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  • Avatar online ticket sales taking over

    Avatar online ticket sales taking over

    So it's sounding like Avatar is going to be breaking some records (shocking, I know). What record is pending you ask? Online ticket sales. Ok, maybe it's not biggest movie ever, or most special effects, but it's still pretty damn impressive.

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  • Honda makes the ultimate Paperboy gaming system

    Honda makes the ultimate Paperboy gaming system

    Bicycle safety wasn't an issue for me growing up. I lived in a quiet suburban subdivision on a cul-de-sac. Plus, my mom is an insurance agent and so she made sure that I always had the latest safety equipment. (E.g. shin pads, wrist pads, elbow pads, helmet, gloves, and a cup) It's a damn good thing that Honda didn't make this bicycle simulator back in the Eighties. She would have shipped the thing in from Japan, and I would have never been able to leave the house.

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  • Your hipster GF will love these iPhone earrings

    Your hipster GF will love these iPhone earrings

    You could spend $14.95 to buy the set pre-made, or follow your mom’s advice and make a set yourself. It means more that way. [via MAKE]

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  • Best Buy to sell a $249 notebook this holiday season

    Best Buy to sell a $249 notebook this holiday season

    Need a dirt cheap and somewhat underpowered notebook? Best Buy has you covered with a $249 Acer laptop. Netbook, what?

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  • GameStop given permission to break Modern Warfare 2 street date (Update: Actually, no permission has been given at all. Fancy that.)

    GameStop given permission to break Modern Warfare 2 street date (Update: Actually, no permission has been given at all. Fancy that.)

    It's madness, friends! Stores are selling Modern Warfare 2 early, but Activision never said this could happen!

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  • Tutorial: How to Tether on an iPhone 3G or 3GS running OS 3.1.2

    Tutorial: How to Tether on an iPhone 3G or 3GS running OS 3.1.2

    When the iPhone OS 3.1 update rolled through town, it brought with it a handful of new features – but it also killed off one, not-so-official feature: unauthorized data tethering on AT&T. Early this morning, the endlessly ingenious iPhone hacking community released Blacksn0w, a carrier unlock for the iPhone 3G and 3GS. Even if you have [...]

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  • iGOG VelAUcity brings velocity-sensitive drums to your humble iPhone

    iGOG VelAUcity brings velocity-sensitive drums to your humble iPhone

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    Mom / wife / building superintendent still won't let you get a drum set, huh? Well, you can show them, you can show them all with the new iGOG VelAUcity app, which for a mere $5 lets you do velocity-sensitive drumming on the iPhone. It works pretty great, too... to an extent. The technology appears to be based on the iPhone's built-in mic (VelAUcity doesn't work on an iPod touch), and the app recommends you use it with headphones, but not a headset with its own built-in mic, which would gum things up. In practice the drumming is really great, with multiple hit points on the drum pads and pretty good velocity sensitivity (for an iPhone app), but there are plenty of mic-introduced foibles like the potential for feedback or stray noises messing things up -- you basically would have trouble using this in a live application, though there are plenty of sliders so you can tweak things and give it a shot. Our favorite part perhaps is the mic trigger mode, which lets you do your fake drumming next to the iPhone, adding a whole new level of fake realness. Our least favorite part was the crashiness and the buginess -- part of which might've be blamed on our speed-strapped 3G. Don't say we didn't warn you. Video demonstrations are after the break.

    [Via Create Digital Music]

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  • TransferJet demo at Sony’s CEATEC booth

    TransferJet demo at Sony’s CEATEC booth

    VID00012John mentioned TransferJet briefly during the Toshiba press conference at IFA in September. It's a wireless data transfer system. It's different from Bluetooth in that there's no pairing required. It's also extremely limited in range -- like, two inches or less -- so there's less need to worry about someone sending pr0n to your mom's TransferJet-enabled television. Sony's got a live demo of TransferJet at their CEATEC booth, and I've got to admit that it's pretty cool -- and fast!

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  • Host a Wordpress site on your Windows Home Server (soon)

    Host a Wordpress site on your Windows Home Server (soon)

    Everyone loves Wordpress and everyone loves Windows Home Server. Using Wordpress to host a site on your WHS just makes sense! But don’t go looking for the download link just yet, it doesn’t seem the add-in is available yet, but I like the possibilities it holds. With the add-on you’ll soon be able to quickly and [...]

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  • Oh, Mom, you have so much to learn

    Oh, Mom, you have so much to learn

    My lovely mother just got her first BlackBerry a few weeks ago and has since enjoyed texting me. I noticed something today. She always laughs out loud at the end of every text. So I asked her about it. Apparently LOL means “Lots Of Love.” Yup, I have the cutest mom in history. Update from Mom: [...]

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  • Gundam to be the very first Sony PS3 Slim bundle

    Gundam to be the very first Sony PS3 Slim bundle

    Sony loves them some bundle packs and the Gundam franchise will be the first to grace the box of a PS3 Slim. The Japanese only box will include Kidou Senshi Gundam Senki and will save gamers a few yen. But the pack also includes product codes for FA-78-3 Full Armor Gundam and RX-81AS Assault Armor DLC packs, and an original HD animated Gundam film.

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  • Saturday iPod/iPad rumors, fresh like your mom’s cookies

    Saturday iPod/iPad rumors, fresh like your mom’s cookies

    Good afternoon and welcome to Chez Apple Rumors. Your first lunch course will be an iPod Touch with a camera followed by the accidental insertion of something called the IPAD into a survey for Borders Books. Can I get anyone anything to drink? So we begin this Eng video of the iPod Touch with camera that [...]

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  • Gadget Club Round 3 Voting

    Gadget Club Round 3 Voting

    Let's do this one last time, friends. TO VOTE COMMENT ON THIS POST WITH THE EXACT NAME OF THE DEVICE YOU’RE VOTING FOR. THAT IS THE ONLY TEXT THAT SHOULD APPEAR. I WILL DO AN SQL QUERY ON THE COMMENTS DB TO FIND THE WINNER. LITERALLY COPY AND PASTE THE NAME OF THE DEVICE INTO THE COMMENT FIELD AND POST IT. VOTE ONCE. VOTE ONLY ONCE. DON’T USE AMAZON’S MECHANICAL TURK. DON’T ASK THE WEIRD GUY FROM IT WHO YOU NEVER INVITE TO PARTIES BUT TALK TO AT WORK TO MAKE YOU A VOTING SCRIPT! IF YOU ARE THE WEIRD GUY IN IT, I’M SORRY. THEY JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND YOU. IF I HELD A PARTY YOU COULD COME. IF YOU CHEAT I WILL BE SAD. I WILL CLOSE VOTING ON MONDAY AT NOON EASTERN!

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  • BlackBerry Thunder appears in VZW’s system

    BlackBerry Thunder appears in VZW’s system

    Everyone, even your mom probably, knows that there is a new BlackBerry Storm coming soon from Verizon. It's only a matter of time before RIM or VZW announces the updated 9550. CrackBerry just got a screenshot showing a curiously unannounced BlackBerry Thunder. Could this be the next Storm?

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  • Summer’s Pre

    Summer’s Pre

    EXT. Sunset Beach. Mother and Daughter walking. Daughter: Mom, did you ever have that not so fresh feeling? Down there? Mom: Sure, honey. We all do. Daughter: What do you do about it? Mom: Well, I keep a Pre handy. Daughter: A Pre? Mom: It’s the latest feminine hygiene product from Palm. It fits where other phones won’t. Daughter: Douglas called. Mom: [...]

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