Mightee - Slashdot User

Submission + - How To Enable Facebook Timeline Right Now (gizmocrazed.com)

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on Friday September 23, 2011 @02:29AM

Mightee writes: "Facebook yesterday announced a new profile feature called the Timeline that allows you to check back on everything you have ever done, all the way back to when you were born.

The feature hasn't been available to the public yet, but there is a way you can get it right now. Here is what you have to do."

Submission + - Pakistan seeks to block Facebook again (thenextweb.com)

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on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @03:29AM

Mightee writes: "Pakistan, which was in the news last year for blocking Facebook over a “Draw Mohammad Day” competition, is seeking to ban the social network again due to the second round of the same competition, reports Pakistan Today.

Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, presiding over the Lahore High Court, ordered the Ministry of Information and Technology to block access to Facebook nationwide on the charge of “spreading religious hatred on the Internet”. The court also directed the ministry to police the Internet and block all other websites that were found guilty of the same charge, but it spared search engines like Google (which it is targeting for other reasons)."

Submission + - NASA Discovers New 'Tatooine' Planet With Two Suns (gizmocrazed.com)

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on Friday September 16, 2011 @02:47PM

Mightee writes: "NASA's Kepler mission has reported that it has discovered something that has not been found yet — a planet that revolves around two suns.

NASA's officials have named this planet as Kepler 16(AB)-b but astronomers are calling it Tatooine. This new discovery also acquits Luke Skywalker from any blame — his desert homeland in Star Wars also featured a planet with two suns.

However, scientists looked at this assumption in a dubious manner. Now that assumption has become a reality, maybe that is why the scientists are calling this planet as "Tatooine"."

Submission + - UK Ad Authority:iPhone4 The World's Slimmest Phone (gizmocrazed.com)

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on Thursday September 15, 2011 @01:58PM

Mightee writes: "According to report published by an advertising authority in Britain, Apple iPhone 4 is still the slimmest smartphone in the world and not the Samsung Galaxy S II.

Advertising Standards Authority in the UK has stopped Samsung from claiming its Galaxy S II as the slimmest phone. According to them, Samsung Galaxy S II measures about 8.71mm thick except the bottom part which measures about 9.91mm thick and houses the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and other hardware whereas, the iPhone 4 measures about 9.3mm thick from top to bottom."

Submission + - Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcuts (gizmocrazed.com)

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on Thursday September 15, 2011 @02:13AM

Mightee writes: "Using keyboard shortcuts helps you increase your typing speed, saves handsome amount of time and also relieve hands from that pain caused by using mouse repetitively. Here are some of the keyboard shortcuts for the recently announced Microsoft Windows 8 to increase productivity."

Submission + - App Store Apps Make More Money Than Android Apps (gizmocrazed.com)

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on Sunday September 11, 2011 @07:27AM

Mightee writes: "According to a recent survey, Android developers are making much less than what iOS developers are. The reason for this could be many. However, the most probable reason is piracy.

According to a report from Skyhook and the Yankee group, the sales of apps of different platforms are increasing with each day and a single consumer is buying about 40 apps every year. Nevertheless, this number does not mean that apps on iOS and Android are selling off at equal rates with Android users buying lesser apps than their competitor's users do."

Submission + - Adobe Flash Finally Comes To iPhone, iPad And iPod (gizmocrazed.com)

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on Saturday September 10, 2011 @10:15AM

Mightee writes: "According to various sources Adobe has produced a new technology, which fills all needs of Apple devices and could well be incorporated and bring Flash support in their devices — without degrading the performance. Adobe announced the newest version of Adobe Flash Media Server today. It will allow developers to stream Flash content directly to a wide array of devices and enable flash content to be played on iPhones, iPads and iPod touch without installing any Add-ons.

This new technology developed by Adobe works like a HTTP stream. Instead of processing the flash file locally on the device, the files are rather rendered on a remote server and then streamed to other browsers."

Submission + - Sprint To Offer Unlimited Data For iPhone 5 (gizmocrazed.com)

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on Friday September 09, 2011 @02:25PM

Mightee writes: "The rumor mill on iPhone 5 is producing new and improved rumors day by day with leaked pictures and other leaked items, surely points that the release of the device is very near.

Now, we have come to know that Sprint is planning to release the next generation iPhone with an unlimited data plan as early as next month. This might not come as a surprise as the company is looking to edge past its customers with various services that others do not offer."

Submission + - Apple Sues Samsung In Japan Over Patent Violation (gizmocrazed.com)

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on Thursday September 08, 2011 @04:38AM

Mightee writes: "The on-going patent war between Apple and Samsung Electronics continues as Japanese news agency Kyodo reports that Apple has sued Samsung in Japan over the alleged iPhone patent violation — the first hearing was held on Wednesday."

Submission + - TechCrunch As We Know It May Be Over (techcrunch.com) 1

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on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @06:03AM

Mightee writes: "TechCrunch is on the precipice. As soon as tomorrow, Mike may be thrown out of the company he founded. Or he may not. No one knows. And if he is, he will be replaced by — well, again, no one knows. No one knows much of anything. Certainly no one at TechCrunch. This site is about to change forever and we’re in the total fucking dark. I’ve been able to piece together little bits of information here and there, and it’s not looking good. Hence, this post.

By now, if you read TechCrunch, you likely know about the nuclear situation that has exploded over the past several days. Mike unveiled an investing entity known as the “CrunchFund” with full AOL support — so much support, mind you, that they’re the largest backers of the fund — only to have his legs kicked out from under him due to what can only be described as nonsensical political infighting and really poor communication. To make matters worse, some Journalists (with a big “J” and even bigger senses of entitlement) have proceeded to pile on, despite having no real knowledge — at all — of the way TechCrunch actually works. And now here we are."

Submission + - "Twitter Terrorists" Could Get 30 Years in Prison (guardian.co.uk)

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on Monday September 05, 2011 @01:50AM

Mightee writes: "A man and a woman are facing 30-year prison terms in Mexico for allegedly using Twitter to spread panic over a series of child kidnappings.

Gilberto Martinez Vera, 48, a private school teacher, and Maria de Jesus Bravo Pagola, a radio presenter, were accused of spreading false reports that gunmen were attacking schools in the south-eastern city of Veracruz."

Submission + - Mozilla Unveils Slick "Firefox For Tablets" (businessinsider.com) 1

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on Sunday September 04, 2011 @04:32AM

Mightee writes: "In a blog post today, Mozilla unveiled Firefox for tablets, a work in progress that takes the best of Android Honeycomb and Firefox and blends the two together into a delicious browser concoction.
Dubbed "an evolution of its phone-based predecessor," Firefox for tablets was built to look like Android Honeycomb, while retaining trademark Firefox UI details like the back button."

Submission + - Toyota P001 Smashes EV Lap Record At Nurburgring (gizmocrazed.com)

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on Thursday September 01, 2011 @05:57AM

Mightee writes: "The EV P001 now holds the electric car lap record at Germany's Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit after it smashes the previous record by more than a minute, Toyota has announced.

Driven by Jochen Krumbach, P001 broke the existing record with a time of 7 minutes and 47.794 seconds (despite low track temperature), beating the previous record set by Peugeot EX1 EV by almost 74 seconds. The lap was completed on road-legal tires and was verified by independent lap timing."

Submission + - Ford Evos: A Cloud-Connected Hybrid EV Of Future (gizmocrazed.com)

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on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @10:59AM

Mightee writes: "Ford Evos is a cloud connected hybrid electric vehicle which will be making its debut in mid-September at the Frankfurt's international auto show.

The car will offer an overall driving range of more than 500 miles (800 kilometres) using lithium-ion batteries and gasoline engine which is more than any other plug-in or extended-range EV."

Submission + - Why Women Get More Scared Watching Horror Movies (gizmocrazed.com) 3

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on Monday August 29, 2011 @02:06PM

Mightee writes: "Why women freak out watching a horror movie while most men don't? According to a new study, it is due to the female brain which makes them more terrified. Pity! :D

Men and women differ in the way they regard an emotional and unpleasant experience, which affects the response with which that experience is committed to memory.

Researchers from University College London found that women get more scared as they are more likely to anticipate scary scenes that lie ahead. They measured the brain activity of 3o men and women by showing them pictures such as nice landscapes(positive) and extreme violence(negative)."

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