Make Any Web Page Printer Friendly

As you know Web pages are rarely printer friendly for size and contents, not talking about extraneous graphics, banner, etc…

[Image courtesy of Digital Inspiration]

The site  PrintWhatYouLike.com let you enter a URL and it immediately renders the original page to printable format. Furthermore you can customize as you wish including eliminating, background, graphics, selection what to print and what not, etc….

Instant Gratification: 1-Click to Buy Song, Games on YouTube

In an effort to monetize to the ever popular but costly to run, YouTube service. Google just added to its YouTube site, "click-to-buy" links to thousands of video pages of YouTube partners. Links appear on the bottom of the video to allow viewer to get instant the content through Amazon or iTunes stores.

The service is available for US market first. EMI Music label and Electronic Arts are on board for now but you should expect Google to expand further shortly.  [Source Google Blog]

Official Details Blackberry Storm on Vodafone

Last couple of days, information about the new full touchscreen from RIM, the Blackberry Storm have intentionally leaked and published all over the Web. The highly anticipated device is still not available on Verizon Wireless web site yet. However, you can visit Vodafone to view the official specs with their newly published interactive site. You might also check out if you are eligible for the give away. Could this device save RIM stock price, which has lost almost 50% of its values for the last few weeks, probably due to its business/Wall Street image. The Storm certainly adds a consumer feels to it look.

[Via Mobiletechaddicts]

Free Halloween ringtones

Turn your phone into a cackling witch

Do you pull out all the stops when it comes to celebrating Halloween? Then you’re in for a treat. Dress up your phone this season with special Halloween ringtones and wallpapers available on Total Access throughout October.
[Courtesy of “Your Mobile World Newsletter Team”]

New Video Review of Sony Xperia X1

Wolfstar from Xperiancers.com got hishands on the new Xperia X1 on Monday,  If you have any questions, or you want any other features of the phone demonstrating in more detail, leave it in the comments HERE!

Watch Presidential Candidate Debate Live on Hulu

Hulu has become the standard for free video on demand on the Web. But tonight, it adds live streaming,  the first-ever live broadcast for Hulu.

Hulu has secured the right to stream the remaining two presidential debates live on the Web. The first one’s on Tuesday night.

Hulu only allows US viewers to access. But we gave you a tip how to watch Hulu from wherever you are.

Alternatively, with LiveStation, you should be able to catch this debate live too.

SeesMic = Twitter Video Available for Windows Mobile

Touting as a Video Twitter, Seesmic allows users to upload video directly from their webcam or  mobile device and post it to a personal page like with Twitter. They can also grab content from other sites such as YouTube by copying a video’s link and placing it in their stream. Additionally, videos that users create can be automatically linked to in twitter  and uploaded to YouTube.

Alan Chaess of seesmob.com has created and Seesmic client for Windows Mobile Pro (touch screen) phones version 5 and higher.
You can download the application at http://d.seesmob.com/mseesmic.exe from your WM device. The application currently is designed for touch screens with a stylus, but if you have a WM standard, and have a desire to use mSeesmic, let Alan know. You can contact Alan with any bug reports, feature requests, and to simply thank him at chaeseco on Twitter and Skype.

Watch the GigaOm video interview with Loic Le Meur the CEO of SeesMic HERE!

YouTube to Add Theater View and Lights Off Options

Google has few Easter eggs on a couple of videos, where you will see the options shown on top of the video called Theater View and Light off.

The light off will dim the surrounding of the video but the Theater view is intriguing with the curtains on left and right side of the screen that has sparked rumor that YouTube is prep’ing for wide screen format.

Give it a try HERE and HERE!

[Via GoogleSystem]

Didom: New Mobile Music Placeshifting and MP3 Download Service

Didiom is a new mobile media service provider and application that is the first to integrate a mobile music placeshifting service and a pay-per-download, full-track service which offers over 1.5 million DRM-free MP3 songs. Didiom allows you to placeshift your music collection - streaming music files from your PC to your mobile phone wherever you are, which means now you can have your entire collection to-go, no matter how large it is. Didom also has a unique marketplace that lets you buy music wirelessly from their catalog of over 1.5 million tracks.  Plus there’s a “name-your-own-price” button that lets you bid on music to get it at the price you want to pay.

• Placeshifting technology - Didiom lets you stream your entire digital music library - including your iTunes^® library and WMA tracks - from your home computer to your mobile phone, wherever you are. No more tedious synching or out of memory errors, no searching for a wi-fi network. Access your entire music collection, wherever you go*.
• Free to download - The Didiom application is available for over 200 different handsets (including Blackberry^® and Windows Mobile^® phones), is cross-carrier, and - starting today - is FREE to download from www.didiom.com.
• Huge music catalog - there are over 1.5 million DRM-free tracks available to buy in the Didiom Marketplace, including the catalog of CD Baby, the world’s largest online retailer of independent music. Music can be purchased solely for your phone, your PC, or both. Our fixed prices start from 89¢ for a single track, $9.99 for an album. But you can also…
• Name your own price - our "adaptive bargaining" technology lets you bid for music at the price you want to pay. A constantly changing, behind-the-scenes alogorhythm dynamically accepts or rejects the bid, and immediately lets you know if you secured your music track.
• Try before you buy - Free 30 second samples of all tracks are can be streamed wirelessly. What’s more, you can share your favorites with friends (via email), and with other mobile Didiom users (mobile-to-mobile).
• DRM-Free - did we say that before? All tracks available via the Didiom marketplace are DRM-free.
• Innovative and easy-to-use - both Didiom’s handheld application and web site have won awards from organizations such as The One Show and the Horizon Interactive Awards

* excluding DRM-protected tracks purchased via the iTunes Music Store.

DIDOM is offering Beta download HERE!

Smartphone Demographic

This holiday season promises a few answers to the iPhone from Apple’s competitors. So far, the T-Mobile G1, the Blackberry Thunder, Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, the HTC Touch HD and the Nokia 5800 look like they could be contenders.

Smartphones, with their higher contract prices and upfront costs, tend to attract more affluent consumers. In this economic climate, where consumers may have less disposable income or just be unwilling to spend it, extending that appeal to a larger and already crowded market will be a challenge. Still, the fact that millions of iPhones have been sold since July suggests that a high-end device’s appeal could extend beyond those in the highest income brackets. The $200 price drop and decision to sell the iPhone 3G at Best Buy may have been bids to broaden the device’s appeal, but do they seem to be working?

* Since the iPhone 3G was announced in June, the skew toward $100K+ income-bracket researchers has become less pronounced

* After mirroring the overall handset researcher population at the iPhone 3G’s announcement and launch, shoppers in the $60-100K income bracket were 8% more likely to be researching the iPhone 3G in August

* Even though people in the <$30K and $30-60K income brackets are significantly less likely than most to research iPhone 3G, they have been making up an increasing proportion of the research population since the device was announced

So, although the gaps are narrowing, the iPhone still appeals most to people with incomes over $60K. People may become more price sensitive because of the economy, but iPhone is so popular with consumers any new smartphone hoping to appeal to a large audience would almost have to be priced at or below $199. T-Mobile’s G1 will follow this trend and sell for $179 with a contract. A preferable strategy to reducing price, but probably a tougher one, will be providing consumers with a viable alternative that offers the same or better usability with a different twist. Devices with different form factors like flip phones and combining touchscreens with physical keyboards might help sway some people. The benefits of open-source based operating systems like Android may change minds. But we’ll need to wait until the end of Q4 to find out.
30% of U.S. consumers who purchased Apple?s new iPhone 3G from June through August 2008 switched from other mobile carriers to join AT&T, the exclusive mobile carrier for the iPhone in the U.S. By way of comparison just 23% of consumers, on average, switched carriers between June and August 2008. Nearly half (47%) of new AT&T iPhone customers that switched carriers switched from Verizon Wireless, another 24% switched from T-Mobile, and 19 percent switched from Sprint.
During June through August 2008, the top four best-selling smartphones based on unit-sales to consumers were as follows:

1. Apple iPhone 3G
2. RIM Blackberry Curve
3. RIM Blackberry Pearl
4. Palm Centro

Before the launch of the iPhone 3G, iPhone sales represented 11% of the consumer market for smartphones (January through May 2008); however, after the launch of iPhone 3G, Apple commanded 17% of the smartphone market (January through August 2008). The average price of a smartphone sold between June and August 2008 was $174, down 26% from $236 during the same period last year.

[Source Kenradio]

Stock Market is Sinking..So are your Tech Toys

Look at the bright side, you can order the Sony BDP-S300 Blu-ray player for under $200 shipped. It’s brand new unit with no rebate required.  It is time that stand-alone player is worth buying instead of the PS3 for non gamers.

[Video review courtesy Cnet]

MSNBC News Beta Added to Windows Media Center

I keep reminder (even to myself..) to check out the Windows Media Center, comes bundled with Vista Ultimate and Vista Home Premium. MSNBC just added the News Beta program.

Bring up Windows Media Center, under the TV + Movies section, select MSNBC News Beta. You will be presented with below options:

• View the latest 2008 U.S. election videos
• Watch Editor Picks and Most Popular videos, as selected by viewers
• Get five-day weather forecasts for any ZIP code in the U.S.
• Create your own news video playlists
• Browse by category, such as Business, Sports, and Entertainment
• Search for stories using keywords
• See related videos for each story

For Politic fans, check the Politics section, there’s a category for “Decision ‘08” where videos pertaining to the current U.S. Presidential elections will be displayed.  As you browse through the videos, you may notice a plus sign “+” appears when you click on a video. Using this plus sign, you can create your own custom news video playlist which you can play back any time you want. There’s nothing to download to start using this new feature so you can simply begin using it the next time you run Media Center.

Read more HERE!

LiveStation Streams Live TV to Your Desktop

We covered LiveStation in the past, but the developers just released a new client soft version that no longer requires Microsoft Silverlight; the addition of Mac and Linux support and the whole slew of new TV channel partners.

While there are many ways to watch TV programs on your desktop/laptop such Hulu, Joost, etc..provide great viewing experiences, they are mostly video on demand, meaning pre-recorded shows available for streaming on demand. LiveStation actually streams live video from channels such CNN, CBS, ESPN, Bloomberg, Fox, etc…in full screen without much latency. (Watching News and Sports is great for live streaming).

LiveStation is using a Peer-to-Peer bandwidth distribution mechanism to avoid high cost infrastructure. Therefore you’d need to download the cross platform client software on your desktop. Whether you watch live streaming or not the software is still running in the background to be part of the distribution network. You can however exit out by right mouse click on the system tray icon. 

The installation was fast and painless. Quick registration is needed just with an email address and a password. The client includes some default channels but you can search & add additional channels such CNN, BBC, ESPN, Fox, Bloomberg, CBS, etc…The player presents in 2 panes  with coverflow style channel selection. Fullscreen viewing is also available with very good quality.

Download HERE!

T-Mobile G1 Emulator

In case you want to get familiar with the new Android interface. T-Mobile invites you to a test drive with the latest G1 emulator HERE!

[Thanks Antoine P.!]

HTC Touch HD Video Promo

HTC just posted this viral video on YouTube for the world to see. You can subscribe to HTC YouTube channel to get the latest update  HERE!

Highlights

3.8-inch wide, WVGA (480 X 800 pixel) display offering a cinema experience on the go

Vibrant TouchFLO^TM 3D user interface, responding perfectly to your finger gestures when scrolling through contacts, browsing the web, and launching media

Surf and download at broadband speed with HSDPA internet connectivity

Google Maps enhanced by the wide screen viewing platform

5 megapixel camera for quality stills and video

3.5 mm audio jack makes the Touch HD^TM compatible with the majority of audio equipment available