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Ahoy, what do we have here? Users who absolutely love what the official Google Calendar app is able to deliver on the Android-powered platform can now download it from Google Play directly, making it a snap for you to manage your slew of calendars from a single, vantage point – and these will include those from your Google accounts as well as other calendars that have been synchronized to your Android device.

Needless to say, some of the basics including creating, editing, deleting events and responding to invitations are all thrown into the new Google Calendar app, but as an added extra, you will find features which will assist you in managing your time and communication more easily. For instance, you can snooze events straight from a notification should you be tying up some loose ends at the moment and only need to be reminded later. As you can see on the right, predefined messages are there for you to send quick “I’ll be late” updates to your event participants directly from the notifications or the event itself. This is fully customizable as well too, now how about that ? Google Calendar on Google Play is available for devices that are powered by Android 4.0.3+ Ice Cream Sandwich or Android 4.1 Jelly Bean only.

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David Bowen must have quite the vivid imagination to come up with this rather nifty contraption that he calls the “Flytweet”. Basically, the Flytweet’s name gives the game away already, where it functions as a device which is capable of sending out tweets for those who are interested to know what’s going on, and these tweets will be based on what the house flies have been up to. Now, there really isn’t much that a common house fly can do other than to being a nuisance of itself while contaminating all of our favorite foods that were left uncovered, right?

The Flytweet comprises of an enclosed acrylic sphere with a keyboard, and this area will be where a bunch of house flies congregate. The flies will be filmed as they move around, and each time they land on a particular key, that character will be entered into a Twitter text box. Once the 140 characters limit is reached, or should a fly land on the Enter key, a tweet will be sent from @flycolony. Entirely random, let us see if it can compose the whole works of Shakespeare instead of leaving it to the monkeys and a typewriter.

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PC Koubou is about to launch their newest desktop PC for the mass market. Called the Lesance DT S6544-SSD, the system is packed with a 3.40GHz Intel Core i7-3770 processor, an Intel B75 Express Chipset, an Intel HD graphics 4000, an 8GB DDR3 RAM, a 120GB SSD (Intel 330), a 1TB hard drive, a DVD Super Multi Drive, a 450W power supply and runs on Windows 8 64-bit OS. The Lesance DT S6544-SSD will start shipping from October 26th for 79,980 Yen (about $1,020). [Product Page]

It’s not often that leaked pics of set-top boxes cause the internet to go crazy, but the Boxee TV image leaked earlier this month did exactly that. It seemed like a cord-cutter’s dream: it offered a TV tuner with a coax input, WiFi access to Netflix and other services, and threw a DVR on top of that. Today Boxee’s streamer was officially announced, and it only got better: it starts at a meagre $100, and the DVR service is connected to the cloud–that’s right, you can upload, for instance, a football game, and watch it from anywhere with internet access.  (more…)

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It seems that Kaspersky is not content with merely creating security-based software. Nope, according to Eugene Kaspersky, it looks like the company has their sights on creating an operating system of their own, one which they claim will be more secure than Apple, Microsoft or other open source distributions from the open source community. Rather grand claims, but what is it about Kaspersky’s own operating system that supposedly will make it more secure than anything on the market at the moment? Well according to Eugene Kaspersky: (more…)

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