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One of the many perks of being Darren Murph: you get to travel the world, testing ruggedized, waterproof iPhone cases along the way. Meanwhile, our contributor Jason Hidalgo isn’t making any excuses for liking a $99 charging dock that doesn’t do anything else. Because, you know, CNC-machined aluminum.

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Maki Corporation released a digital microscope with 500X zoom called “YASHICA MK-UMS1″ today.

You can connect “YASHICA MK-UMS1″ to your PC’s USB terminal and take a photo/video of the object by running the dedicated software. Maximum resolution is 1600×1200 dot. “YASHICA MK-UMS1″ is compatible with from 25X to 500X zoom, and it has LED light controller that can adjust the brightness of LED light depending on the situation. It has 2 million pixel CMOS sensor built-in.

Price: ¥6,980
Forcal length: 10mm – 500mm
Saving format: JPEG, BMP(still image), AVI(moving image)
Image size: 1600×1200/1280×960/1280×1024/800×600(still image), 640×480(moving image)
Power source: USB bus power
Size: 33mm (diameter) x 112mm (length)
Weight: 100 g

Been paying attention to Twitter recently? You might have noticed Apple developers complaining about the company’s developer portal, which has been out of service for a number of days. Today, Apple acknowledged the outage, explaining that the site was taken down to combat a security breach. “Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed,” Cupertino told developers in an email. “However, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing address and/or email addresses may have been accessed.”

Naturally, the company is taking the breach very seriously, and has said that it’ll be rebuilding its entire developer system database and updating servers to prevent future incursions. Apple also assured developers whose developer accounts were up for renewal during the outage would not have their software pulled from the App Store. Furthermore, the company told MacWorld that customer information and app code was not compromised during the attack.

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Via: MacWorld

Source: Apple

Lumia users have no need for low-quality-GIF makers, thank you very much. Why? Because they can now use the new version of Cinemagraph to create animated images in full 1,080 x 720 glory. What’s more, HD cat mems made with the updated app — not to be confused with the similar Cinemagram — can be viewed as short high-res video clips instead of GIFs when accessed on computers. As a nice bonus, the developers also threw in a new color pop feature that lets you highlight one hue and render the rest of the image black and white. Sure, the style’s been overdone, but we’ll bet many WP8 users are thankful the app’s expanding its filter offerings in the absence of Instagram.

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Source: Conversations by Nokia

Every week, a new and interesting human being tackles our decidedly geeky take on the Proustian Q&A. This is the Engadget Questionnaire.

In the latest installment of our weekly collection of queries, Next3D CEO David Cole — also know as the gentleman making 3D TV and movies for the Oculus Rift — chats up punitive email measures and iPhone dependence. Join us for the full gamut of responses residing on the other side of the break.

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