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Adobe has announced the launch of its Creative Suite 5, the latest release in the long line of products well known to graphic designers, web developers and anyone in the creative industries. It’s a massive release, with all the 14 products in the suite being upgraded. Creative Suite 5 also adds Adobe Flash Catalyst to the lineup, a tool designed to allow users wi… (read more)

All you wannabe martial artists, here’s your chance. Virtual Air Guitar is one company intent on giving you the bext experience for camera games, and up next from them is Kung-Fu Live.
 
 
 
 

I absolutely love the many whimsical pottery cats from Swedish designer Lisa Larson. Her vintage pottery is quite collectible, and can be found through antique dealers and on eBay, but these little striped cats are now available through Unica Home. This very modern striped tabby comes in three sizes and two colors, brown or grey. They are something to save up for, since the mini sells for $66 US, medium is $144, and maxi is $456. You’d definitely have to put these somewhere safely out of the reach of your cat!

The folks at SureFlap are extending the discount deadline to April 30. Get 10% off your entire order by entering code 150410 at checkout.

Read more about the SureFlap here.

As a new, original entry towards the democratization of data visualization (think Many Eyes or Swivel specialized for sports), the free, online service Chalkboards [guardian.co.uk] allows the analysis of all events of every Premier League soccer/football match, including shots, tackles, passes and fouls. In addition, players can be compared side by side. The necessary data is made available about 30 minutes after the match end.

See also:
. FIFA Earth
. UEFA Champions League MatchCentre
. Footbal Drawings
. Social Network Soccer Map
. 3D Soccer Replay
. World Cup Soccer Balls

Seemingly more advanced but requiring a pay-only access: Bloomberg Sports.

Did you ever pad your stats in the most recent Warhawk tournament? If you did, then you might find yourself in some big trouble. How does getting banned from the PlayStation Network sound to you guys?
 
 
 

Robert Bowling debuts as his cartoon self on this evening’s Family Guy episode. Here, the Modern Warfare 2 boss pokes fun at himself, going all n00bish, much to the dismay of Peter Griffin.
 
 
 
 

Filed under: Minivan/Van, Truck, Crossover, Ford

This Tuesday, Ford’s VP of global powertrain development, Barb Samardzich, will be addressing the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit, and Ecoboost technology will again be at the top of her agenda. Samardzich will confirm that before the end of this year three more Ecoboost engines will be in production at Ford, including the 1.6-liter inline-four due to be built at the Bridgend plant in Wales and debut in the new C-Max people mover.

At the Chicago Auto Show it was announced that the new 2.0-liter inline-four will go into the 2011 Edge and during Tuesday’s address Samardzich will also confirm that turbo’d four-pot will find its way into the new unibody Explorer as well. That installation should come as no surprise since just such a combination was listed as a powertrain for the Explorer America concept that debuted at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show when Ecoboost was originally announced.

The final announcement (and one of the worst kept secrets in the industry) will be the confirmation that the 2011 F150 will be available with a 3.5-liter V6 Ecoboost. This will be the first rear-drive Ecoboost application, and brings the total number of announced Ecoboosted vehicles to eight (nine if you count C-Max and Grand C-Max). However, Ford is saying there will be 11 Ecoboost vehicles this year, with the Lincoln MKX one likely candidate for the 2.0-liter and the Mondeo may get one of the four cylinder units as well.

Samardzich will also announce that Ford has upped its Ecoboost production target from 1.3 million to 1.5 million by 2013 – not bad when you consider when Ecoboost was first announced Ford was targeting 750,000 units.

[Source: Ford]

Continue reading SAE 2010: Ford confirms Explorer, F-150 EcoBoost, ups production target to 1.5M

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	Amtrak could set ridership record in 2010 Up 4.3 percent so far.		Better Place will test first ever commercial battery swap later this month Here goes nothing…
	It’s Friday: Prisoners forced to pedal to watch TV, could we charge-up electric cars this way? [w/video] We think this is real.	Other news: Report: Ford to build battery packs in Ypsilanti, MI Roaming Times names Earthbound RV the “Green RV of the Year” Volkswagen Squareback resurrected with electricity [w/VIDEO]

AutoblogGreen for 04.12.10 originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Shigeru Miyamoto doesn’t intend to stop making games any time soon. In fact, the Mario and Zelda mastermind thinks his best is yet to come.

Q1 earnings are officially set to begin.

Things will get off to a slow start, but Alcoa (AA) is big, and that comes tomorrow afternoon.

For some perspective on the overall earnings challenge, here’s Mike O’Rourke of BTIG:

Although spring is not generally the season to be jolly, most investors are hoping it will be this year.  Over the course of the next three weeks, 315 companies or 63% of the S&P 500 are expected to report earnings.  Going into Q1 earnings season, the 2010 earnings estimates is $78.12, indicating that as of Friday’s close, the S&P 500 is trading 15.3x expected earnings.  That is a very slight discount to the historic long term multiple of 15.9x.  Current 2011 estimates are an aggressive $93.55. 

How aggressive is that?

If the $78 number is achieved, S&P 500 earnings will need to grow 20% year over year to achieve the 2011 estimate.  Even just 6 months ago, we would have been enthused to have the confidence to believe $78 for 2010 could be a done deal.  Likewise, without even having Q1 2010 earnings in the books, 2011’s $93 are a long way away.  To put these numbers in perspective, peak earnings were registered in 2006 at $87.72, followed by $82.54 in 2007 and $49.51 in 2008.  Last year’s earnings were $56.86.   As it stands now, 2010’s $78 is looking pretty good.  The broad economy appears to be entering a sweet spot from a sentiment perspective which will likely provide enough momentum to keep the recovery on or ahead of schedule over the next 6 months.

20% over a snapback year would be pretty startling, and the idea of earnings surpassing 2007 is equally amazing.

We’ll come back to this subject a lot, we imagine, over the next several weeks (and of course the coming quarters). But we thought this was a nice taste of what the market is expecting right now.

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No big surprise here. The euro is moving up sharply on news of the official not-quite-a-bailout of Greece.

Equity futures are also up, vindicating the traders who piled into stocks on Friday, pushing is briefly over 11,000.

The only question is: will shorts use this opportunity to load up and put more pressure on the ECB, or will they ease of for awhile.

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Videos

The Hennessey Venom GT was out testing on track, and while the minute of footage tends toward the Zapruder end of ‘gotcha’ videos, there are still some pretty clear sights and sounds of the stretched and steroided Elise with the giant badonkadonk.

We’re going to guess this is the base, 725-horsepower version and what can be heard of it sounds pretty compelling. If nothing else, maybe this will help you dole out the $600K necessary to do some track time in one of your own. Follow the jump for the video. Hat tip to Mikespeed95

[Source: YouTube]

Continue reading Video: Hennessey Venom GT hits the track

Video: Hennessey Venom GT hits the track originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Truck, Nissan

For all the success that Japanese automakers have had in the U.S. market over the past thirty years, there remains one very important segment they’ve never really managed to break through: full-size trucks. The big pickups from Ford and General Motors have remained at the top of the sales charts for decades. While Toyota has made a minor dent in the segment with the Tundra, Nissan’s Titan has just never really caught fire.

Despite that, Nissan still wants a piece of the pie. The potential profit margins and volumes continue to make this market too attractive to abandon. After a deal to share the Dodge Ram platform was abandoned during the runup to Chrysler’s bankruptcy, it was decided to keep the current Titan alive for the foreseeable future.

While Nissan has not announced what direction it will take with the next Titan, we’d expect it to share a lot with the recently-introduced NV2500 commercial van. The NV2500 is built in the same Canton, Mississippi plant with the Titan and has an architecture that’s more like a pickup than a traditional van, which could make it a suitable starting point. The NV chassis has already been designed for heavy duty applications, so it’s possible that it could finally spawn an HD pickup as well to compete with similar models from Detroit.

[Source: Straightline]

Report: Nissan still committed to full-size pickups originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Convertible, Europe, Japan, Fiat, Diesel

One of the major benefits that Fiat brought to the Chrysler table is its proficiency with diesels. This, however, is something else entirely. The latest in a series of special edition 500s created in conjunction with the Italian denimware label, the 500C by Diesel follows the fixed-roof versions and the one-off charity-benefit convertible unveiled nearly a year ago.

The special retro-cab is currently launching in Japan at Fiat’s own cafe before it goes on sale next month in its home market. When it does, the limited-edition 500C by Diesel will carry a price tag equivalent to about $24k, and come in one of three color combinations, including the dark indigo with tan top pictured above. The interior also gets denim-like upholstery with yellow top-stitching. Yellow brake calipers peer out from behind the 16″ alloys finished in dark satin like the rest of the muted brightwork. Check out the full details in the press release after the jump.

[Source: Fiat]

Continue reading Fiat launches new Diesel edition 500C in Japan

Fiat launches new Diesel edition 500C in Japan originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Videos, Toys/Games

Blogger Richard Lai from sister-site Engadget recently had a chance to try out the amazing Festo AirMotion Ride driving simulator chair. Festo had the new device set up at The Gadget Show Live in the UK and Richard couldn’t resist giving it a spin. You can see a short video clip of that experience after the jump, but be forewarned, Lai asks ahead of time that no one judge his driving. We can’t resist a little playful mocking and advise Richard to not quit his day job.

Aside from the atrocious driving, you can see the extreme movement possible with Festo’s revolutionary “fluidic muscles.” That’s the name of Festo’s elastomer tubes that contract when filled with fluid, producing forces of up to 1,600 Nm (1,180 lb-ft). Better yet, there are no mechanical parts inside, making them simpler to replace than the typical hydraulic plungers found on competing simulators from D-Box, Simcraft, Force Dynamics and Motion-Sim.

Follow the jump to see Festo’s machine in action, and don’t judge Richard too harshly.

[Source: Engadget]

Continue reading Engadget tries Festo’s next-gen racing chair

Engadget tries Festo’s next-gen racing chair originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Seguro que no habrás pasado por alto el nuevo look que os presentamos. Esperamos que os gusten los cambios y novedades que os hemos preparado para celebrar que ya llevamos nada menos que 1.000 noticias publicadas.

Gracias por vuestro apoyo y esperamos ir mejorando VelocidadLimite poco a poco.

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Remember Jason Vuic’s book about the rise and fall of Yugo? Apparently, the inspiration for it came from the fact that an artist was able to buy 39 Yugos for $92 each. Those Yugos were given to students at The School of Visual Arts in New York and they were told to make something useful out of them.

And that’s how you get the Yugo accordion from the book, the Yogofone (pictured above), and a Yugo grand piano with a plate reading “89 KEYS.” This Yugobilia was displayed in New York’s Grand Central Station and on a U.S. tour – probably the best things to happen to any Yugo anywhere. Ever.

BMW probably doesn’t need to be worried about its art car franchise just yet, but the Bavarians might take some notes, just to be safe. Check out a few of the pieces in the gallery below, or click the link to check out another two dozen works of Yugo art.

[Source: Motobullet]

Yugos: Awful cars, serviceable art originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The world of Windows Mobile is known for connecting to things that normal Smartphone’s cannot, example Toshiba and an ultra sound, well now we can control our Windows 7 media player from our devices. This comes from XDA where they have figured out to use their Windows phones to connect to their PC and use it as the controller.

Here is some details:

DESCRIPTION:
This software connects to Windows Media Center on your PC via VMC Controller software.
Allows for full control of basic functions:
-menu navigation
-play/pause, next/previous
-volume control
-playback position seek
Displays currently playing media info on screen. (see screenshots)

CHANGELOG:
0.4 Beta – 31/03/10
-fixed problem where addresses were resolved to ipv6
-only works with ipv4 addresses, hostname not working correctly yet
-minor performance fixes

0.3.2 Alpha – 08/03/10
-fixed loading error
-minor fixes

0.3.1 Alpha – 07/03/10
-fixed config file bug

0.3 Alpha – 07/03/10
-added haptic feedback with touchscreen
-added d-pad mode switch using camera focus button
-added automatic connection on launching the program
-more stable when connection dropped
-controller window now minimizes properly

0.2 Alpha – 18/01/10
-added track length and track number to display
-optimized code, runs slightly quicker
-removed ‘now playing’ option in menu

0.1 Alpha – 14/01/10
-initial release

TO DO IN FUTURE RELEASES:
-improve graphics
-add support for handsets without d-pad
-map keyboard keys
-fix ui bug when started in landscape mode

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
-Windows Vista or 7 – editions with Windows Media Center.
-VMC Controller.
-Wifi, Bluetooth/USB activesync connection.
-Windows Mobile 6.x Pro, [may work on older versions]
-480×800 screen res, [designed mainly for the X1, may work on other similar handsets]

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. – Download and install VMC Controller (see links below)
2. – Download and unzip folder to phone or sd card (see files below) – (remove previous versions first!)
3. – Connect phone to PC using Wifi, or activesync connection.
4. – Run Windows Media Center.
5. – Launch the downloaded application WMCMR.exe on the handset.
6. – Hit the ‘connect’ button and enter the IP address of you PC. – [hostname MIGHT work]
7. – Save settings.
8. – Start controlling!

You can download this from XDA