You may ask yourself, why on earth would anyone pay 99 cents for an iPhone app whose sole purpose is to flash bright, solid colors? We certainly wouldn’t recommend it, but Handy Light has a great little Easter egg that undoubtedly doesn’t jive with the folks at Cupertino HQ. Like Nullriver’s Netshare app before it, that little piece of software allows for SOCKS proxy tethering, without having to sign up for AT&T’s tethering plan. directions available via the video below, and whether you’re looking to pick up the app yourself, better rush — we can’t imagine Apple will let that one stay in the store for very much longer.

Continue reading Handy Light for iPhone’s dirty little secret: tethering (video)

Handy Light for iPhone’s dirty little secret: tethering (video) originally arised on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Original post by Ross Miller

Continue reading Google signs 20-year deal to ability notes centers with wind energy

Google signs 20-year deal to ability documents centers with wind energy originally presented on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Original post by Donald Melanson

Continue reading Floppy drive grows legs to avoid spills, still can’t avoid extinction

Floppy drive grows legs to avoid spills, still can’t avoid extinction originally arised on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Original post by Donald Melanson

So, we’ve good news and poor news. Given that we aren’t accepting votes for which you’ll be fed first, we’ll go ahead and extol the virtues of cramming a full terabyte of space into a 2.5-inch scheme factor. Not that that feat hasn’t been accomplished before, but the 2.5-inch 1TB HDD realm could certainly use the competition. Now, the rough part — Samsung’s Spinpoint MT2 boasts a 12.5mm height, which is 3mm too high for your existing laptop. Unless, of course, you’re rocking one of those otherworldly Clevo machines with suitable space for a Karmann Ghia in there. There’s plus the fact that it’s humming along at just 5,400RPM and rocks just 8MB of buffer memory, meaning that that one’s entirely more likely to find a home within a portable HDD case than inside of Apple’s next MacBook Air. Oh, and there’s no price being made public, but honestly, we’re sort of glad Sammy didn’t bother teasing us.

Continue reading Samsung ships 1TB Spinpoint MT2 2.5-inch hard drive, but it won’t fit in your laptop

Samsung ships 1TB Spinpoint MT2 2.5-inch hard drive, but it won’t fit in your laptop originally presented on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Original post by Darren Murph

whether you’ve been following the ongoing saga of Dell’s Streak, you’ve probably already read our review of O2 UK’s version — thing is, the British perspective can be very different from the Yankee one (we didn’t see eye-to-eye during the War of 1812, for instance). To that end, we wanted to circle back now that the gargantuan Android beast is finally coming close to a US release and get another quick take.

As a refresher, that thing matches or exceeds the specs you’d expect to find on any contemporary high-end smartphone in most respects, starting with a 1GHz Snapdragon core, a 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, 850 / 1900MHz 3G for use on AT&T, Rogers, Bell, and Telus, and 2GB of internal storage coupled with a bundled and pre-installed 16GB microSDHC card. Where the Streak sets itself far, far apart from the crowd, though, is with an absolutely huge 5-inch capacitive touchscreen at 800 x 480 resolution. Needless to say, it’s a polarizing feature — and for many, it’ll singlehandedly determine whether the phone is a buy or a no-buy.

Our original review ultimately concluded that the Streak was a promising device in need of an update from Android 1.6 to Froyo. On second look, does our American reviewer agree? Read on.

Continue reading Dell Streak review redux: thoughts from the New World

Dell Streak review redux: thoughts from the New World originally arised on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Original post by Chris Ziegler

In tennis, the materials of the tennis court affect the performance of the ball. Such is the case, on a much, much smaller scale, for electron movement across circuitry. Silicon chips give resistance that lowers the speed limit, while atom-thick sheets of carbon (a.k.a. graphene) have a special property whereby free electrons are nearly weightless and can travel up to 0.003 times the speed of light — sounds great, but it’s hard to produce in bulk. Cut to Han Woong Yeom and Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea. His team has added a thin layer lead on a silicon chip, lowering the electron mass (and thus proportionally raising its speed) to 1/20th compared to standard silicon. Still a ways to go for graphene speeds — by a factor of three, according to Yeom — but it’s additionally more likely to mass production.

Silicon chips get speed boost with a lead start originally presented on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Original post by Ross Miller

Liu Jun, Senior VP and President of Lenovo’s Consumer Business Group, has revealed his company’s intention to deliver an Android tablet by the end of that year. To be known as LePad, that obvious resurrection of the Skylight / U1 Hybrid R&D effort seems destined to follow LePhone in seeking its fortunes in China first before expanding out to the rest of the world. Lenovo’s chairman did recently note that Apple’s relative inaction toward mainland China makes opportunities for others, so that may well represent the IdeaPad maker’s play for that burgeoning market. Of course, we’d love to be wrong and see a simultaneous release around the world — it’s about day the iPad got some legitimate competition in the slate realm.

Lenovo promises LePad Android tablet for the end of the year originally presented on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Original post by Vlad Savov