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Hm... yahoo piper seems like a huge hassle. I just use the filtering that http://favit.com provides me. I subscribe to the feeds I like and then say: "filter for this and that in all my feeds" I can create as many filters as I want and the new stuff is indicated with a number in the filter name - convenient and snappy.

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This Kinect Hack Is Actually Useful (MSFT)

Hackers have found unorthodox uses for Kinect ever since it launched last November, but most of them have been pretty silly or esoteric, like creating a virtual puppet show or 3D image of the objects in a room.

But this hack by a young man who calls himself Mike (or Nitrogen online) is actually useful: he places a Kinect in the corner of his living room and wires it up to a home automation system that controls his lights. As he walks around the room, Kinect sees where is is and turns lights on and off accordingly.

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Hack: How To FaceTime On iPad 1G?

A user of iFans now you partially solve iPad's omission of FaceTime, courtsey of a hack. This hacked version of FaceTime for iPad appears to be very neat, and we can't wait to see Apple's real implementation, soon, with the second-generation iPad. All the steps are pasted after the break.

Hack: How To FaceTime On iPad 1G?

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Mac App Store Hack Lets Users Get Angry Birds For Free (AAPL)

There's a loophole in the new Mac apps that can be easily exploited, giving savvy users access to paid apps for free.

It won't work for every paid app, but we tested the process with Angry Birds and it worked.

We first spotted the simple hack through Y Combinator News, which linked to instructions on Pastebin.

The instructions are pretty straightforward and simple, if you really don't want to shell out $5 for Angry Birds. But, you probably should, it's a fair price.

For developers worried about this hack affecting them, we also saw instructions on how to prevent it on Craftymind, also via Y Combinator's news feed.

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• HOW TO: Use Apple's New Mac App Store
• Here's How To Get Around the iPhone New Year's Alarm Glitch
• How To Use Europe's Amazing Free Music Service Spotify In the US

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Now Gilt Groupe Wants You To Change Your Password Due To Gawker Hack

I just received this email.

As you may be aware, Gawker recently suffered a security breach where passwords of 500,000 of its users were compromised.The list of compromised email addresses and passwords has been published on the Internet. As security is of utmost importance at Gilt we are contacting you as your Gilt email address matches an email address, published in the Gawker list. Please note that we are sending you this email as a precaution.

As many people often use the same password for multiple sites we strongly suggest that you change your Gilt password as well as do so on other sites where the password you have is the same as your Gawker password. You can change your Gilt password by visiting the Account Update page and selecting "Change your password" link.

Please visit the Gilt Security page for our suggestions on how to choose a secure password.

If you have any questions please contact customer support by emailing support@gilt.com or calling 877.280.0545.

Sincerely,
Gilt Groupe

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Kinect Optical Camouflage Hack Built Using Openframeworks Makes You Invisible [Video]

Takayuki Fukatsu developed a Predator-like invisibility hack for Kinect, using OpenFrameworks, an open source C++ toolkit designed for "creative coding" projects such as this.

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Windows Phone 7 Hack Allows Unapproved Apps (MSFT)

Yesterday, a trio of developers released software that will let Windows Phone 7 users install unapproved apps directly from their PC rather than having to go through the officially sanctioned Marketplace.

As first reported by Engadget, ChevronWP7 was designed to help developers get around Microsoft's notoriously restrictive app development process for its new phone OS. In particular, Microsoft has blocked most application developers from accessing the phone's native APIs--direct pathways into the phone's hardware--because apps that misuse these APIs frequently cause performance problems with the entire phone.

Chevron lets application developers who don't adhere to these restrictions get their apps onto the phone anyway. According Chevron's creators, they did it to help amateur developers test apps that Microsoft wouldn't approve for the Marketplace.

Some Windows Phone 7 application developers immediately accused the developers of trying to enable piracy. If users could somehow find binaries for Phone 7 apps on the Internet--say, through file-trading networks--they could now install those apps directly from their PCs using the Zune client, which today is used to transfer music, videos, and pictures, without having to pay for them through the Marketplace.

Chevron codeveloper Long Zheng responded by saying that Chevron simply unlocks a feature that's already built into the Phone 7 OS.

That makes sense: one of the missing pieces in Phone 7 is an easy way for corporate customers to deploy custom apps to their employees. This is a step backward from Windows Mobile, which supported Microsoft's System Center tools for app deployment. Enabling sideloading is a necessary piece of the puzzle, but Microsoft would probably have preferred to unlock this feature on its own time frame, and with ties to other Microsoft software.

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• Samsung Focusing On Windows Phone 7, Not Android For 2011?
• Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Phones On Sale In U.S.
• Netflix: Android Is Too Fragmented And Not Secure

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