App Store now available in desktop iTunes--with some trickery

Although Apple has not yet updated the iTunes Store front page to link directly to the desktop version of the iPhone App Store, it can still be accessed with a little trickery. To access the desktop App Store, follow these steps:

• Download and install iTunes 7.7, if you haven't already
• Click on the iTunes Store in the left-hand panel
• Search for current iPhone application, such as Super Monkey Ball
• Click small gray arrow next to Super Monkey Ball in the search results to go to the app's download page
• In the top navigation bar in iTunes, click "App Store"

The main App Store page will appear, and you can buy and download applications then sync them to your iPhone/iPod touch.

Via CNET Crave

Formula One design vet creating eco-smart city car

The styles from Europe this year are decidedly green and small.

Designer Gordon Murray, best known for his work on Formula One racing cars, recently detailed a new city car design called the T.25 that is aimed at reducing congestion and lowering pollution.

Compared even with existing compact cars, the T.25 will be small: It can be parked headlong against the curb, allowing three cars to fit in one parking space.

Gordon Murray Design is about halfway through its two-year planning process and plans to have a prototype on the road early next year.

To lower the car's carbon footprint, the company has rethought the cradle-to-grave lifecycle of the car. For example, many of the parts, including the capacity and body, can be recycled and the manufacturing process is being set up with a minimal number of parts to reduce energy use during fabrication.

The first versions of the car will run on either gas or diesel and get about 60 miles per gallon, the company told Greentech Media.
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Flickr and Getty Images team up

Now's a good time to sign up for a Flickr account if you haven’t done so already. One of the world's largest image banks, Getty Images, has entered into a partnership with Yahoo's Flickr to access all the public images hosted on its site.

So if your shots catch the eyes of Getty's editors, you may soon get an email from them for permission to license and sell your snaps. This could possibly translate to a long-term working relationship with the company and your cash machine would be ringing non-stop.

According to Jonathan Klein, co-founder and chief executive of Getty Images, the firm charges about US$500 to US$600 for the sale of an image used for commercial purpose, and the photographer gets about 30 to 40 percent from the sale.

Don't mind me, but I need to fill up my Flickr album right now.

Via: CrunchGear

Care to ride this homemade rollercoaster loop?

Crazy is as crazy does. Or should that be stupid is as stupid does? They're probably interchangeable here considering the creator of this homemade rollercoaster that loops 360 degrees is either tired of living or living dangerously. But if you take John Ivers' word that his homemade contraption is perfectly safe, there's one good thing coming out of this crazy endeavor: You don't have to get in line for the 30-second ride. Speaking of time, it'll be soon enough before this gets its 15 seconds of fame on Ridley's Believe It or Not or Guiness World Records Prime Time. Though what category this falls under should be interesting to see.

More pictures at Offbeat Earth

The Japanese are ganging up in the OLED race

How can anyone beat the Koreans in their quest for worldwide consumer electronics (CE) domination? The answer, according to the Japanese Government, is an all-star dream team compromising major Japan CE companies such as Sony, Toshiba, Matsushita (a.k.a. Panasonic), Sharp, Hitachi, etc.

The team's goal is to consolidate and minimize development cost in technologies for producing larger OLED screens, as well as giving these firms a better competitive edge to fend off warring mammoths the likes of Samsung and LG. The collaboration will last till 2012, with government funding in the range of US$32 million.

Via OLEF-Info.com | Photo credit: Sony

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