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gizmodo.com: Revamped laptop line: SD card slot, faster QuickTime X, faster Snow Leopard, $29 upgrade in September; Safari 4; iPhone OS 3.0: Cut/Copy/Paste/Undo, tethering, Find/Erase My iPhone, peer2peer, Push, accessory support, lots of apps, June 17. And finally! The iPhone 3GS! S for SPEED! Everything's fast! And a 3 megapixel camera, woot! With low-light, macro, tap-to-focus, and video! But wait, there's more: voice control, digital compass, improved battery life, all for US$199 for 16GB; $299 for 32GB and old 3G for $99. June 19 for the US, this July for the Philippines.

zitzot.com: Hewlett-Packard is serious about the netbook business, and has announced three new additions to its HP Mini line. The HP Mini 1101 will be available with a user’s choice of XP or Vista, the 110 Mi will sport Linux, and the 110 XP will offer Windows XP and be available with an optional video accelerator the company claims can handle 1080p video content.

realtechnews.com: Wolfram|Alpha launched on Friday night, though it was delayed by some last meaning technical glitches. Wolfram|Alpha is not a search engine, but a computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links.

Wired.com: Sofortbild is a piece of software which allows you to tether your Nikon DSLR, and it’s free. Tethering allows you to remote control the camera and to almost instantly display your pictures on the big screen as you take them. It also allows shooting a bracketed range of pictures and generating an HDR image. There is also GPS support and a rather nice HUD-style panel to show the metadata. In fact, the entire application wins in terms of interface — Nikon’s software products seem to be designed with a real hatred for the user.

Wired.com: Custom made by Sacha White, the frame builder behind Portland’s Vanilla Bicycles, the bike has no brakes, no gears and none of the bells & whistles often found on a high-end ride. It’s just a flawlessly-made steel frame, a pair of fancy wheels and a seat that’ll likely hurt your ass. Yet it probably costs about the same as a second-hand car.

engadget.com: The biggest differentiators between the D5000 and the pricier D90 is the complete lack of an in-body focus motor and the pentamirror viewfinder (versus pentaprism on the D90). While that 2.7-inch articulating display is nice, it can't hold a candle to the D90 in terms of resolution. For folks hoping and praying for autofocus in movies, keep on kissing the ground; early reports suggest that the 720p footage looks eerily similar to that put out by the D90.

digital-photography-school.com: Don’t have the budget to buy yourself a Ring Flash? Today one of our forum members Manzin shares a tutorial on how he created his own DIY Ring Flash. Make your own for a very very cheap price, about 20 euros. The only thing is that you need to already have a cobra flash.

Wired.com: The “USB electronic cigarette" works just like all the other electronic cigarettes. You slide in a cartridge and an electric element vaporizes the liquid inside. This makes it more-or-less odor-free and means that you can, technically at least, smoke in restaurants, bars and even planes. We suggest adding an ashtray for maximum baiting effect.

Wired.com: The upcoming Touch Book from start-up Always Innovating will be the first netbook that detaches its screen from the keyboard to create a standalone touch screen tablet. The Touch Book will have a battery life up to 15 hours, 1024 x 600 8.9-inch screen, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, & 8GB of microSD storage - all for $300 for the tablet only, or for $400 for the rig with the keyboard.

A unique robotic camera mount, the GigaPan Epic works with most point and shoot cameras to create multi-gigapixel panoramas. The GigaPan Epic makes it easy to capture incredibly detailed images and allows your camera to take tens, hundreds, or even thousands of photos. [Article & Review on gizmodo.com] [New Gigapan Epic 100 for SLRs on Wired.com]

The 14th Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta (PIHABF) is the country's biggest aviation sports event, happening at Clark Freeport Zone. Watch a short video of our hot air balloon ride and check out my photos from the event.

slashgear.com: Amazon has officially announced the Kindle 2 ebook reader, complete with a newly designed and super-thin 0.36-inch casing, wireless connectivity, up to two weeks of battery life, with a more rounded design and newly tweaked controls.

Western Digital announced the first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive - the world's highest capacity drive and the latest addition to WD's popular, environmentally friendly, cool and quiet, WD® Caviar® Green™ hard drive family, based on WD's 500 GB/platter technology with 32 MB cache, with capacities of up to 2 TB.

g4tv.com: On a laptop or connected to an HDTV, boxee gives you a true entertainment experience to enjoy your movies, TV shows, music and photos, as well as streaming content from websites like Hulu, Netflix, CBS, Comedy Central, Last.fm, and flickr. It aims to provide a "front row" seat to the entire internet.

Apple Revamps iLife for '09 with iPhoto facial recognition and geotagging, GarageBand '09 has music lessons from Sting, iMovie adds stabilization among new features, iWork.com now available in the Cloud, new 17-inch unibody MacBook, new iTunes pricing, and live iPhone music downloads.

gizmodo.com: Only five months since Apple launched the App Store, and there are now over ten thousand apps. We already selected our 20 essential iPhone apps last November 14. But to those 20, we're adding 10 more, several of which have debuted between then and now. As a package, they're 30 apps every iPhone owner should take a close look at. They're what we use every day, and many of them are free.

The first ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia opens in Singapore on 10 December 2008. For 4 fascinating days, SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 will feature creative, scientific, and educational work that provokes thought, explores ideas in innovative ways, addresses contemporary issues, interactively engages viewers in discovery, and stimulates their intellect and imagination.