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Three Fingered On Class Trip To Washington, D.C. | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

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Anyone who had a junior high DC trip knows exactly what they’re talking about.

WASHINGTON-The second fingering reportedly took place Thursday night at the hotel after chaperones failed to notice that Nick Stern had been hiding in Jamie Cavanaugh’s bathroom during a 10 p.m. room check.

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Mercedes shows off Splitview display, other dashboard perks in the 2010 S-Class

This looks pretty sweet. Check out the video if you get a chance, the split-screen stuff makes an appearance at about the 1:20 mark.

Sure, the cold metal exterior looks like a regular old car, but the 2010 S-Class from Mercedes-Benz has a fuzzy technological heart, including an abundance of readout displays and a Splitview screen. Quite like it sounds, the Splitview display offers up one view to the driver (like a map), while the passenger sees a completely different image (like a movie, or a picture of somebody looking at a map), and after hearing all about it for the past while, Mercedes is actually giving us a glimpse of it in an overly-dramatic promo video for the latest S-Class to clutter up the roads. Check it out after the break.

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Gmail Web App & the iPhone

Last week, Google announced an upgrade to its Web-based Gmail service for users of the iPhone and Android-powered devices. The new service has an easier-to-use interface, loads and searches e-mails faster, and has the ability to check e-mails even without access to a wireless signal.

via Technology Review: Gmail Sidesteps the App Store.

I am not against web applications for the iPhone. I think it’s perfectly legitimate if the application is done right. The new version of the Gmail web app for the iPhone is a great example of an application done right. The application is fast, unless you’re on the Edge network like yours truly, and in general the usability and functionality of the application is perfect. What I believe the application lacks is the ability to notify end-users when they have new mail. As a result, the end-user has to either keep checking the Gmail web app for new emails or if they have the iPhone mail application setup to fetch Gmail on a certain interval then they can use the iPhone mail notification to load up the web app. Both ways are pretty counterintuitive and kludgy at best. What I hope Google does is take advantage of the new notification system in the 3.0 firmware to notify end-users when they have new email. I assume they could leverage the notification service by creating a dummy application which holds their Gmail web application and then attaching the Apple notification service. I think that would be quite deece.