Here’s a nice windows app that will copy your google calendar to the calendar folder on your iPod. I can see this being useful when you’re listening to music and can’t hear the reminder on your smartphone.
the johnnyGizmo Blog: getCals 0.1 Available:
Firefox Mobile 1.0 Lands on Maemo Phones – Firefox Mobile – Lifehacker:
Maemo5 Phones: Moving right along from the release candidate, Firefox Mobile has arrived in 1.0 form on phones like the N900 that run Maemo. It’s got add-ons, an AwesomeBar, desktop syncing through Weave, and plenty more to recommend it. We just wish it could work on more devices.
New Spider-Man Device Could Let Humans Walk on Walls | LiveScience:
A new high-tech suction device could allow humans to walk on walls like Spider-Man or create adhesive devices that could be turned on and off with the flick of a switch. The contraption, inspired by a beetle that can hold on to a leaf with a force 100 times its weight, uses the surface tension of water to make an adhesive bond, but it does so with a creative twist. It could be used to create sticky shoes or gloves, researchers said today.
Linux News: Community: Open-PC: A Piece of Junk, or Got It Where It Counts?:
Sure enough, the Open-PC is billed as the first PC for everyday use “built by the Linux community for the Linux community,” and it uses only free software. The energy-efficient machine uses “100 percent free drivers,” and phone and email support are included in its 359 euros price, as is a donation to the KDE project. Also featuring an Atom N330 1.6GHz dual-core processor, 3 GB RAM, a 160 GB hard disk, an ASRock mainboard and a 250-watt power supply, the alluringly titled PC is due to be available at the end of February.
VLC Gets Extension Capabilities in Nightly Builds – Vlc – Lifehacker:
VLC 1.1 will feature its own scripting language, Lua, that will allow for richer and more powerful extensions than the semi-add-ons that have popped up here and there for VLC. At the moment, extensions and add-ons are available in the nightly, experimental builds of VLC, where you’ll have to manually copy script files into a particular folder on your system. There’s one or two demo add-ons available for services like Last.fm and IMDB that pull information about your movie file, but the great stuff is yet to come, we’d imagine.
PDFMyURL Saves Web Sites as PDF Files – Document Conversion – Lifehacker:
Point PDFMyURL at a website URL and it will convert the site into a PDF document. Not only can you do a simple conversion just by plugging in a URL but you can also modify the PDF with a wide variety of flags—see the advanced menu for a full list—that let you set the page orientation and size, header information, print orientation, and more. PDFMyURL also has a bookmarklet you can drag to your toolbar for easy access to the PDF creation service.
NASA – Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Odd X-Pattern of Trailing Debris:
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. Astronomers have long thought the asteroid belt is being ground down through collisions, but such a smashup has never been seen before. Asteroid collisions are energetic, with an average impact speed of more than 11,000 miles per hour, or five times faster than a rifle bullet. The comet-like object imaged by Hubble, called P/2010 A2, was first discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research, or LINEAR, program sky survey on Jan. 6. New Hubble images taken on Jan. 25 and 29 show a complex X-pattern of filamentary structures near the nucleus.
Super-Hard Diamonds Found in Meteorite : Discovery News:
Researchers using a diamond paste to polish a slice of meteorite stumbled onto something remarkable: crystals in the rock that are harder than diamonds. A closer look with an array of instruments revealed two totally new kinds of naturally occurring carbon, which are harder than the diamonds formed inside the Earth.
Peter Klein lets WM7 at MWC 2010 slip – 4WinMobile.com:
While being interviewed on Fox news Peter Klein the CFO of Microsoft let it slip that WM7 will be at the mobile world congress in 2010 Fox News: “Are we going to see Windows 7 Mobile come out in 2010? What is your plans for that?” Peter Klein: “We are heads down working on Windows Mobile 7 . We will have much more to say about that at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February.”
Dual boot Android / Windows – 4WinMobile.com:
So you want an Andows, or is that a Windoid device. Well those ingenious fellows over at XDA Dev have been working their magic again and have released a bootlauncher to do just that. Its still early days and limited to certain devices and screen formats (VGA only at the moment) but does support both “Internal Storage” and “Storage Card” devices.
