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Thursday, September 30, 2010

mobile



T-mobile G2 gets an early unboxing - Engadget
T-mobile's official street date for the G2 is Wednesday next week, but we knew some pre-orderers would be getting the phone early, and it looks.

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After youtube, Turkey Moves To Ban Video Sharing Site Vimeo
Turkish courts have famously banned video sharing juggernaut youtube several times since March 2007. The site still isn't accessible, despite the fact that Turkey's president Abdullah G�l used his Twitter account last June to express ...

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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

youtube



youtube options, iPad multitasking animation, Game Center flagging .
First up, the build offers some new youtube uploading options -- you can now choose to make your uploaded youtube videos public, unlisted, or private right on upload. Honestly, I've had hit-or-miss luck with uploading to youtube ...

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T-mobile G2 preview - Engadget
Well, well, well... would you look at what we found lounging around Best Buy's NYC holiday event! Yes, indeed, it's the T-mobile G2 (the US.

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

DIY



DIY Repairs and Upgrades to Save Your Laptop: Upgrading RAM
Too many laptops are cast aside for singular broken parts, for "running too slow," or other problems that shouldn't require a rent-sized new purchase. All this week, we'll detail fixes and upgrades that save otherwise functional laptops ...

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apple



Dev-Team: apple TV jailbreak exploit found
Members of the iPhone Dev Team have dropped hints on Twitter that it will be possible to jailbreak the new apple TV. Team members pod2g and iphone_dev have both mentioned that the SHAtter exploit has been able to decrypt the apple TV's ...

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Monday, September 27, 2010

hacks



10 useful new WordPress hacks - CatsWhoCode.com
WordPress is the platform of choice for most bloggers, and WordPress hacks is one of the most popular topics on CatsWhoCode. This is why I've decided to compile 10 new and extremely useful hack for WordPress. Enjoy! ...

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nokia



nokia Bureaucracy Stifled Innovation, Ex-Managers Say
[nokia CEO Stephen Elop's] biggest obstacle, according to Mr. Hakkarainen, as well as two other former employees and industry analysts, may well be nokia's stifling bureaucratic culture. In interviews, Mr. Hakkarainen and the other ...

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Sunday, September 26, 2010

asp



Update on asp.NET Vulnerability - ScottGu's Blog
The above entry disallows URLs that have an %26ldquo;aspxerrorpath=%26rdquo; querystring attribute from making their way to asp.NET applications, and will instead cause the web-server to return an HTTP error. Adding this rule prevents attackers from ...

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howto



Week in Geek: The Zombie Cookie Edition - How-To Geek
This week we learned how to automatically lock a computer when away from it, use an iPhone or iPod Touch to remotely control a PC, customize the title bar and other system fonts in Windows 7, using Internet Explorer 9 with Windows Vista ...

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Saturday, September 25, 2010

apple



New apple iPad Designs Surface with Landscape Docking %26 More .
This morning we posted our first report on a new iPad design that surfaced in China at the end of this week that could be illustrating a single face side camera to accommodate apple's FaceTime video calling application.

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youtube



youtube - Tuition Protests at Colleges and Universities
Read Ana's article on this story here: http://www.examiner.com/x-5445-Politics-in-Education-Examiner~y2010m3d4-Students-passionately-protest-cuts-in-educatio...

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Friday, September 24, 2010

mobile



The Engadget mobile Podcast, live at 3:30 ET! - Engadget mobile
We're kicking things off a little early today... and we've got a special guest. A very special guest. Hint: his name rhymes with 'Pilay Natel.' Giv.

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howto



How to Backup Your Linux PC with Simple Backup - How-To Geek
The backup uses cron to schedule the jobs so if you know how to use cron you can easily modify the schedule to your liking. To prevent your hard drive from filling up, change the settings you want on the purging tab to delete old ...

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Thursday, September 23, 2010

DIY



The DIY Dresser Standing Desk
A growing body of research shows just how rough sitting all day is on our bodies. Today's featured workspace, a simple standing desk made from an old dresser with a DIY laptop riser and organizer, is a push back against seated work.

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hacks



Watch the skies � Mind hacks
Mind hacks. Neuroscience and psychology tricks to find out what's going on inside your brain. � Towards an operating system for brain hacking. Watch the skies. The BBC World Service has an excellent documentary that visits the SETI ...

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

asp



Important: asp.NET Security Vulnerability - MVP Factor - Site Home .
In this case, there is a vulnerability in asp.NET which acts as a padding oracle. This allows an attacker to send cipher text to the web server and learn if it was decrypted properly by examining which error code was returned by the web ...

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nokia



nokia N8 shipping update | nokia Conversations - The official .
ESPOO, Finland - There have been a few stories this morning about the N8 availability which we feel need clarification. As we have previously said, we still.

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

nokia



nokia N8 shipping update | nokia Conversations - The official .
ESPOO, Finland - There have been a few stories this morning about the N8 availability which we feel need clarification. As we have previously said, we still.

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howto



Customize the Title Bar and Other System Fonts in Windows 7 - How .
Here's how to change them. Right-click on your desktop, and select Personalize as you would to change your Aero theme. sshot-2010-09-18-[1]. In the Personalization pane, click Window Color under the theme lists. sshot-2010-09-18-[4] ...

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Monday, September 20, 2010

asp



Additional Information about the asp.NET Vulnerability - Security .
Microsoft Security Research %26 Defense: Microsoft information on security mitigations, workarounds, and other technical leadership for better actionable guidance.

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hacks



Firefox 4: recent changes in Firefox Mozilla hacks %26ndash; the Web .
Search hacks.mozilla.org. Go. Home � Articles � Demos � About � Home � Articles. Firefox 4: recent changes in Firefox. Older Article ... Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License v3.0 or any later version. hacks.mozilla.org: ...

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Sunday, September 19, 2010

apple



apple's iPhone 4 coming to China on September 25 - Engadget
Turns out the rumors weren't too far off. After fighting for ages to get the iPhone 3G to Chinese shores, citizens of the aforementioned nation.

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mobile



Rumor: Facebook Is Forging Its Own mobile Handset and OS
Sources say the project has been undertaken to build on the success of the mobile Facebook apps but also to give the company complete control over how Facebook contacts and data is synced with a device. It is believed that Facebook wil ...

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Saturday, September 18, 2010

DIY



DIY Hula Hoop Pool Warmers
If you'd like to save a bit on your heating bills, these black, sun-catching "lily pads" will help absorb some heat and insulate your pool, so you can keep swimming even when it's a bit cooler outside.

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youtube



youtube Blog: Testing, testing.youtube begins trial of new live .
are you going to make it for eveyone and i can be a tester if you want youtube contact me via my channle at rickyis911 or email me on my google email as you have it i can test it for you and i beta tested on blogtv/stickam/livevideo so ...

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Friday, September 17, 2010

youtube



youtube Blog: Testing, testing.youtube begins trial of new live .
are you going to make it for eveyone and i can be a tester if you want youtube contact me via my channle at rickyis911 or email me on my google email as you have it i can test it for you and i beta tested on blogtv/stickam/livevideo so ...

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asp



Hurley Pro at Trestles Steams Through Remaining Round 2 Heats .
LOWER TRESTLES, California/USA (Thursday, September 16, 2010) %26ndash; Following the completion of Round 2 of the Hurley Pro at Trestles, event organizers opted to.

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Thursday, September 16, 2010

apple



apple stock, at record high, has Exxon's market-cap crown in sight .
The apple Inc. juggernaut rolls on: The company's shares hit a new high Thursday ahead of the launch of the iPad tablet computer in China on Friday. After struggling through the summer with the broader market, apple stock has once...

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nokia



nokia launches mobile TV | nokia Conversations - The official .
ESPOO, Finland %26ndash; People watching video on their mobile devices has become a fairly common sight nowadays. What's less common is people watching live TV.

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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

hacks



The Haunted hacks %26larr; Platform Nation
Gamers get the jump on and before October rolls around. We get better scares in our games than most theaters in their strongest of weekend box offices. From the.

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DIY



Make: Online : DIY $5 LED dive light
Inspired by the amazing characteristics of perfluorocarbon, Dave over at Mechanical Mashup decided to build a DIY dive light by submerging a cheapo LED flashlight from the hardware store in mineral laxative to achieve neutral pressure ...

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

howto



How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Fedora 13 .
How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Fedora 13.

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mobile



Nielsen mobile Study: Facebook, Weather, Maps and Music
A recent Nielsen study shows that regardless of the platform (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry or Windows mobile) the apps that are ...

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Monday, September 13, 2010

nokia



nokia launches mobile TV | nokia Conversations - The official .
ESPOO, Finland %26ndash; People watching video on their mobile devices has become a fairly common sight nowadays. What's less common is people watching live TV.

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mobile



T-mobile G2 gets $150 price tag at Radio Shack - Engadget
You didn't rush out and grab that Best Buy pre-order while it was still hot and steaming, did you? Radio Shack's decided to step up.

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Sunday, September 12, 2010

apple



How apple could ship 48 million FaceTime devices this calendar .
Critics scoffed when Steve Jobs said he would ship.

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asp



Classic asp development | CIO - Blogs and Discussion
Using Classic asp development, projects related to Holiday homes, Customer Resource management and Online hotel reservation system can be executed. Here are some sample projects:

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Saturday, September 11, 2010

hacks



B. Jeffrey Madoff: Yosemite Sam hacks the Media
Why did Terry Jones get media exposure? Media coverage is the oxygen that keeps these people alive and makes them seem to matter.

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howto



How to Synchronize Your XBMC Media Center Between Every Room in .
Wouldn't it be nice if you could pause or stop your media center in the living room, head into the bedroom, and pick up exactly where you left off without skipping a beat? You can with XBMC, and here's how it works.

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Friday, September 10, 2010

DIY



DIY: Studiomama Pallet Chair | Care2 Healthy %26 Green Living
London-based, Danish-born Nina Tolstrup of design group Studiomama crafted chairs from two reclaimed wood shipping pallets.

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youtube



youtube Instant
Following on the heels of "Google Instant," which provides search results as you type, here's "youtube Instant." It was created by Stanford student Feross Aboukhadijeh. Peter Kafka at AllThingsD accurately describes it as "a completely ...

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Thursday, September 09, 2010

youtube



Google CEO Eric Schmidt: youtube Is "Nearing Profitability .
Officially, Google doesn't talk about youtube's profitability, or lack thereof. Except, of course, when Google executives do talk about it. Then they say that youtube is very close to becoming profitable. As Eric Schmidt did today.

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asp



Pentax K-r mid-level DSLR announced with brief hands-on: Digital .
Pentax Kr mid-level DSLR announced with brief hands-on: Pre-Photokina 2010: Pentax has announced the Kr, its latest mid-level DSLR. Initially sitting above the Kx in the range it offers more angular, K-7-esque styling, 6 fps continuous ...

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Wednesday, September 08, 2010

mobile



Google Instant: A mobile App Approach to Search �
Google launched today a revision of its core search technology called Google Instant. Instant acts and feels like a mobile app, and in my opinion would make more sense if it was one. But instead, it was launched as an tweak to Google's ...

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hacks



Firefox 4: hardware acceleration Mozilla hacks %26ndash; the Web developer .
Search hacks.mozilla.org. Go. Home � Articles � Demos � About � Home � Demos. Firefox 4: hardware acceleration. Older Article .... Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License v3.0 or any later version. hacks.mozilla.org: ...

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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

howto



How to Block Abusive or Unfriendly Email
This week a person very close to me started receiving abusive emails from a family member. This friend asked me if there was a way to block email from that particular user without changing email addresses completely.

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nokia



nokia to finally confront iPhone, Android with new N8 and E7 .
nokia first announced its Facebook-friendly N8 camera in April. At the time, it was notable for its powerful 12-megapixel camera, 720p high-definition video recording capabilities, as well as the fact that it was running nokia's new ...

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Monday, September 06, 2010

apple



apple photoshops iPhone into iPod touch
The careful readers at Engadget have noticed that apple cut a few corners (so to speak) on its website documentation for the latest iPod touch. There's no ear speaker or phone service on the device, obviously, but nevertheless apple's ...

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DIY



Craftzine.com blog : Labor Day: DIY Fashion Roundup
Today is Labor Day in the US which means we all get a day off from work. Since crafting is fun and most of us spend a lot more time making things for other people, I thought that today...

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Sunday, September 05, 2010

apple



The Ping Problems: Is apple To Blame, Or The Music Labels?
apple's managers haven't revealed many details about their plans but did discuss offering iTunes users a means to store copies of their music libraries on apple's servers. The benefits to an iTunes user would include the ability to back ...

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howto



Week in Geek: Google Sticks Wave in a Box Edition - How-To Geek
This week we learned how to pin an external drive to the Windows 7 taskbar, create an eBook or PDF from Wikipedia articles for offline reading, edit the hosts file, help computer users remotely with TeamViewer, minimize applications to ...

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Saturday, September 04, 2010

nokia



Launch: nokia 5250, as seen on Ovi Store | nokia Conversations .
ESPOO, Finland %26ndash; nokia set rumours flying a couple of weeks ago when pictures of an as-yet unreleased device were inadvertently uploaded to the Ovi Store.

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hacks



PSFreedom %26ndash; Hack your PS3 using a Nokia N900! | PS3 hacks : PS3 .
Ok, I'm not 100% sure on this because I don't have, nor do I know anyone who has a Nokia N900. This apparently isn't a direct port of PSGroove either; it's.

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Friday, September 03, 2010

asp



Making asp.NET Buttons Match the default WebSite Template .
Similar Posts:I just wanted a bunch of Buttons with a Mouse-Over / Hover behavior. Buttons with Mouse-Over Behaviors %26ndash; Redux Site Authentication Required, Except Default.aspx Embedding the Silverlight version of the Open Media Player ...

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mobile



With T-mobile Losing German iPhone 4 Exclusivity, Will AT%26T Be The .
It now looks like T-mobile's exclusivity deal is finally about to collapse entirely though. According to the Wall Street Journal, Deutsche Telekom is preparing for the loss of the iPhone 4 exclusive in time for the holiday shopping ...

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Thursday, September 02, 2010

youtube



youtube - Gmail Priority Inbox
Get through your email faster. Learn more at http://www.gmail.com/priorityinbox.

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DIY



Make: Online : Nice DIY bedframe design
With the exception of my couch, every piece of furniture in my home is something I built, or heavily modified, myself. This is both a source of personal pride and a bit of a pain, because if I want more furniture for whatever purpose, ...

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Wednesday, September 01, 2010

howto



How to Photograph Fireworks Displays
I've had many emails from readers asking how to photograph fireworks displays, quite a few of whom have expressed concern that they might just be too hard to really photograph. My response is always the same %26ndash; 'give it a go %26ndash; you might ...

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asp



August 29th Links: .NET, asp.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight .
Better ViewState Management in asp.NET 4 with the ViewStateMode Property: Scott Mitchell has a good article that discusses the new ViewStateMode property supported on asp.NET 4 controls. This provides much more control over how ...

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