Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Motorola ATRIX 4G Lost Contacts

Many users of the Motorola Atrix 4g were blindsided when their phones updated to gingerbread without asking them very plainly if they wanted to. What *MUCH* worse is that most of their contacts were missing when the update had finished.

Thankfully this happened enough for Motorola to release a fix.(thanks to Mark at  https://supportforums.motorola.com/ ) for the quote
To get the application, search the Android Market for an app called "Contacts Restoration for Atrix" or, push the application to your ATRIX from a computer using this Android Market link:https://market.android.com/details?id=com.motorola.contactsrestore
And here's the forum thread where he linked this program..
Motorola Support Forums

It restored 53 of my wife's contacts, and I get to be the hero :D


Thursday, July 14, 2011

Hemispherical Omnidirectional Gimbaled (HOG) Wheel = FAST Robots!

This invention uses my favorite electromechanical component, the BLDC motor, Brushless Direct Current Motor. The motor is attached to a hemispherical wheel, this wheel's contact with the ground both propels and steers the vehicle.

The point is , the motor is a Airplane motor and it moves the car across the ground as fast as an airplane propeller rotates! I saw three or four websites embed this video and they just said "It's cool" but I wanna tell you what you'll see....IT'S Fast!


From: Engadget

New Fundamental Radio Technology

New radio technology (hopefully) coming soon, I also hope all these guys become billionaires, the implications are unfathomable..

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/29/onlive-ceo-reveals-entirely-new-approach-to-wireless-credits/




*fast forward to 55minutes to hear about the radio*

Here's a Webpage with a little more explanation 

And Then some more

Link/Tab Dump

It has taken me alot more time than I expected every time I try to editorialize a post on this blog. So while there's tons of things I would like to share, the time taken to write about them is intention crushing...

And so today I bring you another post with many links and few words, I hope you see something interesting..

Huge and Hugely Impressive Modular Analog Synth Cabinet
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/07/gigantic-modular-synth-enclosure.html

Google Bids on Patents with Number Constants
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/1335202/Google-Bid-Pi-Billion-Dollars-For-Nortel-Patents

I'll be honest I haven't read this yet, I guess i like my mouse too much!
http://www.itworld.com/software/177989/7-days-using-only-keyboard-shortcuts-no-mouse-no-trackpad-no-problem

These are little wheels designed to build camera motion rigs, they look incredibly smooth and easy, but pricey
http://www.rigwheels.com/

This will show you how to build an alternative camera strap configuration
http://www.diyphotography.net/sling-your-camera-with-a-diy-c-loop-for-under-5

There are certainly alot more posts on this site about building and rigging for your camera and photo setups
http://www.diyphotography.net

This is how I want my tool drawers to be, I don't know if I want to buy in just now..
http://www.dailygrommet.com/products/drawerdecor-custom-drawer-organizer

GPU's are revolutionizing the processing of anything that used to require supercomputers
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/password-recovery-gpu,2945.html

This seems like such a great idea...What took so long?!
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/16/griffins-beacon-for-ios-devices-now-shipping-post-remote-livin/

This allows your Android device's camera to be used as a Webcam for your computer (be careful the first time I tried it it hard crashed my computer; then i tried it again and got it working)
http://www.dev47apps.com/#

This is a really cool bench power supply build..
http://www.tuxgraphics.org/electronics/200707/bench-power-supply-unit.shtml

Intel is working on Massively Parallel Chips! (Too bad the GPU guys are WAY Ahead of them)
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/2010/20100531comp.htm

Wow this is cool, many Android devices can also be gaming systems...
http://gizmodo.com/5809240/playstation-suite-makes-lots-of-android-phones-playstation-phones

The future of software is very different from the past...
http://0install.net/

I wish I had the resources to try some of these SSD's the bandwidth seems amazing..
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216873/TMS_releases_PCIe_SSD_with_900GB_capacity_2GB_sec_throughput

This Car looks tough...but zombies? I dunno..
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/05/18/best-car-survive-zombie-apocalypse/

Nevermind the desk (its amazing) look into the comments for Captain Picard
http://lifehacker.com/5803394/the-compudesk-an-epic-custom+built-all+in+one-desk

I hope the future looks (and works) like this software
http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit
http://blog.easytech.com.ar/2011/05/21/playing-with-termkit-with-chrome/

Sometimes its crazy how simple the solutions to very tough (medical) problems are...
http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/05/16/0325258/Spoonful-of-Sugar-Helps-the-Persistent-Bacteria-Go-Down

I always hoped the browser history would be like this..
http://lifehacker.com/5801972/fromwheretowhere-threads-your-firefox-browsing-history

What Fun...makes me wanna travel (and not be afraid of heights)
http://www.oobject.com/category/12-wonderful-water-slides/

This Company builds a custom pc called the shift, it lets the heat go up out of the case like it wants to, they are geniuses
http://www.maingear.com/index.php