A while back I showed you the Banana Leaf Cat Cave. Here are two more additions to the banana leaf line, this time raised up high on a sisal wrapped pedestal that can be used as a scratching post. Lots of kitties love to perch up high and these beds can be moved anywhere to accommodate an afternoon nap.
The Banana Leaf Pedestal Cave Cat Bedsells for $89.99 US and the Banana Leaf Pedestal Cat Bed
is on sale right now for $63.74 US (regularly $74.99), both at Meijer.com
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The lovably named Case-Mate Hug is an inductive charger for the iPhone that allows you to just plop it on the charging mat rather than fiddling with cables like a monkey. Are you a monkey? You’re not a monkey.
The Hug is a two part inductive charger, including both a fairly normal-looking (if kind of heavy and industrial) case and a slightly-larger-than-iPhone charging mat. It’s a lot like the Powermat, but about half the price. The idea is to keep your iPhone in the case at all times, and then lay the encased iPhone on the mat instead of plugging in a cable. It works pretty well, and Case-Mate says it’ll charge your iPhone in about the same amount of time as primitive cables, but these things are kind of dumb at the moment. You still need to leave it sitting in a specific place, and it still needs to be touching the actual mat, so it’s not really that much better a solution than just plugging it in. On the other hand, Fulton, who makes the tech, plans to put them in public places like airports—which would be pretty awesome, we admit. The Hug be available in a couple weeks (before the end of January, at least) for $90. [Case-Mate]
Me gustaría que lean, antes de ver las fotos, estas palabras…
Breve racconto (palabras) dedicadas, hechas por su servidor 😆
– Además de ser el nombre de la Barrabrava del club San Lorenzo de Almagro, La Butteler es una zona que está en el barrio porteño de Parque Chacabuco.
Aunque pertenezca al citado barrio, las raíces de La Butteler y sus alrededores se las deben al vecino y cercano barrio de BOEDO.
Es la zona que queda enfrente del ex- estadio de San Lorenzo, y por eso esta zona está repleta de fanes de San Lorenzo, y pintadas de dicho club por muchas paredes.
Como muchas zonas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires, La Butteler y sus alrededores poseen una rica historia. Sus habitantes, más que otras cosas, piden el deseo de que "San Lorenzo vuelva YA a Boedo".
El ambiente no podría ser mejor, calles arboladas y con pocos autos y transeuntes, chicos que juegan en la calzada porque el transito de autos es bastante reducido comparado a otras zonas, y ancianos que se sientan a tomar mate a la vereda.
"Un verdadero clima de pueblo", eso es lo que sentí al caminar por las cuadras de esa enigmatica zona, una cruza entre Caballito, Boedo y Pompeya.
Butteler además es una calle en forma diagonal que está en este mismo barrio, que confluye en una plaza de forma circular.
Arquitectónicamente hablando
Es una de esas zonas donde no es facil definir un estilo. Lo que sí es facil de aclarar es que se trata de una zona de casas bajas, raramente interrumpidas por algun edificio de 6 o 7 pisos, sobre todo en avenidas como Asamblea, Vernet, o la mismísima Av La Plata.
Casas antiguas, PH racionalistas, duplex a estrenar, cualquier estilo encontrarás en La Butteler. Lo que sobran son casas, y lo que escasean son los edificios.
Mapa de la zona fotografiada
Y ahora sí, las preciadas fotos
El límite Norte de la zona que fotografié es la Autopista 25 de mayo. Abajo de ella hay vida, hay canchas de tenis y futbol.
Un par de casas lindas, en la calle Doblas (entre Tejedor y AV Asamblea)
Calles bastante amplias, como es el caso de Santander
Tal como les dije, no es raro ver gente disfrutando el día con las puertas de sus casas abiertas, y ellos sentados como si nada. Una escena rara de ver en la actual Buenos Aires
Senillosa llegando a Asamblea
La esquina de Senillosa y Asamblea, peligrosa porque no andaba el semáforo
En Senillosa y Vernet, una seguidilla de edificios pequeños y llamativos para la zona
Calles Adoquinadas
Calma de Barrio, interrumpida por el edificio que está frente a la EX cancha de San Lorenzo
Una seguidilla de hermosas casas..
Qué pinta de pueblito bonaerense que tiene 😀
Avenida Asamblea
La curva que realiza Asamblea para juntarse con Vernet, formando una nueva avenida llamada Castañares. Un lío de nombres.
Comercios arrinconados en Av Asamblea
Doblas y Avelino Díaz
Doblas y Tejedor
Una iglesia que se asoma imponente entre tanto caserío
Senillosa llegando a Saraza
Una intersección cuyo nombre no recuerdo 😀
Viel llegando a Saraza
Balbastro, entre Doblas y Viel
Ni un solo edificio
Esquina interesante
Esquina SUPER interesante
Nada mas por hoy
Comenten 😀
You bought your iPhone to be able to tell the time, right? Knowing that one day The Sharper Image would create an iPhone dock complete with Roman numerals and free downloadable app just for you?
True, it pumps out music like any generic iPhone dock, but you’re obviously buying this $59.99 dock for the clock function, when it’s so overbearingly in-your-face. You sad, sad person.
Oops! With all the holiday chaos I forgot to choose a winner for the awesome prize package from Anne Leuck Feldhaus! The winner selected in the random drawing is Jake Zigler (comment #18)! Keep an eye out for an email with details on how to claim your prize. Jake has a jump start on the holidays for next year!
To commemorate the launch of the HTC Nexus One Adobe published this video showing the upcoming Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile, which will be coming to Android, webOS and of course Windows Mobile, in action.
The software was intended to be released at the end of last year, but of course has not been, but does appear pretty close to production.
Hopefully we will soon see the wide release, which should allow many streaming media services that use flash to work reliably even on mobile devices.
LaCie’s popular Rugged external hard disk is now speedier than ever. Lacie is set to release the LaCie Rugged USB 3.0 with faster speeds than even firewire. We’re talking 110MB/s. The system will also come complete with a software bundle for easy formatting and backup, as well as 10GB Wuala online storage included for one year. We’ll update this post with pricing and more info when it becomes available. It’s about time USB 3.0 products came to market!
I do not post in this forum much, but I like to read and learn what others have to say .
I am hoping I can get some opinions on this meter.
I apologize if this has already been asked, but I was wondering if any of you use the Bayer Contour meter? If so, how accurate do you think it is and do you like it?
I have used several different kinds, and I am thinking of switching but not before I get some feedback. I can get one free, but "free" isn’t good if it doesn’t work well.
Thank you for your time.
The ultra-slim point and shoot camera category has evolved significantly as Sony announced during CES 2010 that they are bringing the new silver, blue and red DSC-TX7 to the market in February. This stylish $400 ultra slim camera features a 10MP “Exmor R” CMOS sensor, a large 3.5” touchscreen (921K) LCD and 4x optical zoom with wide angle 25mm lens. The added Optical Steady Shot image stabilization system prevents blur from camera shaking.
A new attractive feature this year being integrated into this Cyber-shot camera include the ability to record HD video (AVCHD) 1920 x 1080 at 60i and HDMI output capabilities. This makes it very easy to record and share HD video with your friends and family. Sony has also integrated Transfer Jet wireless technology into the camera, which allows you to send (at 560mbps) pictures and movies from your Cyber-shot camera to your Transfer Jet receiver, such as a computer. This allows for people to not worry about taking out the memory card or looking for the USB cord when they want to get the pictures off their camera.
Other thoughtful prerequisites found in the TX7 and other Sony cameras include iAuto, which detects up to eight scenes and optimizes camera settings, and Smile Shutter. It will also be compatible with the Party-shot (model IPT-DS1) automatic photographer.
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The Spring Design Alex, the other dual-screen Android ereader, is what I had hoped the Nook would be: an ereader for hardware nerds.
The hardware is thin to the point that you worry it might snap—a common thread in ereader design, actually—but it feels about as sturdy as a Kindle. The screen is standard matte E Ink, which did a good enough job at blotting out the harsh lighting in the conference center. The bottom screen is a bit taller than the Nook’s, giving the whole device a gangly look. But it’s not the screens that matter, it’s what’s on them:
That is to say, whatever you want. The Nook’s screens are like content ghettos, with the top intended just for ebooks, and the bottom for navigation. On the Alex, there’s effectively no barrier. Ebook navigation is similar to the Nook’s, with the faster bottom screen serving as a touch interface for the top, non-touch screen, but it’ll also run any Android app, stock or otherwise, including the browser, email client, and music player apps. Best of all, you can push content from the bottom screen to the top whenever you want, meaning that you can navigate to a web page on the bottom screen, then once it’s rendered, send it to the top.
There’s a steep learning curve and it doesn’t feel like the interaction between the two screens is fully worked out, but it’s no less awkward then the Nook, and capable of a lot more. I wouldn’t call it the Nook on steroids, because in some ways, the Nook feels disabled. So, I guess it’s like the Nook, except without two shattered kneecaps? That’ll work.
The only hitch: it might be tough to convince a wireless provider to agree to unlimited, free, no-contract data like the Nook’s or Kindle’s, because this thing is primed to use a lot of bandwidth. Not coincidentally, you can’t buy this thing yet. That said, an official announcement of some sort is due this Thursday, so don’t give up hope.
Via Romenesko we learn of local Illinois news site Pantagraph.com that has suspended comments on local news stories as a “cooling off period” after it felt that the comments had become too uncivil. I’m wondering how this will actually help. This is the internet that we’re talking about here, and once the comments are turned back on, I would imagine that they’ll quickly return to the same level of civility (or lack thereof) pretty quickly. If you want to create more civil commenting policies, a “time out” doesn’t do that. Putting in place better incentives does.
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Erik Marcus of Vegan.com has just posted his latest writing, The Year in Meat: 2009. No one bashes the meat industry more eloquently than Erik!
Em 2010, revela a colunista Flávia Oliveira, de Negócios & Cia, no Globo, o Banco do Estado do Espírito Santo (Banestes) quer aportar no Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Já pediu autorização ao Banco Central para abrir agências em Bom Jesus do Itabapoana e Itaperuna, no Norte Fluminense. A ida para cidades vizinhas é estratégia para ganhar escala. O banco já tem agências em Teixeira de Freitas (BA), Matena e Nanuque (ambas em Minas Gerais).
How do you cool down a hot drink? Do you toss in an ice cube? Blow across the top? Leave a spoon in it? Stir? There are many ideas on what cools a hot beverage down the fastest, but not to worry, we can always count on Science to tell us which one is best!
I had written off CES as a collection of wasteful products I neither wanted nor needed. Then I beheld the full glory of this $299, 720P, 17-inch Hannspree polar bear television, and my life began anew. Available this March.
A new consumer Web site Credit Card Connection has debuted just in time to provide American consumers alternative credit card options in retaliation against the unfair and unethical practices recently implemented by major bank card issuers.
Ondine Irving, owner of Card Analysis Solutions, a national credit union consultancy firm, is the driving force in creating this website. Her foresight and consumer advocacy has garnered attention from national personal financial expert, Suze Orman.
Ms. Orman has most recently placed creditcardconnection.org on her popular Web site, suzeorman.com.
This new consumer site was also recently featured on an episode of Larry King Live.
“This is a tremendous time for consumers to move their credit cards away from banks. Bank issuers have clearly mistreated their credit card holders in 2009 and have blamed it on everything from the economy to the Credit Card Act of 2009,” Irving said.
“When card programs falter, there is a balance between managing expenses and income. Banks have chosen to maximize the income side of the equation by increasing fees and rates to the consumer, rather than reducing their own expenses.
Credit Unions have always treated their cardholders with fairness and maintained an equal balance of card program income and expenses, without having the cardholder be the scapegoat”.
Consumers enter their ZIP code and a listing of credit unions with fair and ethical credit card programs will appear.
Each credit union’s credit card program is rated on a five star rating system: interest rates not to exceed 18%, no balance transfer fees, no penalty pricing, no annual fees and late fees which will never exceed $25.
Consumers can choose the credit union and card program which best suits their own card usage needs. Credit Unions must sign up to be listed and do not pay a fee for inclusion on the site.
About Card Analysis Solutions
Card Analysis Solutions was created in 2003 to assist credit unions in understanding the perceived complexities of card-program management.
Owner/founder Ondine Irving provides credit unions with objective and independent information about the financial, operational, and marketing aspects of credit card portfolio performance. It is Card Analysis Solutions’ mission to help credit unions in developing fair and ethical credit card programs for their members.
For more information, please visit cardanalysissolutions.org.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Kay Kearney, + 1 847.295.2051
Card Analysis Solutions/Credit Card Connection
[email protected]
While it used to be that the term “open source” conjured up socially lost Linux cave-dwellers, in recent years, open source has gone decidedly mainstream. Even if you don’t partake in dedicated offerings such as Firefox, Chrome, Adium or Android, there are probably open-source components in much of the software that you do use. But while the number of open source-focused startups is on the rise, proprietary software players are also increasingly acquiring open-source companies, and in the process, altering the courses of important platforms and applications. These aren’t necessarily good trends.
Matt Asay recently predicted that this year would usher in lots of acquisitions of small cloud computing players by big software companies, specifically citing open-source players such as Cloudera (which supports the ever more popular Hadoop, an open-source query platform) as potential targets. Meanwhile big-ticket acquisitions of open source-focused companies have proliferated, as evidenced by Oracle’s (stalled) acquisition of Sun Microsystems, VMware’s SpringSource buy and its rumored purchase of Zimbra, among others. (The Zimbra acquisition may be confirmed this week, according to numerous reliable sources.)
One has to ask, though, how healthy it is for increasingly important open-source platforms and applications to come under the wing of huge, proprietary software companies. Probably the best example to cite on that topic is the ongoing car crash that is Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Sun, of course, is an almost entirely open source-focused company, and the European Commission has spent nearly a year considering whether to allow Oracle to acquire it. In the meantime, Sun customers have flocked to competitors.
There are concerns that Oracle may shut down Sun’s MySQL open-source database division, as it competes with some of Oracle’s proprietary products. MySQL founder Monty Widenius has been aggressively echoing such concerns, and has a blog at HelpMySQL.org petitioning for support. In light of some of Sun’s other open-source offerings, and overlap with Oracle’s products, Oracle may in fact likely let several projects linger.
Even Google’s involvement with its own open-source Android operating system could inhibit free development around it going forward. For Google, one of the big benefits that all Android phones bring is steering users into the company’s lucrative search-and-ad ecosystem. With the release of today’s Nexus One Android-based phone — which takes the company’s commercial stake in Android handsets to two (Droid being the first) — could Android itself be increasingly influenced by Google’s proprietary interests? Just as Microsoft leverages Windows for the benefit of its own applications, Google could do the same with Android. The Open Android Alliance is already developing versions of Android devoid of Google applications due to these types of concerns.
Sun Micrososytems is one of only three big, U.S. public companies focused almost entirely on open source. If it gets swallowed up, that will leave just Red Hat and Novell. Open-source pundits are predicting that small, promising open-source players will be snapped up by bigger fish this year. And Google’s relationship to Android gets ever murkier as it sinks its commercial hooks deeper into the platform, billing its own offerings as superphones relative to other Android phones.
In his post “What Rankles in Open Source Buyouts,” Dana Blankenhorn takes the position of an enthusiastic open-source community member woefully witnessing the sale of an open-source project to a big software company when he addresses the project’s leaders, imploring: “There is such a thing as moral equity. What was us is now you, and you sold out — why shouldn’t I be offended, and why should I trust anyone like you again?” Indeed, for many of the suddenly flourishing open-source platforms and applications out there, independence and the unbeaten path may lead to the brightest possible community-driven future.
In-post image courtesy of Flickr user me and the sysop.
