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  • A handy-dandy Hackintosh compatibility chart

    A handy-dandy Hackintosh compatibility chart

    The world of Hackintosh can be a scary place to enter. You wanna make a OS X netbook but have no idea where to start. I feel you. Here's a comprehensive chart that will get you going in the right direction. The worst thing you can do is buy a netbook on a whim and expect everything to work in OS X. There are definitely better models suited for the task than others.

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  • CrunchGear PSA: Tech tax deductions

    CrunchGear PSA: Tech tax deductions

    I did my taxes recently, and this is the first year that I actually bothered to deduct for all those things that I buy over the year for my job. It was confusing frankly, and I wish I'd read this article before I did it. Hopefully you'll read this in time to do your deductions correctly, and not make the same mistakes I did (which caused me to miss out on several things I could have claimed).

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  • If only you had actually seen The Hurt Locker

    If only you had actually seen The Hurt Locker

    Who saw The Hurt Locker? Oh, right: none of you. Even if you didn't you probably are already familiar with the basic concept: a U.S. Army guy whose job it is to disable I.E.D.s sorta goes crazy. That's the gist of it. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense in the UK has unveiled something called the Dragon Runner, a remote-controlled robot that disables bombs.

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  • Disgruntled ex-garage employee exploits system to remotely disable more than 100 cars

    Disgruntled ex-garage employee exploits system to remotely disable more than 100 cars

    Now here's a delightful story. A gentleman in Austin, Texas was laid off from his job as a car mechanic. The thing is, he was "pretty good with computers." So, in order to get petty revenge on his former employers, he used a system to remotely disable more than 100 cars. Fun!

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  • Sony Ericsson unboxes the Xperia X10, stomps on toes

    Sony Ericsson unboxes the Xperia X10, stomps on toes

    You know what weirds me right the hell out? Companies doing their own unboxing videos. That's our job. I realize they're probably proud of their work and are just itching to show it off, but a new handset getting its first video unboxing by the company that made it is like a dad taking his own daughter to prom. Wrong? Not technically. Kind of awkward? Absolutely. Oh well. Sony Ericsson decided to debox the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 (their ultra-pretty, Snapdragon-powered Android phone) themselves. Go ahead and watch it after the jump -- I won't be too hurt.

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  • Analyst: PS3 to win over Xbox 360 and Wii

    Analyst: PS3 to win over Xbox 360 and Wii

    Technology analyst firm Strategy Analytics just announced their latest forecast: Sony's Playstation 3 will will outsell the Wii and Xbox 360 by the time they all end their product cycle. Say what?

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  • Japanese company offers anti-pollen allergy ringtone

    Japanese company offers anti-pollen allergy ringtone

    Do you remember the ringtone for dogs a Japanese company started offering two years ago? Now Japan gets to download another equally zany app for their cell phones, a ringtone [JP] that's supposed to clean your nostrils in case you suffer from pollen allergy. The way it works is pretty simple.

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  • One Microsoft Project Pink phone caught in the wild, screenshots leaked

    One Microsoft Project Pink phone caught in the wild, screenshots leaked

    I’ve been trying to avoid writing much about Microsoft’s secret Project Pink as of late, primarily because we just don’t want to get folks hopes up too high; according to our sources, not a whole lot has changed since we passed on word that the handsets were pretty terrible. With that said, it’s our job to [...]

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  • Schneier: CCTV is useless

    Schneier: CCTV is useless

    Remember that big, 15-member hit squad that assassinated Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh? They were on camera for most of the time they were on the job, walking in and out of hotels, getting picked up on cameras at the airport. No one still knows who they are and they couldn't have stopped them. It was dead tape until something happened.

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  • Planespotters arrested in India

    Planespotters arrested in India

    Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a room overlooking an airport runway so you can note the planes arriving and taking off in your special notebook. Two Britons, Stephen Hampton and Steven Ayres, were released on bail after being coaught with binoculars and radios. Their crime? Planespotting.

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  • Vinyl Android figurines are the coolest things since sliced ice

    Vinyl Android figurines are the coolest things since sliced ice

    Okay, look. I wasn’t going to post about these, because every bit of attention these things get will make it that much harder for me to acquire them before they sell out. But then this little nagging voice in my head (which sounds like a freakish cross between CrunchGear editor John Biggs and my mother) [...]

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  • Terrible grammar? Blame Twitter.

    Terrible grammar? Blame Twitter.

    Who didn't see this coming? Waterloo University, a fine institution of higher learning, in Canada, has found that 30 percent of incoming freshman cannot pass a "simple" English test. New communication methods, primarily Twitter, texting, and social networking sites like Facebook, are to blame. To quote a classic line from The Simpsons, "Me fail English? That's unpossible."

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  • Apple, here, this is the iPad we wanted

    Apple, here, this is the iPad we wanted

    It seems so elementary to all of us around CrunchGear’s HQ that the iPad should have had three simple features: a camera, SD card slot, and external battery indicator. I mean, the iPad missed the mark by a lot in many areas, but it’s just silly that Apple didn’t included those items. I won’t bother [...]

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  • Apple announces e-book store

    Apple announces e-book store

    Apple’s hoping to recreate the magic of what iTunes did for music with the addition of a vast selection of electronic books. Announced at Apple’s event today, the iBook store. Book pricing has been set similarly to what’s offered on Amazon.com’s Kindle platform — the first book shown at Apple’s event was priced $14.99, a [...]

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  • Did you notice the big HP strike the other day?

    Did you notice the big HP strike the other day?

    Trouble at HP. The Public and Commercial Services Union in the UK called for a one-day strike at HP's Enterprise Service division. The union didn't like that, despite record profits, the division has seen some pretty significant job cuts, as well as a pay freeze. So, strike. More than 1,000 people participated in the strike action, as strikes are commonly called in the UK. Knowledge!

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