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That tingling feeling when your hand or foot falls asleep (a condition known as paresthesia) sure is aggravating. You can wake your hand up in under a minute, however, just by rocking your head side to side. More »
Back in June HP announced their webOS based TouchPad tablet would be available mid-July for $519.99 for the 16GB and for 619.99 for the 32GB version. They right before launch day the tablet received its first price drop of $70 off each. Now, Best Buy has reduced the price even further by a stunning $50 on each version. The 16GB TouchPad now retails for a low $399.99 and the 32GB can be yours for $499.99. (This is about a 25% cut since launching)
Source: Best Buy
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Actor William Shatner is set to perform at the arts centre in Regina as part of his cross-Canada tour How Time Flies.
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“Who’s not going to watch? … I’m just as curious as everybody else,” the former star said.
Earlier today, the Sun fired the biggest solar flare we’ve seen thus far in our current solar cycle. With an X-ray magnitude of X6.9, this flare was three times larger than the previous titleholder, a X2.2 from mid-February. More »
For men in heterosexual relationships, time out with the guys can be important. Now, research suggests that it may be better for the guys’ sex lives if their female partners don’t tag along. A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago and Cornell University shows that when a woman forms relationships with her partner’s male friends that are as strong or stronger than his own, the man is significantly more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction. More »
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Facebook thinks it should be easier to communicate with your friends.
In an effort to simplify, consolidate and, ultimately, make it easier to get in touch with your Facebook contacts, they have released a mobile app for iOS and Android called Messenger. Simply put, it sends a message to whatever method your friend allows his or her Facebook friends to get in touch, whether by Chat, Email or SMS. This makes it much more likely the that message will find him or her quickly.
It also cuts down the clutter of sending multiple messages via disparate services. In a word, it’s a great idea.
The app was borne out of the ashes of Beluga, an app/company that was purchased by Facebook in March of this year. The global giant had already made it easier to communicate using its various mobile and desktop interfaces: instead of Messages being separate from Chats, they were merged into one. If neither was available, a communique would be sent an as email or text message, depending on what the user set in the preferences. Messenger is an extension of that functionality.
But the market is already pretty saturated with proprietary messengers: BlackBerry users have BBM; iOS users will be getting iMessage with iOS 5; Android users have been using Gtalk natively for years. Then there are the secondary apps such as Kik, WhatsApp and LiveProfile that attempt to bridge the gap between platforms. Facebook Messenger, though it is launching on iOS and Android, is fairly platform-agnostic. Since the idea is that the message will be delivered regardless of whether the recipient has a mobile device or not, it has the capacity to reach exponentially more users.
Messenger is available for iOS and Android (starting later today). The question is, will you be using it?
Source: Facebook
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Here’s a crazy-looking picture of Shaquille O’Neal walking with his girlfriend, Nikki “Hoopz” Alexander.
When he’s surrounded by other basketball players, it’s easy to lose sight of how big Shaq really is. It's not until he's next to a normal-sized person that you get some perspective.
Hoopz is 5’3”, according to videostunners.com (very NSFW), which isn’t even that short.
Shaq is 7’1”.
Hoopz is an aspiring celebrity who has appeared on shows such as Flavor of Love.
Here’s who she should look up to:
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When do you safely remove a device? Some users put caution to the wind and yank out any device, while others perform religious rituals every time. Here are some tips and guidelines for practicing safe drive removal.
Removable storage has been around as long as the personal computer and safely removing or “ejecting” drives is something that OS X and Linux users are very familiar with. Whenever an external storage device is plugged into those operating system it becomes mounted to a location, and if you just pull it out without warning your OS, typically you receive a nasty warning saying you may have just lost all your data.
In Windows, however, drive mounting is different. It doesn’t always require you to safely remove a device and rarely does it send out nastygram popups when you remove a device without warning. At most, you may get a popup the next time you plug in the device asking you to scan and fix the drive.
So how can you know when you should eject a drive before unplugging it? Here are some never, always, and sometimes situations to consider.
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Well friends, if you’ve been waiting to get your hands on the 8-inch Vizio tab (and don’t live near a Costco), your time has come. The company announced today that its slate has begun shipping to retailers nationwide including Sam’s, Walmart and Amazon. The Android tablet is now priced at $299, a $30 drop from our last retail sighting — and just in time to entice those of you heading back to school in search of a new piece of tech to play with during that history lecture. Or perhaps you just want to kick it like Blake Griffin… don’t worry, we won’t judge you. Besides, what else do you need for your dorm room other than an integrated universal remote to queue up all those Lord of the Rings marathons?
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We pretty much knew that Falling Skies was going to end with some kind of game-changing cliffhanger — it's in the nature of this kind of show, plus the final episodes were clearly leading up to it. More »
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Hollywood has been pumping out a prodigious amount of movies about aliens in recent years, and the public has been eating them up. But just why is it that we can’t get enough of extraterrestrial life? More »
Smokers who reach for their first cigarette within 30 minutes of waking up have a much greater risk of developing head, neck, and lung cancer, say U.S. scientists.