This article really brings home the crazy under the skin of social apps. We are such naturally social animals, and so bad at thinking seriously about what ifs, that it’s easy to get caught up in sharing our personal and locational info with our “friends”, to our own detriment.

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This makes me want an Android phone even more now. Not that I want one enough to pay the data fees. Yet. Give it time…give it time.

Android Media Player - Winamp for Android™ - Winamp.
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A few weeks ago I applied for the beta of Google Music, ‘cause, why not? Well, I got accepted for that. You can apply, too, by going to music.google.com.

First, there is the music manager and the uploading of the music (20,000 song limit. Sheesh!). Then I’ll be able to comment on usability.

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Now this is cool, and could prove quite useful to amateur game makers.

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Talking to the public about cell phones, safety, and cancer risks - Boing Boing.

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Now, this. This is sweet.

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The idea is to stabilize and slow the reentry of a space vehicle using only the aerodynamics of a falling feather. This test run shows proof of concept beautifully.

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Elective amputee Patrick shows what he can do with his bionic hand and test a new hand with additional wrist movement.

via BBC News - Amputee Patrick demonstrates his new bionic hand.

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AddToAny - Share, Bookmark - Google Chrome extension gallery.

If you’re a user of Google’s Chrome web browser and you also like to share what you read as you surf the web, then you’ll probably like the AddToAny Chrome extension. The little button nestles up next to your URL line in Chrome, and when you click it, a dropdown menu gives you a choice ( Read more... )

You gotta love a company whose development roadmap for their video chip features such illustrious pet names as Kal-El, Wayne, Logan, and Stark (that’s Superman, Batman, Wolverine, and Iron Man if you’ve been living under a rock for the last 50 years).

The awesomely quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 chip (currently Kal-El) seems to be hustling along to ( Read more... )

I don’t have an iPad, myself, but those of you who do might be interested in the new app, The Daily. Though it shares the same name as the lame app on Barnes & Noble’s Nook, this app looks like it will appeal to a wide audience and offer a lot of content for only a dollar a week. You get daily news and other stuff in both text and audio/video ( Read more... )