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2012年1月27日星期五

Top 10 Winter Vehicles Named by Kelly Blue Book

Out of all the current 2012 vehicles available, which would you think are the most suitable when it comes to winter driving?

Well, given that the snow, sleet, ice, hard rain and other glorious aspects of winter weather are now with us for the next few months, making motoring conditions rather dicey at times, that's something the editors at Kelley Blue Book.com decided to investigate.

When all was said and done, the results of their findings revealed a rather diverse range of vehicles. From cars to minivans, trucks and SUVs, all which shared a common trait, namely a user friendly all-wheel drive or four-wheel drive system, designed to maintain traction under slippery conditions.

According to KBB.com executive editorial director Jack R. Nerad, the top 10 winter driving vehicles were machines that "help keep you on the road, whether that journey involves a mundane commute to work or a well-deserved weekend getaway to a favorite ski resort."

Ranked on the list from 10th place to number one were the following vehicles:

10th Subaru Outback; 9th, Toyota Sienna AWD; 8th, Acura MDX; 7th, Ford F-150 4x 4; 6th, Honda CR-V AWD; 5th, Audi A6 Quattro 3.0T; 4th, Chevrolet Traverse AWD; 3rd, Jeep Grand Cherokee and 2nd, Subaru Impreza.

And the winner? Well perhaps not surprisingly, considering the accolades it's been receiving since launch last year, was the 2012 Range Rover Evoque.

According to KBB.com, the Evoque not only represents "the smallest, lightest and most fuel-efficient model to ever grace the Land Rover lineup," it's also a highly capable machine both on and off the tarmac thanks to its "intelligent all-wheel drive system, Terrain Response feature and Tri-mode Adaptive Dynamics suspension designed to maintain optimal ride and handling characteristics under all driving situations."

Click here to read Autoguide's review of the Range Rover Evoque.

[Source: Kelley Blue Book]

Original Page: http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2011/12/top-10-winter-vehicles-named-by-kelly-blue-book.html

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De Tomaso Mangusta Legacy Design Study Inspired by the 1965 Original

The revival of the De Tomaso brand at this year's Geneva Salon with the Deauville showcar inspired design graduate and digital artist Maxime de Keiser to craft a modern interpretation of the original Mangusta from the late 1960s (De Tomaso had revived the name with the production version of the Bigua concept in the early 2000s).

Introduced in 1967, the first Mangusta was designed by the famed Giorgetto Giugiaro, who at the time worked for Turin-based coachbuilder Ghia, and was offered with a choice of Ford-sourced V8 engines. It was replaced by the cheaper to produce Pantera in 1971.

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2012年1月26日星期四

Apple to drive iPad adoption at schools with digital textbook tools

Apple may be working on bolstering its educational content in order to drive the adoption rate of iPads in schools. Apple is holding a press event in New York City tomorrow where we will no doubt hear more on what the company has planned for education. "Apple will raise a lot of awareness about digital textbooks and how education is going digital," Osman Rashid, the CEO of e-textbook software firm Kno Inc. told Bloomberg. The latest reports suggest the Cupertino-based company will unveil "tools that make it easier to publish interactive textbooks," Bloomberg explained. The new tools should allow writers to publish content on their own, which is similar to what Amazon's self-publishing service currently provides. Sources speaking to Bloomberg said that teachers might be able to create lessons and workbooks for students and then have their classes complete the lessons on an iPad.

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Original Page: http://www.touchuserguide.com/2012/01/19/apple-to-drive-ipad-adoption-at-schools-with-digital-textbook-tools/

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[消息] TwitMonster:成功讓 Siri 發送Twitter，下一站Facebo

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http://www.appappapps.com/blog/?p=7092

如果擁有 iPhone 4S 的朋友，應該有試過對 Siri 說要發送一條Twitter，但只能得到"I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to send tweets"這樣的回覆。不過現在可以透過一款名為 TwitMonster 的 Cydia 插件，只要你的 iPhone 4S 成功連上網絡，就能透過 Siri 來幫你發送Twitter，以後不用打字就能更新你的狀況，非常方便！

TwitMonster 的開發者 Tyler 表示，目前還有一些工作還未完成，例如發送Twitter時首個字母沒有大寫，而且發送前亦沒有預覧功能，不過在 TwitMonster 正式發佈時，這些問題將會全部被修正過來。這款插件快將在 Cydia 上架，並且是免費的。

Twitter 其實對香港或者台灣的用戶來說，不夠 Facebook 來得那麼普及，所以對我們作用不大。不過 Tyler 表示有意令 TwitMonster 同樣支援 Facebook 更新動態，令到大家能夠利用 Siri 語音功能來更新 Facebook 動態。這次無礙令到 Siri 的實用性加強，希望 Apple 能夠讓 Siri 可以支援 Twitter 及 Facebook，令更多人受惠！

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[消息] iPro Lens 可以讓iPhone 4/4S擁有專業的廣角鏡頭及魚眼鏡頭

來源：http://www.appappapps.com/blog/?p=7115

iPhone 4S 本身拍出來的相片已經擁有相當高的質素，如果想再發揮 iPhone 4S 的鏡頭，iPro Lens System 可以幫到你。iPro Lens System 是一個專為 iPhone 4/4S 而製造的高級鏡頭設備，擁有一個廣角鏡頭及魚眼鏡頭，而魚眼鏡頭擁有160度的可視角度，廣角鏡頭亦都擁有86度的可視角度，對喜愛用 iPhone 拍攝高質素相片的朋友來說，相信會十分喜愛這套高級鏡頭設備。而整套設備只需US$200美元。想購買的朋友可以按此進入連結

以下相片就是用廣角鏡頭及魚眼鏡頭所拍攝出來的效果:

Schneider iPro Lens System 相片:

iPro Lens System 的宣傳影片：

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Macworld 2012: WDC Shows Off MyBook Thunderbolt Duo

We briefly mentioned WDC's press release that they would be showing their new MyBook Thunderbolt Duo at Macworld. Here are photos from the show floor of the unit. As expected, the new drive shares the same appearance as their previous two drive MyBook hardware.

This new model, however, incorporates two Thunderbolt ports that allows the units to be daisy chained with each other to create a single logical drive.

At the show, WDC was showing 4 devices daisy chained with Thunderbolt in a striped configuration. Each MyBook Thunderbolt Duo had two 3TB drives, giving a total capacity of 24TB that appeared on the desktop as one contiguous 24TB device.

The individual drives within each unit are user serviceable/replaceable and can be configured in either RAID 0 or RAID 1 configurations. The product will be available this quarter with pricing to be announced then.

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Original Page: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/26/macworld-2012-wdc-shows-off-mybook-thunderbolt-duo/

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Pocket Informant planning public beta for cloud service

The team from Pocket Informant is at Macworld|iWorld this week to show off the app and announce a new cloud-based service that will share information across all of the company's mobile apps and new web interface. Pocket Informant is a GTD/calendar/tasks app that combines all sorts of functionality in one place, and during Macworld|iWorld, both it and the HD version are on sale for just US$9.99.

The app is great (and we've spotlighted it here before), but the online service should make things much easier for many users. You can sign up on the website now for the public beta of the web app. WebIS, the company behind Pocket Informant, told us that it wanted to start the beta as soon as this week, but it's instead waiting to see what the response is like before launch. The web app will be a fairly open beta, and the company will widen it as time goes on.

The iOS beta, on the other hand, is a little harder to roll out. WebIS will do a closed beta using Apple's Enterprise distribution, so the public won't have much chance to try that cloud service before it's ready to go. But once the code is all set, Pocket Informant users will get a free update that will sync their information across all devices. And while iOS is first, the app will eventually sync info to Android apps as well, so if you use multiple devices, this should really come in handy.

Check back with us all week as our team at Macworld | iWorld is providing complete coverage of all the goodies on the expo floor.

Pocket Informant planning public beta for cloud service originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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