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iPhone 3G: Twice As Fast, Half The Price

iPhone 3G will be available July 11th in 22 countries. 8GB for $199 and 16GB for $299. Other features include: GPS, support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, and new white color option.

Creativebits’ Gmail Labs Review

Creativebits’ reviews the 13 new Gmail features available for user testing via Gmail Labs.

The only one I really care about and have been waiting for a long time is the ability to place signature before the quoted text.

Related: Introducing Gmail Labs

Pencil Icon Tutorial

An in-depth icon design tutorial using Adobe Illustrator from Smashing Magazine.

“This article explains the process of designing a simple pencil icon, one of the icons of the icon set. The tutorial is very detailed and in-depth, so you will hopefully be able to follow each step without any problems.”

The pencil icon can be found in the free Mikly Icon Set.

30 Inspirational Posters

Design Reviver has put together a list of 30 posters. Very cool inspirational resource for web designers.

“One of my favorite alternatives for inspiration is poster design. By looking at great posters, you can learn a lot about composition, typography, and use of color.”

Serialized PHP Pipes Output

Yahoo! Pipes now provides data feeds via serialized PHP.

To get this, go to your Pipe -> More options -> Get as PHP. Right click the “Get as PHP” link to copy link location

Oil up 8%, could hit $150 a barrel

Oil prices shoot up to $138 a barrel, a gain of $11 in a single day, making it the biggest gains ever. This speculative rise is supposedly due to a 1% drop in value of the dollar, Israel’s transportation minister, Shaul Mofaz, stating an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites looked “unavoidable.”, and Wall Street forecasting that oil will hit $150 a barrel next month due to rising demand in Asia.

Looks more like speculators looking for any reason to keep bumping up the price of oil. I wonder at what price world economies will start crumbling!?

Obama-Clinton Ticket Not A Good Idea

Jimmy Carter on the Obama-Clinton ticket, “the worst mistake that could be made”!

“If you take that 50 percent who just don’t want to vote for Clinton and add it to whatever element there might be who don’t think Obama is white enough or old enough or experienced enough or because he’s got a middle name that sounds Arab, you could have the worst of both worlds,”

If Clinton is more of the old, then she is not the change that Obama is looking for, so my guess is—he is not likely to choose Clinton as his running mate.

9.72s A New 100m World Record

Usain Bolt of Jamaica runs the 100 meters in 9.72 seconds, setting a new world record, at the Reebok Grand Prix meeting in New York. There previous record of 9.74 was held by fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell.

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Beautiful Wallpapers from Russia

Very cool wallpapers from Russian web designer Vlad Gerasimov. Also check out his tutorials for an insight into some of his techniques.

“In 1998 I started to design user interfaces for web sites and software applications. However, when I had some free time, I created desktop wallpapers. Over the time, this hobby has grown into business, and today I enjoy full-time self-employment, creating wallpapers for your computers and mobile devices.”

Microsoft’s 216 MP Ultracam

Data generation at 3GB/sec, 14 CPUs and 216 MP, Microsft’s Ultracam is insane! This is the camera behind the imagery on Virtual Earth.

“The results of this improved technology include: urban mapping with minimization of occlusions, Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) with no spikes or holes, ortho-photo production from only the most central image portions, and support of automated image analysis.”

Google AJAX Libraries API

The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries. By using the Google AJAX API Loader’s google.load() method, your application has high speed, globaly available access to a growing list of the most popular JavaScript open source libraries including: jQuery, prototype, script.aculo.us, MooTools, dojo

This can be very handy in keeping up to date with the latest versions of the JavaScript libraries.

Nice Icons

High quality icons site.

beautiful and stylish stock icons, ready for use in personal or commercial projects.

Ballmer gets egged in Hungary

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer get’s egged while giving a talk at a university in Hungary.

Viygo

An embeddable timeline, which can extract information from twitter, facebook, upcoming, etc. and display on a timeline, which can then be embedded on any other web site.

Viygo is the intersection of space and time–a map of events creating a timeline for the world–from personal to public. The world is changing. The way in which we record our lives and world events is changing. From blogs to social networking to video, the world is telling its story each day, every hour, on the web. But these events exist outside of a framework of time–Vigyo is that intersection.

Here is the twitter public timeline for example: