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Does A Programmable Wireless Xbox 360 Controller Count As Cheating? [Control Issues]

Datel's completely unauthorized TurboFire2 wireless Xbox 360 controller not only directly connects to the Xbox 360 without a dongle, you can connect it to your PC to apply "custom controller enhancements." Microsoft should sue! Oh wait. More »

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Comcast's 3D Movie On Demand Giveaway [3D]

3D TV hasn't quite captured hearts and minds yet, but never let it be said that Comcast didn't do its promotional best. They're offering a few... um... eclectic 3D selections to their On Demand lineup. More »

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Official Google Voice iPhone app approved, headed to App Store soon

Filed under: Google, VoIP

If you're an iPhone user and aren't a big fan of the Google Voice mobile web interface, you won't have long to wait for an official app.

TechCrunch is reporting that the app has already been approved and it's only a matter of time before it goes live in the App Store. We'll be keeping our eyes peeled for it and will update this post once Google Voice becomes available.

There's really no reason Apple wouldn't approve Google's app at this point. They did, after all, recently approve two third-party GV apps.

Official Google Voice iPhone app approved, headed to App Store soon originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Less Spam, please for Firefox lets you easily create temporary inboxes

Filed under: E-mail, Mozilla, Browsers

So, you go to a new website, and you want to leave a comment. Maybe you want to open an account, but just to check the service out. Of course, they want your email, ... but should you give them your real email? Perhaps you should head over to Mailinator and take a moment to create a temporary inbox.

On the one hand, going to Mailinator will take you a moment, and you might want that inbox in the future. On the other hand, you don't know the site all that well, and perhaps giving them your real email address isn't such a great idea. Decisions, decisions!

Less Spam, please is a Firefox add-on that strives to make this decision far easier to make. Instead of going to an external site, you just right-click any text field and choose Insert a temporary mail address for this site. The text field immediately gets a valid, working email address in one of three services (YopMail, Humaility, or Mailinator). You can fill in the form, and then right-click again and choose Open the temporary mailbox for this site to go to the selected provider and check your email. It's simple, slick, and elegant!

Now, where's the Chrome add-on for this?

Less Spam, please for Firefox lets you easily create temporary inboxes originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Razer Tron Mouse leaves light trails in our hearts (video)

We don't really expect that the actual Tron movie will be any good, but boy, its officially endorsed accessories aren't looking half bad. The $100 laser mouse from Razer has snuck out for a quick pre-release video demo where we get to see it tracking gloriously on an accompanying "precision" mousepad. There's hardly much to be learnt about the mouse's ergonomics or 5600dpi accuracy, but it does glow with that mighty inviting shade of blue (cyan?) and the mousepad reacts to the laser's illumination by leaving dreamy light trails after your movements. It's cyber-poetry in motion, available after the break.

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Razer Tron Mouse leaves light trails in our hearts (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Gold To Go ATMs dispense precious metals to the superwealthy, heading to the states this year

Goldline might be a bust (sorry, Glenn), but you're not gonna let that stop you from preparing for the imminent collapse of society. Or maybe you just want to hang with your friends at the Ayn Rand Book Club (The Fountainhead again?) and they prefer Krugerrands to the fiat currency of the USA. Any way you slice it, Americans (including our friend Scott) have "gold fever." Luckily, it turns out that the Gold To Go vending machines we saw early this year are on their way to the states. Stocked with up to ten different gold bars or coins, these bad boys accept cash or plastic and use a VPN to phone home to Germany for updates on the cost of precious metals every 10 minutes. They also feature an ID scanner / camera combo for preventing (or at least slowing down) potential money launderers. The devices can be found currently in the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi, Bankshop in Reutlingen, Germany, The Westin Palace in Madrid, and the Orio al Serio International Airport, and they'll be hitting Las Vegas and Florida sometime this year. There might also be one next to the Coinstar machine at the Murray Ave. Giant Eagle (we'll check it out and let you know).

Gold To Go ATMs dispense precious metals to the superwealthy, heading to the states this year originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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evercookie: the one cookie that you... just... can't... DELETE!

Filed under: Security, Browsers

Limping and dripping from the maws of incorrigible security bod Samy Kamkar comes evercookie. As the name suggests, deleting an evercookie isn't easy -- in fact, once you've taken a nibble, that's it: you can't delete it.

Of course, no benevolent person would ever use evercookie -- you'd have to be a nefarious money-grabbing megalomaniac! -- but the sheer number of clever hacks, cheap tricks and snarky ingenuity employed to make evercookies invulnerable makes this project very interesting indeed. All told, evercookie uses eight different storage locations for its cookie, ranging from HTTP and Flash cookies through to HTML5's new storage methods and 'RGB values of auto-generated, force-cached PNGs using HTML5 Canvas tag to read pixels (cookies) back out' (really!).

If the cookie can be found in any one of those locations, it can be rebuilt (and then stored in all eight places again!) Basically, unless you know exactly what you're doing (and you have a lot of spare time to hunt down all of the cookies), you can forget about ever deleting an evercookie.

It's horrible, really, but I feel I must bring this project under the scorching eye of public scrutiny. This is, after all, the work of a security expert -- rather than thinking of this as an evil piece of code that will be bent to the evil, omnipresent will of Google, think of it as the inoculation that strengthens us for what will surely follow. As it stands, evercookie could be deployed on any server.

Evercookie is open source, and I encourage anyone that values their privacy to see exactly how and where it stores its cookies. For now it's only in eight locations, but Samy already has plans for two more: Silverlight Isolated Storage and a Java method based on your NIC's details.

The worst thing is, such a cookie implementation might already be in the wild. Samy might not be the first person or corporation to try such a crazy, but fundamentally brilliant, idea!

evercookie: the one cookie that you... just... can't... DELETE! originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Han Solo Lego Minifig Encased in Carbonite

All you toy manufacturers may as well down tools and go home. Give up. Your career is over. Lego has made the ultimate toy, and nobody ever needs to make another toy again.
As you are no doubt aware after excitedly reading the headline and drooling over the picture above, this toy combines three of the [...]

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Nintendo 3DS To Land In The US In March. All You Need To Know.

Nintendo revealed at its 3DS press conference in Tokyo today that its glasses-free 3D portable game system will hit stores in Japan on February 26 (price: $300, including a 2GB SD card), followed by the US and Europe one month later (price yet unknown). But that wasn't all, as big N also showed the final design of the hardware, listed up quite a few cool game titles and made some other interesting announcements. And if what Nintendo revealed at the press conference is any indication, the 3DS looks like another home run for the company. All details over on CrunchGear.

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Six Great Houses With Built-In Slides [Homemod]

When we analyzed the plans for Steve Jobs' future home, we found one very important upgrade to be missing: A slide. Hopefully he'll think of making that addition later on, but in the meantime here's a collection of our favorite houses with built-in slides: More »

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Credit Sesame Wants To Demystify And Help Manage Your Personal Credit

If navigating the murky waters of credit scores and debt leaves you scratching your head and wishing someone would just tell you what to do, you're in luck. Credit Sesame is a new startup launching in private beta today at TechCrunch Disrupt that's looking to help do just that ?�give the site access to your financial data, and it will present you with a handful of options, along with bulletpoints explaining why they work for you. If you'd like to try the site out for yourself, head to CreditSesame.com/TechCrunch and use the password OpenSesame. Credit Sesame doesn't take long to set up ?�the company says it takes a couple of minutes ? but it does require sensitive information including your social security number (which the site needs in order to access your credit history).

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Chrome Web Store preview adds Google Checkout payments, recommendations

Filed under: Google, Browsers

Google will be throwing open the doors to the Chrome Web Store some time in the coming months, and they're currently preparing for a whirlwind global tour to sing the praises of HTML5 and Chrome. On the tour, the Web Store will be a frequent topic of discussion and they've recently announced a couple important additions to the Store's developer preview.

Google Checkout payments are now supported, and developers can sign up for a merchant account on their dashboard page. Page previews have now been added -- so you can see how your app will look in the Store prior to publishing. Pages can be customized with header images and Google is also allowing devs to upload their own promotional banners (they'll be displayed when your app is feature in the store).

One downside for developers hoping to sell their apps in the Web Store is that Google Checkout might be the only payment option. Checkout still isn't available in that many countries, so international devs looking to deliver localized Web apps will have to wait for Google to make good on their expansion promises.

ed note: it's become an expected part of app stores, but as you can see in the screenshot the Chrome Web Store will offer recommendations based on what other users install.

Chrome Web Store preview adds Google Checkout payments, recommendations originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Best Buy Mobile's 'Free Phone Fridays' with Samsung Fascinate, HTC Aria

 

Best Buy has announced a new promotion that will occur every Friday in October that will have a phone on each major U.S. carrier (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile) on sale for the low, low price of free. Taking advantage of "Free Phone Fridays"requires a "new, upgrade, or add-a-line activation with two-year agreement." The promise is for at least one "high-end, in-demand" smartphone per week, but things will kick off this Friday with a dual helping of the Samsung Fascinate on Verizon and the HTC Aria on AT&T.  Hit the read link for more details, as well as the phones for Sprint and T-Mobile. [Best Buy Mobile]

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