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

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