Sonos delivers free iPad remote for its wireless music systems

It must be 'iPad Remote Week' because hot on the heels of Apple releasing iTunes remote control for the iPad, Sonos has delivered a very nice, free iPad remote that is feature complete, and elegant in execution.

Previously, Sonos owners had to make do with the iPhone version of the app, which only ran in portrait mode and had to upscale to fill the iPad screen. That's all fixed now, with the delivery of the Sonos Controller for iPad. I gave it a run through last night, and it is a pleasure to use. The larger iPad screen means most functions are right on the front page, so there's no hunting around for hidden functions. You get album art, zone control, and music source selection at the tap of a finger.

Installing the app requires a software update to all your home controllers and Zone Players to version 3.3. That can be accomplished right from the new iPad remote, and the software will notify you if you need to update.

The 3.3 update adds support for AAC streaming radio stations, and for European countries, it adds the popular Spotify service. The iPhone version of the Sonos app has not been updated since May, and Sonos says an update to that app is pending approval from Apple.

The Sonos system is not inexpensive, but it is a bargain compared to wired whole-house systems. For your investment, you get a very easy to set up entertainment center that you can add to as your desires dictate. The audio is very high quality, and the company commitment to the Mac platform is very strong.

Check the gallery for some screenshots.

Gallery: Sonos Controller for iPad

TUAWSonos delivers free iPad remote for its wireless music systems originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Verizon leaks surface, revealing lots more Android and an LTE tablet

Verizon's mobile strategy for the next few months has surfaced and if true, we will be seeing a large LTE tablet and many more high quality Android devices in the near future. 

Here are some of the devices Verizon has up their sleeve:

• The Samsung Continuum (perhaps you've seen our hands-on of that funky phone with two screens) is on schedule for a late October release. 

• The Motorola Venus is supposedly coming out in October. Verizon has billed the Venus as being very similar to BlackBerry's form factor and will sport a 1GHz processor, Froyo, as well as GSM in addition to CDMA.

• Motorola's Droid Pro world phone has a late October/early November goal for release. This is that 1.3 GHz world phone that is rumored to be replacing the Droid 2

• The HTC Lexicon (or Merge) seems to have a similar release schedule as the Droid Pro, coming either late October or early November

• LG supposedly has a high-end phone coming to big red with a device labeled en V Pro. This phone is rumored to have a 1GHz processor along with a global radio. If true, it would be one of LG's best Android phones to date, which would hopefully signal their commitment to the OS

• The Motorola Stingray tablet in Q1 of 2011. According to the source, the Stingray will sport Android 3.0 (Gingerbread), a 10-inch screen, 16GB onboard storage, and Tegra 2.  These specs sound awesome already, but the juiciest part is that it is upgradeable to LTE, which would be quite appealing.

All of this info comes from Engadget's sources, so take the info for what you will. If this is Verizon's plan though, we're very excited for the nest few months. [Engadget]

Posted originally at Android Central

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Xbox Live Fall 2010 Dashboard Update preview: ESPN, Netflix search, Kinect, and more! (Update)

Shortly before Kinect hits store shelves on November 4th, Microsoft plans on rolling out the Fall Update to Xbox Live -- even sooner for those who signed up for the preview program. That shouldn't come as much of a surprise, really: even without the numerous leaks, the fall update is a longstanding tradition for the almost five-year-old console, and the company devoted a large chunk of its E3 2010 presentation to talk about the biggest additions. That includes Netflix search (finally!), Zune music, and an entertainment hub for a certain worldwide sports broadcaster... ESPN. We've had a chance to spend some time at home with the Fall Update, follow us after the break for our full impressions!

Update: As both Joystiq and a number of tipsters have alerted us, Microsoft has pulled the large, wooden lever in its dark underground lair that allows for the Fall Update to trickle out and assimilate itself into the consoles of those smart enough to sign up for the preview program. If you receive a prompt upon signing in, rejoice! If not, well, have patience!

P.S. - Looking for more? Our BFFs at Joystiq have compiled a series of exhaustive videos chronicling the Fall Update. Check it out!

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Xbox Live Fall 2010 Dashboard Update preview: ESPN, Netflix search, Kinect, and more! (Update) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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T-Mobile G2 now shipping to some pre-orderers

You can't grab one of these bad boys from your local store just yet -- you'll have to wait until early October for that -- but some current T-Mobile customers who'd pre-ordered the G2 (including our own Myriam Joire) are reporting that their devices have shipped. That means we'll probably see at least a few of these showing up in excited forum threads tomorrow, and a whole phalanx of 'em by week's end. Get those QWERTY thumbs oiled and warmed up, folks.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

T-Mobile G2 now shipping to some pre-orderers originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Lint is a challenging, frustrating platformer - Time-Waster

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As a platformer, Lint is fairly thin on the graphics. The protagonist is a tiny ball that rolls around and the whole thing works as one huge level, which you traverse screen-by-screen.

There is often more than one way to cross a given screen. Navigation is great; it's very fast and fluid. You can jump high, double jump (i.e., jump again when you're already airborne for an added boost), and scale walls easily. The controls are quite intuitive and easy to master, which makes the game more enjoyable.

The tricky part in Lint is the timing. It's quite simple at the start, but pretty soon, you need to accurately time your jumps. In the screenshot, that dark shape on the right is a hammer that pounds down repeatedly, and it will kill you if you touch it (even if you just glance it from the side while jumping). You need to jump down at exactly the right instant. If you die you'll start again at the left side of the screen -- so you need to spend a moment to get to where the hammer is. It's can be quite frustrating, indeed.

Another nice thing about this game is that you get endless lives, and respawning is instant (it doesn't pause even for a second, you just instantly reappear after you die). Give Lint a shot, but prepare to be frustrated!

Lint is a challenging, frustrating platformer - Time-Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google Translate now understands Latin

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"Ut munimenta linguarum convellamus et scientiam mundi patentem utilemque faciamus, instrumenta convertendi multarum nationum linguas creavimus!" exclaims the introduction of a Google Blog post. Don't worry if you don't understand it, though, because Google Translate now understands Latin!

The entire post is written in Latin, so of course you have to copy and paste it into Google Translate to read it! Once you've done that, the usual machine-translated gems await!

My favourite phrase is right at the end: Ingeniarius Programmandi, which means Senior Engineer! I might have to put that on my LinkedIn profile...

Google Translate now understands Latin originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Key Command Generator helps you generate beautiful shortcut key codes

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A while ago, we had a heated debate on our internal mailing list concerning the best way to note shortcut keys. Is it Ctrl+Enter? Maybe it should be a hyphen, so should it be Ctrl-Enter? And should there be a space? Should we capitalize, or not?

This might seem fussy, but when you're authoring a large body of text (or a collaborative blog), some standards have to be established. It's not just a matter of consistency for consistency's sake - the question is what makes the most sense for users.

Key Command Generator offers an interesting take on this problem. You fill in a simple form for your shortcut key, and you get an embeddable code. When you embed said code within your document, it shows up as a stylized "keyboard diagram" (as you can see in the screenshot).

While we won't be using it ourselves (because the output is pretty ginormous), I can certainly see how this can come in handy for other projects. I only wish it was a bit easier to use. A simpler syntax would be great, because then I could just change a few parameters in my code and avoid having to fill the form in every time. Perhaps something like shortcutkey.com/ctrl+shift+enter. Oh well, I guess there's always the HTML5 kbd element.

Key Command Generator helps you generate beautiful shortcut key codes originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Amazon?s Kindle to Sell 5 Million This Year, Analyst Says

Douglas Anmuth, an analyst for Barclays Capital, came forward today and estimated that Amazon would sell upwards of 5 million Kindle eReaders this year. He pointed out that not only will Amazon see success thanks to the redesign of the popular eBook reader, but also due to the lower, $139 price tag for the WiFi only model. Furthermore, Anmuth claims that those high numbers could more than double in the next two years, reaching an estimated 11.5 million by the year 2012.

Anmuth says that the Kindle creates a “bifurcated” market, in which the lower-cost, niche products manage to co-exist within the high-end, multi-purpose market. So while other analysts clamor to suggest that consumers buy only one product or the other, that’s not stopping the Kindle from showing up everywhere, even in markets where tablets like the iPad reign. However, Anmuth is quick to point out that, even if the Kindle hardware wasn’t doing as well as he believes it is, Amazon is still in a great position to make money off the sales of the iPad, as the Kindle software available on Apple’s tablet is still one of the most popular applications on the device. In addition, the Kindle software is launching for RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook, and is available on plenty of other platforms.

On the other side of the coin, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munsher believes that, while the Kindle may do well, the iPad is still positioned to do better. He predicts that the iPad will sell somewhere in the ball park of 10.7 million in 2010, and an estimated 21 million in 2011. Certainly, if those rumors about a smaller, hardware re-designed iPad turn out to be true, the iPad will probably see even more sales numbers come next year.

[via Electronista]

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OCZ Ibis touts 2GBps High Speed Data Link, vanquishes SSD competition

What's after ludicrous speed? If you ask OCZ, the answer is HSDL speed, which is the company's new interface idea for bypassing the bandwidth limitations of standard SATA/SAS interconnects. Using a high-quality SAS cable to hook up its new Ibis drive to a PCI Express host card, OCZ has managed to deliver a cool 2GBps of total bandwidth -- that's one gigabyte up and one gigabyte down... every second. In order to feed this massive data pipe, the company's gone and stacked four SandForce SF-1200 controllers inside the Ibis and RAIDed them together for good measure too. The upshot isn't too dramatic for desktop applications, where'll you'll see performance that's merely world-beating -- reading at 373MBps and writing at 323MBps -- but if you throw in some deeper queues and enterprise-level workloads you'll be able to squeeze out 804MBps reads and 675MBps writes. Needless to say, the Ibis scooped up many a plaudit in early reviews, and though it may be expensive at $529 for 100GB, it still seems to represent good value for those who have the workloads to saturate its High Speed Data Link.

OCZ Ibis touts 2GBps High Speed Data Link, vanquishes SSD competition originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple Peel 520 coming to US, UK

The Apple Peel 520, an iPod touch case that effectively turns it into a phone, will be coming to the US and UK soon.

Developed and built in China, the Apple Peel 520 fits onto the iPod touch. It's got a dock connector, battery, and slot for a SIM card. Once users have got the thing set up, they can use the iPod touch to make phone calls and send text messages. Go Solar USA will be the American distributor for Chinese developer Yoison Technology.

Go Solar USA claims that customers can expect the Apple Peel's 800mAh battery to deliver nearly five hours of talk time and 120 hours of standby use. Note that this does require a jailbroken iPod.

The Apple Peel has been available in China for a while now, first as a black market item. With official supplies significantly strained, more and more customers are looking for alternate solutions.

Go Solar USA expects to have demo units in the US this week, which they will begin distributing among retailers (which retailers were not revealed). There's no word on the cost, but it currently sells in China for 520 Yuan (US$77).

TUAWApple Peel 520 coming to US, UK originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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New iOS developer betas posted

Apple has posted several new betas for members of the paid iOS developer program. Point your browser to the developer site, and use your credentials to log in. You'll find new betas for iOS 4.2 as well as several other items that we're not sure we can specifically mention without breaking NDAs.

Download. Enjoy. Have fun.

Thank you everyone who pinged us!

TUAWNew iOS developer betas posted originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A grand tour of nanotechnology at Nokia Research Center, Cambridge

We've all seen what a bumpy ride Nokia's had over the last few months -- disappointing profits, the departure of a couple of old friends, and the slight delay of the forthcoming N8. Despite all that, Espoo seems to have at least one stronghold that remained unshaken throughout the storm: its research center in Cambridge, UK. Yep, we're talking about the magical place where Nokia and University of Cambridge co-develop the core technologies for the futuristic Morph concept. Actually, "futuristic" might be too strong a word here, as we were fortunate enough to see some of Nokia's latest research at the heart of Morph -- namely flexible circuitry and nanowire sensing -- demonstrated live yesterday. Curious as to how well the demos went? Then read on -- you know you want to.

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A grand tour of nanotechnology at Nokia Research Center, Cambridge originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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