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5 Free Android Apps for Web Developers

This series is supported by Rackspace , the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here . If you’re a web developer on the go, you may sometimes find the need to test some code, fix an error, or manage remote files when you’re away from your desktop.
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ExiTool: A More Practical Approach To Escaping Your Automobile [Multitools]

Here are a few things you don't have time to do when your car plunges into an icy lake: remove a Leatherman multitool from your glove compartment; unfold it; cut through your seatbelt; refold it; smash through your window. Thankfully there's the ExiTool, a clever little gadget that attaches to your seat belt for quick access when your shit goes "glug, glug, glug." It includes a high-carbon stainless steel slicer, a tungsten carbide smasher, and, just for good measure, an LED light. Sure, having an open blade attached to your seat belt all the time isn't ideal, but it's definitely more ideal than being trapped in your car at the bottom of some murky body of water.
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Lifehacker’s Looking for a New Writer [Announcements]

Think you've got what it takes to join Team Lifehacker? That's good, because we're on the hunt for a new writer to join the crew. You could be a great fit if: You love and understand a lot about technology, and have a knack for tinkering with software and bending gear to your will. (Bonus points for command line/programming junkies in general.) You know how to slap together nouns, verbs, and the occasional em dash and enjoy a good href
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Palm’s webOS PDK beta adds Pixi native development, PDK’d apps will hit the Catalog mid year

We just sat down with Palm here at GDC and fished out a few more details on the PDK beta front . Firstly, and most interestingly, Palm has confirmed that the PDK now works on all of its handsets (instead of just the Pre and Pre Plus), which means Pixi buyers can stop hating themselves pretty soon. Apparently the level of performance degradation should be comparable iPhone 3G vs.
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Improve Meeting Efficiency with a 22-Minute Limit [Meetings]

Meetings don't have to be the bane of the workday existence. Try scheduling them in 22-minute blocks to get more out of them and spend less time hating them. Photo by brianpobuda . Blogger Scott Berkun recommends latching onto Nicole Steinbok 's 22-minute meeting idea as a good metric for sticking to agendas and keeping meetings from becoming a time-sink. Of course, even abbreviated meetings won't work if you don't make good use of the time.
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Lifehacker RSS Feeds Do a Little Dance [Announcements]

Hey there Lifehacker RSS readers! Starting today, as passed down from above, Lifehacker's default RSS feed is switching from a full-item feed to an excerpt-only feed. Don't panic! You can still get the full feed back. We fully understand the hypocrisy of a productivity site with an excerpt-only RSS feed, and the last thing we want is to require you to visit the site to read every single post if that's not what best fits your time. So if you're not keen on the new excerpt-only feed, the new full RSS feed for VIPs (that's all of you) is available here: http://lifehacker.com/vip.xml If you want to continue getting the full-item Lifehacker feed, just swap the feed above with your current Lifehacker feed in your newsreader of choice.
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Why Computer Engineer Barbie Is Good for Women in Tech

Rebecca Zook is an online female math tutor who has been helping students get math into their brains for seven years. She blogs about learning at Triangle Suitcase . Over half a million votes were cast to decide Barbie’s newest career . But even though Computer Engineer Barbie was developed in consultation with the Society of Women Engineers and the National Academy of Engineering , the new doll’s appearance has sparked controversy
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4N Watch Pulls the Time From a Scattered Pile of Numbers [Watches]

The 4N Watch was designed with a relatively simple goal—display digital time through mechanical, analog function. Despite the exposed gears and jumble of numbers, the watch operates upon logic that anyone can grasp. Really, three numbered discs rotate to display the proper 3 to 4 digits of time (we're assuming the hour disc displays the 11 and 12 hours on its own). That's much more reasonable than a tiny arm sorting through a large pile of numbers with every new minute, which is pretty much what we imagined upon first glance
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Freescale’s 7-inch tablet runs Android, Chromium OS or Linux, costs $200 (video)

Remember the $200 smartbook reference design that we saw at CES this year? Well, it's back, it's holding on to that same price and 7-inch enclosure, but this time it's also showing off an expanded OS compatibility. Adapting the open source Chromium OS and another Linux variant to the ARM architecture of the prototype device was apparently not much of a hurdle for Freescale, who has an Android option in the works as well and claims to be just optimizing and enhancing the user experience at this point. Presumably one of the enhancements will be the installation of a capacitive touchscreen as the present demonstration requires either a mouse and keyboard or a resistive torture test to operate, but we'll accept the company's explanation that this is just a proof of concept and not the final product
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4N wristwatch delivers digital time in a mechanical fashion

Given how simple we've made timekeeping over the years, it was inevitable that luxury watches would have to move into more esoteric lands in order to exude the appropriate sense of wonder when witnessed by those who can't afford them. You might call that the Xperia Pureness effect . Ergo, quite aside from its platinum or 18-carat gold construction options, the 4N watch tries to grab the spotlight with its quirky disc-based mechanism, which rotates numbers (four numbers, hence 4N) into position to display a digital readout of the time.
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