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About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons—maybe they’re a bit too niche, maybe we couldn’t find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn’t fit it in—the ..read more
A 1080p streaming upgrade is on its way for Netflix users later this year, Adobe is promising faster Flash for Macs, and boredom can kill you.
ANI ‘Boredom can kill you’ According to a study at University College London, extremely bored people are 37% more likely to have died a year after their boredom was measured for the study. So, um, find something exciting to do! [Yahoo News] Netflix Streaming Getting a 1080p Upgrade 1080p HD coming to Netflix instant streaming—we just don’t know ..read more
Windows/Mac/Linux (with Adobe Air): TweetDeck—most popular Twitter client among Lifehacker readers—just released an update to version 0.33, bringing with it more support for viewing media inline without opening a page in your browser (including YouTube videos and Flickr images) and a nice new column navigation tool. Sound good? Check out the video above for more details or just grab the latest here. [TweetDeck Blog via Mashable]
Biofuel expansion would send cattle into the rain forest
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Biofuel production in the US has met with fairly mixed success, as the cost and fossil fuel use of corn-based ethanol has severely cut into the benefits provided by avoiding the use of fossil fuels. It’s been a somewhat different story in Brazil, which has embraced ethanol derived from sugarcane and seen more promising results. The government has set aggressive targets for both ethanol and biodiesel ..read more
GameGavel Drops Its Listing Fee
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As gamers we sometimes turn to eBay to sell games for a few more bucks than we could get with a trade-in. Their long history of catering mostly to big sellers and retailers on their site — most recently by hiking final sale fees in return for soon dropping a listing fee — has rankled many. But there are other options.
Half.com does things I like that eBay doesn’t, things like collecting payment from the buyer and giving it ..read more
Since the iPhone needs to be unlocked or jailbroken in order to be used with any SIM that you want, there have always been several jailbreaks and programs that help in opening your iPhone. With newer versions of iPhone OS, newer jailbreaks are revealed.
Their efficacy and efficiency is far from known, and sometimes you may even risk rendering your iPhone unworkable, if things went wrong. With that in mind, here is yet another video which claims to jailbreak use Sn0wBreeze ..read more
Wireless carriers want crackdown on cell phone boosters
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“This is ‘Magic’ and this is ‘Jack’,” the little girl says in the video ad, holding her two cute puppy dogs up to the camera. The girl’s father, magicJack inventor Dan Borislow, then asks her, “Kylie, did you know that your dad is going to let everybody try a magicJack in the whole country for free?”
Free for 30 days, that is. magicJack is a popular service comparable to ..read more
Crysis 2 coming at the end of the year
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EA has two exciting shooters in the bag for 2010 in the form of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Medal of Honor, which will be hitting before the holiday season. So what’s going to keep FPS fans happy at the end of the year? The publisher is lining up Crysis 2, the sequel to 2007’s beautiful PC game, for release on PS3, 360, and PC at the end of the year. EA’s John Schappert noted the title was set for a ..read more
Mass Effect 2 gets more DLC tomorrow
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BioWare has announced that their next round of downloadable content for Mass Effect 2 is slated to hit the Cerberus network tomorrow, on February 9 for PC and Xbox 360 users no later than 12pm Mountain Standard Time. The DLC will bring all our Shepards some fancy new Cerberus Assault Armor, giving us a +10 to heavy weapon ammo capacity, shields, and health. Of course, along with armor we need to have a new boomstick, which is being delivered in ..read more
Review: Mass Effect 2 (Xbox 360)
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It is a fine line when attempting to give a gamer the ability to make choices or decisions, and actually having those decisions or choices end with a satisfying payoff. Some games will give you a superficial choice, with no ramifications, or at worst, a game will give you a decision to make that makes no difference in the actual outcome of events in the game. In Mass Effect 2, every decision you make will have wide ranging outcomes not ..read more
