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Mario Is Too Mainstream [Video]

Jason Fitzpatrick — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:00:51 +0000

Jumping around, stomping squat bad guys, rescuing maidens–it’s all in a day’s work for members of the jumping platformer club.

For the curious, the characters that make an appearance are Super Mario, Tim (from Braid), Shadow Boy (from Limbo), and Meat Boy (from Super Meat Boy).

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Nokia reports big loss despite strong Windows Phone sales

Andy Smith — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:21:29 +0000

Nokia posted its third consecutive quarter of hefty losses, despite strong sales of its new Windows Phone portfolio.

Quick Digital Makeup Tips To Make Yourself Look Ten Years Younger

Eric Z Goodnight — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

It may not be a fountain of youth, but Photoshop is the secret of beauty experts everywhere. Here’s some tips on how to reduce wrinkles and make the people in your pictures look younger in virtually no time at all.

Whatever you might think about using photo editors to create an unrealistic standard of beauty, the fact remains is that it’s done every day by professional image editors. And today we’re going to show you some tricks that even the pros use to keep models looking young. So open up Photoshop or GIMP and get ready to take some years off. Keep reading!

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Lumia 710 busting through Rogers’ door in February for $149 or $99, you call it

Zachary Lutz — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:38:00 +0000

Rogers subscribers are about to get their very first taste of Windows Phone, and as you know, it’s coming in the form of the Lumia 710. Said to debut during the first week of February, a leaked internal memo has outed the structured price tiers for the lovable runt of Nokia’s litter. It can be purchased outright for $254, while those who saddle up for a one, two or three-year commitment can snatch the handset for $149, $99 or $49, respectively. Feel free to run those numbers through your depreciation and amortization schedules, and let us know what you decide.

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AT&T reports ‘blow-out’ Q4, revenues up 3.6 percent, 7.6 million iPhones activated

Mat Smith — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:07:00 +0000

AT&T is all smiles again, as it announces a quarter in which it managed to sell 9.4 million smartphones. It nearly doubled handset sales from Q3 and managed — perhaps unsurprisingly — 7.6 million iPhone activations, with the majority being Apple’s latest flavor of phone. It looks like the loss of its exclusivity tag hasn’t hurt its sales, with Ma Bell quick to note that it sold far more iPhones than its Big Red rival. Total consolidated revenues were up $1.1 billion from last year, that’s a 3.6 percent increase and it’s up just over $1 billion from last quarter. Aside from bumper smartphone sales, AT&T’s attributed this to a year-on-year increase in wireless subscriptions in all their forms — including wireless internet. An additional 208,000 AT&T U-verse TV subscribers has tipped the viewer count to 3.8 million. See AT&T’s own take on its results below.

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Samsung dissects Galaxy Note, confirms NFC support for LTE version

Myriam Joire — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:02:00 +0000

Teardown fans rejoice! Samsung’s chosen to dissect the Galaxy Note for all to see — and on its official blog, no less. Strangely, the pictures show the global Galaxy Note with its physical home button but the specs match those of the Galaxy Note LTE that we played with at CES and which is supposed to launch on AT&T and Telus real soon now. There are no major surprises here — Samsung outlines some of the over 1000 components within, including the glorious 5.3-inch 1280×800-pixel HD Super AMOLED display, the unspecified 1.5GHz dual-core processor (likely a Qualcomm Snapdragon S3), the eight megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash plus other bits and pieces like sensors and radios. What’s particularly interesting is that Samsung confirms NFC support (with the antenna inside the battery cover) and the use of a Wacom digitizer for the S Pen. Want more? Hit the source link below for the ~~pr0n~~ gory details.

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Pentax Optio VS20: hold it any way you want, as long as you love it

Daniel Cooper — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:40:00 +0000

Standing on the Hoover Dam, you’re trying to encapsulate the majesty of the engineering feat before you. Turning the camera on its side, you try and get a perfect portrait shot, but find the vagaries of evolution mean your fingers won’t stretch to the buttons anymore. If you’ve ever experienced such horrors, Pentax has the solution with its new Optio VS20 digital compact camera. The 16-megapixel camera packs an accelerometer (like Samsung’s QF20) which will flip your image to the correct orientation and a second shutter release and zoom lever on the topmost side of the body for easier snapping. The company also thoughtfully included a second tripod mount, so there’s no futzing with your stand required. Less exceptional features include a 3-inch LCD, automatic picture modes including fish-eye that’ll appeal to the young skaters and hipsters you see littering the streets. It’ll capture 1280 x 720 movies with its independent video button (also recording in fish-eye) and variable aspect ratio. It’s arriving next month for $250, so if you want to become a superstar of the board, you’d better get practicing your Ollies.

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Microsoft paid Nokia $250 million to adopt Windows Phone, Q4 earnings report reveals

Amar Toor — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:18:00 +0000

Microsoft and Nokia have historically been pretty tight-lipped about the value of their Windows Phone partnership, but the cat leapt out of the bag this morning, courtesy of Espoo’s Q4 2011 earnings report. As SlashGear‘s Chris Davies noticed, Nokia received about $250 million from Redmond during the fourth quarter of 2011, as part of the companies’ “broad strategic agreement.” Under the agreement, the manufacturer receives so-called “platform support payments” from Microsoft — which, in turn, receives software licensing payments from Nokia. The $250 million Microsoft doled out last quarter is the first of these transactions. All told, Nokia expects the payments both to and from Microsoft to total “in the billions of US Dollars.”

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Nokia plans board of directors refresh, chairman to step down

Mat Smith — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:04:00 +0000

Following on from today’s mixed bag of Nokia financials, the Espoo-based company will see some changes on its directorial board, after its Annual General Meeting in a few months. As forecast last year, non-executive chairman Jorma Ollola joined Nokia in 1985 and has been on the board through Nokia’s explosive growth into the world’s biggest handset manufacturer — and its more recent troubles. He will leave the board alongside more recent members Bengt Holmström and Per Karlsson, while existing board memeber Risto Siilasmaa is currently pegged to take the helm once the new board of directors is formed. New candidates earmarked for the board include Bruce Brown, of Procter and Gamble, Mårten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems and independent corporate advisor Elizabeth Nelson. The whole Nokia nitty-gritty awaits at the source below.

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How to Optimize Safari for Maximum Privacy

Chris Hoffman — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:00:50 +0000

Apple’s Safari browser can defend against tracking by advertisers, ask websites not to track you and prevent insecure transmission of important data, but not all of these features are enabled by default.

Safari doesn’t contain as many privacy-concerning features as Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, but there are still a few options you might want to tweak.

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Nokia releases Q4 2011 earnings report: operating profits drop, Lumia sales break one million

Amar Toor — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:24:00 +0000

Nokia released its latest quarterly earnings report today, following up on a somewhat disappointing Q3 with a similarly bleak Q4. The Finnish manufacturer finished 2011 with a little more than €10 billion ($13.1 billion) in net sales — 11 percent higher than Q3, but 21 percent lower than 2010, when Nokia raked in about €12.7 billion (approximately $16.7 billion). Operating profit, meanwhile, rose by 90 percent over Q3, but is still down on the year by a whopping 56 percent; this quarter, in fact, saw an operating loss of €954 million (about $1.3 billion). Its net cash and liquid assets also dropped by €1.4 billion over the year, marking a 20 percent decline. The general takeaway, then, is that things are looking better than they were last quarter, but worse than they were last year.

To date, the company has sold “well over” one million Lumia devices, but this Windows Phone surge has apparently come at Symbian‘s expense. “In certain markets, there has been an acceleration of the anticipated trend towards lower-priced smartphones with specifications that are different from Symbian’s traditional strengths,” CEO Stephen Elop said in a statement. “As a result of the changing market conditions, combined with our increased focus on Lumia, we now believe that we will sell fewer Symbian devices than we previously anticipated.” Looking forward, Nokia expects to break even during the first quarter of 2012, due in part to lower than expected seasonal sales and what it calls “competitive industry dynamics.” For the full report, check out the source link below.

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Microsoft patents method for secure pairing of devices wirelessly and a 3D rangefinder camera

Michael Gorman — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:02:00 +0000

IBM may be the king of patents, and Apple’s patent applications grace these pages rather frequently, but Microsoft’s not one to rest on its IP laurels, either. A couple of newly published patents out of Redmond have made their way to the web: one for securely pairing wireless devices and one for 3D rangefinder camera technology. The pairing tech works via a direct connection between devices using Bluetooth or WiFi and an automated, two-step authentication process. First, a request is sent by an initiating handset and is authenticated by its target using an address book of recognized devices. Next, the two devices exchange encrypted security keys to cement their digital friendship, leaving you free to exchange your favorite episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 or latest LOLcat pictures with the greatest of ease.

Microsoft’s other patent of interest is for “a 3D camera for determining distances to regions in a scene.” That’s not a new concept by any means, but this new bit of IP integrates all the functions of such an imager on a single chip. Essentially, it claims an image sensor, a light source to illuminate the scene being shot and a controller to gate the pixels on the sensor on and off and correct for inaccuracies caused by other light sources. It works by projecting the light source and determining the distance to various points based upon the time it takes for the light to bounce off the target and reach the camera sensor. Want to know more? You can haz all the patent particulars at the source links below.

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How to Make Programs Start Automatically in Linux Mint 12

Taylor Gibb — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:41 +0000

In Windows we have the Startup folder where we can easily place a shortcut to a program that we want to launch automatically. In Linux Mint there is a way easier way to manage startup applications–here’s how to do it.

Note: Since this is just for demonstration purposes I will be setting VLC Media Player to start automatically. However, this will work with any application.

The first thing you are going to want to do is click on the Applications menu, then select Other and launch “Startup Applications”

You will now be able to see the applications that are set to startup

Go ahead and click on the Add button

Give your startup item a name, I will just call mine VLC

Now click on the browse button and navigate to where your application is installed. For most applications this is at:

File System > usr > bin

Now select your application and click on the open button

Now click on the add button

Your application is now set to startup automatically

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New York planetarium to host 200-player space game tonight (video)

Amar Toor — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:55:00 +0000

Got plans for this evening? Cancel them now, and do everything you can to sneak into New York’s Museum of Natural History. Because tonight, the museum’s planetarium will play host to a 200-person space game, courtesy of Brooklyn’s Babycastles arcade. It’s all part of the museum’s “Cosmic Cocktails and Space Arcade” evening — an event that seems tailor made for anyone interested in cosmology, humans, and/or hallucinogens. The showcase of the soiree is the Space Cruiser game, which promises to turn the ceiling of the Rose Center for Earth and Space into a “living, breathing, space ship where participants navigate around a beautiful fictitious universe.” With the Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt assuming the tripartite role of ship captain-navigator-narrator, the game apparently begins with the birth of the universe, before transporting visitors across new galaxies and through time-bending wormholes. The ship launches at 6:30 PM tonight, but unfortunately, tickets are already sold out. Head past the break, though, for a rather “duuuude“-inducing video.

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Strategy Analytics: Apple still owns tablet market, but Android narrows the gap

Amar Toor — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:45:00 +0000

Strategy Analytics has come out with another report on the state of today’s tablet market, which, not surprisingly, remains dominated by Apple. Cupertino’s iOS comprised about 58 percent of the global slate market during Q4 2011 — well ahead of Android’s record high 39 percent share, but down from the 68 percent it commanded during the final quarter of 2010. Android, in fact, has seen quite a jump over the past year, with total shipments reaching 10.5 million units during the last quarter, up from just 3.1 million last year (Apple, by comparison, shipped 15.4 million iPads during Q4, versus the 7.3 million it shipped last year). On a global level, the tablet market continues to blossom, with total shipments reaching an all-time high of 26.8 million units last quarter, representing a whopping 150 percent increase over last year. Read the full report at the source link below, or head past the break for a more succinct press release.

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