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The Zenview Command Center Elite combines six 24-inch Samsung displays into one. Each display runs at 1920×1200 pixels, you do the math to multiply that times six. The screens have a 1000:1 contrast ration and 6 millisecond response times.

Those who wish to purchase one of these monsters, line up here to my left and get your credit cards out. Uh, you DO have $11,999 of credit left on your card, don’t you?

You can read more here.

Now this is just plain nuts.. We all are worried about scratching our PocketPC but these guys have no worries at all. He takes his IMate Jam and straps it onto his motorcyle and takes it for a spin..

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For me, the more you pay, the less you get when it comes to conferences. For $100, Podcast Hotel Seattle 2006 was even better than the original one in Portland. Still grassroots, still vital but with more bands and more great discussion. Looking forward to the next one. More later!

When is Sony going to get it? Ever since the Trinitron and the Walkman, Japan’s greatest consumer electronics business has stumbled from one bad product to another, fumbled every opportunity it has been handed to own digital assets, and seen its vaunted brand name eclipsed by Samsung among others.

Now Sony is taking on books. Judging by the Sony Portable Reader, its track record won’t change any time soon.

Two journalists who write for Business 2.0 have teamed up to offer their thoughts on the growing success of Windows Mobile. 2006 may be “the year when Windows Mobile finally takes off,” writes Om Malik in his introduction to a guest column on his blog by Matt Maier.

As evidence, Malik points to the “big wet kiss” that Steve Balmer gave “to wireless operators in his Valentine’s Day keynote” at the recent 3GSM conference.

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Awesome, I might actually check this out in my “copious free time”! Well I probably won’t but I’d like to !

From AAS Feature: Nokia Python’s Flying Circus.:

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Steve Litchfield presents an introduction to the latest (and potentially most powerful) way of creating S60 applications.

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[Cross posted from Photography Hack]

This worked perfectly tonight with my Canon S400. Be careful to disassemble the bare minimum necessary. If you see a spring popping up, you are disassembling too much. The PDF is helpful but the commentary below from the DP Review Canon S400 forums is really what counts. Make sure that the sliding switch for the take/review function is correctly located before you re-assemble as noted below. I didn’t and had to dissamble it again. The other problem I had was screw #13 on page 4 of the PDF. It was hard to get it in. Barb managed to do it. I struggled unsuccessfully for over half an hour. All in all, it was worth it. Now I don’t have to buy a new point and shoot. I think that if I were, I’d seriously consider the brand new Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ1 (my only concern is the high ISO, is it noisy?).

From Re: S400 / Ixus 400 - Memory Card Error IT WORKS!: Canon Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review.:

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The only tool required is a small screwdriver. I would not class the procedure as difficult but you need to proceed with care on a well-illuminated, flat, plain surface. A pencil and paper are useful. Remove the rechargeable main battery and the memory card.

You then need to remove the small screws around the casing. These screws are of different lengths and it is important to lay them out in a logical manner so that later you can replace them correctly. Carefully separate the halves of the casing. This reveals the internal disk-shaped 3-volt battery. You can use as a guide the exploded view of the camera shown at

http://www.huroncamera.com/… …/Canon_Digital/POWERSHOT_S400_IXUS_400.pdf

The 3-volt battery is part 3 on page 4 of the exploded view diagrams.

Remove this battery, taking care not to touch both faces simultaneously with a metal implement. After about an hour, replace the 3-volt battery.

Reassemble the metal case taking care that the sliding switch for the take/review function is correctly located. Replace the main rechargeable battery and the memory card. You will have to reset the time and date data as they are deleted when the 3-volt battery is removed.

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Not being a PHP Developer (but being an ex C/C++ developer for over 10 years), just a documenter/supporter/evangelist of Drupal which is a PHP website/webapp development framework whose core is very clean according to developers I respect, I can tell you that it’s all about the apps!

Where is the flickr (flickr is mostly PHP with 10% Java and a bit of DHTML and flash) of Java? Where are the Drupal and Joomla and WordPress (just to cite content management) of Java? Java’s great for enterprise apps developed in house which makes a lot of money for Java people now but in the areas I care about: web applications and applications that I run on my personal desktop, Java is dead.

It would have been impossible to (just to cite a few Vancouver based examples) for NowPublic, Project Opus, and Rental Monster to have been done in Java with the limited resources that they were started with. Java is just too heavyweight and hardware intensive and just not suited to incremental iterative development

Bold Prediction: key web apps and the next Microsoft, Google and Yahoo will continue to come out of PHP and its brethren of Python, Ruby, and Perl, not Java.

Bold assertion: flickrTime development is impossible in Java.

Finally, it’s not a war or about vulnerability, it’s about providing the coolest, most usable software to real people; and Java has failed miserably at that (maybe it’ll happen on mobile phones but I am not holding my breath) and there is no sign of it starting to succeed.

From On PHP.:

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Everyone agrees on PHP’s upsides: it’s written for the web, it’s easy to deploy and get running, and it’s pretty fast. Those are important advantages. And I’m sure that it’s possible to write clean, comprehensible, maintainable, PHP; only apparently it’s real easy not to. But PHP has competition, most obviously Rails; and don’t write the Java EE crowd off, they’re not stupid at all and they’re trying to learn the lessons that PHP is trying to teach. So PHP has earned everyone’s respect by getting where it is, and Sun should reach out to it more than we have. But in the big picture, it feels vulnerable to me.

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The Minimo Project, the group developing a shrunk-down version of the Mozilla open source browser for handheld devices, released a new version of Minimo on Saturday. The announcement is the latest indication that mobile phones will increasingly be used to access any content that is available on the Internet, analysts say.

Minimo 013 works on Windows Mobile devices, including PDAs and smart phones. It includes a new user interface and displays tabs that indicate multiple open pages. It also features a bar on the left side of the screen containing icons that directly link to common Web sites or applications such as Google, and a list of news Web sites with mobile-optimized pages. The application can be downloaded for free from the Minimo Web site: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/.

New GPS-enabled Pocket PC ships with OnCourse Navigator 5 software.

Sometimes, getting there is more than half the battle, especially if you’re visiting a client for the first time or traveling someplace you seldom visit. You need to be on time to make a good impression and getting lost can cost you more than the price of a couple of gallons of gas.

You don’t have to worry about this if you have a car with built-in GPS. However, that can be an expensive option. If you’re in the market for a Pocket PC anyway, you might want to consider one with built-in GPS capability.