Sunday, February 28, 2010
Facebook Wants To Be Twitter, Part II
Facebook Wants To Be Twitter, Part II
This evening Facebook began testing what appears to be their version of Twitter's retweet feature: "via". On any article shared by your friend, you can click on "Share" and when you post the article to your profile, Facebook will now automatically say who the article came from. While the "via" content only currently works on shared articles, I'd assume that this feature would be extended to other stream stories if initial user testing proves successful. We've written extensively about the Twitterfication of Facebook, and this appears to be one more step in that ...
School Watched Student On Webcam On Suspicion Of Drug Dealing
School Watched Student On Webcam On Suspicion Of Drug Dealing
[Student Blake] Robbins told reporters Wednesday that [school administrator Lindy Matsko] didn't deny confronting him about a picture the webcam took.
The lawsuit filed last week claims Matsko talked to Robbins about "improper behavior" at home, citing images from the school-issued laptop's ...
Saturday, February 27, 2010
iTunes reaches 10 billion: Here are the top 25 music downloads
iTunes reaches 10 billion: Here are the top 25 music downloads
This week, iTunes sold its 10 billionth music download. To mark the milestone, here are the top 25 songs sold since Apple opened the online music store in 2003.
Northrop Grumman pressured by Maryland legislator, gay rights groups over move
Northrop Grumman pressured by Maryland legislator, gay rights groups over move
RICHMOND -- A Maryland state senator and gay rights advocates are urging defense giant Northrop Grumman to reject Virginia as a location for its new corporate headquarters because of the Commonwealth's position on state protections for gay employees. ...
Why is this a surprise? These hipsters are idiots...
Fired from Hollister for wearing the hijab?
A Muslim college student claims she was fired from a Bay Area branch of the clothing chain Hollister because the hijab she wears to cover her head violated the store's 'look policy.' ...
Twitter permission for US troops
Twitter permission for US troops
US forces are to be allowed to use social networking websites following a review by the defence department.
iPhone/iPod Cases & more from iQase.com Review + Giveaway
iPhone/iPod Cases & more from iQase.com Review + Giveaway
Check out http://iqase.com to get these products! Use the code YouTube2010 at checkout and get 30% off all orders from 2/10/2010 – 2/28/2010. How to enter the giveaway inside….
Follow these directions to enter the giveaway: ...
8.8 magnitude earthquake hits Chile -- tsunami warning issued
8.8 magnitude earthquake hits Chile -- tsunami warning issued
An 8.8 magnitude earthquake shook central Chile Saturday. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a tsunami warning.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Clearly bad behavior...
School Administrator Boasts About Spying On Students Using Laptop
Webcams
Webcams
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/26/dan-ackerman-school-sdmin_n_477935.html
RIP: Hummer, 1992-2010
RIP: Hummer, 1992-2010
Filed under: GM, HUMMER
For years, Hummers - each one somehow bigger and more polluting than the next - were the easiest target in the automotive world for environmentalists . Need examples? How about this and this and this and, oh, you get the ...
Tesla Leasing Roadster for the Cost of a Mortgage
Tesla Leasing Roadster for the Cost of a Mortgage
If you've been yearning to own a Tesla Roadster, but can't afford the six-figure price tag, the car company will start leasing their popular electric sports car for a minimum of $1,658 a month, meaning you probably still can't afford it. ...
Amazing Nature Photos Taken with..iPhone's 3GS Macro Lens!? (Slideshow)
Amazing Nature Photos Taken with..iPhone's 3GS Macro Lens!? (Slideshow)
photograph by Trevor Reichman It is not so novel anymore that a cell phone comes with a built in camera; it's now the norm. But a certain phone fitted with a camera that produces high-quality macro images which rival those of stand-alone cameras finally prompted me to give up my Canon. This slideshow is a compilation of some of my favorite iPhone shots, using its macro lens feature. Read the full story on ...
Cafeteria biblical literalist -
A person that picks (as from a menu) the passages of the bible that
fit what they want and ingores all the other nonsensical passages.
Either it is ALL devine or it is NOT devine. You can't have some
apply and some ignored.
fit what they want and ingores all the other nonsensical passages.
Either it is ALL devine or it is NOT devine. You can't have some
apply and some ignored.
Regulators, regulating? Investigating? 'bout time...
Wall Street's Greece role probed
US regulators are investigating the role of Wall Street firms in deals that may have allowed Greece to mask its debt woes.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Carry the Moon in your pocket with this free iPhone app
Carry the Moon in your pocket with this free iPhone app
Filed under: App Review
Last week I was pleased to suggest some free astronomy programs of interest to star-gazers. This week, I'm at it again hoping that space or science buffs get a look at Moon Globe. ...
Hope folks use this one...
ShadyURL.com - Creating Sinister URLs
You see, this service will not shorten any URL you throw at it. Rather, it will make it longer. And more sinister and macabre. For example, when I tried it out with www.killerstartups.com some results included "5z8.info/awesome-real-life-headshots_r9r3k_bomb" and (my personal favorite) "5z8.info/-OPEN-WEBCAM---START-RECORD--_r4q4d_blackmarket". These are just two examples – the ones who were politically-correct enough so as to be reproduced here. There were some really nasty ones about immigrants, but there is no need to print that again – I think the two I pasted above give you a good idea of what to expect from this tool.
It looks like I am not the only person on Earth that has had it with the endless number of URL shorteners that do absolutely the same, and claim to be the biggest thing since Swiss Cheese came along. The ones who created this service obviously did it as a way to mock these URL shorteners, and I believe that they hit the bull's eye right in the ...
Twitter Connects With LinkedIn Mobile UI Expert
Twitter Connects With LinkedIn's Mobile UI Expert
Back in December, LinkedIn released a slick-looking update to the iPhone app. That looks to be the swan song for the man largely responsible for it, Bryan Haggerty. Because today's he's leaving LinkedIn for Twitter. ...
Apple OS and the new A4 chip could be headed to new gadgets
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Hardware, OS,Developer, iPad
Apple appears to have plans for the iPhone OS beyond the iPhone, and iPad. A report inComputerworld notes a new Apple job posting for an Engineering Manager that can bring the iPhone OS to new platforms.
The Core Platform team within Apple's Core OS organization is looking for a talented and inspired manager to lead a team focused on bring-up of iPhone OS on new platforms. The team is responsible for low level platform architecture, firmware, core drivers and bring-up of new hardware platforms. The team consists of talented engineers with experience in hardware, firmware, IOKit drivers, security and platform architecture.
What could those new products be? Maybe a thinner, friskier Apple TV. Maybe smaller and lighter versions of laptops that get into netbook territory. And it is a pretty good bet that the next iPhone will be using the Apple designed A4 chip that is at the heart of the iPad. Apple could also be thinking about creating products or technologies for other products that are not Apple branded. The sky is the limit here. [more]Apple OS and the new A4 chip could be headed to new gadgets
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Hardware, OS,Developer, iPad
The Core Platform team within Apple's Core OS organization is looking for a talented and inspired manager to lead a team focused on bring-up of iPhone OS on new platforms. The team is responsible for low level platform architecture, firmware, core drivers and bring-up of new hardware platforms. The team consists of talented engineers with experience in hardware, firmware, IOKit drivers, security and platform architecture.
What could those new products be? Maybe a thinner, friskier Apple TV. Maybe smaller and lighter versions of laptops that get into netbook territory. And it is a pretty good bet that the next iPhone will be using the Apple designed A4 chip that is at the heart of the iPad. Apple could also be thinking about creating products or technologies for other products that are not Apple branded. The sky is the limit here. [more]
Foursquare's First Television Commercial Airs Tonight On Bravo [Video]
Foursquare's First Television Commercial Airs Tonight On Bravo [Video]
First Google, now Foursquare. Hot on the heels of Google's first Search television ad (run during the Super Bowl, no less), the location-based social network Foursquare is gearing up to do the same thing tonight. ...
How to turn failures into opportunities -
How to turn failures into opportunities
Everyone fails. The question is how we respond to our failures.
LMI Cited for Work to Improve Kenyan Healthcare System
| Management Sciences for Health, the prime contractor supporting the U.S. Agency for International Development Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) Program, recently cited LMI as one of its "core partners" in improving the transparency and accountability of the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA). Link |
Maybe Lieberman and Collins should read (& understand) the FAIR Act...
Huge size of DHS contractor workforce leaves senators 'astonished' --
Washington Technology
Washington Technology
Maryland to recognize gay marriages from other places -
Maryland to recognize gay marriages from other places
Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler (D) declared Wednesday that Maryland will recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere and that its agencies should immediately begin affording gay married couples the same rights as heterosexual ones. ...
Sweet idea!
Mute on Lock Automatically Turns Off Your Speakers When You Lock Your PC [Downloads]
Windows only: Portable utility Mute on Lock turns off your system speakers whenever you walk away and lock your workstation, but it also provides a quick shortcut key for toggling your speakers on or off. ...
Vice-principal denies using laptop to spy on student
Vice-principal denies using laptop to spy on student
Lindy Matsko, the Harriton High School assistant vice principal named in Blake J. Robbins vs. Lower Merion School District as the school official who showed a student a photo taken covertly by his laptop's webcam during a disciplinary meeting, has strenuously denied that she ever spied on students using their laptops. She did not say whether the photo was captured covertly with Robbins's webcam. Though Matsko did not say whether or not she used photos taken from Robbins' webcam for disciplinary reasons-- the incident which sparked the chain of events leading to the class action suit, she said she looks forward to the day that she can respond to the allegations without pending legal action getting in the way. ...
Conan O'Brien is now on Twitter! @ConanOBrien
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Conan O'Brien is now on Twitter!
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I had a show. Then I had a different show. Now I have a Twitter account.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
This would make more sense...
Apple creating "explicit" category for App Store
Filed under: Apple, iPhone, App Store, SDK, iPod touch
After all of the kerfuffle earlier this week about Apple shutting down racy apps in the App Store, it appears that the company might be creating a special place for all of that suggestive and sexy ...
ListFreeSamples.com - Where Free Stuff Is Listed
ListFreeSamples.com - Where Free Stuff Is Listed
A site that collects freebies, List Free Samples has the distinctly good approach of using only official sources for the freebies that are listed. This is done in order to provide site visitors with a trustworthy experience. Anything that is suspicious or spam-alike will not be posted on the ...
How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive.
How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive
Contrary to recent research about social networks and efficiency, taking a break from work to read that tweet about Lady Gaga's lingerie might actually stoke creativity and enhance problem-solving skills. ...
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Half of Public Wi-Fi Connections Aren't From Laptops [STATS]
Mobile ad network JiWire just released the stats from its latest public Wi-Fi study and found that 56% of connections are from mobile devices like the iPhone, the iPod touch, Android smartphones and Sony's PSP handheld gaming console. ...
You Don't Need An iPhone App To Eat GMO Free...Or Do You?
You Don't Need An iPhone App To Eat GMO Free...Or Do You?
One of my not-so-extended male relatives steadfastedly refuses to buy organic. No amount of talk about pesticides, overuse of synthetic fertilizers, or factory farm cruelty will sway his view. He lives in the heart of GMO corn and soybean country, which may have something to do with his opinion. So the news that there's now an iPhone application - it's new! it's free! - that will help you avoid genetically modified ingredients while shopping would sound absolutely ludicrous to my "uncle." Lo and behold, however...Read the full story on ...
iPhone chalkboard lets kids be adults and adults act like kids
iPhone chalkboard lets kids be adults and adults act like kids
Filed under: Humor, Odds and ends, iPhone
There's a huge world of creative, crafty people on Etsy.com, and we're always hearing about new Mac or iPhone-related products that have been developed. ...
Go visit!
Exhibit honors federal employees
An exhibit honoring "Great Federal Employees" opened Monday in the Russell Senate Office Building rotunda and will run through Friday.
Did design flaws doom the LHC?
Did design flaws doom the LHC?
Catastrophic failure that caused accelerator shutdown was not a freak accident, says project physicist.
Do it with 51 votes.- HCR
Do it with 51 votes
The 60-vote requirement for healthcare is made up. 51 is a majority, and it's all we need
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Twitter Tool To JustUnfollow Doesn't Work, Starts Office Fight
And @arrington is so insecure that he is offended by folks that don't follow him back. Captain Obvious strikes again?
Twitter Tool To JustUnfollow Doesn't Work, Starts Office Fight
I'm testing out JustUnfollow, a new Twitter app from Twi5. The idea is simple – sign in to Twitter via OAuth and a list of people pops up that you follow on Twitter but don't follow you back. If that makes you angry and insecure, you can then unfollow some or all of those ...
HOW TO: Block FarmVille on Facebook
Oh wow! Captain Obvious is now writing for Mashable...
HOW TO: Block FarmVille on Facebook
The Facebook-platform game FarmVille has 80 million players. It's been named social networking game of the year. It's played by people young and old. It's bigger than Twitter. But that doesn't mean it's for everyone. ...
Test Drive the Lunar Electric Rover on Your iPhone [PICS]
Test Drive the Lunar Electric Rover on Your iPhone [PICS]
Today NASA launched their Lunar Electric Rover Simulator app for the iPhone/ iPad Touch.
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Google Officially Ditching Gears for HTML5, Drops Safari Support Entirely [HTML5]
Google Officially Ditching Gears for HTML5, Drops Safari Support Entirely [HTML5]
We've known for a while that Google wasn't actively improving Gears, their tool that offers offline support for many popular web applications. Now the Official Gears blog explains their transition to the game-changing HTML5: ...
Are you a Leader or just a Boss? | The Practice of Leadership
I often find that many people confuse leadership with positional power. We tend to believe that a person in a position of authority or someone with a title, has their position or title due to their leadership qualities. However, in many cases there is no correlation between someone's position and their leadership ability. Just having a title does not make you a leader, leaderships is about influence. Title only buys you time to exercise true leadership, and in this time your leadership either increases or diminishes and eventually fails. There is a huge difference between being a boss and being a leader…! Consider the following…
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Great iPhone and iPod touch Games for Kids [Parenting]
Great iPhone and iPod touch Games for Kids [Parenting]
We cover mostly productivity-related iPhone apps around these parts, but if you've got a little one who could use some educational—or just distracting—games, MetaFilter founder, blogger, and dad Matt Haughey has rounded up 14 kid-tested, parent-approved iPhone games for ...
A Better Way to Passcode Lock Your iPhone (At Your Own Risk) [IPhone Apps]
A Better Way to Passcode Lock Your iPhone (At Your Own Risk) [IPhone Apps]
The guys at 9to5Mac have put together a profile you can install on your iPhone using a corporate development kit that gives you an alphanumeric passcode lock—versus the standard 4-digit PIN-style lock. ...
Board seeks higher tax rate in Arlington
Board seeks higher tax rate in Arlington
The Arlington County Board voted unanimously Saturday to propose a tax rate of 96.5 cents per $100 of a property's assessed value, a 10.3 percent increase over the rate now of 87.5 cents. ...
Apple bans 5,000 apps for sexual content. Here are the new rules
Apple bans 5,000 apps for sexual content. Here are the new rules
Blogger Jon Atherton at iPhone app developer Chillifresh has become the de facto spokesman for those who think Apple's new anti-smut rules for iPhone apps are too puritanical. Chillifresh's arguably sexist — or maybe just kind of dumb — Wobble app was one of those hit by Apple's cleanup campaign this past ...
Photoshop 1.0 Recreated On iPhone
Photoshop 1.0 Recreated On iPhone
Dotnaught writes "Photoshop co-creator Russell Brown asked Ansca Mobile to re-create Photoshop 1.0, originally introduced in 1990, for the iPhone. The resulting app, created in three days using the Corona SDK, was distributed to 50 attendees of an event celebrating Photoshop's 20th anniversary. Programmer Evan Kirchhoff in a blog post explains that Ansca took the project on to prove its claims about how Corona makes iPhone development ...
Olympic Twitter Tracker Visualizes Tweets
[VIDEO]
NBC has set up a fun Twitter tracker for the Winter Olympics, representing Tweets about each sport in a visual interface.
The Olympic Twitter Tracker, developed by Stamen Design, is an interesting addition to the standard stream of Tweets, which NBC also provides. The feature was announced on the Twitter blog this week, and Twitter posted a video demo ...
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Speaking Of Creepy Location Features: Google's Opt-Out Latitude Alerts
The past couple of days have seen some brouhaha over location privacy issues. Please Rob Me brought up the potentially troubling issue of tweeting out your location updates (and Foursquare responded). But actually, Google is doing something that's perhaps even ...
iPhone accessories from Toy Fair 2010
iPhone accessories from Toy Fair 2010
Filed under: Humor, Odds and ends, iPhone
Woot.com is one of my favorite sites on the entire Internet -- not only do they offer some great deals, and not only are they witty folks, but they're from my original hometown of St. Louis, MO. They recently went to the Toy Fair 2010, and in their roundup of the best stuff they saw are a few fun iPhone-related toys and goodies. First up is this monster-style iPhone skin that you can see above -- obviously, it's not the most practical way to protect your iPhone, but it does look cool. Apparently it's not in production yet, and there's no word on price, but we'll keep an eye ...
Police Chief: One federal employee unaccounted for
Fire department is searching the building for victims. Plus: Slide show
Fake iPhones from China reach UK
Fake iPhones from China reach UK
Cult of Mac says cheap Chinese fake iPhones are being sold in the UK. Anyone seen one in the US yet?
Spying school district update: turned on webcams 42 times, FBI isn't sure that's legal
Spying school district update: turned on webcams 42 times, FBI isn't sure that's legal
Remember the Pennsylvania school district that was accused of remotely flipping on the webcams of students' laptops? As if the civil suit filed on behalf of those students wasn't going to be enough trouble for the Lower Merion representatives, now it seems the FBI wants to know just what's going on, launching an investigation into the practice. For its part the district said that it remotely activated the cams 42 times, and that it only did so with the bestest of intentions: when trying to locate a missing laptop. It would also like to point out that only two employees had the power to flip the switch, and that they only captured images -- never sound. Because, you know, surreptitiously watching your kids is so much less menacing when there's no audio ...
FBI Probing PA School Webcam Spy Case
FBI Probing PA School Webcam Spy Case
On Thursday we discussed news that a Pennsylvania high school was spying on students through the webcams in laptops that were issued to the students. The FBI is now taking an interest in the case, investigating whether federal wiretap and computer-intrusion laws were violated in the process. "The FBI opened its investigation after news of the suit broke on Thursday, the law-enforcement official said. Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman may also investigate, she said Friday." Ferman said her office is "looking to see whether there are potential violations of Pennsylvania criminal ...
TweetingMachine.com - Using Twitter As A Marketing Tool
TweetingMachine.com - Using Twitter As A Marketing Tool
The power that Twitter has a marketing tool is no longer something people would dismiss, much less laugh at. If you couple the velocity that it has with the monumental number of users, the equation becomes ineluctable. Now, it takes some skill learning how to capitalize on ...
Twitter Phishing Attack Spreading via Direct Message [WARNING]
Twitter Phishing Attack Spreading via Direct Message [WARNING]
A Twitter phishing attack is spreading rapidly today, attempting to obtain Twitter logins via Direct Messages. If you receive a message reading "lol, is this you", and linking to a site called "bzpharma", do not click the link. ...
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Octazen: What The Heck Did Facebook Just Buy Exactly, And Why?
Octazen: What The Heck Did Facebook Just Buy Exactly, And Why?
Facebook has acquired its third company, Malaysian startup Octazen Solutions. Facebook says this is largely a talent acquisition, according to GigaOm. Octazen has a slightly different story on their home page, saying Facebook acquired "most of the company's assets and to employ those assets in a different ...
Friday, February 19, 2010
Catalog Choice Rids Your Mailbox of Unwanted Catalogs [Junk Mail]
Catalog Choice Rids Your Mailbox of Unwanted Catalogs [Junk Mail]
Tired of opening your mailbox to an avalanche of paper catalogs? Catalog Choice is a free service that helps you cut back on or eliminate the free magazines that cram your mailbox. ...
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How to Make EVERY day Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day. The red hearts make us feel like love and happiness is all around. We see images of couples hugging and gazing into each other's eyes and we want that. We go shopping at beautifully decorated stores and envision making our loved one feel special and cherished. And, secretly, we hope our partners are thinking and doing the same for us. The spirit behind Valentine's Day is beautiful. Don't we all want more of it ...
Thursday, February 18, 2010
School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home
School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home
According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools' administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families. The issue came to light when the Robbins's child was disciplined for "improper behavior in his home" and the Vice Principal used a photo taken by the webcam as evidence. The suit is a class action, brought on behalf of all students issued with these machines. ...
Fav4.org - A Homepage That Leaves No Room For Confusion
Fav4.org - A Homepage That Leaves No Room For Confusion
When I first looked at this site I couldn't help but smirk and think "This would make Mr. Magoo proud". The site will let you have a personalized start page with a difference: you will only be allowed to choose four pages to be displayed on it. ...
Owners Smash iPhones To Get Upgrades, Says Insurance Company
Owners Smash iPhones To Get Upgrades, Says Insurance Company
markass530 writes "An iPhone insurance carrier says that four in six claims are suspicious, and is worse when a new model appears on the market. 'Supercover Insurance is alleging that many iPhone owners are deliberately smashing their devices and filing false claims in order to upgrade to the latest model. The gadget insurance company told Sky News Sunday that it saw a 50-percent rise in claims during the month Apple launched the latest version, the iPhone ...
Android Has Been Graced With A New eBay Application
Android Has Been Graced With A New eBay Application
There's nothing like finding and getting rid of junk on eBay, especially if you're a gadget hound looking to offload last month's toys for the latest and greatest. While it's entirely possible to manage your eBay account on your phone's browser, a dedicated application would make life so much ...
Opera on iPhone: Here But Not Here
Opera on iPhone: Here But Not Here
Engadget's Thomas Ricker is in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress. He got a preview of Opera's Opera Mini browser for the iPhone and was impressed by its speed. He was also confused by Opera's unwillingness to let him share any images of it in action. And of course, there's no guarantee that it'll ever be available in Apple's iPhone App Store. (Actually, the odds seem against ...
NASA Brings the Dark Side of the Sun to Your iPhone
NASA Brings the Dark Side of the Sun to Your iPhone
NASA's newest free app lets you keep track of sunspots, coronal loops and solar tsunamis in real time on your iPhone.
Uganda cleric shows gay porn film
Uganda cleric shows gay porn film
A Ugandan anti-gay clergyman shows gay pornography in his church in a bid to popularise anti-homosexual laws.
Palin hits out against Family Guy
Palin hits out against Family Guy
Former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin criticises TV show Family Guy for "mocking" her son who has Down's syndrome.
Look, It's Safari for the iPad [Ipad]
Look, It's Safari for the iPad [Ipad]
If you have downloaded the iPad SDK, you can use it to access the Safari browser. Or you just can watch this video. It's similar to the iPhone's, adding the new user interface elements of the iPad. [AppleInsider] ...
Google Buys iPhone Email Search App reMail and Pulls It From the App Store [IPhone Apps]
Google Buys iPhone Email Search App reMail and Pulls It From the App Store [IPhone Apps]
The iPhone app reMail is email search the way it should be:
iPhone mail search is fine. reMail iPhone mail search is actually good, if it works for you. Two things: there's no Exchange support (sorry suits!), and there's only support for one account at a time. But within that one IMAP or POP account, reMail archives all your message text as far back as you want, letting you search full text-not just subjects-without a network ...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Palin to tea partiers: "You're going to have to choose between the parties"
Palin to tea partiers: You're going to have to choose between the parties
It's in her interest to say this, of course, if she wants any shot at the GOP nomination, and it's bound to irritate tea-party indies who bristle at her attempts to "hijack" the movement for Republicans. [...] Read the rest » ...
BBC to offer iPhone applications
BBC to offer iPhone applications
The BBC announces that it will start offering iPhone apps for some of its news and sport content starting from April.
USBCELL – USB Rechargeable Batteries
USBCELL – USB Rechargeable Batteries
The USBCELL is a rechargeable AA battery by Moixa. The battery is designed to fit into a USB port and to charge through it. These batteries offer a freedom from the need to have a battery charger to be able to recharge a battery. ...
Firefox Mobile for Android Could Be Available By End of the Year [Firefox]
Firefox Mobile for Android Could Be Available By End of the Year [Firefox]
Firefox Mobile for Android is inevitable, it's just a question of when. While it's still vague, at least we know it's on the cards for late this year, with Mozilla's VP of mobiles telling TechRadar the hold up is due to different code: ...
Woman charged with 'acid' murder
Woman charged with 'acid' murder
A woman is charged with the murder of a three-year-old girl, as police investigate if acid was involved in the child's death.
Nerd Merit Badges Bring Foursquare Achievements to Real Life
Nerd Merit Badges Bring Foursquare Achievements to Real Life
If you're a fan of the mobile check-in service Foursquare, why not wear your proverbial badge on your sleeve? A company called Nerd Merit Badges plans on bringing your Foursquare exploits to real life with a series Foursquare Nerd Merit Badges. ...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
GreenMap's New iPhone App Helps You Find The Green Hotspots Nearby
GreenMap's New iPhone App Helps You Find The Green Hotspots Nearby
Image via Greenmap We love GreenMap. It's a crowd-sourced map of all the great green stuff in cities all over the world. Launched last year, the online resource now is available as an iPhone app. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
Motorola Makes a Heads-Up Display for Your Helmet
Motorola Makes a Heads-Up Display for Your Helmet
Motorola's Golden-i is a tiny screen meant to clip onto the visor of a construction helmet, giving you the virtual equivalent of a 15-inch monitor.
Thanks to all who sent in cell phone pics! There are some lovely ones; have a look at our gallery: http://88-5.us/9c2Czj
Thanks to all who sent in cell phone pics! There are some lovely ones;
have a look at our gallery: http://88-5.us/9c2Czj
have a look at our gallery: http://88-5.us/9c2Czj
The New BlackBerry WebKit Browser: Yes, It's Actually Good [BlackBerry]
The New BlackBerry WebKit Browser: Yes, It's Actually Good [BlackBerry]
This is swanky. RIM's showing off BlackBerry's new WebKit-based browser, and yes, it's fast! JavaScript actually loads! It even scored a perfect 100 in the Acid3 rendering test. Still months away, but we'll take it. [BlackBerryRocks] ...
Notepod+ helps you sketch your iPad ideas
Notepod+ helps you sketch your iPad ideas
Filed under: Humor, Cool tools, Apple, iPad
From the makers of the Notepod comes the Notepod+, which does for the iPad what the original paper version of the iPhone accomplished. It allows you to sketch out any app ideas or UI insights you might happen to have laying around. One of the refrains we heard from at Macworld last week was that the iPad was a completely different animal -- apps on the new device won't (and shouldn't) be the same as apps already running on the iPhone (even though iPhone apps will work on both devices). So if you want an iPad-sized, erm, pad to draw your ideas on, Notepod+ is ...
3.0 Software Update Now Free For iPod Touch
3.0 Software Update Now Free For iPod Touch
If you're an iPod touch owner, I hope you didn't buy the 3.0 software update, because you can now download it for free. Apple may have realized why charging for the software update is inconsiderate to their customers, because they are now offering it as a free download for all iPod touch users, as it should be. The change was discovered by PocketGamer's Tracy Erickson when he plugged in his iPod touch running the old software. You have to feel bad for those who bought it, though. It really should have been free to begin with, since some games require it to run. Syncing the device running older software should prompt you to update to 3.0 for free. Let's hope this and future updates stay this ...
Finally, a Meebo iPhone App
Finally, a Meebo iPhone App
Meebo, long the leading Web-based multi-network IM service, finally has an iPhone app. (It's had a pretty good version that works in Mobile Safari for a long time.) The app looks slick and fast… ...
Prince George's man calls police, confesses to wife's slaying, authorities say
Prince George's man calls police, confesses to wife's slaying, authorities say
A Prince George's County man called police Monday afternoon to tell them he had killed his estranged wife, and when police found the man parked in a Lanham parking lot, his wife's body was inside the vehicle, Prince George's police said. ...
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Cheney Snubs Palin: Wrong On Iran, Won't Declare Support For Potential 2012 Run. <--never thought Cheney would be the voice of reason...
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Welfare for Wall Street, free markets for us
Welfare for Wall Street, free markets for us
The government should make bankruptcy easier on homeowners, tougher on banks
Man Takes Bat To 29 Flatscreens At Walmart
Man Takes Bat To 29 Flatscreens At Walmart
Westley Strellis decided to test the durability of flatscreen televisions at a Georgia Walmart. With a metal baseball bat (also great for repairs) he scored from the sporting goods section. None of them passed his test. Good to know, Westley -- want a ride to Best Buy? Youtube Thanks to Bekka, Van, meatpuppet, Motion of the Lotion and Cindy, who prefer the old fashioned punch ...
Police arrest five 'gay' Kenyans
Police arrest five 'gay' Kenyans
Police in Kenya arrest five men accused of planning a "gay wedding" - a day after another union was halted.
How much is a $200 million film worth? Ask Redbox.
How much is a $200 million film worth? Ask Redbox.
Digg comments are really good on this one.
The Red Menace is sending the hurt toward Filmmakers' wallets
Friday, February 12, 2010
SquarePik: A New Foursquare iPhone App Based Around Pictures And Videos
SquarePik: A New Foursquare iPhone App Based Around Pictures And Videos
As Foursquare continues to gain momentum (both in users and with mainstream deals), a number of services are popping up to augment it. The latest is Pikchur, a service that already lets you share you pictures on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and other services. And now they've added Foursquare to the mix, and built an entirely new iPhone app just for ...
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Genetic basis for stuttering identified
Genetic basis for stuttering identified
Mutations found in genes responsible for directing enzymes to their cellular destination.
Often dismissed as a psychological problem, stuttering may be the result of genetic mutations implicated in daily metabolic processes, a new study shows.
Stuttering — a common speech disorder characterized by repetition, prolongation of sounds, and interruptions in the flow of speech — affects about 60 million people worldwide. Studies on twins and adopted individuals show that it is highly heritable, and the new work suggests that 10 different mutations on three genes coding for enzymes could be to blame.
"As a disorder it gets no respect," says senior investigator Dennis Drayna, a geneticist at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders in Bethesda, Maryland. "I think our results go a long way towards convincing sceptics that stuttering is indeed a biological problem."
Video: 56 WPM On iPhone's Virtual Keyboard
Video: 56 WPM On iPhone's Virtual Keyboard
When the iPhone had only been in the public eye for a short time, the challenges posed by the virtual keyboard were a real concern. Now, after it's been in use for several years, one person is stepping up and claiming to be the fastest typer on an iPhone in the world, clocking in at an impressive 56 words per minute. Check out the video after the ...
Processing for the iPhone
Processing for the iPhone
The Processing Javascript library has been adapted for use on the iPhone.
iProcessing is an open programming framework to help people develop native iPhone applications using the Processing language. It is an integration of the Processing.js library and a Javascript application framework for ...
Gates On iPad: Needs Pen, Keyboard, Voice
Gates On iPad: Needs Pen, Keyboard, Voice
If Bill Gates could redesign the iPad, he'd add a keyboard, a stylus and voice recognition. Heck, he'd probably even put Windows 7 on there. Microsoft's honcho is missing the point, and so are a lot of other people. Again. ...
Warning over 'sexy net messages'
Warning over 'sexy net messages'
A malicious software program that flirts with internet users to try to get their personal information could be making a comeback.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
New Telescope Captures Dazzling Image of Orion Nebula
- By Alexis Madrigal
- February 10, 2010 |
- 6:00 am |
- Categories: Space
You've undoubtedly seen the smudge of the Orion Nebula hanging just below his belt thousands of times, but the most beautiful image yet of the celestial body was just released Wednesday.
The European Southern Observatory's new VISTAtelescope's enormous field of view allows it to image the entire nebula at once. It's been designed to capture near-infrared light. The longer wavelengths of light in that part of the spectrum allow rays to pass through dusty space without being scattering.
The Orion Nebula is located about 1,350 light-years from Earth. The cloud of gas and dust is a nursery for young stars. The red blobs in the features near the center of the image are young, growing stars that are hidden by dust in visible light.
VISTA was just placed into service late last year, so we can expect many more beautiful near-infrared images as it conducts its survey of the sky.
There are detailed close-up shots below, too.
Image: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit. The 341 MB XXXL version.
Sri Lanka arrest sparks clashes
Sri Lanka arrest sparks clashes
Government supporters and opposition activists clash in Sri Lanka after the arrest of the defeated presidential candidate.
The tweet that made Steve Jobs furious
The tweet that made Steve Jobs furious
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Rumors, Steve Jobs
Apple doesn't have a huge social media presence. There's an iTunes Facebook page and what can arguably be called a MobileMe blog, but that's about it. However, they do monitor the likes of Twitter, like any self-respecting company would, and a recent tweet reportedly ticked off Steve Jobs but ...
Recycled Keyboard Purse
Recycled Keyboard Purse
Recycled Keyboard Purse – $39.95
What to get your beloved geek girlfriend? How about this Recycled Keyboard Purse, made from 365 computer keyboard keys. From the Neatorama Shop: Link ...
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
ThemeMyPhone Releases Their Official Wallpaper App
ThemeMyPhone Releases Their Official Wallpaper App
Our pals over at ThemeMyPhone have just released their official iPhone app, ThemeMyPhone Mobile Wallpapers [App Store, Free]. The app gives you access to over 8,000 free wallpapers courtesy of ThemeMyPhone, perfectly sized for your iPhone or iPod touch. It's free and available right ...
Monday, February 8, 2010
Bill Would Apply Antitrust Laws To Insurance
by Julie Rovner
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123412617&sc=17&f=1001
Bill Would Apply Antitrust Laws To Insuranceby Julie Rovner
NPR - February 8, 2010
With Congress still at an impasse over how to proceed with a major health overhaul, the House this week will vote on a small piece of the measure instead: a bill to repeal a decades-old insurance industry exemption from antitrust laws.
"For 65 years, the insurance industry has had a unique — well, they and Major League Baseball — but the insurance industry has had an exemption from antitrust legislation in terms of price fixing and collusion, and you name it," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The bill, to change the 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act, is highly popular with House Democrats, although less so in the Senate. [more]
Autism Risks Detailed In Children Of Older Mothers
by The Associated Press
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123494736&sc=17&f=1001
Autism Risks Detailed In Children Of Older Mothersby The Associated Press
AP - February 8, 2010
A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found.
"Although fathers' age can contribute risk, the risk is overwhelmed by maternal age," said University of California at Davis researcher Janie Shelton, the study's lead author.
Mothers older than 40 were about 50 percent more likely to have a child with autism than those in their 20s; the risk for fathers older than 40 was 36 percent higher than for men in their 20s. [more]
Criminal Probe Is Launched In Conn. Plant Blast
by The Associated Press
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123487712&sc=17&f=1001
Criminal Probe Is Launched In Conn. Plant Blastby The Associated Press
AP - February 8, 2010
Authorities looking for the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction launched a criminal investigation Monday, saying they could not rule out criminal negligence as the cause.
"If everything went right, we wouldn't all be here right now," Middletown Mayor Sebastian Guiliano said. "There's a point where negligence raises to the level of criminal conduct, and that's what we're investigating."
The powerful explosion blew apart large swaths of the nearly completed 620-megawatt Kleen Energy plant as workers for the construction company O&G Industries Inc. were purging a gas line Sunday morning. The blast tore apart sheet metal that covered the plant's sides and left parts of the complex so unstable that rescuers were unable to work Monday because of the danger of collapse. [more]
Sarah Palin: Talking to the hand - USATODAY.com
Some media outlets are giving Sarah Palin a hard time today for apparently consulting notes written on the palm of her hand during her weekend appearance at the Tea Party convention.
The notes consisted of reminders such as "energy," "budget," "tax" and a call to "lift American spirit."
Some commentators noted that during her speech to the Nashville convention, Palin mocked Obama for his habit of using a Teleprompter.
Palin supporters, meanwhile, point out that the former Alaska governor responded to "Palm-gate" in an appearance Sunday for Texas Gov. Rick Perry. This time, she wrote on her hand: "Hi, Mom!"
10 Ways to a Geeky Girl's Heart
10 Ways to a Geeky Girl's Heart
If you're a geeky guy looking to romance a geeky girl, it doesn't matter if you've been with her forever or if she's a new interest; realize that conventional romantic overtures won't always work. Think outside the box. Here's some help. ...
Read SD Cards on Your iPhone With ZoomIt [IPhone]
Read SD Cards on Your iPhone With ZoomIt [IPhone]
Remember all those clever iPhone peripherals that we were supposed to see with firmware 3.0? Well ZoomIt is among the first. It's an SD card reader for the iPhone and iPod touch.
Used in conjunction with the ZoomIt app, the dongle connects through the iPhone's dock connector to load photos, music and miscellaneous files (like PowerPoint, PDF and anything else supported by iPhone OS) from an SD ...
Three reasons the iPad will get a price drop
Three reasons the iPad will get a price drop
A Credit Suisse analyst says Apple's brass remains open to reducing the tablet's already-cheap price.
Body found on US flight to Japan
Body found on US flight to Japan
Japanese officials try to identify a body found in the landing gear compartment of a flight that arrived in Tokyo from New York.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
VIZIO Super Bowl ad pushes internet connected HDTVs in a big way
VIZIO Super Bowl ad pushes internet connected HDTVs in a big way
We weren't sure exactly what Beyonce, David Goes to the Dentist and Chocolate Rain all had in common, but VIZIO squeezed them all into its Super Bowl ad. Still striving to remake its reputation from being merely a cheap HDTV manufacturer to a premium one offering lots of features, the ad (embedded after the break) shows how it's bringing "the best of the internet" with VIZIO Internet Apps. We still need to see if its picture quality will measure up and whether the widget experience has gotten any better (read: faster) in 2010 to be truly convinced, but a slick ad never ...
10 reasons to pass on the iPad? TUAW fact check
10 reasons to pass on the iPad? TUAW fact check
Filed under: iPod Family, Portables, Odds and ends
Over at TechRepublic's 10 Things blog, Debra Littlejohn Shinder has posted an article called "10 reasons why I'll be passing on the iPad." Some of her reasoning is sound, but quite a few of her points are easy to refute. It's worth looking at her post and the points it tries to make, because it's indicative of a widespread misunderstanding of not only the iPad's capabilities, but also its intended consumer ...
95% of User-Generated Content Is Bogus
95% of User-Generated Content Is Bogus
coomaria writes "The HoneyGrid scans 40 million Web sites and 10 million emails, so it was bound to find something interesting. Among the things it found was that a staggering 95% of User Generated Content is either malicious in nature or spam." Here is the report's front door; to read the actual report you'll have to give up name, rank, and serial ...
The least I could do
One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that. That's actually what they spent most of my time at business school teaching me. ...
Cascaad Taps Social Graph for Tailored News
Cascaad Taps Social Graph for Tailored News
In the world of custom news applications that look to provide you personalized content, there are a growing number of contenders using different methods to filter the "best" from the "rest". Some, like Techmeme, utilize editorial directive in picking the top stories to present. Others, such as Tweetmeme and Digg, use popularity as that method. my6sense watches your own activity and customizes it for you. Meehive, Regator and others show content based on topics you have selected. Cascaad, a new entrant, takes a different approach, leveraging your personal social graph, suggesting to you the stories your friends have found valuable. It also shows you news by category, both on your iPhone and on their Web ...
Worst USB gadget yet: Dead Mouse flash drive!
Worst USB gadget yet: Dead Mouse flash drive!
Some dude built a USB flash drive into a taxidermied (i.e. dead) mouse. He even replaced the eyes with flashing red lights! (Props to MAKE)
Facebook To Launch Gmail Killer (?)
Facebook To Launch Gmail Killer (?)
According to TechCrunch, Facebook is getting ready to launch a fully featured web-based email client with POP & IMAP support. In other words, their version of Gmail.
This would undoubtedly be a major improvement over their existing way of managing communications, but the biggest news, well Michael Arrington puts it ...
Danish forces free ship captured by pirates
Danish forces free ship captured by pirates
Special forces intervened while hijacking was in progress
Special forces intervened while hijacking was in progress
Danish special forces stormed a ship captured by armed Somali pirates Friday and freed the 25 crew on board, an EU naval spokesman said, marking the first time a warship has intervened during a hijacking.
After the vessel Ariella sent out a distress signal early Friday, the Danish warship Absalon sent a helicopter to confirm the presence of pirates, and communicated with the crew to ensure they were in a safe location, said Cmdr. John Harbour, spokesman for the European Union Naval Force.
Al Franken Makes Comcast's CEO Look Like A Tool
Love him or hate him, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), former employee of NBC, made Comcast's befuddled CEO Brian "Comcatastrophe" Roberts look like a complete tool during yesterday's hearing on the proposed Comcast/NBC mergepocalypse.
We don't actually know if Brian "Comcatastrophe" Roberts is generally as confused and awkward as he appeared to be while trying to explain why Comcast would testify that FCC regulations provide adequate safeguards for consumers -- after it just argued that the same rules were unconstitutional . Maybe he's usually pretty sharp. We really don't know.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Prehistoric patterns: A dinosaur gets color from head to feathery tail
Prehistoric patterns: A dinosaur gets color from head to feathery tail
Last week, researchers announced that they had been able to place, for the first time, original colors on a dinosaur --painting in striking stripes on Sinosauropteryx 's tail based on new evidence of pigment particles. Today, another team reports that they have decoded the colors of a different dino from head to tail. ...
AppFund offers VC money for iPad apps
AppFund offers VC money for iPad apps
Filed under: Software, Developer, SDK
A group of investors has teamed up to form AppFund, a company solely focused on raising money for and incubating apps for the iPad. You'll remember the somewhat similar iFund, which even got a mention in an Apple keynote a while back, and eventually offered up millions of dollars to emerging iPhone app companies like ngmoco and others. AppFund is trying to do the same thing, though they're starting out a bit smaller, promising $5000 to $500,000 to folks with interesting iPad ideas and the means to get them up and ...
Siri for iPhone is like the proverbial Genie in a bottle
Siri for iPhone is like the proverbial Genie in a bottle
Filed under: iPod Family, Freeware, iPhone, App Review
We're getting closer and closer to some of the stuff we see it science fiction literature and films. Siri [iTunes link] is a small Silicon Valley startup with a really breakthrough product that for now only works on the ...
NSF Teams with Microsoft to Move Scientific Research into the Cloud
NSF Teams with Microsoft to Move Scientific Research into the Cloud
Microsoft and the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Thursday announced plans to offer researchers and research groups selected through the agency's merit review process free access to computer servers . Microsoft will host the computing infrastructure at its data centers, giving the researchers access to storage, computational and networking resources via the Internet for a period of three years. ...
Friday, February 5, 2010
Pro-Freelance.com - Where Freelance Projects Are Listed
Pro-Freelance.com - Where Freelance Projects Are Listed
If freelancing is the one professional path that you have chosen to venture down, this website will most likely keep you interested for quite a while. In general terms, it is a spot in which freelance jobs of every denomination are listed. The actual list of categories is phenomenal, with jobs that are related to the Internet industry obviously taking up the lion's share of the ...
Symbian code turns open source
Symbian code turns open source
The group behind the world's most popular smartphone operating system - Symbian - is giving away "billions of dollars" of code for free.
Slingbox app approved by AT&T, just in time for iPad launch
Slingbox app approved by AT&T, just in time for iPad launch
The phone carrier has reversed course on the Slingbox application, which would let users stream video directly from their television or desktop to their iPhone – or Apple iPad.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Telescope Finds Galaxy's Most Massive Star Yet
This glowing stellar nursery is home to the most massive star yet found in the Milky Way galaxy.
Captured by the European Southern Observatory's 27-foot-diameterVery Large Telescope at Cerro Paranal, Chile, the image above combines data taken with violet, red and infrared filters.
The nebula, NGC 3603, is surrounded by a cloud of glowing gas and dust in the Carina spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy, about 20,000 light-years from Earth in the Carina constellation. This active star-forming region is one of the brightest and most compact star clusters in our galaxy. The cosmic nursery is teeming with thousands of young, massive suns, including several blue supergiants and three massive Wolf-Rayet stars. These brilliant stars eject huge amounts of mass before blazing out in spectacular supernova explosions. The most massive star in the cluster is 116 times as massive as the sun.
The photo below shows the broader area around the NGC 3603 nebula.
Images: ESO
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