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It had to happen. When Google showed off a new and revolutionary Gmail Motion control scheme yesterday, it failed to fool most people, but it didn’t fail to catch the attention of some motion control geeks with Kinect cameras on hand. Yep, the FAAST crew that’s already brought us a Kinect keyboard emulator for World of Warcraft has taken Google to task and actually cooked up the software to make Gmail Motion work. All your favorite gestures are here: opening an email as if it were an envelope, replying by throwing a thumb back and, of course, “licking the stamp” to send your response on its way. Marvelous stuff! Jump past the break to see it working, for real this time.

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The new Cablevision iPad app is out, taking on broadcasters (Fox, Discovery, Viacom) attacking Time Warner’s live TV streaming TWCable TV app by offering subscribers the same channels as their iO TV package and video on demand. The Optimum for iPad app also includes the ability to set up DVR recordings, delete recorded shows and browse TV listings, although it doesn’t act as a direct remote for the cable box. The last time Fox and Cablevision squared off subscribers couldn’t watch their shows on Hulu or two games of the World Series which, along with a long battle over network DVRs, suggests the cable company is prepared to dig its heels in deep on this issue. Multichannel News points out subscribers need at least one cable box to make use of the new app and the TOS states it can only be used within the customer’s residence. Subscribers suitably equipped can grab the app at the iTunes link below, check out pics in the gallery or a video demo by a user embedded after the break.

Update: Now we have the press release and fact sheet from Cablevision (included after the break) so here it is by the numbers: 300 channels, can be registered on up to three iPads per account and used on any two simultaneously. Remote control functions are scheduled for the summer, and the company states that since it is delivering channels over the digital cable network and not the internet (no ‘net service required) it believes this use is covered by existing carriage agreements.

[Thanks, johnnydop, jcdesimp & Michael]

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This article was written on March 08, 2011 by CyberNet.

Most browsers will let you view the cookies stored for all the sites you visit, and Google Chrome isn’t any different in that regard. This Google help article outlines how you can delete, block, allow, and make exceptions for cookies for any or all sites you visit. Why stop there though? You can take this a step further with the help of an extension.

Edit This Cookie is a pretty awesome add-on that I went searching for the other day because I wanted to modify the value of a cookie that a website had created. I was pleasantly surprised that with this extension I could not only edit the cookie but also do things like mark it as read-only so that a site can’t go and change it later on.

Here are the things you can accomplish with the extension:

• Delete all cookies in a page
• Delete only the chosen cookie on a page
• Edit any cookie (expiration date, value, etc…)
• Add a new cookie
• Search a cookie
• Protect a cookie (read-only)
• Block cookies (cookie filter)

I suspect that one of the biggest reasons for an extension like this is to make changes to the expiration date. Maybe there is a site you frequently have to login to since the cookie either expires when you close your browser or a few days down the road. In most cases Edit This Cookie will be exactly what you need.

Tip: If a cookie is set to expire when you close your browser the “session” box will be checked. Simply uncheck it if you want the cookie to stick around until the specified expiration date is met.

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Reports say Sony chief may have let slip that Sony is making camera components for Apple’s next-generation iPhone–and that delivery of the components is delayed due to factory damage in Japan.

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