly from another photography app integration.

Now that the camera specifications on the iPhone 4S and the new iPad are more improved than ever, edited pictures from Camera+ might even rival the quality of an actual handheld digital camera. Photos from the iPhone 4 currently dominate as the most popular photography platform of choice on Flickr, leading just above the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and the declining Nikon D90, so it won’t be surprising if camera phones take over traditional photography by the year’s end.


Fishfinder for your iOS and Android Devices by Friday Lab

The Deeper | Smart Fishfinder for iOS and Android devices

The Deeper | Smart Fishfinder for iOS and Android devices-
Just when you thought your iPhone casn do everythiung, Friday Lab brings us the Deeper | Smart Fishfinder. The fishfinder is suppored bu smartphones and tablets supporting Android 2.2+ and iOS 4.0+, works in the depths from 0.5m to 40m. The device connects via bluetooth can be charged using a conventional Micro USB cable. You will be the coolest guy on the lake with this fish finder!

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Casio G-Shock GW-A1000

Casio G-Shock GW-A1000

The new Casio G-Shock GW-A1000 is the most cockpit-ready watch within the crowded G-Shock aviation series. But the watch is also one of the most capable and practical models. This solar-powered, multi-band atomoc watch is the first G-shock built with “Smart Access” — an electronic crown switch and five-motor drive which powers the chronograph, hour, minute, and seconds hands independently. By interacting with the crown switch, the wearer can quickly and easily switch between home and world times, or instantly display the current UTC time. G-Shock’s legendary shock resistance also gets an update, with the GW-A1000′s Triple G Resist technology. The casing around the the watch module is essentially floating in a synthetic gel, which provides added resistance against vibration, shock, and centrifugal force. Casio has yet to release a price point for the GW-A1000, but we can expect it to be upwards of the $280 asked for the GW-3000 series watches.

 


OldChromeRemover – Remove Obsolete Google Chrome Versions.

“OldChromeRemover is a simple console program that checks for any redundant versions of Google Chrome left behind by the updater. It will quickly remove all except the newest version when prompted by the user, allowing you to free up valuable disk space. OldChromeRemover also supports Chrome ‘Canary’ builds.”

Shane Gowland.

Via http://shanegowland.com/software/2012/oldchromeremover-module/

 

App. did what it claim to do, but still have not seen any dramatic changes to HD space regarding Chrome, YMMV.

phil@gadgetables.com


Foxconn Resolves Pay Dispute With Workers.

Via nytimes.com – Image: wikipedia.org

Contrinutor: DAVID BARBOZA.

SHANGHAI — Foxconn Technology, the largest contract electronics manufacturer in the world, said Thursday that it had resolved a pay dispute with scores of workers at one of its factories in central China, following a large protest that involved threats by some workers to commit suicide by leaping from the top of a factory building.

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The company, a major supplier of products to Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and other electronics giants, said the dispute last week had been resolved successfully and peacefully but that 45 workers had resigned.

In a statement released Thursday, Foxconn said most of the protesting workers had agreed to return to work after negotiations were held with the company and local government officials. But details of the agreement were not released. One of the workers said they had been promised additional compensation.

Foxconn said the protest had involved about 150 of the 32,000 employees at its campus in the city of Wuhan. It was the latest in a long-running series of labor troubles to befall the company, which supplies popular goods like the Apple iPhone, the Amazon Kindle and the Microsoft Xbox.

In 2010, Foxconn was hit by a wave of suicides by distraught workers at several of its Chinese sites. The company, which is controlled by Hon Hai Hai Precision Industry of Taiwan, has been accused of forcing workers to endure long hours and harsh working conditions for little pay.

Under pressure from Apple and other major brands, Foxconn has pledged to improve working conditions in China, and the company has even hired psychiatrists to counsel workers. The company has also embarked on a huge program to invest in robots and to move some of its production to central and western parts of China, where labor is less costly and more abundant. The company says the new campuses also allow migrant workers to live closer to their hometowns.

But while working conditions at Foxconn and other exporters in China may be slowly improving, the demands of workers seem to be rising faster.

There has been a rash of strikes and labor protests throughout the nation in recent months, partly in response to inflation and a greater awareness of the labor laws. The strikes, which sometimes involve thousands of workers, often include demands for higher pay, insurance and better working conditions.

In Wuhan, some of the workers who protested said they were angry about being forced to move from Foxconn’s biggest campus, in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, to Wuhan.

One worker who participated in the Wuhan protest said by telephone that workers shifted to Wuhan had been promised about $450 a month in salary, including overtime pay, but that they had been given about a third less than that and that working conditions in Wuhan were much more difficult.

The worker, who asked not to be identified for fear of being punished by Foxconn, said more than 100 workers had decided to protest on the roof of a three-story building on the campus. The protest lasted more than eight hours.

Several threatened to commit suicide if their demands were not met, he said.

“That day was very cold,” he said. “Some women could not stand the freezing temperatures and fainted.”

In a statement released Thursday, Foxconn said: “The welfare of our employees is our top priority, and we are committed to ensuring that all employees are treated fairly and that their rights are fully protected.”

 

phil@gadgetables.com


$59 Chinese Tablet Runs Android 4.0

HongYuXing tablet

If you’re lucky enough to live in China, then you would have access to this Android Powered Tablet by HongYuXing. Not the most powerful tablet out there, but well worth it consideringthe price.

“One of the perks of living in China is that you will get access to a ton of extremely cheap gadgets, some of them with specs that aren’t too bad either. Well if you are living in China at the moment, or if you know a way to import devices from China, you might be interested in taking a look at this Android tablet released by Chinese company, HongYuXing, a tablet which not only runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but costs an extremely affordable $59.

As far as its specs are concerned, the tablet will be powered by an Allwinner A10 processor based on the Cortex A8 core with Mali400 GPU and 2160P video decoding capabilities. It will sport a 7” 800×480 touch screen display, a G sensor, support for Flash and will run on Android 4.0 with a front-facing camera. Not exactly the most powerful tablet we’ve seen, but for those looking for an Android 4.0 experience for under $100, this could be what you’re looking for. Now if only we could see more of these affordable devices make its way stateside.”

Source: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/03/hongyuxing-android-4-0-tablet-is-an-affordable-59-in-china/


Is the Galaxy Nexus the Phone to get?

 

Galaxy Nexus

The Galaxy Nexus is a touchscreen slate Android smartphone developed by a partnership between Google and Samsung.[23] The phone and operating system were developed collaboratively by engineers from both companies.[24] It is the third generation successor to Google’s previous flagship phones, the Nexus One and Nexus S. It has an HD (720p)[25] Super AMOLED display with curved glass, an improved camera system, and Google’s new version of its Android operating system, version 4.0, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich.[26] The name is the result of co-branding between the Samsung Galaxy and Google Nexus brands of Android smartphones.

The Galaxy Nexus features a 4.65-inch 1280×720-pixel HD Super AMOLED PenTile[41] curved glass display,[11] a dual-core 1.2 GHz TI OMAP 4460 processor (ARM Cortex-A9)[8] with an accompanying PowerVR SGX540,[42] 1 GB of RAM; a 1,750 mAh battery (1,850 mAh LTE version); 1.3 MP front camera and 5 MP rear camera (with zero shutter lag) capable of 1080p video with the rear camera and 720p with the front camera;[43] 4G; Wi-Fi a/b/g/n; Bluetooth; GPS, barometer; NFC;[39] and 16 GB or 32 GB of internal storage.

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the first device running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The HSPA+ GSM version is a pentaband device, able to utilize 3G networks nearly anywhere in the world. In terms of hardware, the Galaxy Nexus features a 4.65-inch 720 Super AMOLED HD display, 16GB or 32GB of on-board storage, 1GB of RAM, and NFC technology.

The Galaxy Nexus is a new phone in the series created by Samsung. It’s the third official phone contracted by Google and the first phone to come with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Specs include a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 16/32GB of internal storage, a 4.65 inch 720p HD Super AMOLED display, a 5 megapixel camera with 1080p HD video recording, a 1.3 megapixel camera and a lot more.

The phone features NFC-based sharing with a feature called Androdid Beam, face-recognition unlocking, advanced battery and data monitoring options and a lot more that is possible with the advent of Android 4.0.


Arsenal Firearms AF2011-A1 Double Barrel Pistol, 2 Shots for the Price of One.

Arsenal Firearms AF2011-A1 Double Barrel Pistol

 

Arsenal Firearms has Brought us the Arsenal Firearms AF2011-A1 Double Barrel Pistol. It shoots 2 .45 caliber rounds simultaneously and will “bring down a bull”.

The gun can be handled by any shooter able to shoot with a .45 Acp and it is not only very pleasing, but very accurate and great fun. The AF2011-A1 holds amazing and surprising target performance for the shooter: in fact, it will group all the 8 double .45 caliber rounds (16 bullets) held in the duplex, single columns magazines, in a target of the size of an orange at 15 yards and of a water melon at 25. The stopping power of the AF2011-A1 is tremendous: 2 bullets for a total of 460 Grains weight impacting at 1 to 2 inches apart (depending on the distance of the target) will knock down a bull, while the whole 18 bullets, for a payload exceeding 4000 Grains, can be delivered to the target in about 3 seconds. The AF2011-A1 obviously features a number of very special parts, such as the single slide, the single frame, the single spur double hammer, the single grip safety, the single body double mainspring housing and the single double cavity magazine floor plate, the long and double magazine latch, the special barrel bushings and the hold open lever and side lever safety with long shafts: but the most interesting feature of the new pistol which we strived to keep during the development of the project, is the interchangeability of most internal parts, which come as standard 1911 replacement parts. These include the firing pins, the firing pins plates, the sears groups, the triple springs, the inner parts of the mainspring housings, the recoil springs and recoil springs rods, the magazine bodies and inner parts, the sights (including after market adjustable sights) the grips and grips screws and bushings. The AF2011-A1 (“Twenty Eleven” for aficionados) can be ordered either with 2 independent triggers and one sear group (left or right, with user-interchangeability for right or left operations) or with 2 triggers permanently joined and the choice of 1 or 2 sear groups. The AF2011-A1 is available in mirror finish Deep Blue or with a 3400 Vickers surface hardness White Ash Nitrite coating.

http://www.likecool.com/Worlds_First_Double_Barrel_1911_Semiautomatic–Military–Gear.html
http://www.arsenalfirearms.com/products/af-2011-a1-double-barrel-pistol