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Featured gadget: U.S. Senator Search and Contact



Name: U.S. Senator Search and Contact
Author: Rosie Ojo
Description: Search for U.S. senator information

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Featured gadget: Cat Clock



Name: Cat Clock
Author: nectar1964
Description:  Analog clock of cat design

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Google Gadgets for Linux 0.10.1



To celebrate the opening of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, we've just released Google Gadgets for Linux 0.10.1. This version contains two new built-in gadgets:
  • Photos - Displays your favorite photos (from either the Web or a local directory) as a slideshow. This gadget is very simple to use. Just get it from the Add gadgets dialog, and add your favorite sources in the Options dialog.

  • Gadget Designer - Similar to the Gadget Designer application for Windows, except that this designer is itself a gadget. Currently it only supports editing existing gadgets. Please get it from the Add gadgets dialog, try it out, and give us feedback. (Sorry, this gadget isn't available yet for Windows.)


Besides adding these two new gadgets, we've fixed many serious bugs. Many popular gadgets are supported now, such as the Google Calendar gadget. This new version also supports the Google Summer Games gadget, which displays a live medal count and event schedules on your desktop.


SaaS

software as a service (SaaS) by Phase 2 is here to spend time getting to know your business. Phase2Int makes sure that every software application that you use is perfectly customized to accelerate your company’s success.

The advantage of not owning the software and renting out and using that software from Phase 2 saves on hardware, software purchase and updates, support stuff, power, security devices, remote access devices and lots of other things.

Your choice of application(s) can be available to all your team members within hours through Phase 2, compared to months with a physical installation. All you need is Internet access and you are ready to get workers from multiple office locations, on the road or at home who can use the same essential documents, data and tools.

You just have to try and see how SaaS with PHASE 2 is a better way to use software. Phase 2 offers a 30-day, money back guarantee, and full support teams that enable you to be productive within minutes.

e-skin


Researchers from Japan have developed a rubber that is able to conduct electricity well, paving the way for robots with stretchable "e-skin" that can feel heat and pressure like humans.

The material overcomes the problems faced by metals -- which are conductive but do not stretch – which is the first in the world to overcome the problem and rubber, which hardly transmits electricity, according to the team at the University of Tokyo. The new technology is flexible like ordinary rubber but boasts conductivity some 570 times as high as commercially available rubbers filled with carbon particles. If used as wiring, the material can make elastic integrated circuits (ICs), which can be stretched to up to 1.7 times their original size.

One application of the material would be artificial skin on robots as robots enter our everyday life; they need to have sensors everywhere on their bodies like humans. Imagine they bump into babies. Robots need to feel temperatures, heat and pressure like we do to co-exist. Otherwise it would be dangerous. It was also said that the new material could be used on the surface of steering wheels, which would analyze perspiration, body temperature and other data of the driver and judge whether he or she is fit enough to drive or it could be used on top of a mattress for bed-ridden people, watching if some parts of the body were under constant pressure and tilting the bed to change the patient's posture to prevent bedsores

2008 Summer Games gadget



With 302 events, 35 disciplines, and over two hundred teams, the Summer Games can be overwhelming. The 2008 Summer Games gadget can help you follow all the excitement.

gadget screenshot #1

This gadget is a triathlete of sorts: It displays medal counts, event schedules, and the latest news. Try it out, and be sure to choose your favorite team from the options.

gadget screenshot #2

The gadget has been localized for the host country China and works fine with the latest Google Gadgets for Linux.

Also check out these related efforts across Google:
Happy Summer Games from the Google Desktop team!

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House Plans and Designs

Are you looking to live in your dream home, but do not know how to go about it? Well, here is someone who has a goal to help you find your dream home plan that incorporates every architectural design feature you need to make your new home highly functional for your lifestyle.

All you have to do is to go to the House Plans and More website where you will see offers for a wide variety of home building resources and helpful tools which is organized to make your home plan search simple and easy. We can meet all of your home plan needs regardless of your budget due to the wide array of home styles and sizes we have to choose from.

Also check out the household project plans section that includes several hundred do-it-yourself projects. The project plan collection includes garage plans, shed plans, backyard project plans, and plans for other great project plans for your home.

Maple Phone


Check out the new Maple phone which is made out of African Blackwood, which comes in the dimensions of 4.5 x 10.4 x 9.8 cm. It’s loaded with those common features found on today’s cellphones, such as MP3 player, digital camera, and obviously the basic functions like calling and texting.

When it gets your first touch while being at the off state, it’ll turn itself on, light up all those touch-sensitive buttons and become ready waiting for your next inputs. The Maple phone is said to use the capacitive touch technology. The price could be cheaper than any other average cellphones, since it’s made of wood.

Featured gadget: Call Via Skype v.0.2



Name: Call Via Skype v.0.2.1
Author: De-L-Orient
Description: Allows you to call via Skype to a Skype user or a phone

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Kids Podcasting Kit for Africa?



I plan to test one of these to see whether it (or something like it) could be useful for a community radio station project in Africa. The kids are looking for something cheap and easy to use in interviewing their parents. The so called "Easi-Speak" lets you record directly into the microphone. The same device can be used to playback remotely or you can download your files straight to your PC through the attached USB. I think the 128MB memory is on the small size, especially if you pick WAV rather than the MP3 format. At the same time, having a limited memory does encourage you to get to the point, rather than trying to save an interview in post-production.

The microphone (retailing in the UK for 25 quid) comes with a copy of the Audacity Music Editing Software (this is open source) and it doesn't need a battery, since that is charged through the USB.The good news is that it will record directly into the MP3 format without the need for conversion software and it would appear the buttons are large enough for young children to use.

This microphone has been around for a few months, but I see the 128MB version is only just appearing (was 64MB).

Thanks to the ever resourceful Podcast Princess, Karin Hogh, in Denmark for the tip.
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