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Use Various Google Online Applications through Gladinet

Gladinet client delivers remote folder to your desktop. You can use remote folders as if they were local folders. Through the gladinet client, you could use Google applications such as google docs, google picasa, google mail and google calendar as if they were local windows applications. The company provides a range of applications that can have better integration and flexibility, wherever you find, for example password manager that provides security access to your files. You can also share files and folders to anyone you want,  and  the system is designed so that there is no need to install any additional software

gladinet1 Use Various Google Online Applications through Gladinet

After grabbing the beta download, installing and launching Gladinet Cloud Desktop, you’ll see a fairly simple “start page,” which either opens Windows Explorer directly to your virtual webapp drives (”Explore My Gladinet Drive”) or mounts a new one (”Mount Disk Storage or Web Storage As Virtual Directory”). This service is extremely useful for people who, because of the pace of work are forced to use multiple computers and looking for an easy way of centralization of operations.

NameCheap Twitter Contest

NameCheap.com is a leading provider of domain names and web hosting. Namecheap  offers high performance, low-cost web hosting with the reliability and customer service.  Namecheap hosting packages range from email-only hosting to full blown premium web hosting packages. From December 1st through December 25th, NameCheap will be giving away $17,000 worth of domain names and hosting packages. The giveaway involves an hourly trivia contest that the company will be holding at Twitter.com. The hourly trivia contest requires any one wishing to participate sign up for a Twitter account, follow Namecheap and be the first to answer the questions. For more information on the contest check out the Namecheap site.

namecheap NameCheap Twitter Contest

NameCheap is an ICANN accredited domain registrar founded in 2000 by Richard Kirkendall in Los Angeles, California. Millions of domains are registered, transferred and renewed at the site each year, making it one of the leading registrars in the world. Customer support is available 24/7 via LiveChat, Twitter, or the NameCheap HelpDesk.

ST, Ball-IT make MEMS-based wireless controller ball

Ball-IT has developed a very cool solution combining a physical object with some motion control technology to become a game control for different platforms. Enabled by ST’s MEMS technology, which uses standard semiconductor technology to mass produce precise micron-sized structures that interact with the physical world, Ball-IT’s wireless ball controller responds to changes in position, direction, speed and acceleration, down to the most delicate movements, and translate those movements into immediate on-screen action.

ball-it-sensors ST, Ball-IT make MEMS-based wireless controller ball

Additionally, you can even squeeze the ball — effectively making it as effective as a joy stick — letting you do things like shoot guns, hit a tennis ball, or zoom in and out on maps (depending on the game or application, the squeeze function can be interpreted in different ways). The ball senses geomagnetic field, orientation, direction, speed, air pressure and acceleration — letting it do a bunch of things I haven’t seen its competitors able to do. The ball would cost about $20, but the company hopes to make money from licensing fees it would get for software to interact with the ball.

iStorez Launches, Introduces a Brand New Way to Shop

iStorez Inc.  launched publicly and unveiled a new online shopping destination and services that provide a complete experience for consumers—combining what’s best in the offline/physical world with what’s best in the online world. At iStorez, you can shop socially while also finding the best deals from your favorite stores and brands!It’s a unique shopping destination, completely focused on up-to-the-minute store specials from the leading retailers. So rather than poring through email newsletters or sifting through the hordes of online shopping sites, iStorez (using proprietary technology) aggregates all the latest specials from the major brands and retailers and presents them to you in a single location in a very visual, personalized way.

istore-jadi iStorez Launches, Introduces a Brand New Way to Shop

In another major draw, features enable shopping by theme (”look,” season, holiday, event), personality type, color, fabric and more. And powerful personalization includes letting you create your own personal “My Mall” populated only with the stores, styles and brands you care about — continuously refreshed and updated to reflect the latest trends and up-to-the-minute specials. The “hunt” is always on, but iStorez takes away the headache of searching site to site, store to store, page by page, rack by rack.

HairTry

Aderans is one of Japan’s biggest “Hair Clubs” and business deals with the problem of hair loss. With the introduction of HairTry, Aderans gives an opportunity to virtually try on a number of different toupees, perhaps as a way to let them get comfortable with the idea of wearing a real one. However, The company does not perform hair transplants.

hairtry HairTry

It takes a 2D photo you’ve uploaded and processes it for 3D, adding facial gestures and eyeballs that follow your mouse around as you navigate the site. If you’ve used Gizmoz or BigStage this is very similar.  In addition to hair, the site offers a small selection of eyeglasses, which has been done elsewhere, but is a nice touch considering they’ve already got your face ready to work with. The site is entirely in Japanese and runs in Adobe Flash, so you can’t use Google Translate on it. However, There is a tutorial video for it.