The Limited Edition DROID R2D2 from Verizon will be available Thursday

If you’ve been waiting for the special edition Star Wars R2D2 Droid 2 smartphone from Verizon, you’ll be happy to know that will be available on September 30th. Show off your geekiness by sporting a Droid 2 with cool R2D2 graphics on the back and exclusive Star Wars inspired content such as: Exclusive content comes [...]

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The Limited Edition DROID R2D2 from Verizon will be available Thursday originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on September 27, 2010 at 9:46 pm.

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Bose VideoWave Shoves Their Tech Into a 46-Inch LCD TV With 16 Speakers [Bose]

Bose thinks that home theaters are simply too complicated for most of us. Rather than rigging individual speakers and a receiver, they're banking on an all-in-one approach: the VideoWave, a TV with its own theater. More »

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Pixel Qi Offers Second Screen for Your Laptop

Pixel Qi’s low power displays could be a second screen for your laptop or smartphone. Pixel Qi has partnered with a German company to offer its 10-inch displays that can be hooked up to another device using USB.
The secondary display could come in handy for extra real estate or to show someone else screen information, [...]

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Samsung Innovates Again With New Galexy Tab

There’s a lot of buzz surrounding Samsung’s new Galexy Tab, the company’s first attempt at a tablet device which is scheduled for launch this month in Europe. Many people have been wondering what companies would be the first to rival the already famous Apple iPad which was launched back in April and the Galexy Tab [...]

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EcoModo - The Best of Treehugger [Roundups]

This week on TreeHugger, go-carts powered by chain saws, bike backpacks ight up with LED messages, an app that uses your phone's camera to detect air pollution, cameras strapped to dive-bombing raptors, and more! More »

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Twitter To Launch ?Promoted Accounts,? Like A Paid SUL

While we've been Disrupting all over the place, Twitter has been hitting the advertising beat full force, with COO Dick Costolo at the IAB Conference in New York about to launch "Promoted Accounts" which will insert the accounts of brands and other services next to normal users in Twitter's "Who To Follow" feature, which recently replaced an old Twitter mainstay, the "Suggested Users" list.

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Use VPN On Your iPad To Protect Privacy | Plus Special Giveaway Inside

When it comes to online privacy while using your iPad you need all the protection you can get. Luckily Golden Frog provides a service called VyprVPN that keeps your data safe. You may not be aware but your surfing as well as other online activities are constantly being tracked and recorded by your ISP and [...]

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LG's Xnote A510 3D laptop mocks your virility

Looking for a strategy to promote a 15-inch slab of drab plastic laptop? If you're LG then you slap in some 3D gimmickry and roll on the scantily clad product waif. LG's Xnote A510 comes packing a Full HD LED backlit 15.6-inch panel powered by your choice of a Core i7 840QM or 740QM quad core processors and 1GB of NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M graphics. It ships with polarized 3D glasses including clip-on 3D lenses for your existing specs. Don't worry if you can't find 3D content to view because LG's preloaded the A510 with TriDef 2D to 3D conversion software. You'll also find an HDMI 1.4 jack, Blu-ray optical disc drive, and fingerprint reader when this guy ships to Asia, South America, and the Middle East and Africa sometime in October.

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Open Source Databases Have Come of Age

When the Internet and World Wide Web finally went mainstream in the mid-1990s, new Unix-like operating systems running on PCs went mainstream too. Developers working on these systems had access to a wide range of development tools, but these platforms didn't initially offer anything like the mature, SQL-based and 4GL-based database frameworks common on traditional platforms of the time.

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TiPb?s next top blogger round 2: tips and tricks

TiPb’s next top blogger has being going like gangbusters here on the blog, and even more-so over on the forums. Last week was all about power news blogging. If that’s what interests you, we’re looking for several hardcore newsies who can get the facts and give them voice, so keep it up. If that’s not [...]

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Word Domination helps you become a crossword puzzle monster

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Quick, I need an eight-letter word that starts with B, and letter six is R! Any ideas?

If questions like this make you draw a blank, Word Domination can come in very handy the next time you're struggling with those last few words of a crossword puzzle. It gave me 97 different results for this particular query, including "bescorch" and "bevatron."

I wasn't really sure what a bevatron was, so I clicked the word. Word Domination then transported me to the bevatron word page, where I discovered that it's a historic particle accelerator. Now I feel a bit less ignorant, because it's more of a proper noun that "just a word." But I guess that, somewhere in the world, a sadistic crossword puzzle author might call for "historic particle accelerator, six letters, horizontal."

Word Domination comes up with more ordinary words, too. The list is sorted alphabetically - not by frequency. The whole site feels very clean, modern, and fun to use. There's a "simple mode," too, which supports the asterisk wildcard (like b*tron) and doesn't make you specify the number of letters that the results should contain.

Their "About Us" page is empty, so I can't tell you who's behind the site, but as long as it works, it works!

Word Domination helps you become a crossword puzzle monster originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Photoshop Elements 9 and Premiere Elements 9 bundle for Mac and Windows released

Filed under: Photo, Utilities, Video, Adobe

At a rather awesome price of $149 (or $119 after mail-in rebate!!!), the latest cut-down versions of Photoshop and Premiere are now available for both Windows and Mac as a bundle. Individually, each app costs $99.

Photoshop Elements 9 is adapted from Photoshop CS5, and it features the delicious 'Content Aware' Fill and Spot Healing that photographers the world over have no doubt been waiting for. According to the press release, Photoshop Elements 9 will also walk you through the creation of those flavor-of-the-month '3D effect' Out of Bounds photos.

The latest Premiere Elements, which hasn't seen a Mac OS X release before, features the usual slew of one-click solutions for shaky footage, audio problems, and so on.

Photoshop Elements 9 and Premiere Elements 9 bundle for Mac and Windows released originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPod nano modded into Dreamcast VMU, magic meets nostalgia (video)

The iPod nano iWatch? That's so last week. Apple's sixth-gen PMP has found a far better home in one fellow's old Dreamcast VMU (Visual Memory Unit). It takes a bit of work to get the 1.5-inch screen and headphone outlet aligned just right, but when it's all said and done, you get one of the best and quickest homages to old school gaming around. And hey, it also acts as a big plastic fortress to protect your touchy music player. Video after the break.

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iPod nano modded into Dreamcast VMU, magic meets nostalgia (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Change Your iPhone's App Icons Without Jailbreaking [IPhone]

Jailbreakers have been theming their iPhones for a long time, but if you like to refrain from jailbreaking, you can still change that app's ugly icon using previously mentioned iPhone Explorer. More »

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The List Of Startups Launching At TechCrunch Disrupt

We are only a few hours away from kicking off the second TechCrunch Disrupt conference here in San Francisco and we are thrilled to announce the 25 startups that were chosen out of nearly 1,000 applicants to pitch ideas and applications over the next few days. We will also hear pitches from the two StartupAlley companies that receive the most votes over the next two days. These startups will battle it out over three intense days, with one of these companies eventually taking home $50,000 and the official Disrupt trophy.

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FCC: white space devices won't require spectrum sensing modules

Phew. For a moment few years there, we thought any device set up to operate on these so-called white spaces -- which have been vacated following the analog-to-digital TV transition -- would be forced to use spectrum sensing modules in order to ensure that no TV station was operating in areas in which it wanted to. Based on the FCC's Second Memorandum Opinion and Order, which was just published a few days back, it looks as if forthcoming white space devices will not be required to ping databases in order to make absolutely sure that it won't interfere with TV stations.

That's the long and short of it, which is fantastic (if not expected) news for device makers and anyone who despises red tape, but Ars Technica has taken an in-depth look at why the Commission made such a call. Indeed, the FCC's 2008 Order mandated that white space gadgets check in beforehand in order to "protect TV signals from interference." Essentially, the call that nixed this addition was the fact that this security ring would inadvertently provide "many wireless microphones systems that go to unlicensed use" -- things like wireless systems at churches, football games, concerts, etc. As with anything FCC-related, it's a long and wordy explanation, but those interested in the finer details are just one click away from the nitty-gritty.

FCC: white space devices won't require spectrum sensing modules originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Intel prices fresh Core i5 and i7 mobile parts

We'd say Intel is delivering its new chips like clockwork, but then our favorite timepieces don't usually leak anywhere near as often as Chipzilla's roadmaps. The now well known 2.66GHz Core i5-580M has finally been made official, costing $266, alongside an identically clocked family mate in the Core i5-560M, which will set bulk buyers back $225 a piece. From what we know of those two, the major difference is that the 580M can Turbo Boost its way to 3.33GHz whereas the 560M maxes out at a humbler 3.2GHz. Both are overshadowed, however, by the new i7-640M colossus, which runs at 2.8GHz by default and will reach 3.4GHz when called upon -- yours for only $346. Of course, should the 35W TDPs of those chips seem too gaudy for you, Intel's wisely dropping a pair of 18W parts as well: the Core i5-560UM slinks along at 1.33GHz and asks for $250, while the Core i7-680UM raises those numbers to 1.46GHz and $317, respectively. Finally, for the perfect balance of power and efficiency, the i7-660LM couples 2.26GHz (or 3.06GHz in Turbo mode) to a 25W thermal envelope. It matches the 640M with a $346 unit price. All these CPUs sport a pair of 32nm cores alongside a 45nm integrated graphics unit and there are absolutely no Performance Upgrade Card anywhere in sight!

Intel prices fresh Core i5 and i7 mobile parts originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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