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Report: Volvo S60 Polestar entering limited production in Australia [w/video]

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The Volvo S60 Polestar Concept may be entering limited production in australia and, depending how the Aussies take to this Swedish super sports sedan, could then be made available worldwide. The news comes from Austrlia’s GoAuto, which claims to have received early info from its sources inside Volvo and its tuning/motorsport arm, Polestar.

Polestar released a short teaser video this week (watch it below) of what appears to be the S60 Polestar Concept clipping the snowy apex of an ice track’s turn. The only information given with the teaser were the words “Limited Edition. Soon in australia.” Unveiled last June, the S60 Polestar concept has since made the rounds at auto shows, visited Jay Leno’s Garage, played on the track with its future competition, and even secured a home for itself with a buyer who reportedly is paying Volvo some $300,000 to own it.

The S60 Polestar Concept is about the meanest machine one can imagine making out of Volvo’s sports sedan. Packing 508 horsepower and 424 pound-feet of torque from its heavily modified T6 engine, then routing those revolutions through a six-speed manual transmission to all four wheels, the S60 Polestar is said to cover the sprint to 62 miles per hour in 3.9 seconds. A lower and wider body, brakes by Brembo, suspension bits by Ohlins and a diet to delete some weight make this car a serious issue for M3 and C63 AMG owners everywhere. GoAuto‘s sources say the production version’s performance will be dialed back a bit from the concept’s, but we’ll have to wait until Volvo and Polestar make this sedan’s production official to find out by how much.

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New applications for Blackberry 10

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Hi everyone,

Introduction

I have been planning this post for a while, but I had some real life troubles and also other duties. Finally, I have some time to write this down briefly!

In short, I have created two new applications for Blackberry 10. I tested them on my

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Mrdanga Player

I had been playing bass guitar for many years during my student years, and I have been a fan of mrdanga recently. There was an application for Harmattan (N9) called “Finger Drums”. I felt in love with that application after the first checkout. It is an awesome piece of software with lots of fun!

This drove me to write an application for Blackberry 10 to enable people to get to know what mrdanga is and how it sounds. It is a lot simpler emulation than a whole drum kit. I think it is still nice for those who like this instrument, and potential newcomers that can get to know it this way. There is also a nice video on youtube if you would like to check out what the masters can do with this instrument. 🙂

The source code is available under the KDE umbrella. The migration is now ongoing to Playground/Mobile where the wiki-reader also resides.

The application was submitted to AppWorld, and it is in review stage. For those who would like to try out the latest version, I uploaded the package to my dropbox. I would also like to share some screenshots here.

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Mrdanga heads with darker background

Mrdanga heads with brighter background


Kudos

Many thanks go to RIM for providing DevAlpha and Limited Edition devices to the community!

For sure, many thanks go to the KDE Project as well for providing the source code repository, bugtracker, and the whole KDE infrastructure for this!

There will be a follow up post soon about developing Blackberry 10 applications from command line with cmake. Stay tuned!

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