Apple rumor twofer: Expose-like multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0, international iPad launch on April 24th

We’re not quite at the height of Apple frenzy, but looking at the bell curve, we’re only a standard deviation or two from its zenith (we imagine the fever pitch will be in tandem with Saturday’s iPad launch, if history and human nature tells us anything). Of course, that doesn’t stop the rumor mill from amping up production, and so on with the show! First on the docket, remember last month’s discovery of multitasking comments in the iPhone SDK 3.2 beta?

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Apple rumor twofer: Expose-like multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0, international iPad launch on April 24th

Feelin’ like a panther: Splinter Cell Conviction preview

With Splinter Cell Conviction , Ubisoft wants to make you feel like a panther. Ars recently had the opportunity to preview the co-op campaign for the oft-delayed stealth action game at Toronto Comic Con this past weekend, and the consensus amongst the developers on hand was that they want to turn players into predators.

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Feelin’ like a panther: Splinter Cell Conviction preview

SecondBar puts your menu bar on a second monitor

Filed under: Software The menu bar is a quintessential piece of the Mac “experience.” On the left, it shows all of the menu items for the currently active application; on the right, it shows icons from various menu bar application programs: the date/time, WiFi status, MobileMe sync status, and many, many more. The whole idea is to make the menu items easy to find and easy to “hit” with a mouse, by being connected to the top of the screen ( Fitts’s law and all that ).

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User Ignorance Causes Cloud Security Leak; Accounts, Passwords Revealed

At 1:00 a.m. on Sunday morning I was doing routine maintenance on my personal Amazon Web Services account and instead found myself looking at something I had no right to be seeing: A database with 800,000 user accounts to the e-card site CardMaster.com . Along with that were the database passwords and back end of a major U.S

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Toshiba Crams 1TB Into Your Pocket

Toshiba’s super-small external HDD is ideal for backing up “digital memories.” Toshiba – Hard disk drive – Laptop – Linux – Operating Systems

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Reports of webOS 1.4.1 update now coming in

It doesn’t appear to do anything groundbreaking like overclock your Pre, but it looks like the webOS 1.4.1 update is now starting to trickle out to at least a few lucky users. According to PreCentral , one of the first reports to come in was from a Pre user who also happened to be one of the first to get the webOS 1.4 update while he was in Vietnam, and has now managed to snag the 1.4.1 update while residing in Holland. That was later followed up with a second report from a Sprint customer in Washington, but things seem to have been relatively quiet since them.

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Get All Old Quake Games for Just $15

The Quake collection is selling for $15 over on Steam. Steam – Video game – Games – Shooter – Browser Based

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Get All Old Quake Games for Just $15

DayOne Ventures Brings Small Town Flavor to Startup Incubation

When you think of startup incubators, you think of the more well known organizations helping companies in cities like Boulder, San Francisco, New York or Austin, but one incubator is looking to change that assumption. Based at the VT KnowledgeWorks Business Acceleration Center in Blacksburg, VA, DayOne Ventures is a program aimed at tapping the talent coming from Virginia Tech to help local startups get off the ground. Sponsor With fewer than 40,000 residents, Blacksburg is less than half the size of startup hub Boulder, CO, but the city’s ties to Virginia Tech make it a fertile spot for its budding startup community.

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Man De-Files MacBook Pro — We Die a Little Inside

Getting rid of those pesky sharp edges on your MacBook is as easy as…wait, what? We don’t want to call anyone crazy, but when it comes to overkill, John Pozadzides has definitely gone overboard.

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Man De-Files MacBook Pro — We Die a Little Inside

IE9 demoed on Ion-based Eee PC with full GPU acceleration

Although we were a little more focused on Windows Phone 7 Series when we went to MIX 10, Microsoft’s other big announcement at the conference was Internet Explorer 9 , which offers HTML5 support and support for GPU acceleration throughout the browsing experience. We saw a few demos of the system in action at MIX, but this video from NVIDIA does a little better job showing how helpful that extra GPU boost can be — IE9 running on the Ion 2-based Eee PC 1201PN smokes a regular Atom-based netbook across a suite of tests

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Not really a big surprise: iPhone multitasking to use “Expose-like” interface

We know iPhone OS 4 is in the pipes, and I imagine this little nugget of information is far from the only inklings we’ll have of new iPhone features over the next few months. Despite the extraordinary length of the Apple Insider article , there’s really only one piece of new information: the iPhone will be using an Expose-like interface to let you switch between apps, though due to scaling issues it is apparently only using the apps’ icons and not current screenshots. It’ll be triggered, they say, by quickly tapping the home button twice

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Taking the bling out of diesel engines

While diesel engines are highly efficient, getting them cleaner and more environmentally friendly is currently pretty expensive. Most diesel aftertreatment systems currently require a platinum catalyst to eliminate nitrogen oxides, and that’s one of the reasons these vehicles continue to be more expensive than their gasoline counterparts. However, scientists have found that varieties of a doped mineral called perovskite work just as well, and sometimes better, than platinum.

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TED launches Flash-free site for iPad, iPhone

Filed under: Internet Tools TED is one of my favorite sites on the net. For those of you who don’t know about it, TED (which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an conference given in Long Beach and Oxford each year that brings some of the greatest minds on the planet together to “give the talk of their lives” in a limited time of 18 minutes. The talks are recorded and put on the TED website for all the world to see — for free (living up to its slogan “Ideas worth spreading”)

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Cloudkick Broadens its Scope: Now Monitors the Datacenter

Cloudkick is a cloud monitoring start-up that helps system admins manage cloud servers. Today, the company announced it is getting physical, bringing its cloud monitoring capabilities to internally hosted servers and virtual machines.

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iPad launch day: what you need to know

Have you heard? The iPad is launching this Saturday, April 3rd. After centuries of anticipation, Apple is returning to the tablet space after its ill-fated Newton, and while many have brushed off the iPad as a big iPhone, its retail approach is dramatically different.

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TUAW TV Live, the pre-iPad edition: live at 5pm ET

Filed under: Video For any of you who were hoping to get through the rest of the day without hearing the word iPad again, it ain’t gonna happen. Today’s TUAW TV Live , starting in just a few minutes, is going to be all iPad , all the time

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TUAW TV Live, the pre-iPad edition: live at 5pm ET

Microsoft cuts Zune HD prices, 64GB model hits on April 12

After a slip on the Zune webpage , Microsoft has finally stopped denying the existence

Eject Optical Media – With Terminal Command Goodness

I just gave my old iMac to my father-in-law. He’s never had a computer with a slot-loading optical drive, and asked me what to do if a disc ever gets stuck in there.

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ASUS Eee PC 1001PX has a thing for carbon-fiber, starts at $279

We won’t detail our murderous wrath for glossy netbooks, but we will tell you that ASUS is on our good side today by striking the shiny lid on its newest 10-inch Eee PC 1001PX in exchange for a carbon fiber-like replacement. The little guy boasts the same specs as the budget Eee PC 1001P — an Intel Atom N450 CPU, 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive — and will be available in the US in May

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Hunt for Missing Genetic Killer Comes Up Empty

A big effort to find a genetic root for common diseases has failed.

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