Google has introduced a command line utility for accessing various Chocolate Factory services, including YouTube, Blogger, Google Docs, Calender, and Contacts. And an army of text-interface obsessives have responded with glee. “I love you!!” one coder told Google
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While most of the week’s news has been focused on the forthcoming iPhone 4, in the security space it has been a relatively quiet seven days, with Apple issuing more updates and yet more Facebook clickjacking woes. First up, UK security firm Veritape released a new device which it claimed can… IT Business Edge – Apple Patches OS X, iTunes V3.co.uk – Apple issues security updates
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A week in security: Apple releases slew of fixes
It is not often that tonnes of mangoes are crushed under a bulldozer and on Saturday, the Mormugao Municipal garbage yard at Headland Sada was filled with the golden liquid. Officials of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) destroyed nearly 12.5 tonnes of artificially ripened mangoes that were seized from three different storehouses at Khariwado shore, Vasco, around three days ago. A bulldozer crushes the artificially ripened mangoes at the Mormugao Municipal garbage yard at Headland, Sada. Two truckloads of Neelam class mangoes were dumped at Mormugao Municipal garbage yard at Headland, Sada, and were later crushed under the wheels of a bulldozer. After obtaining an order from Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC), the FDA crushed the mangoes that were declared unfit for human consumption.
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Goa: 12.5 tonne mango ‘crush’
Patrick Parrish was vacationing in North Carolina when he spotted this long-abandoned yet fully stocked machine shop : It looked like one day possibly in the 1960s or 70s that they just up and closed without even clearing off their desks. The window were so filty, but it looked AMAZING inside.
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Sid Barnett’s Machine Shop
Good news and bad news time — readers are letting us know they’re starting to get their “prepared for shipment” notifications from Apple, but others are getting order cancelations. You can see the prepared for shipment notice up top. The cancelation is after the break and appears linked to a failure to authorize.
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Some iPhone 4 orders prepared to ship, others getting cancelled?
Rogers has released a free iPad app called Rogers Live 2010 FIFA World Cup, allowing users on their network to watch: All 64 games available in English (including consecutive “Round of 16” broadcasts) and 56 games broadcast in French. Works over Rogers 3G (7.2 HSDPA) or Wi-Fi, and incredibly: Data consumed by the application over 3G will NOT be deducted from your data bucket. You need to be in Canada, and a Rogers subscriber (you need to be on the Rogers 3G network to authenticate) but if you are, try it out and let us know what you think.
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Rogers Live 2010 FIFA World Cup now in Canadian App Store (Rogers subscribers only)
MAKE’s science and chemistry author, Robert Bruce Thompson, has a new installment of his video series The Home Scientist , on acquiring chemicals for your home lab. This video is a nice companion to Bob’s piece in the Make: Science Room on the same subject: Chemicals on the cheap . See Bob’s YouTube channel for all of the videos in the series.
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The Home Scientist video: Where to get lab chemicals
The folks at Willow Garage taught their p2r robot to play pool . Pretty impressive feat for only one week of work: With only a small team of developers and a week’s worth of development, the PR2 can now play pool! The “Poolshark” team started last Monday and began making shots on Friday
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Robot takes cue, learns to play pool
A year ago today many of us were standing in line outside our local Apple Store waiting to get our geeky little hands on the iPhone 3GS , then king of the mobile space. Twice the speed, video recording, and VoiceControl were the killer features, even if the form factor was unchanged. Over the last twelve months, iPhone 3GS has served us well, and at its soon-to-be $99 price point, rocking iOS 4 , no doubt it will serve many budget smartphone shoppers well for another year to come.
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Happy birthday iPhone 3GS
Don’t forget that the purveyors of fine toolboxes for your belt, The Leatherman Tool Group , is giving one lucky MAKE reader a new Super Tool 300 (19 tools in 1). To be eligible, all you have to do is go to the original post and submit a reminiscence about your dad and his relationship to tools. Eligible entries will end at noon tomorrow (6/20) and the winner will be announced a few minutes later.
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Father’s Day tool giveaway reminder
Instructables user indestructable created this guide on connecting AC fixtures (light bulbs, in this example) to your computer using a USBmicro U451 . If you have ever wanted to control electronic devices from your computer to control or regulate your environment, this instructable will guide you
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Control AC devices from your computer
Natal outed as Kinect while 360 slim rumor gains speed: On the eve of the E3 conference, Microsoft’s official name of its Natal control system has been outed as Kinect. On a similar token, the Xbox 360 “slim” rumor is starting to look more and more credible by the hour. Then the Xbox 360… PC World – Fear and Loathing at E3: Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony Computerworld – E3 2010 News Wrap LA Times – E3: Nintendo booth tour, 3DS wows crowds
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Week in gaming: all E3, all of the time… well, mostly
The broadband industry and some politicians have reacted strongly to an FCC effort to have an open dialogue. In response to a Thursday vote by the FCC to open a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) period to consider the options for reclassifying how broadband service is governed, some broadband providers..
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The Broadband Providers Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks
News Analysis: There are strong indications that Motorola will introduce the Droid X the week of June 21. Exactly what it has planned for the device is unknown, but if it wants it to be a success, it will need to find the sweet spot between functionality and price. That’s the only way it will..
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10 Things Motorola Must Do to Make the Droid X a Success
Another entry into the voip world, and its about callmyworld.com !! The latest buzz in the international calling market is the arrival of CallMyWorld.Com offering you a multitude of international calling options at really affordable rates. Today I received… This is only content summary.
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Free International Calls from CallMyWorld.Com
Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher’s D8 conference interview with Steve Jobs has been posted in its entirety on iTunes for your higher quality, uninterrupted viewing and/or listening pleasure. It’s quite a good interview and we get to see Jobs excited, pensive, and — to quote him — pi$$ed off. A few of the points I found most interesting, after the break.
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Complete Steve Jobs D8 interview now on iTunes
Here’s an interesting little tidbit from Japan’s financial newspaper Nikkei . According to an article translated by andriasang — who also provided information this morning on a wireless ebook reader — Nintendo’s 3DS will be able to copy multiple games to internal memory and selected from…
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Nintendo 3DS to allow for game installs?
Ron Newman’s fantastic page on DIY room-temperature anodizing of aluminum parts was last revised in 2007, and looks like it may be significantly older than that. Ron’s selling a how-to book, now, and a bunch of anodizing supplies, from the same page, but to me it looks like there’s more than enough free info there already for a savvy person to figure it out for him- or herself
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How-To: Anodize aluminum
This month’s theme is Physical Science and Mechanics , which makes it the ideal time to chat with the multi-talented members of Applied Kinetic Arts (A.K.A.), “a community of artists working within the medium loosely defined as ‘kinetic’.
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Applied Kinetic Arts: Jeremy Mayer interview
(Credit: CNET) Probably like many people reading this blog post, I experienced firsthand the trouble Apple and AT&T had with the overwhelming number of preorders for the iPhone 4 on Tuesday. I thought I was being smart by deciding to skip the long lines and get the iPhone 4 delivered to my house, but I ended up getting nothing but errors after only the first few steps into the process. After several attempts, I decided to wait a couple of days before trying again and ended up buying the black 32GB model through Apple on Thursday
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Start your streak and swing to win: iPhone apps of the week
One month after releasing its open-source, royalty-free VP8 video compression technology, the company already is working on significant revisions to the technology. VP8, combined with the Vorbis audio technology, form the WebM codec with which Google is trying to unfetter Web video from the patent and royalty encumbrances of rival codec H.264
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Google opens up VP8 for Web video tweaks
Instructables jamilks converted this old mini fridge into a food dehydrator , great for fruits, herbs, and other healthy snacks! A food dehydrator needs to be warm and breezy, and this how-to uses an old computer fan and hot plate to get the job done. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in DIY Projects | Digg this!
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Mini fridge food dehydrator
CNET News Poll Imagining iTunes 10 Which of these features will we see in iTunes 10? Syncing libraries across multiple computers Music stored “in the cloud” TV show or channel subscription service Podcast recorder and editor iChat-like function for video chatting with new iPhones Karaoke! Vocals stripped, lyrics shown Option to play vuvuzela over all tracks View results This week, Apple dropped iTunes 9.2 on us
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Friday Poll: What will iTunes 10 bring?
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Borders Group Inc (BGP.N) Chief Financial Officer Mark Bierley is taking on the additional role of chief operating officer, the latest change to the U.S. bookseller’s upper management ranks.Bierley, who joined Borders in 1996 and became CFO last year, will oversee Borders’… Street Insider – Borders Group (BGP) Appoints Mark Bierley as COO, Roz Thompson SVP of HR for Borders Group RTTNews.com – Borders Group Names CFO Mark Bierley To Addl.
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Borders CFO takes chief operating officer job (Reuters)
(Credit: Apple) Apple made some changes to its MobileMe service Friday. The MobileMe Mail service that was in beta for a little over a month is now available to all members. Mail at me.com now has widescreen and compact views, mail organization rules, single-click archiving, a formatting toolbar, SSL protection, and better junk mail protection
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Apple revamps MobileMe e-mail
Former Goa minister Mickky Pacheco’s bail plea in the case relating to his 28-year-old alleged lover’s death, could not be heard on Friday as a Bombay High Court judge recused himself from the hearing. In his bail application before the Panaji bench of the high court, the former tourism minister says that it is a “witch hunt” against him because of his “frank and forthright” comments on scams in departments directly governed by the chief minister and the home minister. Pacheco, who is ‘on the run’ along with his key aide Lyndon Monteiro, has said that he would be subjected to “third degree” treatment if he was arrested by the police
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Judge recuses himself from Pacheco’s bail plea in Goa
Evil Mad Science Laboratories is having a clock contest ! Windell writes: There are probably thousands of cool ways to build clocks based around an LED matrix, and we’ve seen some neat analog and digital clocks based on our Peggy 2 kit. But we’ve also come up with a few dozen other cool ways to show the time, and realized that we’ve only scratched the surface. So today, we’re announcing a Clock Concept Contest: Show us your coolest idea about how to build a Peggy clock, and you could win one! How to enter First, come up with a cool idea.
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Peggy 2 clock concept contest from EMSL
June 18 (Bloomberg) — Walgreen Co. and CVS Caremark Corp., the largest U.S. drugstore chains, agreed to allow pharmacy- benefits customers to keep filling prescriptions at Walgreen’s locations, ending an 11-day dispute.
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CVS Caremark, Walgreen Reach Agreement on Drug Plans (Update2)
Just when you thought there was nothing else to know about the Apple iPhone 4 , along comes some more information! We’re talking about confirmation of the memory capacity of the new phone, something which Steve Jobs glossed over during his keynote speech at WWDC earlier this month. It’s not the first time either, as he completely forgot the same thing about the iPad and the 3GS too, however while customers don’t really need to know, developers do and that’s where the information has been found. The iPhone 4 will have a grand total of 512MB of RAM, which is double the amount powering the 3GS and the iPad. Why is this the case? Well, one can hazard a guess that iOS 4’s multi-tasking feature will need a fair bit to keep going, but since this is also coming to the iPad – which has 256MB – we would guess that the HD video and iMovie video editing will be eagerly tucking into the extra amount.
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Double the RAM of the iPad for the iPhone 4
If you’re an avid DAP reader you’ll already know about Twitter’s dominance in the mobile market. The company has experience a 347% rise in mobile tweets in the past year, and we can see why
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Tweet Yourself to a FREE Samsung 32” HD TV courtesy of Dialaphone.