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Reel in a Netflix movie with the ezMoviePick app

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Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, App ReviewI am a huge movie fan and have been a customer of Netflix since they opened for business. I would say that I average over 200 movies a year delivered to me in red envelopes, so I was quite excited when ezMoviePick $0.99US [iTunes Link] was released.

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Yamaha outs latest Digital Sound Projector

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Yamaha on Thursday introduced the latest addition to its Digital Sound Projector range with the YSP-5100.

BlackBerry undercuts iPhone with AT&T 50% off deal

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RIM hoped to fuel its BlackBerry holiday sales with a major sales promo at AT&T. The deal cuts the price of virtually all BlackBerry handsets in half, even including newer models like the Bold 9700 and Curve 8520.

ROM reveals codenames of upcoming HTC Android phones

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Handset maker HTC to update or release 19 handsets with Android 2.1 in the near future, according to a leaked ROM for the OS.

Sony will film the 2010 FIFA World Cup in 3D

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Tomorrow is the big day, fellow football fans. That’s when FIFA announces the full brackets for next year’s World Cup, to be held in South Africa. Yes, there’s a tech angle here.

Oops! Verizon’s update for the Samsung Trance allegedly breaks things

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After we found out about the Samsung Trance’s then-impending software update a little early, I honestly didn’t expect to hear about it again. If things had gone smoothly, I probably wouldn’t have.

Skip the campus tour – just go to Google Maps

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Section: Gadgets / Other, GPS/Navigation, Web, Web Apps, Google Prospective students now have another weapon to make deciding on a college easier: Google Street View. Google added two colleges and is soliciting for more, free of charge, to make choosing a college as easy as a few...

Action Cam Gets Line of Accessories

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Fans of the go-anywhere ContourHD wearable video camera have a whole lot of things to add to their wish lists.

Q2U Mic is Twice as Versatile

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Musicians, if you record on your computer and also play live shows, you need a microphone that can go anywhere. That's why Samson released the Q2U, which is both a USB mic and a standard XLR mic.

Gates Foundation Awards $12.9M in Community College Grants

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On the heels of awarding $3.4 billion in broadband grants earlier this week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday awarded an additional $12.9 million intended to improve education and graduation rates at community colleges.

LA Auto Show: Audi A3 TDI Wins Green Car of the Year

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Make it two in a row for clean diesels: The Audi A3 TDI was honored Thursday as Green Car of the Year by Green Car Journal. Last year's winner was the Volkswagen Jetti TDI, also a clean diesel.

Long-D Clock

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Long-D Clock designed by Kit Men Keung for Taiwanese company Verso Lab.This Long-D Clock has a dual ..(more...

HTC Touch.B running BREW, not Android

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The very recently spotted HTC Touch.B handset will not run on the open-source Android operating system after all.

Backup or copy your iDVD home movies

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Filed under: Video, How-tosIf you've ever used iDVD to burn your own home movies then chances are pretty good that you've had a family member request a copy. And since your iDVDs are yours to share and duplicate, then you are more than happy to pull up the project and whip out another copy.

Student Orchestra Performs Music With Their iPhones

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You could get skilled with the piano after years of practice, but imagine how good you’d be at playing an instrument you invented. A college course and the iPhone are making that possible for computer science students at University of Michigan.

Thermeleon Color Changing Energy Saving Roof Tiles

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Chalk this one up to: “how the heck didn’t someone think of this before?” But the best ideas are usually the simplest solutions to a problem. MIT seems adept at this. Hence, the color changing energy saving roof tiles, code named Thermeleon. Almost sounds like a song.

Google Create a Public DNS

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Google [GOOG] are on a quest to speed up the internet. Just recently they mentioned a new protocol called SPDY they have created that aims to speed up the way browsers get the data needed to render web pages by compressing headers and other functions such as passing more data through at a time.

Acer, Lenovo outpace US PC rivals in market share

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Acer has officially leapfrogged Dell to become the world's second-largest PC builder, iSuppli confirmed in a new study. The Taiwan firm's computer shipments jumped 16.6 percent year-over-year in the summer to nearly 10.74 million PCs, or a 13.4 percent share of the entire market.

The fitPC2i: a baby computer for almost anywhere

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Here’s another option from the ultra small computer crowd; the fit-PC2i is the latest miniature PC on the market, and it’s an interesting bit of technology.

Contest: Design an awesome GelaSkin, win an awesome GelaSkin

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When we mentioned a few weeks back that GelaSkins was now printing custom skins for mobile phones, MobileCrunch reader Ankit Gupta said “This is something you guys should just do a contest for… give away 5 of these or something, you know?” Yes, Ankit – we know.

Canon Touchscreen DSLR Patent Revealed

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A patent has been found that was filed by Canon and provides details of a touchscreen DSLR camera. Filed back in April and approved in October this year, the patent describes a DSLR camera where you can easily manipulate the settings by touching the screen rather than the buttons.

HTC Hero 2.1 Firmware Mentions Many Android Phones

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If you remember the last few days you will have seen information revealed about a Hero ROM that leaked which turned out to be Android 2.1. Of course the firmware was quickly investigated and run on a phone to see what it was all about with a version hitting XDA Developers that can be downloaded now...

Groundspeak’s Geocaching app turns 3.0

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Filed under: iPhone, App Store, App ReviewWhen it's warmer than the current 12°F here in Denver or I'm on a trip somewhere, I love to go geocaching.

Nav apps keep updating, adding features

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Filed under: Software, iPhoneToday it’s CoPilot live, continuing a holiday sale price of U.S. $24.99 [iTunes link] through the end of December. We’ve had a look at the app before. It is good for a low-cost app, but the database seems a bit out of date and the POI list is limited.

For the iPhone’s App Store, Quantity Really Does Matter

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Every few months Apple brags about the number of iPhone apps accumulated in its App Store (most recently the count was 100,000), and most of the tech press has been hasty to deflate the hype. But what if quantity really is what counts?