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Palm App Catalog hurtles past 30 million downloads

March 11th, 2010 3:59pm mike s No comments

Palm App Catalog hurtles past 30 million downloadsAfter checking the data in their webOS App Gallery, Palm-lovin’ website PreCentral has calculated that there’s been over thirty million downloads from the App Catalog.

Unlike power-crazed Apple – which retains sole control over app distribution (with a few random bouts of censorship thrown in for good measure)  – Palm allows three ways for users to download apps:

The folks at PreCentral got out their calculators, totted up the totals for the three app distribution models, and arrived at a figure of  33,749,305 downloads.

Palm App Catalog hurtles past 30 million downloadsBut wait – there’s more!

Although that’s a fairly impressive figure, once you add in the 5.8 million downloads from PreCentral’s own Homebrew App Gallery and the many patches and other homebrew apps served up by WebOS Internals via Prewar, the total soars upwards in excess of 40 million.

Of course, with Europe still twiddling their thumbs in expectation of Palm’s paid app catalog finally rocking into town, that downloading total should explode upwards as soon as the full catalogue is made available.

What’s the most popular?

The biggest hitter in the Official App catalog is Pandora, notching up 1.2 million downloads, followed by AccuWeather, Bubbles, Where and the Weather Channel. Check out the full list of most-downloaded apps here.

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Pioneer DJM-2000 Mixer: the don of DJ mixers?

March 11th, 2010 11:52am mike s No comments

Pioneer DJM-2000 Mixer: the don of DJ mixers?

We’re no strangers to throwing down tunes at Wirefresh (we run our own London club after all) but Pioneer’s new DJM-2000 is the kind of kit we can only dream of. And then probably need a change of sheets in the morning.

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Microsoft’s Bing TV campaign starts off with a weird one

March 11th, 2010 9:30am mike s No comments

Microsoft's Bing TV campaign starts off with a weird oneMicrosoft’s onslaught to persuade us Brits to try out a different flavour of search to Google has kicked off, with the first TV commercial for Bing hitting goggleboxes across Blighty.

The advert – the first of the three – can be seen across a slew of commercial channels such as ITV, Channel 4, Five, Sky Media plus IDS digital channels including Bravo, Dave, GOLD, Living TV and Good Food.

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Walkit.com serves up circular walking maps for urban amblers

March 10th, 2010 4:25pm mike s 3 comments

Walkit.com serves up circular walks for urban amblersMad-for-it walking folks Walkit.com have added a  useful and unique feature to their online route mapping service – circular walks.

The idea is both simple and brilliant: if you fancy a short lunchtime stroll or a calorie busting urban trek, simply type in your chosen location, input your walking speed and you can quickly plan a circular walk from 15 minutes up to 4 hours.

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UK minister reassures photographers about police harassment

March 10th, 2010 12:13pm mike s No comments

UK minister reassures photographers about police harassment

There’s been growing outrage and concern from UK photographers over increasingly Draconian, illegal – and plain daft – clampdowns on their right to take photos in a public place.

Police officers, security guards and general jobsworths have been using terrorism laws to harass photographers, sparking several public protests in London.

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Dell Mini 5 ‘Streak’ Android tablet serves up colours galore

March 10th, 2010 10:43am mike s 1 comment

Dell Mini 5/ Dell Streak tablet - details surfaceWe’ve been teased by a video clip of Dell boss Michael Dell strutting around with a pre-production Dell Mini 5 tablet, but with the release date looming, the company are prepping their promotional material for what seems set to be called the ‘Dell Streak’.

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Case-Mate’s Hug wireless iPhone charger – another bolt on beast

March 9th, 2010 1:59pm mike s No comments

Case-Mate's Hug wireless iPhone charger - another bolt on beast

We loved the Touchstone wireless charger for our Palm Pre, and expected to see similar solutions breaking out for other handsets, but it seems manufacturers are still struggling to come up with anything as discrete and as elegant.

So far, all of the ‘wireless charging solutions’ we’ve seen require users to strap on ugly backs to their phones, adding unnecessary bulk and weight.

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Griffin SmartTalk earphone adapter for iPhones & iPods – review

March 9th, 2010 12:27pm mike s No comments

Griffin SmartTalk earphone adapter for iPhones & iPods - reviewIf you’re less than chuffed with the distinctly average sound of the bundled iPhone headphones,  or you’re fed up being a mugger-attracting, walking advert for Apple products with those ‘iconic’ white headphones, then a headphone upgrade is always a good call.

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Adobe shows off the wonder of Flash on HP’s soon-come Slate PC

March 9th, 2010 9:30am mike s No comments

Adobe shows off Flash on the HP Slate Device PC

Keen to show those beastly Flash-hating rotters at Apple just how useful the technology is for tablets and netbooks, Adobe has knocked out a promo videos showing off its capabilities.

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Microsoft Courier revolutionary tablet device – more photos and details

March 8th, 2010 9:30am mike s 2 comments

Microsoft Courier revolutionary tablet device - more photos and detailsWe’re more stoked up than a Great Western Railway King Class 4-6-0 steam locomotive when it comes to Microsoft’s hotly rumoured Courier tablet/digital journal, so we were well chuffed when more details emerged over the weekend.

Tech site Engadget posted up what it says are a selection of leaked images and a video, and it looks like the device is building up a healthy head of steam – and it’s smaller than we expected too.
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 Micro Four Thirds touchscreen camera

March 7th, 2010 2:55pm mike s No comments

Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 Micro Four Thirds touchscreen camera

Panasonic has flapped out the spec sheets of its new Lumix Micro Four Thirds cameras – the touchscreen DMC-G2 – and we’re rather liking the look of what we’re seeing.

The direct descendant of the trailblazing Lumix G1, the DMC-G2 comes with a 12.1MP Live MOS sensor and shoots 720p video in AVCHD lite, and can lay claim to being the first interchangeable lens system camera with a fold-out touchscreen.

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Will the iPad Support Tethering? Steve Jobs has the answer

March 6th, 2010 1:33pm mike s 2 comments

Will the iPad Support Tethering? Steve Jobs has the answerAnyone who spends time on the move knows how handy it is to be able to tether your netbook/laptop/tablet-based computing device to your phone to enjoy some internet connectivity on a bigger screen.

The iPad – a delightfully mobile device if we ever saw one – looks to be just the sort of thing that would be perfect for hooking up to your iPhone.

After all, they’re made by the same people, so all the inter-connectivity and seamless interoperability has got to be just a click away, no?

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Arcam irDock high-end audiophile dock for iPod/iPhone

March 5th, 2010 2:26pm mike s No comments

Arcam irDock high-end audiophile dock for iPod/iPhoneThere’s all sorts of snazzy docks available for iPod/iPhones, but music-mad users looking to squeeze the last drops of sonic goodness out of their MP3 collections should perhaps take a peek at Arcam’s irDock.

Replacing their earlier rDock, Arcam’s shiny new high-end audiophile dock sports a die-cast aluminium anti-vibration enclosure with a damped rubber base offering RF shielding, and comes with a bundled remote for full loafing-on-the-sofa control.

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Restore your scratchy iPhone into a gleaming thing of beauty

March 5th, 2010 11:10am mike s No comments

Restore your scratchy iPhone into a gleaming thing of beauty

If – like us – you can’t be arsed with poncey protective cases, rubbery skins, plastic covers, Invisi-Shields, OtterBoxes or nobby leather wallets to safeguard your iPhone, it may be looking a little worse for wear right now.

After all, months of making an iPhone rough it in your pockets with your keys, cash, Allen keys, small torches and other assembled bits of mobile man-junk can soon leave Apple’s finest looking a little battle-scarred, so thank ‘eavens for a certain Shenaniganz08.

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Panasonic ‘leaks’ Lumix G2 and G10 touchscreen Micro Four Thirds cameras

March 5th, 2010 10:08am mike s No comments

Panasonic 'leaks' G2 and G10 touchscreen Micro Four Thirds cameras
Appearing on their website long enough to be snaffled by sharp-eyed speedy bloggers are a set of photos and some details of  Panasonic’s  upcoming Lumix G2 and G10 Micro Four Thirds cameras .

Although it’s not clear whether these are the final products or ‘work in progress’ prototypes, both cameras are said to pack a 12.1 megapixel sensor and lots of touchy-feely stuff in the shape of a touchscreen with touch shutter and touch MF Assist.

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