Google Doodle Honors Jim Henson and Friendly Monsters
Saturday marks what would have been the 75th birthday of Jim Henson, the puppet pioneer and beloved conductor of many a fuzzy childhood friend, from Big Bird to the Cookie Monster. In his honor, today’s Google Doodle, which represents the company logo on the search engine’s home page, is an interactive puppet show, designed by Google and the Jim Henson Company.
Here’s a video from those two companies describing their collaboration on the doodle, as well as the prolific puppeteer’s creative process.
Hack Your Way Into Facebook’s New Timeline Featur
Facebook’s new Timeline view.Most users will have to wait a few weeks before they get to see Facebook’s most drastic changes to the service since the company was founded, but you can use a developers’ workaround to gain access to the Timeline feature right now.
Developers already have access to early beta versions of the new features. Luckily for users eager to try out the revamped Facebook, becoming a developer is a simple process that shouldn’t take you more than 5 or 10 minutes.
Facebook announced the updates Thursday at the company’s f8 developers’ conference.
The turn it off or leave it on question
Call me a tree-hugger if you must, but I see no reason to keep a computer on when it’s not in use. That wastes electricity, which is bad for your pocketbook and bad for the planet. And it’s probably bad for the computer.
Yes, I have seen occasional arguments that shutting down a computer, then starting it up cold, cause more wear and tear than leaving it on for 12 hours. I just don’t buy them. All computers potentially suffer from heat problems, and one that never gets a chance to cool down will suffer from more of them.
Unlocking Your Bootloader For HTC Devices (Launched prior to September, 2011)
It is our responsibility to caution you that not all claims resulting or caused by or from the unlocking of the bootloader may be covered under warranty. Please note that unlocking your bootloader does not mean that you will be able to unlock the SIM lock. Unlocking your SIM lock is at the discretion of your operator/carrier and is not part of the bootloader unlocking scope.
HTC Sensation bootloader unlocking tool released
HTC has unveiled the full process for unlocking bootloaders on some of the phones in its 2011 lineup. HTC is sticking to its timeline by starting with compatibility for the European HTC Sensation and promising to bring along support for the Sensation 4G on T-Mobile and the EVO 3D on Sprint later on. The website for the process, HTCdev.com/bootloader, is full of stern warnings, details on how the entire process works, and how any issues you face as a result of unlocking your bootloader won’t be covered under warranty — including any future OTA updates that may not be compatible with your unlocked device.
Singel-Minded: Why Feds Are Right to Block AT&T, T-Mobile Merger
ANALYSIS – The feds unexpectedly walked into a federal court Wednesday to file a lawsuit seeking to block AT&T from buying T-Mobile for $39 billion.
Though you’ll likely hear a lot of bitching and moaning about the move from politicians in the coming days, this is best thing to come out of Washington, D.C., since the Do-Not-Call list.
For those who haven’t been watching, AT&T is seeking to become the nation’s largest wireless carrier by outright buying T-Mobile, the nation’s fourth largest carrier. AT&T says the merger will help with its urban congestion problems, let it hire more people and allow it to extend 4G to more than 97.3 percent of the population (current plan is 80 percent).
HTC Sensation 4G update causes problems, we have a solution
T-Mobile starting pushing out the Android 2.3.4 update for the HTC Sensation 4G recently. The list of fixes and improvements the update is supposed to bring is very promising. Better screen responsiveness, a better battery and other fixes are a just of few of the things the Sensation 4G is getting. However, you may run into some issues with the update as I have. Fortunately, there is a solution.
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