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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Doctor Finder Locates and Reviews Your New Doctor [Health]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5537206/doctor-finder-locates-and-reviews-your-new-doctor

Doctor Finder Locates and Reviews Your New Doctor Finding a new doctor (especially if you need a specific specialty) is pretty difficult, especially if you have no recommendations to guide you. Web service Doctor Finder's searchable database of detailed patient reviews can help you find the right one.

The search engine is pretty easy to use, and even has a few more detailed options to help you out, like filtering by specialty and insurance. You can search up to 20 miles away, specify a gender, and even how much experience they have. By default, Doctor Finder sorts your results by the best reviews first, and then by number of reviews, so you can be sure one of the first few on the list is a pretty good pick (though you can read all the reviews to be sure).

Doctor Finder Locates and Reviews Your New Doctor

The are a lot of reviews available on the site (most of which seem to be pulled from CitySearch), which is nice. They don't have reviews for all of the doctors in a given area, but it does have a pretty good number of them, and again—if you have no recommendations to go off of, this is way better than just picking one at random from your insurer's list.

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The Devolution of Facebook Privacy [Facebook]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5537408/the-devolution-of-facebook-privacy

What you're looking at is a tidy visualization of what Facebook's default privacy settings looked like back in 2005. What follows is that same image, recalibrated for 2010. It's worse than you think.

The problems with Facebook's attitude towards privacy have been thoroughly documented. But there's still something about watching the gradual creep of intrusion that drives the point home in a way words can't. For the full effect, check out the full year-by-year progression from 2005 to 2010 here. [Matt McKeon Matt McKeon via BuzzFeed]

Fujitsu's All-In-One 3D PC Has Dual Cameras For 3D MSN Video Chat [3D]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5537916/fujitsus-all+in+one-3d-pc-has-dual-cameras-for-3d-msn-video-chat

Fujitsu's All-In-One 3D PC Has Dual Cameras For 3D MSN Video Chat It's destined to become Fujitsu's flagship PC this year (at least in Japan), and while full specs weren't available what we do know about this all-in-one is that it requires passive glasses, and has dual cameras for capturing 3D video.

While only a Japan release has been mentioned so far, we can probably expect a worldwide launch at some point—I can't see why Fujitsu would want to deprive us of a PC which comes with bundled software for 3D video chat with Windows Live Messenger, after all. [Akihabara News]

Android 2.2 'Froyo' to include USB tethering, WiFi hotspot functionality

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/android-2-2-froyo-to-include-usb-tethering-wifi-hotspot-funct/

And the good Froyo news just keep flowing in. TechCrunch have flexed their exclusive muscle this morning in revealing their discovery that Android 2.2 will come with built-in tethering and WiFi hotspot support. That means you'll be able to use your phone's 3G internet connection to hook your laptop up to the worldwide webosphere, with a choice of wired or wireless methods. Of course, this dreamy scenario will be subject to the big bad network operators permitting -- or at least not forbidding -- you to do such awesome things with your hardware, but at least we know the goods are being baked into this forthcoming release from Google. Frozen yogurt for all!

Android 2.2 'Froyo' to include USB tethering, WiFi hotspot functionality originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 May 2010 05:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

HTML5 and CSS3 Readiness Across All Browsers [Infographic]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5537228/html5-and-css3-readiness-across-all-browsers

This graphic isn't just beautiful; it charts out every major browser's compatibility with elements of HTML5 and CSS3. In a nutshell, things look pretty good. For the fully interactive version (the one that makes sense), look here: [html5readiness via infosthetics]

Real Gaming for Macs Is Finally Here With Steam [Steam]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5537409/real-gaming-for-macs-is-finally-here-with-steam

Steam for Mac is officially available, along with a sizeable trove of games—including Portal, which is now free for everybody.

Valve's plan is to release a new set of games for Mac every Wednesday for the next few weeks. This week, notably, every game has SteamPlay, which means you buy it once, and it'll run on all Steam-supported platforms (which implies that not every Steam game available on Mac and PC will necessarily be SteamPlay style). I know, games have existed on the Mac for a long time. But the promise of true multiplatform computer gaming on the largest scale in a long time is pretty thrilling. (As someone who does most of their FPSing on a desktop PC and owns a Mac laptop.)

I honestly can't tell you how hard it is not to pee my pants right now (and I just went to the bathroom).

Right now, there 63 games/gamepacks listed as being available for Mac—Torchlight, Civilization, the LucasArts action pack, among others—though no TF2 in sight, for now. (Though I'm still chaffing that it shoves your game files inside of the Documents folder.) As noted, Portal's only free until May 24, so get in there. Here's the full list on Steam's site:

TriJinx: A Kristine Kross Mystery
World of Goo
Zuma Deluxe
Sid Meier's Civilization IV
And Yet It Moves
Braid
Escape Rosecliff Island
Civilization IV: Warlords
Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
Sid Meier's Civilization: Colonization
Sid Meier's Civilization: The Complete Edition
BRAINPIPE: A Plunge to Unhumanity
Diaper Dash®
Machinarium
Football Manager 2010
Bob Came in Pieces
KrissX
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
Galcon Fusion
Quantz
Torchlight
Toki Tori
Valerie Porter and the Scarlet Scandal
Parking Dash
The Nightshift Code
Nightshift Legacy: The Jaguar's Eye
Mahjong Roadshow
Hotel Dash Suite Success
DinerTown Detective Agency
Fitness Dash
Gemini Lost
Atlantis Sky Patrol
Fairway Solitaire
Professor Fizzwizzle and the Molten Mystery
Unwell Mel
My Tribe
Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack
Osmos
Wandering Willows
Wedding Dash 2: Rings Around the World
Zenerchi
Dream Chronicles: The Chosen Child
Diner Dash: Hometown Hero
Cooking Dash
Chocolatier: Decadence by Design
LUXOR: Mah Jong
The Dig
LOOM
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
City of Heroes: Architect Edition
Peggle Nights
Luxor
Luxor 3
Portal
Peggle Deluxe
Bejeweled 2 Deluxe
Bookworm Deluxe
Chuzzle Deluxe

YouTube Now Lets You Mark Embarrassing Videos As "Unlisted" [YouTube]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5537469/youtube-now-lets-you-mark-embarrassing-videos-as-unlisted

In the past, the only way to make YouTube videos semi-private was to limit them to being viewed by 25 people. Now you can mark your clips as "unlisted" and have a "secret" link instead. Here's how it works:

Now, you can mark your videos as "unlisted." This means only people who have the link to the video will be able to watch it. It won't appear in any of YouTube's public pages, in search results, on your personal channel or on the browse page. It's a private video, except you don't need a YouTube account to watch it and there is no limit to the number of people who can view it. You'll get a link when you upload the video and then it's up to you to decide whom to share it with. Unlisted is the perfect option for that class project, video from last summer's family reunion or your secret Broadway audition tape.

Of course, it sounds like you're still out of luck if your friends decide to share the link, but this is still a neat—and rather logical—privacy option to offer users. [YouTube Blog]

Update: Whoops! Looks like the feature hasn't gone live yet, so don't rush to upload videos you want to keep semi-private already.

Diaspora: The Student-Made, Privacy-Respecting Facebook Alternative [Socialmedia]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5537502/diaspora-the-student+made-privacy+respecting-facebook-alternative

As Facebook completes its Galactic Senate-to-Imperial Empire transformation, four enterprising NYU students thought the world could do with a social networking service that wouldn't treat your personal information like advertiser catnip. So they started building Diaspora.

They conceive of it as the "privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network," one on which people share strictly on their own terms. Every user will have their own encrypted, customizable "node" on the Diaspora network, and personal data will reside on that user's computer, as opposed to a centralized hub.

The team members, who are profiled in today's New York Times*, posted a description of their idea on Kickstarter, a website that connects internet donors with underfunded projects, and they quickly met their goal of raising $10,000. As of now, the number's closer to $24,000.

The demand is clearly there; now what about the service? The team already has a skeletal version of the site running on their own machines, and now that school's wrapping up they're starting their "first sprint"—three months of intense coding with the aim of launching a working version of Diaspora by September, complete with:

* Full-fledged communications between Seeds (Diaspora instances)
* Complete PGP encryption
* External Service Scraping of most major services (reclaim your data)
* Version 1 of Diaspora's API with documentation
* Public GitHub repository of all Diaspora code

Of course, building a social network from the ground up is a tremendous task, and one that's much easier said than done. But Facebook's first lines of code were written in a dorm room, and it makes perfect sense that Diaspora—a project that looks to get back to social media's roots: sharing—would see its start there, too. Find out more about the project at JoinDiaspora.

Diaspora: The Student-Made, Privacy-Respecting Facebook Alternative *Bonus points to these mischievous fellows for sneaking some naughty bits of UNIX command line jokery into the New York Times, which the publication has cropped out of the online photo.

Fourth generation iPhone teardown reveals A4 microprocessor

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/12/fourth-generation-iphone-teardown-reveals-a4-microprocessor/

See the marking on that chip with the Apple logo. No, not the "N90" codename indicating that it's from Apple's next generation GSM iPhone, the other text. If we're not mistaken then we're seeing "339S0084" on that chip from today's fourth-generation iPhone teardown. Guess what? According to Chipworks, that's the Apple A4 microprocessor fabricated by Samsung and the presumed work of Apple's acquired PA Semi and Intrinsity engineers. The "APL0398" text is also the same as that found on the iPad's speedy and power sipping A4 system-on-chip. The other markings differ however. What that means isn't entirely clear yet but we're digging.

Fourth generation iPhone teardown reveals A4 microprocessor originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 May 2010 06:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Intel is down with tablets and razor thin netbooks, yo

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/12/intel-is-down-with-tablets-and-razor-thin-netbooks-yo/

With Microsoft's Courier canned, and HP's Slate suffering a debilitating identity crisis, what's a WinTel fan to do? Easy, wait for Computex set to kickoff on June 1st in Taipei. According to Intel's Mooly Eden, Vice President of PC Client Group and all around hip dude, that's when Intel will respond to ARM and its Apple iPad lovechild. Speaking at the Intel Investor Meeting on Tuesday, Mooly rapped:

"People ask me, are you serious about trying to participate in the tablet market? The answer is yes, we are going to have tablets... stay tuned for Computex. We are going to design silicon for this category and we are going to actively participate in this category."

Gauntlet, thrown. Mooly also took the opportunity to show off a razor thin netbook reference design that he expects to see on the market "sooner or later" sporting a hard working dual-core Pineview-class Atom CPU to support heavy-duty multi-tasking OSes -- the same chips that are apparently at the heart of Intel's tablet ambitions. See the incredibly thin netbook prototype after the break along with a few choice grabs of Mooly raising the roof.

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Intel is down with tablets and razor thin netbooks, yo originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 May 2010 07:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Opera Mobile 10 lands on Maemo thanks to pro hobbyists

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/12/opera-mobile-10-lands-on-maemo-thanks-to-pro-hobbyists/

What do you know, even professional coders like to develop things on the side. Opera's mobile dev team has been working on a "hobby project" to bring its browser to the Maemo-sporting Nokia N900 and N8x0 devices, and today sees the first fruit of that labor in the form of a "preview build" release. Fredrik Ohrn warns us that there might not ever be a final version, since this is being done just for fun -- and particularly in light of the MeeGo future that awaits the platform -- but for now it's yet another option for your versatile mini-computer. Click the source for the download.

[Thanks, Jesus]

Opera Mobile 10 lands on Maemo thanks to pro hobbyists originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 May 2010 08:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Eye-Fi's 4GB Geo X2 WiFi SDHC card now shipping for $70

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/12/eye-fis-4gb-geo-x2-wifi-sdhc-card-now-shipping-for-70/

We heard that the Apple Store-exclusive Geo X2 would start shipping to Americans at some point in May, and it looks like the time is now for those who've been ~~patiently~~ waiting. Eye-Fi's latest Class 6, WiFi-enabled SDHC card packs 4GB of space, an 802.11n module and auto-geotagging for those who can't make heads or tails of their latest gallery of vacation shots. It can be headed your way any moment... so long as you're cool with handing over your name, address, credit card number, favorite TV drama from 1988 and $69.95 (plus tax, where applicable). Oh, life and its choices.

[Thanks, Christopher]

Eye-Fi's 4GB Geo X2 WiFi SDHC card now shipping for $70 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 May 2010 09:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mushkin serves up its own SandForce SF-1200 controlled SSD: Callisto

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/12/mushkin-serves-up-its-own-sandforce-sf-1200-controlled-ssd-call/

That controversial SandForce SF-1200 controller sure has been poking its head out an awful lot lately, and yet again we're watching it steal the show in another new SSD. Mushkin, a mainstay in the high-end RAM industry, has just outed a new solid state drive meant to compete with those already splashing down from Intel, Corsair and OCZ Technology, and if the claims prove true, the Callisto could indeed be a serious contender. The outfit claims that users will see read speeds of up to 285MB/s and write speeds of up to 275MB/s, and the three-year warranty is definitely assuring. It's available to order today in 60GB, 120GB and 240GB capacities, with prices set at $219, $370 and $666 in order of mention. Go on -- you know that devil on your right shoulder was coaxing you into buying the biggest one, anyway.

Mushkin serves up its own SandForce SF-1200 controlled SSD: Callisto originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 May 2010 09:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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General Motors partners with Google for Android-powered cars?

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/12/general-motors-partners-with-google-for-android-powered-cars/

Not one day after General Motors said they'd found a mysterious technology partner to help extend the Chevy Volt's futuristic OnStar functionality do anonymous sources step in (as usual) to ruin the surprise. Though we thought RIM made a fine contender, Motor Trend says it's actually Google that'll reportedly "sell its Android operating system for in-car use." Last we heard, Google wasn't in the business of selling Android, but that wouldn't stop GM from using the open-source OS anyhow -- in fact, we already knew Android cars were on the way, and one's already in production. Let's just hope GM doesn't take the integration too far: we fear the day will come when our "engine" app spontaneously decides to force close.

General Motors partners with Google for Android-powered cars? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 May 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Panasonic's 50-inch TX-P50VT20 plasma reviewed: 'The best 3D TV to date'

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/12/panasonics-50-inch-tx-p50vt20-plasma-reviewed-the-best-3d-tv/

Panasonic's 50-inch TX-P50VT20 plasma reviewed,

We can see a time in the future, the very near future, where reviews of 3D HDTVs will lose their novelty. But, for now, they're still rare enough to warrant some attention, and so let's take a look at TechRadar's take on Panasonic's first 3D entry, the Viera TX-P50VT20. It's a 50-inch, 1080p plasma that excels as an HDTV, delivering great quality images -- even with SD content. When it comes to 3D the set similarly shines, supporting all of today's various modes of delivering multiple perspectives in a way those active-shutter glasses can decipher. Indeed, it was only those glasses themselves that really scored low marks, said to be uncomfortable to wear and, with their tinting, doing some unfortunate things to the color balance. Still, if you absolutely must have 3D right now, this looks like the best way to do it... for the moment.

Panasonic's 50-inch TX-P50VT20 plasma reviewed: 'The best 3D TV to date' originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 May 2010 10:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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