Archive for February, 2012


Best Buy boosts return window from 14 days to 30

That adage of “less is more” definitely doesn’t apply to retailer return policies, so we have no complaints here. Best Buy is reportedly going to offer a more lenient 30-day window for device returns, up from the company’s current 14-day policy. Naturally, this also covers price matches, and applies to all products, including those from [...]

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Daily Crunch: Mystery Driver Edition

Softstep Keyworx Lets You Assign Macros To Your Feet Day 1: My Week In The Nissan Leaf ?Magi-Cam? Uses Mirrors As Camouflage To Spy On Vigilant Animals Hit Video Game Professor Layton To Go Social On Mobage This Year Ejacket: Bandai?s E-Money Case Plays Kamen Rider Sounds Every Time You Make a Purchase (Video) Source: [...]

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Transform your photos into typographic works of art with WordFoto for iPhone

A picture is worth a thousand words — and WordFoto takes this quite literally by artistically splattering meaningful words all over your photos, transforming them into typographic works of art. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/SyLPD21Xb8s/story01.htm ZORAN ZIONS BAN YAHOO YAHOO XILINX

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Chocomize personalized chocolate: giveaway and discount code

Okay, I know what you’re thinking: chocolate on Download Squad? That’s right! That’s because Chocomize is one of the nerdiest ways to get chocolate online: it’s a website where you customize your own bar using a multi-step process. We’ve covered Chocomize before in our holiday gift guide, so when they reached out to us offering [...]

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Google Chrome now uses SPDY HTTP replacement, halves page load time

We’re not entirely sure of the time line here, but it looks like Google has now rolled out the SPDY HTTP replacement to its full bevy of Web services, including Gmail, Docs, and YouTube. If you’re currently using Google’s Chrome browser you’re probably already using SPDY. We originally reported on SPDY way back in November [...]

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Cueboy Quest is an adorable 8-bit style physics game

Yes, that’s right, I said adorable. Because Cueboy Quest really is! You play an 8-bit cowboy whose goal on each level is to get to the door (and thus to the next level), but the door is often locked. To get it to open, you must shoot at one or more targets, and those targets [...]

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Sprint reveals it spent $15.5 billion to fuel its iPhone hunger

Sprint’s SEC filings have revealed that the carrier has committed to purchasing $15.5 billion worth of iPhones as part of the long-promised $20 billion gamble. If each handset costs around $630 at trade, then we’re talking about the network holding nearly 24 million units. Given that the company most recently ate a loss of $1.3 [...]

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Sniffing Rosemary Makes You Smarter [Science]

There are plenty of strange alternative uses for herbs. Rosemary, for instance, is supposed to soothe the skin and cure dandruff—though I can’t promise how well it will do either. Science, however, now tells us it definitely can make you smarter. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/v4OU1UGfyAI/sniffing-rosemary-makes-you-smarter ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING ALLIANCE DATA SYSTEMS ALLTEL AMAZONCOM AMERICA MOVIL

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The Engadget Interview: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop at MWC 2012 (video)

Not one, not two, but three Nokia interviews at Mobile World Congress? Yes, we were lucky to catch up with CEO Stephen Elop — whom we last saw at CES — and chat about the Lumia 610, the white Lumia 900, the 808 PureView imaging flagship, and a hint at what kind of cameras we [...]

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Why Google+ Doesn?t Care If You Never Come Back

Ad targeting. Google+ is designed to power ad targeting, and for that it only needs you to sign up once. This lets it combine the biographical information you initially enter such as age, gender, and places you’ve lived with your activity on Search, Gmail, Maps and all its other products to create an accurate identity [...]

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