We’ve all heard the stories about how location based services such as FourSquare are a potential tool for people who want to burglarize your house while you’re away and checked in elsewhere. It’s all useless fearmongering if you ask me. (Also, the website Please Rob Me is inherently bogus; it’s only a robbery if someone’s home.)
Apps & Web
Should Twitter Beware an UberMedia Rival?
Tell folks to stop making Twitter clients (as Twitter just did) and what do they do? How about build a better Twitter.
CNN reports UberMedia may be planning to. Well, is planning to at least build a social network. And according to sources: One that’s ostensibly designed to go toe-to-toe (or tweet-to-tweet) with Twitter.
How do you …
A Working Star Wars AT-AT in Real Life? Let’s Make This Happen
America is great for an endless number of reasons. But the freedom to spend outlandish amounts of money on nerd-ish pursuits that hold no greater meaning other than they’d be ridiculously, freakishly awesome? Our founding fathers smile down.
Which is why we have to get behind this project to build a life-sized, fully operational AT-AT …
Mustached Mythbuster to Bring Expertise to the US Military
Jamie Hyneman — the thickly facial-haired, beret-adorned half of the hit TV show MythBusters — has landed himself a new side gig working on a special project for the US Military.
CNET is reporting that the Office of Naval Research is tapping into the special effects expert to develop an ultra-lightweight armor for use on vehicles …
Tastebuds.fm Finds Your Musical and Romantic Soulmate For You
If you won’t date someone who listens to Justin Bieber and want a heads up in case they do, head over to Tastebuds.fm. The online dating service pairs you with single people who share your musical tastes. Just think: One less box to check on your quest to find fans of John Cusack-era tunes.
The site’s powered by last.fm, so you if
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Surprise, E-mail Signature Disclaimers are Legally Meaningless
Somewhere, the e-mail gods just smiled upon us all. Those annoyingly long e-mail signatures companies often use as a disclaimer don’t mean anything in court. In fact, they don’t mean anything at all, except for the fact that someone really wants to aggravate you with a “legal notice” that takes up two lengthy paragraphs.
Part …
China Decides to Ban Time Travel
In China… well, in China, many weird things happen. The Chinese government, in another strange episode, has decided to ban time travel. Well, at least when it comes to television shows and movies.
With the way things are run, the state controls and monitors everything shown on your television or your computer. So yeah, China can …
Moleskine Goes Digital with First iPhone App
Digital scribes, rejoice! The classic line of notebooks (the paper kind, that is) gets a modern twist with an upcoming iPhone app. It may not be as satisfying as pressing ink to iconic lined parchment, but at least you’ll feel like you’ve joined the modern era.
Moleskine’s app–currently pending Apple’s approval and due out …
Download Site Says DRM Causes Piracy
Retro gaming download site Good Old Games specializes in titles from the bygone days of computer gaming, including classics like Planescape: Torment. The games they offer harken back to a time before onerous and even malicious DRM (digital rights management) measures were implemented on PC games to try and prevent piracy.
But GOG PR …
Sprint Releases New Music App for Phones
Sad that your Android doesn’t have iTunes to let you indulge your musical passions at a moment’s notice? Fret no more, Sprint phone owners.
Today, the wireless provider released a new music application for Android devices that serves as a ”single, convenient destination for customers to discover, purchase and play” music, per …
Read the Fine Print: New Magnifier App for iPhone
Turning a smartphone into a magnifier is hardly a new concept in the world of apps, but one company promises a premium take on the concept.
Net|Soft Engineering, based in San Antonio, Texas, says it designed its EyeReader application–which helps magnify and illuminate surfaces–specifically for Baby Boomers.
How does that make it …
New Site Predicts Your Next Tweet, Sort Of
Add this to the pile of brilliant Twitter-related time-wasters: That Can Be My Next Tweet scans your past tweets, sticks them in a blender, and comes up with possibilities for what you’re likely to tweet next. They’re usually grammatical. Sort of.
(More on TIME.com: Tweetdeck’s Awesome Chrome App Coming to Other Browsers)
Developed …