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Safari Extension highlight: Stop animated GIFs, make your own CSS

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Earlier today I was looking for a Safari Extensions to that could stop animated GIFs. I'd be even happier if the extension would also allow me to override CSS on a particular page. After a fruitless search of the official Safari Extensions page, Google turned up both Deanimator and User CSS.

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TUAW Liveblog of the Apple Q4 financial results conference call

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We're liveblogging today's Apple earnings results in the CoverItLive widget below -- be sure to click and join in to share your comments! You can also listen in on the call via QuickTime streaming.

Apple releases Q4 results: $20.34B revenue, $4.31B profits

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Top line: hell of a beat. Apple today reports earnings of $4.31 billion, or $4.64 a share, in the fiscal fourth quarter, versus $1.82 a share in the year-ago quarter. Street guess was $4.08 a share on sales of $18.90 billion, according to Thomson Reuters, so like I said: hell of a beat.

Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie to Step Down

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In June, 2006, Ray Ozzie took over the role as Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect. While he was there, Ozzie was in charge of product architecture, as well as the company’s technical strategy over the years.

Car Review: Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Tops the Field

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The new Hyundai Sonata Hybrid is the latest and best example of a passenger car that, oh, by the way, uses a hybrid gasoline-electric powerplant, with breakthrough lithium-polymer batteries, no less.

Verizon Model Apple iPhone Hits Final Test Stage, iPhone 5 Reaches EVT

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The 3,2 model iPhone, aka the most likely candidate for the Verizon release, is reported to be at the AP field test stage, which is basically the last stage of testing before retail release. This stage includes final hardware and nearly-final software. And you know what’s exciting?

Apple Q4: $20B Revenue, $4B Profits, 3.89M Macs, 14.1M iPhones, 4.19M iPads — All New Records

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You don't need to look any further than Apple's stock price over the past several months to know that they're on a roll. A year ago, the stock price was at about $190 a share. Today, it closed at $317.93 a share — an all-time high. In fact, they've hit several all-time highs this month alone.

Bigfoot Giving Away A Couple Of Their Killer 2100 Gamer NICs

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I may have really laid into Bigfoot’s (in my opinion still ridiculous) claims for its Killer 2100 performance network cards, but I’ll be the first to admit that whatever the benefits, they’re probably among the best cards you can get.

Live: Apple’s fiscal Q4 2010 results call

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MacNN and its sister sites Electronista and iPodNN are covering Apple's fiscal fourth quarter (calendar third quarter) results live. The company had its highest revenue and earnings to date with $20.34 billion and shipped a record 14.1 million iPhones, crushing BlackBerry sales.

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Japanese carrier KDDI to bring Skype app to Android phones

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Japan's KDDI carrier said it will soon bring a Skype app to the Sharp-made IS01 and IS03 Android smartphones. This confirms what KDDI's Tanaka Takashi said during the unveiling of the IS03, and marks a first for Android handsets that do not operate on Verizon's network in the US.

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Verizon starts pitching Droid 2 Global prematurely

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Motorola's Droid 2 Global was inadvertently confirmed by Verizon itself today as callers to an 800 number found that the carrier was already advertising the device.

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Verizon’s New Flow of Tiers

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Back in July, word got out that Verizon might be migrating away from unlimited data (sad!) and toward a tiered model (well alright) and now there’s a date: October 28. That’s the day when everything changes in the Verizon world.

Mobile Plans Too Expensive in America, Says Group

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If you think wireless carriers in North America charge too much, you are right. An analysis of cellphone plans worldwide found that consumers in the U.S., Canada and U.K. pay the highest for voice and text service on their phones, while those in India, Hong Kong and Japan pay the least.

Android Gingerbread given blurry photo, may pack video chat

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Google's next release of Android, better known by its Gingerbread codename, may make video chat an important staple of its design based on a leak on Monday.

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Innvo Labs begins sales of new Pleo Reborn toy robot

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A new and improved Pleo robot dinosaur is being made and sold overseas, according to an Engadget report. The new to is called the Pleo Reborn and features some upgrades compared to the 2009 original.

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XtremKey USB Flash Drive – A Hand-Eye Product Test

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The LaCie XtremKey, designed by Constance Guisset, is billed as the strongest, toughest USB key around. We wanted to be sure the product lived up to the promise so we took it for a little trip around the neighborhood! Watch the video to see the results!

Study: Teens, Parents Feel Safe Sharing Info Online. Other Study: Teens, Parents Don’t Feel Safe Sharing Info Online

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Another day, another Facebook privacy scandal. At this point accusing Facebook of violating its users’ privacy is like accusing the sun of being hot, or of accusing Leo Messi of being good. Why bother?

PadDock Turns Your iPad into an iMac

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If you've been watching rumors of a possible touch-screen iMac and just don't want to wait to see if they turn out to be real, the PadDock is here now and gives your iPad a stand that makes it look and feel like an iMac.

Toyota and Fujita Health University Testing Robot to Aide Stroke Patients

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Toyota, which primarily sees its name planted on vehicles all over the world, is making a hard push for robotics. The company is trying to make the future technology part of its core business, and with that, they’re developing new robots to help in all sorts of different ways.

Outage Forces Peek to Upgrade Older Devices

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An unexpected glitch felled older models of Peek, the email-only device, and has forced the company to offer a free replacement upgrade to its users. The outage, which started Thursday, bricked Peek models–the Pronto and Classic.

Noteshelf: handwritten iPad notes that really work

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Noteshelf (US$4.99) from FluidTouch.biz is a fresh new iPad notebook app for handwritten notes that addresses most of the issues I've had with similar apps in the past. In fact, Noteshelf is so usable that I just deleted a couple of other apps that I was using to capture handwritten notes.

Nintendo in the US: A Brief History

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The Nintendo Entertainment System turns 25 today. The October 18, 1985 launch of the system was pretty unassuming--particularly in light of the game changer the console would become after it received a wide release in February the following year.

Kinect Can Finally See Lazy Gamers

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Eurogamer reports that Microsoft fixed a major Kinect implementation issue by allowing Kinect to recognize players who are seated. The method Microsoft used to create skeletal models in the software set the base node at the bottom of the spine.

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Apple Is No. 1 Computer Seller — If You Count iPads

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If you count iPads as computers, Apple could now be said to have the largest market share of any computer maker in the United States.

Moshka 3D Aviator Glasses Available Now

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It’s been said in the past that some people just don’t like 3D because they don’t like the glasses they have to wear.

Dell tops green ranking, Apple conspicuously absent

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Newsweek has released its own green rankings of companies for the second straight year, with little changes from year to year. Most significantly Dell has moved up from its number two spot, knocking HP out of the top spot, with a perfect score of 100.

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