Panasonic G5 mirrorless camera gets September 13th release date in Japan

Panasonic G5 mirrorless camera gets September 13th release date in Japan

We enjoyed our short time with Panasonic's new mirrorless G5 in our hands-on last month, even if it was a little on the porky side. And, if you hail from the Land of the Rising Sun and had your heart set on one of these 16-megapixel shooters, Panny's announced you'll get your chance from September 13th. We're getting dangerously close to missing the stateside launch target of August, but where the US website is showing the G5 as unreleased, availability on Amazon tells a different story. We're reaching out for confirmation on that -- as well as pricing -- and will update should we hear more.

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Pennant Fever, Android Style: Two MLB Magic Number Apps Mini Review

It’s that time of year for baseball fans, the race for the playoffs. This is the time when baseball fans start talking magic number. The magic number is the number of wins by the leading team, and loses by the second-place team that will secure the division for the leading team. It is an easy number to calculate, just take 163 (number of games in a season + 1) subtract wins by the leader, and losses by the second-place time, and you have it. But that involves looking up the records, and doing math. Fortunately a smartphone is adept at both those things, so with my Reds leading the Central, I went off to the Android Market to find an App.

My simple search yielded two likely candidates.  MLB Wildcard Magic Number, and MLB Magic Number Widget. Both are free, and looked like they could do the job. I gave them both a spin, and found a clear winner, at least for me. This is not an in-depth review on these two apps, but just a quick look.

MLB Wildcard Magic Number

The first one I tried was the Wildcard Magic Number. Now, since I am not a Cardinals or Pirates fan, the wildcard aspect did not appeal to me, but I figured that it would also give the magic number for the division. It does the job, but has a couple of things working against it.

Strike one is it opens to a useless splash screen. You get an animation of two baseballs, and then the screen just stares at you. I won’t bother wasting space with that screen, you simply tap one of the 5 buttons at the top to get to the information. Here is the important screen, the Magic Number screen.

This provides the Magic number for the leaders of all divisions. It is ordered AL first, NL second, and then East, Central, West in each league. And here is where we get strike two. I am no designer, but yikes this is one ugly screen. Those are meant to be magic wands (get it, magic number). With a screen shot you miss out on the animation of stars near the numbers. Really, all we need is some blinking text, and I would be feeling full Geocities nostalgia.

The AL/NL buttons give you the standings by division, and the AL wildcard/NL wildcard gives you the current race (with more pointless animations). But since I have already dinged them for animations, we’ll call that a foul tip, and leave the count at 0-2.

This is a baseball article, so you are probably not surprised that there is a strike three. This app has no widget. I wanted to be able to put a widget on my home screen to keep me up to date on the Magic Number.

The app does provide a lot of information about the playoff race, but the design is quite distracting. This app does not have a long future on my phone.

MLB Magic Number Widget

As you can likely surmise from the name of this app, it has widgets. In fact, this is not an application at all, it is only a widget. It would be nice to have an app as well, but not a big deal.  I’ll call it a ball, just low and outside. When you go to add a widget, you have a few choices to make.

You first choose what to track (defaults to Magic Number, more on that later), then the team, color of the text, and background. The baseball is kind of ugly, and the backgrounds boring. I think we’ll have to call this a strike, though the app did get a piece of it. The count evens to 1-1. Here is the app on the home screen, showing my Reds with a magic number of 39.

When you tap on the widget, you get some nice details. So the widget makes nice contact on the ball. Please note that during the time it took me to write this post, The Reds have already dropped to 38.

Unfortunately the only thing you can change about the widget is the team. Which is frankly the least likely thing you would want to change. No changing of text color, background, or what is tracked, so the ball curves foul, and we stand at a count of 1-2.

However, adding a widget is very quick, so I think we get a good solid hit from the widget. In fact, you can add multiple widgets to a home screen. I have dedicated a screen to the Hunt for Reds October, so I can see all this on one screen:

So on one page I get the Reds magic number, a reminder that they are leading the Central, their record and current streak. I also see where the Pirates and Cardinals stand. So a solid hit indeed.

But this widget wasn’t satisfied with a single, they stretched a nice solid hit into a double by adding a bunch of tracking options. In addition to the ones you see here, I will be able to add widgets for the Division, Championship and World series, days until opening day (which is always a special day in Cincinnati), days until pitchers and catchers report, and days until players report to spring training. I have a feeling this app has found a permanent home on my Android.

Conclusion

So, if you are a baseball fan, you now have two good options for tracking your favorite team. They are not perfect, but they are free and they accomplish the job at hand.

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Pennant Fever, Android Style: Two MLB Magic Number Apps Mini Review originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on August 21, 2012 at 11:00 am.

Buffer review - the antidote for oversharers

In a nutshell, Buffer helps social media fans from oversharing by allowing you to schedule when items are published to your networks, be it a Facebook profile or page, Twitter feed, or LinkedIn account. There’s even App.net support. Users can add items to their Buffer from a bunch of different mobile apps, and if you’re in a the social media business, there’s a premium version that allows teams to cooperatively fill the queue.

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Flickr for Android overhauled with new UI and new features

Flickr for Android

It's been a really long time since Flickr for Android was updated with any sort of significance. Yahoo has finally managed to find the time to give the Android version some love though, and overall, it's looking pretty spiffy. A new UI is in effect and new features have been added that actually make the app worthwhile. Here's what's new --

  • Edit details on your existing photos
  • Choose any camera installed on your device to take a photo
  • Improved Search
  • See HTML content in comments and descriptions
  • Pull down to refresh content on a screen

Swiping between photos and sections works rather smoothly. If you're a hardcore photo nerd, you'll find editing metadata on the go is easy and pretty intuitive as well. Finally, the integrated sharing is there in such a way that makes sense. If you're still rocking that Flickr account, give it a go and let us what you think of it.

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Google Play Music updated, brings Google TV support and expanded notifications in Jelly Bean

Music on Google TV

The Google Play Music app has received an update, which brings a few welcome and overdue features. One new feature is the support for expanded notifications for Jelly Bean devices. One of our favorite features of Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) is the richer and more interactive notifications, so it's great to see more apps taking advantage.  Plus, Google Play Music is one of my most used apps, so I'm definitely glad that I'll be able to control and view more directly from my notification tray. Another new item is a quick link to your Nexus Q settings should you have the Nexus Q app installed.

The update also brings support for Google TV devices. When we received Sony's new Google TV box last month, we were astonished to find that the Google Play Music app was deemed 'incompatible'. It was frustrating to say the least; If you are buying a Google TV unit, you expect to be able to install the core Google apps. This update has corrected that and should make the app work with the newer Google TV models, such as the Sony box mentioned earlier and the Vizio Co-Star.

To get the update or the free app, hit up our Google Play Store link, and screenshots of the notifications and settings are after the break.

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Google's Blogger platform adds five new HTML5 Dynamic Views

Google Blogger Mosaic Dynamic View
Google, as part of its ongoing and much-needed overhaul of its popular Blogger platform, has just enabled five dynamic, HTML5ish, AJAXy 'Dynamic Views'. There's a video introducing the new layouts after the break.

The five new views provide fresh and interesting ways to explore your favorite Blogger blogs. The Mosaic view, for example, creates a wall of thumbnails -- click one, and it zooms to fill the screen; click it again and it minimizes. Flipcard is similar to Mosaic, but not quite as eclectic. Sidebar, Timeslide and Snapshot round off the new views, with each one obviously targeted at different types of content, from photo blogs, to text-only philosophy blogs, and everything in between.

For now, you have to visit a Blogger blog and add /view to the URL to enable the new Dynamic Views. If you own a Blogger blog, you can disable the new views -- and really, why weren't they disabled by default?

If feedback is positive -- which we're sure it will be -- these Dynamic Views will soon be enabled by default. You'll also be able to edit the views in much the same way as current Blogger templates.

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This Is What Stylish Headphones for Ladies Look Like (Hint: They're Not Pink) [Beautiful]

There's no shortage of great, well-designed headphones—but if you have a small face and are slight of build, finding a pair that doesn't give you a terrible headache after a few songs can be difficult. Earbuds are light and easy, but then you're left with all that ambiant noise. And many other headphones geared toward the female customer look more like they were designed for someone's kid sister. Alas! More »


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5 Warning Signs of Ineffective Security

Most cars nowadays come with driver and passenger airbags. It's a great safety feature that's helped save numerous lives since installing them routinely has become the norm. But sometimes, though it is rare, airbags fail to deploy even when circumstances arise where they should. Ask yourself: How would you know the difference between an airbag that works compared to one that doesn't? The "airbag" light may be on, everything might appear to be working, but do you actually have any hard evidence that the system works?

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webOS 3.0 beta now available to developers

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With the webOS 3.0 SDK available for almost two months, HP has now given developers access to a beta download of webOS 3.0 -- which powers the upcoming TouchPad and will likely ride along on HP desktops and laptops in the form of an emulator.

Right now, the webOS 3.0 beta is only available to Early Access developers. The crew at PreCentral states that HP appears to have eased up on access restrictions, however, so hopefully more devs will get on board and those of you who are planning to buy a TouchPad in the next couple months will have plenty of slick webOS 3.0 apps to install on your new tablet.

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InkLeaf Leather Company Field Notes Cover Review

Field Notes memo book fans will be happy to learn that they can protect their little notebooks from every day wear and tear with a handmade leather cover from the 2 person husband and wife team at InkLeaf Leather Company.

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Available in 3 colors (Bison, Mahogany and Walnut), I was sent the Bison version of the Field Notes cover which is a nice rich brown.

Each cover is made of 3-4 oz Hermann Oak Vegetable tanned leather.

This cover is hand tooled, hand dyed, hand stitched with waxed Irish linen thread and finished with a water resistant wax for protection. Dimensions of the cover are 4″ x 6″ when closed as seen above.

And 6″ x 8″ when open.

The design of the InkLeaf covers is simple but rugged and elegant. On the right side is a large pocket that securely holds the back cover of a Field Notes memo book. You’ll also notice the InkLeaf logo stamped into the corner. That is the only branding that you will find on this cover.

The pocket on the left side is the same size as the other pocket, but it’s open on top instead of sewn across like the right pocket. You can use this pocket to hold papers, receipts or another Field Notes notebook.

This cover is perfect when used with one Field Notes book.

And it works doubly fine holding two notebooks. The top cover of the 2nd Field Notes fits under the left flap.

My cover is still new, so it doesn’t quite want to lay flat when used with two notebooks. It’s actually improved a lot since I snapped this picture though, so I have no fear that it will flatten out very soon.

I should mention that InkLeaf also sell a cover that can hold Moleskine Cahier notebooks, which are almost identical in size to Field Notes, but have more pages. My guess is that the two covers have the same dimensions because I inserted 2 Cahier notebooks in the Field Notes cover they sent me and the fit was fine. Just a tip incase you like to switch between notebook brands.

Last year I reviewed InkLeaf’s Moleskine covers, so I was already familiar with their work. That brings me to the one thing about missing from the Field Notes cover… The corner rivets. I miss them…

I like everything about these covers, from the look and feel, to the fact that they actually improve your ability to write in the notebook when you’re not near a desk or other flat surface. The leather cover adds stiffness to the flexible notebook. It’s almost like it turns your Field Notes into a hard bound book. These small covers are made very well and will probably outlast the person who buys one.

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Price:$69.00
Manufacturer:InkLeaf Leather Company
Pros:
  • Protects up to 2 Field Notes notebooks
  • Handmade
Cons:
  • Expensive

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InkLeaf Leather Company Field Notes Cover Review originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on August 19, 2012 at 11:00 am.