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Estylo 1.1: magnetic dual tip capacitive stylus for iPad

Estylo 1.1 is the first and ONLY wooden stylus to work on capacitive touch screens such as that of the iPad. At Plai our goal was to create a completely eco friendly product that would inspire the imagination. Designed for artists seeking greater accuracy over their work, it can also be used for writing or simply navigating the web. Inside Estylo we use high quality conductive materials so that no extra pressure is needed for it to be detected. In other words, Estylo is the pencil of NOW.

We need your support, because without you we are nobody. We have some cool rewards and will start shipping Estylo 1.1 one week after our deadline. Our project is unique in that we are manufacturing Estylo ourselves. Some of funding money will go towards a sanding machine that is almost complete. Other funding money will go towards new packaging. And all the extra money will go towards research and development of Estylo 2.0.

Features:

* Great for drawing, sketching, writing, playing games, reading ebooks or navigating the web.

* Magnetically attaches to the iPad 2.

* Ergonomic design that adapts to the natural grip of the hand.

* The front tip works between 5 to 70 degrees.

* Dual tip stylus. The back tip is perfect for more detailed work.

* No extra pressure is needed for the tips to function.

Estylo 1.1 works on: all generations of iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Samsung galaxy tab, Droid and other Android devices with a capacitive touch screen.

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        TouchFire makes your iPad feel like a normal keyboard!

TouchFire makes your iPad feel like a normal keyboard!

TouchFire puts the "touch" back into typing on an iPad. You can now feel where the keys are and rest your fingers on the home row, so you can type as fast and accurately as you can on a laptop. You can even type without looking at the screen. TouchFire cushions your fingers as you type, something both touch-typists and two-finger typists really appreciate. Typing on an iPad is no longer a pain!

TouchFire is ultra-thin and weighs less than an ounce. It attaches to the inside of the iPad cover and folds with the cover, so you can always keep TouchFire with your iPad without it getting in the way.

What People are Saying About TouchFire

FastCompany – "Amazingly, the TouchFire appears to hit all these marks."

CNET –  "Isaac let me try a prototype, and I enjoyed the experience."

iPadCTO – "TouchFire magically transforms [the iPad’s] virtual keyboard into a comfortable human-to-glass interface."

How It Works

TouchFire fits right over the iPad's on-screen keyboard and is completely transparent, so you can always see the keys underneath it. 

TouchFire is soft and supple if you swipe through it horizontally, so you can easily select the special characters on the keyboard. Yet it is stiff enough vertically to allow you to rest your fingers on the home row keys without accidentally triggering the touch screen. At the same time it responds to typing with just the right amount of resistance and spring-back to feel  like a lively and responsive keyboard. Amazing! 

When you want TouchFire out of the way, you simply fold it down. TouchFire's magnets keep it neatly folded below the screen.

TouchFire also comes with a pair of cover clips, which help secure it magnetically to your iPad's cover.

You also get a thin storage case, should you ever want to store TouchFire off your iPad.  

TouchFire Supports Both iPad 1 and iPad 2 

As you saw in the video at the top of the page, TouchFire attaches to the iPad 2 using the magnets built into the iPad 2. TouchFire also works great with the original iPad.

Twitter Acquires Mobile Data Security Gurus Whisper Systems

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Twitter Acquires Mobile Data Security Gurus Whisper Systems

Whisper Systems, a company that focuses on enterprise-grade security on Android devices, has announced today via its blog that it has been acquired by Twitter. In what appears to be a talent grab, Whisper Systems says that, “Whisper Systems software as our users know it will live on (and we have some surprises in store that we’re excited about), but there is unfortunately a transition period where we will have to temporarily take our products and services offline.”

All of Whisper Systems’ products are still in a beta, judging by the version numbers which hover around points like 0.1 and 0.5. As such, it seems that Twitter is aiming to bring in the team to help secure its own system. Twitter has, as is widely seen, had problems in the past with security issues. The vast majority of these come from users not understanding how to properly protect themselves.

When you look at what Whisper Systems has done, which is take the onus of security off of the user and placing it into the systems themselves, a move of this nature makes considerable sense as Twitter continues to grow.

Whisper Systems appears to have begun as a business that was directed toward helping you to hide yourself from both Google and mobile carriers when using the Android platform, according to a writing in VentureBeat from 2010.

Its WhisperCore and TextSecure systems would likely be the most valuable IP for Twitter, but we’ll have to wait and see exactly how the acquisition plays out. WhisperCore is, according to the company, a system which “integrates with the underlying Android OS to protect everything you keep on your phone.” TextSecure, by comparison, allows for secure texting by storing them “in an encrypted database on your phone, and text messages are encrypted during transmission when communicating with someone else also using TextSecure.”

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Motorola Droid 4 Specifications Leak

The official specifications and pictures of the upcoming Motorola Droid 4 have been unearthed by Droid Life, revealing a device very similar to the Droid Razr, with the addition of a QWERTY keyboard.

The device sports a 4-inch qHD screen – slightly smaller than RAZR’s 4.3-inch screen – and is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor with 1GB of RAM.

It has an 8-megapixel camera on the back as well as a HD-capable one on the front for video chats, and it supports fast data transfer via LTE. As for the keyboard, it’s a 5-row, edge-lit, PC-like variety.

The Droid 4 is slated to hit Verizon’s stores Dec. 8.

Head on over to Droid Life for a neat comparison of the evolution from the original Droid to the Droid 4.

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Billionaires Share Their Secrets to Success

By Robert Frank

ABC News 20/20

Barbara Walters with Tony Hsieh

Get-Rich-Quick books are generally useless, as is most advice from the wealthy on how to get wealthy. Luck, timing and economic context play such a large role in wealth creation that tips like “work hard” and “stay focused” rarely explain a person’s millions.

Yet tonight on 20/20, Barbara Waltersspends time with four billionaires, who offer some useful advice no matter what you’re financial aspirations.

Her subjects include: John Paul DeJoria, the founder of Paul Mitchell hair products and owner of Patron Spirits; Patriarch Partners’ Lynn Tilton; Guy Laliberte, the founder of Cirque du Soleil; and Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.

On the 20/20 web site, they have a list of the 20 “Billionaire’s 20 Keys to Success.” Here are 10:

1. Figure out what you’re so passionate about that you’d be happy doing it for 10 years, even if you never made any money from it. That’s what you should be doing.

2. Always be true to yourself.

3. Figure out what your values are and live by them, in business and in life.

4. Rather than focus on work-life separation, focus on work-life integration.

5. Don’t network. Focus on building real relationships and friendships where the relationship itself is its own reward, instead of trying to get something out of the relationship to benefit your business or yourself.

6. Remember to maximize for happiness, not money or status.

7. Get ready for rejection.

8. Success unshared is failure. Give back — share your wealth.

10. Successful people do all the things unsuccessful people don’t want to do.

What would you add to the “Billionaire’s Secrets” List?

Memolane is a scrapbook that writes itself.

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Your social life, captured in a simple, elegant timeline.

Bring together all the moments you’ve saved through social media to tell your stories.
Track your past, search and rediscover great memories, and build the stories of your future with Memolane.

Memolane Video from Memolane on Vimeo.

Memolane is a scrapbook that writes itself.

“What we see is basically everyone is getting more and more active in posting their lives on the Internet, and contrary to [what] many believe, it’s actually happening much outside Facebook. And the number of amazing, great social media services is ever-growing. You have Foursquare, you have TripIt, you have Gowalla, you have Foodspotting, you have SoundCloud. All these services all capture different parts of your life, and it’s all happening now, so more and more people are capturing more and more of their life on the Internet, and it’s capturing and presenting all these moments, but the problem is, I think, also now how do we consume this?”

“A lot of our users are coming back and saying, ‘I tried to find it on Facebook, I tried to find it on Twitter. Where was it I actually posted this?’ And then they come on Memolane and they search and boof, it’s there. And what we’ve really emphasized is a nice visualization of their search result.”

All Your Stuff In One Place

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               All Your Stuff In One Place      

In the cloud, your stuff is scattered over a lot of different services. Dispatch is a new way to manage and share your stuff, by bringing it together into one place.

There are a number of services that allow us to leverage the cloud for file storage and file sharing, unlocking information once trapped on a single device and making it accessible from our smart phones and tablets. In fact, many of us have files stored in several locations, and while there are certainly conveniences that come with these services, having files with multiple services that have multiple sign-ins comes with its own set of problems. Dispatch is developing a way for us to simplify file management in the cloud by supporting a seamless integration of our many cloud accounts.

“Dispatch brings together the cloud services you have—your DropBox, your Google Docs, your Evernote, your email and even your Instagram and Spotify eventually—so that you can see all of your stuff in one place,” explains Jesse Lamb, Co-founder and CEO of Dispatch, Inc. “Because everything’s moved to the cloud, everything gets kind of scattered, and Dispatch brings it back together.”

Whether it’s our photos on Facebook or our ideas on Evernote, we’re storing more and more information in the cloud. With Dispatch you can simply drag and drop files among the different services you use.

“There’s a power of having your stuff together…” says Lamb. “You can see the latest of what you’re working on and even launch into the different services, so if you have a lot of Google accounts, you can launch right into what you need from there without having to fight with the single sign-on that they have right now.”

Dispatch allows you to, in effect, connect your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Contacts, etc. and use these media to share files without having to worry about which cloud services the recipient uses. For example, instead of direct messaging someone on Twitter to get his email address so that you can share a photo, video or other file, you can just grant him access to the file directly via Twitter.

“We’re not trying to build another channel for messaging,” explains Lamb, “because we already have really good channels. The idea is extending those so you can do more with them and maybe finally get people to stop using email attachments [and eliminate] all the friction that happens around that. [It also] gives you a way to move things back and forth and have a conversation around [the file] you’re talking about. There’s a lot of power, once you bring all these services together and bring all the people together that you know so that you can work around your stuff in new ways. It’s really exciting.”

More info:

Dispatch web site: http://dispatch.io/
Dispatch profile on CrunchBase: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dispatch-io
Dispatch profile on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Dispatch

Fantastic video on the progression of information technology

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Fantastic video on the progression of information technology, researched by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Brenman, remixed

Shoppers fight over $2 waffle

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                                                       Shoppers fight over $2 waffle

It’s Black Friday, the biggest day of discount shopping in the U.S., and horror stories are pouring in from across the country.

Among the more sensational items: one Walmart shopper in Los Angeles used pepper spray to fend off customers in the Xbox aisle, injuring 20, while another was shot by an armed robber outside of a Walmart in northern California, the Associated Press reports.

How to submit site map to Google

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                        How to submit site map to Google





more on:http://youtu.be/hPz0a26Otg8

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Let’s use video to reinvent education

Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises — and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script — give students video lectures to watch at home, and do you “homework” in the classroom with the teacher available to help. 

Digital Adults

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Digital Adults: Pre-teens are on Facebook and Twitter

An eleven year old trying to create a Facebook profile is likely to be met with eight simple words: ”Sorry, you are ineligible to sign up for Facebook.” Most eleven year olds, are unlikely to be deterred and will simply add a couple of years to their birth date. That’s according to research performed for AVG’s Digital Diaries series that found that most kids have reached “digital maturity”-that is, are on mainstream social sites- by age 11.

AVG, an online security firm, commissioned the report for the fourth installment of its Digital Diaries, a look at how technology is “fundamentally changing the nature of childhood.”

The research for Digital Diaries has involved a different age group at each stage. Previous studies looked at everything from the digital footprints of infants to the higher likelihood that a toddler can play a computer game than ride a bike.

The latest survey of 4,000 parents in 10 countries found that 58% of their kids aged 10-13 had access to a “mainstream” social network, such as Facebook or Twitter (or their regional counterparts like Tuenti in Spain.) In over half of those countries, the age at which kids began accessing adult social networking sites was just 11. In the US,  53% of parents surveyed shared that their 10-13 year olds were networking.

The survey responses came from parents and, of those who know their kids are online, 40% admitted that they do not monitor their computers. Two thirds, however, claimed they could directly access their kids’ accounts and over half did.

Yet, even with parents who know their kids are on adult social networks, kids are circumventing their parents’ controls. In fact, they have their own access to the Internet.  Most 10-13 year olds have their own computers and Australia is the only country where the computer is likely to be in the family living room. An increasing number of pre-teens are also accessing social media on their smartphones-away from parental eyes.

The study results raise questions of Internet safety and security for preteen. Parents who are aware of their kids’ online habits may be better able to take the advantages of a wired life. Conceivably, they would also be better prepared to deal with the dangers, such as cyber bullying.

AVG’s recommendations? Be aware of where your kids are online, keep up a dialogue with your children about the pros and cons of Internet and social network use and consider installing software in both computers and smartphones that allow you to monitor your children’s online use, but also their safety.

Jaxtr.com – Free Phone to Phone Calls Worldwide

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Jaxtr.com – Free Phone to Phone Calls Worldwide





Jaxtr links phone to the web, so you can hear from callers worldwide while keeping your existing phone number private. You can use Jaxtr to receive calls and voice messages from people worldwide while keeping your phone number private.
You don’t need a headset or broadband to use Jaxtr. No download required. It works with te phone you already use, including ordinary landline phones and mobile.

You can call other Jaxtr users for free. You can invite your friends whom you would like to call for free to Jaxtr. You can also import contacts from your Outlook or your webmail like Yahoo, Hotmail and GMail.

You need enough talk time credits called “jax” to get calls on Jaxtr. Depending on which phone you send your calls to, you use up different jax per minute.

Jaxtr gives 100 jax per month. If you don’t have jax remaining in your account, calls to you will go into the voicemail. You can listen to the voice messages at jaxtr.com. You can earn 20 jax for each new Jaxtr user you sign up.

The PrivacyShield feature allows you to send all calls from unknown callers to voicemail. You can add up to 3 phones to the list and select where you would like to receive the calls.

Jaxtr connects your phone to the Jaxtr user using a local number. For India, it seems a Mumbai number (022+) is used for land phones and a cell number is given for cell phone users. To call the same person next time, the local number can be used. This way Jaxtr help you make international calls for the local charges at your location.

Free Mobile Texting. Local And International.

How does it work?  Use JaxtrSMS to send and receive messages with any other mobile phone in the world forFREE. 1. Recipient does not have to be a user 2. Send a text message to any other mobile phone, domestic or international. 3. Use your own phone number

JaxtrSMS - The world's First FREE. and OPEN mobile to mobile texting application.
	Use JaxtrSMS to send and receive messages with any other mobile phone in the world for FREE.
	Why use JaxtrSMS?
	FREE to download
	Save Money - Send text messages for FREE.
	Save Time - works on WiFi & 3G and all devices
	Instant Delivery - our app to app delivery of messages is instant

Read more at TECK.IN: http://teck.in/jaxtr-free-phone-to-phone-calls.html#ixzz1eRlybFKL