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  • Pay what you want for Kiddix OS

    Pay what you want for Kiddix OS

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
    From Microsoft Bob to Edubuntu there have been a number of attempts at making computers of various sorts easier and more useful for young people. Another participant in this space is Kiddix, “a complete operating system and software environment for children, built from the ground up with your family’s needs and safety in mind.” Kiddix [...]

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  • Chinese Internet addicts escape, then are returned to, treatment center

    Chinese Internet addicts escape, then are returned to, treatment center

    Posted on June 9, 2010 | No Comments
    A daring escape plan ended with parental scolding. Three patients (or "inmates," if you prefer) at a Chinese Internet addiction center staged a coup of sorts, overpowering guards and fleeing the area. All went according to plan until they hopped in a taxi and were unable to pay. The driver became annoyed, called the authorities, drawing the adventure to a close.

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  • Office Mobile 2010 released, free upgrade for WinMo 6.5 users (update)

    Office Mobile 2010 released, free upgrade for WinMo 6.5 users (update)

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    After having gone to public beta late last year, Office Mobile 2010 is now available in conjunction with the retail release of the full desktop version of Office 2010, bringing comprehensive Word, Excel, and PowerPoint editing capabilities to the pocket -- on Windows Mobile 6.5, that is. Yes, granted, Windows Phone 7 is Microsoft's biggest mobile news this year, but there'll be a huge legacy base of 6.5 users out there for a long time to come, and they're pretty much the core audience for the sorts of features that Office Mobile 2010 is offering: SharePoint integration for grabbing documents from the office, a nifty Bluetooth controller mode for PowerPoint presentations, and so on... you know, suit-and-tie stuff. The download is available today from Windows Marketplace for users of 6.5 devices with an older version of Office Mobile installed -- so go on, Tiger, whip up the hottest quarterly reports the world has ever seen. We know you have it in you. Follow the break for Redmond's full Office 2010 press release.

    Update: Curious what Office 2010 will look like on Windows Phone 7? Get a glimpse into the not-so-distant-future in Microsoft's video presentation, and fast forward to 52:45 for the good stuff. [Thanks, Kamara B.]

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  • Video: Medal of Honor trailer reveals upcoming beta

    Video: Medal of Honor trailer reveals upcoming beta

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    A new trailer just posted to the Medal of Honor Web site pretty much checks all the boxes on the Big Checklist of FPS Trailer requirements. Sad, dramatic music; military man talking to his wife on the phone in a reassuring manner "I love you, we're OK because we're trained for this sort of thing, don't forget to have the car inspected," etc.; flash, bang, explosion, fade to black. I really don't know how many of these games I can take. That's not saying it'll be a bad game—I played it, and it is, in fact, quite good&,dash;but I do believe I'm tiring of playing toy soldier.

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  • Nokia wants you to make an Ovi app out of your Twitter feed, launches Ovi App Wizard

    Nokia wants you to make an Ovi app out of your Twitter feed, launches Ovi App Wizard

    Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
    To anyone who’s ever written a line of code, pre-canned/auto-generated apps are the scourge of the App Store world. For anyone who just wants to be able to say “Me? There’s an app for that! LOL!” without having to dedicate their lives to waging war against semi-colons and pouring through documentation, however, they’re a god [...]

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  • The robot doctor will see you now

    The robot doctor will see you now

    Posted on April 27, 2010 | No Comments
    It's a brave new world of health and technology, coming together to keep you as healthy as modern medicine allows. The Senate Committee on Aging was witness to a show-and-tell of sorts last week, getting a first-hand look at some of the hi-tech innovations that promise to annoy people who cringe at the idea of universal healthcare. Because keeping people healthy is pure, pure evil, apparently.

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  • Review: GelaSkins for iPad

    Review: GelaSkins for iPad

    Posted on April 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Short Version: GelaSkins for iPad do everything they promise, and they do it well. For 30 bucks a pop, it'll wrap your iPad up in a work of art -- be it one of GelaSkin's roughly 200 pre-designed pieces, or one of your own. It also does a fine job of protecting the back of the iPad from whatever grit and grime might be sitting between it and your desk.

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  • GameFly iPhone App finally gets proper Game Queue management support

    GameFly iPhone App finally gets proper Game Queue management support

    Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments
    I’m a fan of GameFly. As a hardcore gamer (as in I spend too much time doing it, not as in I’m particularly good) who gets bored of games quick, it just makes economic sense. That’s why when GameFly announced their GameCenter iPhone app last October, I just about ate my pants in excitement. That’s [...]

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  • LookTel, an app for the blind

    LookTel, an app for the blind

    Posted on March 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Now here's a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. LookTel is an object identifier - you point it at something and it tells you what it is. You can teach it to recognize new objects and by aiming it at a product, the program can tell what it is using real speech and when you need to ID something on the fly, you can stick on an image sticker and read that sticker. It's more or less a barcode and QR scanner with some image recognition thrown in, but it really could be a boon to those with failing - or failed - eyesight.

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  • Bone Marrow Aspiration and Biopsy? There’s an app for that

    Bone Marrow Aspiration and Biopsy? There’s an app for that

    Posted on February 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Procedures: Hospital Collection, where have you been all my life? I remember back at Webelos camp in grade school when I needed to do an Arterial Line Placement to get my "Arterial Line Placement" badge and if I had had this charming, $19.99 app I would have been able to blow in that arterial line without anyone getting hurt (sorry, Frankie!) This app is clearly for professional doctors, not diletantes like myself, but 80 minutes of video plus plenty of images and diagrams make this quite a steal.

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  • Amazon Wants To Give A Free Kindle To All Amazon Prime Subscribers

    Amazon Wants To Give A Free Kindle To All Amazon Prime Subscribers

    Posted on February 12, 2010 | No Comments
    In January Amazon offered select customers a free Kindle of sorts – they had to pay for it, but if they didn’t like it they could get a full refund and keep the device. It turns out that was just a test run for a much more ambitious program. A reliable source tells us Amazon wants to give a free Kindle to every Amazon Prime subscriber.

    Just as soon as they can work out how to do it without losing money.

    Amazon Prime is a subscription product that gives customers free two day shipping on everything they buy from Amazon. The current fee is $79/year.

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  • Last call for KEO space time capsule message: Let people 50,000 years in the future how much you rocked

    Last call for KEO space time capsule message: Let people 50,000 years in the future how much you rocked

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Hurry up, sports fans, for today's the last day you can submit a message to the KEO space capsule. The idea is to have a bunch of people write an epic message, then in 50,000 years it'll return and give future people the messages. I have no idea how any of this works, so please direct your WTFs somewhere else.

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  • Pedal Brain’s Gadget Turns Your iPhone Into A Powerful Cycling Computer

    Pedal Brain’s Gadget Turns Your iPhone Into A Powerful Cycling Computer

    Posted on December 27, 2009 | No Comments
    For years, runners have been able to take advantage of Nike+, a nifty accessory that lets your iPod communicate with your shoes to turn it into a personal running coach of sorts. Soon, cyclists will have access to a tool that's in the same vein as Nike+, but far more powerful. It's called Pedal Brain, and it allows your iPhone or iPod Touch to receive and interpret data from a variety of exercise devices that use the ANT+ wireless protocol. ANT+ is used by cyclists (including many professionals) to accurately measure and analyze their performance over a ride, but until now there hasn't been a way to connect these devices to your iPhone. That's where Pedal Brain comes in. The bootstrapped startup is making a small device called the Pedal Brain Synapse that plugs into your iPhone or iPod Touch and allows them to receive this data, which is then interpreted by an iPhone app. The application shows you how you're performing in real-time (you'll want to mount your iPhone in plain view) and can also use GPS to show the position of your team members.

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  • Why the Predator drone encryption doesn’t matter

    Why the Predator drone encryption doesn’t matter

    Posted on December 25, 2009 | No Comments
    Bruce Schneier wrote a great piece on the unencrypted Predator drone video feeds, noting that the drones were built for a post-Soviet, pre-insurgent era and that encryption, in the case of a live feed, is more of a problem than a threat. The problem is, the world has changed. Today’s insurgent adversaries don’t have KGB-level intelligence [...]

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  • Video: IntoDream, the portable DreamCast, explained

    Video: IntoDream, the portable DreamCast, explained

    Posted on December 15, 2009 | No Comments
    This is the IntoDream, a homemade, portable DreamCast. It's a bit of a Frankenstein's monster of sorts, being part DreamCast, part PSone, and part N64.

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