[John] wanted to take a pong clock and put it in a wristwatch form factor. Take an afternoon and pour over his detailed build logs. This multi-year project is done with meticulous cleanliness that makes us jealous. He’s milled the case and buttons himself, achieving a professional look that equals or surpasses the quality of some commercially available “gaming” watches. The project centers around an OLED display driven by a TI MSP430F2013 processor. Don’t miss the video after the break covering prototyping, PCB work, case milling, and the watch in action. Currently, this is the third generation of development…
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Pong on your wrist
Facebook
The Zynga Influence
To describe Zynga as a powerful influence on the Facebook developer platform would be an understatement. The company has achieved levels never thought possible. Farmville, the company’s leading application has reached levels that no other developer has ever come close to. In other words, the company is in a league of its own. With over 126 million monthly active users, the company accounts for the sum total of the next three largest developers: Playfish, RockYou, and Causes. So how did the company get to be so large?
The Art Of Chess
If Facebook application development was a chess game, Mark…
Facebook
Social Ad Summit One Day Discount
We’ve finalized our agenda for the upcoming Social Ad Summit in New York City being held on October 5th. For today only we are providing all interested attendees with a discount of 50 percent off. The event is bringing together marketers, publishers, ad networks, and industry executives. As this space is constantly evolving, we think it’s important to bring together the current leaders and other participants to discuss the trends and the future of marketing on the social web.
If you are interested in attending the event, you can use the discount code “onedayfifty” to get 50 percent off via…
Business
Google announces Project 10^100 themes
Google has finally whittled down the more than 150,000 ideas submitted as part of its Project 10^100 to 16 themes that will compete for $10 million in funding.It’s taken far longer than Google had originally anticipated, but the results of the company’s 10th anniversary project to solicit ideas that could change the world are ready for inspection. Google is asking the public to vote on the most worthy of the 16 “idea themes” that it has identified from the submissions it has received over the past year.Google had originally planned to choose individual ideas, but was “overwhelmed” by the number…
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Jolicloud OS seeks to move past browsers
Jolicloud is a new Linux based operating system aimed at netbooks. The developers were nice enough to let us get our hands on their closed development version of the new OS. This distribution is built off of Ubuntu Netbook Remix(9.04 Jaunty Jackalope). At first glance it looks like nothing more than Ubuntu with a new skin, but the difference is deeper. Jolicloud added an App Store type program that offers installation of web applications along with traditional desktop apps. Using Mozilla Prism, web based applications like Facebook, Gmail, and Wikipedia are installed, get their own icon in the launcher,…
Software
DVDFab Platinum v6.0.7.0 Final Multilingual + Crack
DVDFab is the most powerful and flexible DVD copying burning software With 8 copy modes you can back up any DVD to DVDR in just a few clicks DVDFab is brand new is completely rewritten is based on more than 8 years of DVD copy software development DVDFab is simply the easiest way to copy a DVD movie Just insert the movie and a blank DVD then press Start Your entire movie including menus trailers and special features is copied to a single DVD with just one click and everything happens automatically Backup your entire DVD including menus trailers and…
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IT Consulting Services & Agile Method of Product Development
There are many QA methodologies that are used in the software industry. Out of all the methodologies that support a proactive development environment, agile methodology is one that stands out for its easy adaptation to new client requirements. One of the most useful benefits of using the agile methodology is the high quality products it is able to deliver at the end of project completion.
Agile methodology is able to provide complete visibility into each and every step of the development process. This way, the client organization is able to understand the implementation process and also have complete control over…
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Rail stations to get facelift soon
Railway stations across the country are set to get a facelift with the railway ministry set to begin work on multi-functional stations and also carry forward the earlier plans of world class stations. These are some of the recommendations in the first report of the expert committee on railways led by Amit Mitra, which was submitted to railway minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday. The minister assured that these will be acted upon and said, “Rail Board will take care of their implementation.” The expert panel has identified 64 stations which will be turned into multi functional complexes with facilities like…
Business
Yulong dials India through Reliance ADAG
Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) is in talks with Yulong, China’s largest dual mode handset manufacturer, to exclusively distribute its mobiles in India. Officials close to the development said the estimated valuation of Yulong’s agreement with Reliance World is approximately Rs 600 crore. Reliance Webstore Ltd, the company that manages Reliance World chain of stores, will ink the agreement with Yulong. “The discussions are underway and we are currently in the test marketing mode for two models of dual-mode handset brand, Coolpad. By the end of the year, we plan to add a total of five models,” said Sarup…
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Essel Group ropes in Atul Pande as CEO, sports business
Essel Group has roped in Atul Pande as the chief executive officer (CEO) of its sports business. Pande will oversee Essel Sports Business – Indian Cricket League (ICL), Mumbai Football Club, All Sports Magazine, all new initiatives and the broadcasting business, which comprises Zee Sports and Ten Sports.Pande will report to the group’s chairman, Subhash Chandra for Essel Sports Business and Punit Goenka, CEO, ZEEL for the broadcasting business. Peter Hutton will continue to be the COO of Ten Sports and will report to the board of Ten Sports.Pande was previously the managing director of Cholamandalam DBS, a financial services…
Business
Key gene ‘controls disease fight’
It causes stem cells in the blood to become disease-fighting “Natural Killer” (NK) immune cells. It is hoped the discovery will lead to new ways to boost the body’s production of these frontline cells – potentially creating a new way to kill cancer. The Nature Immunology study may also help development of new treatments for type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis. These conditions are caused by a malfunctioning immune system turning against the body’s own tissues, and it is suspected that faulty NK cells play a key role in this process. The researchers, from Imperial College London, University College London…
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Airline plot trio get life terms
Ringleader Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, was jailed for at least 40 years at Woolwich Crown Court. Plot “quartermaster” Assad Sarwar, 29, was jailed for at least 36 years, while Tanvir Hussain, 28, must serve at least 32 years in jail. Their aim was a terrorist outrage to “stand alongside” 9/11, the judge said. Mr Justice Henriques called the plot “the most grave and wicked conspiracy ever proven within this jurisdiction”. “The intention was to perpetrate a terrorist outrage that would stand alongside the events of September 11, 2001 in history,” he said. The trial heard that at the time of…
