Ok, we admit its what I call a SND (Slow News Day), which means we don’t mind posting a completely fluff story.
On the other hand, I am sure Twikini would not mind being endorsed by one of the richest men in the world. I guess we can be sure Bill Gates is not using a HTC HD2.
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Two men were charged early Sunday morning after search warrants executed by police uncovered weapons, drugs and cash at separate locations on the West and South Side.
In separate raids Saturday morning at the two locations, Harrison District Tactical officers and the Organized Crime Division’s Narcotics Section officers uncovered a load of cash, guns and drugs with an estimated street value of more than $27,000, officials said.
Police had received several tips about illegal activity at the two spots, leading to the search warrants being issued, according to a news release.
About 8:40 a.m. Saturday, Harrison District officers executed the warrant at a residence in the 3400 block of West Fulton Street and found seven guns, about $13,500 worth of crack cocaine and small amounts of ecstasy and cannabis, police said.
Arrested at that location was Raymond Landingham, 24, of the same West Side address. He was charged with unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and possession of a controlled substance, cannabis, and drug paraphernalia.
He also was charged with possession of ammunition without a valid gun card.
About the same time Saturday, the Narcotics Section police entered a house in the 11800 block of South Princeton Avenue and found two M-16 carbines, six handguns, a shotgun, and crack and powdered cocaine, police said.
The drugs have a combined street value of $13,865, police said. About $13,500 in cash also was found at Anderson’s home, police said.
Anderson, 33, was charged with unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and possession of a controlled substance, police said.
Both men were scheduled to appear in Central Bond Court later today.
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My BG seems to often rise overnight by about 3-4mmol/L, however last night I did the basal test as described in Think Like a Pancreas and only experienced a -0.1mmol/L change (5.3mmol/L to 5.2mmol/L). The 3-4mmol/L change is based on testing 2hrs after eating and injecting, so perhaps my insulin is not working as fast as I assume (I’m on novorapid). My results in the basal test were based on testing 4hrs after eating and again on waking.
Anyone experienced anything similar, or have any advice they could share?
Thanks a lot,
David
An elderly man was found dead this morning after a fire broke out in a home on the South Side.
Robert Young, described as being in his 60s, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The examiner’s office said Young lived in the 8000 block of South Wood Street. But the fire took place in the 8000 block of South Stewart Avenue, in a one-story, ranch-style bungalow.
About 3:18 a.m., fire officials responded to a call of a fire at the building in the 8000 block of South Stewart Avenue, said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford.
When firefighters arrived, heavy fire was blowing out of the windows in the back of the building, Langford said.
After the fire was extinguished, firefighters searched the building and discovered an elderly man in a bedroom in the back of the building, Langford said. “He was already dead when we found him,” Langford said.
Langford also said no working smoke alarms were found in the building. “Smoke detectors sometimes make the difference,” he said.
Langford said fire officials will be out this morning educating the public about the importance of working smoke alarms in buildings.
It is not clear if other residents live in the building,Langford said. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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Life was never easy in high Caucasus. Nomads from northern steppes eager to get their hands on the riches of Mesopotamia, and Empires battling for supremacy — Assyrians, Macedonians, Persians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Turks and Mongols — all clashed with fearless locals. The list of invading armies is nearly endless.
Svans — a subgroup of Georgians, who speak their own unwritten Svan language, practice blood revenge and sing complicated polyphonic vocal songs — were the traditional gatekeepers of mountain passes, and since the time immemorial have been hardy survivors, the archetypal highland warriors. Every household in Svaneti is a true fortress. Villages in these rugged landscape are often too scattered to be encircled with a protective wall. Each individual house thus had to be separately fortified.
The tower homes of Svaneti are at the same time, familial living quarters, fortified fortresses of defense and personal treasuries. They offered protection to their owners and to their livestock, and also served as shelters for the most valuable possessions of every family, copies of holy scriptures and religious icons and relics. Most of the towers date back to the period between 9th and 12th century.
The turbulent history of the region ensured that these fortifications remained in use long after similar defenses become redundant elsewhere in Europe. In recent times families have slowly begun moving out into more comfortable living spaces. However, many of Svan towers still remain in use, and the village of Chazhashi boasts as many as 200.
The similar dwellings can be found in a much wider area all over Caucasus. However, the typical Svaneti towers are concentrated in Mestia district, 128 km northeast of the regional capital of Zugdidi. Anyone wishing to see the towers should head to the remote village of Ushguli.
With elevation of 2086m Ushguni is one of the highest inhabited places in Europe. According to local lore in middle ages, it served as a summer retreat for fabled Queen Tamar. Since 1996, the traditional towers of upper Svaneti have been protected as an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A 21-year-old man died after being shot in the back Saturday evening in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood.
Police responded to a call of shots fired in the 900 block of North Hamlin Avenue at about 6:50 p.m., said Police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines. When they arrived, they found a man shot in the back, Gaines said.
Elzie Johnson, 21, was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 8:59 p.m., according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Johnson was arguing with a man in the street, according to witnesses. The man walked off, but returned with a gun and shot Johnson in the back, Gaines said.
No one is in custody for the shooting. Police are investigating.
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Brandon McCain, whose address was unavailable, was pronounced dead at 3:14 a.m. at Stroger Hospital according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
About 11:20 p.m., police responded to shots fired in the 400 block of North Central Avenue, said Police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro.
When police arrived, they discovered three male teens with gunshot wounds, Alfaro said. Conditions on the victims were not available, but they all were taken to Stroger Hospital for treatment, he said.
McCain was shot in the head, police said. An 18-year-old suffered gunshot wounds to his back and arm and a 15-year-old was shot in the left arm, Alfaro said.
The teens were standing on a corner when an unknown suspect or suspects opened fire in their direction, Alfaro said.
No one is in custody for the shooting. Police are investigating.
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Filed under: Motorsports, Ferrari
Ferrari’s 2010 Formula One car won’t be officially revealed by the team until January 28, but a quick preview of the new car’s livery was provided by Fernando Alonso during a test at Circuit Paul Ricard. Spanish bank Santander, which followed Alonso from McLaren to Renault to Ferrari, is making the most of its time with the most famous marque in motorsports.
The Santander logo has replaced the bar code graphic that adorned the airbox and rear wing last year, the Shell logos on the front wings, and the Ferrari shields on the bodywork behind the front wheels. Combined with the new Ferrari overalls, no one will be able to forget who’s bringing the cash to the scuderia. Stay tuned Thursday for the final cut, and if you want more, you can watch McLaren’s car unveiled live on the Internet on Friday.
[Source: World Car Fans | Image credit: Banco Santander]
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Police are investigating a crash this morning on Interstate 290 that involved a shooting.
Earlier, a spokesman for the Illinois State Police confirmed the incident occurred, but would not provide any further information saying the crash and shooting was being investigated by the Chicago Police Department.
As of 5:50 a.m., a spokeswoman for the Illinois State Police confirmed a car crashed into an Illinois Department of Transportation truck near the Cicero Avenue mark on the Eisenhower.
She also said the state police did not have any further information available about the crash.
She said the Chicago Police Department was handling the shooting investigation.
The Chicago Police Department did not immediately have information about the incident available.
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Amazingly, these waves of Crapgadgets tend to showcase some sort of mini-trend. Oftentimes it’s a certain fondness for USB overkill, while other times it just feels like gaudy is the new black. This go ’round, however, we’re looking at a veritable cornucopia of lameness. Eager to drop a Jackson to enjoy one of the most non-ergonomic wooden mice to ever see the light of day? Now you can. There’s also the common issue of not being able to see text in a book while in pure darkness, but rather than just flipping a light switch or changing time zones to locate the sun, there’s a wearable necklace to do the trick. Believe it or not, the list just keeps on getting better, with a machine gun-styled USB drive, heart-shaped telephone and a USB scent flower rounding things out. Dive into dumpster below if you dare, and drop your vote for the worst of the worst in the poll below.
Read – USB bamboo mouse
Read – Wearable hands-free light
Read – Machine gun USB drive
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Read – Steering wheel Bluetooth mount
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One Friday night after a long week, a couple of friends who live in the next apartment complex threw a party. After getting all dolled up (and taking a few roomie shots), two of my roommates and I headed over with numerous handles of vodka, while the other two headed to a different shindig. Upon our arrival, my boyfriend met us there and all of us decided this was a night to get really, really drunk.
We started taking shots immediately as music blasted and the party got more and more crowded. It was a small apartment with tons of people inside, making it hard to move around, so logically we just stayed put in the corner we were in… and continued to take shots…for a few hours. We eventually stumbled to another party where my boyfriend and I got separated from our friends and, feeling frisky, decided to just make our way back to my place for a little lovin’.
Things were goin’ well in the bedroom. And by well, I mean crazy. I guess that’s what happens when you’ve got a little too much booze running through your system. We were in the middle of a particularly acrobatic situation when my boyfriend, who I must have been relying on to hold me up, suddenly fell off the bed. Naturally, I went down with him, slamming my head on my dresser along the way. I hit the floor as a searing pain shot through my head and my ear felt like it was on fire. I couldn’t move. I layed there in the fetal position moaning as my boyfriend freaked out.
“Oh my god. Oh my god! Are you OK?” He reached over and felt the side of my. “YOU’RE BLEEDING!”
I freaked out. My boyfriend pulled me up and we ran to the bathroom where I saw it. Blood. Everywhere: dripping down my neck, into my cleavage, all over his hands, streaked across his face. We both sprinted upstairs (in our undies) to find someone to help us. We ran into my first roommate’s room and found her passed out next to her bed in her party clothes and shoes. Clearly she wouldn’t be much help. We shut the door and ran down the hall where, thankfully, my other three were awake. They all screamed when they saw me.
“Oh my god! What happened?!”
There was no time to explain so I grabbed a tank top from the floor, threw it on and followed my roommate (who deemed herself “sober enough” to drive to the campus Emergency Room) outside.
After getting yelled at for saying “sh*t” by a 250-pound attendant with a “Gangsta Bitch” tattoo on her arm, I met with the receptionist who asked for my insurance card. In my drunken stupor (or maybe it was all that blood loss?) I handed her (in this order) my ID, my school ID, a Visa card, my Starbucks card and, finally, the insurance information she had requested. Then I made my boyfriend go buy me chips from the vending machine as I held an ice pack to my head (What? You think the drunk munchies go away when you’re bleeding from the head?). Eventually, it was my turn.
I layed on the table and held my boyfriend’s hand as the doctor, in a very thick foreign accent, informed me that my ear was basically split in half and I’d need 6 stitches. I mentally freaked out (I’d never had stitches before!), but was too drunk to do anything but lay there (in a tank top and a pair of plaid boy shorts that barely covered my ass, by the way) with my eyes closed and a stupid smile on my face. I barely felt a thing.
Finally, the night ended and my boyfriend and I went home.
But that wasn’t the end of it.
Unfortunately, having a bunch of black wires sticking out of your ear leaves people with a lot of questions. Especially my grandma, who, in addition to the rest of my family, I had to see when I went home for Thanksgiving only two days later.
For the longest time, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has been looking through his magical crystal ball and giving his take on the goings-on in the industry. From rip-off comments (psp/news/pachter-apologizes-for-psp-go-ripping-off-comment.html) to his gutsy predictions, his name
Guest contributor: Karen Collins, M.S., R.D., C.D.N.No. Seafood is just as high or higher in vitamin B-12 as beef and pork, and poultry, eggs and dairy products are also good sources. Vegetarians can meet their B-12 needs with several daily servings of dairy products or eggs.
However, vegans — those who eat no animal products at all — need B-12-fortified foods (such as fortified soymilk and some cereals and nutritional yeast products), since no unfortified plant foods (including fermented soy foods) are reliable sources.
It’s important to note that most people who don’t eat enough of any of those foods can still meet their B-12 needs with an oral supplement, without need for injections.
Deficiency of vitamin B-12 poses serious health risks, because it’s needed to avoid anemia, maintain nerve function, and produce and maintain healthy DNA; evidence is mixed on whether it may also help preserve brain function and decrease risk of dementia.
Deficiency can develop for several reasons: Stomach acid is needed to release B-12 that’s bound to protein in food, so the 10 to 30 percent of people age 50 or older with decreased stomach acid and people taking acid-reducing medications may not absorb enough of the B-12 in meats and dairy products. However, these people have no problem absorbing the B-12 found in fortified foods and supplements, since it is already free and not affected by reduced acid levels.
The people likely to need B-12 injections are those who have surgery for weight loss or who have diseases such as celiac or Crohn’s disease.
Absolutely! Beets and parsnips are good sources of folate, a B vitamin that helps keep our DNA healthy for lower cancer risk. Radishes, rutabagas and turnips are cruciferous vegetables providing protective compounds that seem to “turn on” genes that help control cell growth and promote self-destruction of cancer cells. (Broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts are other members of the cruciferous family abundant during winter.)
Carrots supply beta-carotene and its cousin, alpha-carotene, antioxidants that protect our DNA. Jicamas, rutabagas and celeriac (“celery root”) are all good sources of vitamin C.
Parsnips and rutabagas are high in potassium, which helps control blood pressure. And all these root vegetables supply dietary fiber.
(This article was provided by the American Institute for Cancer Research in Washington, D.C. A registered dietician is available to respond to questions about diet, nutrition, and cancer at the free AICR Hotline at 1 (800) 843-8114 during business hours.)
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How to get the B-12 you need, and enjoying winter root vegetables
Filed under: Motorsports, Ferrari
Ferrari‘s 2010 Formula One car won’t be officially revealed by the team until January 28, but a quick preview of the new car’s livery was provided by Fernando Alonso during a test at Circuit Paul Ricard. Spanish bank Santander, which followed Alonso from McLaren to Renault to Ferrari, is making the most of its time with the most famous marque in motorsports.
The Santander logo has replaced the bar code graphic that adorned the airbox and rear wing last year, the Shell logos on the front wings, and the Ferrari shields on the bodywork behind the front wheels. Combined with the new Ferrari overalls, no one will be able to forget who’s bringing the cash to the scuderia. Stay tuned Thursday for the final cut, and if you want more, you can watch McLaren’s car unveiled live on the Internet on Friday.
[Source: World Car Fans | Image credit: Banco Santander]
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Wyoming, Wisconsin | Instruments of Science
A mysterious pattern of stones sits at the summit of Medicine Mountain, nearly 10,000 feet above the Bighorn Range in Wyoming. Covered by heavy snows for most of the year, the stone configuration reveals itself and its purpose only in the summer months.
The stones are arranged in the shape of a wheel, 80 feet across and with 28 spokes emanating from a central cairn. The cairn, a ring-shaped pile of rocks, is large enough to sit in and is surrounded by six others that lie along the wheel’s circumference. Oddly enough, this configuration is not unique to Wyoming. Rather, hundreds of similar stone wheels exist throughout North America.
Known as medicine wheels, or sacred hoops, these special structures have been built by Native Americans for centuries. With uses ranging from the ritual to the astronomical, the medicine wheel has been appropriated over time by New Age spiritualists, Wiccans, and Pagans.
Of the various medicine wheels throughout the continent, Bighorn is one of the most well studied and preserved. As a result of the work of one archaeoastronomer, Jack Eddy, it was discovered that the arrangement of the cairns and spokes hold special celestial significance. Eddy suggests that when the wheel was built by Plains Indians 300-800 years ago, it served to predict the positions of the Sun and other bright stars in the sky around the summer solstice.
When sitting in one cairn and looking towards another, the observer’s vision is drawn to a specific point on the horizon. Eddy found that two points determined by different cairn alignments corresponded to the places in the sky where the sun rose and set on the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. Furthermore, other lines of sight created by the cairn combinations marked the heliacal risings of the bright stars Aldebaran, Rigel, and Sirius.
A heliacal rising is an important event because it pinpoints an exact calendar date. This event occurs when a star first reappears at dawn, after it has been washed out by the Sun’s light for an entire season. At Bighorn, for instance, Aldebaran’s heliacal rising occurs just a few days before the solstice. Rigel then rises at dawn 28 days (or one lunar month) after Aldebaran and Sirius rises another 28 days after Rigel.
It is known that the number 28 is sacred among some tribes, because of its association with the lunar cycle. There are 28 spokes in a medicine wheel, as well as in the roofs of some ceremonial buildings. Whether or not the builders of the wheel at Bighorn were aware of the 28-day intervals between the heliacal risings mentioned above is not certain. This possibility, however, remains very likely.
Today, the Bighorn Medicine Wheel is still an accurate predictor for the summer solstice and is used by various Native American groups. Additionally, the site is a registered National Historic Landmark and is monitored by an archaeologist throughout the summer. Other important medicine wheels include one at Moose Mountain in Saskatchewan and one in Majorville, Alberta that is believed to be 5000 years old, making it coeval with the pyramids in Egypt.
Filed under: iPod Family, Cool tools, Hacks, iPhone, Jailbreak/pwnage
The BTstack project that we’ve covered before on TUAW, offers a way for iPhone and iPod touch units to communicate with arbitrary external Bluetooth devices. To date, it’s been used to connect keyboards, mice, and wiimotes with iPhone software.
This system has now been extended to the first generation iPod touch, bringing all six iPhoneOS models into the Bluetooth arena. Since the 1st gen touch does not provide its own built-in system, it requires an external module. This video uses the dongle described at this blog post to demonstrate the keyboard connection functionality.
Although the 1st generation touch is an increasingly deprecated system, it’s nice to know that it hasn’t been left out of the Bluetooth picture. Old touch units make excellent hobbyist systems. When jailbroken, access to a full suite of Unix tools offers a budget-priced platform with great prototyping potential. With this new Bluetooth stack support, the 1st gen touch has just become an even more exciting system for projects like remote monitoring.
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When it comes to mobile, time is literally money. Carriers like AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and the rest make us pay based on how many minutes we use — or in the case of prepaid plans, expect to use. If we want to talk more, we can expect to pay more.
But VoIP over 3G networks could drastically change that. Callers could place calls for little or no fee with VoIP apps and in the process, opt for less expensive plans with less minutes. Admittedly, carriers aren’t too keen on the idea. But it’s quickly becoming a topic of much debate. And some folks believe it’s the next logical step in mobile communication.
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Skype’s Fight
Skype certainly does. Russ Shaw, a Skype VP and head of its mobile business unit, told me last week that not only is the company actively working towards delivering its mobile VoIP solution on multiple networks around the world, it believes it can achieve that goal sooner rather than later. “We are starting to see a softening in carriers in relationship to VoIP,” he said.
But according to Shaw, certain carriers have told Skype that the only way they’ll enable VoIP over 3G is by charging for it, an approach the company believes will hamper its adoption. Skype wants carriers to see the value of free VoIP over 3G. And it thinks the experience of 3, a small 3G wireless operator in the UK that — working in conjunction with Skype– has allowed its users to place VoIP calls over 3G, will help convince them of it.
According to a case study performed late last year by CCS Insight Consulting, Mobile Skype users generate 60 percent more voice revenue for 3 than non-users. Mobile Skype users were also found to text message others almost 33 percent more than non-users. Perhaps most importantly for carriers that are trying to drive revenue through 3G, Mobile Skype users are twice as likely as non-users to pay for data.
Apple’s Apprehension
Evidently, some carriers are taking notice. Back in October, AT&T said that it would open its 3G network to VoIP providers on the iPhone. It was good news for Skype given that, according to Shaw, the company’s mobile app has been downloaded more than 10 million times in Apple’s App Store, making the software the leader in VoIP on the iPhone. There’s just one problem: Apple has yet to approve the VoIP-over-3G functionality.
That might be due to quality. According to Karl Good, Truphone’s director of applications, that’s his company’s biggest problem with it. “Although it is technically possible to offer VoIP calling over 3G on devices such as the Android, the relatively low bandwidth of 3G compared to Wi-Fi means that those calls are very often of a poor quality,” he said.
An industry insider I spoke with that asked to remain anonymous echoed that sentiment, saying: “In areas where multiple carriers have 3G deployed, the quality of available bandwidth still has a lot to be desired. Bottom line, depending on where you are, and what carrier you are using, it’s hard to say exactly what you can expect to get.”
All of which, of course, fails to mention that 3G connectivity is lacking in several areas around the country, on every carrier network. And the chances of that changing anytime soon are slim.
Are We There Yet?
So where do we stand? On one hand, VoIP providers are espousing the benefits of VoIP over a 3G network, saying it’s what customers really want. On the other hand, few carriers have loosened their grips on their networks, and many handset makers are cognizant of the fact that so far, VoIP over 3G loses much of its allure once due to quality issues.
Simply put, for now, it doesn’t seem that VoIP is ready for 3G. Or perhaps 3G just isn’t ready for VoIP.
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Email as a technology has been around for decades, and thanks to wide spread adoption and popularity, it isn’t in danger of disappearing. Check out the five most popular email clients to help you wrangle your email.
Earlier this week we asked your to share your favorite email client. We didn’t restrict the voting to only stand-alone email applications or web-based email clients, but we did specify that if you voted for a web-based tool it had to have distinctly client-like features—such as Gmail’s ability to fetch and sort email from other sources. The email Call for Contenders was one of the most popular we’ve ever had, with over 1,000 votes logged. Here are the five most popular clients used by Lifehacker readers:
Outlook has been around since the 1990s, and by virtue of being part of the Microsoft Office suite and having been entrenched in the business environment, it enjoys an enormous popularity. Even if many people use Outlook because it’s the email client provided—and often required!—by their place of employment, that doesn’t mean it can’t stand on its own merits. Integration with Windows Desktop Search gives you the ability to quickly search through your entire Outlook workflow, and Outlook can handle everything from your email to your calendar and easily transfer tasks, contacts, and more between the two.
Apple’s Mail application, also known as Mail.app or simpy Mail, unsurprisingly continues the tradition of Apple applications following the “it just works” method of design. Mail allows you to collect all your email from across the web and various email servers in one place, and it actively engages your email as you read it. For example, if you get an email with an invitation to a meeting next Thursday, Mail will detect it and make it simple to kick that appointment right over to iCal. Like the integration between Windows Desktop Search and Outlook, Mail is integrated with Spotlight to make deep massaging your messages easy.
Thunderbird is an open-source offering from Mozilla—the company behind the beloved open-source browser Firefox. Thunderbird is a solid email application that sports the same extensibility of its code-sibling Firefox. Many readers voted for not just Thunderbird but Thunderbird with the addition of Lightning, a Thunderbird extension that adds scheduling and task management functionality to Thunderbird. If you’re interested in using Thunderbird you’ll definitely want to check out our guide to making Thunderbird your ultimate online/offline messaging hub, and you may also want to consider packing Thunderbird Portable away on your thumb drive for anywhere-access to your email.
Google has had quite a hit on their hands with Gmail, their extremely popular web-based email client. Not only do you get a feature-packed email account when you sign up for Gmail—you also get an email client that’s is very adept at pulling in email from other services and organizing it with a robust system of filters and tags. You can check out how to manage multiple inboxes here if you’d like to use Gmail as a central hub for managing all your email. Many of the features in Gmail aren’t necessarily revolutionary—like the ability to filter messages, flag, or label them—but the featurs are implemented in such a way that makes them effortless to use. And, surprising as it may seem, its much-loved threaded conversations are still relatively unique to Gmail.
Postbox is stand-alone email client for Windows and Mac operating systems. Postbox is based on Mozilla-code, so the Postbox team has been able to tweak quite a few Thunderbird extensions, including Lightning, to work with Postbox. In addition to its extensibility, Postbox’s default interface is powerful. The app includes features like the ability to search and compose simultaneously. You can look up an email address, search for a previous attachment, and check an old email for information all in the sidebar while working on your current email. Postbox also provides email summaries as you read through and search your email, showing you not just the sender and subject line but the attachments and any important information inside the email like addresses, appointments, and URLs.
Now that you’ve had a chance to look over the five most popular candidates it’s time to cast your vote:
Which Email Client Is Best?(survey software)
Have a tip or trick for your favorite email client? Can’t believe your favorite didn’t make the cut? Let’s hear about it in the comments.
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Filed under: Classics, Auctions
As with just about any car auction, the words “Shelby” and “Cobra” always translate to lots of money. This was the case at Barrett-Jackson this year, with two of the top cars bearing the Cobra moniker. The first, CSX2091, is a clean 1963 289 Cobra with a fully rebuilt motor generating 417 horsepower. The second is chassis CSX2281, a clean Wimbledon White 1964 289 Cobra that’s been through various upgrades, restorations, and rebuilds over the years, but is currently in prime condition.
Bidding for both cars quickly shot into the six figures, with each car finally topping the $400,000 mark. The white Cobra reached $478,500 and the black Cobra took $401,500 after auction fees. Those figures would have been the top selling cars for the auction except for a 1964 Chevrolet Corvette that inexplicably sold for $550,000. Hit the jump for more details on the two Cobras.
Gallery: Barrett-Jackson 2010: Shelby Cobras
Photos by Drew Phillips / Copyright (C)2010 Weblogs, Inc.
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We needed to independently connect and verify a few dots before sounding the alarm here, but sure enough, it looks like Cell Phone Signal has unearthed the best smoking gun yet suggesting Motorola’s MOTOROI — the phone formerly known as the Sholes Tablet — is destined for T-Mobile USA. The evidence comes in the form of an FCC filing, a Motorola device with ID IHDP56KC6, that’s certified for quadband EDGE plus T-Mobile-friendly 1700 / 2100MHz HSPA humming at a peak of 10.2Mbps down and 5.6Mbps up (not too shabby) with Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, and magnetic compass. By and large, Moto managed to paint over revealing portions of spectrum analyzer screen shots that contained the product’s codename, but there are a couple they forgot to touch — and sure enough, the part they didn’t want you to see reads in part “SHOLES.”
So why are we so sure this is the keyboardless MOTOROI as opposed to an AWS-compliant form of the Droid / Milestone, which shared the Sholes name internally? The answer lies in the SAR report, which didn’t test the phone’s radiated power in both “slider up” and “slider down” configurations like we saw in the Droid’s documentation — there’s just one set of figures here. That, of course, means no slider, which in turn means no QWERTY, which ultimately means MOTOROI. Now if you’ll excuse us, we need to close fourteen sets of FCC filings, restart our computer, and grab a quick drink — but in the meantime, T-Mobile folks, take comfort in knowing that your Moto rollercoaster doesn’t start and end with the CLIQ. Don’t suppose this would be a March release, would it?
Motorola MOTOROI almost certainly bound for T-Mobile (thanks, FCC!) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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