TigerText, a new iPhone texting application, has the option of adding a “self-destruct” timer to the messages. That is, once the time’s up, the message gets deleted from everywhere - the sender’s phone, the receiver’s phone, and also the messaging server. As per the company, these deleted texts are not “legally discoverable” anymore.

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It’s not yet the next best thing in the Tablet world, but of course, it has all the potential of being the next best thing. Then again, it IS one good thing in Green initiatives!

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If you want to know what’s inside the new Google Nexus One, watch this video.

iFixit provides a full “inside-out” view of the $530 phone disassembling it using a Philips screw driver. What’s more, they even made a slideshow out of it. Check out more here.
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From Remote controls, joysticks and the mouse, it’s time to get to the real deal in reality.

Imagine this - you’re watching an old rerun, and then suddenly you remember that it’s time for your favorite show in a channel about 30 or 40 channels away from the current one. You frantically search for the remote control, but you don’t find it anywhere. What would you do?

Just move your hand, and the TV would understand that the channel has to be changed.

Since the first mouse was wired to the PC, electronics that understand hand gestures is going to be one of the next most significant changes in the industry. Microsoft, Hitachi and other major PC makers are already geared up to begin selling devices that can control electronics such as TV and computer screens with simple hand gestures.

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There are about 100,000 applications to the credit of an Apple iPhone from various vendors and programmers. But it’s not always easy even with that huge a number to have softwares which suit everyone’s tastes. People request different features to suit their daily requirements, but in most cases they have to live with what the software itself offers.
AppOmator gives you full control over the way your rich content media works and functions. You have the facility to add custom menus with logos and buttons that link to and play audio, …

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If you have problems hearing the people around you because you are totally engrossed in your own world of music - especially when you’re getting a bit of leisure time in the middle of office work - you should look at this.
The S1 Audio NxSet (pronounced “neck-set”) is equipped with an embedded speaker, and can be wrapped around your neck. Connect it to your wired or wireless audio player, iPod or phone, and you’ve got your own world of music around your head. These headphones then project the music toward your ears by mean of a pair of built-in speakers and a hi-fi amplifier.

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If you have been a fan of the famous Star Trek series, and are familiar with the Emergency Medical Hologram program who can substitute for the regular medical staff or treat patients during emergency, then here is something similar that you can look forward to.

Well, almost similar.

Two research teams from the Aberystwyth University in Wales have marked a major advance in the field of artificial intelligence, by creating a robotic system that has made a novel scientific discovery with virtually no human intellectual input.

[In Pic: Adam the Robot Scientist (Image courtesy of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council)]

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Bored of the way how your Desktop is organized? It’s not just you - there are countless others in front of their computers who feel the same way.

A traditional Windows desktop is not always the best thing to work with. Of course it is easy to work with, but after sometime, having to see the same screen over and over is quite boring.

In case you are whom I’m talking about, here are 5 of the most popular virtual desktop managers for you to play around with.

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The black, white, and bronze flavors of the T-Mobile G1 are available on Amazon for $97.99, a huge $302 off it’s actual price.

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A few days after the release of the improved version of it’s eBook reader Kindle, Amazon has announced that it would give publishers the right to turn off the “text-to-speech” option for specific titles as they see fit. This decision was taken following protests voiced out by the president of the Authors Guild, Roy Blount Jr., in his write-up in NewYork times. As per Blount, “Kindle 2 is not paying anyone for audio rights” and this undermined the market for the professional audio books that are sold separately.

Amazon, on the …

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