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Student discovers hole in iPhone App, which will look tablet version shows

It 's still no date for the start of revealing very overdue iPad Facebook app, but Canadian engineering student Marvin Bernal discovered a hole in the latest update of the Facebook iPhone app, what will the iPad version.

Apparently fixes some minor bugs Version 3.4.4 fixes several issues that caused crashes, restored the send button for comments, chat and news, and friends-lists to filter the news feed. But, like Bernal discovered, "Change UIDeviceFamily 2 for iPhone on the Facebook app, you get an iPad version!".

TechCrunch's MG Siegler had an intensive fiddle and pasted two dozen screen shots showing everything you might expect from a comprehensive Facebook iPad app. And to be fair, probably everything you could have expected from a Facebook app months ago. With the app this finished, you have to wonder what finishing touches are worth holding back for. Or, what kind of opportunity Facebook is looking for to time this launch.

You can be sure that this will start the next slate of Mark Zuckerberg at the Skype press conference announced. The question now is how long it will take.

• In the meantime, some photos have leaked Facebook 's, new California headquarters on TechCrunch. Rather scary, these were taken at night and feel more clinical when you re-used Sun Microsystems door can watch on a meeting room ...

In Insert Coin, we look to an exciting new technology project that requires funding before it can meet the production. If you 'd like a project pitch, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line.


Many of us, the bike ride into town in fear of a taxi can be tapped, or crushed by a bus. It 's no way to completely eradicate the risk of lead by a much larger motorized vehicle, but makes itself visible - both at night and during the day - can certainly make a difference. Smart drivers use hand signals long before they make one revolution must, but the YouTurn signal system is designed to miss these indicators to be difficult for the driver, with an accelerometer-based gadget that illuminates an arrow in the direction of the train . If you want to turn left, for example, simply point your hand on the left side, and the unit will flash a giant yellow chevron. The prototype you 'll see in the video below is integrated with a glove, although the final version is simply put on the back of your hand, and can be stored in a bag, if you' re not on the bike. It 's no mention of durability or seal, although since the inventor' s goal is to improve the security, we imagine it to be 'll appropriate precautions to avoid the electric shock in the rain.

YouTurn inventory Jack O 'Neal started a kick starter side to finance his project and is accepting pre-orders at $ 50 a pop. It 's no final pricing at this point listed, but at 50 dollars for a first-run YouTurn, we were happy to make that promise. We hope to see, O 'Neal meet its financial target and send it to production, but until then we' ll keep us both directions and hope for the best.

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While many online video has made the move to HTML 5, there is still a lot of flash videos in circulation, "Please Update Flash" iDevice leave users with a message on their displays. Apple hardly ever appears with Flash support to its IOS devices, Skyfire came to the rescue last year with his Skyfire browser, the Flash video, said devices can be considered. The realization that despite the lack of Flash support, which most people are generally very satisfied with Safari Skyfire now has a standalone Flash player for IOS devices called VideoQ released ... Continue Reading Skyfire is VideoQ standalone Flash video player for IOS devices

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Tags: App, Flash, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, video

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Facebook is the largest social networking site into, well, all over the world. But not in China. Facebook and Twitter are blocked by China 's Great Firewall. The micro-blogging service Weibo Sina is the whip in China. HTC knows the market and therefore easily upgraded to the status / salsa for the Chinese market. Gone is the Facebook logo and Weibo burning eyes logo is held on the appropriate button.

jupiterkansas points us to the news that Sierra Leone, a country with a per capita annual GDP of $311, which apparently puts it right near the bottom of the Human Poverty Index (above only Niger and Afghanistan), has decided that a key priority should be passing a new copyright law that will put "pirates" in jail for three years. The politicians supporting the bill seemed to use the claim that this would allow the music industry to employ more youths, in a country with notorious unemployment for young people. However, as the article notes, a bunch of young people are freaking out that this is actually killing their job opportunities:

At PZ, the so-called business center of Freetown, said many young people Salonejamboree that the new law would put a stop to them the. Tejan Kabba, a dealer in music and video CDs, appealed to the government at a second critical look at copyright law to take and they are limited only local songs and movies.

Similarly, said Ali Kargbo trade in pirated CDs was paying his school fees because he Lunsar migrated in search of a better life in the capital.

Even more ridiculous? The industry group behind the bill claimed that the passing of this law, local artists help "to compete with Akon" on the international stage:

At State House, the President described the cassette Sellers Association (CSA) President Ernest Bai Koroma as the "prophet" and the "Peoples Leader '. Abubakarr Kamara said he is looking forward to Sierra Leone artists compete with the likes of Akon and others in the international market .

Yes, because all that was missing for the next Akon, was from Sierra Leone to local copyright law? Huh?

In the meantime, send someone to the Government of Sierra Leone, a copy SSRC 's report on "piracy" in emerging markets, and how enforcement strategies don' t work at all and can backfire badly?

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As you sit there reading this story you by electromagnetic energy from sources such as radio and television stations, mobile and satellite communications systems are surrounded transferred. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have a device that is able to intercept this energy environment, so they are used to power small electronic devices such as networks of wireless sensors, microprocessors and communications chips can be created. .. Continue Reading scavenging ambient electromagnetic energy to small electronic devices

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Created by New Zealand-based designer Richard Clarkson, the Rotary Mechanical smartphone is a one-of-a-kind device that has all the features of a normal phone, but it resembles a vintage rotary phone. It represents an attempt at combining digital technologies and physical, mechanical systems, thereby cutting edge technology more tangible. The phone comes with two interchangeable brass dials (rotary evaporator, and a numeric keypad), together with a copper sink and a small LCD screen. Richard was not limited to the concept, but actually built a prototype of his invention ... Continue Reading Mechanical Rotary dial phone combines vintage and modern technology

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Concrete can be one of the toughest building materials in common use, but it cracks develop over time, and in the case of structures such as buildings or bridges, it is essential that these cracks are detected before they lead to a collapse. While visual inspections are useful, they are also time-consuming, and can miss to be small, but structurally significant cracks. Some technologies have been developed to automate the process, such as rust-sensors for reinforced concrete. Now an international team of scientists is proposing a system of flexible skins crack detection, which could be applied to the surfaces of concrete. .. Continue Reading 'sensing skin' could be seen cracks in concrete

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Traditional solar cell manufacturing techniques are usually time consuming and require expensive vacuum systems or toxic chemicals. Proceeds chemical compounds, such as CIGS on a substrate with gas phase deposition also wastes the most expensive material in the process. For the first time, the engineers at Oregon State University (OSU) to create a process has now developed "CIGS" solar cells with inkjet printing technology, which allows for precise structuring of raw waste to reduce by 90 percent and reduce costs significantly by manufacture of solar cells, with promising, yet expensive connections ... Continue Reading researchers cut waste and lower costs for 'CIGS' solar cells using inkjet printing technology

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