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Now I know that everyone loves to get paid, but it gets even better if you’re being paid for what you love to do the best, because you won’t feel the time passing by while you’re having fun! If you happen to be a social butterfly, how does getting paid to date sound to you? Chief Executive Officer Leo Cono has announced the Beta launch of a new incentive-based social networking and free online dating site: www.YouLoveMe.com. For those who have given up on searching for their significant other in the real world and have turned to the solace of Internet dating, rejoice! YouLoveMe.com is a 100% Free Dating Site, so there is no worry about forking out a single penny to enjoy its social networking features.

So far extensive research by the founders of YouLoveMe.com showed that the cost associated with 4 dates a month average $345.00 dollars. That amount of money adds up courtesy of the dinners, movies, transportation expenses, the obligatory candies or flowers on the first or second date. As a member of YouLoveMe.com, you will be given space where you can place your own banner ad on the MyPage section. Each click would mean some dough rolling in your direction, so that those can be used to defray some of the more expensive dating outings. Just make sure you’ve got a marketable self lest you stumble in this area, leading you further down the wormhole of greater depression.

According to Cono, “YouLoveMe.com takes into account and encompasses the best elements of the dating scene. It highlights and amplifies what PlentyofFish.com has accomplished in the free online dating space. Furthermore; since YouLoveMe.com is mixing Free Online Dating with Social Networking, this model has the potential for greater membership growth because social networking sites have more members in comparison to dating web sites. An example is MySpace with 300 million registered members versus Match.com with 15 million members”.

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by Nilay Patel, posted Apr 24th 2008 at 9:04PM
CompUSA died a sputtering, inglorious death, but Ohio-based Systemax (which owns TigerDirect) didn’t shell out $30M to pick up the pieces for nothing: it’s just announced that it’s re-opening 15 US stores and opening a new one, 13 of which are in Florida. We’re not sure why the Sunshine State faces the brunt of CompUSA’s angry zombie wrath — do retirees enjoy being ripped off?* — but Texans and Puerto Ricans can join in the fun with four stores of their very own. These are all apparently open now — anyone brave enough to check out the scene?

*Rejected asides: “Is this punishment for that Pitbull record?” “Guess you don’t need braiiiiiins to pay these prices!” “Screw you, Mickey!”

[Thanks, Steven]

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Who says you need stunning graphics and intense visuals to enjoy playing a game? Mike McCracken doesn’t think so. In fact, he is the inventor of a new Audio Ping Pong game thats uses only your ears and the tilting motion of your head play the game.

The way Audio Ping Pong works is that a sound comes out of earphones placed on your head that resembles a ball rolling towards one side of your noggin. The object is to tilt your head either left or right to get the ball to stay balanced. As the game progresses the speed of the audio ball increases, making it harder to play.

Now granted you won’t look like the smoothest person in the world playing Audio Ping Pong. In fact, McCracken admits you look like a dork playing it. It could, however, have its uses in entertainment for the visually impaired or perhaps people that want to try a different type of game. Just don’t go crazy and give yourself whiplash when Audio Ping Pong hits the streets.

Read more at Engadget or check out the video below.

Audio Ping Pong from loneconspirator on Vimeo.

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by Nilay Patel, posted Apr 24th 2008 at 10:31PM
We’ve already seen Google’s Android mobile OS get shoehorned onto Nokia N810 tablet, but it looks like the Internet Tablet OS is about to get even more flexible with ports of Ubuntu and the Qt toolkit. Nokia is acquiring Qt developer Trolltech, so it’s no surprise the Qt is making the jump, but it looks like it’ll be mostly a third-party-targeted framework, with the ITOS interface and bundled apps still using GTK+. Nokia told Ars Technica that it’s exploring cross-platform possibilities between ITOS and Series60, and that it wants to see if GTK+ and Qt can coexist on the tablets like they do on the Linux desktop. That’s pretty ambitious for a low-powered tablet, but we’re all for more flexibility — which seems to be in the cards with the Nokia-sponsored port of Ubuntu to ARM. Several pre-Hardy Heron versions have been ported and run off SD cards, if you’re feeling adventurous — we’re not sure what the advantages are, but it’s nice to know that Nokia’s keeping things wide open.

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In the UK, the BBC iPlayer is huge. Instant on, decent quality and free. In the first three months of the service, 42 million shows have been streamed or downloaded. So many, in fact, that British ISPs want the Beeb to cough up some cash to pay the bandwidth bills.

One of the problems with the iPlayer, for non-British residents at least, is that it is only available in the UK. I’m on a fleeting visit to Blighty right now, so I thought I’d test the service out.

I decided on Dr. Who, possibly the best thing from the BBC since, erm, the original Doctor Who. I pitted the iPlayer against my usual method of watching Brit TV; BitTorrent. Specifically, isohunt.com and the quite excellent software client Transmission.

I downloaded a recent episode. The BitTorrent file took around half an hour, but it was the first in the current series and therefore a few weeks old. The latest episode has many more seeds, and if I had a faster connection (I’m on neighbor-fi, but I waited until I saw them go out), experience tells me that I can pull down an episode in just fifteen minutes.

The iPlayer is instant on. I’m on a MacBook, so I had to use the web interface, but it works great. In fact, it is so responsive I’d be happy to always use that over software. The iPlayer is limited to shows which have aired in the past seven days, whereas BitTorrent is available as long as somebody is still seeding.

The quality of the BitTorrented file is way higher than the iPlayer. On a 13″ LCD, it is clear and sharp, at least as good as TV. The iPlayer, though, suffers because it streams, and the lower bit-rate means it’s a little fuzzy. In full-screen mode, though, it is perfectly easy to watch. Here’s the comparison chart:

iPlayer

BitTorrent

Time to start viewing

Instant

Around 30 minutes

Availability

7 days after airing on TV

Indefinite

Quality

Worse than TV

TV quality, but can vary

Easy to find?

Yes

Hell yes

Transfer to ipod

No

Yes

The winner? For convenience, iPlayer. For everything else, BitTorrent. And as I need to put some Doctor Who on my iPod Touch for a flight tomorrow, I pronounce BitTorrent the champion.

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The Kyocera Neo E1100 is a clamshell phone offering a 1.3 megapixel camera as well as the following features:

* support for the AWS frequencies (1700/2100MHz)
* Bluetooth 2.0
* hidden outer OLED display that comes to life when a call comes in.

Via MobileBurn.

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LG’s third model in its Black Label series, the LG Secret, has just been announced today. The LG Secret holds the honor of being the slimmest 5 megapixel cell phone in the market, boasting a chassis made out of carbon fibre and tempered glass that offers durability without compromising on its sleek design. Will this 3G handset be able to stave off the 3G iPhone’s onslaught later this summer? I personally don’t think so - after all, Apple has done a phenomenal job with its 3G-less iPhone, so to have an iphone that does 3G will just blow the competition away, unless Apple decides to over-price its product. I would wait and see how things pan out before taking a stand - after all, we aren’t exactly living in the best of times at the moment so it pays to make an informed purchase decision.

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by Donald Melanson, posted Apr 24th 2008 at 5:22PMNever one shy to pick a fight, Comcast is now taking square aim at AT&T, which it alleges is wreaking havoc with its internet service as a result of shoddy installs of the company’s U-verse TV service. More specifically, as Ars Technica points out, while both companies use different lines outside of the home (copper coax for Comcast and twisted pair for AT&T), they each use the same coaxial wiring inside the house, which Comcast says causes “feedback” to leak back out onto its network, possibly as a result of the two services using similar frequencies or filters. That, Comcast says, has caused service disruptions for some 20,000 users in the Chicago area, with it particularly affecting those that mix and match Comcast and U-verse services. To put a stop to that, Comcast is now seeking a restraining order against AT&T, although it apparently hasn’t received one as of yet. For its part, AT&T not only unsurprisingly says that “the suit lacks merit and that the company intends to vigorously fight it,” but that it plans to significantly ramp up the roll out of U-verse in Illinois.

[Via Online Media Daily, thanks Alan M]

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Many TV stations are working hard to make popular shows available for streaming on their site, a bunch have already used this technology, and now TBS is going to do it with popular show, Seinfeld. TBS already has Family Guy episodes up for streaming on their website. Since many people manage to get videos, or TV shows illegally, these stations loose a lot of potential revenue. By making shows available to be streamed, they are gaining a bit of that lost revenue back, plus it isn’t illegal.

No word on exactly how many ads TBS will run during a streamed show, or how long that ad would run for. I’m guessing there won’t be too many ads and they won’t be for that long, because TBS has to compete with other giant streaming sites, such as Hulu. Basically, out of the many Seinfeld shows available, TBS will only run 4 streams at a time, and change them randomly over time. So far it looks like a good idea, I think they should make all Seinfeld episodes available for streaming, instead of having only 4 available at a time.

Unfortunately, you have to be running Windows for this to work, there isn’t any Mac support for these streams as of yet. If you like Seinfeld, I’m sure you’ll be happy.

Via [Switched]

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The popular Cowon portable media player, the N3, recently underwent a major appearance change. Previously the N3 had a shiny aluminum casing, however it now has a wooden casing - Burl Walnut to be exact. Otherwise, it still comes with the same features as before, and it still remains a Portable Navigation Device.

The N3 runs on a sweet Alchemy AU1250 600Mhz CPU, comes with a nice, big 7-inch touchscreen, boasting 16.7 million colors, audio playback, video playback, and image viewing. Other features include an electronic dictionary, Picture-In-Picture, and GPS, hence the PND. No word on whether the pricing is going to be higher, but it makes sense that it would be higher due to the wooden casing, and it is only going to be available in the Korean market.

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