Samsung Galaxy S Sporting a 1.4GHz CPU and Android 2.3?

It appears that Samsung is attempting to make the Galaxy S line devices iconic in the world of Android.  What’s next on the list of the popular “S” branded devices?  Samsung has revealed the soon to be dubbed Galaxy S Plus (i9001) device and it looks to be packing a pretty powerful punch, on paper

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“5 Bodily Fluids”: A public service announcement

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Surfy for Windows Phone 7 is a free, tabbed Web browser

While you wait patiently for Microsoft to deliver Internet Explorer Mobile 9 to your Windows Phone 7 device, you may find yourself wanting for a slightly more feature-filled browser that you can use right now. Surfy is a nice option that's worth checking out, introducing several features you won't find in the stock WP7 browser.

Surfy offers tabbed browsing, a fullscreen mode, and orientation locking so that you don't unexpectedly switch from landscape to portrait viewing. Its address bar provides suggestions as you type, and autocomplete is supported for text input fields.

There's also detailed in-app help provided, and Surfy's developer is keen on adding new user-suggested features -- you can pitch your ideas using the app's feedback system.

Surfy is available for free from the Zune Marketplace.

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Surfy for Windows Phone 7 is a free, tabbed Web browser originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The GoPano: A Panoramic Lens System For The iPhone

There are quite a few panoramic apps for the iPhone but they all require a steady hand, lots of patience and, most important, you can only take still photos. The GoPano aims to solve that by adding a panoramic mirror to the iPhone's video camera, thereby allowing you to take panoramic video in real time. The GoPano simply snaps onto your iPhone and the included app does the rest. As you record, you can turn the panorama by swiping the screen to shoot what you want as it happens.

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Yahoo! Messenger now censors the links you share

We've all thought it, but never dared think it could be true: what if Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL actively monitor our instant messenger chats? What if mentions of 'bomb' and 'underage' are tracked and sent to law enforcement agencies? What if chat providers don't agree with the things we say, or the links we share, and filter or censor the content of our transmitted messages?

Well, it looks like our fears may actually have some basis in reality: Yahoo Messenger strips FilesTube links from instant messages. It doesn't tell either party that a URL has been removed from chat -- it just deletes it. Poof. FilesTube, in case you were wondering, is one of the largest file hosting meta search engines on the Web -- it indexes RapidShare, Megaupload, Mediafire, and many other 'cyberlocker' services.

It's fairly obvious why FilesTube links are being removed -- the Censor General at Yahoo is probably one of those perplexed primates who think all uses of BitTorrent are illegal -- but this situation poses a far more important question: is Yahoo censoring messages on the client side, or the server side. Does the messenger client itself maintain a list of 'blacklisted' words -- and if so, why are we not told that FilesTube links are banned? What other words and terms does Yahoo protect us from?

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140 Character Mini-Reviews

Opera continues striking with Opera Dragonfly and Opera 11.10 (Barracuda!) during SXSW and Opera Mini 6 & Opera Mobile 11 during CTIA Wireless. Plus the new Opera News design by Dustin Wilson . The praise from blogs and the press have been pouring in. :yes:

There was quite a bit of community praise on Twitter , too. So I asked our followers for a short review on the fly, I'd pick a few at random, and award some Opera swag. Like Opera Mini, I wanted to see if people can everything into a tiny space, and do it fast! ;)

The Random Winning Reviews

• @joao_david: "The only thing not mini in #OperaMini6 is its features list. Too much to say in 140character. Visit http://bit.ly/getSatisfaction to see it."
• @mubaidr: "#OperaMini6 and #OperaMobile11 released with improved scrolling,panning and zooming also featuring Opera turbo. http://bit.ly/getSatisfaction "
• @Sand_monkey: "Short review of #OperaMini6 to tell you it's awesome and you can get it here: http://bit.ly/getSatisfaction Highly Amusing."
• @Sanctuarian06: "#OperaMini6 Cool icons, best transitions, smooth scrolling, fast rendering & easy sharing http://bit.ly/getSatisfaction "
• @rjsilva: "#OperaMini6 feels so smooth! Love the new "Share" feature that lets u post directly 2 Twitter or FB from the browser. http://bit.ly/fLm5xV "
• @bmarasovic: "OMG! #OperaMobile11 passes Acid3 test with this result: http://yfrog.com/gyvzwwj Excellent job @opera!"

That last one was easy to find, it had over 50 retweets, and it quite impressive! Congrats guys. DM me (so I know it's you) with your shirt size/address and I'll send some goodies your way.

Do you follow Opera on Twitter? Don't forget, we've got an ongoing My Opera contest this week. Don't miss the opportunity to score huge! All you have to do is Name The Band!

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Kinect dives into anime cyberspace, dares you to catch cute robot tanks (video)

If your foremost dream is to jack into a dystopian cyberpunk reality where hackers play with human brains (and you also happen to love Japanese anime), you'd best book your flight to Tokyo right now -- a Shibuya department store has set up a basic cyberspace simulator straight out of Ghost in the Shell. That's the film Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. Solid State Society, to be precise, which just got a stereoscopic 3D re-release in Japan this week, and in its honor creative services company Kayac set about constructing a high-quality Kinect hack. Microsoft's depth camera tracks the lean of your body, while the honeyed virtual reality is projected onto a pair of nearby walls, and it's your objective to slap the Tachikoma tank silly without falling over yourself. Get a peek at what it's like to play with in the video above.

Kinect dives into anime cyberspace, dares you to catch cute robot tanks (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Relive the ugly years of the Web with IE6ify bookmarklet

People often forget just how much of a monopolistic juggernaut Microsoft once was: Internet Explorer 6, at its peak in 2004, thanks to its bundling with Windows XP, was used by almost 90% of Web surfers. Then a little miracle happened: Firefox 1 launched and IE has lost market share ever since.

Today, just 12% of Internet surfers still use IE6 -- mostly thanks to China, South Korea and other Asian countries -- and its decline will surely continue until the aging, I-laugh-at-your-standards browser dies a painful and ignoble death.

But, just like the bawdy and animated phosphorescence of Geocities, the misaligned madness of IE6 will always have a special place in our hearts. For most Dot-com Bubble developers, off-by-one-pixel CSS borders and disgustingly convoluted hacks to make IE6 and Firefox look alike were a way of life.

That's why one enterprising developer has created IE6ify, a bookmarklet that processes your current page with the IE6 rendering algorithm -- or its best approximation, anyway. Drop it onto your bookmark bar, head over to your favorite site, and hit the button. Marvel as IE6ify breaks and contorts innocent HTML and CSS until it screams. You might have to hit the button a few times to make the changes more noticeable.

Don't try it on Download Squad, though. Our layout is so awesome -- so standard -- that the bookmarklet hardly does a thing!

Relive the ugly years of the Web with IE6ify bookmarklet originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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How to: download and change themes for SBSettings [jailbreak]

SBSettings is a wonderful little jailbreak app that adds tons of quick toggles to your iOS springboard. The one thing I don’t care for in SBSettings is the default theme. It’s just downright ugly. I get tons of questions on whether or not you can theme SBSettings like you can the rest of your springboard. [...]

How to: download and change themes for SBSettings [jailbreak] is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.

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Don’t insist on English! Patricia Ryan on TED.com

At TEDxDubai, longtime English teacher Patricia Ryan asks a provocative question: Is the world’s focus on English preventing the spread of great ideas in other languages? (For instance: what if Einstein had to pass the TOEFL?) It’s a passionate defense of translating and sharing ideas. (Recorded at TEDxDubai, December 2010, in Dubai, UAE. Duration: 10:35) [...]

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Vimeo's gratis iOS video editing app punks iMovie in its own house, available now

Still waffling over that bank-shattering $4.99 iMovie purchase? We get it. Thankfully, you've held out long enough for the free market to come and rescue you (again) -- Vimeo has just launched a legitimate alternative into the App Store today with a far, far more luscious price tag: $0.00. The official iOS app checks in at 20.1MB, and offers the ability to upload, manage, edit and watch your videos (as well as those conjured up by others, naturally). It'll handle edits and uploads for both SD and HD footage, and there's even support for pausing / resuming uploads, sharing via your favorite social networking website, and a view to statistics -- if you're into that type of narcissistic thing. The app's up for grabs down in the source link below, and while we're hearing that some folks are hitting upload snags every so often, we're sure the v1.0 build will be refreshed in short order. Oh, and for the iPad and Android contingent? Your copy is en route, but a helping of patience is requested.

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Google launches beautiful online magazine Think Quarterly

Who would've thought it: First Netflix dives into the original content foray, and now the ultimate aggregator is also getting in on the action. In a rather weird twist of fate, Google has published the first edition of its new online magazine: Think Quarterly.

Think Quarterly is, in the words of Matt Brittin, Google's UK & Ireland Operations Managing Director, "a breathing space in a busy world. It's a place to take time out and consider what's happening and why it matters." This edition is ostensibly focused on the flow, control and tabulation of data, but it touches on near field communication (NFC) and the magic of viral videos.

The site itself is beautiful. It looks and feels a lot like Google's '20 things...' HTML5 guide, but you have the option of reading individual articles, or flipping through a page-turning Flash magazine applet. The stories themselves are interesting and well-written, too.

In short, Think Quarterly looks and feels like it was intentionally designed and produced to be distinctly un-Google. As Brittin says, it's meant to represent a breathing space in a busy world -- and Google has never exactly been the cautious, analytical type. Perhaps Think Quarterly represents a shift towards a more mature and institutionalized Google -- or perhaps it's just a flight of fancy. We'll have to wait and see.

Google launches beautiful online magazine Think Quarterly originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We are about to release our biggest hit

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Making Secure Online Backups Automatically

	Making Secure Online Backups Automatically Backing up your files is the only insurance you have against data loss. For some reason, most of us don't backup. The easiest way to make sure you don't forget to backup your files is to use something that's automatic and offsite - an secure online backup solution. Here's a demo of the Roxio BackOnTrack Online backup solution, showing you how easy it is to add folders to your automatic backup routine and recover files if you happen to lose them. A full review of BackOnTrack Online is available here: www.jakeludington.com	From: jakeludington Views: 1717 3 ratings
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Cellphones and the Brain: Faith, Hope and Calamity

It's now official: Everything that the Federal Communications Commission has ever told us about the safety of cellphones is almost certainly wrong. When the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse recently reported that simply holding a turned-on cellphone next to the ear for 50 minutes caused significant changes to brain chemistry, many stalwarts in the scientific community were stunned.

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How to Convert AVI Files to iPod Video MP4

	How to Convert AVI Files to iPod Video MP4 Tutorial demonstrating how to convert an AVI file to an MP4 file for playback on any iPod with video support. Supporting details found here: www.jakeludington.com	From: jakeludington Views: 126084 219 ratings
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Ask DLS: Cross-platform multiplayer games that work on Android and iOS

Here's one for our knowledgeable commenters: I recently bought my girlfriend an iPad. I, on the other hand, own an Android device. And now we're looking for games we can play using both devices.

There's no dearth of multiplayer games either for Android or for iOS. But finding multiplayer games that can cross the platform boundary is an entirely different matter.

Jay recently posted Words with Friends which is one such game. It's actually an ideal example, because it's turn-based so you don't necessarily both have to be next to your device at the same time (great for long-distance gaming).

But what other examples are there? What multiplayer games are there that let iOS users play with Android users?

[Why am I now humming 'Ebony and Ivory'? -Ed]

Ask DLS: Cross-platform multiplayer games that work on Android and iOS originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Beautiful Cardboard Hasselblad Almost as Well Made As Real Thing

Yes, you could make a pinhole camera from a shoebox. In fact, as a highly skilled (and likely highly attractive) Gadget Lab reader, you could probably chop up some cardboard and glue it into the shape of a real camera. But would you first screen-print the corrugated cardboard, and then cut the sections with a [...]

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Pick Or Skip Is Chatroulette, With Pants

For the small percentage of our readers who do not enjoy a random penis sighting, comes Pick or Skip, a cleaned-up version of Chatroulette. The idea behind the new site was to build a safe and more structured experience on top of the random connection/conversation aspect that made Chatroulette such a craze last year.

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Estimates Point To 3 Million Nooks Color Sold

Digitimes "sources" are stating that 3 million Nooks Color have rolled off the assembly line and into stores over the past year, giving the Nook Color firmly at 50% of the "iPad-like" tablet market. They estimated 600,000-700,000 sales per month in January and February during the post-holiday gift card redemption season.

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Moki.tv is a killer companion to online video services

With all the streaming, on-demand video sites available to choose from nowadays, a site like freshly-launched Moki.tv can be a very handy resource to file in your bookmarks.

Moki bills itself as the ultimate guide to online entertainment, and it's certainly one of the best of its breed. A number of popular video services are supported, including iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Comcast's Xfinity.tv.

To customize your options, just create a Moki account (it's just three blanks to fill in) and add your services. Then it's simply a matter of browsing or searching through Moki's massive database of TV shows and movies. Everything is heavily tagged, so you can click through to view titles by actor, director, or genre.

Ratings are displayed as well, and Moki provides both an aggregate score and individual marks from Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB, and Metacritic. Moki also offers recommendations and an Explore page which offers curated lists featuring everything from Bond films to Roger Ebert's list of great movies.

If you lean heavily on online video services for entertainment, Moki.tv is definitely worth checking out.

Moki.tv is a killer companion to online video services originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Moki.tv is a killer companion to online video services

With all the streaming, on-demand video sites available to choose from nowadays, a site like freshly-launched Moki.tv can be a very handy resource to file in your bookmarks.

Moki bills itself as the ultimate guide to online entertainment, and it's certainly one of the best of its breed. A number of popular video services are supported, including iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Comcast's Xfinity.tv.

To customize your options, just create a Moki account (it's just three blanks to fill in) and add your services. Then it's simply a matter of browsing or searching through Moki's massive database of TV shows and movies. Everything is heavily tagged, so you can click through to view titles by actor, director, or genre.

Ratings are displayed as well, and Moki provides both an aggregate score and individual marks from Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB, and Metacritic. Moki also offers recommendations and an Explore page which offers curated lists featuring everything from Bond films to Roger Ebert's list of great movies.

If you lean heavily on online video services for entertainment, Moki.tv is definitely worth checking out.

Moki.tv is a killer companion to online video services originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Opera 11.10 beta tomorrow

Good news, everybody! We will launch Opera 11.10 beta tomorrow. This release is packed with goodies for all of you to explore, test and give feedback on. Here's what you can expect (click to open full size):

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SmartBird Flaps and Flies Like the Real Thing

This beautiful, swooping bird is actually a robot. It’s called the SmartBird, and it is made by Festo.

The wonders of this robot bird are manifold, not least the bird’s outward design, which looks like a King of the Rocketmen-era spacecraft.
The bird weighs just 450g, or around one pound, and has an ingenious drive mechanism. Inside, [...]

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Announcing The Winner Of The JOYSTICK-IT iPad Arcade Stick From ThinkGeek

By Andrew Liszewski
A few weeks ago our contest to win one of ThinkGeek’s clever JOYSTICK-IT iPad Arcade Sticks ended, and after a few small hiccups, we’ve finally found someone willing to step up and claim their prize!
So congratulations to ‘ABuckeye’ whose comment: “Coming back for a daily entry, Thanks:)” was randomly selected by Random.org, proving [...]

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Japan Widens Evacuation Zone Around Crippled Nuke Plant [Japan]

Another sign that the Fukushima crisis is far from over: the Japanese government has widened the danger zone around the facility from 12 to 19 miles. But even more unsettling? The aloofness of the government itself. More »

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Atrix 4G's 4.1.57 update spruces up a few things, patches known root methods

The HSUPA-enabling update? No, not yet. The voice call quality fix? In the pipeline. The mission-critical Bluetooth multimedia experience improvements? Oh yes, we've got those right here! Motorola is preparing to deliver an imminent OTA update to its Atrix 4G super phone, which will fix up battery performance, overall software stability, and car dock, headphone jack, and fingerprint reader performance, but will regrettably leave the two major drawbacks to the AT&T-riding phone untouched. Alas, if you've rooted your Atrix, you'll have to pay a dear price to benefit from these upgrades as users over at xda-developers, who've obtained the pre-release build, report the new 4.1.57 update disables their previous superuser privileges. C'est la vie.

Update: Word is this update will be released to the general public tomorrow. Sit tight.

[Thanks, Daniel]

Atrix 4G's 4.1.57 update spruces up a few things, patches known root methods originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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GroupMe Brings Brands Into The Conversation

As group texting apps like GroupMe gain popularity, people are using them to create ad hoc, private social networks among a handful of friends. But wherever people congregate online or through their mobile phones, brands will want to talk to them. Today, GroupMe is opening up its group chat to brands in what is the first hint at it business model: Featured Groups. Brands can create their own featured groups, which will show up as suggested conversation topics. When you and your friends create a group around those topics, they work like regular GroupMe chats, except you've also opted in to receive messages from the brand. These may include news, offers, marketing messages, or even VIP appearances by celebrities in your GroupMe chat. The first partners to take advantage of the new feature are Oxygen Media, MTV, Bon Jovi, Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival and Coachella. Oxygen will be creating suggested topics around its TV shows "Bad Girls Club" and the upcoming Paris Hilton show "The World According To Paris." MTV is using it for "America’s Best Dance Crew."

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