Jun 24
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No need for a catnap. From home remedies to prescriptions, these quick tricks will make your eyes look rejuvenated in no time at all.
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Jun 24
Facebook is cooking up its own socially-enabled Flipboard alternative in the hope of filling the gap left by Google’s near-death Reader, it’s reported, aggregating news and other content both from publishers and shared by friends. The app, internally known as Facebook Reader, is said to strongly resemble existing cross-platform digital magazine Flipboard the WSJ‘s sources
Jun 24
So long Google Reader, hello… Facebook? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Zuckerberg and co are working on a service that "displays content from Facebook users and publishers in a new visual format tailored for mobile devices".
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Jun 24
O2 Ireland has been sold to Three parent Hutchison Whampoa Group, in an €850m ($1.1bn) deal that will see Three surge in subscribers to around 2m active users. O2 Ireland parent Telefonica described the deal as part of its “proactive management” [pdf link] of its portfolio, with the payment used to offset the carrier’s financial
Jun 24
Snapjoy has announced that it’ll be shuttering all of its services a mere six months after being acquired by cloud colossus Dropbox. In a blog post, the company said photos can no longer be imported into Snapjoy and the iPhone app is henceforth unavailable. If you’ve got images stored on the site, you’ll have exactly a month to get them downloaded, since after July 24th, “all photos and data will be permanently deleted.” The same thing happened to Audiogalaxy shortly after its acquisition by Dropbox, and of course other big fish like Google and Twitter are well known for similar behavior after eating smaller fish — though at least we saw the #Music fruits of Twitter’s buyout shortly after it happened. On the other hand, we’ve yet to see Dropbox do anything with Audiogalaxy, so we hope the defunct apps will be resurrected in some form soon.
Filed under: Internet, Software
Via: CNET
Source: Snapjoy (Blog)
Jun 24
Sony – 5,000mAH USB portable battery charger “CP-F5″ with 5 color valuations – AC adapter “CP-AD2″ to fully charge “CP-F5″ quickly
Posted in: Today's Chili
Sony is going to release a 5,000mAH slim portable battery charger “CP-F5″ on July 20. This thin body with only 9.4mm has 5,000mAh lithium-ion battery built-in, which is capable of fully charging a smartphone 2 times.
“CP-F5″ can be charged from USB port with the accompanying 15cm USB cable and it takes about 11 hours. The light on the “CP-F5″ will let you know the reminding battery level.
5 colors are available: silver, pink, gold, blue, and black
Also, an AC adapter “CP-AD2″ will be released on July 20. Using this AC adapter with the USB portable battery charger “CP-F5″ enables you to fully charge “CP-F5″ for only 6 hours.
USB portable battery charger “CP-F5″
Price: ¥5,000
Output: Maximum DC 5V/1.5A
Size: DW70.4×H128.1×D9.4 mm
Wight: Approx. 156g
AC adapter “CP-AD2″
Price: ¥1,300
Output: Maximum DC5V 2.1A
Size: W41.0×H61.0×D26.0 mm
Weight: Approx. 53g
Jun 24
Cenk Uygur: How We Will Crush CNN
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe Young Turks is the largest online news show in the world. We have just crossed the Million/Billion mark. We have over one million subscribers and one billion views on our YouTube channel. There are only 25 non-music channels in the Million/Billion Club. We are the only news channel in the group.
The average age of CNN’s audience is 68. Isn’t that amazing? The average CNN viewer is retired. When you go over to Fox News, it’s even worse. The average O’Reilly viewer is 71! Only 12% of his audience is in the coveted 25-54 age bracket (this is the demo that advertisers find appealing, so everyone on cable news cares more about this number than anything else). This so-called big shot is basically doing his show out of a senior citizens center. 71!!!
Jun 24
Sydney Levin: ‘Real Housewives Of New Jersey’ Recap: Gym, Tan, Kill Your Sibling
Posted in: Today's Chili Though Teresa tries to put up a strong front, it’s obvious that the year of silence has been painful. She finally confronts Joe … by standing over him as he gets ready to bench press. Now, the brother she hasn’t seen in oh-so-long is literally talking to her lady garden.
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Jun 24
‘Mad Men’ Season 6: Creator Matthew Weiner On Don’s Bold Moves And Conspiracy Theories
Posted in: Today's ChiliNote: Do not read on if you have not yet seen the Season 6 finale of AMC’s “Mad Men,” titled “In Care Of.”
Could Don Draper finally be growing up?
Most fathers are not a mystery to their children; most adults are not quite so hobbled by tortured pasts. But most people are not Don Draper, who, in the course of “Mad Men’s” six seasons, has tried to shield his kids from the most basic truths about himself. Where he’s from, how he grew up, what kind of life he had: Those were all things that he lied about, to co-workers, clients and those closest to him. But as viewers saw in the show’s Season 6 finale (which I wrote about here), Don is in the process of shedding that false skin.
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Jun 23
If you weren’t able to scrounge up enough coin to snap up the last few Apple I computers to be auctioned off, another chance to score one — and empty your bank account — is headed your way. Starting today, Christie’s will be auctioning a functional Apple I until July 9, with a starting bid of $300,000. If last month’s record-breaking $671,400 sale of a similar rig is anything to go by, this machine may rake in more than its estimated $500,000 value. The owner of the Apple I, who picked it up over three decades ago in a swap, modified it with a keyboard, monitor and a tape deck for storage – in other words, just the motherboard is original. Those more interested in window shopping can ogle the classic hardware at Mountain View’s Computer History Museum beginning tomorrow.
[Image credit: Christie’s Auction House]
Via: TUAW
Source: AP
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