Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Facebook Retracts New Terms of Service [Privacy]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/fxpgKl_a-os/facebook-retracts-new-terms-of-service

In a late-night blog post responding to the recent outcry over a recent change to Facebook's terms of service, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social network's TOS will revert to a previous version.

Check out the new/old terms at Facebook, and be sure to jump into your account and dig into 10 privacy settings every Facebook user should know. Are you glad to see Facebook respond to user concern, or does the social networking cloud leave you as wary as ever?



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Posted by Augustine at 9:39 AM

Freescale's i.MX515 netbook chip now supports Android and Xandros

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/freescales-i-mx515-netbook-chip-now-supports-android-and-xandro/


When we first laid eyes on Freescale's five-core i.MX515 processor this January, we hoped it was all it claimed to be -- promising an extremely cool machine with a low power budget and a price point that'll take your next netbook down near the fabled $199 range. So far, so good: the Pegatron machines we peeped at CES fit the bill quite nicely, and now ZD Net is reporting that the Cortex-A8-based chip supports the HyperSpace instant-on OS, specially optimized 3G HSDA data modules from Option and Wavecom, and both Android and Xandros. Of course, none of this will be of any help to you if you're married to Windows -- but then again, even if you are we wouldn't really blame you for wanting a little Linux on the side. Especially if it comes in a sweet package like this.

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Posted by Augustine at 7:20 AM

DIY multitouch 67-inch rear-projection TV

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/diy-multitouch-67-inch-rear-projection-tv/


Sure, this ain't the first multitouch / rear-projection tv hack we've seen, but the thing is still rather novel. Using a 67-inch television, this guy put together a system that utilizes four IR laser line generators to produce a plane of infrared light across the entire surface of the screen. Two cameras mounted inside the TV look for the clusters of light generated when one touches the screen and tracks them using an app called tbeta for the Mac OS. If you'd like to build one yourself -- or if you're morbidly curious -- the kids at IDEO Labs have put the step-by-step out there in excruciating detail. Hit the read for some of that action or, if you really just like to watch, be sure to catch the videos after the break.

[Via Hack A Day]

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DIY multitouch 67-inch rear-projection TV originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted by Augustine at 7:20 AM

Texas Instruments and Wind River do up Android right

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/18/texas-instruments-and-wind-river-do-up-android-right/


We just got a great look at the potential of Android on Texas Instruments' new Zoom OMAP34x-II Mobile Development Platform, a sort of sexy cousin to Compulab's exeda. The OMAP3430-powered unit is being built by Logic and is meant for software developers to work on the OMAP3 chipset, but it's actually a pretty neat "device" in its own right, with a 4.1-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen LCD, HDMI out, all sorts of connectivity, 16GB of storage, an SD card slot, large QWERTY keypad and an 8 megapixel camera. There's also a debug board with Ethernet, USB plugs and some other technical stuff. For $1150 developers can pick up a WiFi-only unit, and $1399 buys you a 3G unit -- consumers can buy 'em too, and we can imagine certain enthusiasts wouldn't mind the cost for what basically amounts to the ultimate Android device. The unit runs other flavors of Linux, but we're really in it for the Android, especially thanks to that screen. Wind River has been doing development on Android for a while, contributing to the original source code as part of the OHA, and one of its developers even ported Android to OpenMoko. They've got a refined Android interface running on the Zoom, which includes a tabbed application browser, fancier widgets and a spruced up unlock screen. They wouldn't consider what they're doing a skin or a port, but it's exactly the type of stuff that device manufacturers will be looking for to differentiate their Android-powered handset. Video of all the magic is after the break.

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Texas Instruments and Wind River do up Android right originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted by Augustine at 7:19 AM

Nokia's Internet Tablet hacked into secondary PC monitor

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/17/nokias-internet-tablet-hacked-into-secondary-pc-monitor/


What's more exciting than seeing Cupcake on a Nokia Internet Tablet? Seeing your Internet Tablet double as a secondary display, naturally! If you're too cash-strapped to go out and get one of those newfangled USB displays to run your widgets / chat windows / etc. in, and you're scrambling for reasons to not toss that N800 or N810 on eBay, you should certainly give the read link a look. We can't say this is the easiest hack in existence, but considering that no soldering irons are required, we'd say even the novice could at least give it a go. Plus, you can't put a price on extra utility. You just can't.

[Thanks, Addae]

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Nokia's Internet Tablet hacked into secondary PC monitor originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted by Augustine at 12:07 AM

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