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Ben Sisario of The Times discusses the future of online air wave and Kyle Wiens of iFixit.com reveals the hardware inside the new Motorola Xoom inscription and MacBook Pro laptop.

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Lenovo demonstrates eye-tracking laptop for stare-controlled computing (Popular Science)
Verizon to finish infinite iPhone information outline (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
ATT ShopAlerts
Jobs takes the theatre to deliver Apple’s new iPad
Investors are drawn anew to digital song
Ben Sisario on MediaDecoder
Edifier MP250 Sound to Go orator
iFixit.com Motorola Xoom Teardown
iFixit.com MacBook Pro Teardown
iFixit.com Do-It-Yourself Repair
TIP OF THE WEEK: Diagnosing mental recall problems on your P.C. (Microsoft.com)
Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test (Apple.com)
MemTest
MacRumors Guides: Testing RAM
The X Lab: Running the Apple Hardware Test

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February 23, 2011

Brian Stelter of The Times discusses the television industry’s efforts to squeeze even more concern with amicable media and David Steinberger of ComiXology explains how his firm has blending comic books for digital devices.

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Kids who jump over college are tracked by GPS (Orange County Register)
Spotify raises investments at $1 billion gratefulness
Amazon Prime members obtain giveaway film streaming (PCMag.com)
I.R.S. starts estimate taxation forms affected by late taxation changes (IRS Newsroom)
Home Internet may obtain even faster in South Korea
Motorola Xoom at Verizon Wireless
TV industry taps amicable media to keep viewers’ concern
Janifer.org
How to use barcode readers (NickBilton.com)
New York City to use QR codes on building permits (NYC.gov)
Phasers.net
ComiXology
ComiXology Web reader
ComiXology Comics app for iOS
ComiXology Comics app for Android
TIP OF THE WEEK: The View Options box in iTunes

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February 16, 2011

This week’s uncover features tips for subsidy up photos and other information on your smartphone, and a talk with the curator Tom Eccles and the artist Tony Oursler about the initial vaunt at the Adobe Museum of Digital Media.

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Apple offers subscriptions for all iPad publications
Apple launches subscriptions on the App Store (Apple)
Last.fm Radio becomes a reward underline on mobile and home entertainment gadgets (Last.fm blog)
Verizon not nonetheless violation a persperate over iPhone traffic (gigaOM)
Ars Technica: IBM’s Watson roughly sneaks incorrect answer by Trebek
A free-for-all to win the future: computers vs. humans
What is I.B.M’s Watson?
A: This P.C. could better you at ‘Jeopardy!’ Q: What is Watson? (PBS Newshour video)
Adobe Museum of Digital Media
Apple: Backing up iPhone and iPod Touch
iTunes: Backing up, updating, and restoring your iPhone, iPad, or iPod hold program (Apple)
iPhone: Improve backup and revive times by shortening iPhone Camera Roll (Apple)
Iomega SuperHero Backup and Charger for iPhone
Backup Everything (Android Market)
Titanium Backup for Android
Astro File Manager for Android
Data Backup (Android Developers)
Handy Backup for Android
MyBackup Pro for Android, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry
Complete guide to subsidy up your Android phone (Tested.com)
How to back up the information on a BlackBerry smartphone (Research in Motion)
Windows Live / Windows Phone 7 (Microsoft)
Handy Backup for Windows Phone 7
TIP OF THE WEEK: Safari Reader
Readability for Mozilla Firefox
Readability Redux for Google Chrome
Readability: Installation video for Internet Explorer
Readability principal site
iReader for Google Chrome

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February 9, 2011

This week’s uncover features an interview with Jeff Potter, writer of the book ‘‘Cooking for Geeks’’ and a roundup of kitchen-themed apps for smartphones.

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F.C.C. to propose expanding broadband service to underserved areas
Universal Service Fund
The work of art in the Age of Google
Google Art Project
Explore museums and great functions of art in the Google Art Project (Google blog)
Early preview of giveaway program refurbish for Kindle (Kindlepost.com)
Sprint unveils the Kyocera Echo, a dual-screen smartphone
Smartphone shipments transcend PCs for first time. What’s next? (PCMag.com)
One on One: Jane McGonigal, diversion planner
‘‘Cooking for Geeks’’ by Jeff Potter
The Geek’s Guide to Rebooting Your Kitchen (Lifehacker)
Epicurious.com
AllRecipes
BigOven
Whole Foods Market Recipes app for iPhone
Healthy Recipes app by SparkRecipes
Betty Crocker Mobile Cookbook app for iPhone
Betty Crocker Mobile Cookbook app for Android
Jamie Oliver 20-Minute Meals app for iOS
Mario Batali Cooks! app for Android and iOS
Ratio app for Android
Diet Watcher Cookbook app for Android
GroceryIQ app for Android and iOS
OurGroceries for Android and BlackBerry
Pepperplate
BlackBerry in progress apps
Get in progress with BlackBerry apps (CrackBerry.com)
TIP OF THE WEEK: Sending Deep Links in YouTube videos

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February 2, 2011

Matt Richtel of The Times technology table discusses the shutdown of Internet and unit service in Egypt, whilst David Perry of Trend Micro examines new problems that have incited program in to universal weapons. Don Donofrio of the New Technology office offers recommendation on online print sharing.

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Cisco Visual Networking Index predict projects 26-fold expansion in universal mobile information traffic from 2010 to 2015
Intel identifies chipset pattern error, implementing answer
Microsoft says Yahoo is ‘phantom data’ phone bug source (BBC)
Microsoft releases Security Advisory 2501696 (Microsoft Security Response Center blog)
Microsoft Security Advisory 2501696
Microsoft Security Advisory: Vulnerability in MHTML could enable information avowal
Latest IE vulnerability: Microsoft’s workaround doesn’t help those many in need (ZDNet blog)
World’s first 3D smartphone, LG Optimus 3D, to entrance February 14 (Ars Technica)
LG jumps in front of rivals to affirm world’s first 3D smartphone (Forbes)
Egypt cuts off many Internet and unit service
How users in Egypt are bypassing Twitter Facebook blocks (Mashable)
Without Internet, Egyptians find new ways to obtain online (Computerworld)
Times Topics: WikiLeaks
Israeli assessment on worm called major in Iran chief check
Trend Micro
Trend Micro malware blog
Trend Micro clouded cover safety blog
‘‘The Stainless Steel Rat’’ array
At Flickr, fending off rumors and Facebook
Flickr
Flickit
‘‘The Adventures of Kermit’’ Flickr organisation
TwitPic
Photoshop.com
Instagr.am
Camera Genius
Photo-sharing services examination (Top Ten Reviews)
Vanna White (WheelofFortune.com)
TIP OF THE WEEK: Pin Tabs in Google Chrome
New in Labs: the Unread Message symbol

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January 26, 2011

Matt Richtel of the Times technology table talks about new services that can close down a cellphone in a relocating automobile and Don Donofrio of the News Technology office discusses apps that can complement your smartphone photography.

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Computer mental recall heralds immature PCs (BBC)
Computing with Novel Floating Gate Devices (abstract)
Microsoft explains Windows phone 7 ‘phantom data’ (BBC)
Verizon keeps infinite information outline for iPhone (CNet)
Keep your opt-outs (Google Public Policy blog)
Facebook turns the ‘Like’ in to its newest ad (Advertising Age)
Facebook Help Center: Sponsored Stories
So we grew 3400% final year… (Foursquare blog)
A short-circuit to dreaming pushing
“Mikey” by Blue Microphones
Bookworm from PopCap Games
Pro HDR
AutoStich Panorama
Adobe Photoshop Express for Android
Adobe Photoshop Express for iPhone
PhotoForge for iPhone
Hipstamatic for iPhone
The superb Hipstamatic camera
Finding the correct apparatus to discuss it a war story (NYT Lens blog)
SwankoLab
FxCamera for Android (AppBrain)
8 most appropriate Android apps for print modifying (Mashable)
The most appropriate photography apps for your Android (Lifehacker)
Windows Phone 7 Photo Apps (Two:Thirty AM)
BlackBerry App World: Photography
Palm webOS Photo Effects app
Sam Grobart: Breaking up with your point-and-shoot (video)
TIP OF THE WEEK: Press Alt+Enter in Windows for a file’s Properties box
Mac OS X set of keys shortcuts

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January 19, 2011

Professor Sherry Turkle of M.I.T. discusses her new book “Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other” and Claire Cain Miller of The Times chats about the stream state of communications privacy laws.

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Platform Updates: New user intent fields, Edge.remove Event and more (Facebook developer’s blog)
Facebook suspends phone and residence pity underline (ReadWriteWeb)
Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum online exhibits
Bits Pics: The Computer History Museum
Two charged over iPad hacking on ATT network
A low dais of care at Apple
Jobs takes ill leave at Apple again, stirring questions
Microsoft OneNote Office app for iPhone
New charge for phone: File taxes
TurboTax SnapTax
IRS Free File
“Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other” by Sherry Turkle
Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750
U.S. subpoenas Twitter over WikiLeaks supporters
1986 privacy law is outpace by the Web
Should e-mail and letters have next to authorised protection?
Digital Due Process
TIP OF THE WEEK: Turn on the disposition opposite is to iPhone Messages app

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January 12, 2011

John Simpson, the chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, discusses the new features existing on the redesigned online chronicle of the OED and Dave Pascoe of LiveATC.net talks about his site, that streams live aviation audio. Jenna Wortham and Sam Grobart of the Times Technology table moreover tumble by for a wrap-up of final week’s Consumer Electronics Show.

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‘‘World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm’’ sells 4.7M in first month (PCMag.com)
Microsoft investigates ‘phantom’ Windows Phone 7 information (BBC)
British Library announces first app is to iPhone, iPad and Android smartphone
Mac App Store opens for business
Mac App Store
Live blogging the Verizon iPhone statement
Verizon will offer the iPhone next month
ATT and Verizon traffic taunts over iPhone
Eye-catching products in a gymnasium of gadgetry
Gadgetwise CES 2011 coverage
Oxford English Dictionary online
LiveATC.net
TIP OF THE WEEK: List of set of keys shortcuts for Word 2002, Word 2003, and Word 2007

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January 5, 2011

Andrew Ross Sorkin, editor of the DealBook division of The Times, discusses the new attribute between Facebook and Goldman Sachs and Phil Simon, writer of “The New Small” talks about how tiny businesses can obtain the many out of rising technologies.

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Tablets, dual-core phones and 3-D cameras: 2011’s hottest device trends (Wired)
Intel Core 2011 chips offer more power (CIO Today)
Microsoft blog post on Windows Live Hotmail outage
Google Android Newsstand may lift developer income (InformationWeek)
iPad publication sales figures uncover high reject over a couple of partial months (Engadget)
CHART OF THE DAY: iPad Magazine Sales Tank (Business Insider)
DealBook: Why Facebook is such a major buddy for Goldman
DealBook: Facebook treat offers liberty from investigation
DealBook: Share manners could hasty an gift by Facebook
DealBook: Goldman gift customers a luck to deposit in Facebook
Marantz NA7004 network audio player
Squeezebox Duet
Squeezebox Classic
“The New Small,” by Phil Simon
TIP OF THE WEEK: Bing Maps apps
Bing Maps overhauls interface, exposes Map apps to all (Search Engine Land)

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December 30, 2010

With 2011 looming, Team Tech Talk takes a look at a few gadgets, apps and sites that can make gripping keeping those New Year’s resolutions easier.

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Samsung confirms Milky Way Player, will showcase at CES 2011 (SamsungHub)
Apple sued over app privacy (Bloomberg Businessweek)
ATT releases texting-while-driving documentary (Mashable)
ATT expands WiFi hotzones in NYC, San Francisco (InformationWeek)
IBM reveals 5 innovations that will change our lives in the next 5 years
Mio FitStik
Mio Pacer
FitBit
Zumba Fitness for PlayStation 3
Sports Champions for PlayStation 3
Sony PlayStation 3
Wii Fit Plus
Nintendo Wii
Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect
QuitIt for iPhone
LIVESTRONG MyQuit Coach for iPhone
Quit Smoking apps for Android (AndroidZoom)
Evernote
HomeRoutines app for iPhone
TaskPaper for iOS and MacOS
Goals Done! for Android
GOALS ToDo for Android examination
ToDo Matrix for BlackBerry and iPhone
Android Market capability apps
Blackberry AppWorld capability apps
iTunes U.
MIT OpenCourseWare
Lynda.com online program practice courses
Charity Navigator
CharityWatch (sponsored by American Institute of Philanthropy)
Better Business Bureau
VolunteerMatch
Volunteering in America
GoodGuide
GoodGuide app for iPhone
The Green Guide
Yale Environment 360 (Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies)
Blue Ocean Institute
FishPhone
FishPhone for iPhone
SeafoodWatch
SeafoodWatch for iPhone
Sea Stories
TIP OF THE WEEK: Launch iPad apps with Spotlight (WoowooMac)

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December 22, 2010

Brian Stelter of The Times discusses the unreasonable of new safety problems on renouned Web sites and the writer Mark Stephen Meadows chats about his new book, ‘‘We, Robot.”

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Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 sales off to a earnest beginning
Newest ‘Call of Duty’ video diversion sales attain $1B (Forbes)
Foursquare blog: photos and explanation are here!
Apple TV sales approaching to attain 1 million this week (San José Mercury News)
Verizon Wireless Twitter feed
Verizon confirms will make 4G announcements at CES (TG Daily)
F.C.C. approves Net manners and braces for free-for-all
F.C.C.’s Net neutrality opinion strike from both sides
Hackers interrupt sites run by Gawker Media
Hackers give Web companies a assessment of giveaway debate
FAQ: Compromised Commenting Accounts on Gawker Media
The Gawker penetrate and Web security: The Gnosis hackers reply (Geekosystem)
An Interview with Gnosis, the organisation at the back the Gawker hacking (TheNextWeb)
Mark Stephen Meadows
“We, Robot” on Facebook
TIP OF THE WEEK: Change your default finding engine (Search Engine Journal)

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December 15, 2010

Damon Darlin, the Technology editor for The Times, chats about people’s interaction with their gadgets and Dawn Song, a MacArthur Foundation genius fellow, discusses her work in P.C. security.

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#Hindsight 2010: Top Trends on Twitter (Twitter Blog)
Twitter: The year in examination
Twitter’s tip trends of 2010
Smartphones: Information safety risks, opportunities and recommendations for users
Microsoft to publicize new slates directed at the iPad
Gmail blog: How to emanate a eighth month responder (and 50 other things you may wish to teact your parents)
TeachParentsTech.org site
How to tarry legal holiday family tech encouragement (Datamation)
Tips for legal holiday tech encouragement (TechRepublic)
How to put together your family’s Personal Computer problems (PCWorld)
Digital gadgets can turn objects of love
The important Bacon Explosion recipe
Times Topics: Damon Darlin
Audyssey South of Market Edition audio wharf
Beats™ by Dr. Dre™ BeatBox™ iPod wharf
Dawn Song, MacArthur genius associate
Dawn Song autobiography
Dawn Song’s UC Berkeley home page
TIP OF THE WEEK: Find dark themes and wallpapers in Windows 7 (Windows7Bits.com)

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December 8, 2010

The Times contributor Tanzina Vega discusses the Federal Trade Commission’s offer that would enable consumers to opt out of online tracking from Web adverstisers. Personal Technology editor Sam Grobart explains the process of soundbars and Christopher Coppola shares his insights on modern movie-making and his “Digivanglist” reality show.

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Consumer Reports cell-service ratings consult
Facebook blog: Introducing the new form
Twitterers conflict to new Facebook profiles (HuffingtonPost.com)
Google launches cloud-based e-bookstore (Google blog)
Amazon unveils better Kindle Web app (CNet)
Google Chrome OS gets minute (Engadget)
Google Chrome OS: What you must be know (GigaOM)
Google Chrome Store
Google Chrome Store often asked questions
Mozilla Labs: Building the Open Web App Ecosystem
On night before of Chrome store launch, Mozilla touts own Web app skeleton (Computerworld)
Appletell exclusive: Mac App Store to open December 13th?
Mac App Store: Coming Soon
Federal Trade Commission privacy inform
F.T.C. backs outline to award privacy of online users
In online privacy plan, the opt-out subject looms
Boxes and bars for better TV sound
Christopher Coppola’s blog
ReelzChannel: Digivangelist
PAH Nation
TIP OF THE WEEK: Customizing the Windows Safari toobar
Customizing the Mac Safari toolbar
MozillaZine: Firefox toolbar customization
Microsoft: Customize the Internet Explorer toolbars
Opera tutorials: Detailed toolbar customization

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December 1, 2010

Students at New York University share their thoughts on a new New York Times essay about digital distractions and Rik Fairlie, a Times contributor, talks about this season’s in digital cameras.

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Cyber Monday sales overload (CNN Money)
Microsoft sells 2.5M Kinect sensors for Xbox 360 (Bloomberg)
A Facebook owner starts a amicable network focused on charities
Introducing Google Earth 6 (Google blog)
Google Earth: 3D Trees
Google Earth
Europe opens antitrust exploration in to Google
Netflix partner says Comcast “toll” threatens online video smoothness
Level 3 Communications problems statement regarding Comcast’s activities
Comcast blog post regarding Level 3
FCC Looks Into Level 3, Comcast Content Dispute (PC World)
Did net neutrality problems check December FCC meeting? (PCMag.com)
FCC prepares for net neutrality opinion (CNet)
TIP OF THE WEEK: Dual guard setup is easy in Windows 7! (Microsoft Support)
Microsoft: Two monitors are better than one
Windows 7: Move windows between multi-part monitors
Microsoft: 20 Personal Computer shortcuts you needs to know
Microsoft: Understanding multi-part monitors
Windows trademark key shortcuts (O’Reilly Answers)
NYTimes.com legal holiday gift guide
Growing up digital, connected for daze

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November 25, 2010

This week’s part offers a round-up of illness gadgets and aptness apps to encounter the legal holiday period head on.

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A cheaper outline at Netflix offers drive-in theatre for online usually
Acer unveils tablets to run Windows, Android (PC World)
Visual tour: 25 years of Windows (Computerworld)
Microsoft: A story of Windows
Windows 7 network mandate
“Next Generation 9-1-1″ would agree to crisis content messages (Ars Technica)
F.C.C. Chairman Genachowski voiced stairs to bring 9-1-1 in to the 21st century (PDF)
Apple’s iOS 4.2 existing for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch

November 17, 2010

Bill Milani, a counsel and mentor at Cornell University’s college of labor and industrial relations, discusses problems with using social-networking sites at the office. Julie Bosman, who covers the edition industry for The Times, talks about the rising recognition of e-readers as a gift piece this legal holiday season.

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Facebook offers new messaging apparatus
The Facebook blog: See the messages that matter
Schmidt: Android phones will be credit cards
Mobile providers form new digital wallet project (PC World)
Apple safety updates
PGP ability bottom note on Mac OS X 10.6.5
Apple starts selling Beatles downloads
Worker rights expand to Facebook post
Keeping a closer eye on employees’ amicable networking
Audio Technica AT-LP240-USB direct-drive turntable
TEAC turntable tape deck systems
ION audio USB turntables
Sony PS-LX300USB turntable
Audacity open-source audio editor
SoundForge Audio Studio program
“Over the Rainbow,” by Sarah Vaughn (iLike)
“Walking After Midnight,” by Patsy Cline (iLike)
The story of Project Gutenberg
Great legal holiday expectations for e-readers
New York Times Best Sellers Lists to follow e-books
TIP OF THE WEEK: Ubuntu netbook edition download page
Ubuntu netbook edition

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November 10, 2010

This week’s uncover features a look at how equalizer settings work for iTunes and other music-jukebox programs and Miguel Helft of The Times offers a preview of the new RockMelt Web browser.

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Free legal holiday Wi-Fi from Google
Beyond present results: Instant previews (Google blog)
Google introduces visible previews of finding results
Windows 7 phone blog roundup (Computerworld)
State of the Art: Kinect pushes users in to a cold and damp new dimension
A home network leaves palm controls in the dirt
TimesCast: Microsoft’s Kinect arrives
Firefox extras BlackSheep sniffs out Firesheep apparatus (eWeek)
Blacksheep plug-in from Zscaler
Stop Firesheep with FireShepherd
Color comes to E-Ink screens
Queen’s Facebook page becomes forum for kingdom debate (Guardian)
Web browsing takes a amicable turn
RockMelt site and video
Rockmelt blog
The MSI GX660R gaming laptop
ASUS notebooks
Alienware gaming laptops
iTunes: About Sound Check
iTunes and QuickTime for Windows: Audio does not fool around or plays wrongly
iTunes Effects: Crossfade and Sound Enhancer (Mac Tips and Tricks)
Methodshop: Demystifying the iTunes EQ
iDFX Audio Enhancer
Audio plug-ins at Download.com
Winamp blog: How to use the equalizer
Winamp blog: Volume leveling in Winamp with Replay Gain
Windows 7 Mods: Enable the equalizer in Windows Media Player 12
Techerator: How to enable crossfading and vehicle volume leveling in Windows Media Player 12
TIP OF THE WEEK: How to rapidly lock your P.C. and use other Windows Logo by-pass keys (Microsoft)
Lock the Mac OS X 10.6 shade with a set of keys by-pass (Mac OS X Hints)
ScreenLock 1.0 for Mac
MacDailyNews: Lock your Mac OS X shade from the menu club by adding lock symbol
Mac OS X Hints: Create a screen-clocking set of keys by-pass

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November 3, 2010

Frank Ahearn, writer of “How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish Without a Trace,” offers tips on online privacy and Claire Cain Miller of The Times discusses the ultimate authorised developments with Google’s Street View feature.

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Barnes Noble puts color on its Nook
Apple releases iPhone, iPad iOS 4.2 Golden Master to developers (Apple Insider)
Partial Flash encouragement Comes to iPhone via Skyfire mobile browser (Mashable)
Sprint 4G goes live in New York City, other new markets (TG Daily)
Facebook Says information attorney paid for User IDs (InformationWeek)
Facebook Developer’s blog : An refurbish on Facebook UIDs
Google blog: Rewarding Web focus safety investigate
“How to Disappear” by Frank M. Ahearn and Eileen C. Horan
Logitech F540 wireless gaming headphones
Logitech blog
A reassured F.T.C. ends Google Street View exploration
TIP OF THE WEEK: Make Outlook close original summary when you reply to it

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October 27, 2010

This week’s uncover features Clifford Nass of Stanford University on what computers reveal about human behavior, Hashem Bajwa and Neil Heymann of the promotion agency Droga5 on an interactive twist for publicizing Jay-Z’s discourse and Alan Yacavone of the Times News Technology table on the ultimate announcements from Apple.

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Samsung Milky Way Tab forthcoming to Best Buy for $499 (eWeek)
Milky Way Tab forthcoming to Sprint Nov. 14th (PCMag.com)
Android Market and Windows Marketplace pass major milestones (InformationWeek)
AndroidDev Twitter feed
Office for Mac 2011
Office for Mac 2011: What’s new
Sony drops cost of PSP go to $199 (Mashable)
Firesheep Firefox add-in hijacks Twitter, Facebook over Wi-Fi (PCMag.com)
Firesheep in wolves’ clothing: Extension lets you Hack in to Twitter, Facebook accounts simply (TechCrunch)
Protect your login informatin from Firesheep (TechCrunch)
How to safeguard against Firesheep attacks (Computerworld)
Dr. Clifford Nass of Stanford University
The CHIMe lab
“The Man Who Lied to His Laptop” by Clifford Nass
The “How We Work” study
Decode Jay-Z with Bing
Find Jay-Z’s discourse at a bookstore, or on a poster advertisement
TIP OF THE WEEK: Time Warner line Remote DVR Manager (Time Warner Cable “Untangled” blog)
Time Warner Cable Remote DVR Manager site
TiVo Mobile site
Verizon FiOS TV Central
Comcast: How to use myDVR Manager
Dish Network DVR executive app

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October 20, 2010

Anthony Zuiker, creator of the television uncover “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation’’ and writer of the new thriller “Dark Prophecy,” describes a new form of storytelling called the “digi-novel” and Jenna Wortham of the Times discusses how technology fits in to the dating scene.

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News (34:54)
Tip of the Week (21:36)
Anthony Zuiker (17:34)
Jenna Wortham (7:38)

Links

ITU estimates two billion people online by finish 2010
Western Digital shipping world’s largest capacity SATA drives
WD Caviar Green
Western Digital: Large capacity drives
Wii and PS3 to be disc-free (Netflix blog)
Xbox Kinect diversion launch lineup suggested (CNN/Mashable)
Oct. 18, 1985: Nintendo Entertainment System launches (Wired)
Bits blog updates from Apple’s Mac-focused eventuality
Facebook vows to put together a smirch in information privacy
Facebook privacy: Protecting personal information in the amicable network (eWeek)
Facebook app crack gets the concern of Congress (Ars Technica)
Facebook privacy guide
Level26 / “Dark Prophecy”
“Sqweegel” part of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (opens iTunes Store)
Anthony Zuiker on IMDb
Can technology make or break a relationship?
TIP OF THE WEEK: Microsoft Fix-It Solution Center
Announcing Microsoft Automated Troubleshooting Services (Microsoft TechNet blog)

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October 13, 2010

This week’s uncover features a round-up of TV and video services for smartphones and a talk with the Times contributor Tanzina Vega about prospective privacy risks with Web pages coded in HTML5.

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News (31:32)
Tanzina Vega on HTML5 (24:50)
Tech Term (15:10)
TV on a smartphone (11:51)
Tip of the Week (5:20)

Links

Microsoft unveils new Windows phones
ATT gets its diversion on with Xbox 360 (Multichannel.com)
ATT U-Verse service
National Cyber Security Alliance
Microsoft Security Bulletin for October 2010
In aloft education, a focus on technology
NASA app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
Star Walk app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
American Museum of Natural History “Cosmic Discoveries” app
Apple skeleton to offer iPhone on Verizon
Amazon introduces a format for shorter e-books
New Web ethics draws concern over privacy risks
HTML5 differences from HTML4
HTML5 (Wikipedia)
How HTML5 will change the way you use the Web (Lifehacker)
The WebM Project
Theora video compression
ITU-T H. 264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC)
VP8 Data Format and Decoding Guide
Verizon V CAST video on urge
ATT mobile TV
Flo.TV
MobiTV
NFL Mobile
MLB.com app
Bitbop
SlingPlayer Mobile for Android
SlingPlayer Mobile for iOS
TIP OF THE WEEK: iTunes parental controls
Mac 101: How to use iTunes parental controls (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
How to emanate an iTunes account without a credit card

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October 6, 2010

Eugenio Culurciello of Yale University discusses a new man-made prophesy algorithms that could one day let computers “see” and Ben Huh of the Cheezburger Network talks about the company’s ultimate book and Web projects.

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News (31:55)
NeuFlow supercomputer (22:35)
Tip of the Week (14:35)
Cradlepoint PHS-300 mobile prohibited mark (11:20)
Ben Huh (6:58)

Links

Google TV announces its programming partners, but the tip networks are absent
Nielsen consult shows Android tops iPhone, BlackBerry amid new buyers (Bloomberg)
The iPhone has a actual free-for-all on its hands
“Call of Duty: Black Ops” to be expelled in 3-D (Associated Press)
Toshiba shows off glasses-free 3D TV (CNet)
Verizon Fivespot universal mobile hotspot
Windows Phone 7 launch scheduled for Oct. 11 (eWeek)
Phone carriers pointer on to bring service to the transport
A dataflow P.C. for man-made prophesy algorithms (Yale)
Human viewpoint recognition (Yale)
Eugenio Culurciello
Cradlepoint personal prohibited mark
D-Link DIR-412 mobile broadband wireless router
Top Global universal router
we Can Haz Cheezburger
The Daily Wh.at
The FAIL Blog
‘‘The Itteh Bitteh Book of Kittehs’ ’
TIP OF THE WEEK: Turn off Gmail Conversation perspective (Gmail blog)

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September 29, 2010

Claire Cain Miller of The Times discusses new projects at Google and the Archos 32 Internet inscription gets a rapid look.

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News (24:10)
Tip of the Week (17:00)
Claire Cain Miller (16:12)
Archos 32 Internet inscription (7:55)

Links

BlackBerry PlayBook
RIM unveils the BlackBerry PlayBook
BlackBerry inscription revealed: The PlayBook (Gadgetwise)
Sony Ericsson LivewView micro-display for Android phones
R2-D2 special edition Droid phone
R2-D2 Droid arrives in carbonite on the 30th (TG Daily)
Web searches predict success for films, games and songs (BBC)
Predicting consumer behavior with Web finding (abstract)
Happy 12th birthday, Google (Mashable)
Google gives real-time finding its own page
Texas attorney broad investigates Google Search
Times Topics: Google
Archos 32 Internet inscription

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September 22, 2010

A look at a wireless song network from Orb and Tanzina Vega of The Times discusses the component of the Adobe Flash program that’s inspiring authorised action from consumers.

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News (25:10)
Tip of the Week (17:19)
Tanzina Vega (15:03)
Orb MP-1 Music Player (8:05)

Links

MetroPCS launches first LTE network in U.S. (PCMag.com)
Twitter ” safety smirch at large exploited (Sophos blog)
Twitter users inclusive Sarah Brown strike by rouge hacker assault (Guardian)
Twitter: XSS atack identified and patched
Casio’s H20G megazoom does geotagging inside the building (CNet)
Google beefing up mobile apps (Computerworld)
Ocean comes to Google Earth (Google Lat Long blog)
Napster app is to iPad and iPhone
VLC Media Player for iPad
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 beta
Microsoft: What’s new in IE9?
Code that marks users’ browsing prompts lawsuits
Adobe: How to turn off third-party local common objects
Flash Player Global Storage Settings row
Flash Player Website Storage Settings row
Flash Player Global Privacy Settings row
Orb song network
Orb Controller iPhone and Android app
Sonos multi-room song systems
Sonos Controller iPhone app
Apple AirpPort Express
Apple iTunes Remote app
Logitech Squeezebox wireless song players
iPeng app for Squeezebox
Subsonic song pennon

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September 15, 2010

Nick Bilton of The Times discusses his new book, “I Live in the Future Here’s How It Works” and a FaceVsion TouchCam N1 Webcam gets a assessment expostulate with Skype.

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Tip of the Week (30:56)
News (28:32)
Nick Bilton (19:32)
FaceVsion TouchCam N1 (6:58)

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TIP OF THE WEEK: Adding to the Windows 7 Send To menu (How-To Geek)
Bing overtakes Yahoo in finding (Informationweek)
Nokia says preorders for N8 smartphone are strongest ever seen (Bloomberg)
Nokia N8
Symbian^3
Adobe: Security Advisory for Flash Player
F.C.C. likely to open new airwaves to wireless
Space commandos back at war, with retooled war gizmos
Video games lead to faster decisions that are no reduction exact
The University of Rochester
Nick Bilton
A tech world that centers on the user
‘‘I Live in the Future Here’s How It Works’’
FaceVsion TouchCam N1
Logitech Webcams
Microsoft Webcams
QuickCam story (Wikipedia)

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September 8, 2010

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