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Trimensional for iPhone [App Of The Day]

stevereed1968 — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:00:39 +0000

3D? Terribly lame when it’s tossed into devices as a bullet point feature. Making stuff in 3D yourself? Almost always cooler than you think. Trimensional for iPhone takes a picture of your face and maps your mug in a 3D model. You wouldn’t think it but it’s kinda creepy seeing your face in 3D. More »

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Blink: Touch-Sensitive Bike Lights Built Into Helmet

stevereed1968 — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:00:36 +0000

The Blink Helmet may have won a prize at the 2010 Seoul Cycle Design Competition, but it still doesn’t impress me. At first, the helmet seems like a great idea: It integrates flashing turn signals into its sides, and has red and white lamps rear and front for safer nighttime riding.
But then we find out [...]

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Taptu: A Diverse Media Buffet Served on Tiny Little Plates

stevereed1968 — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:00:40 +0000

Those of us who gorge ourselves on a daily diet of bite-sized blog tapas, social media chicken nuggets and the occasional full meal of a long and deep read tend to organize our phones and computers in a highly personalized system of information consumption. It’s a messy way to live, but there are apps out there that at least attempt to keep it all under control, for the most part.

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Ultra-Hipstamatic [Video]

stevereed1968 — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:00:44 +0000

If you want to take artsy, digitally distressed photos using your phone, you could use an app, one that intentionally belabors the process to make the photos feel even artsier, like Hipstamatic. Or you could go ultra artsy, with an IRL filter: David McCourt’s Slow Photography box. More »

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Google Chrome and Chromium add protection against malicious downloads

stevereed1968 — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 06:00:31 +0000

Google Chrome already sports a number of security-minded features, from Incognito mode to a software sandbox which makes exploiting the browser a Herculean task. Now, Google has announced additional protection for Chromium and Chrome users.

Built upon the Safe Browsing API, the new feature introduces protection against malicious downloads. If a download link appears in the Safe Browsing blacklist, Chrome and Chromium will warn users against downloading — a save button is still presented, of course, in case you’re convinced a file is perfectly safe to download.

We’d like to see something a bit more eye-catching than the red warning icon — like perhaps painting the entire bar red. Many of the people a feature like this aims to protect probably won’t notice the icon or change in wording as they’ll be focused on clicking the save button.

Google is initially making download protection available to Chrome dev channel users, and you’ll likely see it in Canary and Chromium snapshot builds as well. After thorough testing, beta and stable users will be next in line.

Google Chrome and Chromium add protection against malicious downloads originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Personal Activity Monitor tracks time you spend using desktop apps

stevereed1968 — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:00:27 +0000

Up until a couple of years ago, I used to turn to RescueTime to figure out how I spend my time online. Then it got too complex, and I stopped using it. Personal Activity Monitor is like a vastly dumbed-down version of RescueTime, and I mean that as a compliment. It’s free and bare-bones — all it does is track what applications you’re using and for how long.

A big drawback at this point is that it doesn’t integrate with Web browsers to help you analyze how you spend your time on the Web. Still, if your work doesn’t require constant Web app use, knowing how long you’ve used a browser overall might be enough to help you manage your time.

This is far from the only application in this space — alternatives such as Slife and Chrometa are full-featured and impressive — but PAM is good option for those who want a nice, simple tracker.

Personal Activity Monitor tracks time you spend using desktop apps originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Daily Crunch: Vintage Equipment Edition

stevereed1968 — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 02:00:29 +0000

Weekend Giveaway: An Authentic Darth Vader Costume Review: Samson Meteor Mic Pico Projectors On The Rise Thanko?s Spy Pen Shoots HD Video, Detects Motion U-K525LT: Kenwood?s ?Wooden? iPod Dock/CD Player/FM Radio

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Why Your iPhone Is Secretly Tracking You: A Very Probable Explanation (Updated) [IPhone]

stevereed1968 — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:00:27 +0000

Why has your iPhone been secretly recording everywhere you go since iOS4, in a way that a simple program can extract everywhere you’ve been from either your iPhone or your computer? Well, probably, a bug. More »

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How To Cool Down the Fukushima Plant [Japan]

stevereed1968 — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:00:27 +0000

As part of its roundup of the tech that can save the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, The Atlantic takes a look at the water chillers that could help stabilize temperatures and bring the plant under control. It’s a system that the French have used for years, and amounts to basically a (very) fancy air conditioning unit. For more on water chillers and the other gear that’s working overtime in Japan, check out the full roundup here: [The Atlantic] More »

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Formspring Names Ro Choy COO; Has Answered Three Billion Questions To Date

stevereed1968 — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:00:40 +0000

It’s been a big month in the Marino-Choy household. No sooner did Lisa Marino get promoted to CEO of the would-be comeback-kid RockYou, than did her husband Ro Choy get named COO of the surging Q&A site Formspring.

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