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| Take our online retailer survey, win an Electricpig mug! Posted: 13 Oct 2010 09:23 AM PDT 
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| Apple hosting “Back to the Mac” event next week Posted: 13 Oct 2010 08:41 AM PDT 
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| Philips: customise your TV to match with the 3-piece suite Posted: 13 Oct 2010 07:27 AM PDT 
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| LinkedIn: who has viewed your profile? Posted: 13 Oct 2010 07:15 AM PDT 
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| Windows Phone 7: Which one do you want? Posted: 13 Oct 2010 07:02 AM PDT 
 Click to tell us which you want most, if any, and drop us a line in the comments to tell us why Windows Phone 7 is lighting your fire or if you’re steering clear, for fear of it raining on your parade…
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| Facebook security upped with one-time passwords Posted: 13 Oct 2010 06:32 AM PDT 
A new Facebook service which will give you a new one-time password when you're using public computers or Wi-Fi networks is currently rolling out. It allows you to use the password sent to your mobile rather than you usual password. The one time access code will work for 20 minutes and is intended to combat the threat from keyloggers lurking on public computers to snaffle up your passwords. Jake Brill, a product manager at Facebook, announced the new feature on the Facebook Blog. He says: "One-time passwords make it safer to use public computers in places like hotels, cafes or airports. If you have any concerns about the security of the computer you're using while accessing Facebook, we can text you a one-time password to use instead…" To set up the new Facebook security feature, you need to set up a mobile number in your account. When you text "otp" to 32665, you should be sent a new time-limited password. Currently the feature has only reached an exclusive band of Facebook users but will hit all accounts in time. Facebook has also outed two new features. There's a new remote sign off feature (similar to the one packed by Gmail) that will allow users to log-out of Facebook in all the locations they're logged in at. It's now also possible to spot where you're logged in by checking your Facebook account settings. Handy for spotting if someone is spying on your profile. Facebook has also announced that it's planning a third new Facebook security feature that will regularly prompt you to update your security information. We hope it's not too regular with those updates. Let us know: have you been caught out by a keylogger or had your Facebook profile hacked in some other way? Out now | £free | Facebook Related posts:
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| Facebook, Microsoft teaming up to take on Google? Posted: 13 Oct 2010 06:02 AM PDT 
Facebook and Microsoft are already firm friends – Microsoft snapped up 1.6% of the social network in a $240 million spending splurge back in 2007 and Microsoft announced plans to put Facebook updates into Bing search late last year. They're already popping up in a special search page. Today's Bing announcement is likely to introduce more Facebook data into Bing and use the Facebook Like button to make search results more relevant. That will be a powerful weapon for Bing and appeal to Facebook as a way of combating the prospect of Google Me. Other speculation suggests that Facebook Places and Bing Maps could be set to cosy up to each other. Again, that makes sense opening up the possibility of easily mapping your own Facebook Places check-ins and where your friends have been. It would also help Facebook Places differentiate itself from Foursquare. Microsoft is trying to grab search share from Google and further befriending Facebook makes sense while Facebook has a clear motivation to confound and confuse its search engine foe. We'll be keeping a close eye on what Microsoft and Facebook announce today and we'll bring you all the new later. Out now | £free | Bing (via Silicon Valley Insider) Related posts:
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| Asus NX90 packing Bang & Olufsen on sale now! Posted: 13 Oct 2010 05:53 AM PDT  The super shiny Asus NX90 is finally going on sale. We caught the polished alumininium bad boy at CES earlier this year, when we, along with everyone else, left mucky fingerprints all over its mirrored body. Inside the NX90 has Bang & Olufsen sound technology and two speakers than run down the side of the laptop that can pump out 108cc. Click through for full gallery and teaser video…
The Asus NX90 has an 18.4″ HD display, dual trackpads at either side of the keyboard, plus Intel Core i7 processors and 6GB DDR3 RAM, 1.2TB of storage. The Asus NX90 is also loaded with two USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, a five-in-one card reader and a HDMI input. Such seductively built gadgets will often carry wholly un-seductive price tags though, and the Asus NX90 is no exception. At £2,500 it will set you back more than a top of the range MacBook Pro. Ouch. Out now | £2,500 | Harrods, Selfridges, Comet Are you putting this on your Christmas list as we speak, or is it not worth the money? Drop us a line and tell us what you think! Related posts:
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| Apple to screen your texts: no more sexting! Posted: 13 Oct 2010 05:32 AM PDT 
We can’t see how this Apple feature can work (it screens text-based content deemed “objectionable”), as unfortunately for Steve “if you want porn get an Android” Jobs , it would seem that without making texts almost impossible to send or receive, Apple will not be able to control sexts written in the myriad innuendos and sexual allusions our glorious culture has developed. How to tell a plumber's text from a sexy text…? If Apple built parental controls into SMS functions on its devices would you use them? Drop us a line and let us know! [via TechCrunch] Related posts:
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| Edifier Breathe iF600 iPod dock review Posted: 13 Oct 2010 05:23 AM PDT  The Edifier Breathe iF600 iPod dock claims to have the ability to “fill your room” with sound, but at £169, it costs almost as much as an iPod Touch or 160GB iPod Classic. Is this dock, which looks a little like the top bit of a giant, black egg, really at home in the big leagues? Read our Edifier Breathe iF600 iPod dock review to find out.
iPod docks with integrated speakers are as much lifestyle devices as audio products. Sandwiching two, or more, speakers together makes iPod docks convenient, compact and speaker cable-free. It’s the kind of gadget that non-geeky other halves might not object to – compared to a full 5.1 system, anyway. The front of the Edifier Breathe iF600 is a speaker grille that hides the dock’s main drivers and is home to a few physical controls – volume, fast forward and rewind, and the all-important play-pause button. The real secret of the Edifier Breathe iF600 isn’t on its front, but underneath. Turn the giant egg on its side and you’ll see the driver that makes this dock fulfill its room-filling promise – the subwoofer.
The sub is the main reason why Edifier has let the Breathe pile on a few pounds (it weighs around 5kg). The last thing you want in an iPod dock is for it to start ratting away as soon as you crank up anything remotely approaching a “bangin’ choon”. As the Edifier Breathe iPod dock’s subwoofer-centric design suggests, the sound is a little on the bass-heavy side, but nowhere near as much as the recently-reviewed Orbitsound T12. What’s disappointing is that there’s no control over the sub’s level, so short of propping-up the Edifier Breathe on a couple of bricks to calm it down a bit, you’re left with the iPod’s own weak EQ. The keen bass can leave the Edifier Breathe’s lower-end mids sounding a little muddled, but otherwise the sound is beefy and bold, although lacking the insight and detail you’ll hear in top-end iPod docks like the B&W Zeppelin. But comparing the two is a bit like putting a mid-range Mondeo against a Ferrari. It might do for Top Gear, but not Electricpig. Check out our Best iPod dock Top 5 now The sound isn’t what disappoints about the Edifier Breathe – its that its looks don’t make up for the sonic compromises of an integrated iPod dock, most notably the loss of proper stereo imaging. Shop around and you’ll find a non-integrated Fatman iTube dock for around the same price, that that’ll outdo the Edifier Breathe’s sound quality without much trouble. What’s wrong with the Edifier Breathe’s design? From a distance it stands out enough, like a tiny little egg shaped volcano for your living room, but get closer and its looks become more ham-fisted than impressive.
The buttons on the front look cheap – more “My First Hi-Fi” than “America’s Next Top iPod dock” – and the remote control is flat-out poorly designed. It has to house a handful of buttons, as it lets you navigate through your iPod/iPhone’s menu system rather than just skipping through tracks, but the button layout’s not the problem. It’s that if you hold it in the most comfortable one-handed position, your finger slips right over the IR transmitter – you can tap away with gay abandon, but the dock itself won’t hear you. We’re fans of odd-looking docks, like the JBL radial and the fantastic B&W Zeppelin, but whatever Edifier’s going for with the Breathe, it hasn’t quite aced it. It’s a little too big to be convenient, but the design stumbles mean that it doesn’t pull off that alluring designer flavour. Gok Wan-like comments aside, the Edifier Breathe iF600 iPod dock is a good-sounding dock that offers a tiny bit of welcome flexibility with the auxiliary input, but when its doing battle with dozens of other docks – some better-looking, others better-sounding, we can only give it a tentative thumbs up. Related posts:
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