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Blogger announced that "As of right now, the Blogger new interface is available for all Blogger in Draft users. There is no sign up or activation process required. Just visit  Blogger in Draft , and you’ll find the revamped interface, all ready for your exploration!" Blogger's new Interface very attractive and faster than old interface. Also very easy to adapt to this new interface.You will definitely like it.

Everyone’s favorite Scion-toting car company has announced that they’ll be releasing their smallest vehicle ever in the USA in the Scion iQ, also the companies first electric vehicle. This car will be scheduled for 2012 and will indeed by pint-sized as it appears currently available already in Japan and in parts of Europe under the Toyota brand. This vehicle has a 1L engine and rolls out with a massively impressive 65 miles per gallon. I could get to my home town of Cloud City Minnesota and back on less than $10 bucks! This might not be the first time you’ve seen this car, as Toyota introduced the idea of it last year to the North American market. This will be the first time that this 3+1 car will be electric, as revealed at this years Geneva Motor Show. This car is still undergoing testing in its electric state in the EU, the EV expected to have a range of, you guessed it, 65 miles. Will a car with such a relatively short range (considering that only gets most folks an hour away from

The Toshiba Thrive 10.1-inch Android tablet took its time to hit the market. It was first unveiled at CES but waited for Android Honeycomb and wisely priced itself to compete. Pre-orders for the Thrive started last month with a launch date set for mid-July, but today’s it has already touched down at Newegg with pricing just as expected plus free shipping. The Thrive is powered by NVIDIA’s 1GHz Tegra 2 dual-core processor with 1GB RAM and comes running Android 3.1 Honeycomb. It features a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, full-sized HDMI and USB ports as well as a full-sized SD card slot. It also supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS. Unlike other tablets on the market, its battery is user-swappable. The tablet comes in three storage capacity options. The 8GB model is priced at $429.99, the 16GB model is $479.99, and the 32GB model comes in at $579.99. It’s rubberized back panel is available in six different colors. An optional docking station for $59.99

For those hoping to get an unlimited data plan from Verizon, you’re time is up. Today, the new tiered data plansofficially kick in with four packages that range from $10 per month for 75MB to $80 per month for 10GB. Each gigabyte over your limit will cost you $10. With all the connecting, sharing, email checking, and media downloading we do these days, those numbers can add up quickly. To avoid some of the frustration likely to come with billing inquiry calls, Verizon is offering to send free text messages to customers to alert them of their data usage. This will allow customers to easily monitor their data usage to ensure no overages and surprises when the monthly bill comes in. The service will start this week with message alerts sent when certain usage thresholds are crossed, such as at 50 percent, 75 percent, 90 percent, 100 percent, and 110 percent. Registered My Verizon customers can also use the online account management tool to request email alerts and can add up to three addit

Photojojo always comes up with some fun gadgets and accessories for photography enthusiasts and this time they’ve managed to produce a case that will turn your iPhone 4 into a DSLR camera. The new case is simply called the iPhone SLR Mount and allows you to attach any of your Canon or Nikon SLR lenses. We’ve seen accessories in the past that attempt to bring DSLR features to the iPhone 4, such as with the Photojojo 8X Telephoto lens for the iPhone. What makes this iPhone SLR Mount better is that it allows you to attach any of your existing SLR lenses, giving great flexibility in attaching wide angle, telephoto, macro or whatever you have in your lens collection. The iPhone 4 has only a 5-megapixel camera, but it’s been the most popular camera among Flickr users . Now with the iPhone SLR Mount, your iPhone images will surprise others with the depth of field control and bokeh. The iPhone SLR Mount consists of an aluminum case, an SLR lens adapter, and a UV filter. Two loopholes on the c

If you’re looking for a desktop PC replacement that’s stylish yet powerful when it comes to multimedia performance, then you might want to consider the Acer Aspire Ethos series notebooks. The latest revamp to this high-end series features a unique detachable touchpad that doubles as a remote control and comes in a 15.6-inch model (5951G) and an 18.4-inch model (8951G). We spent some time with the larger Ethos 8951G, so read on for our full review. The massive 18.4-inch size makes the 8951G a hybrid of a notebook and an all-in-one PC that you certainly won’t be carrying around town. It’s still less hassle than a desktop PC if you ever did need to take it somewhere and it’s easier to stow away when not in use. But, most likely you’ll have it sitting pretty in your home as a media center. Hardware The Acer Aspire Ethos 8951G features a sleek and sophisticated design that boasts several improvements over its predecessor, the 8943G. The overall appearance is more classy and serious with dar

Google may not have said it publicly, but its Google+ social network was deemed a Facebook rival from the very start. Now, as more elements of the Google+ experience reveal themselves, it’s beginning to look like Google’s push for social isn’t just about taking on Facebook and Twitter, but changing its own positioning and strategy on public sharing. With the Picasa and Blogger brands under threat, private profiles facing the chop and +1 buttons spreading across the web, is the “Google+ vs. Facebook” showdown hype masking a potentially more significant rebalancing of public vs. private? Google quietly confirmed earlier that those users who didn’t convert their private profiles into public ones wouldsee them deleted at the end of this month. “The purpose of Google Profiles is to enable you to manage your online identity” the search giant argued, “using Google Profiles to help people find and connect with you online is how the product is best used.” Picasa and Blogger aren’t being axed, b

The Apple iPhone/iPad rumors continue to swirl, with further evidence pointing to a high-resolution version of the iPad set to launch later this year. Talk earlier today of an “iPad 2 Plus” has been echoed by This is my next, whose sources say the tablet – which they claim will launch as the iPad HD – will have a 2048 x 1538 double-resolution screen and be targeted at graphics pros such as those in video and photo production. Meanwhile, there’s also more news on the iPhone 5/iPhone 4S saga. To celebrate the iPad HD launch, it’s said, Apple plans to release an iPad version of Final Cut or Aperture. What’s definite is that this isn’t the iPad 3, but an attempt to broaden the iPad range in the same manner as the MacBook and MacBook Pro. Meanwhile, the iPhone 5 is tipped to be Apple’s sole new smartphone, rather than there being “5″ and “4S” versions. Set to launch in September, the sources corroborate, the story is that Apple has confused tipsters by cladding the iPhone 5 components – whi

As bizarre, brilliant ideas go, “iPlayer for Kindle” has to be one of the best. Despite initially sounding like an April Fool – video content on an E Ink ereader? – it’s actually a real project by Frisnit Electronic Industrial , taking TV shows and converting them into a digital comic strip of sorts, complete with subtitles. The system takes a DVB digital TV feed along with subtitle information and initially pulls out just the frames where there’s dialog. Interspersed with those are extra frames picked out by scene-detection software that works out a mid-point between anything with speech, so as to capture moments where characters are staring at each other longingly, weeping, or being silently furious. Everything is then cooked up as an HTML file that can be printed or converted into a PDF, with timestamps and subtitles overlaid, perfect to be dropped onto your Kindle. A 30 minute show works out to roughly a 20MB file, bigger than the average ebook of course, but a lot smaller – and mo

Onkyo knows you love a flagship, and so it’s packed more than the average abilities into its new top-tier Blu-ray player, the BD-SP809. As well as playing Blu-ray – including 3D titles – DVD and CD discs, the BD-SP809 will play DivX HD, MP3 and WMA files from USB drives or, indeed, stream photo, audio and video content over a network thanks to DLNA 1.5 compliance. There’s also on-demand media streaming support, including Netflix, Blockbuster, VUDU and Film Fresh, in up to HD quality, and Onkyo has used Marvell’s Qdeo processor for 1080p upscaling, deinterlacing and noise reduction. Ports include two HDMI outputs, so as to make hooking up – and flicking between – an HDTV and a projector more straightforward. DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD, along with THX certification, round out the key specs, though as you’d probably imagine there are plenty of other ports on the back including digital and analog audio outputs. And what would you pay for this rich, creamy, uncommonly good Blu-ray

BeBook is a company better known for its ereaders, but the lure of the tablet has proved too great. The BeBook Live is a low-cost Android slate, still proclaiming its ereader heritage but also hoping to earn itself a place as your browsing, multimedia and gaming gadget of choice. With a price significantly lower than that of rival tablets, can the BeBook Live really replace both your iPad and your Kindle in one fell swoop? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut. Hardware At £229 in the UK, it’s too much to expect metal for the BeBook Live’s construction, though the 140 x 202 x 11 mm, 426g plastic slab is at least creak and flex-free. The 7-inch display is the only glossy part of it, too; the back panel is a sensible – if uninspiring – matte finish expanse of black, with only the (poorly) printed logo and an adhesive serial number label to break it up. Most of the controls and ports are around the silver plastic edge, with the power button, recessed soft-reset button, volume

Online auction giant eBay has bought mobile payments specialist Zong, spending $240m on the startup despite already having PayPal onboard. According to eBay, the interest in Zong is down to its existing connections with mobile operators, which allows users to charge items directly to their monthly bill. “Commerce is changing. With mobile phones, we walk around with a mall in our pockets” PayPal president Scott Thompson said of the deal. ”PayPal helps to make money work better for customers in this new commerce reality – no matter how they want to pay or what device they’re using. We believe that Zong will strengthen this value by helping us reach the more than 4 billion people who have mobile phones, giving them more choice and security when they pay.” eBay does already offer mobile payments, with apps for iOS and Android, but the Zong technology would enable a second payment method for those uncomfortable with registering their credit or debit card, or their current account, with PayP

HTC announced yesterday that it was buying S3 Graphics from VIA and its partner in the operation. We speculated at the time that the purchase might be a build up to the company making its own GPUs. If you were like me and hoping that was the case, you will be disappointed. HTC has announced that it purchased S3 simply for the patents. It looks like HTC is set to pull a Microsoft and troll the patent waters. HTC expects to recoup the investment in S3 in two to three years. It’s interesting that stock in HTC dropped on news of the purchase. HTC’s Winston Yung has admitted as well that the patents will give it more leverage over Apple, who has been found to infringe on two S3 patents, in the ongoing patent battle between the two firms. The purchase netted HTC 235 new patents. “In patent negotiations, it is difficult if the other company has patents and you don’t. If you have patents too, perhaps you can arrive at a cross-licensing agreement … We’re not talking about five years before we w

If you have a notebook that you like that lacks 3G or 4G connectivity inside you don’t need to get a new notebook. What you need is a speedy USB modem to cram inside your rig. AT&T has announced a new USB modem for notebook users that plugs into your USB port and gives you access to the AT&T mobile broadband network. The USBConnect Force 4G modem will be offered for free on a new two-year data plan starting on July 17. If you don’t want a contract, the modem works on the AT&T pay-as-you go data network as well. With no contract, the modem is $89.99 and the user can choose their data plan via integrated activation procedures. The modem also includes unlimited WiFi access to AT&T Hotspots with a domestic plan and can roam in more than 200 countries. The modem is built by Huawei and operates on the HSPA/HSPA+ and EDGE/GPRS networks AT&T runs. That means the data speeds aren’t true 4G. This thing will work on Windows and Mac machines.

Air guitar is the age-old ritual that goes along with your favorite music and happens when a music fan has no musical talent of their own to actually play the song (in my case anyway). Instead, we turn to faking. Air guitar is basically the instrumental versions of lip sync. A very cool new toy called Air Picks has surfaced that make your air guitar actually playable. The picks are shaped like your typical guitar pick, though they are significantly fatter than the real thing. The Air Picks are form a company called Flair in the UK and will hit stores in the next few weeks. There are several versions and each have three songs inside. I get the feeling that the tunes are the guitar portion only, but that isn’t clear. They are songs you will know too with tracks from famous artists like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. The toy will only play the next note in the song if you strum your air guitar. Pulling off that Angus Young kick move as you strum said air guitar is optional. Tracks in

Typically, when you say instant camera, we think of the sort like the old Polaroid’s that you shoot the pic, the film comes out the front and in a bit you have a nice color photo to share. A dude named Niklas Roy made his own instant camera. While the photo might take about the same amount of time as that old Polaroid to be ready to share, it’s nowhere near as fast for the subject of the photo. The subject has to stand still for three minutes. Roy’s instant camera uses an old black and white video camera that is hooked in some way to a thermal receipt printer, as you would see at a store. When the camera is on the receipt printer prints the photos out line by line at a snail’s pace. The catch for the subject is that there is no memory inside the camera so each line is forgotten as soon as it prints. That means the camera has to go back to the old days of photography and requires the subject to be still for three minutes. That doesn’t sound that long until you actually try and sit or st

It seems that Steve Jobs and his minions in Cupertino are reversing on the long held beliefs that a stylus isn’t required if you get a touchscreen device right. Jobs once quipped on stage during a presentation, “It’s like we said on the iPad, if you see a stylus, they blew it.” If you go by that statement then Apple may have blown it since two more patent apps have surfaced that show Apple looking at stylus tech for potential use in its gear. The two new patents with the one we found back in February make three this year alone. That would seem to be a strong indication that a stylus is coming. Along with the patents come some crude line art that shows one of the devices having a slot where a stylus would store and charge. The first patent app is called “Stylus for touchscreen devices” and describes a simple stylus with a special tip for capacitive screens. It uses a rechargeable battery according to the patent app and the tip can be heated for better interaction between stylus and scre