Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - Page 2

These Dominoes Aren’t For Toppling Over – They Tell The Time

Leave the domino effect to books, people, and, well, real dominoes. In Carbon Design’s Domino Clock, the black dots silently switch to white dots to indicate the time, functioning similar to a digital clock (except with oversized dominoes).

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Court Rules That Government Needs Warrant Before Reading Emails

The government must obtain a court warrant to require internet service providers to turn over stored email to the authorities, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

iiNet Jumps Onto Optus To Offer Contract Free Mobile Plans

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If you’re looking for a cheap SIM-only plan without a contract, iiNet has just launched themselves as a MVNO. With plans starting from $10 a month for $150 worth of calls and 200MB of data, the plans sound pretty good… although you do need to be an iiNet customer to jump on board.

Putting An SSD In Your PS3 Cuts Loading Times

If you’ve got one of the old-school fat PS3s, you can rev up performance by installing an SSD. The real world improvement, according to one forum user: Gran Turismo 5 loading nearly twice as quickly. Vroooom. [Beyond3D via CrunchGear]

Software

Sneaky App Lets Your Computer Pretend That It’s An Apple TV

Want to use AirPlay, but don’t have an Apple TV? There’s hope for you yet. TUAW’s Erica Sadun put together an app which’ll allow your Mac to stream media from an iPhone by pretending to be an Apple TV.

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Why Was Nearly Every Yahoo Search Suddenly Resulting in Porn?

Uh oh! Something very odd and naughty is going on over at Yahoo right now. Any searches which result in thumbnails will wind up showing you an unrelated and rather pornographic image.

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Remind Me Why Having Printer Apps Is A Good Idea Again?

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HP’s latest lineup of printers are all internet connected. Yay! Some of them also support apps! And now the first Australian HP printer app has launched from Yahoo!7, and I have to wonder – why would anybody ever use this?

This Is The Chrysler Building Of Watches

I would no sooner ask how much this Dusenberg Circular watch costs than I would a Rothko. Partly because I’d rather appreciate the beauty, not the price. But mostly because I’ll never be able to afford it. Or its brother.

Software

Most Popular Free Windows Downloads Of 2010

We’ve featured quite a few Windows downloads throughout 2010. Today we’re taking a look back on the most popular free applications to help you tweak, customise and enhance your Windows experience

Gadgets

Don’t Forget To Vote For The 2010 Gizmodo Gadget Awards: Best Overall Gadget

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Voting is still open for the final prize in the 2010 Giz Awards – make sure you get your vote in for the best overall gadget category, where each category winner goes head to head in a epic battle for overall supremacy!

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