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DIY Laptop Etch-A-Sketch Is Almost Worth Destroying A Hard Drive

12:40PM Rosa Golijan | I think my hard drive flinched in fear when I pulled up these instructions for turning a laptop into an Etch-A-Sketch. How could it not when the project is a freakin’ awesome Arduino-powered Hack-A-Sketch that you actually shake to erase. More »
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The iPhone Already Has Multitasking, And It’s Awesome

9:24AM John Herrman | In 2009, iPhone multitasking is a bit like apps were in the early jailbreak days. That is to say painfully, clearly possible, but simply not allowed. These jailbreak apps shows how it could – and should – be done. More »
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Chrome OS And Android Are Officially Destined To Merge, Somehow

1:49AM John Herrman | “Android and Chrome will likely converge over time,” says Google’s Sergey Brin, echoing the cryptic sentiment first mentioned by a reluctant Eric Schmidt back in July. Today, it’s exactly as confusing as it was four months ago. More »
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New Jailbroken iPhone Worm Wants Your Bank Details

11:40PM Danny Allen | Unlike that rickrolling bit of fun, this new worm maliciously targets Dutch ING customers who login via their Jailbroken iPhone. And while it’s isolated to the Netherlands right now, it’s yet another warning for Jailbreakers to take simple preventative measures. More »
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How To: Back Up Any Smartphone

8:00AM John Herrman | You back up your computers, or at least know that you should. But what about your smartphones? They carry massive amounts of personal data, and are subjected to life-or-death situations on a daily basis. Here’s how to back them up. More »
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Magic Mouse Drivers For Windows Now Available

6:00AM Chris Jacob | Magic Mouse owners lusting for multi-finger gestures on a PC can stop wishing. Some good ol’ fashioned hackery pulled Windows drivers from the latest Boot Camp update. You can grab them here, report back with results. [Uneasy Silence, thanks Dan!]
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Wired For The Apple Tablet

1:30AM Chris Jacob | We still don’t know what the fabled Apple Tablet actually looks like, or if it even exists, really, but this concept magazine reader from Condé Nast gives us a glimpse at what to expect from tablet apps. More »
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Windows 7 Sales Are Great (Just Like Vista Sales In 2007)

4:20PM Dan Nosowitz | March, 2007: Windows Vista’s initial sales are great, “more than doubling” those of its predecessor, Windows XP. Flash forward to November, 2009: Windows 7 initial sales are 234 per cent higher than Vista’s. Those numbers sound awfully similar… More »
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This Week’s Best iPhone Apps

11:30AM John Herrman | In this week’s charmingly tawdry app roundup: Voices, creepily modulated! Annoying trips to Kinkos, averted! Cats, artfully superimposed! Photos, easily shared! iPhone speakers, blown! Call of Duty, iPhone’d! Google Maps, humiliated! Certifiably good games, discounted! And more… More »
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Windows 8 Expected In 2012 According To Roadmap

10:29AM Rosa Golijan | Apparently we won’t have to deal with upgrading our Microsoft-driven computers for another three years. According to a tentative roadmap, the next version of the OS, Windows 8, won’t be arriving until 2012. More »