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Learn how to build and race a power tool drag racer this weekend Once I’ve got it made, you’ll see racers catch on fire, rockets, and sharp circular saws grind up the track at the Seattle Power Tool Drag Races! This video features organizer Rusty of the Hazard Factory.

See other videos and photos of the event!

Weekend Projects is sponsored by Microchip Technology. Check out their seminars and 16 bit contest.

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Original post by Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women

I’ll let you in on a little secret, SF iPhone line-sitters: AT&T stores are selling the phone, too.

After surveying the hundred or more people lined up at the Apple store on Stockton and Ellis in downtown San Francisco this morning, I decided to see how things were going a couple blocks up the street at the closest AT&ampT store. What did I find? There were all of five people as of 10:30 a.m. Five! And the first two seemed more concerned with selling either their spots or their iPhones than anything else, pumping me current going rates and line statistics. Strangely enough, both had decided on $500 when I interviewed them despite that short line. This was pointed out, and I was requested to bring over more people from the Apple Store.

J. Martin and Amanda Rybarczyk–both self-described “poor college students″–arrived outside the AT&T store at 3 a.m. Prior to that, they were actually up the street at the Apple store. Martin, however, had an early morning epiphany, and managed to convince his fellow line-waiter to make the two block journey up the street. It paid off.

“We were actually about 60-something in line,” said Martin, “and we came over here and got first and second. Boom” Martin and Rybarczyk aren’t actually keeping their iPhones, but instead are hoping to turn a tidy little profit. Both are practical, saying, that at some point they may purchase the phone, but only after the “bugs” have been worked out.

“I have no desire to get the equivalent of a first generation iPod again,” Rybarczyk, who is currently a Sprint customer, said. Martin is of the same mind. “I was going to make 60 or 70 bucks today at work, so I’m thinking this is way more worth it.”

Both Martin and Rybarczyk say the AT&ampT store representatives have been more than accommodating, allowing Martin to sip occasionally from his Tecate and reassuring both of them that they’re in the right spot and that those chumps at the Apple stores won’t all be getting their precious little device. Not surprisingly, both the AT&ampT store rep and an Apple Store manager I spoke with wouldn’t give me details on stock or even how things would precede come 6 p.m.

So with that, I head back out. More iPhone line-up news and, hopefully, more on Martin and Rybarczyk (if that haven′t sold their spots yet) to come…

Original post by Bryan Gardiner

I′ve been asking Microsoft for an official word on Exchange support for the iPhone for days now, and they finally got back to me. You see, when Walt Mossberg said “It can also handle corporate email using Microsoft’s Exchange system, if your IT department cooperates by enabling a setting on the server,” he was talking about IMAP support - a popular, generic email protocol that can be enabled in Exchange.

Here’s the bad news: through IMAP you lose a lot, according to Microsoft. For one thing, it’s ‘pull’ email only — no push. (The exact phrase MS sent to me was, “Through IMAP, iPhone will have the ability to access corporate email on Exchange using basic ‘pull’ email.”) And without Exchange ActiveSync, you don’t get access to calendars and contacts or centralized device control, which is important to IT departments.

No word yet on the rumors that the iPhone will eventually support Exchange ActiveSync. And yes, you can kludge the push by redirecting all of your mail through an Outlook Rule to a Yahoo! account. But that’s a kludge.

Original post by Sascha Segan

Original post by Mark Hachman

“i-Day” seems like a good day to look back on the funny, thoughtful, informative, witty, blasphemous and weird iPhone videos that have graced YouTube since the January announcement. Oh, and don’t miss the bonus video (which is not on YouTube) at the end.

1. This is Late Night with Conan O’Brien’s iPhone commercial. You have no idea all the crazy things an iPhone can do. The iPhone sideburns are a personal favorite.

2. The iPhone we never got, but wish we had. I think a ad agency creating this ad to try and win Apple’s iPhone business. I love the flip-open, wrap-around iPod controls.

Videos 3-through-10 after the jump…

3. A fake Steve Jobs exaggerates on Saturday Night Live and says the player holds a billion songs.

4. MadTV treats its fake Jobs and the iPhone like latter-day Beatles. It even gives the phone voice recognition that the real product doesn′t have and the ability to make Jobs disappear. Ooh, I like that.

5. The official Apple iPhone commercial that started it all.

6. The first early look at the iPhone during Macworld. I notice that Apple’s Phil Schiller has surprisingly small fingertips., Maybe that’s why he thinks the iPhone is so easy to dial-with and type on.

7. iPhone mania is so pervasive that everyone feels the need to compare themselves to it. Here, Opera Software pits Opera Mini, its Web browser for smart phones against the iPhone in yet another “I’m a Mac and I’m a PC″ parody.

8. Henry Winkler joins Craig Ferguson on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to talk about the iPhone. Ferguson, “Is it as great as they say it is?” Winkler answers, “I have a beautiful wife, amazing children, I’ve got my health; I would sell it all for that iPhone.”

9. A little bit of iPhone blasphemy to cleanse your palette.

10. Microsoft’s ZunePhone. ‘Nuf said.

Bonus Disturbing Video: A lunatic mugger tries to take Newsweek Steven Levy’s iPhone while he’s on air with Fox News. All I can say is Sheesh!

Original post by Lance Ulanoff

Another stupid-busy freelance day, but enjoy this really well-crafted Modest Mouse video crafted by a group of fans for a contest. [via Wooster Collective] (Thanks, Matt!)

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Original post by Joel

All times Eastern.

• 6PM, Science Channel - Extreme Engineering: Venice Flood Gates. Venetians attempt to keep the city from going underwater.
• 6PM, National Geographic - Tribal Secrets: The Wodaabe. Three important ceremonies of the Wodaabe tribe in Niger.
• 6PM, G4 - Ninja Warrior: Sasuke 6: Part 1
• 6PM, History Channel - Mail Call: Armored Scout Car; Water-Cooled Machine Gun; Fart Sack; Shuteye; Nazi U-Boats Stealth Ship Armored scout cars; water-cooled machine guns; sleeping bag; sleeping on the battlefield German U-boats; Navy ship invisible to radar.
• 6:30PM, History Channel - Our Generation: Let’s Eat. Fast food.
• 7PM, Food Network - Good Eats: The Man Food Show. Corn dogs; basket burgers.
• 7PM, National Geographic - Insect Wars: The violent existence of insect empires.
• 7PM, Discovery Channel - Survivorman: Arctic. Les endures a chilly week on the northern reaches of Baffin Island.
&bull 7PM, Discovery Health - Impact: Stories of Survival: The Risks of Rodeo. A cop is pinned between two cars; bull rider sustains injuries; man is thrown from a snowbike.
• 7:30PM, Sundance - In Short: The Art of Seduction. Nude Caboose Strip Show; Not Pretty, Really; On Fire Dirty Dog; 120 Seconds to Get Elected; SOU Electric Chairs; My Obscure Object of Desire (M.O.O.D.).

8PM and on after the jump!

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This weekend, you can make a power tool drag racer! With some time, an old power tool, and some ingenuity, you’ll be set to race in no time!

For my racer I went to Goodwill and bought an edger for $10 and two sets of inline skates for $5 each. For everything else I just used scrap from around the workshop … and a squirt gun! I found inspiration for my racer from Jeremy Franklin-Ross′ drag racer Instructable, which he has allowed me to reproduce in the PDF. You can follow these or get as far out as you like! Jeremy is a co-founder of Hazard Factory and CultureMob, and his instructions for putting together a basic racer will get you on the track in a weekend!

Although the Seattle and San Francisco races have already happened this year, you can compete in Amsterdam at Robodock.

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Original post by Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women

This weekend, you can make a power tool drag racer! With some time, an old power tool, and some ingenuity, you’ll be set to race in no time!

For my racer I went to Goodwill and bought and edger for $10 and two sets of inline skates for $5 each. For everything else I just used scrap from around the workshop… and a squirt gun! I found inspiration for my racer from Jeremy Franklin-Ross’s drag racer instructable which he has allowed me to reproduce in the pdf. You can follow these or get as far out as you like! Jeremy is a co-founder of hazard factory and culturemob and his instructions for putting together a basic racer will get you on the track in a weekend!

Although the Seattle and San Francisco races have already happened this year, you can compete in Amsterdam at Robodock.

Download the pdf here! - Link

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Original post by Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women

you’re an Apple employee. Steve Jobs is giving all of his 20,000 Apple employees an early Christmas/Hanukuh/<insert your holiday> present by giving them all free Apple iPhones! Sweet!

Each iPhone is valued at $599 (&pound;299) which when multiplied by 20,000 employees equates to a retail value of $12 million. Forget stock options when working for Apple, all you need is an iPhone option, a video iPod option, iMac option, etc. etc.

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Okay. Get ready. Tim Gideon and I will be iPhonin’ all night long, and iPhonin’ ‘till the break of dawn. We’ll iPhone when the sun goes down and when the sun comes up. If you check Gearlog later tonight, you might even see me live-blogging my iPhone test results.

So let’s make this a little interactive. You’ve read the four early reviews from Pogue, Mossberg, Levy and Baig. What’s missing? What do you want your favorite techies to be testing? Post it in the comments field below and I’ll try to get around to it, provided I have the time (no battery tests) and appropriate equipment (I do not own a BMW, nor do I have any way of acquiring one.)

Our eventual review on PCMag.com will summarize our iPhone thoughts in a fun, entertaining, readable way. But I’m going to try to post every single answer I get from my hands-on testing here on Gearlog, so you get all the juicy technical details.

So have at it. What should we be testing?

Original post by Sascha Segan

This tiny, futuristic-looking Argard M10 Bluetooth Headset is the first Bluetooth device I’ve ever been madly in love with. It not only looks lovely (even the charging cradle and packaging are well done), it actually works beautifully, holds a charge better than any Bluetooth headset I’ve ever used, and stays comfortably (and discreetly) in my ear.

Much careful thought has been given to the design, both in terms of usability and aesthetics. While most Bluetooth headsets come with a charging cord that lies sloppily on your desktop or night stand, the Argard M10 comes up with a pyramid shaped cradle that you slide your headset into for charging. A ring of red light turns on to let you know it’s charging - a nice little acknowledgement that yes, I am properly connected and sitting here for your friends to admire. A pretty ring of blue light comes on when you turn the device on, and a ring of red when you turn it off. The headset itself weighs just 5 grams, is smaller than a quarter, and comes with silicone covers in three different sizes so you can get a more exact fit for your ear. Its unique in-the-ear design requires no behind-the-ear clip (which I always considered to be an eyesore).

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Original post by Jen the Weird Hunter

Truphone, which I recently awarded a TMC Labs Innovation Award, has just released Truphone 3.0. The latest release adds a suite of advanced features to its beta VoIP service for mobile phones, and simultaneously extended until the end of 2007 its offer of free calls to 40 countries. The new SMS over IP capability brings unlimited free SMS messages between on-net Truphone users and a flat-rate tariff of GBP0.07/USʨ.15 to all other regular mobile numbers worldwide.

James Tagg, Truphone’s CEO, said "We were the first company to demonstrate SMS-over-IP in our preview version at the beginning of June and we’ve been delighted at the feedback we’ve received. People love free and low-cost text messages. Today, the new Truphone service is ready to download for everyone. The ability to see presence - to know a contact is online and callable for free - has particular significance for mobile users, because there are far greater savings to be had. Now you know for sure when that mobile call to your uncle in Australia is free. The introduction of these new IP-enabled services gives a glimpse of the potential for pure IP mobile telephony and demonstrates the clear benefits of true IP telephony over bridging solutions. We envisage a world where content-rich, location-based services and much more will be possible via Truphone."

Here’s a summary of the features:

- Presence functionality enables users to know exactly when they can make a free call or send a free text message to another Truphone user.
- Smart log-on means a Truphone-enabled handset now ‘takes care of its owner’ by automatically connecting to previously used Wi-Fi access points.
- Truphone over 3G is made available at the request of customers with suitable 3G tariffs. While this allows low cost VoIP calls from many more locations, Truphone still recommends VoIP over Wi-Fi as being of higher call quality and less susceptible to high charges data charges.
- Multi-SIM capability means Truphone supports travelers who take international SIM cards with them abroad. Calls to their Truphone number will reach them whichever SIM they’re using at the time.
- Truphone 3.0 also brings compatibility with a greater number of routers, reducing the likelihood of port-blocking a simplified, more intuitive installation process; and a significant number of bug-fixes. I wonder if &quot;reducing likelihood of port blocking&quot; helps solve the issue where T-Mobile UK is blocking Truphone? I doubt it since I believe T-Mobile is doing much more than simple port blocking.

Existing Truphone customers and anyone signing up for Truphone before September 30th can make free Truphone calls to 40 countries until the end of 2007.

Finally, anyone can get Truphone by sending a text message with the word ‘Tru’ to +44 7624 000000.

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