Sounds like it's not much of a delay -- but be that as it may, if you were hoping to pick up your colorful N8 in the tail end of this month... well, we don't quite know how to say this, but you're going to want to make other plans. Backing up rumors that have been going around the past couple days, locales that had expected to get the N8 in September have now been pushed back to October while Nokia makes "some final amends." On the upside, some rumors had the delay pegged for November, so this doesn't seem to be as bad as it could've been. For what it's worth, Nokia mentioned during Nokia World last week (and again today) that the N8 is seeing strong pre-order demand -- the strongest ever for a Nokia device, allegedly -- so this is likely to bum out a lot of folks, and for a few, it might even be just the impetus they needed to hold out for the upcoming E7. Here's the full statement:
"The amount of preorders has exceeded our expectations and we are working hard to deliver the Nokia N8 to the market. In some markets, we had planned to start delivering the Nokia N8s to our pre-order customers by the end of September. To ensure a great user experience, we have decided to hold the shipments for a few weeks to do some final amends. We're thrilled with the response that we've had to the Nokia N8 and assure everyone who've pre-ordered it already that it'll be worth the wait! We expect consumers to get their Nokia N8s during October."
Nokia N8 delayed 'for a few weeks to do some final amends' originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Gears of Bender [Image Cache]
At first I thought this just was pretty great Futurama - Gears of War mash-up Then Jason told me the same guy provided the voice for both Bender and Marcus Fenix, and my world collapsed in on itself. More »
Microsoft on IE9: our hardware acceleration is better than yours
Filed under: Microsoft, Browsers
In a blog post -- nay, a call to arms! -- published just moments ago, Microsoft's IE9 team has lowered and braced its hardware acceleration joust and begun its thundering charge towards September 15th: the date of the beta.
The entire post seems dedicated to hardware acceleration, however. Does IE9 have another weapon up its sleeve, or is this it? Perhaps we'll see a series of blog posts over the next few days detailing IE9's secret weapons -- but somehow I doubt it. The developer previews haven't produced any new and exciting technologies, but maybe Microsoft has saved something for the IE9 beta launch next Tuesday.
Internet Explorer 9's secret juice, incidentally, is a rendering pipeline that is hardware accelerated from end to end -- from the downloading of images and video into the graphics card's memory, through to the final composition made by the Desktop Window Manager in the IE9 window. To do this, IE9 leverages both Direct2D and DirectWrite for content rendering, and Direct3D for the actual composition. The blog post has a very nice diagram that details the process, if you're interested.
Microsoft claims that IE9 is the only browser that is fully hardware accelerated -- and while I can confirm that it has the edge on Firefox, I think Chrome might be a lot closer than Microsoft thinks. Of course, Chrome can't win: in a rather thinly-veiled attack, the post also points out that 'other browsers', with their mix of different subsystems and abstraction layers, won't be as fast or stable as IE9.
I'm bored of all this hardware acceleration talk! Where's the user interface? Will IE9 have add-ons, or an app store? Hardware acceleration is great and all, but first and foremost a browser has to be usable.Microsoft on IE9: our hardware acceleration is better than yours originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
In a blog post -- nay, a call to arms! -- published just moments ago, Microsoft's IE9 team has lowered and braced its hardware acceleration joust and begun its thundering charge towards September 15th: the date of the beta.
The entire post seems dedicated to hardware acceleration, however. Does IE9 have another weapon up its sleeve, or is this it? Perhaps we'll see a series of blog posts over the next few days detailing IE9's secret weapons -- but somehow I doubt it. The developer previews haven't produced any new and exciting technologies, but maybe Microsoft has saved something for the IE9 beta launch next Tuesday.
Internet Explorer 9's secret juice, incidentally, is a rendering pipeline that is hardware accelerated from end to end -- from the downloading of images and video into the graphics card's memory, through to the final composition made by the Desktop Window Manager in the IE9 window. To do this, IE9 leverages both Direct2D and DirectWrite for content rendering, and Direct3D for the actual composition. The blog post has a very nice diagram that details the process, if you're interested.
Microsoft claims that IE9 is the only browser that is fully hardware accelerated -- and while I can confirm that it has the edge on Firefox, I think Chrome might be a lot closer than Microsoft thinks. Of course, Chrome can't win: in a rather thinly-veiled attack, the post also points out that 'other browsers', with their mix of different subsystems and abstraction layers, won't be as fast or stable as IE9.
I'm bored of all this hardware acceleration talk! Where's the user interface? Will IE9 have add-ons, or an app store? Hardware acceleration is great and all, but first and foremost a browser has to be usable.Microsoft on IE9: our hardware acceleration is better than yours originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Logon Screen customizes your Windows 7 welcome screen
Filed under: Utilities, Windows
The default Windows 7 welcome screen looks fairly nice, but it's not customizable out-of-the-box like the rest of your desktop is. There are, however, plenty of free apps that allow you personalize the background and add text messages -- and Logon Screen is a good option.
Just install Logon Screen, browse for the picture you'd like to swap in, and configure any advanced options you'd like. In addition to changing the background, Logon Screen allows you add a customized notice and tweak button appearance. If you like, you can also require users to press Ctrl+Alt+Del prior to logging on, hide users' accounts, display information about who was last logged in, and enable or disable shutdown options.Logon Screen customizes your Windows 7 welcome screen originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
The default Windows 7 welcome screen looks fairly nice, but it's not customizable out-of-the-box like the rest of your desktop is. There are, however, plenty of free apps that allow you personalize the background and add text messages -- and Logon Screen is a good option.
Just install Logon Screen, browse for the picture you'd like to swap in, and configure any advanced options you'd like. In addition to changing the background, Logon Screen allows you add a customized notice and tweak button appearance. If you like, you can also require users to press Ctrl+Alt+Del prior to logging on, hide users' accounts, display information about who was last logged in, and enable or disable shutdown options.Logon Screen customizes your Windows 7 welcome screen originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
This Doghouse Is Nicer Than Your House House [Doghouses]
It's one lucky pooch whose gets to live in this 2.5-meter tall replica of Matsumoto Castle, with one impressively handy owner. Won't you please join me on a guided tour? More »
Daily Crunch: Cross Walk Edition
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Motorola Flipout may be delayed -- or dead -- on AT&T
It's not often that a smartphone gets all the way into testers' hands and in-store marketing materials are printed up, only to see the device killed off before ever making a sale. But that may be what happened in the case of the Motorola Flipout on AT&T. Engadget got a tip on Saturday that it would hit stores a day later. But here we are a couple days later, and there's no Flipout to be flipped. We know it was in the midst of hands-on testing. But is it dead? Is it resting? Is it pining for the fjords? Was it all just a bad rumor? We'll poke at this one for a little while to see if it starts moving again, but only just a little while. [Engadget]Posted originally at Android CentralSponsored by Android Cases and Accessories
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