http://thekevinpipe.com Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:52:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video In a surprise turn for no-name PMPs, the Ainol V3000 actually didn't seem so shabby when we first spotted it in July. Of particular note was the device's 4.3-inch 800 x 480 screen, and it always helps when the device behind that screen isn't ugly. ... http://thekevinpipe.com/2008/09/06/ainol-v3000-high-res-pmp-handled-on-video/?source=rss Music video content provider MTV recently announced that its Content API is out of private beta and available to the general public. Available as part of a new MTV Networks Developers Tools web site, the RESTful API gives access to content from MTV, VH1, CMT and Logo. The ... http://thekevinpipe.com/2008/09/06/mtv-api-now-in-public-beta-music-videos-anyone/?source=rss If Lifehacker's filling up your feedreader faster than you can empty it, switch to our trimmed-down, no-nonsense top stories feed. Sick of hearing about Google Chrome or the iPhone? Customize our URLs to exclude the topics you don't care about. This week's most popular posts include: Beta Browser Speed Tests: ... http://thekevinpipe.com/2008/09/06/this-weeks-best-posts-highlights-17/?source=rss Beijing artist Liu Bolin's camouflage series is presented in the medium of photography, but his painting skills play the starring role. - More examples of his marvelous precision @ work - ‘camoflague’ by liu bolin Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this! http://thekevinpipe.com/2008/09/06/camouflage-paintings-by-liu-bolin/?source=rss Google's Picasa team released a number of major updates to both its desktop photo managing application Picasa and its online photo gallery this week. On Tuesday, we already reported about the addition of face recognition to the Picasa web albums, but Google also added Creative Comments licenses and email uploads, ... http://thekevinpipe.com/2008/09/06/google-updates-picasa-and-picasa-web-albums/?source=rss Today on TokyoMango, I wrote about a newly found stack of Occupation-era letters written by an American woman in 1940s Japan; a robot that will help ... http://thekevinpipe.com/2008/09/06/today-on-tokyomango-7/?source=rss Austin has an aggressive solar energy rebate program ($4.50 per professionally-installed watt), and here's an opportunity to learn the in's and out's of grid-tie system design: Grid-Interactive System Design and Installation (part 1&2) Cost: $80 Saturday, September 6th - 10am to 4pm This 6 hour workshop, lead by expert installer and NABCEP certified instructor ... http://thekevinpipe.com/2008/09/06/austin-event-grid-tied-solar-system-class/?source=rss node7 writes "The FBI, NSA, and CIA are jointly supporting a newly created 'MySpace' for the intelligence community. Named 'A-Space,' the site will contain highly classified material, so naturally, it won't be available to the public. From CNN: '[Michael Wertheimer, assistant deputy director of national intelligence for analysis] demonstrated the ... http://thekevinpipe.com/2008/09/06/cia-fbi-push-social-networking-for-spies/?source=rss Filed under: Laptops Judging by the amount of mods already available for Acer's contribution to the netbook world, we'd say there's a fair amount of things folks would like changed on the Aspire One. Of course, that's not to say the machine isn't worthy of praise as-is, but there's nothing wrong ... http://thekevinpipe.com/2008/09/06/how-would-you-change-acers-aspire-one/?source=rss SpaceAdmiral brings news that NASA will be launching a telescope next April, called Solar Ultraviolet Magnetograph Investigation (SUMI), which will examine what is called the "transition region" between the Sun's corona and the chromosphere. Scientists have studied characteristics of the Sun around this region before, but never within it. NASA ... http://thekevinpipe.com/2008/09/06/nasa-to-explore-secret-layer-of-the-sun/?source=rss Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment The fun has just begun in the Mile High City for Runco, which has followed up its outlandish flat-panel announcement with a replacement to the fabled VX-2 projector. The 3-chip VideoXtreme VX-8 is squarely aimed at those with fat wallets and the word "videophile" stitched ... http://thekevinpipe.com/2008/09/06/runco-announces-20000-videoxtreme-vx-8-projector/?source=rss Firefox with Greasemonkey: The LabelLinks4Gmail Greasemonkey scripts creates nested labels in your Gmail sidebar. If the idea sounds familiar, that's probably because the previously mentioned Folders4Gmail script has been included with Better Gmail for quite some time. The main difference is that LabelLinks4Gmail soups up the sidebar so that clicking ... http://thekevinpipe.com/2008/09/06/labellinks4gmail-nests-labels-in-gmail-and-then-some-featured-greasemonkey-user-script/?source=rss Oh yes, we did - Perfect for many electronics projects, this mint tin is branded with our Make motto, "If You Can't Open It, You Don't Own It". We even took out those pesky mints! Get 'em while they last and send us your project photos!Not a moment too soon - ... http://thekevinpipe.com/2008/09/06/the-make-mint-project-tin/?source=rss Filed under: Desktops, Laptops It looks like Dell is taking a rather drastic step to attempt to cut some of the costs that have been dragging it down in recent years, with The Wall Street Journal now reporting that the company plans to sell "most -- and possibly all -- of ... http://thekevinpipe.com/2008/09/05/dell-looking-to-sell-factories-to-increase-profitability/?source=rss Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment For the most part, Runco stays pretty quiet in the consumer realm... until CEDIA rolls around. Once again, the high-end AV company is firing on all cylinders in Denver, announcing seven new 1080p LCD / plasma displays including its largest LCD to date, the 70-inch ... http://thekevinpipe.com/2008/09/05/runco-lets-it-all-hang-out-intros-seven-new-1080p-lcds-plasmas-at-cedia/?source=rss Rich Internet Applications is the fancy name for desktop apps that leverage internet connectivity outside the browser. RIAs, as they're called, are supposed to be ushering in a post-browser future, according to some people. Why, then, has one of the most high profile RIA providers in recent ... http://thekevinpipe.com/2008/09/05/joost-ditches-the-desktop-player-could-itunes-video-be-next/?source=rss Filed under: Laptops Here's an interesting, albeit confusing, story: we're getting word that MSI has recalled some Wind laptops running SUSE Linux, since some random oddities had snuck onto the disk image. Namely, illegal screener copies of movies and some family photos. That could explain MSI's temporary delay in shipping this ... http://thekevinpipe.com/2008/09/05/msi-wind-launch-was-delayed-by-ripped-movies-family-photos/?source=rss