This Dell Fart Art Video Must Be A Hoax (Updated) [Video]

You've seen a thousand videos vaguely similar to this one—at least in the way it starts—but just be patient. Give it two minutes. There's an unexpected payoff. A money shot, if you will. More »


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Toyota pulls Cydia theme and ads to appease Apple

Apple asks Toyota to remove jailbreak Cydia theme
In news that will no doubt shake the very bedrock of your belief system, Apple has asked Toyota to remove its Scion theme and its advertising from ModMyi, a Cydia repository. The Scion theme has been available for weeks, but after it received a ton of press in the last couple of days, Apple finally lashed out.

It's not like we should be surprised, considering Apple has claimed in the past that jailbreaking is illegal -- but at the same time, did the Cupertino cronies hear about the ruling that made circumventing DRM, and thus jailbreaking, legal? Anyway, whether Toyota was supporting illegal, legal, or deliciously gray and ambiguous, activity, it doesn't matter: Apple asked Toyota to remove the theme, and Toyota graciously bent over and capitulated.

This story raises a much more interesting topic, though: this is the first time a multinational company has publicly acknowledged and embraced the jailbreak community. Considering jailbreaking is technically legal, and Cydia's creator, Jay Freeman, estimates that up to 9% of OS devices are jailbroken, it simply makes good, commercial sense to target jailbreakers with ads. Toyota was simply trying to make some money, for shame!

As long as Apple continues to throw around its increasingly-expansive mass, the legality of jailbreaking will continue to be inconsequential. It will be interesting to see if another big company dares embrace the jailbreak community after this, too.

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OmmWriter brings its clean, calm writing interface to Windows

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I have a thing for full-screen text editing. I use WriteMonkey for my creative writing needs, and VIM in a full-screen PuTTY session for my Web development work. That being the case, I'm all over the monospace, dark-background, focused editing scene.

OmmWriter attempts to take that aesthetic and make it somehow more spiritual, with three picturesque backgrounds and ambient background audio tracks (there are seven of each in the paid version).

I'm of two minds about this app. On the one hand, yes, it's beautiful. But if you want music as a background to your writing, why not pick your own soundtrack with Winamp or Foobar2000 running in the background?

OmmWriter also offers three keyboard-clicking sounds, which are kind of nice. None of these features are groundbreaking, really. OmmWriter could be seen as a way to gently ease into the world of distraction-free writing -- in case something like WriteMonkey's dark background is just too oppressive for you.

After the fold you can see a video showcasing several of OmmWriter's features and creative soundscapes.

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OmmWriter brings its clean, calm writing interface to Windows originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Deal of the Day – 23″ Dell Inspiron One 2305 2.8GHz Dual-core AMD All-in-one PC

The LogicBUY Deal for Wednesday is the 23″ Dell Inspiron One 2305 2.8GHz Dual-core AMD All-in-one PC for $499.99.  Features:  4GB RAM, 500GB hard drive, integrated 8X DVD burner, 802.11n WiFi, Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit), 1-year warranty, and more. $599.99 – $100 coupon code = $499.99 with free shipping. This deal expires February 28, [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2012/02/22/deal-of-the-day-23-dell-inspiron-one-2305-2-8ghz-dual-core-amd-all-in-one-pc/

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Deal of the Day – Dell Optiplex 790 Intel 2nd Gen Core i5 3.1GHz Quad-core Desktop with Dual 21.5″ LCD Monitors

Today’s LogicBUY Deal is the Dell Optiplex 790 Core i5-2400 3.1GHz Quad-core Desktop with dual 21.5″ Dell E2211H 1080p LED-backlit LCD monitors for $729.  Features:  4GB RAM, 250GB hard drive, DVD Burner, 3-year warranty, bundled keyboard and mouse, Intel HD 2000 graphics, and pre-installed Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS. $1389 – $560 off – [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2012/02/23/deal-of-the-day-dell-optiplex-790-intel-2nd-gen-core-i5-3-1ghz-quad-core-desktop-with-dual-21-5-lcd-monitors/

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Save your tabs and Panorama tab groups in Firefox 4

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When Firefox 4's tab grouping tool, Panorama, had its keyboard shortcut changed to the finger-breaking combo of Ctrl+Shift+E, we thought Panorama would get dropped before FF4's final release -- but, thankfully, it made the cut!

If you've used Firefox 4 and Panorama, you might have noticed that Mozilla's new browser doesn't always save your tab groupings when you close the browser -- a bit of a pain, if you spend a long time setting up the perfect groups! This is tied into the removal of the 'Save and Quit' dialog box -- and enabling Panorama tab group saving is just a matter of re-enabling the Save and Quit dialog.

Open a new tab and head to about:config. Click through the warning and type 'quit' into the filter box. Double click browser.showQuitWarning to change its value to true (see image after the break). That's it -- now you'll have the option of saving your tabs, and thus tab groups, when you close Firefox.

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Save your tabs and Panorama tab groups in Firefox 4 originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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SureFire Warranty Review

Over the years I have reviewed many SureFire products. Most people agree SureFire products are extremely well made with rock-solid performance (aka the Cadillac of flashlights).  But an overarching comment/theme from readers has been they can buy an (nearly) equivalent device for (much) less money. Nine times out of ten, that is a true enough [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2012/02/19/surefire-warranty-review/

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Microsoft Office for iPad: Why You’ll Need It, How You’ll Use It

Microsoft Office has been a desktop computer staple for decades, and now it looks like it might finally migrate to modern touchscreen tablets. But does Microsoft's productivity software even belong on a tablet? And if it does make the transition to touch, how will we actually use it?

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/02/office-for-ipad-soonish/

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Idiots Are Paying For Service that Adds "Sent From My iPhone" Signature to Messages [IPhone]

The more I read about this, the more I want to go to China and punch all these idiots out of their underpants: people paying one dollar a month to add a "sent from my iPhone" to every message they send. More »


Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/H0VyFl11LhA/idiots-are-paying-for-service-that-adds-sent-from-my-iphone-signature-to-messages

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How to Trust Your Neighbors in a Networked World [Book Excerpt]

SARS, Bird Flu, terrorists, religious extremists, extreme religionists, DEMOCRATS—it seems that we find a new reason every week to mistrust those around us and yet our society has yet to implode in the orgy of fire and chaos that 24-hour-news networks would have you believe. Liars and Outliers by Bruce Schneier explains how civil structure continues advancing despite our best efforts. More »


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