Facebook Apps Can Now Embed Content In Your Profile (Again)

If you've been on Facebook for more than a year or two, you probably remember a time when it was possible to embed third-party applications in your profile. Initially it was possible to actually embed application widgets on your profile (remember when everyone had a Graffiti drawing?), but they were later relegated to separate tabs because they led to MySpace-like clutter. And eventually, they were removed from profiles entirely. Today during his keynote at f8, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just announced that Facebook applications are going to be reintroduced into user profiles as part of the new Timelines feature (which, as it happens, makes your profile look a lot like a Tumblr blog).

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Why The Empire Strikes Back Owns the Star Wars Series

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How Should We Make Hard Decisions?

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From Apple to Vudu: 8 Netflix Alternatives Compared

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Just Show Me: How to change the function of the side switch on your iPad (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you how to change the function of the side switch on ?

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The Behind the Scenes Story of the Nike Air Mag, the McFly Jacket and More [Video]

The Nike Air Mag auction has wrapped up and has raised $5.6 million for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research ($11.2 if you count Sergey Brin's contributions). It was an absolutely worthy cause for the iconic shoe. More »

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Google.com Has An Unmissable Ad Drawing Users To Google+

Steer your way to Google.com and you'll find yourself staring at perhaps its boldest Doodle yet. No, Google hasn't outdone itself with another musical tribute or interactive game ?�it's running an ad directing users to try out Google+. But this isn't just your average text ad or banner: Google's drawing a big, blue arrow that points toward your Google+ name on the left side of its top nav bar. �Click it, and you'll launch into the Google+ homepage and signup process. You can't miss it. The ad coincides with today's public launch to Google+, which now allows anyone to sign up for the service (up until now you've needed an invite). And it's sure to drive a major surge in new signups.

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More Useful and Interesting Bash Prompts

A while back, we listed 8 Useful and Interesting Bash Prompts. That turned out to be one of our most popular articles, and still generates user response and feedback. This time we’ve found a few more gems, as well as some handy tips and tricks for having the coolest shell prompt on the proverbial block. [...]

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Useful Apps For Traveling With an iPad

Part of the allure of an iPad is its portability. It does so much, yet is so much smaller and easier to cart around than a laptop. This makes it an obvious choice for travel. While there are great apps for using it to plan your next getaway or business trip, there are also things [...]

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Sketcher ? Procedural drawing tool for Android

Got some drawing skills? Unleash your creativity with the fun procedural drawing tool, Sketcher for Android. Features: Color picker 11 brushes + eraser Save to SD Share by e-mail and MMS Download Sketcher for free from the Android Market. Market Link

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Despite legal battle, Apple keeps Samsung inside iPhone

Apple has little choice but to keep going to Samsung to get its core iPhone electronics despite legal battles between the two companies raging across the globe, according to sources and a news report.

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Print your own blood vessels, no need for red toner

Barely 24 hours after we told you about printing your own bones, the franken-science continues with the announcement that blood vessels are next on the body-parts-you-can-print list. Unsurprisingly, you'll need more than just regular toner if you want to start printing your own at home, but pioneering work by application-oriented research organization Fraunhofer has claimed to have cracked it by adding some good old 'two-photon polymerization' into the mix -- yeah, obvious once you know. The added photon special sauce is what makes the printed synthetic tubes biofunctionalized, which in turn enables living body cells to dock onto them -- we're guessing that's important. Sounds cute, but how long until we can start printing whole people -- Weird Science, anyone?

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7 Awesome (and Free) Note-Taking Apps For the iPad

While the iOS itself provides a note-taking app for the iPad, it can be rather limiting. It only includes the most basic of functions. For those who are looking for more functionality, the good news is that there are over 700 note-taking apps available at the App Store, and even better, 141 of them are [...]

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LG to unveil passive-glasses 3D TVs at CES

LG today continued with a string of pre-CES introductions by showing a new TV range that could eliminate many of the headaches of 3D. The LW6500 uses passive glasses instead of active and, combined with new 3D film on the … Continue reading →

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The America Invents Act and the individual inventor

commentary The newly signed patent reform law offers incentives to folks other than big corporations. The "micro entity" element encourages individual inventors to get back in the game.

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N.Y. Worker Accuses State of Illegal GPS Spying

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PICNIC: Fun, geeky, exploring the future of mankind

Imagine a geekier, more accessible version of the World Economic Forum, where creative minds and talented artists meet with decision makers from governments and large corporations to talk about the future of the world. That’s essentially what the annual PICNIC festival, which took place this week in Amsterdam, sets out to offer. Based around the [...]

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Engadget Mobile Podcast 104 - 09.16.2011

Manufacturers and service providers are really kicking it up a notch this week! AT&T will hit us with a big dose of speed on Sunday, Microsoft had a slew of mixed/delicious news for us at Build, and HTC's got its hands in a liiiiiitttttle bit of everything, from releases to maybe OS acquisitions. We'll lay it all out for you here, with an added touch of Volpe to round things out, on the Engadget Mobile Podcast.

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00:01:19 - Samsung Epic 4G Touch review

00:22:48 - AT&T to officially deploy its LTE network September 18th

00:27:18 - AT&T announces Windows Phone Mango lineup coming this fall, existing devices to be updated

00:30:28 - RIM's Q2 earnings report: $329 million in net income, not enough to fend off critics
00:40:17 - HTC Bliss to be called the Rhyme, launching September 20?

00:45:39 - HTC Runnymede and Bliss details sneak out from leak-town

00:57:58 - HTC chairwoman Cher Wang: we might buy a mobile OS, if it feels right

01:05:20 - Motorola Admiral outed as mystery Sprint Direct Connect device, strikes a pose for the camera

01:09:55 - Motorola Electrify coming to US Cellular this month as a rebranded Photon 4G

01:10:50 - LG Marquee for Sprint hands-on (video)
01:13:39 - Sprint axes Premier program, no more annual upgrades for Gold customers

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This Day in Tech: Patent turns into a first-to-file system; two directors leave Twitter

Too busy to keep up with the tech news? Here are some of the more interesting stories from CNET News for Friday, September 16.

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Verizon starts 'optimizing' (read: throttling) network for the most data hungry users

We can't say we weren't warned, since Verizon updated its data policy way back in February, but it's still a punch in the gut to hear its "network optimization" plan went into effect yesterday. A new policy page pointed out by Droid-Life explains how the policy will affect only the "top 5 percent of data users with 3G devices on unlimited data plans" (LTE and tiered data users are in the clear) by managing their speeds when connected to towers it has deemed are congested. Those conditions, termed network intelligence by Big Red, are what it feels separates this scheme from mere data throttling since it will only affect a few users (those consuming 2GB or more of data per month) at certain times and places, but it's hard to see it any other way. If you're one of those affected, expect a message on your bill or My Verizon account, although you may go into and out of the affected group depending on your usage. Hit the source link below for all the details -- anyone else think it's not a coincidence this policy popped up just before the iPhone 4 came to Verizon and is being implemented only weeks before the next iThing is expected to arrive?

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Snoozing Technique Could Help Keep Smartphone Batteries Fresh

Researchers at the University of Michigan have come up with a way to extend the battery life of tablets, smartphones and other devices that use WiFi. Kang Shin, a professor of computer science and engineering, and Xinyu Zhang, a doctoral student, have developed E-MiLi, a power management method that could cut energy consumption by about 44 percent for up to 92 percent of users in WiFi zones.

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HTC Vigor Renamed Incredible HD, Poised for October Release?

When the first shots of the HTC Vigor started making the rounds, I offhandedly mentioned that the funky backplate and red trim made it look like a new entry in Verizon's Incredible series. As it turns out, that hunch may have just been confirmed, as a recently leaked release indicates that a very similar device called the Incredible HD is slated for an October launch.

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Mount ISO files in Windows 8 Without third party utilities

One of the important feature that was introduced in Windows 7 was the ablity to burn ISO images files without the need of third party utilities.The Windows Team seems to make positive progress in this direction.In Windows 8�Milestone�1 build 7850 which was leaked on the web they have introduced the mounting feature too.This feature is exclusive to ISO files only & will be present in the subsequent release (Also available in build 7955). All you need is to select the file then click on "Mount" or choose "Disk Image Tools" if you have enabled the New Explorer UI.Alternatively... Read more..

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Who Spends More In Freemium Games? Battle Of The Sexes Edition

Just last week, I wrote about a data dive by mobile research firm Flurry (who, thanks to their mobile analytics SDK, has a sample group of about 20 million users across 110,000 iOS/Android apps) on which age group was shelling out the most cash in freemium mobile games. Almost immediately, the top rated comment was something along the lines of "That's cool and all ? but where's the breakdown by gender?" Here it is.

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New 'subconscious mode' could improve smartphone battery life, supress your WiFi id

Researchers at the University of Michigan have figured out a way to drastically increase your cellphone's battery life, at least while using WiFi. By using what they're calling E-MiLi, or Energy-Minimizing Idle Listening, professor Kang Shin (right) and student Xinyu Zhang have developed a proof of concept that could extend battery life up to 54-percent with the WiFi radio on. Even when idle, a wireless radio is actively checking for incoming traffic. E-MiLi scales back the wireless card's clock to just 1/16th of its normal operating speed, and only kicks back into full gear when it senses incoming data. To be really useful though, we'd love to see the same trick employed on cellular data networks -- that LTE sure is fast, but it's not exactly battery-friendly. Check out the PR after the break.

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Surf the web and fry an egg on this futuristic computer (Yahoo! News)

Yahoo! News - The Electrolux Mobile Kitchen can slice, dice, cook, and surf the web all at the same. And, miraculously, all on the same laptop. Unfortunately, it's just a concept design right now from designer Dragan Trenchevski, but a very cool one. ?

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Tokyo game show turns to cell phones, has new star (AP)

AP - A startup little known outside Japan that offers games for cellphones is emerging as the new star at this year's Tokyo video game exhibition, usually dominated by big-name console makers like Sony and Microsoft.

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