Craig Smith of South Milwaukee, WI, wrote in to share the progress he’s made on his homebrew astronomy rig: Since my moon photo was featured almost a year ago, I have a better telescope, a homemade tracking motor and some ok planetary photos. Saturn is currently on the other side of the sun, but earlier this year I took some shots. Also that brightest ‘star’ in the sky lately is Jupiter.
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Custom camera mount & telescope tracking motor
Flashlights are great for dark environments as along as you’re willing to hold them. Headlamps free up your hands, but require that keep your noggin focused at the task ahead (literally). Lanterns are perfect for brightening up an area, but directing their light is akin to herding cats. But Joby’s Gorillatorch Blade ($60) is one lighting tool that provides nearly all the benefits of the aforementioned devices, minus the hassles. Its CREE LED lamp can output 65 lumens for up to 6.5 hours of use before recharging, or a boost button can crank it up to a whopping 130 lumens of brightness for 2.5 hours.
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Joby Gorrillatorch Blade
Today’s Deal of the Day is aimed at your gamers looking to pick up a PS3 on the cheap. Using the Dell promo code “PKPRQ3PRMQRF0P”, you can score a 160GB PS3 slim for $269.99, which is $30 less than they typically sell for at retail
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Deal of the Day: PS3 Slim 160GB console $30 off
Last month, we reported on the demise of cross-browser, bookmark-syncing service Xmarks. This month, we are happy to inform you that is looks like Xmarks will live on. According to a recent blog post by the company, an outpouring of support from users has drastically changed the company’s plans. As Xmarks explains: The past ten days have been an amazing lesson in the power of community
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Viva la Xmarks!
KFC (who knows good marketing ) has just started a campaign in which they pay college girls $500 to wear ‘ Double Down ‘ sweatpants and pass out sandwiches /coupons to horny/obese college students. It’s actually pretty genius if you think about it while you’re hungry and forgive them for using sweatpants instead of yoga pants.
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Doubling Down On That Ass: KFC Advertising Chicken Sandwich On College Coed Rumps
If you’re lucky enough to be attending the Austin City Limits music festival in (my lovely hometown of) Austin, Texas this weekend, then you may want to pick up the ACL Fest app to help you make the most of it. Here’s a little of its App Store intro: This is the official app for the Austin City Limits Music Festival being held in Zilker Park in Austin, October 8-10. It is your official electronic guide to the festival! Organize and expand your festival experience in one handy app. Create your schedule, read about the bands, browse media and find your way around Zilker Park. (…) Read the rest of ACL Fest: Do-it-All App for Austin City Limits Attendees © PatrickJ for Just Another iPhone Blog , 2010.
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ACL Fest: Do-it-All App for Austin City Limits Attendees
PlainText (Free, or $4.99 for ad-free) and Elements ($4.99) are two iOS note apps I know of that feature Dropbox sync, but for all of those other Dropbox-less apps out there, there’s Habilis . All you do is log into Dropbox, set up a Habilis e-mail, and then e-mail your text from your app of choice right to your unique Habilis account. I should note, however, that this didn’t work in Chrome.
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Habilis helps e-mail files to your Dropbox folder
At the tail-end of September, Sony Ericsson announced a rather peculiar accessory : the LiveView, an itty-bitty (1.3″), new-iPod-Nano-esque secondary display for their Android phones that could be worn as a watch or clipped onto clothes. While Sony Ericsson was happy to show the thing off and share some of the basic spec details, they kept hush on information like the launch date and pricing. Things like that tend to make their way out one way or another though — and today, it seems they have.
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Sony Ericsson’s itty-bitty secondary display for Android phones to cost 69 euros?
We’ve been waiting for Apple to launch some sort of iTunes subscription music service for years now. Seeing other companies like Rhapsody, Napster, and Microsoft’s Zune offer it while leaving Apple out has been pretty frustrating.
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Reuters: Apple finally readying subscription music service
General Mills Inc. is debuting a Spanish-language iPad application that will give consumers access to more than 900 Latin-inspired recipes.
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General Mills debuting iPad application
Three UK have some interesting BlackBerry-related news today. First off, the BlackBerry Torch 9800 , RIM’s flagship product, is now available from Three. It costs £249 with a £35/month plan that includes 2000 minutes to any network, 5000 minutes inside the Three network, 5000 texts and 1 GB of data.
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BlackBerry Torch 9800 is now on Three UK. The Curve 3G 9300 is Three’s first PAYG BlackBerry
Today during a keynote at CTIA, Ford VP of global product development, Derrick Kuzak, called on mobile app developers to come up with the next set of ideas that can link the car to the Internet through innovation in applications. “We are looking for your ideas,” Kuzak told the audience.
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CTIA: Ford Calls On Mobile App Developers To Innovate In-Car Tech Using SDK
Remember when the Internet was a place where you could come to put a mask on, and say whatever you wanted, however you wanted thanks to anonymity? Those were the golden days. Nowadays, however, with the advent of Facebook , more and more people are wearing their hearts on their digital sleeves. And the simple truth of the matter is some people look a hell of a lot better masked. Continue reading Editorial: Facebook is not your dear diary Tags: Editorial: Facebook is not your dear diary originally appeared on Venturus on Fri, October 08, 2010 – 10:18:01
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Editorial: Facebook is not your dear diary
Hey, what do we have here? One of our Verizon sources was kind enough to send us this piece of intel regarding Verizon Wireless and BlackBerry 6. It looks like the company plans of having an “interactive launch” of the BlackBerry 6 operating system on Thursday, October 14. The word interactive makes us think that the actual software bits may not be available, however, at minimum, this indicates a BB6 launch is right around the corner. We’ll keep digging and report what we find
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Verizon Wireless will have ‘interactive launch’ of BlackBerry 6 on October 14
The line between phones and computers becomes more blurred with every few months of technology that passes. The original move was the release of the iPhone , and the subsequent smartphone releases that followed. These handsets featured call, mobile email and text capabilities, cameras as per previous phone models, and increased usability such as word processors, applications, and a touchscreen. Connection ports were added so that phones no longer served solely as contact devices, but could be hooked up to other systems and used for entertainment purposes. After a few generations of the smartphone, and in a different part of the technology family, the popularity of the netbook laptop, Apple had a groundbreaking idea to merge the two into a new form of technology – the tablet computer.
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The Blackberry Playbook: The Ipad’s Succesor?
The Samsung Galaxy Tab will launch on Sprint on November 14th, according to one of the Boy Genius ‘ sources. The same person said that the Android-powered tablet will set you back $399 if you opt to sign a new 2-year contract with Sprint, or $599 contract-free. That certainly isn’t a big subsidy, and is nowhere near the great price of free that you can get the Galaxy Tab for in Sweden . $399 is also $100 more than what a Samsung exec had us expect a while ago when he said that the tablet would go for $200-$300 (subsidized)
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Samsung Galaxy Tab may launch on Sprint on November 14th, cost $399
You might have heard the next gen iPad will include a miniUSB port, but for those looking for an easier interface today, or want a standard USB interface for even the upcoming iPad, you should get the USB connector kit from USB Fever. The kit has a SD and USB connector which talks with the iPad through the female Apple connector you use for synchronizing or connecting to your computer.The kit gives you an easier way to upload images, video and PDF documents. It also gives you an easier way to connect your iPhone or other digital camera or video recorder to your iPad. Hell, you could almost toss out the PC…oh way, you’ve still got to sync and update. The USB port could also be used to connect your keyboard to the iPad for typing emails, etc. Sure you all love the keypad on the iPad, but it’s still not as easy to use as a traditional keyboard. USBFever webpage [$35] . Powered By: 2010 USB Powered Gadgets and more..
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Don’t Limit Your iPad From USB
Last month, application security provider Veracode came out with a study that stated that more than half of all enterprise applications aren’t secure.
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Finding the Holes in Your Application Security Blanket
Remember last week, when we talked about Verizon canceling the Storm 2 refresh? We’ve got an update on it, and it’s not good for fans of the Storm line, especially those who are on other carriers. Also, the discussion heads in the direction of the ideal BlackBerry, which we saw conceptualized this week. So click on over here to hear the BBGeekcast (9 min, 10 sec) And don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast so you won’t miss future episodes! You can also subscribe to the BBGeekcast in iTunes
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BBGeekcast: October 8, 2010 – Episode 137
You’ve seen cases for phones that have external batteries, now Kensington is introducing one for the iPad. The PowerBack is a soft-finish case that fits over the back of your iPad for a little extra protection. It has a 4400 mAh lithium-ion battery inside that provides up to an additional 5 hours of surfing, using apps, reading, or anything else you do with your iPad. There’s an LED battery meter to show the charge in the PowerBack. Speaker deflectors inside allow you to use the iPad’s external speaker. The case connects to the docking connector on the iPad and outputs 5V DC, 2.1A power to the iPad, and there’s a micro USB port (input: 5V DC, 0.5-2.1A) so you can sync and charge your iPad (and the PowerBack) without having to remove it from the case. There’s a built-in steel kickstand that let’s you use your iPad handsfree in portrait, landscape, or typing positions. The Kensington PowerBack Battery Case is $129.99; Kensington is taking pre-orders … [ visit site to read more ] Filed in categories: News , iPhone, iPad, iPod related Tagged: iPad case , iPad external battery Kensington PowerBack Battery Case for iPad with Kickstand and Dock originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on October 8, 2010 at 1:00 pm.
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Kensington PowerBack Battery Case for iPad with Kickstand and Dock
In case you haven’t been keeping up on your HTC G2 news: The recently released Android 2.2, G2 handset from T-Mobile has a built-in security feature that is having an adverse effect on those who are trying to root the device. As T-Mobile explains: The HTC software implementation on the G2 stores some components in read-only memory as a security measure to prevent key operating system software from becoming corrupted and rendering the device inoperable. There is a small subset of highly technical users who may want to modify and re-engineer their devices at the code level, known as “rooting,” but a side effect of HTC’s security measure is that these modifications are temporary and cannot be saved to permanent memory. As a result the original code is restored. This is good for those users who are not interest in root access; as the chance of a bricked device become slimmer.
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T-Mobile responds to complaints from G2 users seeking root