Sep 25

EU plans to end Apple antitrust investigation in light of relaxed iPhone rules

Posted in: Apple, developers, europe, ios, legal, Today's Chili

It seems like Apple’s legal team is constantly embroiled in a pitched battle of some sort, but this weekend they might get to relax — citing recent iPhone policy changes, the European Commission’s decided to stop breathing down their necks. Though the EU originally joined the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission in investigating why Cupertino chose to block third-party dev tools and ads earlier this year, the fact that Apple recently relaxed both restrictions (and created a repair program for iPhones purchased abroad) satisfied European regulators. “The Commission intends to close the investigations into these matters,” it wrote earlier today. There’s no guarantee that the US powers-that-be will exercise similar leniency, of course, but we wouldn’t be surprised — even inside Apple, the DoJ’s got other fish to fry.

EU plans to end Apple antitrust investigation in light of relaxed iPhone rules originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 25

Editorial: For the umpteenth time, copy ‘protection’ only hurts people who actually buy your product

Posted in: ipad, Today's Chili

It’s been said so many times, but I just got stung hard by the DRM bug, and since there’s a “Senior Associate Editor” next to my name somewhere I get to complain about it. Now, if you’re a regular consumer with a modicum of common sense, nothing I’m going to say here will come as a surprise or revelation. You’re welcome to come along for the ride, but I’m pointing my quivering pen today at the media execs and their willing technologist accomplices that have the nerve in 2010 to enforce HDCP and other completely inane DRM and copy protection schemes to “protect” their content from theft:

You idiots.

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Editorial: For the umpteenth time, copy ‘protection’ only hurts people who actually buy your product originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 25

Turning Welch’s Into Wine In 48 Hours [Alcohol]

Posted in: Reviews, science, Today's Chili, top

I’m taking the last sip of home-brewed purple liquid. It’s sweet yet balanced, fizzy yet quenching, smooth yet these words look a bit blurry. It tastes like a dangerously well-mixed drink. And just 48 short hours ago, it was Welch’s. More »

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Sep 25

Problems Finding a Domain Name? Use “Bust A Name”

Posted in: Today's Chili, Web Sites

This article was written on July 09, 2007 by CyberNet.

I know I’ve run into problems trying to find a domain name in the past, and if you have your own website, you may have had this problem as well.  After brainstorming and coming up with a name, you go to check if it’s available and of course it’s not. Then it’s back to the drawing board to try and find another name. If you’re having problems finding a domain name, try using Bust A Name. Bust A Name helps solve your problem of picking a domain name, and one that’s available.

The whole process is revolved around the keywords that you enter. I wanted to put the service to the test, so I entered a few random words. Once I entered my words, it combined them to offer me available domains.  They also offered alternative words that I could use that were similar to the words that I had entered.

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Once you select the domain that you like, you can purchase it. They offer a few different places that you can choose from, along with what the price will be. For example, if I chose conceptgoat.com, I could purchase it from GoDaddy for $6.95 or from Omnis for $7.95.

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Options

There are a few customization options that will give you additional possible domain names.  For example, you could switch to searching for .net or. org domains. You could also add a suffix or prefix like “ly,” “ster,” “let,” or “i,” “e,” or “my.” And if you’re wanting to drop the last vowel like Flickr, or Zooomr, that’s an option too.

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The only downside as Webware points out is that if you want a name that is already taken, it won’t tell you who owns it or when it expires.

For those of you who have struggled to find a domain name, you’ll wish you knew of this tool before!

Visit Bust A Name to find your domain name.

 

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Sep 25

Hands-on with GuitarJack and FourTrack

Posted in: Today's Chili

The GuitarJack recording adapter for iPhone and iPod Touch makes it possible to create professional-quality audio recordings on an iPhone or iPod Touch, which can be mixed and exported using Sonoma Wire Works’ FourTrack app.

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Sep 25

Caption Contest: NVIDIA CEO flaunts tattoo on stage, still serving cans of whoop-ass

Posted in: NVIDIA, tegra, tegra 2, Tegra2, Today's Chili

Oh sure, NVIDIA might not have had any physical chips to show off at the GPU Technology Conference earlier this week, but CEO Jen-Hsun Huang did have one very, very special exhibit up his sleeve.

Paul: “And below the logo is a picture of all the shipping devices running Tegra 2.”
Don: “Here are the new logo designs we’ve been working on, Mr. Huang.”
Ross: “Take a cue from Peter Moore and go with temporary. You never know where you’ll be in even just a few years’ time.”
Chris: “Huang’s Boxee Box tramp stamp, of course, would remain a secret.”
Joanna: “And this is why I hate gun, er GPU shows.”
Darren: “Whatever. At least it’s not a Zune tattoo.”
Richard Lai: “Yo Intel, this is how embedded is done.”
Vlad: “Jen-Hsun’s displays of support for Notion Ink are starting to get out of hand…”

Caption Contest: NVIDIA CEO flaunts tattoo on stage, still serving cans of whoop-ass originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 25

Yale introduces Zigbee and Z-Wave remote lockable deadbolts

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Yale remote control deadbolts

No, these aren’t the first deadbolts available that can be integrated with your security system or home automation, but unlike some others, they don’t require a subscription either. Yale was demoing two models at the Control4’s CEDIA booth including one with a capacitive touch screens. Using either Zigbee or Z-Wave the locks can communicate with Control4 and thanks to the internal replaceable batteries can remotely lock and unlock your doors. In addition you can quickly see if you’ve secured your abode without the need to check it one last time before you go to bed. Both models will start shipping next spring with the touch screen version going for an extra benjamin over the $299 one with regular buttons.

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Yale introduces Zigbee and Z-Wave remote lockable deadbolts originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 25

This week in Crave: The squeaky-clean edition

Posted in: Today's Chili

Too busy awaiting the end of the Facebook outage this week to keep up with Crave? Well, harrumph! Here’s some of what you missed.

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Sep 25

Apple granted patent for handheld that recognizes your hands

Posted in: Apple, capacitive, handheld, patent, patents, Today's Chili, ui

You could probably fill a book with Apple patent applications that never amounted to anything, but here’s one that’s at least been granted — a “handheld device” that uses capacitive sensors to recognize your identity just by the way you hold it, and subsequently personalize the device’s buttons and settings to your hand based on your user profile. That’s all that’s actually been patented here, but the general idea is a little more grand — you could theoretically grip a handheld with either hand, and it would automatically generate “button zones” under each finger using sensors (or disappearing buttons, perhaps) baked right into the chassis, making cries of “you’re holding it wrong” hopefully fade into obscurity. Still, it’s not the first time we’ve seen Cupertino reaching for digit recognition and we’re sure it won’t be the last, so we’ll just file away our enthusiasm until or unless Jobs announces it on stage.

Apple granted patent for handheld that recognizes your hands originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 25 Sep 2010 05:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 25

ElcomSoft turns your laptop into a one-touch WiFi cracking system

Posted in: AMD, ati, hack, NVIDIA, Today's Chili, wifi
It’s been a few years since we checked in with Elcomsoft’s Wireless Security Auditor WiFi cracking software. As you’d expect, things have become easier, much easier. Elcomsoft now has an all-in-one solution that will locate wireless networks, intercept data packets, and crack WAP/WPA2 PSK passwords from any modern laptop with a discrete ATI AMD or NVIDIA graphics card. Here’s the quote IT nerds will surely we love:
Today, ElcomSoft is integrating a wireless sniffer into Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor. The integrated sniffer turns Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor into a one-button, all-in-one solution ready to be used by corporate security officers without specific experience in information security.

Call us crazy, but if you’re a C-level security officer with no specific information security experience then maybe you shouldn’t be sniffing people’s data packets. Then again, we’re sure ElcomSoft will happily sell their $1,199 pro software or $399 standard edition to any hacker willing to pay, white hat or not.

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ElcomSoft turns your laptop into a one-touch WiFi cracking system originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 25 Sep 2010 03:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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