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Lock your iPad Screen Orientation Changes are imminent – problem is that sometimes the original method was preferable to the new “improved” one. Take the new iPad, for example. When you wanted to lock the screen’s orientation on pre-iOS 4.2 versions, all you had to do was flip a switch. Now, simply slide the program bar to the right, and on the resulting screen, press the lock button. Make sure you’re holding your iPad in the position you want to lock your screen in before you press.
SoMe is a film about the rise (and fall?) of social media. Produced by web rabble-rouser and satirist, Loren Feldman , the film will feature Feldman’s signature puppet act (it will be cool, I promise) and interviews with and segments about web luminaries like: Julia Allison, Michael Arrington, Steve Ballmer, Henry Blodget, Chris Brogan, Robert Bruce, Paul Carr, Pete Cashmore, Brian Clark, Ron Conway, Henry Copland, Jay Cuthrell, Mike Daisey, Barry Diller, Jack Dorsey, Dan Farber, Steve Gillmor, Paul Graham, MC Hammer, Shel Israel, Andrew Jecklin, Steve Jobs, Kim Kardashian, Ashton Kutcher, Loic LeMeur, Jakob Lodwick
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Google’s augmented reality eyewear is coming to disrupt your face and your business model. If you don’t even have to pull your phone out to take a photo, get directions, or message with friends, why would you need to buy the latest iPhone or spend so much time on Facebook? It could be a year before Google eyewear reaches stores, but that’s why these and other tech companies need to strategize now. If they wait to see if the device is a hit, the world could be seeing through Google-tinted glasses by the time they adapt. Apple and Facebook’s best bet might be to team up…
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Engadget
If you're a little too impatient to wait for the Absinthe jailbreak tool to make its way to Windows, good news, there's another option. The iPhone Dev Team has released Corona, a command line-based option for Mac and Windows 7 that will deliver Cydia to your iOS 5.0 or 5.0.1-running iPhone 4S or iPad 2. Obviously, you'll want to be comfortable with the terminal and command prompt but, if you can handle a little CTRL+c and CTRL+v action, jailbreaking your brand new iOS device shouldn't prove too difficult. Hit up the source link for complete instructions on how to free your shiny A5 portable from Apple's shackles while still using your Microsoft machine.
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Laut einer Quelle von CNET arbeitet Facebook angeblich an eigenen Chips. Das klingt vielleicht erstmal unwahrscheinlich, aber Facebook baut bereits seine eigenen Server und könnte durchaus auch in den Tablet- und Smartphone-Markt vorstossen wollen, von einem Facebook-Phone war ja immer wieder mal die Rede. Laut der Quelle sind schon ein paar Chip-Designer an Bord, wobei nicht ganz klar zu sein scheint, was genau deren Aufgabe ist, und ob sie lediglich ein ARM -Design modifizieren sollen, oder im Server.Bereich arbeiten. So oder so könnte es natürlich auch schlicht ein weiteres Stück Publicity für den Börsengang von Facebook sein, der für den 18.
Ars Technica
A Texas-based Linux admin was charged with hacking into the websites of at least 4 police groups after FBI agents engaged him in an online manhunt that mined photo metadata, Facebook profiles, and other digital evidence. He says he's surrendered all accounts in his control, but his status as a cooperating witness is anything but clear.
Windows Phone owners who happen to live in Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, and Venezuela, here is some good news for you, and hopefully it will be able to perk you up through the middle of the week as the weekend looms in the horizon. Microsoft has announced that they will be opening up the Marketplace in those countries, so may the downloading begin! This would mean the aforementioned 13 countries will be joining Argentina, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, and the Philippines for some Marketplace goodness, bringing the total number of Marketplace storefronts to 54. Of course, Microsoft is definitely not going to stop here, as they have plans outlined for the UAE, Bahrain, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Israel, Thailand, and Vietnam in the near future. This would definitely mean the 70,000 plus apps available on the Marketplace will not stay that way for long with the opening up of new markets.
Ubergizmo
Angry Birds publisher Rovio Entertainment has acquired its fellow Finnish game development house, Futuremark Games Studio, in order to get some new talent.
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Isn’t it delightful how geek culture works? During my Christmas shopping last year, I stumbled into a favorite little pop culture shop in Little Collins Street in Melbourne which is well known for its comprehensive stocking of all things Lovecraftian. I was looking for some stocking fillers for the kids; instead I walked out with [...] The combination of a cloud service and verification that does not involve sharing data has allowed one company to provide a true bumper-to-bumper insurance policy, reports Victor Cruz.
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The scientific term for an animal having multiple-heads is "polycephaly", and the " most commonly observed two-headed animals are turtles and snakes. Other species with known two-headed occurrences include cattle, sheep, pigs, cats, dogs, and fish. In 1894, a two-headed partridge was reported in Boston, Massachusetts." Continue reading to see five bizarre (yet real) two-headed animals. Continue ReadingSlashGear - Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions
Hit up Google 's homepage today, and you'll find the company's latest commemorative doodle, this time a celebration of the 126th birthday of Modernist architect Mies van der Rohe. Born in 1886 and dying 83 years later in 1969, Mies - along with Le Corbusier and others - is considered one of the fathers of modern architecture, focusing on broad expanses of glass and narrow, discrete metal work, as well as coining some of the much-used phrases of today. Read The Full StoryThe Next Web - International technology news, business & culture
TNW Apple • Matthew Panzarino • 47 minutes ago Over the last few days, reports from users of Apple’s new iPad have indicated that it runs warmer than its predecessor, the iPad 2. This was confirmed today by Consumer… What looked like a storm in a teacup on Twitter for Sqoot, ‘the daily deal API that helps developers add incremental value’, turned out to be a bad decision that… When Web 1.0 became Web 2.0 we lost something. That self-curated connection that was enabled heavily by forums and chat rooms seems to have gone away, replaced instead by automatically-curated…Ich sag mal | Nachrichten zu Technik, Informationstechnologie, Telekommunikation, Künstliche Intelligenz, Management, Umwelt und Internet
Bei der ganzen Debatte um die Verschärfung des Urheberrechts als Kampfinstrument gegen Umsonstkultur, Netzparasiten, Adepten des Archaischen, Piraten oder schnorrende Endverbraucher fällt auf, dass die Verteidiger des Status quo sehr häufig aus Verlierer-Branchen kommen: Printmedien, Musikindustrie und Verlage. Nun versuchen Rainer Hank und Georg Meck den Piraten zu erklären, warum es falsch ist, den Verwertern aufs Dach zu steigen und warum es gut ist, geistiges Eigentum über Urheberrecht zu verteidigen. Um es mal simpel zusammenzufassen, die Autoren bringen den Begriff der Arbeitsteilung mit ins Spiel – angeblich erträumen “die” Piraten und “ihre Sympathisanten” (klingt ein wenig nach RAF-Sympathisanten, uhhh, da macht man sich direkt verdächtig) eine Welt ohne Arbeitsteilung, wo der Kreative direkt den Konsumenten küsst. Das sei der Ausdruck einer archaischen Sehnsucht, die zielstrebig in den Dilettantismus führt.SciLogs - Tagebücher der Wissenschaft
Guter Einwand. Es gibt hier zwei Ebenen: es gibt das Gesetz, und es gibt eine Gesellschaft, die durch das Gesetz geregelt wird, die es sich selber...Computer News Artikel / articles