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Taking a more passive approach with the Wii remote than, say, operating a 15-ton grapple or saving your friends on Tatooine, a team of biomedical engineering undergraduates at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have been developing a companion CPR training program. Using the controller’s built-in accelerometer, it tracks hand position as you practice those vital life-saving maneuverings, charting depth and rate of compression to give you a more accurate performance reading than the conventional Resusci Anne mannequin. The American Heart Association is sure impressed: it just pledged a $50,000 fund to UAB for the continuation of the project. The software’s expected to be complete early fall 2009, with an open source download being released on the AHA website. No telling what these crazy kids’ll accomplish once MotionPlus gets its time to shine.

[Via Coolest Gadgets]

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Palm itself had warned that the Pre’s iTunes sync functionality could be broken at a moment’s notice (and at Apple’s whim), but we’re pretty sure no one expected it’d happen this quickly. We’ve been able to confirm that version 8.2.1 of the software prevents the sync from working, meaning that you’ve got to add music the old-fashioned way — the Pre functions as a USB drive, too — until Palm gets around to patching the hack (if they decide to patch it, that is). This could end up being a protracted game of cat-and-mouse, which is entertaining to watch but nightmarish for the consumers down in the trenches actually trying to use this stuff. Funny thing is, Apple’s straight up saying in its release notes that the update “addresses an issue with verification of Apple devices” — in other words, they weren’t being verified before, and now they are, thank goodness. Peaceful sleep is once again within our reach.

Update: Apple’s now gone beyond the “verification of Apple devices” phrase, calling out the Pre by name in a statement issued to BusinessWeek: “It also disables devices falsely pretending to be iPods, including the Palm Pre. As we’ve said before, newer versions of Apple’s iTunes software may no longer provide syncing functionality with unsupported digital media players.” In other words, “we told you this was going to happen, and it did.” For its part, Palm appears to have re-issued the same statement it made a while back, saying that Apple’s move is a “direct blow” to its users. Words are one thing, but here’s the real question: is there a quick counterstrike fix planned from Palm’s side?

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iTunes 8.2.1 brings Pre’s music syncing capability to a halt (updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on May 30, 2006 by CyberNet.

PC Magazine just reviewed Comodo Personal Firewall 2.0 and gave it 4.5/5! You might think that you don’t feel like paying for a firewall when Windows XP SP2 has one built into it, but this one is FREE. PC Magainze also tagged it as an Editor’s Choice and this is the overview that they gave of Comodo:

Comodo Personal Firewall is a kick-ass free firewall. It keeps hackers out and tricky unauthorized programs off the Internet. And it resists being terminated. It works as well as all but the best for-pay firewalls and did I mention it’s free?

It looks like it is a good piece of software and if you want to learn more about it then visit the Comodo Firewall Homepage or read the rest of the PC Magazine review.

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Though Dell didn’t have much to say about Google’s Chrome OS announced last week, the PC maker said Wednesday in a blog post that it is indeed looking closely at it.

Dell says it has options for Linux OSes for Netbooks.

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HDTracks.com, a high-res music-downloading service run by musicians for musicians, today announced the release of the free album Jazz & Blues Experience. It’s available for download at www.hdtracks.com/jazzdownload.

Jazz & Blues Experience is a seven-track collection of music from some of today’s finest musicians. Works include organist Dr. Lonnie Smith’s “Dapper Dan,” from Rise Up and trumpeter Dominick Farinacci’s “Vision,” from Lovers, Tales, and Dances.

Besides offering CD and DVD audio quality downloads, HDTracks.com also has cover artwork and full, descriptive PDF liner notes. Music tracks are available in AIFF and FLAC formats, as well as MP3. Enjoy!