Cody Taylor

Essential apps to add new functionality to your handset.

It’s well known that Facebook has had its eye on Twitter (as well as several billion dollars if it ever wants to be acquired). Now, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has joined!

Here is a Showcase of 50+ Cute and Adorable Monster Characters Illustration to enhance your imagination and for more inspirations.

At some point, nearly everyone who uses Linux has someone ask them “what’s that?” This question almost invariably leads to “why is it better than ?” What do you say when someone asks you this?

hyades1 writes “Gizmodo reports that Verizon is sending out notification letters infested with virtually-indecipherable legalese. In their sneaky, underhanded way, they’re informing you that you have 45 days to opt out of their plan to share your personal data with ‘affiliates, agents and parent companies.’ That data can include, but isn’t limited to, ‘services purchased (including specific calls you make and receive), billing info, technical info and location info.’ If you view your statement on-line, you won’t even get the letter. You’ll have to access your account and view your messages. However, Read Write Web says the link provided there, called the ‘Customer Proprietary Network Information Notice,’ was listed as ‘not available.’ No doubt Verizon would like to reassure you that everyone they’re going to hand your personal data over to will have your best interests at heart.”

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Singularity Hub writes “For decades our options for interacting with the digital world have been limited to keyboards, mice, and joysticks. Now with a new generation of exciting new interfaces in the pipeline our interaction with the digital world will be forever changed. Singularity Hub looks at some amazing demonstrations, mostly videos, that showcase new ways of interacting with the digital world.” Along similar lines, reader shakuni points out a facial expression-driven user interface reported on News.com for operating, say, an iPhone, explaining “This device is tiny and fits into the ear and measures movements inside the ear due to changes in facial expression and then uses that as input triggers. So [tongue out] starts or stops your iPod Touch; [Wink] rewinds to the last song; and [smile] replays the same song.”

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Richard Rothwell writes with news that Jack Straw, Britain’s Justice Secretary, has made public plans to drop provisions from the Coroners and Justice Bill which would have allowed the government to take information gathered for one purpose and use it for any other purpose. “A spokesman for Mr Straw said the ‘strength of feeling’ against the plans had persuaded him to rethink. The proposals will be dropped entirely from the Coroners and Justice Bill, and a new attempt will be made to reach a consensus on introducing a scaled-back version at an unspecified stage in the future.” After defending the government’s intentions, Straw bowed to pressure from a variety of groups and individuals who presented objections to the bill.

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It may look like a prototype for NiteOwl’s Owlship invaded by some alien organism, but architect Robert Bruno’s 100-ton steel house is the result of his vision and tenacity in making that vision come true.

All five of these systems have the geek factor, the ability to take what comes in the base system and turn it into something very distinctive, and very YOU.

Most telecom customers are buying more product than they use, and that’s pure gravy for service providers. “It’s hard for customers to gauge how much of this product they’re going to use. The phone companies basically force you to calculate in advance something that’s very difficult to calculate.”