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Professional Fashion Shoot With an iPhone

July 19, 2010
A Professional Fashion Shoot With an iPhone 3GS

When photographer Lee Morris posted images from this set on his site, some of his readers claimed they were the best photos he’d had ever taken. The joke? This behind-the-scenes video reveals how they were captured: // The iPhone Fashion Shoot – Lee Morris Shoots With The 3GS Fstoppers from FStoppers on Vimeo. …on an [...]

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Dual-Rotor Road Warrior Turned Helo

July 16, 2010

Just after the new year, DARPA put out a broad agency announcement requesting a flying car, specifically a one-to four-person, vertical takeoff and landing-capable vehicle that can negotiate off-road conditions as well as take to the skies. Today, Fort Worth-based AVX Aircraft has responded with a proposal, releasing some mock-ups of a dual-rotor, ducted-fan driven [...]

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Review: DROID X by Verizon

July 12, 2010

With a face that measures 5.6 inches diagonally, Verizon’s Droid X is the largest handset in the U.S., which sets expectations pretty high right off the bat. Does this massive slab measure up? Droid X John Mahoney What’s New The real news with the Droid X isn’t in …

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LeBron James to Answer Questions from Twitter During ESPN Special

July 9, 2010

The LeBron James Twitter saga continues! Although we now know that James won’t announce “the decision” first on Twitter, he is integrating the microblogging platform -– and his massively growing following — into his ESPN special (titled The Decision), which airs tonight at 9 p.m. ET. James tweeted this morning that he will be answering [...]

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Starbucks FREE Wi-Fi Coming and More

June 16, 2010
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Coffee-purveyor Starbucks reversed course Monday on its long-standing in-store Wi-Fi policy by announcing that starting July 1, Wi-Fi would be free in all its U.S. establishments. Though CEO Howard Schultz broke the news, CIO Stephen Gillett stands at the center of Starbucks’ new and expanded Wi-Fi strategy. Gillett’s other title is general manager of Digital [...]

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iPhone 4 Unveiled by Steve Jobs

June 7, 2010

Apple unveiled the iPhone 4, its fourth-generation cell phone, which CEO Steve Jobs introduced by joking: “I don’t know if you’ve ever seen this” — a reference to a prototype of the phone that was seen worldwide two months when a gadgets website obtained it. “You ain’t seen it,” Jobs told the crowd at the [...]

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Awesome DIY iPad Wall Mount

June 4, 2010

Wall mounts have been around since forever and a day, but let’s be honest, they’ve never had something quite like an iPad to cling on to. And now a couple of enthusiastic tablet users have gone and concocted their own homemade articulating display stands, showing how easily it can be done. Al forwards the …

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Android 2.2 Rumors: Tethering, Flash, & More!

May 19, 2010
Android Tethering

Last year at Google I/O, the search company’s annual developer conference, we got the first look at Android 2.0, also known as “Donut.” On Wednesday this week, Google I/O 2010 will begin, and we’re sure to see the next version of Google’s mobile operating system: Android 2.2, also known as “FroYo.” Last week, the telltale [...]

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How to Very Easily Check Your Facebook Privacy Settings

May 17, 2010

Whether or not you agree with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s assertion that the age of privacy is over, you can likely agree on one thing – Facebook privacy settings are not easily deciphered. If you’re not sure whether you’ve sufficiently protected what you share on Facebook, then ReclaimPrivacy.org has a bookmarklet to help [...]

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Pianist Plays iPad for Concert Encore

May 8, 2010

Pianist Lang Lang swapped tickling the ivories for poking a touch-screen at a concert in San Franciso recently, performing an encore on his iPad. The piano whiz whipped out the Apple tablet to play Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee.” Full story at Huffington Post. [Credit: Alltop.com] [ratings]

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