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Comment FoxyProxy to the rescue (Score 2, Interesting) 395

by KAFinVan on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @06:15PM (#24392875) Attached to: Scrabulous Is Dead, Hasbro's Version Brain-Dead

I just installed Foxyproxy and told it to reroute "http://apps.facebook.com/scrabulous" through a free proxy outside of the effected area. http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/

If Hasbro asks, I'm in Brazil.

GPS Trackers Find Novel Applications 185

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 10, 2008 @02:05PM from the where-did-i-put-that-eggo dept.

Pickens writes "Inexpensive GPS devices like the Zoombak (which costs just $200 plus $10 a month) have becomes so prevalent that some people are using them routinely to keep tabs on their most precious possessions. Kathy Besa has a Zoombak attached to the collar of her 5-year-old beagle, Buddy. If Buddy wanders more than 20 feet from the house, she gets a text message on her phone that says, 'Buddy has left the premises.' The small size made possible by chip advances over the last two or three years is enabling many novel uses of GPS tracking. An art collector in New York uses one when he transports million-dollar pieces, a home builder is putting them on expensive appliances to track them if they disappear from construction sites, a drug company is using them after millions of dollars in inventory turned up missing, and a mobile phone company is hiding them in some cellphone boxes to catch thieves."

Pixar to Release All New Movies in 3D 250

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 09, 2008 @08:58AM from the break-out-the-glasses dept.

emcron writes "The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday its Pixar animation studio will commit to 3-D by releasing all of its movies in the format beginning with "Up" in May 2009. Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter made the announcement in New York at a presentation of Disney's upcoming lineup of animated movies."

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