MacHeist Offers NanoBundle Worth $154, for FREE!
smokingapples.com — The biggest Mac software bundle makers are offering a what appears to be prelude to their christmas bundle, for free. The list includes: Shovebox, Twitterrific, Writeroom ,TinyGrab, Hordes of Orcs, MarinerWrite. There is no catch, just register and download. (Submitted by Iexist08) More…
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Adam Lambert sings the 2012 theme song, "Time for Miracles" view!
whowillsurvive2012.com - Watch the Adam Lambert music video for the 2012 theme song. See 2012, in theaters Nov 13
Four Hackers Indicted in $9.5 Million Bank Card Attack
wired.com — Four men have been indicted on charges that they hacked into the Atlanta-based bank card processing company RBS WorldPay and used an army of flunkies to steal $9.5 million in cash from ATM machines around the world in a span of hours. The hack involved reverse-engineering PINs for payroll debit card accounts — the holy grail of bank card hacking. (Submitted by angel.wardriver) More…
Ask the Artist: How Windows 7's Iconic Home Screen Evolved
gizmodo.com — Chuck Anderson, creator of Windows 7's laid-back, cerulean-cool default wallpaper and login screen, showed me the evolution of his work --including Easter eggs, avoiding Mac tropes and why flaming skulls didn't make the final design. (Submitted by mklopez) More…
Droid Battery Life Requires New Charging Habits
pcworld.com — Droid users new to smartphones may be disappointed in its battery life. Like some other smartphones, its powerful features require new habits for keeping the device charged. Fair enough for traditional old-school mobile phones, but smartphones are doing stuff even while they're just sitting there. (Submitted by statik99) More…
Everything You Need to Know About Android 2.0
techradar.com — Android 2.0 (formerly codenamed Eclair) is the latest evolution of the mobile OS developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. This version is a chunky upgrade, superseding the current Android 1.6 software (dubbed Donut), which was actually considered "a minor platform release." (Submitted by RunDiggMC) More…
Insane Gadgets or Genius: You Be The Judge
igadgetlife.com — So many times you see or hear about a new gadget that makes you say, “Why didn’t I think of that?” Then there are times when you hear about a new gadget and say, “What the heck were they thinking?”... Some of these gadgets seem crazy, silly and downright insane; yet, some seem quite ingenious. Check them out & decide what you think... (Submitted by openthink) More…
Digital Fingerprints = The Mark of the Beast?
blogs.houstonpress.com — One Texas kindergarten teacher thinks so. Pam McLaurin is refusing to submit digital fingerprints for a background check, claiming that "by allowing her fingerprint to be digitized and stored in a computer, she will have assumed the Mark of the Beast." (Submitted by absolutelytrue) More…
Public pressure stops BBC's HDTV DRM drive (for now)
arstechnica.com — Under pressure from Hollywood, the BBC suggested encrypting some key bits of its new over-the-air high-def TV broadcasts... and it would only give the keys to set-top box makers who agreed to a secret set of copy protection measures. After public pressure, the government has put the brakes on the scheme. (Submitted by DiggUnderground) More…
Visualizing 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Books
samizdat.cc — To get a sense for the distribution of pages within the actual CYOA books, I've prepared a dataset of 12 books. They earliest date from 1979 and at the later edge are a handful from 1986. They are laid out chronologically (or according to series order for books released in the same year) with the oldest at the top left and more recent books below. (Submitted by MrBabyMan) More…
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