Finalists Present Their Projects in Competition to Redesign Minneapolis’ Riverfront
February 4, 2011 No Comment
The Turenscape team’s proposal for a renewed Minneapolis riverfront. Minneapolis, already named the country’s most bike-friendly city , is about to get quite a makeover. In September, the city’s Park and Recreation Board announced a design competition to create a new image of the Upper Mississippi Riverfront. In November, four finalists out of a pool of 55 were announced, each presenting a design for the 220 acres of parkland, neighborhoods and business districts on both sides of a 5.4 mile stretch of … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Egyptian military guarded thousands of pro-democracy protesters pouring into Cairo’s main square on Friday. Meanwhile the White House is in talks with Egyptian officials about a possible transition government. (Feb. 4)
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Microsoft announced months ago that the artist formerly known as Vail — now officially known as Windows Home Server 2011 — was dropping Drive Extender functionality. Though we were given hope that the feature might be reinstated, the release candidate of WHS2011 went out to testers today… sans Drive Extender’s ‘drive pooling for dummies’ capability. In its place, Microsoft has included a Move Folder Wizard that alerts you when a new hard drive has been added (for those who were visited by the HDD fairy without their knowledge, no doubt) and walks you through formatting and partitioning your new drive. However, partition size is limited to 2TB for it to work with the server backup feature, so your massive collection of ripped Blu-rays will require a veritable alphabet of drive letters. Not all the news is bad though, as the dev team has enabled Shadow Copy in the OS to allow data time traveling in case you accidentally delete something. If that sounds good to you, hit the source link below and get your download on. Vail is now Windows Home Server 2011, Drive Extender’s officially dead originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Haiti’s fraud-tainted ruling party candidate is out of the presidential race. The country’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) said on Thursday that former first lady Mirlande Manigat and musician Michel “Sweet Mickey” Martelly were the two top finishers of the chaotic November 28 vote, ahead of government technocrat Jude Celestin. The decision to reverse the results of disputed first round polls in November was met with calm on the streets of the quake-hit Caribbean nation, which has endured decades of political upheaval, dictatorship and bloodshed. The two leaders would contest a run-off set for March 20 to replace outgoing President Rene Preval. Preval’s mandate formally ends on Monday,…
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British teen heartthrob Alex Pettyfer talks about his latest movie ‘I Am Number Four’ – the story of an alien who flees to Earth before having to take on his evil pursuers. (Feb. 4)
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After a day of violent clashes with supporters of Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak, anti-government demonstrators remained in Tahrir Square for another night ahead of another mass rally planned for today, billed as the ‘day of departure’
Continue reading …Nokia releases Symbian update for N8, C7 and C6-01, it’s not the one you’ve been waiting for
February 4, 2011 No Comment
What we once knew as Symbian^3 was simplified into ” just Symbian ” a few months back, ostensibly to make updates faster and easier for Nokia to execute. Well, huzzah huzzah, here’s your first update. Version 1.1 of the new Symbian enhances communications by allowing you to accept meeting requests straight from an email and also integrating maps so that you may view the location as well. Besides that, N8 users get killer new features in Quick Office 6.4 like zooming in and out of Word documents along with three “high quality” games preloaded on new devices (which were already freely available in the Ovi Store). Excuse our overwhelming sense of disenfranchisement, but where the hell is our portrait QWERTY keyboard , split-screen text input, or those much-needed browser improvements? In the rubbish bin next to Symbian^4? Nokia releases Symbian update for N8, C7 and C6-01, it’s not the one you’ve been waiting for originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Feb 2011 06:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …A toilet company that took a chance on a spray-and-wipe system is flush with success. Some 30 million once-squeamish consumers have scooped up a toilet that delivers a crotch-washing spray for cleanliness. The Washlet by the Toto company is a kind of bidet-toilet combo now found in some 70% of…
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