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System Builder Marathon, Sept. 2010: $2000 Performance PC

Techkicker — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:00:00 +0000

We bolstered our latest high-end build with a six-core CPU from AMD and two super-fast video cards from Nvidia. Is it possible to fit uncompromising performance within a $2000 budget? Remember, you can even enter to win this potent behemoth; just read on! Video card – Nvidia – Advanced Micro Devices – Hardware – Personal computer

Apple sucks at Photoshop too

Techkicker — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:32:00 +0000

Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the new fourth-generation iPod touch : it’s so much like an iPhone that it has a Phone app (wait, what?).

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Anti Tracks is your complete solution for protecting your privacy, sensitive data, online identity and maintaining the integrity of your computer!

Techkicker — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:00:08 +0000

Anti Tracks is your complete solution for protecting your privacy, sensitive data, online identity and maintaining the integrity of your computer! Anti Tracks provides you with a set of tools that will help you securely erase your browsers, Windows and applications tracks, securely lock your files, hide your important files steganographically inside pictures and audio files, cleanup your PC from junk, obsolete and duplicate files and much more! With those tools you can rest assured your computer is safe, protected and performing in peak condition! It’s no one’s business but yours what you do on your computer. Anti Tracks keeps it that way! Limitation: this version does not include IP Concealer feature

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Anti Tracks is your complete solution for protecting your privacy, sensitive data, online identity and maintaining the integrity of your computer!

WeTab tablet spotted running MeeGo at IFA

Techkicker — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:52:00 +0000

Remember the WeTab ? Or the WePad , perhaps

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Debate Around Password Security Overlooks Universal Logins

Techkicker — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:25:38 +0000

Must include at least one number. Must be longer than six characters.

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Keepin’ it real fake: Dyson’s Air Multiplier gets ripped off, multiplied a few more times

Techkicker — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:49:00 +0000

We never really understood the value proposition behind Dyson’s (admittedly boisterous) Air Multiplier , but that’s mostly due to the $300+ MSRP. Cut that back to right around $40, and you just might have us singing a different tune. Thanks to the wonders of KIRFing, Dyson’s bladeless fan has seen itself duped and multiplied over in China, with a 10-inch version now selling for just $41.05 so long as you buy ten or more units.

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Keepin’ it real fake: Dyson’s Air Multiplier gets ripped off, multiplied a few more times

ExoPC preorders open to all from CAD $649, tablet loses GPS but gains SanDisk SSD

Techkicker — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:58:00 +0000

First the good news, for those who’ve waited months to get their paws on that 11.6-inch multitouch capacitive screen: there’s no longer anything stopping you from dropping a stack of change on the Windows 7-wielding ExoPC .

‘Classic White’ DualShock 3 appears at e-tail, dreaming of an alabaster console

Techkicker — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:33:00 +0000

While the white PS3 Slim pictured above decidedly belongs to Japan , the “Classic White” DualShock 3 alongside has just appeared for preorder at e-tailers based in the US.

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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: solar robots that fly, CO2 fabric dye, and the dark silicon that boosts battery life

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. Solar power blazed a trail this week as we took a look at several hot new technologies, starting with SkyFuel’s SkyTrough , which is being billed as the world’s most efficient solar collector. We also saw solar energy take to the skies as designers unveiled plans for a fleet of high-flying solar robots , and we were surprised to learn that common household dyes could significantly increase the efficiency of photovoltaic panels by optimizing their color absorption spectrum

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Talkcast reminder: iTunes, iPods and all the week’s news, 10pm ET

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:45:00 +0000

Holiday weekend or no holiday weekend: we’re live tonight on Talkshoe , so call in and chat with us. Of course, there were a few announcements of note this week , but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about anything besides iTunes 10 or new iPods! Bring your interests, your questions and/or your gripes and we’ll lay it down.

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Talkcast reminder: iTunes, iPods and all the week’s news, 10pm ET

Entelligence: A tale of two TVs

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:00:00 +0000

Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he’ll explore where our industry is and where it’s going — on both micro and macro levels — with the unique wit and insight only he can provide. This week at what’s become Apple’s fall music event the company unveiled a revised Apple TV

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Mac 101: Use Preview to display a slideshow

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:30:00 +0000

Over the weekend I went to visit some relatives I haven’t seen for some time.

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Mac 101: Use Preview to display a slideshow

Samsung suggests Galaxy Tab will cost between $200 and $400 — also coming to Vodafone

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:16:00 +0000

Early reports indicate Europe will pay a pretty penny for Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, but the 7-inch tablet may cost a good bit less when it comes to US shores — the Wall Street Journal paraphrases a Samsung executive who claims it could run between $200 and $300 depending on the all-important carrier subsidies . The Korea Times , meanwhile, suggests a $300 to $400 retail price according to a different Samsung bigwig, who added that the Tab “will cost slightly more than the Galaxy S smartphone.” As you’re probably aware, Sammy’s Galaxy S typically retails for about $200 in the US — excepting Sprint’s Epic 4G at $250 — so if you held a bursting Li-ion battery to our head and forced us to guess, we’d say the latter range of dollar signs is far more likely.

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Add desktop icons to KDE and GNOME

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:36:29 +0000

Although I am one to prefer a clutter-free, minimalist desktop, I know the majority of users prefer a much more standard, fast-access type of desktop. This means icons. Not the kind of icons you see on many users desktops (you know the ones, where there are so many icons it’s impossible to make sense of what is there), but icons that allow you to launch the applications you use most often.

PS3 jailbreak adapted to Nokia N900, Palm Pre in wake of Australian ban (video)

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:29:00 +0000

Two weeks ago you’d have to pay an Australian importer for a specialized USB key . Four days ago open-source software let you roll your own

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Cartoon: Happy Labor Day!

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:00:00 +0000

Heading outside this Labor Day weekend?

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Cartoon: Happy Labor Day!

Using a Virtual Personal Assistant for Your Startup

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:00:12 +0000

ReadWriteWeb Co-Editor Marshall Kirkpatrick recently extolled the virtues of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for ” rocking conference blogging .” He’s not the only person who’s seeing some real benefits from outsourcing small tasks to the service, as I’ve noticed a number of people talk about the ways in which they use – or could envision using – Mechanical Turk to help them. Ewan McIntosh , for example, wonders if teachers could utilize the service to outsource some of the “larger scale time suckers” in education — entering attendance records, generating letters to parents, and so on

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Quantum key distribution in superposition of "insecure" and "unneeded"

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:00:00 +0000

It’s apparent that the physics lexicon has been dragged kicking and screaming out of the 19th century with a recent paper published in Nature Photonics titled “Hacking commercial quantum cryptography systems by tailored bright illumination.” I never thought I would live to see the word “hacking” used in its proper context in a physics paper. But enough about physics lingo. What about the quantum encryption hacks alluded to by the title?

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Quantum key distribution in superposition of "insecure" and "unneeded"

Toshiba fulfills your need for speed with UHS-I SDHC and microSDHC cards

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:33:00 +0000

Panasonic must be mighty annoyed right about now, because Toshiba’s seemingly got it trumped — when the first batch of lightning-quick UHS-I cards ship in November, Toshiba’s chips will be faster and larger on day one. As you can no doubt see immediately above, the latter company’s fielding full-size SDHC UHS-I cards at up to 32GB that promise maximum read and write times of 95MB/s and 80MB/s respectively, not to mention tiny microSDHC units that still manage a very respectable 40MB/s and 20MB/s. As usual, these numbers are fast and loose, so don’t be surprised if you get a good bit less in practice, but you should be able to rely on at least the quoted minimum transfer rate of 10MB/s.

iTunes 10 drops custom ringtone purchasing

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Along with the up-front iTunes 10 changes ( social awareness , monochrome sidebar, new-attitude icon ), it looks like Apple has quietly dropped one store-centric feature from the latest version. Roberto Baldwin at Mac|Life notes that the feature allowing users to buy a section of a track from the iTunes Store for use as a custom ringtone has gone AWOL between 9.2.1 and 10

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6 SaaS Metrics You Should Track

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:30:31 +0000

As you work to develop your product – before and after launch, it’s important that you use more than just “gut feelings” to ascertain what’s working and what’s not. Along those lines, last week, Ryan Carson, co-founder of Carsonified offered a list of six key metrics for your web app and how to track them

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Found Footage: WNBC anchor shows Earl via iPad

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:45:00 +0000

Nobody ever claimed that the iPad was weatherproof, but that didn't stop news anchor Chuck Scarborough from taking his tablet out to the seashore. Reader Michael Neumann saw the veteran NYC broadcaster using his iPad to show weather radar during Hurricane Earl's race up the US east coast.

Caption contest: nothing easy about this rider

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:12:00 +0000

Sony Ericsson’s booth at IFA this year includes an Xperia -themed chopper that you can sit on and have your picture taken — with a Sony Ericsson cameraphone, of course. As of press time, no word on when it’ll be updated to use unleaded gasoline. Chris: “It’ll be available at local dealers mere moments after you finally stop wanting it.” Nilay: “Unfortunately, it runs Android 1.6″ Darren: “A fine substitute for the PSP Phone you’ve been dreaming of.” Laura: “Fail hog.” Ross: “Still no pinch-to-zoom, but at least here, that kind of makes sense.” Don: “Mr.

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Parallels Desktop 6 appears on store shelves

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:30:00 +0000

No official announcement from the virtualization mavens at Parallels , but it appears that the next version of the company’s Mac app for Windows virtual machines is already popping up at retail. Sharp-eyed reader Matthew Fern snapped this shot of Parallels Desktop 6 already on sale at Fry’s Electronics in Roseville, CA

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SlimDrivers, Windows Driver Updates Software

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:20:00 +0000

Share The Windows operating system supports two kinds of driver families, if you narrow it down.

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Top 10 Greentech IPO Candidates

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:35:00 +0000

Recent greentech IPOs have had mixed and less than stellar results.

In Case You Missed It: Aug. 29 – Sep. 4

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:34:08 +0000

Well, what do you think? Did Apple’s Annual Music Event live up to your expectations?

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Panasonic HDC-SDT750 3D camcorder preview

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:10:00 +0000

THREEE DEEE. Sorry, just had to get that out of our system

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LG LEX8 ‘Nano LED’ TV eyes-on

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:08:00 +0000

While we admire the impulse to best your South Korean neighbor and build the world’s thinnest X (in this case, the world’s thinnest full LED LCD TV bezel), you can’t help but notice the base at the bottom where all the components that used to be in the back have been crammed seems to grow ever larger with each passing tradeshow. Still, LG’s LEX8 8.8mm thick LCD is impressively thin and the picture quality, thanks to that localized “Nano LED” dimming, is stellar

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Efika MX Smartbook now on sale for an exceedingly unattractive price

Techkicker — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:05:00 +0000

Ah, ha! If you’ll recall, we happened upon a Lenovo-branded netbook of sorts back in June, but curiously enough, Freescale and Pegatron components were powering the thing. Now, it seems that yet another flavor has emerged as the Efika MX Smartbook

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Efika MX Smartbook now on sale for an exceedingly unattractive price