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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 »
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!]
Cameras
3D Scanning, A Webcam’s Latest Trick
3:30AM Chris Jacob | We’ve seen cameras do all kinds of crazy things. DIY 3D photography, augmented reality, and now this demo by Qi Pan shows how an ordinary webcam can model objects in 3D. More »
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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 »
Software
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 »
Software
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 »
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8:40AM John Herrman | App developers have it hard enough on the iPhone; on Android, they’ve got to keep prices just as low, and sell to a much smaller audience. So how are some of them coping? By packing up and leaving, like Gameloft. More »
There Can Only Be One: Part Duex
8:40AM John Herrman | App developers have it hard enough on the iPhone; on Android, they’ve got to keep prices just as low, and sell to a much smaller audience. So how are some of them coping? By packing up and leaving, like Gameloft. More »
Software
Microsoft Denies Programming Backdoors For NSA In Windows 7
5:32AM Mark Wilson | Hey now! Just because the NSA helped Microsoft hone the security of Windows 7 doesn’t mean Microsoft designed special backdoors for the organisation to spy on us… right? More »
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