Repurpose Your Old Wii Balance Board as an Android-Connected Smart Scale

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May 2, 2013

Weight and activity trackers are an emerging trend, assisted by wearable devices like Nike’s FuelBand, the Fitbit, and Withings’ Smart Body Analyzer — but they don’t come cheap. Smartphone apps may have helped users track their fitness for a little or no cost, but until recently there was no easy way of measuring your weight and automatically uploading that data to your chosen fitness service.

FitScales is a new open-source Android application that can be calibrated to connect to your old Wii Fit Balance Board, allowing you to repurpose the gaming accessory as an internet connected scale for no cost (providing you already own one). FitScales uses Bluetooth to connect your Android device to the Wii Fit Balance Board and can sync the…

Google, Nike, Jawbone and the Fight to Win Wearable Computing

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CNET

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May 2, 2013

The market is still young. But companies big and small are positioning themselves to be at the center of the wearable computing business when it explodes. [Read more]

Get More out of phpMyAdmin

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Wazi

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May 2, 2013

phpMyAdmin is popular with both individuals and enterprise users who want a graphical interface for administering MySQL databases. Although the app has an expansive list of features, most people don’t use it for much beyond basic tasks such as creating new databases. Here are some features tucked beneath the phpMyAdmin’s folds that can make you more efficient.

Manage users, check statistics

One of the most important tasks for a MySQL server administrator is to manage which users can access the database server. Although MySQL offers a flexible permissions system, mastering it isn’t a trivial task.

Java Enterprise Edition 7: WebSockets But No Cloud Support

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The H

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May 2, 2013

Three and a half years after the last Enterprise Java release, the Java Community Process has given Java EE 7 the go-ahead. Now, the developers need to complete the GlassFish 4.0 reference implementation.

Mageia 3 Delayed Again

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The H

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May 2, 2013

Release blocker bugs have caused an extra two weeks to be injected into the schedule for Mageia, pushing back the 3 May release date to 18 May.

Jelly Bean Overtakes Ice Cream Sandwich in Android Rankings

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CNET

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May 2, 2013

Android 4.1 and 4.2 combine for 28.4 percent of active devices running the mobile OS, claiming second place from Ice Cream Sandwich with sliding Gingerbread on the horizon. [Read more]

Intel’s New ‘Iris’ Integrated Graphics Offer Double or Triple the Performance

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The Verge

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May 2, 2013

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When you’re buying a new computer with performance in mind, integrated graphics are generally not the ones you want. Even though they’ve improved greatly over the years, “Intel HD Graphics” has become synonymous with “doesn’t play things very well,” continually lagging behind dedicated GPUs from the likes of AMD and Nvidia.

Now, Intel hopes to break the cycle and the naming association in one fell swoop. The company claims its new Intel “Iris” Graphics, embedded in upcoming Haswell CPUs, can offer double or triple the performance of the Intel HD Graphics 4000 that comes with current Ivy Bridge processors. That’s significant: typically each generation offers only a double-digit percentage boost.

That doesn’t mean every new Haswell…

Android Pico-Projector Tablet Does it With Mirrors

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LinuxGizmos

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May 2, 2013

Shezhen, China-based Promate Technologies claims to have created the world’s first tablet-projector. The “LumiTab” sports a modest 1024×600 7-inch IPS screen, runs Android 4.2, and uses a Texas Instruments digital-light-processing (DLP) chip to render “incredibly sharp 1080p HD images” on walls and projection screens, according to the company. From an Android tablet perspective, the LumiTab […]

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Gumstix Sweetens its Tiny ARM Cortex-A8 and -A9 COMs

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LinuxGizmos

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May 1, 2013

Gumstix has upgraded its Linux-ready DuoVero and Overo computer-on-modules (COMs). The OMAP4430-based DuoVero Zephyr adds 802.11b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth to the DuoVero design, and the Overo TidalSTORM is based on a TI 1GHz OMAP3730 processor, and doubles the RAM to 1GB compared to the previous Overo Tide. Gumstix has been upgrading and revising its Overo […]

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Could Android Fail?

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ZDNet

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May 1, 2013

Could we wake up one morning and find Android gone? One analyst believes that security vulnerabilities could result in litigation, which in turn could make Android too rich for Google’s blood.

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