Google Docs now features a color-coded revision history and better time stamps

Filed under: Productivity, GoogleGoogle Docs now features a color-coded revision history and better time stampsby Sebastian Anthony (RSS feed) Sep 29th 2010 at 10:00AM
New documents created with Google Docs will now make use of a much-improved revision history.
This new tool replaces one of the worst and most-clunky features of Google Docs -- and it's about time. By default, the interface clumps revisions together, so that large documents aren't completely unreadable (but you can click 'Show more detailed revisions' to see every revision). Timestamping of revisions is now much clearer, and enabled even for very old document changes.
The blog post says there's more to come, too. It's just a shame that it doesn't work with existing documents!



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Google Translate now understands Latin

Filed under: Fun, Utilities, GoogleGoogle Translate now understands Latinby Sebastian Anthony (RSS feed) Sep 30th 2010 at 5:20AM
"Ut munimenta linguarum convellamus et scientiam mundi patentem utilemque faciamus, instrumenta convertendi multarum nationum linguas creavimus!" exclaims the introduction of a Google Blog post. Don't worry if you don't understand it, though, because Google Translate now understands Latin!
The entire post is written in Latin, so of course, you have to copy and paste it into Google Translate to read it! Once you've done that, the usual machine-translated gems await!
My favourite phrase is right at the end: Ingeniarius Programmandi, which means Senior Engineer! I might have to put that on my LinkedIn profile...



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Google Instant integration in Chrome already improved -- big time!

Filed under: Google, BrowsersGoogle Instant integration in Chrome already improved -- big time!by Lee Mathews (RSS feed) Sep 30th 2010 at 9:40AM
I wasn't too impressed with Google's first cut at bringing Google Instant to Chrome. The half-page overlay looked awkward, Google thought I was spamming their servers, and the feature didn't work on local pages like about:memory or chrome:extensions.
Just over two weeks later, however, I'm starting to like what I see. Instant now works with Chrome's about: and chrome: URLs -- about:labs now appears below as soon as I hit the t. Google search results in the Omnibox -- like my query for Full Life Consequences -- are also displayed full-frame now rather than as a half-page overlay.
There's also a folded corner with a clickable 'x,' though I'm not sure I see the point -- clicking it takes focus away from the Omnibox and dumps you back at your previous page.
For a quick video demo, take the jump and see how Chrome Instant handles things in its latest incarnation.
Remember: to try it yourself, you'll need to activate Instant on the about:labs page in Chrome Dev, Canary, or Chromium.
ed note: Dev channel users, give the command line flag --enable-match-preview a shot.



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Google Phone Gallery helps you decide which Android device to buy

Filed under: Hardware, GoogleGoogle Phone Gallery helps you decide which Android device to buyby Lee Mathews (RSS feed) Sep 30th 2010 at 10:30AM
For people trying to decide between an iPhone and Android smartphone, the choice can be a little tricky. Unlike the iPhone -- where you're basically picking how much you want to spend on extra storage capacity -- there are dozens upon dozens of different Android handsets.
Figuring out which one is best suited to your needs can be a daunting task, so Google has put together the Google Phone Gallery to try and be of some assistance.
Phones can be filtered by the country in which they're available, the carrier providing service, and manufacturer. You can also compare specs and features -- and every phone listed is Google-approved, so there's no question about access to the Android Market. You're good to go no matter which phone you choose.
Man, I never realized just how few really kick-ass Android phones were available in Canada until I tried this...



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March of Technology Could Trample US Audio Heritage

From fragile early wax recordings to today's podcasts, the nation's audio heritage is at peril, a report from the Library of Congress has concluded.
The report, an outgrowth of a 2000 law mandating the Library of Congress to put together a national media preservation plan, found that efforts to preserve sound recordings are a haphazard patchwork threatened by poor funding and technical skills, copyright restrictions and, in the case of modern recordings, the very ephemeral nature of the Internet.
"It is relatively easy to recognize the importance of recorded sound from decades ago. What is not so evident is that older recordings actually have better prospects to survive another 150 years than recordings made last week using digital technologies," the report's authors write.


Threat of Obsolescence


One of the key problems with preserving media, whether it be audio files, films or still images, is the constantly shifting nature of technology, said Howard Besser, a New York University professor who heads the Moving Image Archive and Preservation Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
From old wax cylinder recordings to WWII-era wire recordings, the technology to listen to older recordings is constantly becoming harder to come by.
"We still have the wire records, we still have the media, we still have the wax recordings, but we don't have the machinery to play it back," Besser told TechNewsWorld.
The same will be true of today's dominant audio format, MP3.
"The likelihood is that 10 to 15 years from now, most software will not support MP3," he said.


Copyright Issues


A key problem in making sure the vast holdings of record companies and other private content owners -- particularly materials that were created in the digital age -- can be preserved and maintained is copyright law, according to the report.
"Under present laws and many existing licensing agreements, it is not legal to copy much born-digital content to public access servers and provide access to it in an institutional setting," according to the report.
While copyright law appears to be routinely ignored by both preservationists and rights holders when it comes to preserving media, report coauthor Sam Brylawski told TechNewsWorld that copyright issues are still impeding efforts to save recordings before they disappear forever.
"Most preservation projects involve outside funding, and funders are less likely to give money to projects that can't be made publicly accessible," he said.


Various Recommendations


The report recommends changing U.S. copyright law to make it easier for preservationists to make materials, particularly orphaned recordings for which no owner can be found, available to the public domain.
The authors also recommend investing more money to train preservationists, particularly at small and medium institutions, to save recordings.


Why It's Important


While the idea of saving old recordings sounds nice, it's sure to meet fierce competition for public and private dollars in today's stressed economy.
However, Besser said it's enormously important to save the history contained in these recordings.
"For the average person, certainly for children, to teach them about another time period, to have them hear the voices from that period is profound," he said.
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Portable Linux Apps: Not Always an Easy Schlep

By Jack M. GermainLinuxInsider Part of the ECT News Network
09/29/10 5:00 AM PT

Portable Linux applications are versions of familiar apps like GIMP and OpenOffice that can reside on a USB drive and be carried around from computer to computer with the user's settings and preferences intact. There are several places to find a variety of portable apps, but sometimes getting them to work correctly is more hassle than it's worth.

One of the best productivity tools I had when I used Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows was a collection of portable applications. I missed those tools when I migrated to Linux. Now several open source projects could make portable apps available to mainstream Linux users.
Three websites are trying to create that functionality. But the efforts might need more work before they all perform well out of the box. I found that being able to get these portable apps to run is largely hit and miss. Sadly, my testing showed that it is mostly miss.
I was initially very excited over the prospect of having a toolkit of already-configured software programs at my fingertips. I would not have to worry about maintaining separate installations of the same software on any Linux-based computer I used.
In practice, however, my enthusiasm for portable Linux apps is waning. I'm fairly experienced at setting up and configuring Linux installations. My efforts with portable apps has not been very successful





Why Go Portable?


It is the convenience that makes portable apps so compelling. Portable apps are stand-alone versions of Linux software packages that run from a USB drive.
In theory, with the right amount of reprogramming and tweaking, fully-functional versions of popular Linux programs run without being installed on the computer. Right now, the process takes too much fiddling and is prone to too many variables.
USB-anchored apps do work, one of the software developers assured me. Lots of Linux users are interested in the project.
No doubt that is true. But I had very little success in getting any of the available portable apps to run on the two Linux distros that I use -- Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx) and Puppy Linux (version 5.1.1). This latest Puppy Linux version is based on debian Ubuntu and used a compatible software packaging system.


The Concept Unfolds


The portable Linux app rallying spots I looked at were the Portable Apps for Linux (pafl) project; the Portable Linux Apps.org site, housed on SourceForge (Nasdaq: LNUX); and Hack to Live.org.
The pafl site states that its apps let you carry your Linux programs, settings and documents with you wherever you go. It emphasizes that no installation is required.
"... just download and run. It's that simple," the website beckons. Put pafl apps on your USB drive and all your settings will still be there if you plug the drive into a different Linux computer, according to Partools.com.


Pafl Start-Up


Not so, I found out. The site launched on May 7 with no software available. Since then, five portable apps are available.

You can download GIMP Portable -- see my review of the installed version here.
Also available are two well-known word processors, AbiWord Portable and OpenOffice.org Portable. See my review of the installed version of AbiWord here.
Pafl also developed portable versions for KeePassX Portable (beta), a password safe, and the audio editing app Audacity Portable. See my review of the installed version of Audacity here.


Forging Ahead


The PortableLinuxApps.org site is better stocked with portable software offerings. Its landing page displays 110 portable Linux apps.
Ease-of-use is also touted. The very bottom of the software catalog says to just download, make executable and run.
These apps were tested on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) 32-bit, OpenSUSE 11.3 (GNOME) 32-bit and Fedora 12 (GNOME) 32-bit, according to the website.
No luck for me with these portable apps, either. Try as I did, they would not run reliably. If they ran at all, it was just for seconds. I tried on several computers running the designated Ubuntu version.


Hack Some More


My last hope for success was dashed when the offerings on Hacktolive.org suffered a failure to launch. This site offers 10 portable versions of popular cross-platform Linux programs.
From the website you can download Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Chrome Linux Portable, Google Earth 5 Linux Portable, Firefox 3.0.10 Linux Portable and Firefox 3.5.1 Linux Portable. You can also get Skype 2.0.0.72 Linux Portable, Furius ISO Mount 0.11.1.1 Linux Portable, RealPlayer 11 Linux Portable, XnView MP 0.12 (ALPHA) Linux Portable, FileZilla 3.2.4.1 Linux Portable and Foxit Reader 1.0 Linux Portable.
These portable apps are a bit more restrictive than the other websites' offerings. You need the RUNZ framework and at least GNOME and GTK+ libraries AND KDE and QT libraries on your system.


Trial and Error


None of these websites offers much in the way of discussion board help to new users. Frankly, the sites leave much to be desired. This alone could impede the growth of portable apps use.
Linux has too many variables for me to make any universal conclusions about portables apps. Unlike using portable apps for the Windows OS, Linux distributions are not a one-size-fits-all encounter.
For example, I run several must-have Windows apps on my Linux computers under Wine. As good as the Wine Windows emulation can be, the same programs will run on some of my Linux configurations but not on others. And some newer versions of Wine no longer run Windows apps that still work fine with older Wine versions.
So the same Linux gremlins no doubt were at work in preventing the portable apps to work as advertised for me. The point is, other Linux users have had success with running portable apps. So maybe I have to take a break and try it again later.

A Developer Says


LinuxInsider discussed the concept of portable apps for Linux with one of the movers and shakers of the pafl project. Daniil Kulchenko is not yet out of high school but has a good six years' worth of Linux programming work on his resume.
Kulchenko plans to release in a few months the first beta of a universal portable app that can run either on Windows or on Linux and still have the same settings, profiles and extensions on both platforms.
LinuxInsider: Since computers in schools and the workplace do not usually run the Linux OS, isn't the concept of portable Linux apps a bit self-defeating?
Daniil Kulchenko: I thought so at first; however, with the feedback I got from the users over the first few years, I found that a surprising amount of people travel between many different Linux machines a day and would like to have a set of apps ready to go and configured as they wish, on hand for any purpose. Even for apps such as Firefox that come preinstalled on almost every single distribution out there today, people still find it convenient to have their add-ons, history, bookmarks and settings available wherever they need them.
LIN: Is the concept behind portable Linux apps restricted to running the app from a USB drive in other Linux distros so users don't have to install a distro-specific app?
Kulchenko: We try to be as distro-agnostic as possible and be available on as many versions of all the distros as is practical.
LIN: How much interest is there so far within the Linux community and among Linux end-users about the idea of using Linux-based portable apps?
Kulchenko: The interest is surprisingly high. Since the project was started, I've had almost 100,000 people visit the project, and a large portion of those visits come from a Google search for "portable apps for Linux," which leads me to believe that people are specifically looking for this type of apps on Linux.
LIN: Are the apps written/compiled differently by different developers? Or do all of these apps function the same way?
Kulchenko: While Windows is very limited in which ways the apps could be made portable, Linux is much more free to a developer independently figuring out their own way to accomplish portable applications. However, as a side effect of Linux's security, it's much harder to package the applications in a portable way.
Here's why. Almost no Linux applications are relocatable, meaning that they can be moved from the place they were installed originally to another directory. As a result, the safest way to create a portable application is to fool the application into thinking that it is actually installed where it should be, and capture the attempted writes to the system -- the . directories in /home/user -- into a contained area.
LIN: Is there universal agreement among developers on how to do this?
Kulchenko: The developers of portable apps are split on their ideas on how to accomplish the "fooling" and "capturing." With pafl, I thought of a fairly simple system with the help of some very good open source projects -- FUSE, unionfs-fuse, and fakechroot, where we, in a temporary directory, overlay the application on top of the system and capture any attempted writes to the overlayed system.
LIN: What is the main challenge in developing portable apps for Linux?
Kulchenko: The main challenge is that everything must happen in userspace, since most Linux users won't be running the apps as root, so we must use a lot of workarounds and deal with a lot of limitations to accomplish portability.
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Toccata iPad Case With Bluetooth Keyboard

August 26th, 2010 at 11:09 pm - Posted by admin
Earlier today Padacs announced the release of their new Toccata iPad case which conveniently comes with a built-in Bluetooth 2.0 keyboard. If you?re the type who prefers using a physical keyboard over tapping letters on your iPad screen then this stylish new accessory is especially for you.

The QWERTY keyboard is powered by a Lithium battery and can operate for about 45 hours on one single charge. A USB cable used to charge the keyboard is included in the package. Not only does the Bluetooth keyboard work well with your iPad, it?s also compatible with other iOS4 devices such as the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, as well as Mac, Linux and Windows based computers that are Bluetooth enabled.
Like many other iPad cases designed by Padacs, Toccata is made with leather and looks and feels stylish. The word Toccata itself is derived from toccare which is an Italian word that means ?to touch?.
If all goes well I should receive a Toccata iPad case soon and then will be able to do a full and professional review so stay tuned for that!
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GameCrush -- where you pay to play video games with hot girls -- opens its doors

Filed under: Games, web 2.0GameCrush -- where you pay to play video games with hot girls -- opens its doorsby Sebastian Anthony (RSS feed) Sep 28th 2010 at 5:30PM

GameCrush is just like prostitution, but with boys buying game time rather than sexy time from a dizzying array of cute, gamer girls. The service, which has been privately beta testing since the start of the year, launches today around 3PM Pacific time. 'Lots of girls have already signed up,' an internal source told us earlier, while we enjoyed a game of topless Call of Duty.
Just like prostitution, some of the girls are cuter than others -- and some are better at what they do, too -- but they're all available as potential PlayDates (seriously). All you have to do is whip out your credit card (it's $0.60 per minute), grab your joystick and game. Every girl has a camera, and I'm told by an inside source that many of the girls are quite, er, accommodating. Understandable, considering a good girl can earn more than $20 per hour if she behaves well.
According to the press release, any game works with their system -- but in fact there are only specific games at launch that will be playable with a companion. If you prefer one-handed, left-hand-stretched-over-to-the-mouse gaming, there's also a bunch of casual, browser-based games that you can play with your PlayDate.
Finally, in case you were wondering (because I know I was) guys can also sign up. I've already done so! Girls can pay to play with me. What an awesome world we live in, gentlemen.



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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, says Pixel Qi. Customers can plug in the Pixel Qi display using a wired or wireless USB.
?This extra screen would be small and light enough to carry, very low power, offer crisp text for good reading and be readable in any light ? even in sunlight,? says Pixel Qi in a statement.
The USB-connected screens should help widen Pixel Qi?s reach among consumers. Since March, Pixel Qi has been offering a 10.1 -inch displays for $275. But the displays were compatible with only two models of netbooks?the Samsung N130 and Lenovo S10. And users had to take a screwdriver to their PC and swap out the screen themselves.
Pixel Qi first showed its screens in January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The display called 3Qi operates in three modes: a full-color LCD transmissive mode; a low-power, sunlight-readable, reflective e-paper mode; and a transflective mode that makes the LCD display visible in sunlight.
While technically impressive, a major challenge for Pixel Qi has been finding ways to get these displays into the hands of consumers. That?s why it seems to have partnered with German company Display Solutions, which has developed a driver board that can be combined with the Pixel Qi screen.
The entire module can be plugged into a laptop or even some phones via USB to create a second screen. The modules will start selling next month. Pixel Qi hasn?t disclosed pricing for the module.
See Also:
Up Close and Personal With the Pixel Qi Display
DIY: How to Install a Pixel Qi Display in Your Netbook
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Three Futures of Remote Control: Apple, Sony, and Samsung

Today, Apple updated its iOS Remote application to version 2.0. The free Remote app is now optimized for the iPad?s larger display and supports streaming from shared libraries over wireless networks with computers running iTunes and the new Apple TV using AirPlay.
But Apple?s vision of using your iPad ? or iPhone ? to play virtual DJ is just one of several competing ways of reinventing the remote control.
Earlier this week at CEDIA 2010, Sony showed off AV Receiver Remote, a similar (and similarly free) iOS universal remote application for its wide range of media appliances. While Apple?s Remote application allows you to queue up music from your library and control speaker volume, Sony?s allows you to do that and more: You can also control room lighting, and stream internet, satellite, or broadcast radio. Christopher MacManus was able to record a hands-on for Sony Insider:
Just as Apple?s remote application leverages its strength in high-end computers and media players, Sony?s app leverages its strength in home theater appliances. Apple can send a movie to your television, but it didn?t make your television (or the receiver your TV might be connected to).
And last week at IFA 2010, Samsung used its new Galaxy Tab to demonstrate its Home Watcher app for Android, which leverages the Korean tech maker?s even more ubiquitous position in home appliances.

As Vivian Kim observes, writing for Apartment Therapy Unpluggd, Samsung?s ?washers and dryers, refrigerators, microwaves, ranges, and home entertainment devices? can allow them to position their phones and tablets not as Apple imitators, but as genuine home automation solutions.
You?ve never had a remote control for your refrigerator before, and maybe you didn?t even know you wanted one. But once it?s within the realm not just of the possible (it always has been, for high-end early-adopters) but reasonably attainable for Samsung?s global middle-class consumer base, something has changed.
How much will we want to do with a single remote when that remote is not an infrared box wrapped around two AA batteries, but a powerful computer with an intuitive interface?
In different ways, that?s the future towards which Apple, Sony, and Samsung are all pointing.
See Also:
Apple Redefines Remote Control ? Now, It?s Your Cellphone
Sometimes the Remote Pushes Your Buttons, Too
It?s Another QWERTY Keyboard, Now for TV
IR Dongle Turns iPhone into Universal Remote
How Google Instant Could Reinvent Channel Flipping
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Three Futures of Remote Control: Apple, Sony, and Samsung

Today, Apple updated its iOS Remote application to version 2.0. The free Remote app is now optimized for the iPad?s larger display and supports streaming from shared libraries over wireless networks with computers running iTunes and the new Apple TV using AirPlay.
But Apple?s vision of using your iPad ? or iPhone ? to play virtual DJ is just one of several competing ways of reinventing the remote control.
Earlier this week at CEDIA 2010, Sony showed off AV Receiver Remote, a similar (and similarly free) iOS universal remote application for its wide range of media appliances. While Apple?s Remote application allows you to queue up music from your library and control speaker volume, Sony?s allows you to do that and more: You can also control room lighting, and stream internet, satellite, or broadcast radio. Christopher MacManus was able to record a hands-on for Sony Insider:
Just as Apple?s remote application leverages its strength in high-end computers and media players, Sony?s app leverages its strength in home theater appliances. Apple can send a movie to your television, but it didn?t make your television (or the receiver your TV might be connected to).
And last week at IFA 2010, Samsung used its new Galaxy Tab to demonstrate its Home Watcher app for Android, which leverages the Korean tech maker?s even more ubiquitous position in home appliances.

As Vivian Kim observes, writing for Apartment Therapy Unpluggd, Samsung?s ?washers and dryers, refrigerators, microwaves, ranges, and home entertainment devices? can allow them to position their phones and tablets not as Apple imitators, but as genuine home automation solutions.
You?ve never had a remote control for your refrigerator before, and maybe you didn?t even know you wanted one. But once it?s within the realm not just of the possible (it always has been, for high-end early-adopters) but reasonably attainable for Samsung?s global middle-class consumer base, something has changed.
How much will we want to do with a single remote when that remote is not an infrared box wrapped around two AA batteries, but a powerful computer with an intuitive interface?
In different ways, that?s the future towards which Apple, Sony, and Samsung are all pointing.
See Also:
Apple Redefines Remote Control ? Now, It?s Your Cellphone
Sometimes the Remote Pushes Your Buttons, Too
It?s Another QWERTY Keyboard, Now for TV
IR Dongle Turns iPhone into Universal Remote
How Google Instant Could Reinvent Channel Flipping
Samsung Tablet to Debut on Big Four U.S. Carriers
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GameCrush -- where you pay to play video games with hot girls -- opens its doors

Filed under: Games, web 2.0GameCrush -- where you pay to play video games with hot girls -- opens its doorsby Sebastian Anthony (RSS feed) Sep 28th 2010 at 5:30PM

GameCrush is just like prostitution, but with boys buying game time rather than sexy time from a dizzying array of cute, gamer girls. The service, which has been privately beta testing since the start of the year, launches today around 3PM Pacific time. 'Lots of girls have already signed up,' an internal source told us earlier, while we enjoyed a game of topless Call of Duty.
Just like prostitution, some of the girls are cuter than others -- and some are better at what they do, too -- but they're all available as potential PlayDates (seriously). All you have to do is whip out your credit card (it's $0.60 per minute), grab your joystick and game. Every girl has a camera, and I'm told by an inside source that many of the girls are quite, er, accommodating. Understandable, considering a good girl can earn more than $20 per hour if she behaves well.
According to the press release, any game works with their system -- but in fact there are only specific games at launch that will be playable with a companion. If you prefer one-handed, left-hand-stretched-over-to-the-mouse gaming, there's also a bunch of casual, browser-based games that you can play with your PlayDate.
Finally, in case you were wondering (because I know I was) guys can also sign up. I've already done so! Girls can pay to play with me. What an awesome world we live in, gentlemen.



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The complete guide for switching to, or learning about, your Android phone

Filed under: Mobile, AndroidThe complete guide for switching to, or learning about, your Android phoneby Sebastian Anthony (RSS feed) Sep 28th 2010 at 1:00PMKevin Purdy, senior editor of the Lifehacker website, has just released his Complete Android Guide. The guide costs $9 to download an EPUB version, $19.95 to buy the dead-tree version, or you can read it all for free on the Complete Guides website.
Whether you are switching from another mobile phone platform or operating system, or you've just bought your very first smartphone, this guide should prove to be very useful. Taking a brief look through the free, Wiki-esque site, it certainly seems comprehensive, with chapters covering just about everything -- and there are lots of big, easy-to-understand screenshots, too.
The content itself is written in a very colloquial voice -- there are rhetorical asides and everything! In fact, most of the book reads much like a long, rambling blog post.



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Feds Seek Sweeping Power to Hunt Bad Guys on the Web

The White House is working with several federal law-enforcement agencies to draft legislation that would make it possible to monitor all Internet communication services, including social networking sites, peer-to-peer messaging and encrypted email systems, according to a New York Times report.
"Society has changed the way we communicate, and what we're looking for is a technology fix to ensure we have the ability to do what we've always been able to do," FBI spokesperson Paul Bresson told TechNewsWorld. "There already is a law -- the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act -- that was passed in 1994."
The Obama administration will reportedly table a bill before Congress on expanding its powers to monitor communications sometime next year, the Times reported.


Every Step You Take


Investigators and security experts have been concerned that advances in communications technology are making things easier for the bad guys and that law enforcement isn't nimble enough to keep up.
For example, an investigation into a drug cartel earlier this year ran into problems because the smugglers communicated using peer-to-peer software, which is difficult to intercept, the New York Times reported.
Many governments have already ensured they can monitor secure messages. For example, India, China, Russia and several countries in the Middle East have forced Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM), maker of BlackBerry smartphones, to give their intelligence agencies access to messages on the service's encrypted servers.
In the United States, officials from the FBI, the U.S. Department of Justice, the National Security Agency, other agencies, and the White House have reportedly been meeting in recent months to discuss ways to monitor communications despite technological advances, the Times reported.
They want to be able to get warrants to monitor peer-to-peer services such as Skype, encrypted messages such as those on BlackBerry servers, and social networking sites, among others.
"We're talking about a change in the law that captures other forms of communications that have come along in the past 10 or 15 years that previous laws didn't cover and couldn't have covered because they couldn't have seen them coming," the FBI's Bresson said.
"Law enforcement needs those laws or there will be a group for criminals and terrorists to exploit," he added.


But What About Facebook?


Perhaps communications on BlackBerry devices are encrypted, but those on Facebook sure aren't. You just have to ask someone to friend you if you want to read their postings on that or nearly any other social networking site.
Skype, a VoIP service that uses a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, perhaps offers a greater challenge. It's difficult to track communications on a P2P network because these networks don't have a central server or servers. That's one reason why criminals now use them.
In 2009, the European Union reportedly began looking into the possibility of wiretapping Skype because they believed criminals were using the service to prevent law enforcement from eavesdropping on their communications.


The Judicious Use of Power


Concern has always existed regarding the government's trustworthiness in being granted sweeping new powers of surveillance, the FBI's Bresson acknowledged. "But part of the job of law enforcement is to uphold the law and the constitution, and there are penalties for people who don't."
Just because the law is passed doesn't mean that law enforcement will use it, Bresson contended.
"It's not that we're going to monitor these services -- IP communications, P2P communications and so on," he pointed out. "But if the situation presents itself, say two terrorists or criminals are using these services to communicate, then law enforcement will go to a judge to get a warrant."


All You Gotta Do Is Believe


However, some civil liberties organizations don't buy Washington's argument that these sweeping new powers are required.
"Part of the debate on this issue will be about the evidence of a problem," Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Freedom Foundation, told TechNewsWorld.
"At least from what I saw, the evidence that there's a problem appears weak. We don't know what's the percentage of people who are potential terrorists who will use such communications, but it's likely tiny," Tien added.
Could these new monitoring capabilities be abused in the name of national security?
"Yes, absolutely," Tien declared.
How could the Obama administration, which pledged openness and an emphasis on privacy, do what seems to be the exact opposite of what it promised?
"In my experience, no administration has been great on privacy in the last 20 years or so," Tien said.
The Department of Homeland Security, which could be a major player in enforcing laws on monitoring communications, did not respond to requests for comment.


Liberty Calls


Civil liberties organizations are gearing up to fight the proposed bill.
"We definitely need to resist this new move, and will," Tien said.
"We're preparing a press release on this issue," Christopher Calabrese, legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington, D.C., offices, told TechNewsWorld.
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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; commercial database vendors were in no hurry to remedy this situation. Ironically, several commercial RDBMS products were originally based on open source code developed by Michael Stonebraker's
Ingres project at Berkeley.
Open source databases were the inevitable result. Early systems like mSQL were primitive, but suitable for entry-level applications. They were also free for people to use and develop. A memory of mSQL survives today in MySQL, whose C-language API was based closely on that of mSQL to ease migration. The MySQL system was started by Swedish developers TCX, as an ISAM data store supporting business applications. Reborn as a multi-user SQL RDBMS with ISAM under the hood, MySQL would become nearly synonymous with open source databases for several years. Around the same time, intrepid developers were creating other fascinating systems, including Postgres95, the precursor to Postgresql, based on yet another research database from Stonebraker.
In 2010, open source databases have come of age, and it can be a challenge to keep track of developments in the space. Client/server systems with SQL interfaces jockey for position against upstart
NoSQL systems with intimidating (and exciting) new models for data representation, distribution and consistency. In addition, more than a dozen embedded and special purpose databases have grown up to serve the needs of applications too small or too agile to require a full RDBMS. We'll survey some of these systems in their different categories.



Client/Server RDBMS (SQL)



The structured query language and its rich client/server support environment remain the industry standard for management of structured data. Open source is very well represented in this category. The best known open source RDBMS is, of course, MySQL, with many thousands of developers and applications relying on it since its appearance in the mid-1990s.
While fully GPL-licensed, MySQL was primarily developed by its strong, core team of developers. Since the acquisition of MySQL AB by Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), a more significant development role has been played by several forks, such as MariaDB, a fork started by MySQL's original developer Monty Widenius.
MySQL is distinctive in several ways in the current landscape. Initially noted for ease of use and integration with virtually every Web application development framework, MySQL has over the years become richer, more flexible and conformant to standards.
Currently, MySQL supports several data management back ends (or "storage engines"), including the original MyISAM database; a newer InnoDB database with enhanced referential integrity and SQL procedures support; a clustered database framework, MySQL Cluster, based on both InnoDB and a distributed shared memory data store called "NDB"; and a federated database framework for operating on data distributed across an arbitrary number of database servers. The MySQL replication and clustering options are thought of as among the most mature and proven in the open source space.
Two other client/server RDBMS systems deserve specific mention.
The Postgresql database is a very strong product with several distinguishing features. Postgresql is particularly valued for its strong referential integrity and virtual table (view) support, and especially for its rich procedure language support. Postresql procedures can be authored in several general purpose languages (e.g., Perl, TCL), and also in a (partly) Oracle-compatible language -- PL/PGSQL. The current 8.x release greatly simplifies management and tuning, and the upcoming 9.x release introduces new XML-data management features.
Postgresql is developed by a vibrant open source community and also enjoys strong commercial support from several Postgresql-focused companies. A new clustered Postgresql technology contributed by EnterpriseDB promises significant increases in scalability and redundancy, and an early preview code is already available.
Finally, we should mention Ingres, which, after many years as a proprietary descendant of Berkeley Ingres, is now developed by
Ingres Corp. as "commercial open source." Ingres is most popular with organizations and developers familiar with original, closed-source Ingres. Nevertheless, Ingres is a rich product with a long history and rich feature set.



Compact/Embedded Databases



The flexibility and potentially low cost of open source/free software has ensured a prominent role for it in databases designed for bundling with larger software systems, as well as embedding in small form-factor systems such as electronic and mobile devices.
The Berkeley Database (BerkeleyDB) from SleepyCat (now owned by Oracle) has successfully targeted this category for more than a decade. BerkeleyDB is known for both compactness and performance and provides APIs for C, C++ and Java applications, with bindings for a myriad of other languages. BerkeleyDB does not use a query language.
More recently, the SQLite database has exploded onto the scene, offering the familiarity of SQL while at the same time providing excellent compactness and performance. SQLite is incorporated in thousands of free and commercial products thanks to both its features and its highly non-restrictive license.
These are by no means the only open source databases designed for embedding.
Firebird, for example, is a descendant of the Borland Interbase product and has a strong following.
As well, there is an entire subcategory of databases implemented in pure Java and intended for embedding in Java applications. Products worth noting include
Apache Derby,
Hypersonic SQL and
McKoi SQL. These cover a range of requirements, from ultimate simplicity and compactness to full client/server capability.



New Architectures (NoSQL)



The open source database landscape has never been static. Some of the most talked-about databases don't use SQL, and many aren't relational at all. The term "NoSQL" is used to describe a number of new databases that have recently become available that are not uniformly similar, but don't fit the RDBMS mold either.
A number of the new databases are replicated while others are distributed. Among the latter group there are several, such as
Cassandra,
Dynomite and
Voldemort, which was inspired by Amazon's (Nasdaq: AMZN) Dynamo database. Replicated databases can increase durability as well as performance.
CouchDB exemplifies a replicated, NoSQL database, with a rich but flexible data model. The more recent
MongoDB has schema flexibility comparable to CouchDB, but has a more traditional client-access protocol and implementation. The Dynamo-like systems draw on peer-to-peer technology and relaxed consistency to achieve greatly increased transaction rates, while still replicating data for availability. Some of these systems (Cassandra, Voldemort, Dynomite) trade transactional semantics for performance.
Other systems, like
Scalarix, support transactional updates. Other systems use radically simplified data models and many are key-value stores. NoSQL databases are an important development. Their greater flexibility and simplicity can speed development, and intrinsic distribution contributes to both availability and performance.
That said, NoSQL is not for everyone. The power and sophistication of SQL databases are the foundation for a wide range of reporting and data access technologies, from application frameworks to report generation systems. It will be some time before NoSQL equivalents for such integration technologies can be put in place.


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Sony Ericsson LiveView, An External Monitor for your Phone

At first, SonAt first, Sony Ericsson?s tiny 1.3-inch Bluetooth external cellphone screen seems like a joke. And then you realize that it is designed to work with the giant, slab-like HTC Desire or Sony Ericsson?s own Xperia X10 and it all makes sense.
The LiveView is a small OLED screen the size of a watch-face. It has physical buttons on its corners, and the bezel is touch-sensitive. You can use it to control music, check Twitter, read RSS feeds or do pretty much anything an app wants to do. Applications need to be written to use this monitor, and the most impressive demo in the video below shows a sports app sending stats to the LiveView as you run.

The widget comes with a wrist-strap (of course ? wrist-mounted gadgets are the new pocket-watches, or something) and can be clipped onto clothes, just like the iPods Nano and Shuffle. There are a handful of phones that support it already, but you can use it with any phone running Android 2.0 or better by downloading Sony Ericsson LiveWare Manager from the Android Market.
I love the idea. Wouldn?t it be great if Apple did something like this with the Nano and the iPhone? The LiveView will be in stores in the fourth quarter of this year, price as yet undecided.





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Manage diet with Calorie Counter Pro

With summer coming to an end, the hunt for ways to keep the pounds off during the winter months begins. Sometimes just watching what we eat is not enough and it needs to be taken to the next level where calories are counted. Previously counting calories while on the go was a pain, people had to carry around books that contained the information on how many calories each piece of food they were eating had, as well as log it by meal. While this worked for some, it was a pain to many and luckily the folks at MyNetDiary agreed and have released Calorie Counter Pro into the Android market. For those who left an iOS device to come to Android or those who still carry an iOS device, this application may have been a favorite for you already, and for those new to the application, this is one you won't want to miss.Calorie Counter Pro is an intuitive application that offers users an abundance of features, and covers nearly every aspect of a daily healthy life. From measuring your daily intake of vitamins to water consumption as well as calories taken in verse burned through excersize, this application is a great one stop for all your dietary needs. Entering meals is extremely easy as the application features a real time search, like Google, so as you type it is giving you options to select. With over 300,000 food items in the database that continues to grow, searching for your food choices should be a painless process.If for some reason you happen to be without your device you can log into their website and enter your meals in the same way, and sync it to your device at a later time if needed. With MyNetDiary you are not alone, their amazing dieting community is always just a click away from you if you need some extra motivation or any assistance in figuring out exactly what is best for you. If you want to crack down on what you are eating, and transform your lifestyle to a healthier one you will definitely want to check this out in the Android market today for $2.99.

MyNetDiary Makes Mobile Food Diary App Available for Android MarketThe beauty, ease of use and finesse of MyNetDiary's top iPhone and iPad dietapps is now available for AndroidSeptember 21, 2010? MyNetDiary, a modern and comprehensive online dietservice, announced today the release of their highly anticipated instantcalorie counting app for the Android Market. Following in the footsteps oftheir previous food diary apps for Blackberry, iPhone and the iPad, whichearned the #1 spot in Apple?s Healthcare & Fitness category, the MyNetDiaryCalorie Counter PRO App will include all the beauty, ease of use and finessetheir users have come to expect.?Our members have been asking us to bring our easy-to-use food diary app tothe Android Market for several months,? says Sergey Oreshko, CEO of4Technologies Corporation and co-creator of MyNetDiary, ?and finallywe?ve been able to build an app that is as every bit feature-filled andelegant as our top-ranked iPhone and iPad calorie counting apps.?The launch of the Android instant calorie counter app makes it the first andonly comprehensive paid diet management app available on the Androidplatform. Counting more than just calories, the MyNetDiary Calorie CounterPRO App will give members a powerful tool for diet planning, nutritional tipsand a daily analysis of their foods, nutrients, exercises and progress towardtheir dieting goal.?The MyNetDiary mobile apps and website have always been regarded as theeasiest food diary to use,? says Oreshko, ?and with our Online Community,supported by a Registered Dietitian, our members can get the support andmotivation they need without showing up for meetings.?All data entered by members are stored in an online cloud, which means peoplecan change their smartphones without losing their data or their diet plan.And since the apps and website are always in sync, a member can use an iPadto enter breakfast, a laptop to record lunch and take their Android phone todinner with them and log their meal before it even arrives.Additional services included in MyNetDiary?s free and paid membershipsinclude diet and exercise analysis, measurements, recipes, charts and avariety of reports to export and review. Members can also integrate theirTwitter accounts, sending their diet and exercise updates automatically.Over 500,000 people have already used MyNetDiary to pursue their diet goalsnaturally by making better daily food choices. To learn more about theCalorie Counter PRO for Android, visithttp://www.mynetdiary.com/android-calorie-counter.html.
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The Definitive List of Words Google Thinks Are Naughty [Word Police]

The new Google Instant tries to guess what you're searching for while you type. But not if it thinks your search is dirty. Some enterprising people have compiled an exhaustive list of words and phrases Google Instant won't auto-search for.
For all these, you have to actually press "enter" to get any results. This will protect children, or something. Blacklisted phrases include the obvious:
"nipples"
"milf"
"naked"
"motherfucker"
"pamela anderson"
"pissing"
"porn"
"spic"
"titties"
"white power"
The possibly-innocuous:
"dirty pillows"
"get my sister"
"hairy"
"licked"
"nude"
"seduced"
"submissive"
"tushy"
And the downright-confusing:
"women rapping"
"style doggy"
"servitude"
"nimphomania (sic)"
"leather straight jacket"
"hedop"
"new pornographers"
"[anything] is evil"
Plus many more! Does your favorite sexual fixation/racial epithet make the blacklist? See the whole thing at 2600.com. [via Boing Boing]
[Picture of A.C. Newman, lead singer of the not-obscene-at-all indie rock band the New Pornographers, from Dani Canto's Flickr]



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RIM Unveils Tethered Tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook

SAN FRANCISCO ? BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is jumping into the tablet arena with the PlayBook. It will have a 7-inch screen and is designed for both personal and business users.
?This is an ultramobile, always on, ultrathin device,? Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO of Research In Motion told attendees at the ongoing BlackBerry developer conference. ?The first time you hold it, it just feels right and you want to take it everywhere you go.?
The BlackBerry PlayBook is 0.4 inches (9.7 mm) thick, making it thinner than the iPad?s 0.5 inches.
It will include Wi-Fi but no 3G connectivity, making it a tablet that will have to be paired with BlackBerry phones for 3G internet access. RIM did not comment on whether the wireless tethering option will be available with other smartphones, too. But it is promising 3G and 4G models in the future.
The device will have a high-resolution 1024 x 600 pixels widescreen display and will be lightweight at just 0.9 lbs, compared to the iPad?s 1.5 lbs.
The PlayBook will run on a 1-GHz dual-core processor and come with 1 GB RAM. It will also include two cameras: a 5-megapixel camera at the back, and a 3-megapixel front-facing camera. The PlayBook also has videorecording capability.
The tablet will run QNX, an operating system from a company that Research In Motion bought last year. It will include an HDMI video output and a USB port.
RIM did not announce pricing or exact availability for the PlayBook. The device is expected to hit retail stores early next year.
BlackBerry?s PlayBook the latest challenger to Apple?s iPad, which launched in April. Apple has sold more than 3 million iPads so far, while rivals have been slow to meet the challenge. Dell and Samsung have announced their own tablets, though Samsung?s Galaxy Tab tablet has yet to hit the market. Meanwhile, Microsoft and HP have both canceled planned tablet projects.
RIM has one advantage: The BlackBerry platform is still the No. 1 smartphone operating system because of the company?s strength with business users. Because the PlayBook is tied to the BlackBerry, that may give it a leg up in the market.
BlackBerry?s tablet also hopes to beat rivals by offering a rich web experience, multitasking and a speedy processor, and by attracting developers and publishers to the device.
The PlayBook will support full Flash 10.1, have hardware-accelerated video and 1080p HD video.
Lazaridis hopes the PlayBook will become a favorite among business users.
?The BlackBerry PlayBook, just like the BlackBerry smartphones, will become the enterprise standard,? he told developers.
The PlayBook will support multitasking and a native SDK, or software developers kit, will be available for the device.
?The PlayBook will be an incredible gaming platform for game designers and a great platform for publishers,? says Dan Dodge, the founder of QNX who is also being billed as the inventor of the PlayBook tablet. ?We are giving everyone the full web experience on a very powerful platform.?
RIM didn?t offer any hands-on demos with the PlayBook, keeping the device firmly behind a glass box. But we have a few photos of the PlayBook from the show. Also check out the company?s preview video for the BlackBerry PlayBook.





BlackBerry?s preview video for the PlayBook:

See Also:
Why 2010 Will Be the Year of the Tablet
Build Your Own Tablet for $400
Samsung Introduces 7-Inch Tablet to Rival iPad
Why India?s $35 Tablet May Be Just a Dream
Dual-Screen Tablet Maker Hopes to Reinvent the Textbook
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Office Web Apps used by 20 million, now embeddable via IFRAME, and more

Filed under: Utilities, Office, MicrosoftOffice Web Apps used by 20 million, now embeddable via IFRAME, and moreby Sebastian Anthony (RSS feed) Sep 24th 2010 at 8:00AM
Despite our woeful lack of coverage for Office Web Apps, I'm glad to announce that Microsoft has been keeping its cloud-computing cogs churning: Office Web Apps has, in its first 100 days, been used by over 20 million people, and is now available in seven more countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Russia and Switzerland.
You can also now embed PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets on any website with the power of the IFRAME. This is what they look like:

A bunch of other changes have also been made to the Web apps themselves. You can now open Office files on your desktop directly from SkyDrive, and PowerPoint now has clip-art and more themes!
There's a video after the break (Silverlight powered, of course!) that shows off the new features.



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Case-Mate Walkabout Case for iPad ? accessory review

The Case-Mate Walkabout Case for iPad is a great case if you?re looking for something low profile.� It?s also slim enough to slip into virtually any bag or briefcase.� The outside has more of a suede feel to it (despite it being tan leather) and doesn?t seem to collect dirt like some other lighter colored cases might.� So if you?re in the market for a new iPad case that has no bulk but provides decent protection, click on through for a hands-on video, review, and pics!



The first thing you?ll notice about this case is the feel. It?s definitely genuine leather, but it?s got a bit of a suede feel to it. I personally like it. I don?t feel like it?ll slip out of my hand. The inside of the case is smooth and the fit is just right. When sliding the iPad in the case, you don?t feel like you have to force it or that it?ll scratch the sides of the device. The closure is lined with magnets as well. There?s no buttons or clasps to worry about. The case will simply shut and stay that way. I attempted to hold the case upside down and shake the iPad a bit but the clasp never came undone. So if you?re worried about the iPad falling out, you won?t have to with this particular case.

I?ve been using this case for about 2 weeks now and I?ve had it in bags and sitting on random countertops and tables in the house. It doesn?t seem to collect dust or dirt. The case still looks brand new. One of my concerns with lighter colored cases is always that they will get dirty or dingy over time. So far, it?s stayed perfectly clean.

On a protection level, the Walkabout will typically protect the iPad from normal wear and tear. It?ll prevent from things in your bookbag or briefcase hitting the iPad or scratching it, but I wouldn?t go as far to say it would protect you from a serious drop. I?d still be concerned that dropping the iPad on a hard enough surface would still cause some damage (denting, cracking, etc..). It should protect you against moderate to mild drops but I wouldn?t expect it to be the equivalent of an Otterbox type case. This case seems to be more geared towards being trendy and sleek than protective.

So if you?re looking for something super-trendy and sleek, you can find the Case-Mate Walkabout case for iPad at our TiPb iPad accessory store.

Pros

Low profile
Magnet enclosures are extremely secure and easier to use than clasps or buttons
Stays clean despite the lighter color
Perfect amount of give ? not too tight or too loose
Cons
Won?t provide protection against serious drops
It?s a little pricey for not providing optimum protection







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Gourmet Live for iPad ? app review

I noticed Gourmet Live in the App Store for iPad and I thought I would give it a try. I have to admit, I have not been much of a foodie for most of my life. But, as I get older, it is just fun to create awesome meals for friends and family. Gourmet Live is different than other magazine-type apps on the App Store. For starters, the Magazine is online (only 1.9MB to download); you need an Internet connection to get to your content. The app seemed to download content in the background when you launch it, then makes all of it available for offline use. Slick, I like it.





The articles in Gourmet Live are well written and use excellent photography to bring the stories to life; they have really done a great job. You get your usual stories, etc. However at first I was stunned that there were no apparent recipes! How can this be, it?s Gourmet Magazine! Don?t worry, the recipes are there you just have to ?earn? them by using Gourmet Live?s innovative rewards system. As you browse and share content via Twitter or Facebook, the app will occasionally give you a pop-up indicating you have unlocked a reward and it begins downloading that content. You can immediately view it or reference it later. As you read an article you can choose to change your font size (three sizes are available) and put an article into favorites for reference later. Overall, the app is responsive and fast, oh and did I mention it?s free? That?s right free. The funny thing is I have not seen a single ad so far.

Something else I have noticed that seems to be a trend that is about to happen on the iPad App scene. Gourmet Live is only viewable in portrait, no landscape here folks. I suppose this is not too much of an issue as there is a substantial amount of expense to reformat pages, etc for landscape as opposed to portrait. If this becomes the norm for this style of App I am ok with it as long as it is free, as in this case, or publishers begin to use a subscription option so I?m not paying $4.99 an issue WITH ads.

If this is the future of print magazines I for one, like it. Sure, you don?t have the high level of interaction as the Wired app for iPad, but what you do get is a straight forward viewing and content experience for those of us that like the simpler things and, oh yeah, good food.

[Free- iTunes Link]

Pros
Free!
Great content
Innovative rewards system
Small file size (this issue is 1.9MB)
Cons
No landscape
Content must download in background before viewing





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The Joust: A Travel-Ready Bike-Polo Bike

Every year, the Interbike show in Las Vegas brings new and updated products from the big bike-makers. It also has lots of weird niche bikes, which are probably a lot more interesting. And you can?t get much more niche than polo bike designed for travel.
This is the Joust, from Fleetvelo. It was designed by a fellow named Tucker Schwinn, who is both part of the famous bike-making Schwinn family and also a bike polo player. It is this last part that has lead to a bike that looks almost perfect for the sport.
First, the Joust is tough. It has fat steel tubes which have extra reinforcement where they join. I have snapped two frames this summer, both where the bottom bracket meets the seat-tube, so this is important. Second, the fork and frame are wide enough to take fat-tires (the front in this case is made for a 26-inch wheel). Fat tires are more comfortable but more importantly give better grip when braking hard into a turn, where a front-wheel skid can cause disaster.
The Joust is also made to take v-brakes front and back. The most popular polo bike so far is the Cutter, from BMX-maker Volume. It has no drilling for a front brake. The same 135mm axle-length is also used front and back, so you only need carry a spare rear-wheel and you can also use it up front.
But the last, most impressive piece of design is the S and S coupling. This is a super-light yet strong pair off joints that let you split the bike in two for travel. S and S makes travel-cases that are barely larger than the diameter of a wheel, and not very deep, either. Using these makes air-travel a breeze, and you can avoid the crazy charges some airlines levy on bikes.
All this design does?t come cheap, though. The frame alone is $650 ($620 unpainted). That?s a lot for a bike that you?re just going to thrash into the ground, but then again, it?s a lot cheaper than buying a new beater road-bike every couple months, which is what I?m doing now.
The Joust is built-to-order, and currently takes around three weeks to ship.
Fleetvelo Joust Polo Frame [Urban Velo]
Joust product page [Fleetvelo]
Photo: Urban Velo
See Also:
The End is Nigh: Commercial Bike Polo Mallet Heads
It Had to Happen: Bike-Polo Mallet Shafts Openly On Sale
Two Brakes, One Hand: How To Stop a Polo Bike
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Use VPN On Your iPad To Protect Privacy | Plus Special Giveaway Inside

August 26th, 2010 at 12:13 am - Posted by admin
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 possibly other companies or individuals.
Take the recent situation involving AT&T for example. They were highly criticised for deep packet inspection, or in other words spying on their customers. Little did iPad owners know at the time that signing up for AT&T?s 3G network data plans was not so safe.
While sending emails or browsing the web using your iPad at a nearby coffee shop or library for example, in most cases the public Wi-Fi network you are using is anything but secure. This makes your personal data potentially vulnerable to eavesdropping and sniffing.
With identity theft on the rise you need to ensure your personal information is kept private.
How Does VyprVPN Work & Keep My iPad Secure?
When you perform any activities that require an Internet connection data packets are sent which include a header and a body. When you?re surfing the web for example all that is necessary is the header in order to determine where traffic should go. However it?s common for ISP?s to route this data, inspect the body of these packets and then use this information to spy, track and in some cases target advertising.
Using a VPN (Virtual Private Network) service such as VyprVPN prevents ISP?s from having the ability to view the body of these packets. Their service creates what is known as an encrypted end to end tunnel for all online transfers which prevents your data from being intercepted over Wi-Fi or 3G networks.
The iPad has native support for IPSec, PPTP and L2TP protocols. Currently VyprVPN has PPTP and OpenVPN plans with IPSec and L2TP plans expected to be available around the middle of September.
How Do I Setup VyprVPN On My iPad?
Once you have an account setup all you need to do is the following.
Step 01) Click on Settings ?> General ?> Network ?> VPN
Step 02) Click on Add VPN Configuration
Step 03) Select PPTP then enter the follwoing information:
Description: VyprVPN
Server: There are currently 4 different servers to choose from
us1.vpn.goldenfrog.com for Los Angeles, CA
us2.vpn.goldenfrog.com for Washington, DC
eu1.vpn.goldenfrog.com for Amsterdam
hk1.vpn.goldenfrog.com for Hong Kong
Account: Email address used to setup your Golden Frog account
Password: Your selected password
Step 04) Click Save
Here?s a couple of screen captures to help guide you.


So What?s This Giveaway You Speak Of?
The generous and hard working staff at Golden Frog have agreed to give one lucky winner from this site a 2 month top tier plan valued at $40, not a bad deal at all. Basically how it will work is the first 25 people to comment in this thread will be entered in a draw to be the lucky winner. Comments must be kept clean and on topic, NO SPAM will be tolerated. So best of luck to everyone!
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Android Quick App: JellyBalls

New on the Market from Hyperbees, JellyBalls is a simple ball popping game with a very cool twist.� Rotating your Android phone changes the direction the new balls drop from.� It's funny how a small change like that makes such a difference in the gameplay.� JellyBalls includes five different gameplay modes, uses Scoreloop for a global online leaderboard (hit me up: gbhil), and has a groovy soundtrack.� I'm really loving the new breed of easy, time filler games on Android, and this one's a perfect fit.� If I can wrestle it away from my wife, that is.� Grab it from the Market for � 0.99 (about $1.50 USD).If you're into casual gaming like I am, you'll like JellyBalls.� Check out the video, and download links after the break. Thanks Tom!

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Gadget Lab Podcast: Facebook Phone, Pod Wars and Athletic Robots

In this week?s Gadget Lab podcast, the crew speculates about the rumored Facebook phone, aka Mark Zuckerberg?s plan for world domination. Adding to the rumors, yours truly blurts out a tip from a source about Facebook developing an all-in-one virtual identity that you?ll use not just to connect with friends, but maybe even buy things. How awesome would that be?

Speaking of money: People who have a lot of it tend to get nasty with lawyers. That?s the case for Daniel Kokin, who?s going to trial with Apple to fight over the word ?Pod.? Kokin?s startup Sector Labs is trying to brand a video projector ?VideoPod,? and Apple?s claiming that Kokin?s usage of that magical three-letter word could get people confused about the famous iPod player.
Wrapping up the podcast, Priya Ganapati tells a story about a robot taking on the challenge of walking 300 miles from Tokyo to Kyoto.
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Chrome AdBlock dev pushes reassuring note to counter Chrome's scary extension warnings

Filed under: Google, BrowsersChrome AdBlock dev pushes reassuring note to counter Chrome's scary extension warningsby Lee Mathews (RSS feed) Sep 26th 2010 at 9:00AM


...which certainly might look scary to the average user. TSM's developer happened to stop by and post a comment to allay those fears, stating the alerts appear "because the extension needs to use the chrome.tab.* API (which gives it access to the URL's you visit) and it needs to use "content_scripts", which are injected into HTML pages and can manipulate their DOM elements."
There's nothing to fear, however, because your data isn't going anywhere: "[Typing Speed Monitor] can't give that data to anyone else because it doesn't have permission to access other hosts."
Still, the alerts are offputting and even give more seasoned surfers cold feet when installing an extension -- which is where the alert above comes in. Michael Gundlach, who maintains AdBlock for Chrome, used Chrome's extension update support to push a reassuring note to its users about an upcoming change.
I've seen the "requires more permissions" alert before from an extension, but I haven't seen a dev take the time to explain to users what's going on. It's a smart, thoughtful move by Gundlach. Until Chrome offers more insightful (and accurate) alerts, developers might want to follow this example to avoid accidentally scaring their users.



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Make A LED Hula Hoop For Fun and ProfitVideo: Panasonic?s Mini Robot To Travel 500KM On BatteriesBlockbuster, She Is DyingMy Netgear Router Came Swathed In DishonestyAdobe Plenoptic Lens Tech Lets You Change The Focus In Your Images
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Mulve is a fast, free, non-P2P way to download music

Filed under: AudioMulve is a fast, free, non-P2P way to download musicby Sebastian Anthony (RSS feed) Sep 23rd 2010 at 9:00AM
There isn't much else to say: Mulve is just a single 2MB, portable EXE that lets you download music. There's no UI to speak of, and it's completely unconfigurable. You just type in a band name or song title and... download.
The thing is, despite being free and tiny, the selection of music is insane. Lee found a bunch of crazy bands like The Wonderstuff, Mind Bomb, and Johnny Socko -- and for me, it even turned up plenty of hits for classical music by Mahler, Beethoven, and Mozart. All of the generic pop crap is there, too.
And it's fast! TorrentFreak reports that the servers might be located in Russia, but that didn't prevent Lee and I from maxing out our connections -- 600KB/s for him, and 2MB/s for me. There's no peer-to-peer in sight, either; these are just direct, fast downloads. If you need some more convincing, check the short video after the break.
For a service supported by just a single banner ad, it's surely too good to be true (and almost certainly unlicensed). It'll get shut down -- it's just a matter of whether it'll be thanks to Interpol, or due to too much traffic.



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Landscape dock port, smart bezel for iPad [patent watch]

Some Apple patents were made public this weekend giving possible hints at the the future of the iPad, include a landscape dock port and ?smart-bezel?.

The first one shows a second 30-pin dock connector on the left side for landscape docking. I?m sure this will make the keyboard dock and bluetooth keyboards even easier to use with some apps.

The second patent is for something called ?Smart Bezel? which isnt really described well but by the pictures it looks like you touch a part of the bezel and and you can assign that part to a particular action.

Neither of these are bold re-designs, but are they features you want to see in a refresh? Oh, and let us know if you think that?s a front-facing camera in the smart-bezel illustration after the break, or just the ambient light sensor?

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