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So now we know for sure that the new iPhone 3G will come power-packed with real GPS functionality. Sure, your old iPhone can roughly tag your location on a map through the clever use of cell tower triangulation, but most people already know where they are at any given moment. The true power of a GPS device is finding where you’re going next. And if Steve Jobs’ demo today was any indication, stand-alone nav unit makers like Magellan and TomTom really do have every reason to be “scared [expletive-]less.”

To be sure, the iPhone isn’t even close to the first cellphone with built-in GPS. But its large screen size, touchscreen capabilities and landscape display make it a natural stand-in for your car’s Garmin unit. There are just two missing pieces keeping the iPhone from rocking your dashboard. And we have every reason to believe that both are on the way.

First: a car dock. While Jobs made no hints to the existence of any such products from his company, there are likely a dozen Apple accessory makers (who surely were watching today’s keynote with as much anticipation as we were), who have already put in factory orders. After all, it’s not that difficult to mold a piece a plastic to a suction cup. And Apple still has time to unleash its own mount before the product’s July 11 release date.

Second: decent navigation software. After all, that overhead Google Maps view can only take you so far. Luckly for Apple (and us), their SDK is in the wild, along with all the tools needed for programs to latch onto the GPS for location-based tracking. Jobs made this very clear. And while he didn’t specifically say that this functionality could be used to create navigation software, the subtext was crystal clear.

Now, because of the nature of the Apple SDK and the iTunes App Store, it wouldn’t be a surprise if multiple companies put out their own takes on the drive-by iPhone. Some may cost money, but others will almost surely be free. This market-based approach will also likely keep you from paying one cent to use after an initial purchase—a chief killing point of many cellphone-based navigation programs. After all, just because you want to find your way around town doesn’t mean you want to pay $6.99 per month for the privilege. —Seth Porges

A while back I wrote “Where to Go to Find Design Inspiration“, where I listed some of my favorite places to peruse when I’m looking for design inspiration. At the end, I posed the following question to the readers: “Where do you go for design inspiration?”, and asked that you contribute suggestions. This is a list of places that readers have recommended. Some I haven’t heard of, and several I’ve added to my own favorites list.

Without further ado – I present 16 sites that you visit for design inspiration.

1. The Best Designs

Suggested by: chandan (Digg profile)

I’ve written about The Best Designs before, so I didn’t list it down this time around. For those unfamiliar with the site, The Best Designs is a wonderful spot to view high-quality XHTML and Flash designs. They tag each design with relevant keywords (i.e. - Bold, Colorful, CSS) so you can narrow down your search to the particular look you’re attracted in.

2. CSS Remix

Suggested by: chandan (Digg profile)

CSS Remix is (according to their tag line): “A Fresh Blend of the Best-Designed Web 2.0 Sites”, though there are some non-Web 2.0 themed sites included as well. With over 14,000 RSS readers, CSS Remix is definitely a prime destination for designers looking to check out the work of other designers.

3. CSS Mania

Suggested by: Pat of Atrick Design

CSS Mania is a regularly updated CSS-based web design gallery that includes many design genres. At present, it has over 10,000+ websites in its collection. Though the reader who suggested CSS Mania frequents this site, he warns (and I agree): “They aren’t as particular about the quality of the designs they present, but there are definitely some gems in there.”

4. screenfluent

Suggested by: Damien

screenfluent is a site that features some very nice designs. What’s great about screenfluent is that it gives you a preview of the site by opening a modal window (more commonly known as a “lightbox”). There are over 7,000 featured designs so there’s not a lack of content to view.

5. Screenalicio.us

Suggested by: Sachleen Sandhu of tehkubix blog

Screenalicio.us has over 9,800 designs for you to see. The users have the capability of rating each design based on a 5-star rating system and the ability to give feedback for each entry. You can sort the designs based on ratings and time submitted.

6. Open Source Web Design

Suggested by: Sachleen Sandhu of tehkubix blog

Open Source Web Design is a community where users upload designs to share to the public. Downloading an OSWD design is free of charge. You can either browse their gallery of designs or download them to study.

7. One Page Love

Suggested by: adelle of Fuel Your Creativity

One Page Love is a niche web design showcase gallery that features beautiful, creative one page websites and applications. Some categories include products, portfolios, temp pages, and events.

8. FullSingle

Suggested by: adelle of Fuel Your Creativity

FullSingle is another site that displays single-page websites. The latest gallery entries are featured at the top of each page with a brief description of what the page is about.

9. One Page Folios

Suggested by: adelle of Fuel Your Creativity

If the above two weren’t niched enough for you, here’s one with even greater specificity. It’s an aggregate of single page portfolio websites of designers and developers. There’s over 800 portfolios currently listed on One Page Folios, and each entry is reviewed before being published.

10. We Love WP

Suggested by: adelle of Fuel Your Creativity

We Love WP shares top-notch WordPress powered sites. They also showcase free themes that designers have modified into something unique.

11. CSS Divine

Suggested by: Jess

CSS Divine is a CSS-based design aggregate website. You can do a color search by clicking on the color palette at the side bar, and it’ll narrow down the gallery to themes tagged by that particular color. There are plenty of categories including Art, Business, Clean, and Portfolio.

12. Design Snack

Suggested by: Justin Scheetz of Design Snack

Design Snack, according to their tagline, is “The designer’s showcase that you control”. Design Snack features XHTML and Flash designs. You can customize the way the designs are displayed, vote on individual entries, and browse by color.

13. SF art & design portal

Suggested by: cindyf

SF art & design portal is the work of the Amsterdam-based web design agency, Strangefruit.nl webdesign. SF art & design portal features hand-picked, innovative, creative art and design sites. You can browse by category, style, color, and even country.

14. Design Shack

Suggested by: stefan alexandru of Stefan Alexandru

Design Shack is an exclusive repository of first-class CSS-based web designs. They look for designs that “stand out from the crowd”. They also have a Tutorials section that features web design lessons.

15. CSSloaf

Suggested by: CSS Loaf of CSSloaf

CSSloaf brings together designs from 35 other showcases so that you don’t have to go all over the place to see the latest designs. They feature large screenshots so that each design is visible; no need to strain your eyes on tiny thumbnails.

16. eduStyle

Suggested by: Luke Robinson (Twitter profile)

eduStyle is dedicated to the design of higher education websites for higher education professionals. It’s intended to showcase the best works of higher education designers to their peers.

Thank you for your contributions and suggestions, as well as giving me a few links to add to my collection. If your favorite sites aren’t on here, make sure to discuss it in the comments section and maybe we’ll have a follow up to this one.

Financial Times is like the UK’s Wall Street Journal, so they don’t print things lightly—truth likelihood is very high. And they’re saying that the next iPhone will be subsidized and much cheaper than the current one, like we already knew:

The new version of the Apple iPhone is set to be sold at significantly lower prices than the existing one, in a tacit acknowledgement by the US technology company that its previous sales strategy was not sustainable. Apple has bowed to pressure from mobile phone operators and agreed they can subsidise the latest iPhone, expected to be unveiled by Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, on Monday.

While the confirmation of the cheaper, subsidized iPhone comes from their own undoubtedly rock solid sources, they don’t have specific numbers from them and point to squishy analysts on how much cheaper it’ll be, such as speculation it’ll be $199 in the US, with a $200 subsidy from AT&T. Either way, AT&T will definitely be bearing some of the costs for us: “Apple has accepted that the new iPhone should be subsidised in the US and western Europe by the mobile operators who sell it to consumers, according to people familiar with the matter.”

But $200 does sound right.

Dude, I didn’t expect people to camp out for the next iPhone, but I think if anything will drive people to not shower for a day in the middle of summer, it’ll be a $200 iPhone.

Wal-Mart Stores (WMT, news, msgs), the world’s largest retailer, has launched an online classified advertising site, a move that opens a broader range of shopping to Wal-Mart’s Internet customers.

The site is run through Oodle.com, a 3-year-old San Mateo, Calif., company, and links to Oodle’s online offerings.

“This free, community-based resource allows customers to buy and sell items locally, find local jobs and learn about events in their area,” Walmart.com spokesman Ravi Jariwala said June 3 in an e-mail message.

Jariwala said the site expands goods and services that Wal-Mart customers can buy through the company.

“It also further connects our community of 130 million customers who shop the Wal-Mart brand each week,” Jariwala said.

Craigslist has long been considered the leader in the sector, which has seen the number of “for sale” listings surge in the down economy as more people try to sell items to help make ends meet.

Oodle Chief Executive Craig Donato said he has seen significant traffic growth in the last three to four months.

“There’s lots of reasons, but I suspect one is that classified advertising is a category that will do well” when times are tough, Donato said.

2009 Chevrolet Aveo

Small cars are finally getting some respect, thanks to rising gas prices that now average $3.62 a gallon nationwide. Consumers searching for ways to ease the pain at the pump are no longer snubbing petite cars–some of which come equipped with big-car amenities.

“Having the right vehicles at the right price, at the right time, is driving our sales success this month and this year,” says Jim O’Sullivan, president and CEO of Mazda North America Operations.

The Mazda3 is one such small car, as it has a light appetite for gas and gets a combined U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rating of 26 mpg at a base MSRP of $14,985–that’s less than half of the $35,000 average new-vehicle price. And the amenities are still solid: Drivers can power-adjust both side mirrors and can stay current on tire pressure and fuel levels with the dash-mounted warning lights.

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As gas prices soared in April, so did sales of the Mazda3, which experienced a 14.8% increase in sales, compared with April 2007.

In fact, small cars that deliver a lot for the money were among the bright spots for auto sales in April. Sales of the Toyota Yaris surged 45.9% over the same month the previous year; the Nissan Versa jumped 26.4%, and the Nissan Sentra climbed 25.5%.

All of these vehicles and the Mazda3 made our list of best small cars for the buck–inexpensive, fuel-efficient and reliable cars that have low maintenance and repair costs but are richly equipped with comfort and conveniences often found on big, gas-guzzling vehicles.

Rising Popularity

By and large, since 2006, smaller vehicles have become more popular–not just small cars, but also compact SUVs and crossover vehicles, says Tom Libby, senior director at J.D. Power and Associates. “There has been an ongoing shift toward smaller vehicles; it’s been gradual and under the radar.”

Year-to-date sales of small vehicles comprise 35% of all new vehicle sales, up from 31% over the same period a year ago. Libby says that 42% of all vehicles sold in April were equipped with four-cylinder engines, compared with 38% for six-cylinder engines.

That’s because these small cars are so unlike the bland economy boxes of the 1970s, the only alternatives available to motorists during the gas crunch of that era. Creature comforts in those cars included an AM/FM radio, power steering and automatic transmission–and that was it.

2008 Volkswagen Jetta

“Consumers want to make the least compromise in terms of size and amenities,” says Gabe Shenhar, program manager at Consumer Reports. “The small cars today are better on several levels.”

The vehicles of today are also quieter with nicer interior, auto analysts say, noting that dials and knobs are less likely to fall off when used. And these cars aren’t short on amenities. At the top of our list is the Honda Civic. It has a combined EPA rating of 29 mpg and base MSRP of $15,810. Drivers can position their seat at the right height, adjust the head restraints to a comfortable spot and listen to their favorite tunes through a six-speaker audio system that has MP3 capability.

Completing our top 10 list are the Chevrolet Aveo, Chevrolet Cobalt, Honda Fit, Volkswagen Jetta and Volkswagen Rabbit. All of these cars are 2008 models even though some, like the Honda Fit, have been redesigned for 2009, but complete testing by consumer-advocate entities such as Consumer Reports has not been done for all models.

By The Numbers

Several measures were used to pull together our list of best cars for the buck. Various government agencies, auto analysts and auto Web sites use unique formulas to define the small-car category.

For fuel efficiency, we used the ratings from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s market class category. The Toyota Yaris is the most fuel-efficient of the group, with a combined EPA rating of 31 mpg.

For price, we looked at the base MSRP provided by the manufacturer for the automatic-transmission four-door trim. Overall, sales of two-door coupes and vehicles with manual transmissions are “a very small percentage of vehicle sales,” says Libby. The cheapest car on the list is the Chevrolet Aveo, which has a base MSRP of $10,235 (though that number rises considerably when you add options such as a navigation system, heated seats and premium sound system).

Since consumers often equate low price with “unreliable,” all vehicles on this list score at least “good” in Consumer Reports‘ Predicted Reliability Ratings. The best rating, “excellent,” was awarded to the Honda Civic, Honda Fit and Mazda3.

Along these lines we also looked at auto-industry analyst Vincentric’s estimated five-year repair costs, which take into account warranties that cover most repairs in the first three years of ownership (but not the last two years), as well as maintenance costs like oil changes and windshield-wiper blade replacements.

The vehicles with the highest five-year repair costs at $770 are the Mazda3 and Volkswagen Jetta. This is the area where the otherwise wallet-friendly Chevrolet Aero runs into a little bit of trouble: That car has the highest maintenance cost for the same period, at $3,496, just over one-third of the base MSRP sticker price.

Sacrificing Safety

All the vehicles on our list had to have at least side-impact airbags or curtains, head restraints or electronic stability control, which aid in averting or preventing a crash from occurring.

Unfortunately, only two vehicles that made our list earned triple “good” ratings (front, side and rear impact) from the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS), which conducts crash tests to measure safety: the Honda Civic and Nissan Versa.

“Small cars tend not to do as well in crash tests,” says Russ Rader, IIHS spokesman. “If you are trying to save pennies at the pump, then there is a safety trade-off. Small cars are much safer than they were 10 years ago, but they cannot be as safe as bigger vehicles because of the laws of physics.”

Just as higher gas prices seem to be a new economic fixture, so are small cars, says Shenhar. “[Small cars] have been with us since the 1960s, so they aren’t going away. They just keep getting better, more economical and safer.”

MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish twin, separated from her family for 28 years, is suing the Canary Islands for a mix-up at the maternity hospital which led to her being taken home by the wrong mother, media reported Wednesday.

The woman discovered she had an identical twin when she was mistaken for someone else in a shop in 2001.

The two sisters , who were not named, found they were born in the same hospital in 1973 around the same time and a DNA test subsequently showed they were identical twins.

“In 1973 there were two assistants and one supervisor for 60 babies,” Densi Calero, who worked in the maternity unit of the clinic at the time, told local radio. “It’s not impossible to imagine something like this could happen.”

The woman is suing the Canary Island health services for 3 million euros ($4.7 million) for emotional trauma, El Pais newspaper reported. “I wish I’d never found out about it,” her lawyer quoted her as saying.

Her sister was brought up alongside another girl, believing they were twins.