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If prisoners wore fancy shirts, they’d wear them with these brutally useful stays

I’m pretty sure that putting a sharp, pointy sliver of titanium next to my throat is a bad idea, even if I am doing it myself. And yet this is the premise of the Titan Multi Tool Collar Stays from Exuvius, a pair of collar straighteners that will also cut and screw, and perform various other handy operations.

Collar stays are those stiff little plastic sticks that stop your shirt collar from curling up at the tips. Exuvius idea is to make these from tough but light titanium and incorporate screwdrivers, a bottle opener and a sharpened jaw for cutting threads. The tips are shaped to screw screws, but are still pointy enough to gouge a decent chunk of flesh.

Handy, to be sure, but you’ll have to remember to switch them between shirts lest you find yourself tool-less in a time of need. For the slightly steep asking price of $30 you do at least get two pairs of stays, and for the well-off, four pairs can be had for $50.

Available now.

Titan Multi Tool Collar Stays [Yanko Store via Oh Gizmo!]

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Real or fake, this screenshot certainly looks like it could be iOS 5

It wouldn’t be a proper Apple Keynote day without some last-minute rumors. This time we have an is-it-or-isn’t-it iOS 5 screenshot, as unearthed by MG Siegler. In it we see the hoped-for new notifications system, as well as a few more interesting tweaks.

Siegler’s sources tell him that this picture is the “right idea.” Fake or not, it certainly looks the part. At the top we see Twitter notifications built into the status bar. This is consistent with both the recent rumors of deep Twitter integration in iOS 5, along with Apple’s hiring of the Palm WebOS notifications designer Rich Dellinger a year ago.

What we also see is a a tweaked Camera app icon, and what is possibly an answer to Windows Phone 7 phone’s live tiles. The Weather app icon appears to be showing a live temperature. Either that or Apple has just swapped the icon to read 23º C instead of 73º F. Or it’s just a fake. [UPDATE: according to UK-based Gadget Lab reader 747Captain, changing the region of your iOS 4 device to a country that uses celsius also changes the Weather app icon to read “23º.” So we’re left with just the notification bar and the new Camera app icon.]

Either way, we’ll know the answer in six hours or so. It could be that a revamped home screen is going to be rather small news. I have a feeling that iOS 5 could be a bigger upgrade that the recent jump from iPad 1 to iPad 2.

Is This iOS 5? Dunno, But It’s Likely The Right Idea [TechCrunch]

See Also:

• Apple Prepares to Unleash OS Lion, iOS 5 at WWDC 2011
• Report: No iPhone 5 at Apple's Summer Conference
• Apple Announces iCloud, Steve Jobs WWDC Keynote

11:58 a.m. We’re wrapping up. Thanks for tuning in!

11:57 a.m. Steve says this is Apple’s third data center. It’s in North Carolina. “It’s full of stuff. Full of expensive stuff. We are ready for our customers to start using iCloud, and we can’t wait to get it in their hands.”

11:55 a.m. iTunes Match: You scan and match, annual price is $25. So that’s iTunes Match and it goes along with iTunes in the cloud.

11:53 a.m. “Now there’s one more thing,” Jobs says. It pertains to iTunes in the cloud. There are songs you ripped yourself. There’s iTunes Match. Matches up your library with iTunes store. They’re scanning and matching your library so they don’t need to upload that large part of the memory. Matched songs upgraded to 256kb AAC DRM-free. iTunes Match costs $25 per year.

11:52 a.m. Developers can get hands on iCloud beta today. iTunes in the cloud portion will run for users on iOS 4.3 beta, so everyone can get their hands on it and get it on their devices. iCloud ships with iOS 5 this fall.

11:50 a.m. iCloud stores your content and wirelessly pushes it to all your devices, and it’s integrated with your apps, so everything happens automatically. So how do you get it? You upgrade your iOS device with iOS 5, type in your Apple ID and password, and there’s a switch to turn on iCloud. Everybody gets 5 gigabytes of free storage for Mail, Documents and Backup. They’re not counting music, apps or books toward that 5 gigs, nor are they counting Photo Stream.

11:49 a.m. iTunes in the cloud – you can share music with up to 10 devices. Steve is wrapping up iCloud. All the iCloud-integrated apps are free.

11:48 a.m. Apple shows the iTunes Store on an iPhone. You buy and the song downloads to the iPhone and it’s already on your iPad, too. Now when you buy a song on one device it automatically downloads to all devices without doing any work, and that’s iTunes in the cloud.

11:47 a.m. It’s worth noting that only songs you *purchase* are going to be syncable to the cloud. Doesn’t appear that songs you rip from CDs or pirate are going to be able to sync.

11:46 a.m. “This is the first time we’ve seen this in the music industry. No charge for [dowloading to] multiple devices,” Steve says. They’re demoing it now.

11:45 a.m. Last but not least is iTunes Music. Here’s the big one. For songs you already bought, there’s a Purchase history button and you can see the songs you bought and download to any of your devices at no additional charge.

11:44 a.m. Steve’s back on stage. “Isn’t that awesome?” Summary: Photos you take or import upload to iCloud, iCloud stores each photo for 30 days, devices store last 1,000 photos, and Macs and PCs store all photos.

11:42 a.m. Eddy Cue, VP of internet services, is demonstrating Photos in the cloud. He takes a photo on the iPhone, then picks up an iPad, and the picture is right there in the Photo Stream. Then you can save permanently by moving it to an album. On the Mac, the Photo Stream shows the photo you just took, too.

11:40 a.m. On a Windows PC the Photos app will sync with a Pictures folder. And Photos will sync with Apple TV, too, so you can see the photos right on your Apple TV. One problem we face is that photos are large and consume a lot of memory, so Apple is going to store the last 1,000 photos on devices to free up space. Any photos you want to keep permanently can get moved to an album and they stay forever. On the server photos will be stored for 30 days.

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Back in our day, overclocking one’s PC was akin to a fine art. It took skill. Precision. Effort. Cajones. These days, it’s just about as simple as blinking. Or winking. Or winking while blinking. MSI’s made the simplification of PC overclocking quite the priority over the past few years, with OC Genie and an updated Wind BIOS from last decade putting all sorts of power into the hands of mere mortals. At Computex this week, the outfit took things one step further with the Afterburner Android app. Purportedly, the GPU tool enables users to monitor the temperature, voltage and fan speed of their graphics card via a WiFi connection, and if you’re feeling froggy, you can overclock and overvolt to your heart’s content. Details beyond that are few and far betwixt, but we’re hearing that it’ll soon work with GPUs from other vendors, and that an iOS variant is en route.

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