MiddleClick Adds Easy Middle Clicking to MacBook Touchpads and Magic Mouse [Downloads]

By melissa | Published: March 19, 2010

Mac only: No longer must Mac users move to the keyboard to open links in a new tab—free, open-source app MiddleClick sits in your menu bar and allows you to use 3 fingers to middle click on Apple’s multitouch devices. More

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Quicksilver Updates, Improves Performance and Stability (for Some Users) [Downloads]

By admin | Published: March 19, 2010

Mac OS X only: It looks like the folks carrying on Quicksilver’s legacy aren’t just messing around—they’ve released yet another update to the formerly abandoned app launcher. The B58 build focuses on stability, especially concerning issues for those running Snow Leopard, as well as making sure older plugins are compatible. There are also a few UI tweaks and bugfixes, as well as increased performance. More

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5 Amazing Infographics For the Health Conscious

By admin | Published: March 19, 2010

Researching topics such as health, diet, and (especially) the effectiveness of dietary supplements can be hard and time-consuming. Obscured by thousands of marketing tricks, finding the truth takes days, if not weeks of research. So, when someone puts in the time to do the research and create an infographic that makes certain aspects of these topics easy to understand, it can be a huge time saver. Read on for some of the best health-related infographics we’ve found online.

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Inside a Virtual Reality Hamster Ball [VIDEO]

By anthony | Published: March 19, 2010

Ever wonder what it would be like to step inside a giant wire mesh cage, put on a virtual reality headset, walk around like a hamster and shoot crazy alien opponents? No? Luckily our friends at Engadget did, and went hands, eyes and feet-on with the Virtusphere at GDC.

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Use Wood Glue to Clean and Restore Old LPs [Clever Uses]

By melissa | Published: March 19, 2010

Cleaning LPs with a bottle of wood glue is hardly an intuitive way to get more mileage out of that bottle of glue in your workshop or clean a beloved LP. The results, however, are quite impressive. More

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Non-Profit Challenges You to Ditch the iPhone for a Day

By melissa | Published: March 19, 2010

A non-profit organization called Reboot has a mighty challenge for you this Friday night: Power down your cellphone, let your FarmVille crops languish and sign out of Skype for a full 24 hours. What do you think: Can you hack a single day sans technology? We’re seen efforts of this nature before — remember when John Mayer wanted you to make like a Luddite for the first week of 2010?

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Conan Launches a Twitter Contest for Tour Tickets

By melissa | Published: March 19, 2010

If you weren’t able to pick up tickets for Conan O’Brien’s “ Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour ” the first time around, you’ve just been given a second chance by way of a contest the former late night host announced on Twitter. The contest is a promotion for American Express ( disclosure: also a Mashable sponsor ), asking users to follow the credit card company on Twitter and then tweet “Hey @americanexpress I want to be with Coco in (insert city from list below). Pick me! http://bit.ly/bEUqsh #amexConan.” The winners –- who will get two tickets for Conan shows in either New York, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco or Los Angeles — will be selected at random from the tweets sent out between now and 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday

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Apple Now Accepting iPad Apps

By melissa | Published: March 19, 2010

Calling all iPad and would-be iPad developers: Starting today, Apple will be accepting apps for review. Only applications submitted to review by March 27, 2010, will be considered for the grand opening of the iPad App Store. After an initial review, Apple will let developers know about the readiness of their app so that changes can be made before a final review submission. Apple details the steps developers need to take in an e-mail, which you can see here: Apps must be written using the iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 5 for the initial review. Tags: apple , ipad , ipad apps

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LHC breaks its own energy record, still less powerful than Lady GaGa

By melissa | Published: March 19, 2010

The Large Hadron Collider is no stranger to setting energy records: back at the end of November it broke the 0.98 TeV record by hitting the 1.18 TeV mark. Well, the problem beleaguered collider’s just handily surpassed itself — this time with a truly stunning 3.5 TeV — with beams of protons on record as having circulated at 3.5 trillion electron volt. Now, we’re not scientists or anything, but that sure is a lot of volts! CERN’s moving on later this week and will begin colliding the beams so they can check out the tiniest particles within atoms in the hopes of finding out more about how matter’s made up. We look forward to hearing all about that, too — but until then, we made do by reading the source over and over. LHC breaks its own energy record, still less powerful than Lady GaGa originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:14:00 EST

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