China's new online Apple Store sells out of iPhone 4s on day one

Just 24 hours into business, China's first online Apple Store has sold its entire stock of iPhone 4s. Writing for The Global Times, Wang Xinyuan says, "Apple Inc's new online Chinese-language store was a big hit with consumers Wednesday after it sold out its entire stock of iPhone 4s on the first day."

Apple hopes to tap into China's fast-growing online shopping market, which saw business of 120 billion yuan (about US$17.91 billion as of this writing) worth of transactions in the third quarter of this year.

More importantly, Apple hopes the online store will further thwart the gray market that has been a consistent problem in China. Supply shortages and the prestige of owning the device have created a large network of unauthorized resellers. Recently, Apple Store security was required to temporarily close a Beijing Apple Store and adopt a one-per-customer policy when customers began to purchase iPhones in bulk and re-sell them right outside of the store.

As for the online store, The Global Times reports that its stock will not be immediately replenished, and is encouraging customers to check back often for updates.

[Via MacDailyNews]

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Grow Tomatoes Upside Down

Summary: /* The DIY method */

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If you've ever been up late watching TV in the wee hours of the morning, you've probably seen those ads for upside down tomato planters. You've probably even asked yourself why anyone would want to grow tomatoes (or anything else) upside down. You obviously do not live in an apartment.

But forget the 1-800 numbers and the three easy payments. All you need to grow tomatoes upside down is a 5 gallon bucket and some know-how.

''This article is part of '''a wiki anyone can edit.''' If you have advice to add about whacky planting methods, log in and contribute. Please add your photos, too.''


==Why?==

Space is probably the most common motivator for upside-down planting (Look ma, no ground necessary) but there are actually some other good reasons to consider growing upside-down tomato plants even if you do have the space to plow.

* No need to stake. Gravity takes care of the vines so you don't need to, and that's one less thing to worry about.
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* No weeding. Well, technically you can get weeds in the top of the bucket, especially if you don't put a lid on it, but it'll be nothing compared to a traditional garden.
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* Fewer soil diseases/root rot. Because you'll be using bagged soil and (most likely) changing it every year, you don't really need to worry about disease.
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* Better air circulation. Related to both of the above, hanging plants get better air circulation, with means better pollination and overall healthier plants.
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* You can grow year-round. If you have adequate light and heating, you can squeeze a full grow cycle into the "off season."
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Sold? Well, hang on a minute, because there are a couple of disadvantages as well. The biggest problem with upside-down plants is temperature control. The soil is not insulated, so heat will dry it out much, much faster than it would in a ground. That means more water and more diligence on your part.

Another problem is weight -- especially after watering. Make sure you hang your plants somewhere secure that can handle the weight. Wherever you hang them, make sure there's plenty of light. It takes a lot of sunlight energy (or powerful grow lights) to bring a tomato to maturity.

If those worries don't put you off, then read on to learn how to go about setting up your own hanging tomato garden.

==The DIY method==

All you need to start an upside-down garden is a 5 gallon bucket or similar container, a plant, and a bag of potting soil.

===The bucket===

Grab a cheap paint bucket from the hardware store and use a drill to cut a small hole in the bottom of the bucket. You want to hole to be big enough to fit the stalk of a full-grown tomato plant, but not so big that the root ball falls out before it has a chance to root itself inside. About the size of a half dollar is generally good (And now your bucket has a hole in it. No need to check, it's there).

Empty 5 gallon water bottles also work well if you cut off the bottom.

===The plant===

Now you need a tomato plant. There are several hybrid varieties that claim to be "perfect" for upside-down planters, but if you can't find any at your local dealer, just grab a traditional plant. We recommend cherry tomatoes or other smaller sizes. Avoid really large heirlooms as they tend not to do well in buckets.

===The process===

Put a layer of [http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/m/mossph54.html Sphagnum Moss] or similar dry insulating material (shredded newspaper works as well) at the bottom of the bucket, around the hole. A piece of baking parchment or waxed paper with a smaller hole might help hold in the dirt. The plant will simply rip the paper as it grows.

Gently shake excess dirt from your plant's roots and carefully insert the leaves and stock through the hole you cut in your bucket. Wrap the roots in some more moss or insulating material. You want about two inches of moss around the base of the plant.

Holding the root ball of the plant in place, start to fill your bucket with bagged potting soil. Once you've got the root ball covered with soil, you should be able to let go of the plant and it will stay put. Continue filling the bucket with soil and [[Compost | compost]], if you have any. Fill the bucket to the top, leaving about an inch of space so you won't lose any soil when you water.

Now hang your bucket up and give it a good soaking. Wait an hour or so and then check to see how much the soil settled. This will depend on the nature of the soil mix you used. If necessary, add a little more soil.

And that's all there is to it really, just remember that you'll need to water your upside-down plants far more than you would a traditional garden.

===Tips===

Tomatoes aren't the only thing you can grow upside down. Peppers do well upside down, as do cucumbers, eggplants and some beans.

[[Image:TomatoesBen.jpeg|thumb|630px|left|Incredibly, this entire hanging garden is all one tomato plant. Photo by Ben Ostrowsky/[http://www.flickr.com/photos/sylvar/112595227/ Flickr]/CC]]


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Enterprise iOS app distribution made easier by Ondeego

For consumers, unless you jailbreak your iPhone, the only effective way to get apps onto it is via Apple's own App Store. From the beginning of the App Store, Apple has offered an alternative method of distributing apps that is meant for use by businesses to their employees. Unfortunately, that approach is cumbersome. It requires setting up servers and internal "app stores" for managing who gets those apps and pulling them back from lost or stolen phones or employees who leave.

Ondeego has expanded its AppCentral distribution system from its original Blackberry and Java mobile roots, and it now supports iPhones. AppCentral is essentially a hosted enterprise app store service that allows businesses to create an account, then easily open a private iPhone app distribution channel.

For smaller companies or those with only a few apps, this can make a lot more sense than going through the effort of setting up and maintaining their own systems. AppCentral allows managers to see and control who gets which apps and disable them remotely if needed. Only businesses in the iPhone Developer Enterprise Program can use AppCentral, because the special security certificate provided by Apple is required. The AppCentral for iPhone program is currently open for beta testers. Read on to see a video describing the service.

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HTC Desire Z unboxing & video demo

The second of HTC’s new flagship Android smartphones has arrived, and just as we put the HTC Desire HD review to bed, the HTC Desire Z has arrived on the test bench. �Unlike the HD, the Desire Z makes do with a more mainstream 3.7-inch WVGA touchscreen, but counters any screen shortfall with a flip-out [...]

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Logitech?s Google TV: Brilliant Concept Hampered by Networks

It's poised to turn the way we watch TV on its head. But a content blockade from major networks could mean the device arrives stillborn.

Source: http://www.wired.com/reviews/2010/10/logitech_revue/

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Vulkano gets Android and Blackberry apps for video streaming

Back in July Monsoon Multimedia unveiled the cool Vulkano Pro set top box that can record TV shows and allow place and time shifting for your favorite programs. The company has announced a cool new mobile smartphone app that is available for Android and Blackberry smartphones. When the app is used with the Vulkano Pro [...]

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Sprocket Rocket is a Wallace and Gromit themed brain teaser -- Time-Waster

Filed under: Fun, Time-Wasters, Education

Intellectual property is one of the most hotly debated subjects online. Should there be patents or not? And what can be patented? And once you have a patent, when is it fair to protect it?

But to argue about these things, everyone should have the terminology down. What exactly is a patent? And what's a registered trademark? And what, then, is a registered design (which I did not know)?

Sprocket Rocket is a Flash game that attempts to provide a basic education in these terms while showing the value of innovation at the same time. It does all this, and it still manages to be fun!

You control a little "space pod" (my term, not theirs), and your mission is to collect cogwheels for Wallace and Gromit so that they can assemble their space ship and go to the moon. Yeah, it's dorky, but it's well-made!

Each level is a puzzle. To solve a puzzle, you often need to build a "tool" for your space pod. There's an editor where you can make simple tools that attach to your ship, and they are used to push, hook, and prod things on the screen. It's very open-ended, and it sometimes requires a fair bit of thinking. You need to shape just the right tool for the job, and then you have to figure out how to use it in the level.

Bottom line: Sprocket Rocket is very nice brain teaser, and the website that it's hosted on is worth browsing through, too (it's related to the UK's Intellectual Property Office). If you don't feel like leaving Download Squad, just keep reading this post -- the game is embedded right after the fold!

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Roll Your Own E-Books

Summary: /* Converting digital files */

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The book is an antiquated method of delivering words to your brain. Just as the iPod compressed massive record collections onto tiny go-anywhere devices, so the e-book readers are putting entire libraries onto paper-thin portable devices you can shove in your (oversized) pocket.

Want to ditch the heavy backpack full of books and join the digital book revolution? Here's out guide to creating a digital copy of just about any book -- whether it's your own masterpiece or an old paper copy of Cervantes -- into a digital book.

''This article is part of '''a wiki anyone can edit.''' If you have advice to add about rolling your own e-books, log in and contribute.''


==Format Overview==

Before you get busy converting your library into e-books, just remember this: traditional books are anything but antiquated, as you are about to learn. Once you see just what you're in for on this shtick, you may well want to save those old, beautiful paper and board masterpieces. But, assuming you still want to go ahead on this folly, let's start with some formatting decisions. Unfortunately, due to the relatively new status of e-book readers, there is no one-size-fits-all format yet. The popular ePub format is probably the closest thing and works nearly everywhere, but sadly, not on Amazon's popular Kindle reader.

But once you've got your book in the ePub format, you're 90 percent there. All of the ''other'' major e-book readers, including Apple's iBooks on its iOS devices, the Barnes & Noble Nook and Sony's various readers can all handle the ePub format. That just leaves the Kindle. Luckily there is [http://calibre-ebook.com/ Calibre] a free and cross-platform (though rather ugly and unwieldy) e-book manager that can convert your ePub document into something the Kindle can display.

==Converting digital files==

You've penned your masterpiece and you want to give it to the world in digital form. How do you do that?

If you're starting with a Microsoft Word document, the simplest way to convert that to an e-book format is start by exporting it as an HTML file (Save As, choose "Web Page, Filtered (*.htm, *.html)" in the "Save as type" dropdown box). Once you have an HTML file, just use one of the many free HTML to ePub converters (the previously mentioned [http://calibre-ebook.com/ Calibre] can convert HTML to ePub).

After you've created your ePub file, you can use an ePub editor like [http://code.google.com/p/sigil/ Sigil] to cleanup any conversion errors, adjust styles, split files into chapters, create a table of contents and edit metadata.

Here is a list of conversion tools, including Calibre:

* [http://www.epubbud.com/ ePubBud.com] - Find out more online in [http://www.epubbud.com/help.php their FAQ].
* [http://www.juliansmart.com/ecub eCub Cross platform tool]
* [http://www.infogridpacific.com/igp/AZARDI/eScape%20-ODT2ePub/ eScape ePub Creator] - Converts OpenOffice documents to ePub format.
* [http://www.pincette.biz/odftoepub/index.xhtml ODFtoEpub] - Converts OpenOffice files to ePub format.
* [http://www.bookglutton.com/api BookGlutton] - Converts HTML web pages to ePub format.
* [http://www.easypress.com/products/aqpep/ EasyEPub] - Convert from Adobe InDesign or Quark format to ePub
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You can also use these tools to convert from existing documents to ePub format:

* [http://calibre-ebook.com/ Calibre] - fantastic tool and comes with [http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/projects/otter/about-oers/Creatingandformattingepub.pdf a great tutorial].
* [http://code.google.com/p/sigil/ Sigil] - Free cross-platform tool to edit ePub books
* [http://www.lexcycle.com/ Stanza Desktop]
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==Converting dead trees==

The above techniques and tools work well if your source is already in digital form, but what if you want to convert an existing paper book? Well, it can be done -- using free software, no less -- but it takes a bit of work.

===Scanning===

First off you're going to need to scan the book in question. While there are [http://diybookscanner.org/ specialized V-shaped scanners] that make book scanning much easer, most of us have flatbed scanners. The problem with flatbed scanners is that books aren't flat.

Unless you plan to debind the book, you're probably going to end up with some warped text and shadows on the edges of each page when you convert the images to an ePub document. For most books, you can get the text looking pretty good if you scan carefully.

But if you want a pure, digital copy with searchable text and all, there is a way to do it.

===Using OCR===

The ideal process works like this: scan the entire book into images, run the images through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition optical character recognition] ('''OCR''') software to extract the text. Once you have the text, just follow the steps above to get an ePub document.

We'd recommend [http://www.paperfile.net/ FreeOCR], a non-commercial bit of software that's a free download.

The only catch -- aside from the time investment of scanning an entire book -- is the OCR software. While OCR tools like [http://www.paperfile.net/ FreeOCR] (which is what Google Books uses) are pretty good, a truly accurate OCR engine that can perfectly convert your text remains a pipe dream.

OCR software in its current state achieves an accuracy rate of above 95 percent. The quality of the output depends on the quality of the image you start with. So correcting an OCR'd document that started with a dirty scan job can be a tedious, time consuming process. Luckily, most antique books have rather large print, and translate well.

The reality is that you're going to have to go through afterwards and fix a few words and phrases yourself. But for books that hold personal memories and are long out-of-print -- maybe a cookbook that great-grandma Agnes wrote -- it can be worth it. You'll end up with a document that makes a wonderful gift you can share with your friends and family.

With a little patience and perseverance you can convert your own library and cram countless e-books into your backpack without the weight of the physical world on your shoulders.


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First Look: Boinx PhotoBox app for iPad

The guys at Boinx Software have done it again, this time with a product for the iPad. PhotoBox, a free app, is the first iPad app for the company, which is primarily known for its Boinx TV and FotoMagico applications for Mac OS X and the You Gotta See This iPhone photo collage app.

What's PhotoBox all about? The idea is that it's an on-site photographer's assistant, allowing you to analyze photos that have been moved to the iPad through the Camera Connection Kit or a wireless connection. The analysis can consist of checking the exposure of a photo against defined limits, allowing digital photographers to make sure that parts of a picture aren't over- or under-exposed. It's also useful for checking out the focus on an image, and can even do video-out to a projector for a much larger view of the image.

Boinx is soliciting feedback as well as ideas for what the app should contain in the future. Boinx wants to turn PhotoBox into a much more complete photographer's tool and then charge for it in the App Store.

As-is, the app has limited functionality. You can add photos to the app's browser from the Photo Library, and then view them in full-screen and 1:1 modes to check overall composition and focus. With the exposure mask tools, underexposed portions of a photo are highlighted in blue, while overexposed bits show up in red. While that's useful for checking exposure in the field, it's not enough to make this an app you'd want to buy.

If you're a professional digital photographer or dedicated amateur, download a copy of PhotoBox and give it a try, and then tell Boinx what you'd like to have added to the app. Several screen shots are available in the gallery below.

Gallery: PhotoBox for iPad

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Phras.in helps you decide which of two words you should use

Filed under: Text, Utilities, Education

Here's something that I do all the time: when I want to know how to use a certain word or phrase, I just google it. And when I'm trying to decide on one of two options, I just google them both and see which one is more common, or how it works in a sentence. I use it a lot when I translate ("do people really say that?"), but I also use it when I just write in English.

And now, Phras.in lets me do the exact same thing, but I can do it in style (or is it "with style"? Exactly!) and a great deal faster. So, I just type the words "in style" in the top text box, and then I type "with style" in the bottom text box. By the time I'm done typing, I can see that "in style" got 43.4 million hits, while "with style" has only 23.5 million hits. The search is live, and it's super-fast; there's no Enter required. And clearly, "in style" wins.

But maybe I'm not sure, or I want to see how they're really used. I just have to hit the big Contextualize 'em button, and I get a whole bunch of Google results that show the phrases in their natural habitat.

It even works in Hebrew, so I guess it can handle pretty much anything that you throw at it (anything Google can handle, that is). It's very, very useful!

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Dutch police manipulate botnet to warn infected users

Filed under: Security

The battle against malware sure has changed over the past couple of years. It's no longer you and I in our chairs at home armed only with knowledge and an antivirus app. No, today's fight against trojans, botnets, and other software evil-doers involves everyone from lawyers to the police.

In the case of the recent Bredolab botnet, it was the Dutch police who stepped up. Following a concerted effort involving members of several security firms and the Dutch National Crime Squad, more than 140 Bredolab servers were seized. Here's where this story really gets good.

After they successfully gained control of the servers, the Dutch Police put the botnet to creative use -- pushing notifications to infected users and providing links to a removal tool. Sophos Labs' Graham Cluely mentions that as many as 30 million PCs may have been infected by Bredo, so what better way to notify users than via the botnet's own plumbing?

Dutch police manipulate botnet to warn infected users originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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After iLife '11: Alternatives to iDVD and iWeb

Over the weekend TUAW is going to be featuring in-depth reviews of the new iLife '11 suite -- or at least the three apps that were updated. As most of you know by now, iWeb and iDVD didn't receive an update at all. In light of that, we've compiled a list of several alternatives to iDVD and iWeb that you may want to try out. From a purely consumer standpoint, I don't think any of these apps offer the ease of use that Apple has so successfully built into iWeb and iDVD, but given that iDVD seems all but abandoned -- as should the MacBook optical drive be -- and the future is uncertain for iWeb, it's always nice to know you have some alternatives.

iDVD alternatives:

SmallDVD
SmallDVD is a simple utility that lets you take any video files and add them to a DVD image ISO which can then be burned onto a DVD using Disc Utility. SmallDVD doesn't have many features, but it will appeal to those of you who want to create very simple DVDs with static background menus. It also has the added benefit of only creating the ISO file which can then be shared to DropBox or iDisk, and then downloaded and viewed on another computer using only the ISO -- no optical drive needed. SmallDVD is a free download.

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Future Sonics debuts Atrio Special Edition professional earphones

Looking for some earphones below a $999 reference set of buds but above the mid-range fare filling the shelves at your local department store? Then you can now at Future Sonics' new Atrio Special Edition "professional" earphones to your list of options. Coming at $229, the earphones pack the company's MG7 transducer and so called TrueTimbre technology to provide what's described as "rich, dynamic and full sound" -- in terms of specs, you'll get a frequency response of 8Hz - 20,000Hz, along with a sensitivity level of 112dB at 30Hz, and ambient noise rejection of +/- 26 dB. As a bonus, you'll also also get a carrying case made from reclaimed tires, which is not only environmentally-friendly but one of a kind in appearance. Head on past the break for the complete press release, and hit up the link below for a hands-on look courtesy of Gadling.

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Google Makes Improvements to mobile web version of Gmail

Google has posted an update to their blogger account notating some new changes to their mobile version of Gmail.� From the looks of it, scrolling looks to be much improved as far as smoothness goes.� Before the pages seemed to be a bit more choppy and the distance it would scroll wasn’t always very accurate.� [...]

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Wake up the Box 2 is a cute physics Time-Waster

Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters

In Wake up the Box 2, the object of the game is to ... wake up the box! Yup, there's a box, and it's asleep. And as soon as something jars it hard enough, it wakes up, and you get to move on to the next level.

Each level is a tiny physics playing field. You get a piece of wood (or sometimes two or three, but always in a set sequence), and you can then connect that piece of wood to other pieces of wood that are already shown on the level. This causes all sorts of actions to occur. For example, things can become lopsided and tip over.

Pretty soon, though, other forces come into play. Balls start rolling and impacting against your creations, and there's an unnamed substance (which looks like iron) that makes wood vanish on touch. That's important, because you can have a ball that's made of the stuff roll onto a piece of wood and make it disappear at just the right time.

The game starts off very easy, but around level eight it becomes more challenging. Go ahead, give it a try!

Wake up the Box 2 is a cute physics Time-Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iOS 4.2 for iPad already Jailbroken

It looks like hackers have had their hands on the iOS 4.2 beta 3 for iPad long enough to jailbreak it. Last night, well-known iOS hacker @iH8sn0w tweeted a picture of an iPad running MobileTerminal, a jailbreak app giving the user full access to the terminal command line interface. From iH8sn0w: Yay! [...]

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Google Chrome Dev channel update brings password sync, minor tweaks

Filed under: Google, Browsers

Google has update the Chrome Dev channel to 8.0.552.18 on all platforms, and while the focus this time is on polish and bug fixes, one important new feature has arrived.

First spotted in the Canary build a few days ago, password sync is now available to Dev channel users and enabled by default. I'm still not certain the sync is actually active, though, as my Canary builds on three machines still seem to be running password stores that are noticeably out-of-sync.

At this point, there are really only two pieces missing from the Chrome sync puzzle: tabs and search engines, both of which would be extremely handy (so how about it, Google?).

Google Chrome Dev channel update brings password sync, minor tweaks originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPad now on sale at Verizon, AT&T

As previously announced, Verizon and AT&T have started selling the iPad today. AT&T is selling iPad Wi-Fi + 3G at the standard pricing for both device and data plan. Verizon is offering the wifi-only iPad bundled with their own Verizon MiFi, for more flexible, if less integrated 3G connectivity. Once again, the bundle prices are: 16GB iPad [...]

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Logitech?s Google TV: Brilliant Concept Hampered by Networks

It's poised to turn the way we watch TV on its head. But a content blockade from major networks could mean the device arrives stillborn.

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Tivoli Audio fails to deviate with Model 10 clock radio, still celebrates Tin anniversary

So, what's a company to do when turning the big one-oh? The same thing that it always has, of course! Tivoli Audio's classic styling has somehow found its way back around again on the 10th anniversary Model 10 AM/FM clock radio, a highly compact music maker with a 7.8-inch cabinet, a pair of independent alarms (which can be set to music or a tone), inbuilt LCD and a menu screen with an adjustable backlight. As you'd expect, the pizazz is coming mostly in the form of exterior color options, with "furniture grade wood" being offered in walnut, cherry, blue, black and red. For the true historians, a Celebration Collection is available in light and dark aluminum wood finishes, with the Superior Collection adding a high gloss Frost White and Chesnut Brown (along with the 'Lines' pattern shown here). The auxiliary input allows pretty much any source to be connected, with all functions dictated by a single top-mounted rotary control or a bundled remote. As for pricing? They're going for $199.99 to $379.99, or precisely 19.2 times more than you ever expected.

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Office Mobile 15 job posting heralds "next wave of innovation"

Filed under: Microsoft

With Windows Phone 7 and Office Mobile 2010 only just now making their big debut, it's time for Microsoft to focus on what's next. And based on this job posting over at LinkedIn, that's precisely what they're doing.

The post seeks a test lead for Microsoft's business division in Hyderabad, and they hope to build on what they feel is already a "breakthrough for Microsoft in the mobile market." The Office Mobile 15 team's goal? To " define and build the next generation of software and services for mobile professionals."

Microsoft began recruiting new Windows Phone 8 team members as far back as April of this year, so it certainly makes sense to finish assembling the group who will be responsible for the OS' flagship app. [And, judging by that image, let's hope that WP8 will feature a landscape orientation... -Ed]

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Office Mobile 15 job posting heralds "next wave of innovation" originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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YouTube Trivial Pursuit is as addictive as the real thing

Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters

Did you know that YouTube offers a spiffy online version of Trivial Pursuit? It's surprisingly addictive, too!

Each round consists of three questions, and one "Bet on Me" card. The three questions are real trivia questions, which can be quite challenging:

• From Ghosts > Geography: Which U.S. landmark is said to be haunted by the ghost of Abraham Lincoln?
• Drums > Science and Nature: What type of animal is a red drum?
• Lost and Found > Entertainment: From what city did Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 depart when it crashed on a Pacific island in the television series Lost?

Tricky stuff, eh? I know! Note that I didn't write any of the answers so that I wouldn't spoil it for you. But the fourth card is the most fun, really; it's the Bet on Me card, which shows you a YouTube celebrity (think Tay Zonday) along with a question that they were asked. You have to guess whether or not they got the answer right.

You get chips (casino chips, not potato ones) every time you get an answer right or win a bet on a YouTube celeb. At the top of the board, you can see the overall tally - The People's Chips vs. YouTube Chips.

So far, The People are winning!

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Cydia no longer giving new users the option to save SHSH blobs [Jailbreak]

In the past Cydia has given the option to “Make my life easier” which automatically saved SHSH blobs on the Cydia server, but since the release of limera1n and greenpois0n, this option has disappeared and your saved SHSH blobs are not shown on the Cydia front page. The Cydia server is still up and [...]

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