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iPod touch Fans forum -
7 hours and 40 minutes ago
 Category: Photography
Released: Nov 05, 2008
Price: Free
Description:
** The Top Pic will be featured free for a very limited time. Start submitting your best iPhone
photos to be rated by other users. Let's see some creativity! ** Have you been taking some killer
shots with your iPhone camera? See what other people think of your photography skills. The Top Pic
allows you to submit your iPhone photos to be rated by other users as well as to rate other
users�
photos. The top 20 pics will be displayed on the app and the number one pic will be featured
www.thetoppic.com. To get credit for your photos fill out your display name with
whatever information you like (e.g. Name or Website) Be sure to review this app to get more users
involved. Thanks and Have fun!
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Get it on iTunes: The Top Pic

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High-Def Digest: All High-Def Disc News -
10 minutes ago
MGM has officially announced a late-February Blu-ray bow for 'Ronin,' though fans may be
disappointed by the lack of extras on the bones release. Originally scheduled for a late-2007
Blu-ray release (before...img
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yelvington.com - Steve Yelvington's weblog -
29 minutes ago
pI tripped over a reference to artificial intelligence the other day. I guess I tripped because
it's not a term I hear very much any more. Maybe it's because I hang around with a lot of geeky
people, but it seems quaint and maybe a little pretentious./p pInstead, I hear about a lot of very
specific techniques: Bayesian networks, collaborative filtering and the slope-one algorithm. I
guess those fall under the artificial intelligence umbrella, but often it's really a matter of
harvesting human intelligence and then acting on the results./p pGoogle has just turned on a change
that reportedly has been a
href=http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/20/google-makes-major-interface-change-to-search-searchwiki/
in a fairly wide test,/a giving logged-in Google users a chance to vote up/down specific items
returned by search queries. /p pThis is a huge change for Google, which made its mark by
observation-based harvesting of human intelligence. Both Google Search and Google News observe the
results of human decisions and use those observations to recommend items. /p pGoogle Search places
a high value on inbound links, which are considered to reflect whether a page is authoritative. If
a lot of people link to a page, it must be good. This is why blog spammers prowl the net, posting
comments that sneakily embed a link to their websites./p pGoogle News looks at the relative
prominence that has been given to a story by editors at thousands of news-related websites, then
uses that information to help design its top-level presentation. Rather than reflecting the news
judgment of an editor at Google (there isn't one), Google reflects a sort of broad consensus among
human editors./p pThe new Google feature -- which it calls SearchWiki -- switches gears and asks
people to take an overt action to provide it with information about human judgment./p pLet me bring
this home to the world of news sites. This is a good thing because the scale and impact of Google
will significantly broaden the pool of people who are in the habit of explicitly evaluating items
on the net. This is a habit we can use to our advantage./p pMany news sites are adding rate this
item features, then using that to display lists of actively top rated stories, often paired with
observationally ranked most emailed and most viewed. That's one way to use the information, but
it's a fairly naive way./p pI'm far more interested in how we might use this information to
generate personalized recommendations using collaborative-filtering principles and that mysterious
slope-one algorithm that I mentioned. /p pAs so often is the case, there's a
href=http://drupal.org/project/crealready a Drupal module for that/a, one that originated as a 2006
Google Summer of Code project. As we collect rankings, ratings and other overt evaluations on our
websites, I'm looking forward to pointing the recommendation module at that data and seeing what
comes out of it./p

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Engadget -
33 minutes ago

Great news for all you aspiring paparazzi -- it looks like someone has finally figured out how to
eliminate that nasty camera phone shutter lag. By sending image data directly to the camera's
display and capturing it as a modified SpeedTagged JPEG when the time comes to immortalize that
precious moment (or romantic indiscretion), the Scalado Camera Solution not only takes nigh-on
instantaneous photos, but also provides high quality, real-time preview, pan and zoom. With several
camera phone sensor and module manufacturers (including Aptina, OmniVision Samsung, and MtekVision)
already on the SpeedTags tip, it looks like that laggedy old camera phone may soon be a thing of
the past. Don't believe us? Take a look at the demo video yourself. It's after the break.
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MAKE Magazine -
34 minutes ago
Hey Makers, This is David J. Neff and you may know me as the MAKE Halloween blogger, but after meeting all
the guys and gal from MAKE at Maker Faire Austin 2008 they thought I should join the party that's
still going on. So I have been asked to build some of the kits from the Maker Shed and document how hard or easy they are to
make along with some tips. Now I have made Halloween props for several years but none of those as
complicated as some of the stuff in the Maker Shed. So tune in as an average guy takes on some
truly cool projects. Feel free to leave me comments or shortcuts as I build and post projects.My
first project was the LED Clock.
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Rage3D Discussion Area - 75,85,87,93,99 -
40 minutes ago
Posting a thread about Creative open-sourcing the X-Fi Linux Driver ( link) got me
wondering about the X-Fi Vista driver scene. I have a 1st gen X-Fi Fatal1ty sitting in a box
somewhere around here, choosing instead to use my IP35 Pro's Realtek solution after tiring of the
driver dramas.
Have the drivers improved to the point where its worth considering dropping an X-Fi back in?
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CNET News.com -
40 minutes ago
Online gaming competition site, BringIt, has launched in open beta, but its gambling element may
cause some issues.
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The Superficial - Because You're Ugly -
40 minutes ago
img src="http://cdn.thesuperficial.com//bfm_gallery/2008/11/1121 Paris Hilton Benji
Repo/post_image/post_image-1121_paris_hilton_benjirepo_00.jpg" border="0"br Paris Hilton called
into a href="http://www.kiisfm.com/cc-common/losangeles/podcast/kiis.html"Ryan Seacrest's radio
show/a this morning to set the record straight on her relationship with Benji Madden. Supposedly,
the two are "just talking a break," and Paris hinted they could get back together, according to a
href="http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b70047_paris_on_benji_were_just_taking_break.html"E! News/a:
blockquote"He is an incredible person, and we will always be really close," Hilton said. "We will
see what happens in the future. I am still in love with him."br As for why they decided to go their
separate ways for now...br "He has been working nonstop with his brother on his new record. I am
working and traveling," she said. "All these reports that say I dumped him aren't true. This is a
decision we made together as adults."/blockquote The last time I was on a "break" from a
relationship, I sat around in my boxers for days on end building LEGOs and watching porn. (Its been
five years, but I know she'll call me back as soon as her husband gives her the message.) I'm sure
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Download Squad -
40 minutes ago
pFiled under: a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/utilities/" rel="tag"Utilities/a, a
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//aEarlier today we showed you how to a
href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/21/help-how-do-i-tidy-up-a-disorganized-hard-drive/"keep
your hard drive organized/a with tools to remove duplicate files and clean up your file and folder
management system. But what if you want to just delete all the gunk you download and never use?
That's what a href="http://cyber-d.blogspot.com/2005/10/cyber-ds-auto-delete-101.html"Auto Delete/a
is for.br /br /This free Windows utility lets you automatically delete old files in a given folder.
You can fine tune the settings to delete files that have been hanging out for a day, a year, or
somewhere in between. Files can be moved to the recycle bin or permanently deleted. And you can
choose whether to include subfolders or not.br /br /It might be a good idea to set Auto Delete to
monitor your web browser's default download directory. Odds are if you haven't moved a file out of
that directory after a few weeks, you're not really going to use it and it's just taking up space
on your hard drive.br /br /[via a href="http://shellcity.net/?egg=a"Shell Extension City/a]p
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Mac Forums - iPod touch -
42 minutes ago
I couldn't get through my iPhone App Store Updates since yesterday. It says, "Cannot connect to
iTunes Store". It's been that way on firmware 2.1 and 2.2. Am I the only one? If not, what
happened? Thanks.
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Mac Forums - iPod touch -
42 minutes ago
When ever I connect my Ipod touch to my computer, the time and date goes total haywire. I try
fixing it by setting the time and date of the iPod back to current time, but that isn't
helping.
Is there anyway I could fix this problem?
PS: It always goes in the month of October, none of the other months.
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Mac Forums - iPod touch -
43 minutes ago
I woke up at 10 ish AM this morning with this:
I have Jay Freeman's VNC server installed on my phone and have had it for quite a while. I'm very
unsure of if it was accessed through EGDGE/3G or through my router. My router is WEP encrypted with
a local address of 192.168.1.1xx
Anyone think they could think of how someone even possibly attempted connecting through port 5900
on purpose to my phone from that IP ? How did they find MY phone's IP ?
I just thought that was just a little bit creepy !
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Macworld -
45 minutes ago
Learn how to downgrade to an older MySQL version. We also have some general tips for downgrading
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ESPN.com -
46 minutes ago
Visit ESPN.com for the complete story.
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iPod touch Fans forum -
49 minutes ago
God Day.. i would like to know sort out a few thing.
1. What do i have to do to get custom sized icons on my ipod Touch. I know it is possible, but i
dont know how =)
2. Is it possible to get calendar.app totaly blank. No Date no Day Etc.
3. What is this theme called and how can i get it ?
Sorry for bad english =).
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Ars Technica -
49 minutes ago
pMajor movie studios aren't happy that Australian ISP iiNet won't disconnect users after receiving
evidence that they have been sharing movies over BitTorrent. iiNet doesn't want to play traffic
cop, but Australian law does demand it have (and act on) a disconnection policy for copyright
infringers./ppa
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Gizmodo -
50 minutes ago
You know, all of the jokes that come to mind about this fetus USB flash drivemdash;complete with a
detailed how-to process to make your ownmdash;I really can't make them. But I'm pretty sure that...
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Read/WriteWeb -
51 minutes ago
pimg alt="friend_connect_logo_nov08.png"
src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/friend_connect_logo_nov08.png" /Just about half a year ago,
Google announced the limited beta of a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_friend_connect_manages.php"Friend Connect/a,
which allows site owners to display OpenSocial based gadgets on their sites and site visitors to
sign in to these social gadgets with their OpenID, AIM, Yahoo, or Google accounts./p pa
href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/friend-connect-service-coming-soon/5497/"Amit Agarwal/a has
been keeping a close eye on Friend Connect since it was announced and he assumes that the service
could go live pretty soon. Just last week, Google published a new a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N94s7ix0JPo"YouTube video/a geared towards users and now the a
href="http://www.google.com/support/friendconnect/"support site/a for Friend Connect is available
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alt='' align="right" //a/p pSome of the gadgets Google currently supplies are a comment wall and a
ratings gadget. Friend Connect will also work with third-party applications built by the OpenSocial
developer community. To enable these gadgets, all a site owner has to do is to copy and paste some
code snippets into their site's HTML./p h2Google Profiles Meets MyBlogLog/h2 pLately, Google has
started to put a lot more emphasis on its own user profiles, and Friend Connect makes good use of
them. Once you join a Friend Connect enabled site, other users will be able to see information from
your profile, though you can set your privacy settings to disallow others from seeing your profile
pages as well. In many ways, this is quite similar to a
href="http://www.mybloglog.com/"MyBlogLog/a./p h2It's Social, But is it Open?/h2 pimg
alt="friend_connect.jpg" align="right" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/friend_connect.jpg"
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href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_to_join_the_crowd_with.php"concerned/a about the
a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_friend_connect_manages.php"direction Google was
taking/a with this implementation of the OpenSocial standards. Also, as we noted in our earlier
posts, the Friend Connect apps are displayed in an iframe, which is basically a separate web page
inside another web page. Because of this, these apps are black boxes that live on your site, but
don't allow the site owners to really leverage the data from these apps on their own sites./p pIt
is interesting to note that the latest Google video about Friend Connect still prominently features
Facebook as a supported service, even though Facebook has decided to eschew OpenSocial in favor of
its own platform. The a
href="http://www.google.com/support/friendconnect/bin/answer.py?answer=112075amp;topic=16611"help
pages/a for Friend Connect don't feature a list of supported services yet./p h2Benefits/h2 pThere
are, however, also some clear benefits to using Friend Connect. Through this service, a site owner
might be able to create more user loyalty and enthusiastic readers can evangelize your site by
publishing their activity on it to their own social network. Visitors will also be able to a
href="http://www.google.com/support/friendconnect/bin/answer.py?answer=112073"invite their
friends/a on social networks to join your site./p pIn an a
href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20080512_friend_connect.html"early press release/a
about Friend Connect, Google stated that this initiative was about helping the 'long tail' of sites
to become more social. While we might worry about#160; some of the details of Google's
implementation, this by itself is a worthy cause, and it will be interesting to see how site owners
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Times Online:rss -
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Vikram Pandit, Citigroup’s chief executive, today blamed the bank’s plunging share
price on "rumour mongering" and reiterated that its capital position is "very strong".
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customers to design or customize their handset before ordering online. At the moment, it is only
available for the Nokia 7310 and basically lets you design a sticker for the back of the phone. It
could be really cool, depending on the final quality. How important is customization for you and
how much more, ifnbsp;at all,nbsp;would you like to pay to personalize your phone?/p pPermalink: a
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MetaFilter -
52 minutes ago
a href="http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/11/digg-attack-javascript-game.html"DIGG ATTACK/a is a game.
Lead a small band of good guys (small bluish dots) in a struggle to flee from Digg Stories.
Requires your browser support the canvas tag. br /
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Mac Forums - iPod touch -
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Everyone, I just need feedback on your working MBP unibody idle temps so I can do a comparison with
my current MBP that has a weird sound fan.
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