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Macworld 2011 Best of Show winners announced

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Now that Macworld Expo 2011 is complete, the official Best of Show winners have been selected and announced by the Macworld editors. We got to look at some of the choices. Here are a few highlights. BusyToDo is the latest solution from BusyMac, the folks behind BusyCal and BusySync.

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Does Technology Live Forever? Submit Your Dead Tech

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Technology becomes obsolete, but nothing goes away. That’s what WIRED magazine’s founding editor Kevin Kelly argues in his new book What Technology Wants.

Sony HX100V and HX9V Digital Cameras Get Official

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A couple weeks back a pair of new Sony cameras leaked called the HX100V and the HX9V. Those two new cameras have gone official now and we have the price and all the features.

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Full-Scale Buster Sword Replica From FFVII

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This is a man and his full-scale and full-metal (read: heavy as f***) Buster sword from Final Fantas..(Read...

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Google’s Chrome Passes 10% of Market

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Google’s Chrome web browser has earned itself a double-digit share and a third place ranking in the market place with 10.7%. This is a big jump from the 5.2% share Chrome had at the beginning of 2010, according to market research by Net Applications.

FarmVille Cake. What’s Next, Mafia Wars Theme Park?

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Last year, 7-11 started selling FarmVille-inspired food, and now Fiesta Fun Cupcakes in Puerto Rico has created a FarmVille Cake. It looks pretty good, too. The cake features a full range of produce, including pumpkins, watermelons, corn, etc. Fortunately, no animals are included.

Portland Bookstore Will Trade Your Soulless Kindle For Real Books

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Hey, man, what’s your problem? You drink kombucha and ride a fixie, but what the heck are you doing with that capitalist corporate DRM-laden Kindle? Head down to Microcosm Publishing in Portland, man, and they’ll give you like a hundred books for your Kindle.

Update Your Facebook Status for Free While Flying the Friendly Skies

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Remember the Twilight Zone episode, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet? If only Facebook, digital cameras, and the Internet as we know it today had been around in the 1960s, William Shatner, who played the part of a nervous salesman on his first airplane flight since having a nervous breakdown, could have...

HTC Inspire 4G Launching February 13th for $99

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Mobile World Congress — a massive, international event where just about every non-Apple phone manufacturer in the industry launches their latest and greatest — starts February 14th.

Tablets: the new race to the bottom

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Section: Computers, Mobile Computers, Netbooks, Wireless Haven’t we been here before? We’ve seen the rise of computer pricing meet low-cost alternative time and time again and there was no reason it wouldn’t happen with tablets. The Dell Streak 7 will be offered at...

OnLive’s PlayPack subscription gaming now active

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OnLive has now launched its PlayPack subscription service introduced in December. For $10 a month, users can play for an unlimited time, picking from 38 titles. They are different from the stand-alone game offerings, which tend to be newer and more popular titles....

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The pencil for the purist, from etsy seller mrzach. ..(Read...)

Apple’s message to eBook vendors and users isn’t yet clear, but points toward only in-app purchases

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It's been a busy day for App Store watchers. With a New York Times article last night citing in-app book purchasing as a key issue in the rejection of the Sony Reader app, and Apple's later non-clarifying clarification of the company's policy on parity for purchasing in and out of apps, we're all...

Microsoft Puts One Last Bullet In The Kin, Shuts Down Kin Studio

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Accurately predicting the swift failure of a handset — as we did to a T with the Kin — is bittersweet. On one hand, being right is always nice; on the other, knowing that people worked hard on something only to have it canned due to mismanagement and a confused vision is disheartening.

Giveaway: Christopher Ward C60 Trident GMT Watch

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Head over to aBlogtoRead.com for a chance to win a new Christopher Ward C60 Trident GMT watch. It has a Swiss mechanical ETA 2893-2 automatic movement with a GMT hand for a second timezone and a real kick-ass look to it.

GoPro intros LCD BacPac removable screen for cameras

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GoPro, maker of the Hero series of wearable cameras, has now announced the release of the LCD BacPac add-on. It attaches to the back on GoPro 1080p cameras and will allow users to view what they're shooting without guessing.

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Nielsen: Android, BlackBerry, iPhone in rare three-way tie

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Nielsen in its US smartphone market share update called a rare three-way draw. The iPhone barely maintained its recent lead at the end of last year with 28 percent but was virtually even with Android and BlackBerry, both of which had 27 percent.

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Deal roundup: My Passport 500GB hard drive, $55.99

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Today's deals include price cuts on hard drives, digital cameras, MacBooks and more. The Western Digital My Passport Essential 500GB External Portable Hard Drive is MacMall.com's deal of the day today. It has seen a 38% price break dropping the price from $89.99 to $55.99 with FREE shipping.

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Android Smartphone Sales at 43 Percent and Rising

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43 percent of smartphone sales are Android based, according to Nielsen. Android devices currently hold a 27% market share, putting Android in a close race with Apple and RIM. As you can see from the graph below, Android is climbing sharply, while Apple is staying roughly even, and RIM is declining.

Beatles Grammy Winning Album and Documentary Debuts Exclusively on iTunes Worldwide

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The Beatles “Love” album and the “All Together Now” documentary are digitally debuting exclusively on iTunes worldwide later this month. The album includes special versions of old songs as well as previously unreleased songs while the documentary will have many extras.

Samsung Issuing Refunds for PCs with Faulty Intel Chipset

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Yesterday, Intel stopped shipments of its 6 Series support chip, used in personal computers, because of a design flaw. Today, Samsung announced it will issue refunds or exchange for products containing the chipset.

Vintcase giveaway: Your chance to win this sexy iPad case

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Before the TUAW staff packed up to leave for Macworld Expo, I had a chance to try one of the nicest iPad cases I've seen -- the Vintcase. As you may remember from the full review, this is a lovely leather case that is based on the document pouches carried by travelers in the past.

Did Sony Install A Rootkit On Your PS3?

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For Sony’s sake there had better be nothing to this next story. A particularly nasty rumor currently spreading around the place where rumors tend to spread around quite easily, the Internet, suggests that the latest PS3 firmware, version 3.56, has a rootkit that can remotely execute code without...

Book Review: Living with Complexity, by Donald Norman

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A photograph of Al Gore's messy office opens Donald Norman's new book Living with Complexity. At first this reviewer looked at the office and the piles of paper in judgment and then began to realize that the very man campaigning against messing up the environment had a rather messy desk.

New Drunk Driving Detection System May Be Coming To All Cars

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It seems that the new stricter strict laws regarding drunk driving have done little to curb that gravely irresponsible habit, so harsher measures may be on the way in the form of in-car breathalyzers.

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