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The CrunchPad will be remembered as a signpost to new computing

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And so the CrunchPad is placed by it’s spiritual father, Michael Arrington, into the Dead Pool. I doubt it’s the last we’ll see of the device, but it’s certainly the last we’ll see of it with the CrunchPad moniker. The legalese may be in motion but some warehouse is going to churn these out within six months. All the real world stuff aside, I’m sad that the CrunchPad isn’t going to be available. Looking at that picture of the circuit board there’s a juicy 1850mah battery, an express PCMCIA 3G card, Intel Atom 1.6 CPU (perhaps a Z or N

The TechCrunch CrunchPad Is The Future of Fabrication

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A fair amount of buzz today over Michael Arrington’s posting of details of his Tablet Computing prototype over on TechCrunch. Arrington is looking to make a slate-style touch screen device, running at 1024×768, and booting directly to a Webkit based browser. It looks ungainly now – although I think the Duplo based stand (*) in the demo video should be included in the retail pack – but his target of $300 retail price is ambitious and places it in the impulse buy in many tech stores. I’m not going to go down the route of many blogs that are trying

Perhaps Nobody Voted for Michael Arrington in The Time 100 Poll

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Something little cheeky for Friday afternoon methinks. First of all, in all seriousness, congratulations to Michael Arrington for being in The Time 100 most Influential People list, admittedly as number 100 out of 100 (but do see here). Irrespective of your views of the TechCrunch empire, the fact that the web is seen as a key influencer, the cheesy mantra of one man can make a difference is true, and that print media has recognised this should be celebrated. If the point man is to be Arrington, then let’s run with that and continue to drive forward as a team.

Not Too Simple A Task, Please, Google

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If Google are to launch a To-Do list (as reported via an eager TechCrunch reader) then I really do hope they make it as simple as possible… but with one caveat. Have some sort of folder/labels arrangement in the same way as Gmail. The reason for this is because to make a good To-Do list application for the real world, there needs to be a touch of filtering applied. One of the greates To-Do list applications, in my mind, was that on Palm III PDA machines. There was very little screen clutter (you had 160×160 pixels and that was it),

Flickring at 25fps – Video Crashes the Still Party

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Techcrunch is reporting (and demoing) Flickr Video. Short summary; Pro users have the ability to upload a video into their account, as long as they are under 90 seconds and 150 mb. I’ve not played around with it yet, but I’m skeptical that the Flickr community actually want this. I have to assume the Flickr team has thought (and fought?) long and hard over this one. The explosion of mobile video in the last six months (Seesmic, Qik, Bambuser, etc) must have focused them on the task at hand, but if they have been plannig this for a while (as