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Tech NewsAppleApple Developing iPhone-Based Remote Computing?
According to a source at Cult of Mac, Apple’s currently working on a system that would make NFC-equipped iPhones central to a remote computing solution in which any Mac could temporarily become your personal machine. That would be nice! Cult of Mac says: According to our source, who asked not to be named, when a … Continued
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Tech NewsSPIN Play for iPad
Multimedia is not a natural fit for every type of tablet magazine. It is an exceedingly natural fit for a music magazine. Spin Play, the new iPad version of the well-known music mag, tells you about new music and lets you listen to it. How thoughtful! What is it? Spin Play, $2 per issue, iPad. … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Earthquake Aftermath May Cause iPad 2 Supply Issues
The folks at iSuppli are saying that the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake could cause delays as Apple tries to meet demand for the iPad 2—they’ve identified no less than five components of Apple’s new tablet that are sourced in Japan, including DRAM, an electronic compass, touchscreen overlay glass, and the system battery. Thankfully, there’s … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Naughtiest a ‘Safe For Work’ Music Video Can Get
Our friends at Fast Co Design pretty much nailed it when they dubbed Lernert & Sander’s “Elektrotechnique” “The Dirtiest Music Video That’s Still Safe for Work”—in it, household objects are assembled to create various sex machines, some of which require a little more imagination to figure out than others (what are those high heels supposed … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Whoa! Your New iPad Will Stick To Your Fridge
Provided your new iPad is attached to its magnetical Smart Cover, it’ll cling on to your refrigerator like a spider monkey to a tree branch. Or like something magnetic to something metal. It’s true! That’s my iPad sticking to my fridge this very morning. It seems like it’s all being held up by the magnets … Continued
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Tech News
The Times Square Screen Hijacking Clip Was Just the Product of a New Viral Video Factory
Remember that video from earlier this week showing the guy hijacking Times Square screens with a homemade “video repeater?” Or that one from a little earlier in which a guy got his dome shaved clean by an automated shaving helmet? They’re both fake. No surprise there. But what is surprising is that they’re both professionally … Continued
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Tech NewsHere’s How Mike Tyson Will Cure Your Angry Birds Addiction
Did you know that Mike Tyson loves birds. Like really loves birds? If you don’t believe me, here’s what he had to say about one of his earliest knockouts: One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat … Continued
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Tech NewsAppleThis Music Video Was Shot Entirely With iPad 2s
How crappy are the iPad 2’s crappy cameras? Not all that crappy, with the right directorial panache, if this music video by Eddy is to be believed. It was shot (not edited) with four iPad 2s in the hours after the tablet’s release, though the crew had one rigged up to a steadicam and another … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsHalftone for iPhone
If you’re into the app game even a little bit, you probably have something for fancying up the photos you take with your phone. There’s a wealth of options. But Halftone does something a bit different—it dresses your photos up as surprisingly faithful reproductions of comic strips of yore. What is it? Halftone, $1, iPhone. … Continued
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Tech News
Behold Pepsi’s 100% Plant-Based Plastic Bottle
Soda’s bad for you, but plastics—especially the petroleum-based PET plastics used widely for bottles—are bad for everyone. Thankfully, after millions of dollars and years of research, Pepsi thinks it’s cracked the code on a 100% plant-based PET bottle. It looks…just like the old bottle. Which is a good thing! “It’s indistinguishable,” says Rocco Papalia, PepsiCo’s … Continued
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Tech NewsLaCie’s Wuala Secure Cloud Storage App Encrypts and Decrypts Files on Your iPhone
The cloud is good, yes!, but it’s easy to understand how it could make security-minded folks a bit woozy, what with all those personal files just sitting there waiting to be compromised. If that thought makes you feel woozy, perhaps you should look into LaCie’s Wuala service, a secure online storage locker built on technology … Continued
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Tech News
Quit Smoking By Smashing Virtual Cigarette Butts on Your iPhone
Are you trying to quit smoking? Do you like fiddling around with your phone? Perfect! Nicot, a $5 iOS app developed from a study by the Canada Research Chair in Clinical Cyberpsychology and the University of Quebec in Outaouais, charges smokers to crush virtual cigarettes in hopes that it will help them vanquish real ones, … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogle
Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi Available March 27 For $599
If you don’t need 3G or 4G or any Gs at all, Motorola’s Xoom Wi-Fi will be arriving on March 27 for $599. The specs are all the same as the initial model: Android Honeycomb, 32GB hard drive, 1GHz Tegra 2 proecssor, 10.1″ display, et cetera. You’ll be able to pick one up at Amazon, … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Gigantic Flying Jellyfish Isn’t Nearly as Scary As It Sounds
The AirJelly, a massive floating jellyfish created by the German automation masters at FESTO, should be terrifying, but it’s not. In fact, it’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen take flight. Propelled by eight electric-driven tentacles and lifted by a spherical helium-filled body, the AirJelly moves through the air with a unique … Continued
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Wikihood People Is Wikipedia for Your Neck of the Woods
Recently NextAroundYou released their second app in the Wikihood family, Wikihood People. Much like its predecessor, People brings you Wikipedia articles based on where you are, but instead of places you are given a roster of every famous (and infamous) figure to come through the neighborhood. The paid version also allows for further plunging into … Continued
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Tech NewsSpout for iPhone Beautifies Your Feeds One Post at a Time
Kinetic typography has a way of making any random group of words look super important, and Spout is no exception. It takes your Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader feeds and turns posts into well-designed animations, which are then presented in real time or on a cycle, based on your preference. Even the dullest tweets become … Continued
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Tech NewsStereolizer for iPad
I don’t hate iTunes as much as a lot of people I know, but I will admit that it’s pretty damn ugly. Audio equipment used to be beautiful, but where there were once chunky knobs and mesmerizing VU-needles now all we have is a dense block text and tiny, cursor-sized playback buttons. Stereolizer brings the … Continued
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Effectively Double Your Kid’s Birthday Present Haul With These Cardboard Box Wheels
I don’t know about your family but when I was growing up, whenever someone unwrapped a present and found a box of some sort inside they’d say, “OH MY GOSH a box! Just what I always wanted!” and no one ever really laughed but we kept saying it year after year anyway just because why … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy and Security
Etsy Privacy Blunder Reveals Users’ Full Names, Dildo Preferences, and Other Less Embarrassing Purchase Information
Oh Etsy, Etsy Etsy, what have you done? Well, to begin with, this: you introduced “People Search,” a new tool that makes your users (and their feedback histories) searchable by their real names, without giving anyone any real heads up that you were doing so. Uh oh. Basically, anyone whose real name is associated with … Continued
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Time Warner’s New iPad App Lets You Stream 32 Channels of Live TV
Time Warner, my cable company, whom I hate, has finally entered the app foray with TWCable TV, a free iPad app that lets subscribers stream 32 channels of live TV—including ABC Family, BET, Comedy Central, MTV, and others—right to their tablets on their home Wi-Fi networks. Note: you must have Time Warner cable and internet … Continued
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