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Category: iPod Touch

Don't like Gnome 3.0 or Unity? Linux Mint 12 offers Gnome 2 like option. The latest version of Mint channels Gnome 2.0 goodness via two different approaches: Firstly, Mint Gnome Shell Extensions add Gnome 2.0 features to the Gnome 3.0 shell. Secondly, Mint now ships...

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iKnowwhatyoudidlastsummer

Category: Apple iPad

iPhones know where they are, so they probably know where you are, and these data have been captured and maintained by the Apple devices and have been used by police in geoForensic investigations. Crushing civil liberties? There's an app for that! Apple came to international...

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Gay? There's an app for that.

Category: GLBTA

Apple has screwed the pooch, and it was inevitable. Apple decided that they would decide what apps would be available in their app store and what apps would not. The moment they did that they avoided a whole set of problems, but created other ones...

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Syncing Your To Do List

Category: Linux

I still have not found a satisfactory way to sync my calendar and to do list between the University's calendar server, my Windows "computer" at work, my Linux Laptop, the iPod Touch, and the main computer in the Blog Cave. But we may be getting...

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It just works my ass

If your iPod Touch does not work on your Windows XP, you can ......

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NASA on your iPhone Touch

Category: iPod Touch

For your iPod Touch: The Phoenix Mars Mission thingie. Gives you two RSS feeds (one for news one for blog) and the weather report on mars. A widget displays the elapsed mission time on mars. I'd like to see this application give us more. Like...

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Software for your iPod Touch

Category: iPod Touch

An x-ray I took of Julia's hand. Sorry, it's a little blurry. The main two functions of an iPod touch are: being an iPod (music, podcasts, movies, etc.) and giving you a pocket size web browser. There are several other functions as well, like...

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