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New York’s Newest Law Aims to Protect Online Daters

It’s something you’d expect to hear from your mother, not your government, but New York’s newest laws are all about exercising common sense when looking for love online. Sounding like something between a schoolteacher and a public service announcement, the Internet safety act will require online dating websites to warn their users about the potential perils of web-based romance. The caveats seem like the kind of best practices any mindful Internet user would have internalized years ago. Things like not giving out your physical address and providing your own transportation on initial dates, for example, are no-brainers.
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Android Gets Tough with Rugged Motorola Defy

Motorola’s new Android-based smartphone, the Defy, boasts an interesting combination of solid features and ruggedness that will appeal to users prone to splashing, dropping and scratching their phone. If you saw the Defy and read its specifications, you’d think it’s just another Android smartphone: it sports a 3.7” touchscreen display with a 480 x 854 pixel resolution, an 800 MHz CPU, a 5-megapixel camera with a flash, aGPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a microUSB jack. However, the Defy is resistant to dust, scratches and impact, as well as water, making it quite a different beast from most other smartphones of its ilk. Most importantly, the extra protection doesn’t come at the expense of size and weight: the phone’s dimensions are 59 x 107 x 13.4 mm and it weighs 118 grams.
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HOW TO: Make Free iPhone Ringtones

Ringtones — They are the darlings of the music industry and the bane of anyone subject to hearing a bad one. If you’re sick of your plain old telephone ringer but don’t want to download a canned tone, you don’t need to spend extra money to turn your favorite song into a ringtone for your iPhone . There’s a way to create ringtones in iTunes from your existing music.
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SetCPU Overclocks (or Underclocks) Your Rooted Android Phone [Downloads]

We briefly discussed overclocking in our Android rooting guide , but today we're taking a closer look at SetCPU, the app that makes it happen—as well as other ways to use it. More
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Zingaya Gives You a Personalized VOIP Call Button [VoIP]

Zingaya is a free (or pay) tool that'll provide you with a little button that'll send calls from a web browser to your phone. More
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AutoRotate Switch Toggles Screen Rotation on Your Android Phone [Downloads]

Android: If you frequently read on your phone while sitting or laying in odd positions, you might find the automatic screen rotation frustrating if you'd prefer to read in portrait mode all the time. Here's how to fix that. More
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Google Brings Voice Calling to Gmail

Google is bringing Gmail and Google Voice together with the launch of phone call integration within Google Chat and Gmail. We’re here at Google’s San Francisco offices for a small press conference where the company is discussing the new integration. We’re getting live demos of just how voice calling in Gmail works. Here are my live notes and photos from the event: Google Voice/Gmail: Live Notes Google Press Conference Google Press Conference Google Press Conference Google Press Conference Google Press Conference Google Press Conference Google Press Conference All times are in pacific standard time 9:34 AM: Google Product Manager Todd Jackson is recapping some of Gmail’s features, specifically the history of Google Chat and GOogle Voice and Video Chat
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Confirmed: Galaxy S unlock codes are stored in your phone, Vibrant capable of AT&T 3G

Sure, the Samsung Vibrant's a T-Mobile device and the Samsung Captivate belongs to AT&T, but there's no longer any reason you can't swap them around -- all you need is a simple script and a USB cable to completely unlock your phone. Dagentooboy of XDA-Developers discovered that Galaxy S unlock codes aren't kept in a secure remote server, but merely stored in a .BAK file on the device itself, which you find with a hex editor and key right in when inserting a new SIM card of your choice. We tested it out on both Vibrant and Captivate and were up and running in less than five minutes each time, and wonder of wonders , the Vibrant gave us a 3G data connection (with 2Mbps down) using an AT&T SIM. Sadly, we can't say the inverse for the Captivate, which pulled down standard EDGE speeds on T-Mobile, but this is already far more than the hacking community could have hoped for
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Exclusive: LG C900 for AT&T has Windows Phone 7, shows off a little carrier branding

If you're prepping for a Windows Phone 7 purchase later this year and the Cetus doesn't really do it for you, we understand -- not everyone can live without a physical keyboard, and devices like the Touch Pro2 have gotten us used to the idea that Windows Mobile and great QWERTY go hand-in-hand. To that end, we present to you the LG C900, a rounded landscape slider equipped with a four-row keyboard and a simplified two-button capacitive layout beneath the screen paired with a chrome Windows key. Notably, this is the first time we've seen carrier branding on Windows Phone 7's home screen in the wild -- you can see AT&T's logo prominently displayed as a tile in one of the pictures in the gallery after the break. We're not sure we're digging the matte plasticky look up front, but to each his own, we suppose. Gallery: Exclusive: LG C900 for AT&T has Windows Phone 7, shows off a little carrier branding Exclusive: LG C900 for AT&T has Windows Phone 7, shows off a little carrier branding originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:31:00 EDT
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Tweeting While Driving Cited in Celebrity Surgeon Death

New reports indicate that Dr. Frank Ryan, plastic surgeon to Heidi Montag and other celebrities, was tweeting just before his fatal car accident on Monday. Ex-girlfriend Charmaine Blake told People Magazine that the plastic surgeon “lived up in Malibu on a tiny street and he was texting while driving and he accidentally went over the cliff.” People has also confirmed with the California Highway Patrol, although the official cause of the accident has still not been determined. Dr. Ryan was purportedly tweeting about his border collie, Jill, when he lost control of his car.
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