While we’re rarely captivated by drawers here on Giz, Fractal 23 is more than worthy to take a place next to USB fart warmers and the like. Because by properly staggering 23 drawers of varying sizes, Takeshi Miyakawa has made use of every inch inside this cube…the hard way. My IKEA dresser is more than a tiny jealous; it’s turned to booze with my old Wal-Mart patio set that hangs in the garage. Here’s a bonus shot:

[Takeshi Miyakawa via DVICE]

Via [Gizmodo]

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Nothing points out the flaws in a mobile browser like attempting to quickly open it up and run a search for something. If you’re using the carrier’s default WAP homepage, the built in search often doesn’t search past things that’ll make the carrier money. If you’re trying to use a standard search engine, the results take forever to load and any elements of the page that render correctly are little miniature blessings.

Yahoo’s oneSearch is one of the few search engines that manages to take away the big suck factor from the process. Rather than just dumping a list of results on you, it uses your queries (and, if suitable, your location) to figure out what you’re looking for and provide answers directly. For example: Entering a recently released movie title will precede the results with local showtimes, while “NBA” will lead with scores for any active NBA games.

Canada’s largest carrier, Rogers Wireless, is the first in North America to recognize this. In addition to Yahoo’s mobile site and the Yahoo! Go application, all Rogers/Fido customers can now use oneSearch straight off the default Rogers WAP portal.

For those of us in the US, our rep at Yahoo says the company expects AT&T to integrate oneSearch into their portal sometime in the near future.

Via Mobilecrunch

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ACCESS announced this day that their NetFront mobile browser has been ported over for embedded use on Analog Device’s Blackfin processor, allowing for on-the-go world wide web meandering without as much strain on the battery.

The NetFin browser has already made its way onto over 500 million devices, including Samsung’s recently launched Glyde. The browser can be pretty featured pack (depending on the hardware it’s running on), managing a couple things its competitors haven’t managed yet: AJAX for all of those Web 2.0 sites that break in most mobile browsers, and Flash support capable of handling things like Youtube.

Toru Arakawa, CEO of ACCESS, stated “NetFront Browser embedded on ADI’s Blackfin is the best solution for OEMs who want to make it possible for their customers to access and interact with content-rich multimedia World wide web sites.”

Via Mobilecrunch

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