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If you were waiting for the BlackBerry Storm 2 refresh—which was supposed to fix the wrongs in that ball of SureCrap that is the Storm 2—you may be out of luck. It looks like RIM is canceling it. More »

Windows: Security Essentials Screensaver scans your computer using Microsoft Security Essentials (Microsoft’s excellent anti-malware tool) whenever your screensaver activates. More »

Talks between the two companies reportedly even touched on a possible acquisition

If you’re looking for a place to rant, rave, and delight in the newest happenings of your favorite shows, Miso is a tv-oriented social network that catalogs your favorite shows, keeps you updated, and connects you with other fans. More »

Kristina Svechinskaya – who has been dubbed the "world's hottest female hacker" – recently appeared in a NYC courtroom to face charges of stealing $35,000 for the notorious Eastern European ZBot cyber-criminal gang.

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Video chatting—the future is now! But it sure is expensive. Between Logitech’s Revue ($300 for the box and $150 for the cam), and Cisco’s $600 Roman emperor-priced offering, you might feel left out. But you have (affordable) options. More »

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If you’re tired of your photos and videos being impossible to retrieve from Facebook, you’ll be happy to know that they are rolling out a new feature that allows you to download all of them in one big zip file. Here’s how it works.

Since this is a new feature, it’s not yet rolled out to everybody—in fact, we don’t yet have access to it ourselves—so you might want to bookmark this page and come back when the new option shows up for you. If you already see the new options, then let us know in the comments.

How to Download Your Photos and Other Data

First you’ll want to head into the Account menu and choose Account Settings.

Then underneath the “Account Security” link, you should see a new link for “Download Your Information”. If this link isn’t showing up for you yet, then you will just have to keep checking back every so often until it is there.

Assuming the link is there now, you’ll want to click through the Download button.

And again, click through the next Download button…

And then click through the Okay button.

It will take a while for Facebook to put together a file containing all of your information, including your Photos, messages, and other information. Once they have done so, you’ll get an email that says your download is ready, and a link to click.

At this point you’ll have to enter your password again, to make sure it is really you.

Then click the Download Now button, and you’ll be able to finally download the file containing all your photos.

Once the file is downloaded, which might take quite a while, you’ll just have to extract it to access your pictures and other data.

Download Your Photos and Videos – The Video Guide

Here’s a short video that explains how it all works:

In case you’re wondering, we pulled out the steps from the video guide, since some people prefer a step-by-step tutorial instead of a video. Either way, it’s great that we can finally get our photos out of Facebook!

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It’s no secret that Microsoft has a slight tablet, err Slate PC problem on its hands: Windows 7 certainly works on a “pad,” but the user interface isn’t meant for strictly finger input. The makeshift solution has been, of course, for its partners to create software skins of their own — see HP TouchSmart UI, the ExoPC “Connect Four” skin, etc. — but according to Microsoft know-it-all Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet, the guys in Redmond may just be working on a layer of their own. Now, Foley says these are just recurring rumors at this point, but they happen to line up with similar whispers we’ve heard that Microsoft might develop its own optional “shell.” Foley actually believes that it could be based on Windows Media Center, and points to an article by UK blogger Mark Wilson in which Ballmer is quoted saying, “what you’ll see over the course of the next year is us doing more and more work with our hardware partners creating hardware-software optimisations with Windows 7 and with Windows 7 Media Center […].” We don’t need to tell you, Mr. Ballmer, that we think that sounds like a glorious idea, and it’ll certainly buy you time until Windows 8 is ready in 2012.

Speaking of which, he also confirmed that it won’t be releasing another version of Windows in the interim as some may have suspected. We’ve similarly heard that Microsoft is heavily optimizing the new OS for slates, and is already prepping its partners with information on that front. Obviously all of this should be taken with a grain of salt at this point, but we sure are happy to hear that Microsoft’s starting to understand how important those UI layers are to consumer adoption and that the wheels may be in motion on finger-friendly interface improvements. Of course, for now we’ll be sitting here twiddling our thumbs until next week’s October 11 event to see if any elusive Microsoft slate announcements do in fact decide to make an appearance.

Microsoft creating its own software layer for Windows 7 tablets? Boy, we hope so originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Gene Simmons. Once upon a time, he played bass and unrolled his tongue out for that brown paper bag of musical hurt that is Kiss. Now, he just goes around saying stupid things like this: More »

We’re happy to introduce an easier way to use Google Latitude from your computer at google.com/latitude. You can now see where your friends are, start using Latitude apps, and share your location all from one place when you’re at your computer.

Find your friends
We launched Latitude with a desktop iGoogle gadget to help you stay in touch with friends and family that may not have a smartphone. We’ve since learned that a desktop experience is important to you even if you’re already using Latitude on your phone. Today, you can now visit a dedicated site that makes it easier than ever to use Latitude when you’re already on your computer. From the Friends tab, you can:

• See where your friends are on Google Maps
• Add friends and accept sharing requests
• Control your privacy settings

Do more with Latitude
You’ll also now find Latitude and Latitude apps together in one place. After browsing your friends list, go to the History or Apps tabs to turn on optional Latitude apps such as:

• Google Location History (Beta) to see your personal history dashboard
• Google Location Alerts to get nearby friend alerts
• Google Talk Location Status to post your location in your chat status
• Google Public Location Badge to publish your location on your blog or site

Share your location
Just like on your phone, you can choose to share your location with friends and family from your WiFi-enabled computer. Before you can share your location, you’ll need to first give Latitude permission to access your location when prompted by your supported browser. You can always change your browser or Latitude privacy settings later. Learn more in the Help Center.

To get started, go to google.com/latitude on your computer. If you’re new to Latitude, you can then start on your phone by sending yourself a text message or choose to start on your computer.

Posted by Kenneth Leftin, Software Engineer, Google Mobile Team

Okay ASUS, you win. We can’t keep all your leaked Eee Pad prototypes straight anymore. We’re guessing this is some sort of counter-intelligence move you’re making, leaking report after conflicting report of various sizes and operating systems for the things, and now we have word of yet another model joining the hypothetical fray. This one’s supposedly called the EP90, an 8.9-inch tablet with a 1024 x 600 display, storage of 16 or 32GB, a dual-core 1GHz processor paired with Tegra graphics and, apparently, some flavor if Microsoft Windows if reports of it running Office are to be believed. Beyond that, Ynet is also saying there’s a 12-inch tablet model on the way, which either proves the company’s disinformation plot or confirms that the Eee Pad lineup is about to get as confusing as the Eee PC series is today.

8.9-inch Eee Pad tablet leaks, Asus looking to dominate every mark on the ruler? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Believe it or not, Samsung is only now getting around to introducing its Galaxy S handset to the fine isle of Japan. Its announcement of a late October availability for the home of CEATEC was also accompanied by the little note that the rest of the world has already bought up five million units of its multivariate Galaxy S phone family. More than two million of those sales have been notched up in the US and over one million can be found in Samsung’s home field of South Korea. Or could be found if they actually had working GPS units. Zing!

[Thanks, Matt]

Samsung Galaxy S sales surpass five million, world domination plans still on track originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In a basement at Carnegie Mellon University, a computer is reading the web. It’s been doing so for nearly nine months, teaching itself the complexities and nuances of the English language. And the smarter it gets, the faster it learns. More »

A few weeks ago we discussed how and why Chrome is overtaking Firefox among power users based on a poll of Lifehacker readers. This week, several tech news sites are highlighting the changes in browser share between September of last year to September of this year; the numbers, from web tracker StatCounter, indicate that Firefox’s growth is at a standstill (not bad, but not great news for Mozilla), Internet Explorer’s share has dropped below 50% (bad news for Microsoft), and Chrome’s share has over tripled in the last year (great news for Google). None of these trends are terribly new (they wouldn’t be that meaningful if they weren’t measured over time), but it’s still interesting to watch how the tools we use to access the internet change over time. [StatCounter] More »