Panopticlick Determines How Unique and Trackable Your Browser Is, Even with Cookies Turned Off [Privacy]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5815856/panopticlick-determines-how-unique-and-trackable-your-browser-is-even-with-cookies-turned-off

Webapp Panopticlick examines how unique and trackable your browser fingerprint is even if you've disabled cookies in your browser.

Developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the webapp uses information your browser shares with web sites by default—like installed plug-ins, system fonts, screen resolution, and so on—to create a fingerprint and test how difficult it is to track your browser across the internet. My browser's fingerprint, for example, was unique among the 1.6 million browsers already tested by the site.

For more information—including ways you can defend against this kind of fingerprinting—check out this PDF.

Panopticlick | EFF

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Video Calling App Fring Now Offers Four Way Group Chat [Video]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5815864/video-calling-app-fring-now-offers-four-way-group-chat

iOS/Android/Symbian: Fring, one of our favorite mobile apps for VoIP calls, just released a new iPad app that supports four-way video calling between the iPad and non-iOS users. They also updated their iPhone, Android, and Symbian versions to match.

Fring for iPad beats Facetime for multi-party video calling, and is the only iPad app that allows iPad users to talk to more than one other person without an Apple product. Fring allows you to drag names from your contacts list directly into the chat window to start a session with them. Drag in up to four friends and you'll be able to talk to them all at once, and they'll be able to chat with the group. Plus, since Fring supports iOS, Android, and Symbian devices, there are no limitations on who you can chat with.

Fring | iTunes App Store via Fring Blog

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Will Samsung's "Nexus Prime" Be the Next Best Android Phone? [Unconfirmed]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5815813/will-samsungs-nexus-prime-be-the-first-android-ice-cream-sandwich

Following their previous report on a beastly Ice Cream Sandwich phone, BGR's extending extra details—and confirming that Samsung will make the thing, possibly named Nexus Prime. The monster will be purebred—-no 3rd party skins. Just Android 4.0.

BGR also claims the Nexus Prime will indeed hold a dual-core OMAP4460 processor. The pairing of beefy specs with creamy-clean software—the upcoming (and most sophisticated) Gingerbread/Honeycomb hybrid—means this could very well be the next best Android phone ever. [BGR]

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The Average American Drinks 45 Gallons of Soda a Year [Factoid]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5815818/the-average-american-drinks-45-gallons-of-soda-a-year

We're doomed. Banished to obesity. According to Beverage Marketing Corporation, the average American drinks 44.7 gallons of soda every year. That's about 487 cans or 286 bottles or 85 2-liters of that carbonated syrup every year. How are we alive?

The numbers, 2010 per capita beverage consumption in the US, are just insane. I know a lot of people who never touch the stuff and even more people who've cut back tremendously. Where is all this soda consumption coming from? Which mad man is making up for miss healthy vegan's zero soda drinking by double or even triple fisting at lunch time? Can people legitimately drink that much soda? Could you?

44.7 gallons would weigh about 375 pounds. People, you're pumping yourself with that stuff! I used to love soda as much as the next guy but those needless calories and extra sugar eventually catches up with you. On a good note, the number is falling. On a bad note, the number is still numero uno in the standings. What I also can't believe: how disappointing our national beer consumption is! 20.8 gallons is like three pints every week. Weak. Check out the full infographic over at AdAge. [AdAge]

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Fring Brings Four-Way Video Chat Gangbang to iPad [Video]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5815851/fring-brings-five+way-video-chat-gangbang-to-ipad

Popular vidchat client Fring isn't content with the usual one-on-one routine. If you've got three other friends, you can all talk to each other (or over each other) now, through an app orgy of chattering faces.

The new Fring doesn't just put a foursome on your screen, but is free, works over cell data as well as WiFi connections, and will let Fring users on other, non-iPad devices tune in. This sounds chaotic, and looks extremely fun. The possibilities here are myriad: group therapy, international shouting matches, letting your pals democratically choose your outfit. Or just staring at each other, creepily, silently, over the internet. [iTunes]

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