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• Email overload? Try Priority Inbox
  On 31 August 2010
  Via Gmail Blog
  Posted by Doug Aberdeen, Software EngineerPeople tell us all that time that they’re getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all. We know what you mean—here at Google we run on...
• My visit to the Museum of Computing in Swindon
  On 29 August 2010
  Via Retro Computers
  On the way back from my holiday in Devon, I took the opportunity to pop into the Museum of Computing in Swindon. The museum is situated in the centre of Swindon by the Wyvern theatre. There is plenty...
• 30 years, a half million asteroids
  On 27 August 2010
  Via Bad Astronomy
  By now you may have heard about this interesting video showing how many asteroids we’ve discovered since 1980. It’s pretty cool! I have no idea how accurate it is, but the numbers seem about righ...
• H.264 answers Google's open codec with forever free license*
  On 26 August 2010
  Via The Register
  * Free forever for free video only Update: This story has been updated to show that the MPEG-LA's license change applies to free video broadcasts, not applications that encode and decode video.…Free...
• Radio is brilliant: some handy facts proving it
  On 23 August 2010
  Via James Cridland's blog
  Lest anyone try to convince you otherwise… More people listen to the radio now than ever in the past ten years Source: RAJAR – Q2 2010 90.6% of us consume radio every week: that’s more than any...
• Passing data from a PHP script to an Android AppInventor application using tinywebdb
  On 20 August 2010
  Via Liam Green-Hughes's blog
  Google's Android App Inventor is great fun to play with and I think represents a fascinating leap forward in mobile application development. It provides a whole toolbox of ready to go functionality, b...
• Gmail: Voice and video chat now available for Linux
  On 20 August 2010
  Via Google Apps update alerts
  Voice and video chat for Linux is now available. This supports Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions, and RPM support will be coming soon. Editions included: Standard, Premier, Education...
• In Depth: 50 really useful Android tips and tricks
  On 12 August 2010
  Via Techradar - All the latest technology news
  Android is a great little mobile operating system for the modern smartphone, but it can feel a little bewildering and complex to the newcomer. Google's quest to make everyone feel at home by providing...
• Using Google's App Inventor for Android on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)
  On 9 August 2010
  Via Liam Green-Hughes's blog
  Recently I got my invite to try out the beta of Google App Inventor for Android, a simplified environment to enable people to create applications for Android based phones using visual building blocks...
• TweetDeck's public Android beta to open this week
  On 9 August 2010
  Via Android Central - Android Forums, News, and Help
  TweetDeck has announced that it will be holding a public beta for its Android Twitter application sometime this week.  No, we dont have the exact date -- just like Froyo for your device it will come...
• Fine Tune Your Wireless Network with WiFi Analyzer
  On 9 August 2010
  Via Google Android News Android Forums
  Many people don’t realize that you can actually fine tune your WiFi access points with some very simple tricks like rotating that base unit around or changing the station numbers. T...
• The Opera Mobile emulator: Mobile development from the comfort of your desktop
  On 8 August 2010
  Via labs.opera.com
• Best Android Apps: Wavesecure
  On 7 August 2010
  Via Android UK News, Reviews and Allsorts
  App Details: WaveSecure is a mobile security app that protects your phone, data privacy. The 7-day trial lets you: + Find your phone from a PC or phone + Auto backup data/SMS rest...
• Russell Williams explains how to make your own Oleoresin at home
  On 8 August 2010
  Via The ChileFoundry
  I thought it was time to share my method of heat extraction from the beautiful chilli peppers out there. You want to increase the heat without adding volume? Then Oleoresin is for you! My sauce, ‘Th...
• ReCAPTCHA.net Now Vulnerable to Algorithmic Attack
  On 5 August 2010
  Via Slashdot
  n3ond4x writes "reCAPTCHA.net algorithms have been developed to solve the current CAPTCHA at an efficacy of 30%. The algorithms were disclosed at DEFCON 18 over the weekend and have since been made av...
• Update on Google Wave
  On 4 August 2010
  Via The Official Google Blog
  We have always pursued innovative projects because we want to drive breakthroughs in computer science that dramatically improve our users’ lives. Last year at Google I/O, when we launched our develo...
• Proposal to make GNOME a fully-fledged OS
  On 1 August 2010
  Via Omg! Ubuntu!
  Last weeks GUADEC was less like a developers conference and more like a presidential campaign rally! The enthusiasm, positivity and general feedback that it has garnered is incredible but amongst the...
• Send Links from Firefox to an Android Phone
  On 1 August 2010
  Via Google Operating System
  Android 2.2 has a cool service for sending messages to phones: Android Cloud to Device Messaging. "The service provides a simple, lightweight mechanism that servers can use to tell mobile applications...
• Hacker intercepts phone calls with homebuilt $1,500 IMSI catcher, claims GSM is beyond repair
  On 1 August 2010
  Via Engadget
  In 2009, Chris Paget showed the world the vulnerabilities of RFID by downloading the contents of US passports from the safety of his automobile. This year, hes doing the same for mobile phones. Demon...
• Camping with dry ice
  On 31 July 2010
  Via srimech
  Quick report: Is it feasible to take dry ice on a camping trip and keep your drinks cool with it? Yes, although it's not cheap or particularly easy. The results are however much better than car-powere...