Read this post and it just made me chuckle to myself…
Packard Bell is set to reposition itself as a trendy design-focused lifestyle brand, following its acquisition by Acer last year.
Speaking at Acer’s Global Press Conference, Emmanuel Fromont, Vice President of Packard Bell Sales and Marketing, said:
“It’s not a totally new positioning. We’ve always differentiated ourselves through design, but as a smaller company and having to do the design in-house, it was more difficult.”
“Now with Acer behind us, we want to create aficionado fans of our products. We want people to have real desire for our brand.”
Pocket-lint spoke to Acer UK country manager Bobby Watkins, and he told us that the new designs for Packard Bell were something we should look out for when they become available sometime next year.
Here’s what happened last time I saw a PB that was trying to be “trendy”:
Those things were a piece of crap, (and fuuuuugly) always falling apart and loads got returned… Let’s hope these are much improved - if not, it will always give us a laugh! 
via Pocket Lint and Engadget
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This is a worthwhile install if you’re a Wordpress user (or any other gears enabled system) on the mac - great to see some Safari lovin’.
We’re really excited to announce the official release of Gears for Safari on OS X (minimum requirements are Leopard 10.5.3 or Tiger 10.4.11).
You can download it today from http://gears.google.com.
This means that you can now access all the Gears-enabled sites (such as Zoho office, WordPress, the new YouTube uploader and Google Docs offline) in Safari.
via Google Mac Blog
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I’ve only done user-agent string sniffing once and I remember it gave me a headache… This post explains why it gave me a headache! 
And then Google built Chrome, and Chrome used Webkit, and it was like Safari, and wanted pages built for Safari, and so pretended to be Safari. And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla, and Chrome called itself Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13, and the user agent string was a complete mess, and near useless, and everyone pretended to be everyone else, and confusion abounded.
via Daring Fireball
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Looks like KDE apps just got a whole lot more appealing to Gnome users. I like a lot of KDE apps (Kate being a particularly cool editor when I’m on the Linux box), but I just never used to use them much as they looked too out of place with the rest of my Gnome desktop (yeah, I guess I’m a GUI snob…) - this will most likely change that!
QGtkStyle made it’s way into the Qt snapshots this week, meaning it will become part of the Qt 4.5 release. Technical users can already compile and use it on their own desktop, but once Qt 4.5 is out it will simply replace Cleanlooks as the default application style Qt uses on GNOME desktops.
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An interesting article over at Wired discussing a recent study into how kids are using their brains and scientific reasoning to beat video games…
One of the reasons kids get bored by science is that too many teachers present it as a fusty collection of facts for memorization. This is precisely wrong. Science isn’t about facts. It’s about the quest for facts — the scientific method, the process by which we hash through confusing thickets of ignorance. It’s dynamic, argumentative, collaborative, competitive, filled with flashes of crazy excitement and hours of drudgework, and driven by ego: Our desire to be the one who figures it out, at least for now. It’s dramatic and nutty and fun.
And it’s pretty much how kids already approach the games they love. They’re already scientists; they already know the value of the scientific method. Teachers just need to talk to them in their language, so that the kids can begin to understand the joy of puzzling through the offline, “real” world too.
via Daring Fireball
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