Ryan Bader and Lyoto Machida are expected to face off on August 4th after UFC officials announced this week that the two have verbally agreed to the fight.

The fight will likely be part of the main card of UFC on Fox 4 that will also feature a middleweight fight between Brian Stann …

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Following the recent signing of international star Hector Lombard to a UFC contract, the organization today announced that the former Cuban Olympian, who is currently sporting a 25 fight unbeaten streak in MMA, will make his Octagon debut this August in Los Angeles against middleweight contender Brian Stann.

A date and venue for the bout will be announced shortly.
 

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Ryan Bader and Lyoto Machida are expected to face off on August 4th after UFC officials announced this week that the two have verbally agreed to the fight.

The fight will likely be part of the main card of UFC on Fox 4 that will also feature a middleweight fight between Brian Stann …

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The past few days’ warmer climes are a dead giveaway, but for those who prefer to celebrate by the book: Spring officially begins Sunday.

(If you’re annoyed by the fact that this column so often begins with a reminder as to what holiday or season is on the horizon, apologies. Let it be your constant reminder to drink in season, just as you should eat in season.)

More important than the fact that yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day, or that a certain day this year marks the 244th anniversary of the invention of soda water, the start of spring gives us permission to polish off our brown liquors and move into lighter territory (think gin, tequila, light rum). True, bourbon remains an excellent transitional spirit to be enjoyed in the months warming up to Derby Day in early May, but toasting the equinox deserves a bit more effort.

That said, go out. Yes, this column primarily encourages staying in and trying your hand at drink recipes. This weekend, go out. Yes, in the rain. (It’s part of spring, after all.) Sit somewhere with windows that have the capacity to open up to the elements, even if it’s too cold to do it just yet. Allow yourself to daydream about temperatures that reach into the 60s. No — the 70s. We’re almost there, folks.

This is the cocktail you should drink while you’re waiting: The Soiled Dove at Bangers & Lace (1670 W. Division St., 773.252.6499).

Comprised of silver tequila, dry sherry, agave, lime and grapefruit juice, it’s served in a Collins glass with ice (it’s been a long time since you had a tall drink, no?) and is finished with bitters and black salt. As for that added salt: Don’t let the mention of it conjure images of rock salt-strewn sidewalks. We’re past that now.

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It’s not like we’re gonna argue with Sprint’s rationale, but the EVO 3D has met its end at the Now Network. Visitors to the carrier’s online store will notice that the gee-whiz smartphone is no longer available for sale, and Sprint reps have confirmed to us that it’s not coming back. Those who insist on owning an EVO 3D will be glad to know that the handset is still available at Sprint’s retail outlets, but according to the carrier, quantities are rather limited. Given a phone that debuted less than a year ago, its abrupt and unceremonious demise comes as a bit of a shock, but with the mighty EVO 4G LTE on the horizon, we can’t blame the carrier one bit.

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At the Frequencies media summit in Seattle over the last two days, HTC walked us through the fine details on how its smartphones are developed, going from the boring rectangular ABS block to the more refined plastic mockups that are presented to carriers and focus groups — the findings of which then shape the final product. Sadly, we weren’t allowed to take photos of the One X mockups that were shown to us, but do read on to learn the general process of how an HTC phone goes from inception to the final product.

An HTC phone starts out somewhere between four months and a year before reaching to the ABS block mockup stage. During this time engineers figure out the next best way to put the phone together, as well as finding the best weight and the best components for certain models, so that the actual size of them feel good in our hands. In the US, HTC talks to carriers to find out what technologies (such as chipsets, displays and radios) they want to enable, as well as learning what size, appearance, feeling and functions their customers are asking for. HTC has even conducted smartphone deprivation studies to see what features the participants missed the most: phones were taken away for two weeks, and during the period people had to document what they missed about their smartphones, as well as noting whether they had found other ways to do what they’d normally do with their phones.

When asked about whether we will see the QWERTY keyboard in future HTC devices, design firm One & Co’s Claude Zellweger didn’t seem to be a fan:

“As a company on the QWERTY keyboard we’re sort of moving away from them in general.”

But there’s still hope. In response to whether there’s still room for QWERTY keyboards in HTC’s lineup, Claude said his team’s just waiting:

“I think the market’s there, the sort of the diehard community, they keep wanting it, there’s definitely still a market for it. We feel that putting too much effort in that would take away from our main focus, being a whole-screen device. I think people recognize the trade-off with size. There are a couple of technologies that we are waiting to sort of mature that could make a big bump suddenly in the evolution, that we are looking at very closely.”

We also discussed battery life and competing phones that come with physically larger batteries (especially the Droid Razr Maxx), but Vice President of Phone Strategy Bjorn Kilburn claims that for most customers going into the shops, power consumption is not on the top of their lists. In fact, HTC claimed it tested a large battery concept with selected customers and carriers last year, but it didn’t sell. It turns out people just prefer thinner phones (or at least initially they do), and therefore HTC chose to take a holistic approach to improving battery life through power management optimization, choice of power density, choice of voltage and many more. HTC’s preference to wired charging over the comparatively slower wireless charging also helps reduce phone downtime, of course.

With the sets of basic specifications and features set in stone, HTC’s engineers can then offer the right phone sizes that meet the carriers’ requirements, as well as showing a relatively bland rectangular ABS block as an indication on how much space is needed to pack all the components. From then onwards, the designers join in and work with the carriers to boil down to a few phone ideas, the best of which are then presented to focus groups in the form of refined mockups. In these sessions, HTC doesn’t just listen to what the participants want more or less of, but it mainly observes what people do with the mockups in their hands, as well as studying their emotional feedback. By the way, on average these mockups cost about $3,000 to $5,000 per unit, and to get one phone arranged in the US, HTC could easily accumulate up to $50,000 worth of mockups for that one phone alone!

Sometimes HTC also throws in some super bright colors to get some feedback from focus groups, and one time it even had a “you’ve got to be joking” reaction from carriers over a recent pink prototype. Claude didn’t outright dismiss the color, but he’s not keen on the idea of a pink One X:

“Pink can be done right, but I don’t think it’s right to take a hero device like that and just turn it pink.”

We as customers don’t see that many color options from HTC, anyway — it’s mainly black, gray and white these days. There are a few reasons for this: for starters, there are certain colors that HTC has to avoid, particularly those that are associated with US carrier loyalty — blue to AT&T, red to Verizon and yellow to Sprint. Obviously, it’d be difficult to convince the carriers to pick up a device that comes in a competitor’s color; though there are certain exceptions, like the red highlight on the primarily-black EVO 4G LTE on Sprint. Another exception is the purple MyTouch 4G on T-Mobile, which was the first color that sold out.

HTC’s Product Strategy Manager Eric Lin personally thinks that purple and cyan are two colors that do really well, especially them being popular accent colors on sneakers from the more stylish brands; but these are only for people who are in touch with style enough, and there’s not that many people. In response to a question on HTC seemingly favoring white devices over time, Eric pointed out that with more men owning smartphones than women, the color really helps open up smartphones to women, even if the phones are larger than what the women would normally consider (like the One S vs the One X, as he observed in a focus group — many of the females eventually chose the latter for the white option). Of course, the purple Rhyme was a different example but with a similar goal — it was a special project where Verizon wanted to see if it could make a phone that’d get away from the hyper-masculine Droid aura, and the color was chosen through studies. Can’t say that was a successful attempt, though.

Then there’s the personal image: HTC suggests that a lot of people want their phones to be their symbol of success, which means the phones themselves need a professional look, so glossiness and bright colors aren’t for everyone. However, as you may have seen in our hands-on already, HTC’s colorful cases for the One X should take care of some of the minority while also letting the majority protect their phones.

So these are some the key points in the long process of design development of an HTC phone, where engineers and designers push each other to uncomfortable realm, before eventually delivering the near-final product to Peter Chou for his ultimate test on the size, feel in hand, feel in pocket and even the ringtones. If you need more convincing on how much of a hands-on CEO Mr. Chou is, here’s some video proof starring him and Chairwoman Cher Wang — just go ahead and skip to 1:47:

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If you click the flower pot, a flower pot appears and the seed is planted inside. You’re then presented with two further choices — a water can or a bottle of fertilizer. Each choice you make causes your creation to morph, and presents you with two other choices.

There’s no winning or losing, really. Each “game” usually lasts around four or five choices, at which point the plant/animal dies in some creative (but not too gruesome) way. At this point you instantly start over with a new seed.

The graphics are captivating; the whole thing has a cinematic feel to it, with a bit of artificial camera shake added for style.

All in all, it’s a fun, peaceful way to spend a few minutes, and it might even make you think a little bit while you’re at it.

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May 3rd is no doubt going to be a monumental day for Samsung, but April 20th is certainly turning out to be quite memorable for potential specs of the Galaxy S III. Not only did we happen to come across a purported leak of the device itself, which suggested the handset would pack a 4.6-inch display and an 8 megapixel camera, but now a placeholder has popped up on Amazon’s German site with a few contrasting specifications — most notably, a 4.7-inch screen and a 12 megapixel camera. We’re still a bit skeptical, because this is far from official, but the fact that the smartphone is shipped and sold by Amazon itself adds a wee bit of credence to the product listing. Only time will tell which set of specs — if any — are the correct ones, but the build-up to the Galaxy S III just got a whole lot more interesting.

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OmmWriter attempts to take that aesthetic and make it somehow more spiritual, with three picturesque backgrounds and ambient background audio tracks (there are seven of each in the paid version).

I’m of two minds about this app. On the one hand, yes, it’s beautiful. But if you want music as a background to your writing, why not pick your own soundtrack with Winamp or Foobar2000 running in the background?

OmmWriter also offers three keyboard-clicking sounds, which are kind of nice. None of these features are groundbreaking, really. OmmWriter could be seen as a way to gently ease into the world of distraction-free writing — in case something like WriteMonkey’s dark background is just too oppressive for you.

After the fold you can see a video showcasing several of OmmWriter’s features and creative soundscapes.

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What better way to finish off your night than by updating your favorite jailbreaking tool? Now, you’ll be able to do just that after the whiz-kids from the iPhone Dev-Team have pushed out a new copy of their famed RedSn0w application. In what’s perhaps the biggest inclusion, version 0.9.10b7 now adds implementation of that untethered Corona jailbreak for A5 devices, making it easier for the iOS 5.0.1 crowd to do bits like reinstalling the tweaked software. In addition, the app’s now capable of grabbing SHSH blobs (you know, those tiny files that grant your phone freedom) straight from Cydia, while also giving users the ability to see if their slab carries a vulnerable bootloader or if it’s exploitable. RedSn0w 0.9.10b7 is out now for both Windows and Mac, and you can grab it at the source link below.

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