Facebook is testing new advanced chat settings that allow users to specify who can see when they’re logged into the site. Eti Suruzon, vice president of planning and media at Blink, sent the screenshot pictured here, showing more granularity in the visibility settings than has previously existed in chat — with the ability to only allow certain individuals or lists of friends to see you. Readers, have you seen anything along these lines when you’re on Facebook?

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The new stable release of Google’s web browser Chrome brings several improvements, most importantly faster browsing and more protection from malicious downloads. From now on, when you start typing in Chrome’s address box (or omnibox, as Google calls it), as soon as Chrome autocompletes the URL you’re likely to visit, it will prerender the page, making your overall browsing experience faster. As far as security goes, Chrome now does checks on executable files you’ve downloaded from the net. It m...  show all text

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Double Fine and 2 Player Productions is raising funds for Double Fine Adventure on Kickstarter! An adventure game from Tim Schafer, Double Fine, and YOU!

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Amazon and Viacom might sign a video deal as soon as this week, bringing Amazon one step closer to launching a standalone video streaming service, Reuters reports. Amazon’s Prime Instant Video is currently a part of the Amazon Prime program, which provides members with unlimited two-day shipping and other benefits for $79 per year. In September, Amazon inked a video deal with Fox; previously, the company signed deals with CBS, NBC, Sony, Warner Bros. and others. The addition of Viacom to that l...  show all text

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Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers 8 Feb 2012 – Singapore It all started innocently enough. I was thinking of implementing a Path Mac OS X app as part of our regularly scheduled hackathon. Using the awesome mitmproxy tool which was featured on the front page of the Hacker News yesterday, I started to observe the various API calls made to Path’s servers from the iPhone app. It all seemed harmless enough until I observed a POST request to https://api.path.com/3/contacts/a...  show all text

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In 2008, we launched Google Chrome to help make the web better. We’re excited that millions of people around the world use Chrome as their primary browser and we want to keep improving that experience. Today, we're introducing Chrome for Android Beta, which brings many of the things you’ve come to love about Chrome to your Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phone or tablet. Like the desktop version, Chrome for Android Beta is focused on speed and simplicity, but it also features seamless sign-in and  show all text

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Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 200th birthday of writer Charles Dickens. Born on Feb. 7 1812 in Landport, England, Charles John Huffam Dickens grew in tough, working-class conditions. At age 12, after his father was thrown into a debtors’ prison, he was forced to work at a blacking factory. This experience later influenced many of his famous novels, including Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and Great Expectations. Starting his career as a journalist, Dickens eventually started writing lit...  show all text

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There has been chatter on the interweb for what seems like ever, surrounding the the new offering from Nikon. Here it is, finally, for you to lust after! Nikon D800 & D800E  $2,995.00 and it’ yours! Will you be cashing in and picking one of these cameras up? Comment below! Here’s the feature list. Nikon FX-format CMOS sensor with 36.3 effective Megapixels Native ISO 100 to ISO 6,400 Manipulate light to your advantage Shoot broadcast quality video Comprehensive high-fidelity audio recording c...  show all text

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Finally Canon has finally updated their waterproof PowerShot camera. The PowerShot D10 was an odd camera to say the least. The new PowerShot D20 looks to be a bit more reserved in design. Specifications 5x Zoom 10 meter/33 foot depth 1.5 meter/5ft Shockproof Canon PowerShot D20   cr

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The New York Giants official website accidentally announced the winner of Super Bowl XLVI more than 24 hours before Sunday’s big game even started, by the look of images floating around the web. The error was immortalized Saturday in this TwitPic screenshot (above), which Jeff Frias posted to Twitter. No signs of the mistake are left on the team’s site other than a reported link that leads to the image below: The Giants have yet to publicly confirm whether this whammy is real or the handy-work ...  show all text

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1. Created with the Stop-Motion Camera App This simple short was made with the Stop-Motion Camera app. It's incredibly easy to use. Click here to view this gallery. Stop-motion animation used to be a complicated, time-consuming process, but the emergence of easy, automated apps make it something creative that anyone can try — for free! We have tried and tested three simple iPhone apps, and we recommend that stop-motion animation beginners give them a go. Take a look through our video gallery of  show all text

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This year’s Super Bowl marks a digital first: The game will be the first Super Bowl that you can watch online — legally. NBC, the broadcast partner for this year’s game, is going to stream the game live. NBC has actually been streaming some NFL games online since 2009, though never the Super Bowl. While it opens up the game to a whole new online audience, NBC sees it as a “second screen” experience — a complement to the TV broadcast rather than an alternative. Still, streaming an event as huge ...  show all text

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Trying something a bit different with my first promo mailer of 2012… Rather than sending a single postcard, I wanted to send a number of images to each prospective client. Taking advantage of their printfinity system to have different images on the front of each card, I used moo’s business cards and selected illustrations from my portfolio that would be relevant to each prospective client (I also created a few new Illustrations where I didn’t have something relevant to use). Once printed, I pla...  show all text

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Mr. Gazzara’s long acting career included playing Brick in the original “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway and roles in influential films by John Cassavetes.

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Mike Relm will move you. Photo: SF Weekly. There’s a saying that you should understand. It’s “TALENT IMITATES. GENIUS STEALS.” Now before your undies get in a wad, I’m not saying steal work and pretend it’s you’re own. More deeply, I’m asking a question. Do you want to understand and set free your most creative work? Then pay attention here. And mark my words: the REMIX is the single most important artistic concept of our time [Go ahead and read that again. And read all the way to the bottom if...  show all text

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Antonio Bolfo was bored, so he became a police officer. To relieve the stress of patrolling South Bronx housing projects, he took a camera on the job. It led to a new career.

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UPDATE, 10:44 a.m. Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards just released a statement praising Komen for "clarifying" its grant process, saying "we look forward to continuing our partnership with Komen partners, leaders and volunteers." Click here for more. = = = = = = = = = = Komen for the Cure just released the following statement from Nancy Brinker and the Susan G. Komen Board of Directors: We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our ...  show all text

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toadhollow wrote a new blog post: 73 Links and Photos That Will Make Your Photography-Loving Head Explode It's been a truly wonderful week online in the world of photography, and Toad Hollow Photography has been busy collecting the best set of links to tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  This is a really great list highlighting wonderful work by some of the best photographers who are active online, [...] Comments: 0

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NEW YORK—Shocked and saddened witnesses at the Huffington Post's news-aggregation facility have confirmed that employee Henry Evers, 25, died Wednesday ...

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Facebook’s public offering will make a lot of billionaires and millionaires, some of them prominent people and others not.

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Facebook has just filed its S-1 to IPO. Below is the letter from founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook’s purpose, in which he explains “Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected. We think it’s important that everyone who invests in Facebook understands what this mission means to us.” Regarding business, Zuckerberg says “We think a more open and connected world will help create a stronger ...  show all text

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Download past episodes or subscribe to future episodes for free from Trey's Variety Hour Video (large) by TWiT TV on the iTunes Store.

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It’s worth your while to click on the image above to be taken to the full sized 360 view of the Shah-é-Chéragh Mosque taken by Audrey Scott and Daniel Noll of Uncornered Market.com. As DPS evolves, we’ll be adding in the ability to see these immersion style Shockwave files on the blog, but for now, take a look at this example before diving into this post. Daniel And Audrey have been creating these wonderful images for years. I’ve been a bit addicted to the far-flung locations they show and the ...  show all text

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