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Here's the maker's description of how it works: http://makermig.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-pancake-bot-works.h...

Manually entering motor coordinates seems a little low-level to me. If I had that hardware, I'd love to make a visual pancake design UI for it.

Private browsing isn't going to help with sites that publish their databases in plaintext, as in the link.

People tend to forget just how long tablets have been around. The first boom of pen driven tablet computing was in the very early 1990's – twenty years ago.

During that first boom, several operating systems were developed which were intended for exclusive pen or touch use. These include PenPoint OS, Magic Cap and Newton OS. Apple fans tend to remember Newton, but the other two are long forgotten.

This seems like an interesting idea, but the samples provided by Adobe are frankly terrible. The text just cuts off at an arbitrary point when the regions run out of room.

I have no idea how you would use this to lay out articles of varying length on multiple screen sizes – unless you use JavaScript to dynamically generate regions. And if you do, the whole point of doing this through CSS is pretty much lost.

I have to agree with you. When it comes to design, Flock was the anti-Chrome: a huge number of sidebars and tiny icons, all screaming "Look at me!"

Microsoft has a store for downloadable software right now at http://www.microsoftstore.com/

They also used to have a store called Windows Marketplace that sold third-party apps, but that closed in 2009.

Not just the next iteration: Apple has been toning down the Aqua look in every version of OS X. The original Aqua was very much an offspring of the 1990's iMac aesthetic with candy colors and pinstripes everywhere. The pinstripes were the first to go, and each update has switched some glossy element to a more flat look.

The lemming suicide myth wasn't created by Disney, but it was certainly popularized by them. Various stories about the behavior of lemmings date to the 1500's.

One report says Microsoft spent $500 million acquiring Danger as part of the Pink/Kin project. http://gigaom.com/2008/02/12/how-much-did-microsoft-pay-for-...

The front page colors change based on where you're from. A nice idea, but many of the color combinations are unreadable. Finland has dark grey on dark blue, for example.

Some businesses are also using IE6 as a kind of a filtering system. For example, if Facebook Chat doesn't work on IE6, they only consider that positive.

The hypothesis I've heard is that Disney fears people will find the original Tron dated and campy. This might in turn make people less interested in Tron Legacy. It seems Disney will rather lose some DVD sales for the original than risk lower ticket sales for the sequel.

If you want to test the effect, just take any black-and-white logo and stare at one spot in it for 15-30 seconds. Then look at a neutral background.

You could add Newton OS to that list. It was an attempt to do what iOS achieved: a move out of the Mac into mobile devices. Apple initially planned to implement a large number of mobile form factors based on Newton.

I think Google's doing themselves a disservice by trying to make the Chrome Web Store sound too much like the App Store. It sets up the wrong expectation.

There's already a user backlash visible in reviews. A lot of people are disappointed that a Gmail app is just a link to the Gmail website, for example.

Here's a quick vocabulary of Google's terms and what they actually mean:

app – website

store – directory

install an app – add a bookmark

paid app – paywall managed by Google

in-app purchase – paywall managed by third party

The apps are hosted by the publisher. You can also create a fully offline installable app, which is all the files of the app plus a manifest in a ZIP package.

The new Street View in Earth features seamless movement. They apparently do it by mapping the Street View images onto 3D building models. The end result is pretty terrible, though: lots of warping and a visible "pop" when moving from one image to another.

Am I the only one who feels that six rating levels is too many? I'd rather just say "go there" or "don't go there".

Opera mini tends to jumble pages in unpredictable ways. The way it works is they transform the page into an intermediary format and transmit that to the phone. I don't think Opera has ever documented in depth what kinds of changes happen in the process.

Downloading another browser isn't possible – at least if you don't want to use the IE rendering engine. UI development for WP7 apps is C# and Silverlight only. This is why Mozilla isn't making Firefox for WP7, for example.

One benefit that the original ClickToFlash has compared to the extension is that it works with web content embedded in applications other than Safari.

The same thing goes for Finland. When we adopted the Euro, it was legislated that cash purchases are rounded to the nearest five cents.

Finnish one and two cent coins are minted in small batches which go straight to collectors. You never see them in circulation.

Okay, that would explain it. Turns out that AT&T has no data roaming in Finland, at least according to this list: http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/international/dataconnect-...

It's AT&T who doesn't have a deal with Finnish operators and not Amazon, then. I still have to wonder why, though.

Amazon's definition of "global wireless" apparently doesn't include Finland. The whole country is a conspicuous patch of white on the coverage map.

This seems weird – Finland has a densely built 3G network and Amazon has coverage over practically all of Europe. The only explanation I can think of is that they couldn't make a deal with the local operators.

I downloaded the Berlin guide, and the text is in need of serious editing.

* There are entries in the index with no corresponding content.

* The timeline is in a jumbled order.

* Anecdotes and descriptions are repeated in multiple places.

* The same paragraph appears twice in the introduction.

Cpedia seems to have trouble with terms that frequently appear in other phrases. For example, they don't have an article on Nokia, but do have Nokia 6300, Nokia N70 and so on.

For me, Opera seemed to forget tab contents after opening just 2-3 of them. It also displays a "please refresh" message instead of automatically reloading the contents.

I've also seen a bug where all the tabs turn to grey, inactive rectangles. You have to kill the app and lose all your tabs.

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