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Advice: If your Internet connection drops out while playing an online game, don’t stab a random person

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Oh, dear. We’ve all been there: you’re playing your favorite game online, and then WHAM-O~! you lose your Internet connection. The usual course of action is to mutter “Gosh darn it” to your self, then go about your business.

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First Look: Scanner Pro for iPhone gives you PDFs and eyestrain

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Filed under: iPhone, App ReviewScanner Pro (iTunes link) from Readdle transforms your iPhone into a portable PDF scanner.

Second-gen WD TV Live Media Player now at Best Buy

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Western Digital has updated its WD TV Live Media Player by releasing its successor. Like the original, the new player has a USB 2.0 slot for thumb drives, external drives or PCs, along with an HDMI port to connect it to TVs.

The Microsoft Windows Phone commercial: Small, puffy men will follow you around

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Not only does the term "Windows Phone" just sound wrong, now they're trying to equate all your Windows apps with puffy little men who love you but don't want you to leave.

USB Computer Prankster

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Simply plug this USB device into someone’s computer and it’ll turns caps lock on and off, make random mouse movements, type out random text and generally be very annoying.

Apple Customers Mourn Over Dearly Departed Time Capsules

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Disgruntled Apple customers who own defective Time Capsule devices have cooked up a snarky way to make a statement: a memorial page devoted to dead Time Capsules.

Emerge ReTrak ETCHGNBW90 90W Universal Notebook Charger

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Emerge Technologies announces its new ReTrak Universal 90W Notebook Charger. It features a 9.5 feet retractable cable with nine different adapter tips for notebook from most manufacturers.

Dremel User Allegedly Proves CD-ROM Speed Limit

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My only experience with a fast-spinning CD threatening to cause damage was when I repeatedly pushed the eject button of a (CD-only, this was at least 7 years ago) optical drive that seemed unwilling to spit out my media.

US Army video surveillance powered by Apple

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Filed under: Hardware, OS, SoftwareSecurity System News is reporting today on the US Army's decision to use Mac OS X and Apple servers to run four video surveillance systems. When reliability and security are paramount, says Chris Gettings, Mac OS X is the choice.

Sidekick users allowed to drop contract, switch phones

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T-Mobile may let Sidekick owners affected by the permanent data loss drop their contracts and move to other phones, one subscriber says today.

CrunchDeal: PS3 for $250

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Here’s one hell of a deal on the PS3. You can pick up an 80gb unit with two controllers for the quite reasonable price of $250. That’s the best deal I’ve seen in a really long time for one of the best Blu-Ray players on the market.

LG sort of shows off a solar-powered ebook reader, but not really

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Let’s talk about the word “unveiled” on gadget sites. Unveiled is a weasel world. It means “revealed” and suggests that the company in question is showing off something that it will make soon.

iBike Rider for Bikers who has an iPhone

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Here is the iBike Rider iPhone Headset Kit for Bikers. The iBike Rider is priced at 29 euros and for this price you will get two thin earspeakers that will be attached to the helmet by Velcro, a microphone and an extension cord with a volume control.

LG POP GD510 Mobile Phone coming in Mid October

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LG Electronics announced its new compact full touchscreen phone, the LG GD510. It is a the newest Eco-Friendly Mobile Phone from LG, it can be recharged utilizing the power of the sun.

Shoes feature Bluetooth and GPS

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Finally, a pair of shoes with built-in Bluetooth and GPS connections. Pair them Bluetooth-ily with your cell phone and the shoes can update your location directly to your Faceboook account or send your location out as a text message to five other phones.

Asus Eee 1201N and 1201HA Spotted

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Asus are working on a couple of new 12 inch Eee netbooks named the Asus Eee 1201N and the Asus Eee 1201HA. Both feature a 12.1 inch screen running at a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels.

MobileMe DOA?

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Filed under: Bad Apple, Apple, MobileMeLooks like it. You can't access the main MobileMe page. Apple says this on their MobileMe support page:" MobileMe members are intermittently unable to access MobileMe services. Mail is available via a desktop email application, or Mail on iPhone or iPod touch.

BlackBerry Storm 2 to show next week?

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The BlackBerry Storm 2 should finally appear this week and represent RIM's best hope for challenging the iPhone, leaks claim today.

From the Obvious Department: Scientist says 2012 will not be the end of the world.

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So we’re all in agreement: the movie 2012 is terrible, and we’d all be better off if it didn’t exist. What we should also acknowledge is that, no, the year 2012 will not, in and of itself, mean the death of mankind.

Epson EX31, EX51 and EX71 multimedia projectors

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Epson just announced three new multimedia projectors, the Epson EX31, EX51 and the EX71 projectors which are all based on 3LCD display technology. They use Epson’s exclusive E-TORL lamp technology offering a lamp life of up to 5,000 hours in economy mode.

BFG enters notebooks with dual GeForce GTX 280M

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BFG on Monday ventured into mobile computing for the first time with the Deimos, an 18.4-inch desktop replacement notebook meant for gamers.

HTC Hero Lands on Sprint

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The Android-powered HTC Hero smartphone is now available on Sprint, according to eWEEK. The Hero joins the BlackBerry Tour 9630, the Palm Pre, and the HTC Touch Pro2, giving Sprint subscribers four powerful, capable smartphone choices.The HTC Hero features HTC Sense, an interesting UI overlay that...

Review: Technical Pro PM-21

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Podcasting. Is it still relevant? Do people listen to them? Is there any point? I mean, we do one, but what about the rest of the world? Should they do it? Well, it’s definitely gotten easier.

Swap a Macbook’s glossy display for matte

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Filed under: Hardware, Portables, MacBookUsers have a love/hate relationship with Apple's glossy displays. Namely, they either love them or they hate them.

It’s time for the MLB to adopt instant replay

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Look, I’d be lying if I said I followed baseball this season. I’m a Mets guy, and you just know that, once April hits, you’re in for a reasonably OK season, but one that just looses steam as the months go by. So why bother?