Wunderkit iOS App Released

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Pandora – Portable Linux Handheld for Gamers

Posted in Gaming, Lifestyle, Linux, News

If your Nintendo DS is collecting dust on the shelf and your PSP is currently serving as a paperweight, then perhaps you need to try something a bit different. What about a handheld device powered by a specially tweaked version of Linux that has been designed for gaming, web browsing, coding, emulating or productivity purposes?

The Pandora is a kind of open source hybrid gaming/PC handheld gaming book. It comes equipped with D-Pads, analogue pads and buttons specifically for gaming, but also has a QWERTY keyboard. It sports a touchscreen enabled screen with a 800*480 display that’s perfect for showing off emulated games. In fact you can easily play old C64, MSX, Atari ST, Amiga or even Spectrum games using readily available emulators.

In terms of hardware, Pandora comes equipped with a TI OMAP3530 CPU running at 600Mhz, 512Mb DDR3 SDRAM, 512Mb NAND Flash memory, an IVA2+ video/audio processor, 802.11b/g wi-fi, Bluetooth, dual SDHC memory card slots, headphone and TV outputs, an internal microphone, two USB ports and a battery that can offer 10 hours of usage time from a single charge.

If Pandora sounds like the answer to your prayers then you can pre-order your own German-built unit from the website now for 375euros or about $500USD.

Soulver – the Calculator for the Rest of Us

Posted in Mac, Reviews, Software

Soulver – $25 – App Store

Like many people, I’m no maths whizz. Sure I can do standard multiplication and addition and I’ll even attempt a basic equation if you give me enough time, but I often struggle with things like percentages. And it was with just that in mind that the developers of Soulver decided to bring aid to mathematical knuckle-heads like me.

Soulver is what the developers call a ‘back of the envelope’ calculator. You know the sort of sums – like when you’re sitting in a car dealership desperately trying to work out what the real cost of that new car is. It enables you to phrase your calculations as you’d speak them.

So for instance you can type ‘$175-10%’ to find the markdown on an item, or ’35 as a % of 200′. The app works somewhat like a ready reckoner, keeping a running total of all your calculations at the bottom of the screen, so you can just use it to type in a long list of numbers and get a round total at the end.

Amongst Soulver’s neater features is a built-in realtime currency converter, a realtime calculator for stocks (such as 500AAPL), the use of variables and a full set of mathemetical functions (such as pi or COS). When you’ve finished your calculations you can output them in PDF or HTML format if required.

The natural language design of Soulver is a great way of doing sums without too much head-scratching. You can jot down your calculations as you think of them, labeling items with any text you want to use. If you struggle with real-world arithmetic, then Soulver’s the answer to your prayers. It’s available now in the App Store for $25USD.

IT in the Toilet – An Amusing Infographic That Confirms What We All Knew All Along

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Wunderkit is Now Open to All

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If you’re a fan of Wunderlist, then get on over to 6Wunderkinder’s website and sign up for the open beta of Wunderkit. Have fun and let us know what you think of it.

VLC2 is Looking Very Nice Indeed

Posted in Digital Home, Mac, News

VLC – the open source media player of choice is close to a 2.0 release. The new version dubbed ‘Twoflower’ will be made available for every platform known to mankind up to and including the Texas TI/94 calculator. It’s a fairly major update to the player with a number of substantial changes including a major video core and outputs rewrite. We had a play with the Mac version and loved the new interface and honed app preferences.

The Saeco Odea Go Eclipse – This Coffee Machine Will Give You the Horn

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Well, look at it. It’s got its own ceramic grinder, for Thor’s sake! And you know what – $600USD seems like a pretty sweet deal to me since you can spend more than that on a cheapo espresso machine, grinder and frother. Anyway, I want two – one for the kitchen and one for my man cave. When I build it.