If This CPR iPhone App Doesn't Save Lives, Well, We're Doomed [IPhone Apps]

The Fire Department app connects those trained in CPR with those who need it, much like your colleagues who've put their hands up to be the building's first-aid volunteers. Using the iPhone's GPS, it alerts trained users of nearby casualties. More »


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A brief glimpse of Nokia's popularity outside the Western world

It's easy to forget just how different the customs of other nations are. While Americans carry dogs around in handbags, Koreans eat them. In England, we gurn; and in Spain, they throw tomatoes. We're a world of completely disparate customs -- yet somehow we can't fathom that Nokia and the Symbian OS could be ahead of Apple and Google in the smartphone market.

It's really quite crazy. It's like everyone is just ignoring that huge, 40% slice of the pie that says "SYMBIAN." Seriously, if you read more than one or two tech blogs, you're led to believe that the iPhone dominates the smartphone market, with Android pulling ahead, or nipping at its heels, depending on which statistics you read. Who uses a BlackBerry, anyway? And Nokia... Nokia... hmm... that name rings a bell...

Now, take a look at China, which now has over 400,000,000 users on the Internet. As of June 2010, it also has 277,000,000 mobile Internet users, and almost all of those are Nokia/Symbian OS users. The chart above comes from a recent study by iResearch, and it shows that 65% of mobile Internet users visit the Nokia OVI store, and 58% visit the China Mobile-operated Mobile Market.

The point I'm trying to make is that, if you look beyond the continual PR orgies that Android and iOS enjoy, the world view is very different. If you look beyond your normal news sources, beyond your comfort zone and national borders, you will see that Nokia is a very serious contender indeed.

A brief glimpse of Nokia's popularity outside the Western world originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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DownThemAll 2 download manager released, now supports Firefox 4

The popular Firefox download manager DownThemAll has finally hit version 2.0, and the new release brings a number of important changes. Not least among them is out-of-the-box support for Firefox 4, which is currently slated for a February 2011 release.

DownThemAll 2 offers even greater control over your Firefox downloads than its predecessor. Speed limits can be specified on a per-server or download basis, and you can set a global limit as well. There's also a media-sniffing feature which allows for easy downloading of embedded video clips on the sites you browse -- even HTML5 <audio> and <video> tags are supported. DTA2 even plays nice with Firefox 4's private browsing mode!

Check the full list of features in DTA2, or hit the link below to install the Firefox add-on.

Install DownThemAll! 2 for Firefox

DownThemAll 2 download manager released, now supports Firefox 4 originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This Clock Looks like the Wall of an Alien Spaceship [Video]

You see that clock on your wall? That clock is awful. Why? It's awful because it isn't this clock—the shape-shifting, sci fi Art du Temps. It pulses instead of ticks. It flips open by voice command. It's... expensive. More »


Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/hizCJHrgQ3w/this-clock-looks-like-the-wall-of-an-alien-spaceship

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rooCASE Leather Cover and Stand for Samsung Galaxy Tab

The rooCASE, offered by eBags, for the Samsung Galaxy Tab is made of genuine leather.  This case has a frame to hold the Galaxy Tab in place.  All controls and connectors are accessible while the Tab is in the case, and there’s an opening on the back for the camera.  The case folds into a [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/24/roocase-leather-cover-and-stand-for-samsung-galaxy-tab/

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20-line Firefox fix will half start-up time, hopefully coming to nightly builds tonight

A 20-line patch looks set to cut Firefox's start-up time in half. The fix, which works by preloading Firefox's XUL library, could land in nightly builds as early as tonight. Unfortunately, the speed-up will only affect Windows users.

To be honest, it's a little odd that preloading DLLs hadn't been tried before. Prior to this fix, the XUL DLL was slowly loaded in 32KB bits, which really ground on slower-seeking hard drives. With a little trickery, the patch submitter managed to get Windows to load the DLL in juicier, faster 2MB chunks. The fix should improve load times on every computer, but it will definitely benefit slower computers more.

As far as we can tell, the fix hasn't landed in nightly builds yet. It should be soon, though: Mozilla's VP of Engineering, Mike Shaver, wants to "land this bad boy for Monday's nightlies" -- so keep an eye on Mozilla's public FTP dump tonight.

Incidentally, if you're not using the beta 10 nightly build yet, you should give it a go!

20-line Firefox fix will half start-up time, hopefully coming to nightly builds tonight originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A sleep system for your iPad? There?s a bed for that.

You love your iPad so much, that you want to keep it nearby even while you’re sleeping. It’s ok, you’re not crazy… Really. And to prove it, there’s a bed designed just for you. It’s the iCon bed from Hollandia International. This bed pairs a Hollandia adjustable 3D mattress with a custom headboard that includes [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/23/a-sleep-system-for-your-ipad-theres-a-bed-for-that/

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Here's the Chair of My 1960s Sci-Fi Dreams [Furniture]

It's the year 2515 and you have an office with a great view as it orbits around Mars. But you know what your space station workspace is lacking? This chair, in all of its streamlined, future-y goodness. More »


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Facebook Desktop brings every notification to Windows and Mac and Linux!

Facebook DesktopCreated by a computer scientist at Adobe, Facebook Desktop does exactly what it says on the tin, for both Windows and Mac PCs. It links into your Facebook account and notifies you of every change to your account -- pokes, messages, friend requests, event invites, etc. -- with a little pop-up toast window on your desktop. The notifications appear in the bottom right of your screen whether you like it or not -- you can't change it to another corner, and you can't change their appearance.

Still, Facebook Desktop works. Beyond notifications, it also lets you publish status updates -- but as you have to go via a tiny system tray icon, and there's no way to set a global hotkey, it's probably easier to just pop open a browser window and update your status normally.

The only problem -- for some people, anyway -- is that Facebook Desktop is an Adobe AIR app. It's advertised as "lightweight", but a 45MB memory footprint for an app that pops up toast windows seems a little on the chunky side. By default it loads on computer start-up, too, which is a bit obnoxious -- you can disable that in the settings, though.

Oh, it also requests a truly insane number of permissions when connecting to your Facebook account (picture after the break). Understandably, it needs to check a lot of things, but it doesn't need permission to publish check-ins, or insight data for my Pages. Heck, why does it even need my name, profile picture and gender?

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Facebook Desktop brings every notification to Windows and Mac and Linux! originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 15 Jan 2011 06:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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