From the department of "Because We Can" comes Linux on the iPhone. Don’t get too excited — you won’t be running Ubuntu or Google’s Android OS on your iPhone any time soon (even if you wanted to). Here it is in action:
Right now, as you can see, this is strictly a proof of concept — there’s no actual interaction with any of the iPhone’s input methods. No touch screen, no nothing. Instead, the iPhone runs a USB client which lets you type in commands from another computer via the dock connector.
Still, it’s a good start, and once somebody slaps a few hardware drivers and a graphic user interface on there, it could be fun to play with. We’re actually more interested with the keyboard side of this hack. Would it be possible to run the regular iPhone OS and hook a keyboard directly into the dock connector? That would be killer useful for getting some real work done on the iPhone. It would also destroy my excuse for not blogging when I’m traveling, so maybe it’s not such a good thing after all.
Linux on the iPhone! [Linuxoniphone via TUAW]
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Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio, Wireless
We’ve seen our fair share of iPod speakers around here, and all too often they resemble
boom boxes or
clock radios (or sometimes
both). Now, thanks to the combined efforts of EOps and industrial designer Michael Young, we finally have something that appears equally suited to the home, office and Korova Milk Bar. The i24R3 consists of an iPod dock / 40W subwoofer and two (upgradable to eight) 3-inch 20W satellite speakers, all in a fetching pure gloss white and aluminum casing. The whole shebang can be controlled with the included RF remote, from your iPod / iPhone or from any PC or Mac sporting iTunes and the included Wireless USB dongle. The base accepts a bevy of inputs and outputs, including RCA audio, video and composite video out — and if that weren’t enough, each speaker can be controlled separately using the included motion sensors, allowing hands-off volume and equalizer control. Something like that must be seen to be appreciated, so make sure you check out the video after the break. No price yet, but these guys should be hitting the street in early 2009.
[Via Engadget Spanish]
Continue reading EOps “high concept” wireless iPod speakers strongly resemble a cheap desk lamp
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Leopard’s virtual desktop tool Spaces is great, but sometimes the app breaks, leaving you with windows on desktops you just can’t get to. Luckily there’s an easy solution: Open Terminal and enter killall Dock. When your Dock restarts, Spaces will be back in operation.
Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio
Griffin may occasionally help out those that like to
complicate their lives, but it also thankfully caters to those of us that prefer to keep things simple, and it looks like its new, appropriately-named Simplifi dock should appeal to quite a few in the latter camp. As you can see, it’ll not only accommodate a single iPod or iPhone, but your media cards of choice, and a pair of USB devices (the ports are on the back). It also includes an AC adapter for devices that required a powered USB port, which can be conveniently ditched if its not needed. You will pay a bit of a premium for clearing all that clutter though, as the device sports a somewhat hefty $70 price tag.
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This weekend’s edition of “This Week’s Top Downloads” is actually “Last Week’s Top Downloads” because Sunday came faster than we could post. Apologies for that—but these apps are still just as useful as they were last night:
- Decrypt and Remove Commercials from TiVo Recordings in One Step (Windows and Linux)
“You’ve recorded an entire season of Battlestar Galactica on your TiVo DVR, and now you want to archive it on a hard drive somewhere commercial-free—and the free Perl program KMTTG can do all that in one step.”
- Microsoft Phone Data Manager Syncs Your Phone Wirelessly (Windows)
“Microsoft’s free Phone Data Manager syncs contacts, music, pictures, and videos between your phone and your desktop and the web.”
- X Resource Graph Monitors Your System and More (Mac)
“Free application X Resource Graph (XRG) adds a customizable system monitoring dashboard to your Mac desktop.”
- Easystroke Makes Mouse Gestures Easy in Linux (Linux)
“Easystroke, a free mouse gesture manager for Linux systems, makes the often quirky business of summoning applications, web sites, and desktop actions with your pointer a simple affair.”
- Dock Dodger Hides Running App Icons from Your Dock (Mac)
“Free application Dock Dodger removes any running application from your Dock, decluttering your Dock for apps that you want to keep there and ditching the rest.”
- Google Chrome Backup Manages User Profiles (Windows)
“Free application Google Chrome Backup makes it easy to create, back up, restore, and manage profiles with Google’s hot new web browser.”
- CrossOver Chromium Ports Chrome to Mac and Linux (Linux and Mac)
“Enterprising open source developers have beaten Google to the punch and released a Mac and Linux port of Google Chrome’s open source code base, Chromium.”
- MZ Ultimate Tweaker Modifies and Optimizes System Settings (Windows)
“Free application MZ Ultimate Tweaker is a system modification tool that covers the gamut of system tweaks, putting everything from performance to display tweaks just a few clicks away.”
- SpeedFan Monitors Your Hardware, Controls Fans (Windows)
“Free application SpeedFan monitors the fan speed, temperature, voltage, and more of the components inside your computer.”
Mac OS X only: Free application Dock Dodger removes any running application from your Dock, decluttering your Dock for apps that you want to keep there and ditching the rest. When might something like Dock Dodger come in handy? Let’s say, for example, you downloaded the very cool system monitoring application XRG when we mentioned it recently. The app’s great, but it has a useless Dock icon. To get rid of its icon, just drag XRG to the Dock Dodger window; next time you restart the app, its icon is nowhere to be found. If you decide you want an icon back in the Dock later, just rinse and repeat the same process. Dock Dodger is donationware, Mac OS X only.
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