Is there a picture of a real case in someone's hand? I want to see what they actually look like, but all I see are shiny renderings.

They look really good though.

Of course! Sorry for all the renders; they look nice, but it's good to see the real thing.

Here are some of the cases coming off the line now: http://u.phoreo.com/pa.JPG

And here is a hand shot (the original art was a bit messy; the printing is correct): http://u.phoreo.com/en.JPG

Could you add a couple from multiple angles (including front)? It's not clear to me what the whole case looks like.

Cool, so they kinda snap onto the back. How thick are the cases?

Do you have an affiliates program?

Maybe I'm just ethnocentric, but I don't like all the foreign (greek?) text. It confuses me. When I click the english flag, it doesn't make the greek go away.

Yes, it's greek :). Your not ethnocentric by the way. The national flags let you switch the UI language. Foreign products/purchases/shops will not be change/translated. Not all features are implemented yet though: in the future, these "overseas" items (shops and purchases) will be filtered by the distance of your reference locations.

I want a keyboard that can detect finger movements on the surface of the keys. Imagine tiny touchpads on each key.

The keys stay tactile, and you can use the whole keyboard surface like a large touchpad.

Not tactile, but http://www.fingerworks.com/ST_product.html

Apple bought them. Hence seeing the technology in iPhone multitouch, gestures, recently in touchpads and now mouse.

Very interesting. I don't think I would ever enjoy using a keyboard like this, but I kept reading their site because they had a section about Emacs commands. (I have found enough keys to do everything they advertise in one key sequence... but at least they are trying. Much better than "hurr, you can zoom Google Maps more easily.")

I'm a vi user, but only use when I ssh to a shell. When I'm in vi I usually switch to my laptop keyboard unless it's just a few keys :) Have never bothered learning the vi (or emacs) gestures.

I never timed, but it never felt like I was typing very slowly once I got used to it. The gestures like opening/closing a window, exiting an app, copy and paste etc is really handy. Especially as they apply across all apps, not just within a specific editor. The gestures are also configurable, and supports different OS modes. Most importantly, it reduced the pain in my wrists and fingers (might just have been a side effect of typing slower).

Bought it about 6 years ago, have been using it since. Was pretty disappointed when I heard the company has closed down. And a few years later when I heard about the iPhone pinch gestures, my first thought was - this must be the reason!

The PS3 Messaging pad has a function like this so you can rub your finger across the surface of the keys to move the mouse pointer. :)

will the video change if the search results change?

IMO it should, but right now I use a SQLite database as a permanent cache, so the video will never change. As soon as I get the urge to slack off some more, I'll just plug in Django's memcached support and set the expiration to a day or two.

I'm kind of shocked that you are using SQLite to power this site. I suppose it'd be easy to move to something better, but still...

Are you shocked that it works or shocked that I would be so stupid as to use SQLite? I expect extremely low load and that I'll have plenty of time to move to memcached and no database...

EDIT: it's on memcached now.

he works for his startup right? he doesn't have any spare time anyway.

i think what really happened is that he only gave 20% effort on the essay

CNN and other news organizations reporting on tweets

This is mostly a hobby business that I want to run lean without much plan for growth. I'm looking for more efficient business accounts that better match my uses.

A hobby business is not a business, it's a hobby and hobbies cost money.

If you plan on this being a business you have to figure out first how much turnover you have to make to make a go of it, and if $13 / month for a bank is a make-or-break decision then I would suggest you look long and hard at whether or not this is a feasible endeavor.

For sure it is possible that you'll be doing this expense out-of-pocket for a while, but then you just put all these expenses against your future revenues.

A typical small business, including all overhead, such as administration, tax filings, equipment and so on will cost you at least $200 / month, so if your projected profits when this thing is up and running are lower than that you really should reconsider your plans.

This is not meant to demoralize you, I just think that if you doubt about spending $13/month that you have other issues than choosing the right bank.

I chose mine for reliability, easy access to international banking, the fact that my balance is insured to a serious amount and so on, the 'costs per transaction' and 'monthly fees' were the least of the considerations.

The recent crisis has born out the wisdom of that decision, by going with a large but cooperative bank they were hit very little by the affairs that caused their main competitor to now be mostly state property.

The whole thing was sketchy. They told me there wouldnt be fees, so when fees showed up, I complained and they said they would remove them. When the fees didnt go away, I asked to be refunded. They said they could only refund the last 3 months of fees since they had "no record" past that, even though I had the account for a year.

Anyway, I just didn't want to deal with them anymore so I closed the account.

I'm not very interested in taking it seriously, I was thinking about "How do I use undocumented APIs?" or "How do I jailbreak my phone?"

My Developer account runs out in 20 days; are there any tools to help convert my code to Android compatibility?

:)