Friday, January 31, 2014

How to install OS X Mavericks on your PC with Niresh





The advantages of Unibeast vs. Niresh Niresh is a distro, which is a pirated copy of Mac OS X that has been modified to work with a PC. Distros are a popular Hackintosh alternative to Unibeast, a better-known installation tool which requires a retail copy of Mac OS X instead.



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Jolla smartphone review





I spent a month with Jolla's smartphone and the Sailfish OS... Here's my (epic) review!



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Should Brits buy the new, slimmer and pricier PlayStation Vita?





Decisions, decisions, decisions. Saying it three times won't make things any easier, but that's where we come in.



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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Pebble Steel UK Review: Is This The Smartwatch of Your Dreams?





The Pebble Steel is the latest smartwatch to make the claim that it is (a) beautiful and (b) genuinely useful. Arguably no smartwatch has managed both things at once so far - so is the Pebble Steel the one to do it?



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Keyboard Shortcuts For iOS 7 Apps





iOS 7 introduces support for keyboard shortcuts with external Bluetooth keyboards for third-party developers.



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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Fitness Chicks Are Always Gorgeous (42 pics + 2 gifs)









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This Norwegian Beauty Kicks Ass at Crossfit (30 pics)









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Grownup Corner (48 pics + 8 gifs + 4 videos)





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Daily Picdump (98 pics)





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A Breakup Letter to Netflix









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Blizzard releases first-ever Warcraft infographic





World of Warcraft. It's an enigma. It's not only the biggest MMORPG in the world, it has consistently kept a massive player base for more than nine years -- with a subscription model that has stayed strong where pretty much every other MMORPG has failed.



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Twitter updates app with enhancements for Tweet replies and photo viewer





Folks who use the native Twitter app will be happy to hear that the social network has updated its official iOS client this afternoon. The update brings the app to version 6.1, and it includes a number of enhancements and improvements.



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Saurik lists the jailbreak tweaks he has installed on his iPhone





Since we closely cover the jailbreak community here at iDB, we are often asked by readers what apps and tweaks we have installed. Between us, we probably try a dozen new tweaks a week, or more, so sometimes we have stuff on our devices that others may not know about.



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Convergance takes your Lock screen in a bold new direction





Apple has always exercised fine-tuned control over iOS by making it a relatively closed platform, at least compared to Android.



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Tuesday, January 28, 2014









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Patch 5.4.7 PTR: Is this the level 90 boost gear?





Filed under: News items, Rumors



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Pebble Steel And Pebble Appstore Review: The Smartwatch Grows Up





The new Pebble Steel (which starts shipping today) has a lot in common with its predecessor, but it also comes with a software update that makes any and all Pebbles into essentially new devices, so the overall experience of owning one is actually quite different, and (spoiler alert) much improved.



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Google-Backed Developer Group Slams Newly Uncovered NSA App Spying





Yesterday, newly reveled efforts by the NSA and its British counterpart, the GCHQ, to collect user information from certain mobile applications relit the discussion concerning privacy, data integrity, and the limits of government surveillance.



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Insect Nervous System Copied To Boost Computing Power





Brains are the most powerful computers known. Now microchips built to mimic insects' nervous systems have been shown to successfully tackle technical computing problems like object recognition and data mining, researchers say. Attempts to recreate how the brain works are nothing new.



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Plague DNA Found in Ancient Tooth Suggests Black Death Isn't Dead Yet





You've undoubtedly heard about the Bubonic plague, but the chances of you knowing next to anything about the Justinian plague are significantly slimmer. That's because no one really knew anything about the Justinian plague—until recently, that is.



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Morning Picdump (57 pics)





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Monday, January 27, 2014

This watch puts beautifully ...





This watch puts beautifully rotating planets on your wrist http://vrge.co/1n7YHL0 pic.twitter.



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Apple’s earnings show us just how bad things are right now for smartphone makers





HTC and BlackBerry each reported dismal Christmas-quarter results — but they’re both terminal losers. Nokia turned in a shocking sequential smartphone unit decline in Q4 — but that’s another vendor in trouble.



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HTC M8 flagship phone may go where no HTC phone has gone before





The HTC M8, also referred to as the HTC One+ in recent reports, will feature on-screen buttons according to trusted leaker @evleaks, who has been accurate with many mobile-related leaks in the past.



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A Snorkel Mask That Lets You Breath Like You're Not Underwater





Snorkeling isn't the most difficult skill to master—especially compared to scuba diving—but only breathing through your mouth is a skill that doesn't come easy to everyone.



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Sunday, January 26, 2014

Cryptography experts pen open letter against NSA surveillance





The pressure on the US government to reform the NSA’s surveillance programs is growing. Apple, Google, and Microsoft all called for change last month alongside a petition from international authors calling for an end to mass surveillance.



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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Stamping Chinese banknotes with censorship-busting QR codes





An anonymous anti-censorship group is stamping Chinese banknotes with a QR code and the message "Scan and download software to break the Internet firewall." The stamps encode a URL for Freegate, a firewall-busting service.



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This is what the entire stadium in Tecmo Super Bowl would...





This is what the entire stadium in Tecmo Super Bowl would look like, according to @VideoGameMayhem. Clean, classic stadium design, but I think it could use a newer video scoreboard. [via TecmoBowl.org]



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Motorola's Knocking $100 Off Unlocked Moto X for One Hour on Monday





Holding out for a better price on an unlocked Moto X? Keep waiting until Monday—then scramble like your hair's on fire, because Motorola's cutting off-contract prices by $100 between 3 and 4PM EST on January 27th.



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Vuze 101 – How To Seed A Torrent File With Vuze





Torrents are not only an extremely popular form of file sharing, but also an efficient means of distributing large amounts of digital data.



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Friday, January 24, 2014

The original Macintosh 128K gets torn asunder by iFixit





The disassembly ninjas at iFixit are usually focused on splitting open the newest gadgets to see what's inside. Today, in honor of the Mac's 30th birthday, they've turned their tools on a thing from the past: the original Macintosh 128K.



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Drunk History: Billy the Kid









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Facebook Mocks Predictions of its Doom





Two Princeton researchers have forecast that Facebook will lose 80 percent of its users by 2017. Facebook has responded by poking fun at the methodology and making its own forecast that Princeton will disappear by 2021, with the human population lasting only four decades beyond that.



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Stephen Hawking: 'There Are No Black Holes'





ananyo writes "Stephen Hawking has proposed a new solution to the black-hole firewall paradox, which has been vexing physicists for almost two years. The paradox troubles physicists because if the firewall scenario is correct, Einstein's general theory of relativity is flouted.



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Stephen Hawking: 'There are no black holes'





Most physicists foolhardy enough to write a paper claiming that “there are no black holes” — at least not in the sense we usually imagine — would probably be dismissed as cranks. But when the call to redefine these cosmic crunchers comes from Stephen Hawking, it’s worth taking notice.



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How To Give iOS 7 Lock Screen A Minimalistic Makeover





The lock screen is the first port of call on almost any mobile device, and since iOS users don’t really get to change much other than the wallpaper at stock level, it’s no wonder that the recent jailbreak has seen Cydia inundated with lock screen-based mods for eager iPhone, iPad and iPod touc



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Tim Cook, Craig Federighi talk 30 years of Mac, secrecy, and sapphire crystal in ABC interview





Last night we reported that Apple CEO Tim Cook has been interviewed by ABC in celebration of 30 years of the Mac. Tonight, the interview will air on World News with Diane Sawyer, but this morning, a tease of the interview was given on Good Morning America.



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Google Glass Could Be Very Useful to Firefighters









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Thursday, January 23, 2014

The ‘Uncarrier revolution’ is real





T-Mobile CEO John Legere likes to blow a lot of hot air about his company sparking a “revolution” within the wireless industry, which is a claim that we’ve often treated with skepticism.



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Microtransactions: The good, the bad, and the ugly





Over the weekend, I played a good number of hours of a game called Warframe. The movement was great, combat was fluid, it's one of the only games I've played lately that has that instantaneous feel you get from WoW.



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Time to Switch Now





*$150 savings offer available only at Verizon Wireless and participating Authorized Retailer stores in Queens, NY. $150 one time bill credit at Verizon Wireless Communications Stores, $100 one time bill credit and $50 mail-in rebate debit card at Authorized Agent Stores.



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Six Real Life Lessons I Learned from World of Warcraft





Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs, mercifully) get a bad rap for being life-sucking parallel universes. However, games like World of Warcraft are a microcosm of many real-life experiences. No, really.



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Apple Said To Be Working On Apple TV Hardware Update, Native Game Support





Apple is rumored to be working on an Apple TV successor, planned for release in the first half of this year according to 9to5Mac. The update would be a set-top box just like its existing model, but with improvements to the new OS and additional content types, the report claims.



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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

New mount sneak peek on Warcraft Twitter





Filed under: Blizzard, News items, Warlords of Draenor



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Safari support completes Adblock Plus five-browser sweep





Adblock Plus, a browser plug-in that wipes what it deems to be more intrusive advertisements off the Web, has completed its sweep of the top browsers on personal computers with the release of a version for Safari.



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Everything You’re Thinking About Nintendo Is Totally Wrong





The entire internet has weighed in with what it believes is the answer to Nintendo’s financial woes: Go mobile, immediately. But the entire internet is wrong.



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Netflix ends 2013 with 44 million subscribers, will keep experimenting with pricing





Netflix had a big year in 2013 with award-winning original content, new features and millions of new customers. Now, the company's fourth quarter report reveals it wrapped up last year with over 44 million customers worldwide.



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