Ridekick Motorized Trailer Pushes You

It seems that putting a motor into a trailer and bolting it to the back of a bike would be a bad idea, giving an unstable ride and leaving the trailer itself jumping and skipping across the asphalt. But what do I know? Here’s a clip of the Ridekick trailer in action, where it acquits [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/12/ridekick-motorized-trailer-pushes-you/

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Phil's most-used Android apps of 2011

We go through a lot of Applications here at Android Central. Some are good. Some ... not so good. Some are awesome, but I don't need them.

Here's a look at the apps that get me through the day, whether it's at home or on the road.

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Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/LZQWSQWUjtM/story01.htm

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Amazon Built 42nd Fastest Computer in the World Without Trying [Amazon]

For the past several years, Amazon has been quietly building one of the fastest cloud networks in the history of computers. Except it doesn't exist in any room—it's spread across the entire world. Virtual computers are now supercomputers. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/rdn2BtFPTTo/amazon-built-42nd-fastest-computer-in-the-world-without-trying

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Don’t install Ice Cream Sandwich on the Kindle Fire yet

One of the greatest perks of using Android devices is their hackability. No other platform makes it so easy to install a variety of custom firmwares, apps, and tweaks that wouldn’t be available out-of-the-box. The latest darling of the development community is Amazon’s Kindle Fire. There is now a pre-alpha build of Ice Cream Sandwich available to be flashed to the tablet. However, despite the obvious temptation, we don’t recommend most users to do this — yet.

The latest version of Android and the best budget tablet: it sounds like the perfect match. Someday soon it will be. But the current build of Ice Cream Sandwich for the Fire just isn’t there yet; it actually isn’t meant to be.

Members of the development community feed off of each other by releasing early pre-alpha, alpha, beta, and pre-alpha-alpha-pre-pre-beta builds (okay, maybe not the last one). When your work is open-source, it benefits everyone to release incremental updates. Others can test it, provide feedback, fork their own versions, and learn from your work. It’s a win for everyone.

Except, perhaps, for casual users. Every time the development community does something amazing (like ICS on the Kindle Fire), it’s a newsworthy achievement. Blogs and Twitter light up, spreading the news that this incredible work has been done. But that’s where the problems start. Users who have no advanced hacking experience opine that “if it’s good enough for the blogs, it’s good enough for me.” Let the bricks commence.

The Ice Cream Sandwich ROM is moving along rapidly. It’s Ice Cream Sandwich, and it’s mostly functional. Unfortunately the things that aren’t working are crucial. Sound only works in spurts. Video is choppy at best, and graphics acceleration isn’t there yet. Some Market apps will error out when you try to download them. Even the touchscreen is having problems.

If you want to take the plunge and install ICS, knock yourself out. Just know that — unless you’re advanced enough of a hacker to know exactly what you’re doing — you might be putting your $200 tablet at risk just to pre-alpha test a buggy ROM.

Whether it’s in a day, a week, or a month, we’ll let you know when there is an Ice Cream Sandwich port that’s stable enough for most of us to flash.

Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/dont-install-ice-cream-sandwich-on-the-kindle-fire-yet-20111228/

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Windows 8 getting a built-in PDF reader, Metro-style

For what seems like an eternity, Download Squad readers have reacted to news of security exploits targeting Adobe Reader with a common sentiment: why doesn't Microsoft build its own secure PDF reader into Windows? Apparently the Windows 8 team agrees, and they're working away at an application called Modern Reader which is exactly that.

From the handful of screenshots Paul Thurrott has shared, it's clear that Modern Reader has been built with Metro in mind. You can see the Reader back button in the top-left corner of the yellow image and the minimal page navigation bar on the right. We've posted some larger images we managed to scrape from Google's cache after the break.

Thurrott also mentions that Modern Reader is the first program spotted which is built using AppX -- a packaging technology that may allow developers to roll a single build to both Windows 8 desktops and Windows Phone 8 mobile devices.

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Windows 8 getting a built-in PDF reader, Metro-style originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/04/04/windows-8-getting-a-built-in-pdf-reader-finally/

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Shot Shot Pirate is a fun, simple physics game

Shot Shot Pirate is very satisfying, because each level is short and to the point. You know what you have to do and you just do it.

As you may have gathered from the name, you're cast in the role of a pirate. Your goal is to shoot at a diamond and make it fall off a tower of bricks. The height of the tower changes as you progress through the levels. It's not enough to just make the diamond fall off the tower of bricks - it has to fall below a certain line (drawn on the screen) for the level to be completed.

There are also different kinds of bricks, with some heavier than others, and different kinds of ammo. You only get a certain amount of ammo for each level, and when it's gone, you lose. But don't worry! If you don't make it on the first try, it's very easy to restart the level and just give it another shot (or three).

All in all it's a cute game. I've seen similar games with better graphics and music, but the game delivers on its main promise - a few minutes of pure time wasting!

Shot Shot Pirate is a fun, simple physics game originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Zoho Docs 2.0 adds iPad support

Zoho has offered an iOS app for a while now -- at least for the iPhone and iPod touch. Those of you who have been wanting to use the Zoho app on your iPad were out of luck, but that's no longer the case.

Zoho Docs 2.0 has landed in the App Store, and the most notable change is that it's now a universal app. Now you're able to take advantage of the app's mobile productivity powers on your larger iOS device. Retina display support has also been added, as have document sharing options -- which you can utilize in both the viewer and collaboration modes.

Just like the basic Zoho service, the app is available totally free of charge. Paid subscriptions get you additional storage space and start at $3 per month for professional use.

Zoho Docs 2.0 adds iPad support originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/04/06/zoho-docs-2-0-app-for-ipad-arrives/

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