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iPhone Translation App Speaks Three Languages With Your Mouth
3:19AM John Herrman | Somewhere on the App Store spectrum, between the travel phrase books and those apps that replace your mouth with a slightly weirder mouth, you’ll find iLingual, an app that steals your lips and uses them to speak three different languages. More »
Software
Google Chrome OS Benchmarked Against Ubuntu And Moblin
3:10AM Danny Allen | Chrome OS dev code only just went public, but Phoronix has already thrown it on a Samsung NC10 netbook to test its performance and battery-life against Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10, Moblin 2.1, Fedora 12 and openSUSE 11.2. Interesting results ahead. More »
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Swype Vs QWERTY: FIGHT!!!!!
1:53AM Mark Wilson | QWERTY is pretty much the king of smartphone text input. But there’s a new challenger on the horizon. It’s called Swype, it works with one-hand input and, yeah, it is pretty fast. More »
Phones
Palm Pre Gets Video Recording With Precorder HomeBrew Software
11:49PM Danny Allen | That’s right, 480×320-pixel video recording at 30fps is now go. The homebrew software is only an alpha (so there’s bugs like not being able to preview what you’re recording), but the app works, and is free to download. More »
Software
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 »
GPS
Google Maps Navigation Hits All Android 1.6 Handsets
6:34AM John Herrman | Google Maps Navigation, even if it’s not perfect, was one of the juiciest features of Android 2.0. Today, Google’s finally set it free: It’s now available for any handset in the US with Android 1.6 Donut, including the G1 and MyTouch 3G. More »
Software
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 »
Software
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 »
Software
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 » 
