Posted by on under series laptops, hothardware, cutie pie, fri, vta, writeup, benchmarks, unveiling, midget, knees, champ, scratch, atom, intel, nbsp, ing | 
We've already
witnessed the
unveiling of ASUS' largest two
UL series laptops, so it's only fair to pass along an in-depth look at the midget of the bunch. The UL30A was recently taken for a ride over at
HotHardware, and while we've had our suspicions as to whether Intel's
CULV platform really would provide an incentive for to-be netbook buyers to spend a bit more, it seems as if this ultraportable definitely is worth the extra scratch. Unlike your average Atom-powered netbook, the UL30 could actually handle 720p video like a champ (though 1080p brought it to its knees), and even with Vista taking a toll on its resources, day to day work was found to be surprisingly snappy. At $749 and up, the seductively silver UL30 was found to be a solid buy in its category, but we're not asking you to take our word for it. Hit that read link for the full writeup, benchmarks and all.
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ASUS 13.3-inch UL30 gets reviewed, called a cutie pie originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tagi: series laptops, hothardware, cutie pie, fri, vta, writeup, benchmarks, unveiling, midget, knees, champ, scratch, atom, intel, nbsp, ing
Posted by on under video search engine, epodes, video searches, clicker, tv guide, c50, writeup, attendee, mth, instant access, stealth, tc, peoe, demo, beta |
There was more than one attendee at TechCrunch50 last month that thought stealth startup
Clicker deserved to win the top prize. The company has created a video search engine that really helps users find the content they're looking for - full episodes of TV shows online - quickly. All the mess associated with most video searches on other sites is removed. Our full writeup, including a video of their on stage demo, is here: T
C50: Clicker Wants To Be TV Guide For The Web. Clicker has started to send out a few invitations to people who've signed up on their home page. Those lucky people who've gotten in have five invitations to give to their friends. But what if you don't have a friend who's already in,? We're here to help. Just be one of the first 1,000 people to sign up at
tinyurl.com/TC-Clicker and you'll get instant access.
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Posted by on under american journal of physics, journal of physics, coue, frequency shift, mdash, black hole, writeup, original article, vicinity, simulation, appearance, sky, modes, linux |
quaith writes "The New Scientist reports on a simulation just published in the American Journal of Physics that shows how the sky would appear in the vicinity of a black hole — if an observer could actually get near one. Using real positions of around 118,000 stars, the simulation shows how the bending of light, the frequency shift, and the magnification caused by gravitational lensing and aberration in the vicinity of the black hole affect the sky's appearance. The simulation is interactive and allows the user to explore the stellar sky around the black hole. The simulation offers a couple of modes: "quasi static" or "freely falling" and the sample videos are quite spectacular. The New Scientist has a writeup, with an embedded video . The original article citation is here (abstract only). The simulation, which runs on Linux or Windows, as well as sample videos can be downloaded from the University of Stuttgart website."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Posted by on under mobile phone users, mobile users, writeup, phe |
Pew Internet has just
completed a survey of nearly 2000 mobile users in the US and has come up with some not particularly startling statistics about phone and app usage. Still, it's good to have some cold hard numbers to look at, even if the sample size seems a bit small. Here's the gist of the survey and writeup, which is rather wordy.
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