If you own a few mobile devices, it’s likely that you’re flipping cords out on your desk or nightstand on a regular basis. A company calledIDAPTis looking to change that annoyance by offering a couple of interesting products that you’re going to dig. The first, that we’ll talk about in this post, is thei4 Universal Charging Station. It’s a device that’s made to sit on your desk and charge up to 4 devices simultaneously....
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), Samsung’s Windows Phone 7 (WP7) handsets are “gaining traction.” The statement from the research company came ina reporton the top five global smartphone manufacturers. Samsung, maker of several WP7 phones including the popular Focus, has been a provider of Windows Phone 7 handsets since the mobile line launched in late 2010. What is important about the statement from IDC is that it somewhat quells recent news that Windows Phone 7 sales have been low, perhaps even disastrously so....
We first wroteaboutiDoneThisjust after the New Year. Since then, the email based productivity log has been used by one person to finish his Ph.D and another guy even used iDoneThis to propose to his girlfriend. In total, iDoneThis has helped thousands of users getover 200,000 things done. Back in January, co-founders Walter Chen and Rodrigo Guzman put their site on Hacker News as a side project, and received hundreds of signups as buzz started to slowly build....
We don’t cover bookmarklets here on TNWmicrosoft often, but we do make exceptions, and for what we have today we will gladly grant a pass. IE6IFY is perhaps the funnest tool that we have played with since the Office 2010 beta, it’s endless entertainment. What does it do? It renders (at your command) the site that you are visiting as if you were running IE6, inside of your browser, no matter what you are actually using....
TNW Quick Hit: Internet Explorer 9, which launch very recently, accrued some2.35 million downloadsin its first 24 hours on the market. This level of popularity fits with earlier market enthusiasm for the IE9 beta and release candidate. According to Microsoft, the first day data puts IE9’s download rate at 27 per second. The 2.35 million downloads in the first 24 hours is more than twice the download rate of the IE9 beta, and four times that of the IE9 RC....
