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I found a whole memory card full of pictures I hadn't uploaded from Japan, including this rocking in-action shot of me holding a just-released Marc Newson-designed Talby phone from au. It's very nice and at least two or three-levels of chic beyond me, but it's actually my second-favorite au phone. The infobar series were out on the streets and just as appealing, if not more so. There's another pic of all three color models after the jump. Related Gizmodo in Japan: Talby Crash [Gizmodo] 10:28:48 AM

New Palm media player supports MPEG-4, AAC. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Kinoma Inc. on Thursday released Kinoma Player 3 EX, the latest version of their multimedia player software for Palm OS 5-based handhelds. The new version of the software now plays back MPEG-4 video, AAC audio and displays JPEG images. It can work in conjunction with Kinoma Producer 3, an application that works on Mac OS X and Windows-based PCs. [MacCentral News] 8:22:55 AM

PDF2Office 2.0 Pro adds Acrobat 6 support, more. Osaka, Japan-based Recosoft Corp. on Thursday released PDF2Office 2.0 Professional Edition, a new version of its PDF document conversion software. PDF2Office converts Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files into documents that can be edited by Microsoft Word, AppleWorks, and applications that support Rich Text Format (RTF) or Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). PDF2Office v2.0 Professional Edition costs US$129, or $59 to upgrade from the 1.1 release. [MacCentral News] 8:17:24 AM

R/C Aerial Photography Gary Dickerson pointed out these folks over at the RC Groups forums who have been rigging up small digital cameras to their R/C airplanes and getting some fantastic low-altitude aerial pictures. The trick is to find cameras that are light enough not to affect the handling of the planes too much, like the 2-megapixel Sony DSC-U40 that Gary rigged up with a custom mount and a hand-built trigger. The RC Groups forum is putting together a 2005 calendar now, too, collated from photos sent in by their users. Take a look at some of the great shots they're getting¡Xit looks like a lot of fun. 2005 Calendar Entries [RCGroups] - lev (joeljohnson@gmail.com) [Gizmodo] 8:13:23 AM