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#iphoneapps Click here to read Football - Real Kick iPhone Game Actually Plays Meatspace Soccer

Football - Real Kick iPhone Game Actually Plays Meatspace Soccer

Some app developer was smart enough to realize that the iPhone's speaker pushes air around, and thus, can be used to move a little styrofoam ball around a fake soccer field. More »
07:20 PM
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By Jason Chen
Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero 07:19 PM

Will anyone be in #drunkmodo tonight?

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#iphoneapps

This Week's Best iPhone Apps

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In this week's reminiscent app roundup: Music, comprehended! Transformers, done justice to! Zombie defense, executed within the bounds of Newton's laws! Images, kaleidoscoped! Premium navigation, sold piecemeal! iPhones, blown upon! And more... More »
07:00 PM
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By John Herrman
#energy

Tendril Vision Clock Helps You Save in Electricity Bills

I like the Tendril Vision's looks. And I like it even more because it's real, even while it feels like a spare part for the Enterprise's bridge. The clock connects to the electric grid, giving you real time consumption information. More »
06:50 PM
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By Jesus Diaz
Image of Scotland Scotland 06:40 PM

Last weekend I saw Gizmodo featured on BBC Click ("The BBC's flagship technology programme") [news.bbc.co.uk]

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Image of modestmouse modestmouse 06:55 PM

@Scotland: Dang limeys.

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#googlestreetview Click here to read DIY Alien Race Invades Earth

DIY Alien Race Invades Earth

After birds and firetrucks and scuba divers and branches and the devil and burgers and God and teddy bears and drunks and noses invaded Earth, now it's the turn of crafty DIY aliens. Here's their mothership. [Google - Thanks oakleytimebomb!]
06:40 PM
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By Jesus Diaz
Image of ottermann killed Kenny ottermann killed Kenny 06:05 PM

Yay! Friday work is done, and i get to go home!

Too bad theres nothing to do.....

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Image of zeroprime zeroprime 06:32 PM

@ottermann killed Kenny: Do some Faraday work to kill time now?

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#tgif Click here to read The Five Stages of Data Loss Grief

The Five Stages of Data Loss Grief

So your hard drive just died, and you didn't back it up. I'm so, so sorry. You can expect to go through the following five stages once you discover that all of your photos, files and music are gone forever. More »
Memory Forever
06:00 PM
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By Adam Frucci
#health Click here to read Steve Jobs on Organ Transplant Lists: "I Almost Died" Waiting

Steve Jobs on Organ Transplant Lists: "I Almost Died" Waiting

When Steve Jobs received his liver transplant, he was considered "the sickest person on the waiting list." Now he's speaking out about the faults in California's current organ donor system which left 400 people dying in wait last year alone: More »
05:44 PM
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By Rosa Golijan
#nowavailable

Now Available

Pony up that cash, it's payday! This is what you should be blowing your kids' college fund on, unless you already blew it on St. Patrick's Day—here's what's Now Available. More »
05:00 PM
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By David Chaid
Image of Scotland Scotland 04:45 PM

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Image of tomsomething tomsomething 04:41 PM

Remember that whole student-laptop spying fiasco? Here's an update:

The kid took the computer home, but his family hadn't paid the necessary insurance fee. In my opinion, using the built-in camera this early in the case was probably a little extreme.

They saw the kid handling what appeared to be drugs. His parents said it was candy. Now they're suing the school.

[educationtechnews.com]

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#broken Click here to read Best Buy Now Completely Full of Crap in 3D

Best Buy Now Completely Full of Crap in 3D

If you drop a few grand on a 3DTV package, the Geek Squad will "sync" those 3D glasses for you free—part of a "$149.99 value." The problem? Syncing shutter glasses only requires that you LOOK AT THE SCREEN. More »
04:40 PM
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By Mark Wilson
Image of BloggyMcBlogBlog BloggyMcBlogBlog 04:34 PM

I have a feeling of malaise. I need some entertainment.

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Image of mattycakes mattycakes 04:54 PM

@BloggyMcBlogBlog: Find whatever speakers you can, stick them out your car window, and drive past a park playing the stereotypical ice cream truck jingle.

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Image of Benguin Benguin 05:26 PM

@BloggyMcBlogBlog: Everytime I hear that word, the first thing that comes to mind is a horrible combination of marmalade and mayonnaise.

I think I just invented the worst sandwich ever.

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Image of modestmouse modestmouse 05:44 PM

@Benguin: Pics.... etc.

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Image of Scotland Scotland 05:56 PM

@BloggyMcBlogBlog:
Let Me Entertain You

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Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead 05:59 PM

@BloggyMcBlogBlog: For some reason, malaise sounds delicious.

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Image of Brownski Brownski 04:31 PM

Just curious: has anyone gotten to know someone on Giz, only to later find out they already know them in real life?

Extra points if you hated them on Giz/loved them in life or vice-versa.

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Image of mattycakes mattycakes 04:52 PM

@Brownski: I would also like to hear if anybody has done this on any other websites.

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Image of zeroprime zeroprime 05:11 PM

@mattycakes: Two cases:

1) I had seen a funny animated .gif of two brothers my senior year in highschool ("Self taught" Calc class with 4 students; we spent most the time web-surfing). Turned out I was friends with one of them two years later in college, but didn't know it until his brother posted some photoshops of them by my third or fourth year in college.

2) Met and hung out with some people I met through an on-campus DC++ filesharing network. Play video games, make a mess in the cafeteria, throw the occasional party. Found out later that several of them were also friends with some of my old highschool friends, whom I had lost touch with, when we had a party and one of the bands they had play were several of my old highschool friends.

I also get a kick out of seeing member names I recognize across different forums (mydellmini, what.cd, SCC), but I change my username so I doubt anyone recognizes me.

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Image of modestmouse modestmouse 05:43 PM

@Brownski: OCEntertainment is my father.

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Image of mattycakes mattycakes 05:59 PM

@zeroprime: Speaking of similar usernames, you don't happen to have ever frequented TPS in the past, have you?

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Image of zeroprime zeroprime 06:04 PM

@mattycakes: Can't say I have. About all I know about TPS reports is that's where you gut your fish. #michaelbolton

Oh, I know a cool one. When you played a videogame online 10 or more years ago and then you run into someone you knew from that time in some new, totally unrelated game.

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Image of mattycakes mattycakes 06:12 PM

@zeroprime: Worth a shot.

Interesting story: I did become best friends with a guy from my school, even though we both met while visiting another school at the same time.

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Image of Prostate of Grace Prostate of Grace 07:09 PM

@modestmouse: WHOA. He's my sister.

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#memoryforever

The Future of Storage

Click here to read The Future of Storage
If you take the guts of a Blu-ray or DVD player, blow it up, and spread it across a work bench, it looks like this. So you might be surprised to know that you're looking at the future of storage. More »
Memory Forever
04:00 PM
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By John Herrman & Matt Buchanan
Image of tomsomething tomsomething 03:52 PM

The playlists disappeared off of my iPhone. Music is still there, and I'm sure when I go home and re-sync, the playlists will come back, but it's still annoying because there's only a 15% segment of my music collection that I actually want to listen to right now.

Why can't they move this stuff to the cloud so I could just re-sync over the interspace?

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Image of Monty Monty 04:34 PM

@tomsomething: Outstanding question. Back in the late nineties / early 2000's there were a few dot-com start-up companies trying to pull this off but the labels were none too excited about the concept. In an ideal world you would own a license to certain songs and have the rights to stream them from wherever to whatever you like, but they could never get permission to proceed. So, we are still on this half-ass (or full-ass, depending on your perspective) system where we "purchase" songs. There are devices that allow subscription services where you pay each month and have access to a library, but that isn't what you are asking for - and you are absolutely correct that the technology and systems should be available today to pull this off.

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Image of tomsomething tomsomething 04:37 PM

@Monty: The music would be tricky, but just having the playlist shouldn't be a problem. Just an xml or similar document that organizes the files you already have.

Then again, maybe it doesn't make since for them to ONLY make the playlist availble and not the music. After all, it would only be a fallback for when the playlist goes poof but the music is still there. meh.

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Image of badhatharry badhatharry 04:48 PM

@tomsomething: A me.com account only gives you 10GB of cloud space, unless you pay more. And you're already paying $100/yr for the 10gigs. Some people would need up to 32GB of cloud space. Then, the transfer would be limited to wi-fi. Transferring that much data over 3G would kill it.

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Image of whatne1wuddo whatne1wuddo 05:23 PM

@Monty: Isn't that what LaLa does? I think they charge $0.10 per song for unlimited streaming rights. I think it's a pretty neat concept.

And I think Apple just bought it, so we'll see what will come with that I guess.
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Image of Monty Monty 05:35 PM

@whatne1wuddo: That would be slick to see it hit mainstream through Apple.

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Image of modestmouse modestmouse 05:42 PM

@Monty: LaLa definitely needs to ability to know I own a song in iTunes and let me play it wherever I am through streaming.

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Image of whatne1wuddo whatne1wuddo 06:08 PM

@modestmouse: It definitely does have that ability I downloaded the LaLa importer program just to see if it worked, and it seems to. Never really tried it out, but it does show the vast majority of my music on my account online.

Without a LaLa app (which i really don't know how Apple will feel about it. On one hand, they own it, on the other, I'm supposed to be downloading music on iTunes...), I just don't really see the potential in it yet.

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Image of tomsomething tomsomething 06:24 PM

@modestmouse: Eventually, it has to go global, regardless of what company you obtain it through.

In the old days of all-physical media, the ownership rights were symbolically embedded in the thing itself. You have an ABBA tape, so everyone knows you own the right to listen to it. You have a hardcover copy of Catcher in the Rye, so you have the right to read the story.

When we download a song legally, a license needs to somehow be associated with our personal identity. Not our computer. Not our Apple ID. Ourselves.

But, you know, in a way that doesn't make privacy advocates nervous.

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#palm Click here to read You'd Be Crazy to Buy a Palm Now

You'd Be Crazy to Buy a Palm Now

Palm is dying. They've been hemorrhaging money since late last year, and yesterday's woeful earnings announcement sealed its fate. It didn't have to be this way. But it's been coming for a long time. More »
03:40 PM
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By Brian Barrett
Image of mattycakes mattycakes 03:34 PM

My heart.

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Rosa Golijan promoted this comment

Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan 06:08 PM

@mattycakes: Awwww.

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#lego

My Childhood Memories Live In Lego's Underground Secure Vault

Nothing brings up memories as smells do. In my case, it's the smell of plastic. Thousands of little colorful plastic pieces in cardboard boxes. Literally, all those memories live in a secure, temperature- and humidity-controlled, fireproof archival vault in Denmark. More »
Memory Forever
03:20 PM
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