Reservoir Converted into World's Largest Slip 'N Slide [Video]

Thought the Slip 'n Slide in your mom's backyard was big? Think again. This half empty reservoir not only makes your sprinkler look inadequate, but also your local pool. More »

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Motorola teases Xoom Super Bowl ad: '2011 looks a lot like 1984'

Moto hasn't been shying away from the Apple jabs this year, and it's got another one in store for the Super Bowl this week with a commercial that'll poke fun at Cupertino's 1984 Macintosh ad, perhaps the most famous Super Bowl spot of all time. In it, the company says that "2011 looks a lot like 1984" with "one authority, one design, one way to work" while showing Planet Earth wearing a pair of shiny white iPod / iPhone buds. Boom, here comes a new planet -- a red, gaseous one with an "M" logo on it -- that pimps a bunch of wild features we'll be seeing in the Xoom like a dual-core processor, upgradeable 4G, and Honeycomb out of the box. In closing, Moto says "it's time to live a free life." We would've liked to have seen Motorola follow a format closer to that 1984 commercial, but it's a pretty well-played jab nonetheless -- and it's conceivable that this is just a teaser for the actual ad that'll air next weekend. Follow the break to check it out.

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HTC Desire HD listed as 'coming soon' on TELUS website

It wasn't too long ago that the pricing and dates for the HTC Desire HD on TELUS were leaked. While February 10th was never an officially confirmed date, TELUS' own website lists the device now as 'coming soon', which should be exciting news for Canadian customers awaiting the new member of the HTC's Desire family. 

To refresh your knowledge, the Desire HD has a 4.3-inch screen, 1GHz processor, Android 2.2 (Froyo), and an 8MP camera. 

For those wanting to get their hands on the Desire HD in Canada, you'll soon be able to buy one on TELUS. [TELUS]

For more, check out our HTC Desire HD Forums

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Web of Trust (WOT) brings Web trust, safety, and privacy ratings to Opera

Web of Trust has been a trusted browser privacy and security add-on for Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer for quite a while. Now, Opera users can take advantage of WOT trust ratings as well! Just head over to the Opera Extensions gallery and install Web of Trust, and you'll have access to the same drop-down ratings panel we've shown you before for other browsers (we suspect it was probably re-spun from the Chrome extension).

Remember, Opera 11+ is required to use extensions, so upgrade first if you're on a previous version. Don't forget to check out other great extensions for Opera, like LastPass and our collection of other handy add-ons.

Web of Trust (WOT) brings Web trust, safety, and privacy ratings to Opera originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Daily Crunch: Crossing Edition

?Ultrasonic? Klang Speaker Concept Only Produces Sound Where Your Head Is Today, A Ban On Headphones While Crossing The Street; Tomorrow, A Ban On Chewing Gum While Walking Are You Man Enough For This iPad Bjorn? Just In Time For Trenta: Send Your Facebook Friends Starbucks Card eGifts Hump Day Giveaway: ThinkFun Solitaire Chess

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Quora Backlash Slams Head First Into Quora Backlash Backlash

You know how I know Quora is going to be big? No one can shut up about it. That includes both people who love it and people who hate it. And that dichotomy is important, because it will keep people talking about it. And that will keep people signing up. And it will keep those that already signed up going back. And that's important because Quora is a service that takes a bit longer than others to get into. Anyway, the past couple of weekends have brought some truly great bitchmemes about Quora. Last weekend, it was�Vivek Wadhwa who kicked things off on this very blog with his post, Why I Don't Buy The Quora Hype. That post led to a firestorm of reactions (both positive and negative) in both the comments section and on Twitter. In fact, at one point after the post went up last weekend, I swear my entire tweet feed was devoted to it.

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20-line Firefox fix will half start-up time, hopefully coming to nightly builds tonight

A 20-line patch looks set to cut Firefox's start-up time in half. The fix, which works by preloading Firefox's XUL library, could land in nightly builds as early as tonight. Unfortunately, the speed-up will only affect Windows users.

To be honest, it's a little odd that preloading DLLs hadn't been tried before. Prior to this fix, the XUL DLL was slowly loaded in 32KB bits, which really ground on slower-seeking hard drives. With a little trickery, the patch submitter managed to get Windows to load the DLL in juicier, faster 2MB chunks. The fix should improve load times on every computer, but it will definitely benefit slower computers more.

As far as we can tell, the fix hasn't landed in nightly builds yet. It should be soon, though: Mozilla's VP of Engineering, Mike Shaver, wants to "land this bad boy for Monday's nightlies" -- so keep an eye on Mozilla's public FTP dump tonight.

Incidentally, if you're not using the beta 10 nightly build yet, you should give it a go!

20-line Firefox fix will half start-up time, hopefully coming to nightly builds tonight originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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SMS to Swype for Android adds your common words to Swype's dictionary

Earlier, Erez covered Swype's excellent word-learning abilities. Not only is its built-in dictionary comprehensive, but it also learns names from your address book. There's still one stumbling block to switching to Swype, though: all of your custom words and phrases that you've already added to the dictionary. Depending on where you live, and your circle of friends, you probably use very different 'txtspk', and adding them manually to Swype is a pain in the ass.

SMS to Swype, however, is a tiny app that simply adds every unique word in your SMSes to your Swype dictionary. It takes just two or three clicks and, if you have a wealth of SMSes on your phone, you won't ever have to run it again. It's free, and available from the Android Market, AppBrain, or use the QR code after the break.

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Berzerk Ball is a nerd-flinging Time Waster

What you see in the screenshot above is a geek hurtling through the edge of space, so fast and so high that it looks as though he's re-entering the atmosphere on his way back to earth. That shot, by the way, ended up being around the 30,000' mark.

And yes, that's what you do on Berzerk Ball. The protagonist is a very pretty lady with a very large bat, and her job is to fling geeks as high and far into space as humanly possible.

And when I say "geeks" I mean "a geek", really, because it appears to be the same one over and over again - once he lands, he just starts walking back, muttering inane comments culled from actual blogs along the way.

Basic controls are elementary: You just click the mouse twice - once for controlling the angle, and again for controlling the power of the shot. Once the geek is airborne, you can exert a bit of influence over his trajectory using the left and right arrow keys. That may come in handy, because there are power-ups you can collect along the way, and robots you can land on (who then toss you ever farther on your merry way).

As you get better you can level up and buy different bats and power-ups to fling your geek ever farther. I'm not sure how long this game can stay interesting, but it might keep you amused during a phone call with a particularly irritating nerd.

Berzerk Ball is a nerd-flinging Time Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Kongregate Arcade returns to the Android Market with some minor changes

After being removed from the Android Market for breaking the rules, the Kongregate Arcade app is back! Yet again can you enjoy easy access to the best source of Flash games on the Web.

Kongregate Arcade was originally pulled because it itself acted as a marketplace for apps -- or at least, it appeared to. In actual fact, the app was just a portal to all of the Flash games on the Kongregate site. The original app hid the browser's address bar (why is this possible?), which made it look like everything was occurring in-app.

The changes to the app make it more obvious that the app simply links to Web pages with Flash games, rather than appearing to play games from within the app. The Arcade will now also use the browser's cache to store temporary Flash files, rather than "explicitly downloading and managing games on the SD card."

A QR code to install the app is after the break.

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Daily Crunch: Gift Exchange Edition

Polaroid And Lady Gaga Introduce Grey GL30 Instant Camera Samson Meteor Mic: Meteor-y Pogoplug Now Converts, Streams Your Video Into The Cloud Contest: Happy CES Day! Here?s A Windows Phone 7 HD7 Our Interview With The Notion Ink Guys: Fair and Balanced

Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/01/07/daily-crunch-gift-exchange/

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Virgin Mobile Finally Getting Another Android Phone

Finally! Not that there’s a huge population of Virgin Mobile Android Users, but maybe there would be if more desirable phones were available. If you weren’t a big fan of the Samsung Intercept, soon you may get a chance to try out the LG Optimus V. Rumor has it, the price is only $150.00 ($100.00 [...]

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Kongregate's Snake is an utterly classic low-fi Time Waster

If you're looking for a groundbreaking time-waster, something you've never ever played before, a new concept in gaming - this post is not for you. But if you enjoy the odd bit of classic retro gaming, Kongregate's bare-bones implementation of Snake might be right up your alley.

What is there to say, really? You're a snake. I mean, you start life as a single chunky pixel, but as soon as you eat the red pixel, you grow. And then another pixel appears, you eat it, and grow some more.

If you've ever owned a Nokia phone, chances are it came with Snake built-in. The newer phones (even the crappier S60 models) come with a souped-up version of Snake, all 3d-looking, with the snake eating actual apples. This version is much more reminiscent of the older Snake version, which was strictly 2d. It doesn't have any sound effects, but it's super responsive, and very addictive. The reason for the low score on the screenshot isn't that I didn't play - it's that I played and played and played, each time thinking "this will be the one!" until I eventually realized if I don't take the screenshot and write it up now, I'll just end up playing all evening long. So there. Now, how much did you score?

Kongregate's Snake is an utterly classic low-fi Time Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mark Zuckerberg meets the fake Mark Zuckerbergs on Saturday Night Live (video)

Mark Zuckerberg, the man who invented poking and the subject of a major motion picture in 2010 just met his nemeses on the set of Saturday Night Live. No, not the Winklevoss twins, we're talking Jesse Eisenberg, the man nominated for an Academy Award after playing Zuckerberg in The Social Network. Toss in Andy Samberg and we've got a comically uncomfortable situation from Web 2.0's very personification of awkward. All hail the Zuck Bergs!

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Daily Crunch: New Traffic Edition

Hands On With the Verizon iPhone Kids Design The Next Generation Of Cute Cars New Guitar Tuner Tunes, Is Green Revox M100 Modular HiFi Lets You Configure Parts Before You Buy Pygmy Motorcyles Made From Lighter Parts

Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/01/12/daily-crunch-new-traffic/

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Google announces Android event for February 2nd

Had enough Honeycomb this week? Perhaps -- but next week is a whole new week, and Google's got your back. Mountain View has selected Wednesday, February 2nd for an event that'll include "an in-depth look at Honeycomb, Android ecosystem news and hands-on demos," so by all accounts this seems to be more than a mere wrap-up of everything they've announced in the past few weeks. New tablets? Honeycomb for smartphones? Android 2.4? Something else entirely? We'll be there to find out, of course.

Google announces Android event for February 2nd originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony's official NGP announcement video hits the web

Sure, you followed along with our Tokyo liveblog and breathless posts announcing Sony's Next Generation Portable (codename: NGP, get it?) successor to the PSP. But nothing's quite like viewing a video posted 48-hours after the event to get a true feel for the historic occasion... historic to nerds like us anyway. The power is now in your hands -- use it wisely to watch a thrilling three-part trilogy after the break. More videos at the source link below.

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Sony's official NGP announcement video hits the web originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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