Nintendo Wii U GamePad Hacked To Play PC Games, And It’s Cool! [VIDEO]

Nintendo’s Wii was a roaring success, at least for the first few years of its life. Sell-outs the world over and an ability to draw so-called non-gamers into a market that was previously dominated by hardcore fans had Nintendo’s coffers overflowing.



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Apple denies knowledge of NSA’s iPhone program

Yesterday, a trove of secret documents was released regarding the NSA and its ongoing spying on citizens both abroad and here in the US. One of the programs mentioned, called DROPOUTJEEP, is particularly scary as it can give the Agency complete control of any iPhone.



via Pocket http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/12/31/apple-denies-nsa-iphone/

New Credit Card Scheme May Change Travel Rewards Forever

In settlements of class-action suits against Visa, MasterCard, and American Express, the three largest credit-card issuers have agreed to allow merchants to add a surcharge to credit-card transactions.



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Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal

On May 31st, president Barack Obama strolled into the bright sunlight of the Rose Garden, covered from head to toe in the slime and ooze of the Benghazi and IRS scandals. In a Karl Rove-ian masterstroke, he simply pretended they weren't there and changed the subject. The topic? Student loans.



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Download Home Alone / Hugo For Free On iTunes In HD Today! [Apple's 12 Days Of Gifts]

Apple’s ’12 Days of Gifts’ initiative is in full swing, and while some people may have been disappointed with some of the apps, movies and music that have been on offer for free by the folks in Cupertino, we’re supremely confident that the latest offering to be dangled in front of customer



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IRL: A look back at the original PlayStation Vita

For now, the new PlayStation Vita is available in Japan only, which leaves US gamers with a tough predicament: pay through the nose to import it, or settle for the old model. Even our own Mat Smith, who owns the original Vita, is finding it tough to recommend it over the 2013 edition.



via Pocket http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/29/irl-playstation-vita/

Tracks AIR (Wireless)

via Pocket http://solrepublic.com/shop/tracks-on-ear-headphones/tracks-air-wireless-headphones.html

Whited00r 7 – Give Your Old Device A Fresh Look

Whited00r has been around for a while, and having been behind bringing previous custom releases of iOS to obsolete hardware, the team behind the custom firmware have now turned their attentions to the controversial iOS 7. Their latest version has been released today and we already testing it.



via Pocket http://idevicedailys.com/iphone/whited00r-7-give-your-old-device-a-fresh-look/

Know My App

App (Application) Downloadable tools, resources, games, social networks or almost anything that adds a function or feature to a wireless device that are available for free or a fee. Some applications may also offer users the ability to purchase content or enhanced features within the application.



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2013 As Told By Top BitTorrent Searches

There isn't one central BitTorrent search engine to release top searches queries of the year, but Kickass Torrents is pretty close. It's definitely a go-to for standard stuff. And the most searched terms in 2013 were all over the place. Let's dig in.



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Getting Started

This is the first and most important step in transforming your music collection. Clean intelligently fixes all of your mislabeled song information, like "Track 01" and "Unknown Artist". Using Clean first will also ensure that TuneUp's other products can really work their magic.



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NSA’s backdoor catalog exposed: Targets include Juniper, Cisco, Samsung, Huawei

An internal NSA catalog offers spies backdoors into a wide range of equipment from major computing and security vendors, according to an article published by Germany’s Der Spiegel on Sunday, based on documents included in the Snowden cache.



via Pocket http://gigaom.com/2013/12/29/nsas-backdoor-catalog-exposed-targets-include-juniper-cisco-samsung-and-huawei/

Cydia Pack Icons IOS7

Download Zip file here : http://cl.



via Pocket http://svink.fr/2013/12/29/cydia-pack-icons-ios7/

Funny Pictures – 80 Pics

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Mercedes Adds Pebble Smartwatch to Its Roster of Integrated Wearables

While we’re still waiting for the day when we can finally ditch our car keys, Mercedes-Benz is inching closer to incorporating wearable tech into its cars. And the latest integration comes in the form of the Pebble smartwatch.



via Pocket http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/12/mercedes-pebble/

Flipboard for Web hands on : personal magazines on desktop

On Tuesday, Flipboard expanded its horizons and started offering Web access, so if you don’t have your tablet or phone handy but you still want to browse user-created magazines with the app, no worries – you can do it from your desktop.



via Pocket http://m.digitaltrends.com/social-media/flipboard-for-web-hands-on-limited-functionality-but-a-good-start/

10 Places To See Before They're Gone

Places, much like animals can become endangered, and some of the world's most amazing sights are gradually disappearing. Scientists say climate change has been affecting oceans, reefs, beaches, and even cities.



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Tiny Hyper-Realistic Illustrations, Right Next to the Tools Used to Create Them

You have to get pretty close to Karla Mialynne’s work before you realize it isn’t real. To create her illustrations – which mostly feature animals like pugs and owls – she uses Prismacolor pencils, Pantone Tria markers and occasionally, acrylic paint.



via Pocket http://www.visualnews.com/2013/12/27/tiny-hyper-realistic-illustrations-right-next-tools-used-create/#FfUu5pIifvZelYvI.99

How would in-flight calling actually work?

Making phone calls from 35,000 feet in the air has been a hot-button topic of late, spurred on by recent comments made by Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.



via Pocket http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/26/5245354/how-would-in-flight-calling-actually-work

Play classic video games in style with OpenEmu for Mac

The world has no shortage of video game emulators, but many can be painful to use — many reflect their hacker origins with equally hacky interfaces, and you'd need a vast collection of different emulators to properly relive your childhood. By contrast, OpenEmu is a breath of fresh air.



via Pocket http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/26/5245864/openemu-mac-elegant-open-source-video-game-emulator

Why Battery Life Should Be The New Smartphone Battleground

Smartphones are unquestionably one of the most useful devices of the 21st century but they continue to have one critical flaw – battery life. We’ve all been there – you forgot to charge your smartphone and you have 10% battery life left to see you through the day.



via Pocket http://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2013/12/13/why-battery-life-should-be-the-new-smartphone-battleground/

"Become An iOS Developer In 8 Weeks": The Truth About Hack Schools

As coding courses and bootcamps flourish, some students get left behind--and that promise of a six-figure salary pops like a bubble. After the design firm where he worked as a web developer went under, Ray S. turned the bad news into an opportunity to transition into iOS development.



via Pocket http://www.fastcompany.com/3023456/become-an-ios-developer-in-8-weeks-the-truth-about-hack-schools

30 Years Later, One Man Is Still Trying To Fix Video Games

Chris Crawford owns 29,216 small plastic beads. Each bead is one of eight colors, and there are 3,652 beads in each color group. One bead represents a single day in Crawford's life. Each color group, therefore, represents one decade. The yellow beads are his childhood. The black beads are his teens.



via Pocket http://kotaku.com/30-years-later-one-mans-still-trying-to-fix-video-gam-1490377821/@barrett

Target Confirms That Encrypted PINs Were Swiped in Black Friday Hack

After admitting yesterday that some encrypted data had been pulled by the hack potentially affecting 40 million customers, Target has gone on to further confirm that the encrypted data stolen does in fact include PIN information.



via Pocket http://gizmodo.com/target-confirms-that-encrypted-pins-were-swiped-in-blac-1490418755

iPad keyboard case roundup: Logitech Folio vs. Belkin Ultimate vs. ClamCase Pro

Listen, you probably shouldn't be here. The iPad is a pure and carefully honed machine. If its designers wanted you to use some kind of ludicrous hybrid contraption that fused a tablet with a physical keyboard and doubled the weight, they'd have built one for you. But they didn't.



via Pocket http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/08/ipad-keyboard-case-round-up/

This Man Wants to Make the NBA a Social Network — And Take It Global

One Thursday night in May, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Vivek Ranadive pulled a Sacramento Kings basketball jersey over his purple pinstripe dress shirt and walked onstage as 10,000 people roared.



via Pocket http://www.wired.com/business/2013/12/vivek-ranadive-sacramento-kings/

ClamCase Pro iPad Mini Keyboard Case

Little things make a big difference. ClamCase Pro for iPad Mini and iPad Mini Retina delivers a spacious, comfortable keyboard in an impressively compact package. Stunning bead blasted aluminum. Patented 360˚ fully-rotational hinge.



via Pocket http://clamcase.com/ipad-mini-keyboard-case.html

iFans – This iOS 7 multitasking concept is intriguing and confusing

When you get a chance to watch the video after the break, you may falsely assume that it’s the brainchild of famous iOS concept artist “Sentry,” otherwise known on YouTube as s3ntry93.



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Missing Link

Looks like an IFTTT Recipe was set up that needed a URL to function properly, but that URL wasn’t found.



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Personal Tragedy, Tricorders and the Idea of Mapping One’s Body

When Walter De Brouwer puts his head to something, he can produce single-handedly what usually takes several hospital machines and labs. His single hand, it should be said, holds a small and promising device with which Mr.



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Missing Link

Looks like an IFTTT Recipe was set up that needed a URL to function properly, but that URL wasn’t found.



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The Best Jailbreak Tweaks Compatible With iOS 7

As many of you may know, iOS 7 has been jailbroken. The Evad3rs recently surprised the community with an official iOS 7 untethered jailbreak. While this is excellent news, unfortunately, there aren’t very many tweaks that are compatible with iOS 7 yet.



via Pocket http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/12/the-best-jailbreak-tweaks-compatible-with-ios-7/

How to fix Cydia “failed to fetch” errors by removing the UltraSn0w repo

One of the more common error messages that new Cydia users will come across is the error that says Failed to fetch [...] HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found. This is a typical 404 message that you get when you visit a webpage location that no longer exists.



via Pocket http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/12/24/how-to-fix-cydia-failed-to-fetch-errors-by-removing-the-ultrasn0w-repo/

Carry the essentials and keep your iPhone...

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Sign in to continue to Google Drive

Create an account One Google Account for everything Google



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OpenEmu Emulates Nearly Every Classic Console on Mac

Mac: OpenEmu is an all-in-one video game emulator where you can emulate your games, create collections, set up controllers, and plenty more. OpenEmu does pretty much everything you'd expect.



via Pocket http://lifehacker.com/openemu-emulates-nearly-every-classic-console-on-mac-1489122040

Cydia updated for iOS 7 [video]

Ladies and gentlemen, the much anticipated Cydia 1.1.9 update for iOS 7 is out right now, and it looks good. We have a full video walkthrough in the works, but for now, head over to Cydia to find the upgrade to the Cydia installer and UIKit, and have at it.



via Pocket http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/12/24/cydia-updated-for-ios-7/

Review: Belkin's FastFit Keyboard Case for iPad Mini

AppleInsider › Forums › Mobile › iPad › Review: Belkin's FastFit Keyboard Case for iPad Mini Review: Belkin's FastFit Keyboard Case for iPad Mini Subscribe Search This Thread



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FastFit Bluetooth® Wireless Keyboard Case for iPad Mini

The Belkin FastFit Bluetooth Keyboard Case for iPad mini gives you an iPad mini wireless keyboard and protective case in an exceptionally lightweight package. Using your iPad mini to update social media, blog, or type has never been more comfortable.



via Pocket http://www.belkin.com/us/F5L153-Belkin/p/P-F5L153

This Harvard Prof’s Printed Batteries Could Revolutionize Our Gadgets

Harvard professor Jennifer Lewis has spent the last couple decades working on a series of smart "inks" that allow designers to create bespoke batteries and electrical contacts using entry-level 3-D printers.



via Pocket http://www.wired.com/design/2013/12/3-d-printing-batteries/

Back Yard Nest Ball Turns into a Surprising Insect (19 pics)

via Pocket http://izismile.com/2013/12/23/back_yard_nest_ball_turns_into_a_surprising_19_pics.html

Being a Great Person: Pope Francis (17 pics)

via Pocket http://izismile.com/2013/12/23/being_a_great_person_pope_francis_17_pics.html

They Had To Demolish This Town After The Roads Were Paved With Cancer

On this day in 1982, the government informed the residents of Times Beach, Missouri that they would have to evacuate. The town had paved its own roads with dioxin, among the most toxic cancer-causing substances made by man.



via Pocket http://jalopnik.com/they-had-to-demolish-this-town-after-they-paved-the-roa-1488566724/@barrett

An ode to transmog

How much do I obsessively love transmog? This much.



via Pocket http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/12/23/an-ode-to-transmog/

Daily Picdump (95 pics)

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No BlackBerry Live in 2014

Perhaps not unsurprisingly, BlackBerry has decided to forgo its big conference next year. The struggling handset maker will not host a BlackBerry Live conference in 2014, the company announced in a blog post Friday.



via Pocket http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57616250-94/no-blackberry-live-in-2014/

Don't Learn to Code: Learn to Work With Technology

Everyone wants to learn to code these days. It seems to be a skill we're now considering indispensable.



via Pocket http://lifehacker.com/dont-learn-to-code-learn-to-work-with-technology-1488581331

Your Choice Of Bluetooth Headphones, 2013's Popular Games [Deals]

If you've been waiting for a good deal on a pair of Bluetooth Headphones, today is your lucky day. Go the bargain route and pick up the Monoprice Bluetooth Headphones for only $60, or step up to the Parrot Ziks, complete with touch controls, for $80 off.



via Pocket http://gizmodo.com/your-choice-of-bluetooth-headphones-2013s-popular-gam-1488719367