May 2011
Barack Obama Releases Parody Video On YouTube
The White House Correspondent’s Dinner, an annual tradition where the media and political elite meet to roast/congratulate each other, with mixed results, just finished up. Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers hosted the event, and you should be able to watch replays on C-SPAN if you’re interested.
One new twist to the proceedings: The White Hous ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
How to Jailbreak Verizon iPhone 4 (untethered)
Downloads and Info - http://bit.ly/iqZ685Follow me on Twitter & Facebook for updates:http://twitter.com/tysiphonehelp http://facebook.com/tymossfan Notes:- This jailbreaks the Verizon iPhone 4 on 4.2.7.- The main part of this guide is for Mac, but there is a short guide at the end for you Mac users.- Make sure your device is on 4.2.7 before do ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
WATCH: Katy Perry Covers Rebecca Black's 'Friday'
It may be the most hated song on YouTube, but let’s face it, “Friday” is here to stay.
At a concert on – can you guess which day? – Friday, Katy Perry broke out into the tune that’s become a de facto anthem for our favorite weekday, the one that Ms. Black so gracious taught us precedes Saturday.
(More on TIME.com: See the top 10 songs with ..read more.. via #smartr - my...
Triton 36,000 submarine to plumb ocean's deepest...
other 70 percent of the world. Triton Submarines has designed a three-passenger sub able to dive 36,000 feet, reaching the deepest part of the world’s oceans. And while Sir Richard envisions a spaceship-like craft, Triton’s design evokes old school bathyspheres: it’s a glass globe. Of course, water pressure poses a serious engineering challenge when ..read more.. via #smartr -...
Jarod Luebbert
Disqus for iPhone is nearing completion and I’m really excited about it. I have never put this much work in to a project, doing both the design and the development. Keep an eye out for the launch and let me know what you think. Disqus is already a great service so if this lets their users enjoy it even a little more, I’ll be happy. Also, this po ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
FCC Wants Your Input on the T-Mobile Buyout
If you’re one of the few with a real bone to pick over the proposed T-Mobile sell-off, now is your chance to tell the FCC what you think. Did you leave AT&T for T-Mobile? Are you not interested in a data network that has the reliability of France mid-battle? Would you rather something something of an alligator in a phone booth? If for any reason y ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
April 2011
Son of Qaddafi Killed in NATO Airstrike
A guided government tour on Saturday showed a missile from a coalition airstrike in the house of Saif al-Arab el-Qaddafi, the youngest son of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, in Tripoli. Bryan Denton for The New York Times
Rebels and citizens of Misurata celebrated late Saturday after hearing reports that Seif al-Arab el-Qaddaf was killed in a NATO airstrik ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
The Ultimate Localized Social Media Trolling App
Regardless of whether you believe that the $41 million funding for the company was appropriate or whether their Telegraph stunt was successful, Color is a still an app that has a ton of potential… for trolling.
Our friends over at Namesake gave us a nice visualized tutorial on how to take full advantage of the app’s greatest attribute.
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Hackers group says it will attack Iran Sunday
(CNN) — The Internet hackers group Anonymous plans to hack Iran on Sunday, according to a press release published on their website. The group wants to use International Workers’ Day, which commemorates the first national general strike in the United States, as an opportunity to reignite last year’s protests in Iran. Exactly how they intend to “atta ..read more.. via...
Facebook Comment Editing Arrives at Last
Did you just write something stupid on Facebook? Delete no more, my friend, because Facebook comment editing is finally here.
The ability to edit Facebook comments extends only to replies for existing status updates and wall posts. It won’t work for status updates themselves.
To edit, just click the “X” next to the comment, as if you’re going to del ..read more.. via...
Facebook Hires Vadim Lavrusik, a Journalist to...
Tech giants have always gobbled up journalists and media types, but most of those folks end up in the PR department.
But, as of Wednesday, Facebook has brought aboard a media-mind who won’t be fielding calls from AllThingsD.com reporters wondering about the Winklevii.
Vadim Lavrusik, former community manager at tech and social media Web site Masha ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
Seven Ways to Help Tornado Victims
Google supplied these before and after pictures of the storm’s devastation. The death toll from the catastrophic tornadoes in the South has climbed to more than 340, with thousands injured, homeless, without power or clean water. How can we harness the power of social media to help?One of the best things you can do is use Twitter and Facebook to spr ..read more.. via #smartr - my...
'Hanna' Illustrations Revealed | Myspace
‘Hanna,’ a movie about a young girl (Saorsie Ronan) trained as an assassin who’s sent on a mission across Europe, was a unique, visually amazing film on its own. But Focus Features set out to make ‘Hanna’ more than just a movie.
Focus found three artists who could capture the spirit of the characters Hanna, Erik, and Marissa, in their own chosen med ..read more.. ...
North American Dialect Chart: Ya’ll Talk…
Lately, for whatever reason, I’ve been talking to more and more of my Twitter friends on the phone. One of the first things people usually notice when they talk to me is that I have a very southern accent (gimme a break… geez, after all, I do live in Atlanta). For some reason, that surprises a lot of people.
Sometimes having a southern accent ca ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
Royal Wedding Snapshot: Who Got the Most Buzz?...
The Royal Wedding participants have all put away their tiaras, swords and spurs, and now it’s time to see who created and received the most social media buzz during the gigantic worldwide celebration.This was undoubtedly a big deal, important enough to get millions of wedding watchers on the U.S. West Coast to wake up at 3 a.m., and here’s the p ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
Google Releases Alabama Tornado Destruction Images...
Google has posted before-and-after images of the terrible devastation left behind by the tornadoes that hit the South earlier this week, with close-up views particularly of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
The easiest way to see the images is through a Picasa album that the company has posted. It explains more about these here.
Below is a montage photo of befor ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
Leaked Windows 8 builds reveal Windows Store and...
While those screenshots of the supposed “Windows App Store” turned out, as expected, to be fakes, there’s no doubt Microsoft is working on something along those lines to deliver in Windows 8. In fact, some of the bits are already in place in the leaked Windows 8 builds which have been shared on private FTP servers and torrent sites around the ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
Camera Apps: Camera+ Vs. Hipstamatic
http://www.apptvonline.com - AJ reviews two popular camera apps, Camera+ and Hipstamatic. ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized newspaper
Katy Perry sues Australian magazine
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Katy Perry has filed a lawsuit against Australian magazine NW for claiming she cheated on husband Russell Brand. The publication ran a cover story last month detailing Perry’s alleged affair with producer Benny Blanco.
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Perry’s lawsuit, which was filed against the magazine’s publishers on Wednesday in Australia’s Victoria Supreme Court, ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized newspaper
Your mom was the “Mudflap Girl”
What might be fightin’ words to some is a source of pride for Ed Allen, who claims the model for the busty babe adorning many a highway vehicle is none other than his mom.
The story goes as follows: Dad kept the photo in the cab of his truck, which always bore his wife’s name on the hood. When a new corporate owner forbade Stewart from decorating ..read more.. via #smartr - my...
DontEat.at Warns foursquare Users of NYC...
Saved from food poisoning by foursquare? It’s possible thanks to DontEat.at, a text-messaging service that uses the location-based mobile app’s application-programming interface and health code records from the City of New York.
Created by Max Stoller, DontEat.at will automatically send text messages to foursquare users who check in at restauran ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
$150 million seems cheap for a trip around the...
For $150 million, you could take 750 trips to space with Virgin Galactic. Or you could take five separate trips to the ISS and do a spacewalk on each one. Or, you could spend it all in one go, and join the elite group of humans, only 24 in all, who have traveled around the moon. Alright, so maybe $150 million doesn’t exactly seem cheap. But we’re ta ..read more.. via #smartr - my...
New Guinness World Record Set for Longest...
During Thursday night’s first-ever MTV O Music Awards, Chidera “Chiddy” Anamege of Chiddy Bang broke the Guinness World Record for Longest Freestyle Rap, as well as the Longest Marathon Rapping Record.Chiddy stole the throne from M-Eighty — who broke the record in 2009 by rapping for nine hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds — by freestyling f ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized newspaper
Lawsuits Filed Against Twitter, Facebook & MySpace...
Ah, class action lawsuits in action. If you want an idea of how the class action lawsuit process is often used for completely ridiculous purposes, just take a look at three separate lawsuits filed by a bunch of California lawyers. Each lawsuit is separate (and embedded below), and all three were pointed out by Eric Goldman. The lawsuits are against ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
Anonymous to target Iran with DoS attack
The hacker group Anonymous has its next denial-of-service (DoS) target in sight: Iran, CNET has learned. Members of the loosely organized group are planning “Operation Iran,” an attack designed to shut down Iranian Web sites beginning Sunday, according to their latest online proclamation. May 1 is International Worker’s Day. “The people of Iran have ..read more.. via...
Jell-O device detects organ failure
Using only aluminum foil, gelatin, a 12-cent LED light, and a few other inexpensive materials, researchers have developed a sensor that can detect pancreatitis quickly and easily. Pancreatitis is a sudden inflammation of the pancreas that can lead to severe stomach pain, nausea, fever, shock, and, in some cases, death. “We’ve turned Reynold’s ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
Another Hole In The Head 2011, A Horror, Sci-Fi &...
SF IndieFest presents Another Hole In The Head, a horror, sci-fi and fantasy film festival that takes place June 2-16 at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. They have setup a Kickstarter project to help raise funds to produce the festival.
Another Hole in the Head presents the finest and newest in contemporary underground independent horror, horror- ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
3 Ways to Fake Being a Hacker
Have you ever felt envious of your hacker friends? While they’re off making their fortunes, you’re watching The Matrix for the millionth time dreaming of a day when you can use your code to unlock the secrets of the world. Well, I can’t tell you how to become a master hacker. I can, however, give you three tips that will help you fake being a ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
PlayStation Network credit card details were...
Sony has revealed that credit card details held on its PlayStation Network were stored in securely encrypted files. The news offers some hope to users worried about their personal data after the online system was hacked. Sony had previously warned that card numbers and expiry dates may have been among the stolen data. However, other information, inc ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
Turn your iPad 2 into a Transformer with this LTD...
Sure all the case does is open and close, but the looks of it are so very Bumblebee. LTD Tools makes this iPad 2 case out of powder coated aluminum. It features a folding front cover that can also act as a stand and comes in several colors.
The only one photographed on the site is this yellow and gray version, although it is offered in charcoal, lig ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
Groupon vows to stop advertising on 'The...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Guns, abortion and Donald Trump: Three topics so controversial that Groupon doesn’t want its brand anywhere near them.The daily-deals website said late Thursday that it will pull its ads from the website of Donald Trump’s television show “The Apprentice” to distance itself from the “political criticism” swirling around Trump a ..read...
Jack Dorsey Shares Some Big Square Numbers:...
Square founder and CEO Jack Dorsey just tweeted a photo of the company’s internal dashboard, and, aside from looking very sexy, it’s boasting some impressive numbers. Among them: Square has shipped 341,688 of its card readers to date and has 332,483 activated users.
As Dorsey’s tweet points out, Square is also showing some very impressive grow ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
France Is Dropping Concrete Chunks on Libya
French planes have started dropping bomb-shaped chunks of concrete instead of actual bombs on Muammar Qadaffi’s tanks in Libya. The idea is that a 600-pound concrete training bomb, dropped from thousands of feet up, can crush a tank without creating a huge explosion that kills a lot of people. The move was rumored early on to be the result of a muni ..read more.. via #smartr - my...
Sony Bloggie 3D now available for aspiring James...
. The latest addition to the company’s line of pocket camcorders was quietly made available this week for $249.99 a pop — $80 more than the recently released Bloggie Duo HD, because extra dimensions ain’t cheap. The camera takes a cue from Nintendo’s latest portable, with a 2.4 inch 3D display that eschews the need for glasses. Or, if you’re not in ..read more.. ...
US lawmakers press Sony for info on data breach
WASHINGTON – U.S. lawmakers are pressing Sony Corp. for more information about the loss of personal data in a security breach that affected 77 million accounts on its PlayStation Network. Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., and Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., sent a letter Friday to the chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment America, Kazuo Hirai, deman ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
FTC Said to Contact Companies About Google...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is preparing to investigate Google Inc.’s dominance of the Internet search industry, said three people familiar with the matter. Photographer: Tony Avelar/Bloomberg The U.S. Federal Trade Commission
is alerting high-tech companies to gather information in
preparation for a probe of Google Inc. (GOOG)’s dominance o ..read more.. via #smartr - my...
Letterman calls Trump a racist
David Letterman is pretty ticked off at Donald Trump, who implied that Barack Obama only got into Harvard because of affirmative action. The talk show host took Trump’s friend Dr. Phil McGraw to task for the real estate mogul’s comments about the president.Trump has been hinting at a possible run for the presidency next year and, in addition to addi ..read more.. via #smartr - my...
Far East Movement : News : FAR EAST MOVEMENT...
FM NEWS: FAR EAST MOVEMENT NOMINATED FOR MTV JAPAN VMAShouts to all our fam in Japan. We’re always prayin for yall. To all of our FM heads globally.. there’s a link at our top banner on this site that goes straight to the Red Cross where u can donate directly to help aid Japan. Gotta thank yall for this… just got word from our team that our song ” ..read more.. via...
"Inside Job" director to shoot WikiLeaks film
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Charles Ferguson, who won an Oscar this year for directing the financial-meltdown documentary “Inside Job,” is attached to shoot an HBO Films movie about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The movie would mark Ferguson’s first non-documentary project. His other credits include the Oscar-nominated “No End in Sight, ..read more.. via...
Amazon launches 69-cent song store
LOS ANGELES – Amazon.com Inc. this week launched a store that sells digital songs for 69 cents, an attempt to bring more people to its e-commerce website and bolster its plan to charge people to store tunes on distant servers known as the cloud. It has cut the price on singles to 69 cents in the past, but this is the first time it has dedicated a ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
Hyperconsumption + design for the dump = the...
The white iPhone 4 became available recently and the simple color difference is expected to drive 1-1.5 million sales per quarter. According to the New York Times, 50 to 60 percent of phones are replaced “because people get tired of the design”.
As cool as it is to get a new computer, television, video game, MP3 player, etc., we might want to re ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
Karl Lagerfeld Has Chocolate Sculpture Made Of His...
We know that fashion types are legendarily uh eccentric, but this just takes the uh… cake? Karl Lagerfeld is apparently so enamored with his uh “traveling companion” and muse Baptiste Giabiconi that he had a sculpture of him made from chocolate — complete with an entire chocolate room, filled with chocolate furniture. It only took ten TONS o ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized newspaper
The Creepiest Royal Wedding Photo Ever, Courtesy...
Well, the Royal Wedding is over. Wasn’t that wonderful? If you weren’t watching on TV, there were about a million ways to participate online. Millions watched on YouTube, Livestream and elsewhere. And even those who were there uploaded their own photos and videos, including this guy. I’ll call him the masked Union Jack freak. Is that some so ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
Facebook accused of removing activists' pages
UK Uncut group are among those alleged to have had their Facebook page removed. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Facebook has removed dozens of profiles from its site, causing an outcry from campaigners trying to organise anti-austerity protests this weekend.The deactivated pages include UK Uncut, and pages created by students during last December’s ..read more.. via #smartr - my...
Blowin’ Money Fast: Birdman Reportedly Buys $8...
Birdman may have just taken “his #1 stunna” status to a new level now that he’s rumored to have bought an $8 million Maybach.
The rapper who’s known for his penchant for luxury vehicles previously mentioned in an interview that he’d heard about the Maybach Exelero and “had to have it.”
Now it looks like the Cash Money head’s gotten h ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized newspaper
Nokia to Leave New York
The Nokia office in White Plains, New York is expected to close by the end of 2012. Sunnyvale, California will become the central site for Nokia’s North American sales and marketing operations. The White Plains office opened in 2006. I live a few minutes away and visited a couple of times to meet up with some Nokia folks. I’m a little sad the ne ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized...
HipstaCase appeals to retro iPhone 4 snappers
If you are a regular user of the retro-camera Hipstamatic app on your iPhone 4, then this new retro camera case is sure to appeal.The new HipstaCase is currently only available in the US ($40 plus international shipping costs), so it doesn’t come cheap.Tripod-mount Hipstamatic commissioned designers at Agent 18 to create the new HipstaCase, which al ..read more.. via #smartr - my...
Aqua Star USA AS-2 Scooter lets you explore the...
If you’re too lazy to swim or learn how to dive, but you really want to explore the ocean there really hasn’t been any solution to the problem besides renting an underwater exploration DVD to watch or find someone who would take you on their submarine. Well now there’s a new option – called the AS-2 Scooter from Aqua Star USA.
Touted to be a ..read more.. via #smartr - my personalized newspaper
Prague to host world's most powerful laser --...
will always be the Eastern European capital of roast duck, potato dumplings and tasty, cheap pilsner. But come 2015, the former Soviet Bloc city will also become home to the world’s most powerful laser, as part of the European Union’s Extreme Light Infrastructure project. According to plans released by the European Commission, the laser will produce ..read more.. via #smartr - my...
