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Learn to Properly Clean a DSLR Camera Lens [Video]

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We've mentioned a few tips for cleaning your camera lens before, but if you haven't done it before, the Nikon Help Hotline shows us—in step by step video form—how it's done. More »

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Editorial: RIM, we've been here before

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By now you've no doubt read or at least heard about the New York Times interview where RIM's co-CEOs wound up asking most of the questions and challenged conventional wisdom about the company, or seen the BBC interview that Mike Lazaridis put an abrupt end to (see below, if you haven't). Those both offer plenty of juicy morsels for folks like us to chew on, but they're also indicative of a broader sense of frustration from the company that's getting difficult to ignore. One that is strikingly similar to what we've recently seen from another company that grew to dominate on the world stage, became a figure of national pride in its home country, and is now struggling to reinvent itself in the face of stiff competition: Nokia.

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Editorial: RIM, we've been here before originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sand Trap is a fun and difficult physics maze game

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Sand Trap is one of those games that at first seem too hard to bother with, but when you try to stop playing it you discover you're hooked.

The goal is to get as much sand as you possibly can out of the maze and into the bucket at the bottom of the screen. You need to rotate your maze every which way to get the sand rolling around it. You then try to direct the sand to one of the exits of the maze, and hopefully into the bucket. It took me several tries to actually get sand into the bucket, but that might be due to the fact that I didn't even realize the bucket was there at first. Things improved significantly after that.

As you level up, the mazes get more complicated, with moving parts and other things making your life more difficult. Once you manage to get through all these obstacles and get enough sand into your bucket, you can move on.

As I mentioned, this is not an easy game, but it's highly addictive. The graphics remind me of some long lost game from the 80s, but this just proves that you don't need super graphics and crazy sound to make a game work. There's a soothing guitar track playing in the background and that's it, as far as I could hear, and you can enjoy it just as much with no sound at all.

If you like a fun physics challenge, don't miss out on this one!

Sand Trap is a fun and difficult physics maze game originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Physicists Build Big Bang in a Box [Science]

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Sitting on a bench at the University of Maryland is the first-ever desktop model of the Big Bang. More »

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Protect Your iPhone 4 with the WirelessGround Shell Holster Combo

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You can carry and protect your iPhone 4 in this shell and holster combo from WirelessGround.� The holster portion clips onto your belt or waistband, and it can hang in either the horizontal or vertical position.� The shell case fits securely in the holster and slides out easily without requiring you to remove the holster [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/04/13/protect-your-iphone-4-with-the-wirelessground-shell-holster-combo/

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Toshiba?s Self Erasing Drive Wipes Itself Instantly

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If you yank one of Toshiba’s new Self Erasing Drives from a computer and try to use it in another machine, then it can instantly wipe sensitive data, leaving a thief with little more than an empty chunk of glass and silicon.
The SED performs a cryptographic erase on itself. Unlike a regular erase which overwrites [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/toshibas-self-erasing-drive-wipes-itself-instantly/

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Dell's WiFi-only Streak 7 goes Euro-trippin', now available in the UK for �299

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With one of the original 5-inch Streak's chief downsides being that it was considered too small to be a proper tablet, Dell did the sage thing this January and introduced a 7-inch variant in the Streak 7. The newer slate is outfitted with a nice Tegra 2 dual-core chip, 16GB of storage, a 5 megapixel rear- and a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera, a WVGA (800 x 480) display, and now the eminently reasonable UK price of £299 ($487). Alas, where Dell fell short with its Streak family expansion was in installing Android 2.2 on the 7, which hasn't changed during its trip over the Altantic, and in offering pretty poor battery life -- which might actually be a bit better here since Brits are receiving the WiFi-only model. Then again, if we're having to praise a device for improving itself by omitting a valuable feature like 3G, perhaps that tells you all you need to know about its viability. At least the Streak 7 is priced correctly and Dell does promise a Honeycomb update is in the offing. You can order yours at Dell's UK outlet linked below or jump past the break to familiarize yourself with the company's press release.

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Dell's WiFi-only Streak 7 goes Euro-trippin', now available in the UK for �299 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hacker Gains Access To WordPress.com Servers, Site Source Code Exposed

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Wordpress.com has revealed that someone has gained root-access ("low-level," as in deep)�to several of its servers this morning and that VIP customers' source code was accessible. Wordpress.com VIP customers are all on "code red" and in the process of changing all the passwords/API keys they've left in the source code.

"Tough note to communicate today: Automattic had a low-level (root) break-in to several of our servers, and potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed. We have been diligently reviewing logs and records about the break-in to determine the extent of the information exposed, and re-securing avenues used to gain access. We presume our source code was exposed and copied. While much of our code is Open Source, there are sensitive bits of our and our partners? code. Beyond that, however, it appears information disclosed was limited."

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Leaked sign confirms Droid Incredible 2 will be a world phone, launch is likely imminent

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Leaked sign confirms Droid Incredible 2 will be a world phone, launch is likely imminent originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sharp's new 70-inch LCD HDTV is definitely bigger than the one your friend just bought

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At its "Spectacularge" press conference today Sharp announced its new 70-inch LC-70LE732U is the largest LCD HDTV on the market . It sports Quattron four color pixels, full LED backlighting, Netflix, CinemaNow, Vudu Apps and DLNA access among its list of features, but no 3D. That will be remedied by one of the three additional models of 70-inch LCDs Sharp says it will ship this summer but in the meantime we're just enjoying a throwback to the heady days of 2006 when consumer LCDs were last found in this size range. Interested parties with enough green to cover the $3,799 MSRP should be able to order these at their local retailers, while the rest can gawk at the specs in the press release and hands-on shots. Oh, and as for those adjectives you'll see just past the break -- a preview of Sharp's marketing campaign, whose target customer has an "emotional" connection to the word big -- well, somewhere Freud is having a field day.

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Sharp's new 70-inch LCD HDTV is definitely bigger than the one your friend just bought originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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VelEau, The Most Complicated Bike Drinking System You Could Possibly Imagine

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Why use a perfectly good water bottle on your bike when you could use a complex, expensive and awkward to use “hydration system” instead? That’s the promise of the VelEau Bicycle Mounted Hydration System.
The VelEau comes in several parts. First, there’s a saddlebag which holds 42 ounces (1.4 liters) of water. Then there’s a tube [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/veleau-the-most-complicated-bike-drinking-system-you-could-possibly-imagine/

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Daily Crunch: Spar Edition

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?Folded Leaf? Phone Is Minimalist, But Not Necessarily Practical Psyko Expands Surround Sound Headphone Line With Carbon, Krypton Xoom Too Expensive? Try These 5 Inexpensive Android Tablets Instead Spar Kinect-Style With Urijah Faber In UFC Personal Trainer Solus Spinal Fusion Device Looks Evil

Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/04/08/daily-crunch-spar-edition/

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You can now rent Adobe Photoshop for $35 per month, CS 5.5 available soon

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Rejoice! No longer will you have to fork over $700 for a Photoshop CS5 license! Adobe has unveiled a new subscription scheme where you can rent the entire Creative Suite, or individual packages, by the month, or for an entire year.

Adobe Photoshop can be yours for $35 per month if you agree to rent it for 12 months, or $49 per month if you require its services for a shorter period. Dreamweaver can be had for even cheaper, at just $19 per month. The entire Master Collection is still rather expensive, though, at $125 per month.

Today, Adobe also ushered in the release of Creative Suite 5.5, and simultaneously upped its release cycle from 18 months to 24 months. This means, if you rent Photoshop for two years, it's actually the same cost as buying it outright. There's no rent-to-own option, though -- so you wouldn't have access to the cheaper upgrade price once Creative Suite 6 rolls around next year. Still, if you need access to Photoshop, After Effects or Premiere for a one-time project, the new rental scheme could be exactly what you're looking for.

In other news, Adobe has announced that it will be launching three rather exciting iPad apps that work in conjunction with Photoshop: Eazel, Nav, and Color Lava. Eazel lets you five-finger paint on your iPad, and export the result into Photoshop; Nav acts as some kind of workspace, brush and menu extension, and the hopefully named Color Lava is a paint mixing palette. The apps are expected to appear in the App Store in the next 30 days.

You can now rent Adobe Photoshop for $35 per month, CS 5.5 available soon originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Kanye West Transported to a Swirling Nebula of Mind-Altering GIFs [Video]

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Kanye West, longtime ruler of the internet, has been given a proper tribute in the web's most gorgeous artistic medium—the animated GIF. This (mildly NSFW) video, by WE ARE FROM L.A., turns old files into... Power. [via Whitney] More »

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Windows 8 Explorer to feature Ribbon UI, SkyDrive and Mesh integration?

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Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott have posted a second look at some of the early changes which have surface in Windows 8 milestone 3. First there was the restyled Welcome Screen, and now it appears that Microsoft is toying with bringing the Ribbon UI to Explorer.

The Ribbon, like in Microsoft Word and Excel, is context-aware, adding tabs for specific tasks which apply to the folder you're viewing -- such as library or picture management. You can also make out two new buttons in the status bar, which allow you to change the current folder's view style.

It's clear from all the placeholder images and repeated elements that this is very much a work in progress, but featuring the Ribbon more prominently in Windows 8 would certainly be a logical progression for Microsoft. It's slowly become more ubiquitous, moving beyond Office and into Wordpad, Paint, and several of the Windows Live Essentials applications.

There's more to the screenshots than the Ribbon UI, however. Our friend Long Zheng has noted two interesting elements in the images: Web sharing and sync (image after the break). That would likely mean users will be able to quickly upload files to SkyDrive and synchronize using Live Mesh right from Explorer in Windows 8. That's not a total surprise considering many of the earliest leaked images of Windows 8 showed Windows Live integration on the desktop.

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Windows 8 Explorer to feature Ribbon UI, SkyDrive and Mesh integration? originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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