Twitter could soon flag tweets containing links to inappropriate content with a NSFW designation. There’s a new field in the API designated “possibly_sensitive” that will appear when any tweet contains a link. Right now this field does nothing, but in the future, it could tag tweets with potentially offensive images and video links. Twitter users [...]
It’s been exactly one month since Google+ made its debut. The social network was designed to be more than just Google’s response to Facebook; it’s “an extension of Google itself,” as Google SVP Vic Gundotra told us before launch. After the failure of Google Wave and Google Buzz, Google+ is the search giant’s last [...]
Are you very important? Do you have many leatherbound books and an apartment, or a home, that smells of rich mahogany? Do you own an iPhone? Are you Ron Burgundy? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you need a BookBook for your iPhone. The iPhone (cellphones in general really) looks better without [...]
Wanted by police in upstate New York, Victor Burgos was hiding out in Brooklyn. Starting to feel untouchable, he taunted the police with a Facebook message: ‘Catch me if you can. I’m in Brooklyn’. Well, they caught him. Burgos, a 29-year-old rap music promoter, had floating arrest warrants in Utica, New York dealing with domestic [...]
Today DOS is 30 years old. If only someone sent Microsoft free baked goods for milestones. What is fascinating, and perhaps scary, is that Hotmail is 15 years old. That means that from the naming day of DOS to today, half of the time has included Hotmail. It almost feels that innovation has slowed, doesn’t [...]
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Boy Genius Report (BGR) suggests that AT&T is prepping retail employees for a September 5th iPhone launch. According to BGR’s sources, supervisors are being told to wrap up training as soon as possible, so that floor staff will be available to handle the traffic in September. Rumors of a September launch have been prevalent for [...]
Ok, so the name isn’t great, but the Voomote One is actually kinda neat. It’s not the first universal remote adapter we’ve seen for the iPhone and, unlike the Surc IR case, you probably wouldn’t want to leave this bulky add-on attached to your handset when not in use. But, the app does have some [...]
What if I told you that you could be a singer if you just spoke into an app. Seriously, that’s all you have to do with Songify. The app autotunes your voice and stitches it against a song. YOU SOUND AWESOME. It turns basic speech into awesome songs. You don’t even have to try to [...]
When news broke earlier this month that Spotify, a music service that has become incredibly popular in Europe, would become available in America I instantly became eager to try the service. Finally I would have the opportunity to use the service that I had envied my European friends over. So on Friday of last week [...]
Never one to shy away from dramatic hyperbole, Steve Jobs declared ours a “post-PC world” about this time last year, acknowledging a move away from personal computers as smartphones and tablets become even more ubiquitous. And while Jobs might happily look on as iPhones and iPads become our primarily tie to the outside world, the [...]
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Handbrake is currently the best and easiest software for ripping a DVD to your hard drive. The video below walks you through the entire process of backing up those precious DVD’s. Download Handbrake
