Although the iPhone 4S was unveiled unto the world on October 4, 2011, a day before Apple co-founder Steve Jobs sadly passed away on October 5, 2011, the latest claim is that the iPhone 5 is due to arrive 3 months earlier than expected on August 7.
Category: Technology news
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Top 9 Hardware Boosting Hacks
With great hardware comes great opportunity. Thanks to the internet and clever hacking communities, there are plenty of ways to boost the capabilities of your everyday gadgets. Some save you money, some add features, and some are the entire package. Here are our top nine favourite hardware boosting hacks.
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DeadMouse Opens Links with Just Your Keyboard
Chrome: You can do almost all of your web browsing with just keyboard shortcuts, but in Chrome one of the missing features is the ability to open links inside a page. With the DeadMouse extension, you get that ability just by typing the words in the link.
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Entangle: Controlling Your DSLR Camera From Linux
Entangle is an open-source program that allows for “tethered shooting” from Linux with digital SLR camera. A major update to Entangle last weekend introduces new features.
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Reverse-Engineering USB Keyboards For Linux Support
For those interested in reverse-engineering USB keyboards (or other input devices), there’s a short yet effective guide by Julien Danjour for reverse-engineering a Logitech keyboard in order to provide Linux support.
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Will the Ubuntu Phone OS Look This Good?
News on the fabled Ubuntu Phone is scant on the ground, so users are channelling their creativity to imagine how it might look.
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Every click you make, they’ll be watching
The telephone and internet data of every Australian will be retained for up to two years and intelligence agencies would be given increased access to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, under a suite of new proposals from Australia’s intelligence community.
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Props Keeps Your Headphones Untangled
If you use earbuds to listen to music, you probably have them with you but not necessarily wearing them all the time. You may need to take them out to interact with another person or when you want a break from listening to your music. When that happens, you have to solve the problem of where to put those earphones. Props solves that problem for you.
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Microsoft CEO declares war on Apple, considers smartphone
This post was originally published on Mashable.
Declaring a new era for the company, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the Surface tablet will rejuvenate Microsoft as it takes on Apple and he didn’t discount the possibility of a Microsoft-made smartphone.
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Watchdog mulls naked mandate for Telstra
Telstra could be forced to wholesale naked DSL services over its copper infrastructure for the first time, under a new proposal from the competition watchdog.