drag2share: Ghost Incognito Automates Your Private Browsing [Chrome Extensions]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5861440/ghost-incognito-automates-your-private-browsing-in-chrome

Chrome: Even though every browser has a private mode, it's not always easy to remember to enable it before visiting private sites. Ghost Incognito makes it so you don't have to by automatically opening sites of your choosing in incognito mode.

For most of your browsing experience, the icon sits unobtrusively on your tool bar. When you visit a site you don't want to keep a cache of for whatever reason, you click the icon and it opens in incognito mode. After using it once, it's stored, so every future visit does the same thing. It's a handy feature to have for sites like your bank, but with holiday shopping in full swing, it might work well to cover your tracks if you're ordering from a single retailer.

Ghost Incognito | Chrome Web Store via gHacks

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drag2share: Stereo Mic Turns Your iPhone Into a Sneaky Bootlegging Tool [Audio]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5861372/tascams-stereo-mic-turns-your-iphone-into-a-professional-bootlegging-tool

It's fine for the occasional speakerphone call or voice memo, but if you want to record a concert that's worthy of sharing, you'll want to upgrade your iPhone's mic with Tascam's iM2 which adds a set of professional stereo mics.

Besides being just a mono affair, the mics built in to the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad are designed for use in quieter settings, like sitting on the couch and FaceTiming with a friend. When used in a louder environment they'll distort, so in addition to a stereo set of condenser mics, Tascam has included its own pre-amp in their iM2 allowing it to handle sounds as loud as 125db. And if things get even louder, there's an adjustable input level control letting you dial things back.

The mics can rotate 180 degrees front to back, depending on how you hold your device and who you're recording, and it features a USB pass-through allowing your device to be charged while the iM2 is attached to its dock connector. It is unfortunately another powered accessory that will take its toll on your iOS device's battery life, but as a consolation prize Tascam is including a free PCM recorder app with the $79 mic. I know, not really a consolation at all, but no one ever said the life of a concert bootlegger would be an easy one. [Tascam via AVWatch]

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drag2share: Samsung adds another WiFi-only Series 5 Chromebook, on sale now for $349

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/21/samsung-announces-wifi-only-series-5-chromebook-on-sale-now-for/

After Samsung released its Series 5 Chromebook, lots of you said you'd buy it -- if Sammy slashed the asking price in half. Well, we're not there yet, but the company did just unveil another WiFi-only version, this time with a more palatable MSRP of $349 and a slightly tweaked version of Chrome OS to match. (It has a black lid, too, in case that snow white number was too precious for you.) To recap, it has a bright, matte 12.1-inch (1280 x 800) display, a dual-core Intel Atom CPU, two USB 2.0 ports and a memory card slot. And design-wise, at least, it's a step up from most netbooks, with a comfortable keyboard and surprisingly solid 0.8-inch-thick chassis. In any case, if you were planning on picking one up for the Chrome OS lover in your life (or, you know, the low-tech person who only ever uses a web browser anyway), it's on sale now at the likes of Best Buy, Amazon, NewEgg and Tigerdirect.

Update: Not to be outdone, Acer just sent out a press release announcing it's cut the price of its AC700 Chromebook. It'll now cost $299 for the WiFi-only version (down from $349) and $399 for the Verizon Wireless 3G model (it had been $449).

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drag2share: ASUS Padfone crops up in benchmark database, hides its S4 SoC out in the open

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/21/asus-padfone-crops-up-in-benchmark-database-hides-its-s4-soc-ou/

Late last spring, we got hands-on with dummy units of the Padfone and its companion dock, but aside from potential form factors and a Christmas release window, details of its glorified guts were scarce. That's all changed now thanks to GLBenchmark's public results database, which outs the category-straddling device as having a Krait S4 MSM8960. Yes, the first in a line of uber-performing Qualcomm SoCs will be embedded in the heart of ASUS' smartphone, bringing support for a global range of frequencies (including blazing HSPA+ and LTE speeds) and an Adreno 225 GPU. What could very well be disheartening is evidence the handset's running Gingerbread 2.3.5, but we'll chock that up to early testing and cling tightly to the company's hard ICS-laden wink. If you've been eagerly anticipating this mobile power couple, you shouldn't have to wait long -- that target holiday release is surely creeping up. So, expect to see an official announcement of the dual-core goods any day now.

ASUS Padfone crops up in benchmark database, hides its S4 SoC out in the open originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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