Archive for October, 2011

Improve the look and feel of your ipad

Improve the look and feel of your ipad There are many ways to enhance and improve the look and feel of your ipad. One of the most common ones involves hacking the ipad IOS. There are however ways of enhancing the ipad functionality without going to extreme measures. Most of the stuff and information listed [...]

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The Coolest Humanoid Robot Is Not Japanese But American [Video]

This is the new Petman, by our friends at Boston Dynamics, the creators of Big Dog and BigDog 2. It’s like a robotic marine that never gets tired. You tell him to give you a thousand and he’ll do it. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/yAQ6JsBb2UM/the-coolest-humanoid-robot-is-not-japanese-but-american Spansion Sonus Networks Sonic Automotive Skyworks Solutions Silicon Laboratories Si International

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Facebook launches unified mobile site, announces 250 million mobile users

Facebook has announced that its two mobile sites — m.facebook.com and touch.facebook.com — have been unified, bringing a simpler mobile experience to Facebook users. And there are a lot of those — a quarter billion, according to Facebook. Smartphone users won’t be losing any functionality because of the consolidation. If your phone supported the enhacned [...]

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Improve the look and feel of your ipad

Improve the look and feel of your ipad There are many ways to enhance and improve the look and feel of your ipad. One of the most common ones involves hacking the ipad IOS. There are however ways of enhancing the ipad functionality without going to extreme measures. Most of the stuff and information listed [...]

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Improve the look and feel of your ipad

Improve the look and feel of your ipad There are many ways to enhance and improve the look and feel of your ipad. One of the most common ones involves hacking the ipad IOS. There are however ways of enhancing the ipad functionality without going to extreme measures. Most of the stuff and information listed [...]

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iPad Live Hallowe’en special, tonight at 9pm EDT. Be there!

iPad Live Hallowe’en special, tonight at 9pm EDT. Be there! iPad Live, the best damn iPad podcast on the ‘net, is coming at you in costume tonight, so clear your schedule, sort your tricks, and get your treats ready, because we want to chat with you! Time: 9pm ET, 6pm PT, 1am GMT. Place: http://www.tipb.com/live [...]

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HTC Rezound (aka Vigor) gets a pre-production hands-on

HTC Rezound (aka Vigor) gets a pre-production hands-on Youtube link for mobile viewing So here's our first look the HTC Rezound — aka the HTC Vigor — on Verizon, which we're fully expecting to see officially unveiled Thursday in New York. (We'll be there, by the way.) JohnBoy shows us what we pretty much expected [...]

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Save your tabs and Panorama tab groups in Firefox 4

When Firefox 4′s tab grouping tool, Panorama, had its keyboard shortcut changed to the finger-breaking combo of Ctrl+Shift+E, we thought Panorama would get dropped before FF4′s final release — but, thankfully, it made the cut! If you’ve used Firefox 4 and Panorama, you might have noticed that Mozilla’s new browser doesn’t always save your tab [...]

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webOS 3.0 beta now available to developers

With the webOS 3.0 SDK available for almost two months, HP has now given developers access to a beta download of webOS 3.0 — which powers the upcoming TouchPad and will likely ride along on HP desktops and laptops in the form of an emulator. Right now, the webOS 3.0 beta is only available to [...]

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Breaksclusive: Samsung Galaxy Nexus render with a 4G symbol found lurking on Samsung’s site

Breaksclusive: Samsung Galaxy Nexus render with a 4G symbol found lurking on Samsung’s site Hey, guess what. If you've been trolling around the Android Central Forums for the past day or so — hey, it's Halloween weekend, but it's still the place to be — you no doubt know by now that there's been a [...]

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HTC ships nearly twice as many phones in Q3; profits up 68 percent

HTC ships nearly twice as many phones in Q3; profits up 68 percent It's good to be HTC, no? The Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer released its Q3 2011 earnings this week. It shipped some 13.2 million phones, nearly double that of Q3 2010 and some 9 percent higher than the second quarter of 2011. After-tax profits [...]

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Improve the look and feel of your ipad

Improve the look and feel of your ipad There are many ways to enhance and improve the look and feel of your ipad. One of the most common ones involves hacking the ipad IOS. There are however ways of enhancing the ipad functionality without going to extreme measures. Most of the stuff and information listed [...]

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Google Latitude check-in deals now available across the US

Recently, Google has been busy beefing up Latitude to make it more competitive with other location apps — and more fun to use. Location history was added recently, iOS users can post check-ins via Latitude, and now Google has begun rolling out location-based deals which are tied to the service. If you’re in the U.S., [...]

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Daily Crunch: Moon Phase Edition

The Legend Of Zelda: A Generation?s Awakening Sega Toys? R2-D2 Homestar Planetarium Shows The Death Star Surveillant Society ?Rotary Mechanical? Cell Phone Concept Isn?t Practical, But It Looks Great 11 Great Last Minute Geeky Father?s Day Gifts Weekend Giveaway: Man Cave Gear For Pops Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/06/18/daily-crunch-moon-phase/ Intel Insight Enterprises Ingram Micro Informatica Infocus Zoran

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Hailing a cab in London with your Android phone? About time!

Hailing a cab in London with your Android phone? About time! For anyone who ever lives in, or has ever visited London, you'll know that hailing a cab can sometimes be tough. It's never quite as easy as it looks on TV, and sometimes can be quite treacherous. Now though, a group of enterprising London [...]

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Siri hack now fully working on the iPhone 4 and iPod touch [video]

Siri hack now fully working on the iPhone 4 and iPod touch [video] Siri has now been fully hacked onto an iPhone 4 and iPod touch and it now communicates with Apple’s servers to provide a 100% working solution. We told you a few weeks back that developer Steve Troughton-Smith was working on hacking Siri [...]

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iPad Live Hallowe’en special, tonight at 9pm EDT. Be there!

iPad Live Hallowe’en special, tonight at 9pm EDT. Be there! iPad Live, the best damn iPad podcast on the ‘net, is coming at you in costume tonight, so clear your schedule, sort your tricks, and get your treats ready, because we want to chat with you! Time: 9pm ET, 6pm PT, 1am GMT. Place: http://www.tipb.com/live [...]

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Internet Explorer 9 nears 4% share on Windows 7, IE6 extinction countdown picks up steam

Microsoft has shared some news about the state of its most and least loved Web browsers — Internet Explorer 9 and 6, respectively. Even with IE9 only recently exiting beta, Microsoft reports that 3.6% of Windows 7 users are now running the new browser (no mention of Vista… what’s with that?). The post also reveals [...]

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Robo-Flytrap Turns Insect Lifeblood Into Power [Robots]

This is it. Batteries were the last shackle. Now that the robots can potentially produce their own power by devouring insects, all those cliches and overused Internet memes about robot overlords are finally going to come true. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/QciVvU4q6_k/robo+flytrap-turns-insect-lifeblood-into-power Sykes Enterprises Inorated Sybase Sun Microsystems Standard Microsystems Sra International Spss

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Dear Walmart: This is not the EVO Design 4G

Dear Walmart: This is not the EVO Design 4G We know, because we have one. #kthxbai AnnaLynne McCord Kate Beckinsale

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OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.

OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW. The New York Times has published Mona Simpson’s eulogy for her brother, Steve Jobs. None of us knows for certain how long we’ll be here. On Steve’s better days, even in the last year, he embarked upon projects and elicited promises from his friends at Apple to … The [...]

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Motorola RAZR and Samsung Galaxy S Glide possibly coming to Rogers next week

Motorola RAZR and Samsung Galaxy S Glide possibly coming to Rogers next week If the internal procured by MobileSyrup are correct, Rogers subscribers will have a pair of hot new phones to check out next week — the Galaxy S Glide is slated for a Nov. 3 launch, and the MotoRAZR shows up the next [...]

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Jolicloud aiming to bring all your cloud services under one Android application

Jolicloud aiming to bring all your cloud services under one Android application Gmail, Flickr, Dropbox, Picasa, are all massively popular cloud services, but all requiring their own applications to allow you to access your data. This is where Jolicloud, the portable desktop steps in, as they aim to bring their communal cloud access platform to [...]

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Gladinet maps Amazon Cloud Drive to your Windows desktop

Amazon’s recently-introduced Cloud Drive is a great place to store your files online. It offers 5 gigs of totally free space, and U.S. users also get access to the handy Cloud Player app (for Web and Android!) which streams music you upload to your Cloud Drive. The service could be a little easier to use, [...]

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FitDesk ? The Perfect Product for Keeping Fit and Reading The Gadgeteer at the Same Time

Do you find it difficult to tear yourself away from the great reviews and news here on The Gadgeteer to perform your daily workout? It’s understandable, but I might have a product that can solve that problem. The FitDesk is a stationary exercise bike that has a built-in platform that holds your laptop so that [...]

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HTC rolling out update to Android 2.3.5, Sense 3.0 for Desire S in UK

HTC rolling out update to Android 2.3.5, Sense 3.0 for Desire S in UK According to reports from multiple sources, the HTC Desire S is currently receiving an update to Android 2.3.5, which also bumps the mid-range handset from HTC Sense 2.1 right up to Sense 3.0. The new version of Sense, which first shipped [...]

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Siri hack now fully working on the iPhone 4 and iPod touch [video]

Siri hack now fully working on the iPhone 4 and iPod touch [video] Siri has now been fully hacked onto an iPhone 4 and iPod touch and it now communicates with Apple’s servers to provide a 100% working solution. We told you a few weeks back that developer Steve Troughton-Smith was working on hacking Siri [...]

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Motorola RAZR and Samsung Galaxy S Glide possibly coming to Rogers next week

Motorola RAZR and Samsung Galaxy S Glide possibly coming to Rogers next week If the internal procured by MobileSyrup are correct, Rogers subscribers will have a pair of hot new phones to check out next week — the Galaxy S Glide is slated for a Nov. 3 launch, and the MotoRAZR shows up the next [...]

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Pure entering the UK music streaming market, Android app in tow

Pure entering the UK music streaming market, Android app in tow The reign of Spotify as music subscription of choice in the UK market may be about to face its toughest challenge yet, as premium radio manufacturer Pure is ready to launch it's own service. Like Spotify, they're also bringing an Android application to market [...]

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Growing up Geek: Dave Altavilla

Welcome to Growing Up Geek, an ongoing feature where we take a look back at our youth and tell stories of growing up to be the nerds that we are. Today, we have the Editor in Chief of HotHardware, Dave Altavilla. Growing up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts has its pluses and minuses. Certainly, in the [...]

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Apogee Jam guitar adapter review

Musicians have long needed ways to catalog ideas and capture rough recordings of new material without the anchor that is a full-fledged recording setup. Apogee offers just that with its Jam guitar adapter for the iPad, iPhone and Mac, which allows you to strum your way to a record deal via an iOS device. Whether [...]

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HTC rolling out update to Android 2.3.5, Sense 3.0 for Desire S in UK

HTC rolling out update to Android 2.3.5, Sense 3.0 for Desire S in UK According to reports from multiple sources, the HTC Desire S is currently receiving an update to Android 2.3.5, which also bumps the mid-range handset from HTC Sense 2.1 right up to Sense 3.0. The new version of Sense, which first shipped [...]

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Apple airs new iPhone 4S commercials: Siri, Camera, iCloud

Apple airs new iPhone 4S commercials: Siri, Camera, iCloud Apple has released 3 more iPhone 4S commercials, a second on Siri along with one focusing on the new 8mp, 1080p camera, and one on iCloud. iCloud highlights automatic iTunes Music downloads across devices, Documents in the Cloud propagating updates, iBooks bookmarks copying themselves from iPhone… [...]

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TiPb TV 22: iHelicopters dogfight

TiPb TV 22: iHelicopters dogfight Georgia and Rene go all Airwolf vs. Blue Thunder with iHelicopter, the iPhone-controlled remote helicopters. We’re talking terrifying takeoffs, ludicrous landings, and crazy crashes. This is TiPb TV. Courtesy: iHelicopters iHelicopters sent us two helicopters to test out so we immediately thought — dogfight! The helicopters themselves are… Georgia and [...]

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OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.

OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW. The New York Times has published Mona Simpson’s eulogy for her brother, Steve Jobs. None of us knows for certain how long we’ll be here. On Steve’s better days, even in the last year, he embarked upon projects and elicited promises from his friends at Apple to … The [...]

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VMware adds Mozy to its cloud and virtualization empire

Mozy is one of the most popular cloud backup services around, with more than one million users storing around 70 petabytes of data. Its popularity apparently put it on the acquisition radar of VMware — which has now made Mozy part of its virtualization empire. VMware’s official blog post makes it clear that the company [...]

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