Nano Wristwatch Strap, Now ?For Women?

From left to right, the women's Hex strap comes in very dark pink, light pink, dark pink and pink

Pop quiz: What?s the difference between a man?s and a woman?s watch? If your answer involves styling differences, or watch-faces designed to easier fit the typically smaller female wrist, then don?t even bother opening your mouth to tell us.

The difference is that a girl?s watch has a thin strap, and it?s pink.

That?s the difference according to Hex, at least, which has fulfilled an imaginary demand for a women?s version of its iPod Nano-holding wrist-strap. Available in pink, dark pink (purple), light pink (white) and really-dark-pink (black), the all-pink silicone lineup has the exact same size pop-in pop-out square case to hold the tiny touch-screen iPod as does the bigger man-size strap.

Have any of you tried to use a Nano as a watch? I have, and it?s terrible. Like those old 1970s LED digital watches, it requires that you press a button to read the time, defeating the point of having a glanceable clock on your wrist. The wrist-mounted position is fantastic if you you use it as an iPod, though. Just remember to thread the headphone cable up your sleeve or it will annoy the hell out of you.

The rubber Hex strap-on comes in pink (did I mention that?) and costs a rather humorous $30. Available now.

Hex strap product page [Shop Hex. Thanks, Valerie!]

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Adobe Flash 10.2 for Android available today, improves performance, adds hardware acceleration for Honeycomb

Adobe Flash Player 10.2 will land in the Android Market today, bringing with it modest performance improvements for Android 2.2 and 2.3, and hardware acceleration for 3.0. Flash 10.2 is also the first version of Flash to work on the Motorola Xoom tablet.

Engadget says that they "saw a slight but noticeable boost in framerate when playing a YouTube trailer at 480p" on their Droid 2, and that the same videos were "perfectly smooth" on their Motorola Xoom tablet. Engadget were playing with a beta version of Flash 10.2, however, so performance might be further improved by the time it hits the Market later today.

Other than some further performance and usability improvements for Android 3.0, there doesn't seem to be much else of note in Flash 10.2.

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Words With Friends for Android updated, promises "smoother game experience"

As several of you noted in the comments to our post asking for cross-platform iOS/Android games, Words With Friends for Android does not provide the smoothest gaming experience... and that's being rather charitable.

You might be happy to hear that a couple of days ago Zynga released an update which promises to solve many of the Android-specific issues, such as notifications not popping up.

Sadly, installing the update is not a smooth experience; you have to manually uninstall the previous version, and then go to the Android Market and install it. What's nice is that it doesn't lose your saved games ? this screenshot shows a game I've started before the update and continued after updating.

How's the new update working out for you? Let us know in the comments!

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Microsoft and ASUS show off all the stylish stylus action you can have on an Eee Slate (video)

It's the year 2011, but it might as well be 2001. The company that Bill built is still going strong in the pursuit of its founding father's dream: a pen-based tablet computer. The latest, and perhaps best, exhibitor of this ideal is ASUS' Eee Slate, a 12.1-inch, Core i5-equipped Windows 7 tablet that comes with a Wacom digitizer and a dedicated silo in its side for accommodating that snow-white stylus. A Bluetooth keyboard also comes in the box, leading Microsoft to describe it as a device that's simultaneously "very PC" and "not very PC." To understand what the Redmond brainboxes mean by this apparent case of doublethink, make your way past the break and soak up all the video action.

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Firefox 4 to be released March 22, will it beat IE9?

Firefox 4 RC1 has survived the rigors of public beta testing and, come March 22 -- just five days away! -- it will drop its Release Candidate tag and become Firefox 4 final.

This isn't to say that Firefox 4 RC is bug-free, but it does mean that there are no significant issues that would warrant an RC2. The only real issue that the Mozilla Dev mailing list has been dealing with is Vietnamese localization, which looks like it will be bumped back to Firefox 4.0.1.

In other news, all eyes are now on Mozilla to see if it can match Microsoft's opening-day salvo of 2.3 million IE9 downloads. The last major release of Firefox, version 3, recorded 8 million downloads in 24 hours, a world record that might be hard to beat.

It's worth noting, too, that Firefox 3 supported Windows XP and Vista, which accounted for something like 90% of the PC market at the time. IE9's 2.3 million downloads are pretty impressive when you figure in the fact that it only supports Windows 7 and Vista -- which together only represent about 34% of the PC market. Believe it or not, Windows XP still accounts for over 55% of PCs, and given Firefox 4's support for XP, it would be shocking if it manages less than 2.3 million downloads.

As for why Microsoft dropped support for XP is another question entirely. In a few months we'll be able to see whether it made the right decision or not.

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Mozilla details new Chrome-like release schedule and channels, Firefox 5 soon

Engineering Director of Mozilla, Rob Sayre, has detailed the upcoming changes to the Firefox release schedule. The most notable change is a shift away from feature-driven releases to a fixed six-week schedule-driven release pattern.

Instead of major releases every 12 to 18 months, Firefox will shift to a four-channel system, just like Google's Chrome browser. The nightly channel (mozilla-central) will remain in place, but the beta audience will be split into Experimental and Beta channels. The final channel will be a stable build (Firefox 4, Firefox 5, etc.)

Every six weeks, code will be shifted from one channel to the next. At week 6, code will move from mozilla-central to firefox-experimental; firefox-experimental will move to firefox-beta; and firefox-beta will move to Firefox, the stable channel. Around week 12 and 18 the same process will occur, and so on, until the end of time. This means that we could see a major Firefox release every six weeks, once the machine starts turning.

Rather than waiting 16 to 18 weeks for Firefox 5 to emerge, however, we might see a rushed release in just 12 or 13 weeks, sometime around the middle of June. We could then see Firefox 6 by October, and maybe Firefox 7 by the end of the year (but it's unlikely).

It should be noted that the details of this new development process are subject to change -- Sayre's document is clearly labeled 'draft' -- but at this stage, we're almost certain that Mozilla will be moving to schedule-driven releases, and that Firefox 5 will be released in just a few months.

For more details about QA, localization, security patches and support for extension developers, be sure to read the full document -- there's a lot of important information in there.

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USB Flashdrive Pendants from Unica Italian Design

I have a fascination for USB flash drive jewelry, and Unica Italian Design has some really pretty pieces that caught my interest.� Unica Italian Design is a company formed by people with years of experience in designing and manufacturing gold and silver jewelry.� Their mission was to combine jewelry with technology to make art out of the necessary.� They have a line of stainless USB drives, some with diamonds, that can be worn as a pendant or as a keychain fob.� These pieces sell for about $85 to $115.� You?ll need to contact Unica Italian Design for specifics on capacities and price.

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