Cryptex Phone Concept: Twist Dials To Use

Here’s an interesting concept design for a cell phone that has been designed by March Schomann. This Cryptex phone concept features only a rotatable dial and the entire functionality of this phone works on it.

This phone uses haptic technology to provide physical feedback whenever you make a call. If you want to turn the phone on, twist any dial. To make a call, twist the number dials one by one. This phone has no display screen or buttons. Just a dial that will make you break your wrist while dialing a long international number. It even has vibration, that will be liked by many people.

Word from the designer:

You turn the dial of every element to the desired cipher. If you entered the number you turn the first segment “to phone” (green LED). If you want to hang up the call you turn the first segment to “hang up” (red LED). The phone works without buttons and without a display and based on the old dial phones.

Overall, I like the concept, but I won’t prefer using this when making emergency calls.

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MSN.com Getting Redesigned – Version 11

After the recent beta Yahoo re-design, MSN also felt the need of a new design, and has put up a beta page to try out the version 11 of MSN design.

This new design looks only a bit less-cluttered and improved. They have integrated Windows Live Homtail, Messenger and Spaces in a Vista-like sidebar. And also contains some video highlights from MSN Video.

I don’t see any major difference in the new design, and the current one. You can see them below and compare:

New Design

Old Design

Take A Tour:

You cn take a tour of the new design here.

Try It Out:

Or check out the new homepage from here.

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Delicious 2.0 Is Now Without Dots

Delicious has finally unveiled their new site design. This was scheduled to release long ago, but due to some problems it didn’t.

Delicious 2.0 is now finally released for public. First change that you will notice is that the old del.icio.us has moved to a new domain Delicious.com now. Now it’s much easier for users to remember the name.

When I checked the new domain earlier today, it redirected to the old del.icio.us. But now the new site is live and is open for public. Delicious has focused on three things, speed, search and design. According to the official blog post:

• Speed: We’ve moved to a new infrastructure that makes every page faster. This new platform will enable us to keep up with traffic growth while ensuring Delicious is responsive and reliable. You may not have noticed, but the old back-end was getting creaky under the load of five million users.
• Search: We’ve completely overhauled our search engine to make it faster and more powerful. Searches used to take ages to return results; now they’re very quick. The new search engine is also smarter, and more social: you can search within one of your tags, another user’s public bookmarks, or your social network. Now it’s easier to take advantage of the expertise and interests of your friends, not to mention the Delicious community at large.
• Design: Finally, we’ve updated the user interface to improve usability and add a few often-requested features (such as selectable detail levels and alphabetical sorting of bookmarks). Our goal has been to keep the new design similar in spirit to the old one, so all of you veterans should be able to jump in without any confusion.

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23 Awesome Themes for Ubuntu Linux

I started using Ubuntu 4 months back, and since then I’ve been looking for ways to customize and tweak it to make Ubuntu more productive and look good. During my search, I came across many cool themes from various sources that I’d like to share with you all.

These themes are all available for free download from Gnome Art. Do try them out and let me know if you like them. If you have more cool Ubuntu themes, let me know below in the comments. I love eye candy!

Murrina Triomphe

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Hardy Theme 2.0

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Bamboo Zen

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Lux Theme

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Burnt Orange Ice

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Creamy

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Glow

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Moomex

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Roy (Windows Royale)

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Clearlooks Metallico

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Aqua Dreams

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Linux Mint

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Real Minimal

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Root Green

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Light Coffee

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Slickness Black

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Murrina Aero

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Tigris

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Sofice

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Blue Joy

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Gaia Nova

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Elegant Brit

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Darker Ice Murrina

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Create Avatars for Twitter with Face Your Manga

Avatar creation services has been around for quite some time now like Yahoo Avatars, Kiwee and WeeMee. But they have become old and boring now, and do not even have a large variety of avatar styles.

FaceYourManaga.com lets you express? yourself ?through? your? image ?and? share ?it? whoever ?you? want. Enjoy ?yourself? by ?discovering ?unlimited? combinations? to ?realize ?your? virtual ?alter?ego. It allows you to make avatars for yourself or friends in a quick and easy way.

These avatars will work with the most popular instant messengers like Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, Skype, AIM, ICQ etc. including the most popular micro-blogging site, Twitter.

With Face Your Manga, you can create your virtual alter-ego online without needing an artistic knowledge and to download any kind of software on your computer. It provides you with tons of customizing features whcih you can use to express every imaginable part of your face virtually.

Avatars are created in three easy steps:

• Customize the look of your Avatar
• Enter your e-mail address
• Receive the Avatar in your e-mail address

This service is absolutely free to use, and does not require any registrations to create an avatar. Alternatively, you can also use these avatars on forums, blogs, websites and social networks.

To create your free Avatar and enter Face Your Manga world, click here!

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Make iPhone Themes for Free Online

There are thousands of free iPhone themes available for download. But sometimes, you might not like the themes that have been made by others. You would like to have your own custom theme.

iPhone Theme Maker is very nice web generator that allows you to create themes online and use them on your iPhone.

It lets you customize your theme by adding a wallpaper, and changing the dock background and status image. You can upload your own images from the computer, or use the existing ones that are in its gallery. It also allows you to upload new icons for Text, Calendar, Photos etc. The changes you make to the theme are previewed on the left side.

Once you finish making your theme, click the “Compile Theme” button to download it. They can be downloaded in ZIP and PXL formats. It also generates a unique theme key that can be used for editing the theme later on that site.

iPhone Theme Maker

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4 Sites To Add Speech Bubbles to Images

It’s always fun to add speech bubbles to images and make them funnier. You don not need Photoshop to create these speech bubbles when you can do it online because they are way easier to use and doesn’t take much time.

I have compiled a list of four sites that allow you to add speech bubbles to your images easily and for free. Click on the titles to visit these sites.

1. Speechable

2. SuperLame

3. PicBite

4. Kyolo

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