Reality Bites
Android: If you take a lot of pictures on your phone and don’t want to manually drag them onto your computer, DropSnap will automatically upload any photo you take to Dropbox, so they’re ready for you when you get home. More »
Dear Lifehacker,
I hear a lot of arguing about “lossless” and “lossy” music these days, but I’m having a hard time getting straight answers. Does bitrate really matter? Can most people tell the difference between high and low bitrate music files? More »
The one thing you can’t call director Terrence Malick is unambitious. In The Tree of Life, out now in select theaters, he tries to do for 1950s Texas what Stanley Kubrick did for prehistoric man; that is, tie a few ordinary lives to the immensity and wonder of universe and, ultimately, to us. More »
Like Comanderino Jobs said, Apple’s new toroid mothership may become the best office building in the planet. But it’s not the only spaceship that has landed on planet Earth. Gizmodo reader Felix Pharand D. has sent this high resolution comparison. More »
The arrests include one man in the city of Gijón who allegedly had a computer in his house that was used to attack PSN. The same computer was reportedly involved in attacks on Spanish banks and other entities. The other two arrests took place in Valencia and Barcelona, but no further information was provided.
Spain’s National Police, according to NYT, claim that the three suspects were part of the “local leadership” of the hacking group Anonymous, and that the police found its suspects by analyzing chat logs and web pages. The arrests were made as part of an investigation that began in October of last year following a hack on the Spanish Ministry of Culture website. Anonymous has previously denied official involvement with the PSN hack, though some members have speculated that the attackers were likely connected to the group.
[Thanks, David!]
Three arrests made in connection with PSN hack originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
In a post about the science of sleep twitching, a reader brought up an unknown (to me) phenomenon: Pee shivers. Apparently these are experienced by a relatively large portion of the male population, and today we shall take a look at why. More »
Earlier this week the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a report showing that Canadians pay the most in the world for data roaming rates. For 1MB of usage we dish out $24.61 (U.S.), about twice as the OECD average of $13.52 (U.S.). Kinda upsetting… but good news has come out of this from TELUS. They are “within days” of dropping their roaming rates. Brent Johnston, TELUS VP of Mobility Marketing, says he “absolutely agrees” with the OECD report but puts the high cost blame on Rogers monopoly of international roaming deals. Johnson stated that a cut of “more than 50 per cent on data” will be coming soon, and this “still allows us to be profitable”. They must be making crazy money of roaming.
Source: Globe
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Its Friday (yippee!) – time for another Steal this Idea* feature – a tiny show of appreciation for a well executed tutorial.
Today’s idea is such a great way to reuse something found in the trash AND clever in its own right for maximizing small urban gardens. Despite having a black thumb, I was still drawn to Life on the Balcony, a blog packed with gardening ideas for those short on space.
Pop over to Life on the Balcony for all the details.
postscript: *When I say steal, I really mean borrow nicely and give proper credit!
**If you have an idea/tutorial you would like me to consider for a feature, email me. I’d love to see!
Here in the US and Canada, we’re already worrying about things like recalls, while the rest of world is still waiting for its crack at the original BlackBerry PlayBook. RIM today announced that its enterprise-friendly tablet will be hitting 16 more markets over the next 30 days — though some of the locations, like the UK, have already been announced (you guys will be getting the thing in a mere six days). Recipients include Hong Kong, India, and Australia — check out the full list in the form of a press release after the break. And when you’re done let’s start talking next-generation specs.
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BlackBerry PlayBook rolling out internationally over the next month originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Lots of ink has been spilled on the high cost of the average American wedding ($26,984, according to theKnot.com’s 2010 survey), but it’s not just the father of bride who is feeling the pinch. As weddings become more elaborate, weekend-long affairs, often taking place in getaway locales (24 percent of nuptials are “destination weddings” according to the Knot), bridesmaids are shouldering larger costs as well.
In the past, bridesmaids were just expected to buy a dress and help throw a shower. Now, as women marry later in life, they often choose wedding attendants from different stages in their life, such as a younger sister, the high school BFF, college roommate and their closest colleague. Chances are the wedding will not take place locally for all of them, so a flight or hotel stay may be required for some. It’s no surprise that travel expenses make up one of the biggest components in the bridesmaid budget.
Pre-wedding festivities can also take a big bite. As seen in the movie Bridesmaids, showers can spiral out of control if one maid with expensive tastes decides to make it a catered affair. Bachelorette parties can snowball from a simple girls’ night out to an indulgent spa weekend or a jaunt to Vegas. For some die-hard wedding fans, it’s all worth it, but for the more budget-minded maids in the wedding party, it can bring a lot of stress to what’s supposed to be a happy occasion.
Here’s a look at where the cost come from, according to WeddingChannel.com, and some tips on how both brides and their attendants can keep money agony from souring their relationship, and the wedding day.
Google has already made some tough moves to tackle fragmentation, but it’s clearly still wary of the problem. It’s just tweaked the Android Market web store to show users which apps are compatible with which of their gadgets. Of course, compatibility screening was already in place for users who accessed the Market from within their device, but this update should still be of use to those who surf the web store, especially if they’re rocking multiple handsets or a phone-plus-tablet combo.
Android Market web store now checks which apps are compatible with your devices originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Microsoft’s App Guy has quite a job on his baby-soft hands: to boost Windows Phone 7’s numerically-challenged Marketplace by encouraging developers to port apps across from other platforms. The little fellow helped iPhone devs out a couple of months ago with an API mapping tool to make it easier to translate iPhone APIs to WP7 code. Now he’s extended the mapping tool to work with Android APIs too, and backed it up with a 90-page white paper and a promise to get more involved in developer forums. Will the App Guy’s efforts unleash a flood of new apps for Windows Phone? We don’t know, but we dig his shorts.
Microsoft releases Android developer poaching package for Windows Phone 7 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
More strike action appears likely in the days ahead in the contract dispute involving 3,000 Saskatchewan health care workers.
Every once in a while something comes along so crazy, so unearthly cool, we have to shout it from the rooftops. Today just happens to be that once in a while, so feast your eyes on the BMW boxer engine powered Hoverbike. Framed around an 1,170cc 4-stroke BMW boxer engine that powers the twin rotors, the Hoverbike was the brainchild of Australian inventor, Chris Malloy. Malloy claims that the Hoverbike’s thrust to weight ratio should enable it to elevate to 10,000 feet and reach a speed of 173 mph (this begs the need for a good parachute and industrial strength body armor). Yowza. The rest of the Hoverbike is a Kevlar reinforced carbon fiber and foam core frame and exotic Tasmanian oak propellers. All controls are handlebar mounted, including speed, pitch, turning, vertical and horizontal travel. Using most of his hard earned funds to build this atomic salad shooter, Mr. Malloy is looking for investors and fluid dynamics engineers to bring his dream to production. In the meantime, we’ll be holding out hope for a test drive flight. To see more photos of the prototype he’s developed so far, keep reading on the next page.
Price: $40,000 (estimated)
A meteorite found in B.C. contains evidence that asteroids are production sites for molecules such as amino acids that form the building blocks of life, a new study reports.
Quebec City and Kitchener, Ont. are the next two targets of the ongoing postal strike, the union announced on Thursday, as Canada Post said the two sides remain far apart on a number of issues.
Revealed here for the first time. And as I said, it’s big.
Learn more about the Paleo Diet
Access the full-size version here.
This is the work of Patrick Vlaskovits whom I’ve had the privilege of knowing for quite a while now. We regularly grab lunch together when he’s on business up here Bay Area and we talk about the Paleo movement in general.
Patrick is also the founder of the very popular PaleoHacks and now, PaleolithicDiet.com the Newsletter.
From Patrick:
- PaleolithicDiet.com has one simple mission: Responsibly steward Paleo / primal / evolutionary / ancestral eating as it goes mainstream.
- The Paleo Diet is a broad and flexible meta-rule (rule about rules): Eat in an evolutionary appropriate manner for our species. That's it. Full Stop.
- Let’s have some fun while we’re doing #1
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With iOS 5, Apple is thankfully going to add a lot of features that’ll solve a lot of problems. One of those features is something we can’t wait for: Wi-Fi Sync, which is syncing your iPhone to iTunes wirelessly. Great, right? Not for a developer who’s accusing Apple of stealing it from him. More »
Criminals on the web are usually always sneaky in their ways, in an effort to obtain certain information on people. A lot of the time its information that can lead to wiping the user’s bank account clean and with the expansion of the web, the methods have become ever more…
