Boy, I didn't see this one coming. The latest version of iTunes, 7.1.1, has been cracked, allowing you to strip off that annoying DRM so you can listen to your legally purchased songs however you'd like.
It can be done using the program QTFairUse6. Unfortunately, it's only available for Windows, so you Mac users are out of luck. You Windows folks interested in unchaining your recent purchases, get to it, as 7.1.2 can't be too far away. It's the circle of life. –Adam Frucci
Hymn Project [via CrunchGear]
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Do you ever worry that you have been overworking your mobile? Yes, thought so. And since we're not allowed to send them away on holiday (just think of the chaos an unaccompanied mobile would provoke on a plane, I'm seeing the movie posters already, dang) then perhaps the least we can do is buy them a bed that they can rest their weary antennae on.
This phone bed from Fred Flare is a snip at just ten bucks. It comes with a pair of slippers that you can use as a screen cleaner, but the bad news is that it has sold out. Shame. I was going to buy one for every single one of my little gadgets—iPod, memory stick, electric toothbrush—and I was going to line them up and then, just like Snow White, I was going to give them all a good-night kiss before lights-out. And then the nice orderly with the rough bedside manner was going to give me my shots, loosen my straitjacket and lock me in for the night. – Ad Dugdale
Product Page [FredFlare via Crave]
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There's something a bit fetishy about this Mr P tape dispenser, but I can't quite put my finger on why he looks so odd. Perhaps it's because, with the tape stretched between his mouth and his toes it looks like he's biting the sheet. Which must mean there's something unspeakable going on beneath the covers. And I don't want to find out exactly what that is. Or he's got an unfeasibly long tongue, in which case some of you office workers will be itching to get your hands on him. Mr P comes in black, white, blue and green.
Mr P tape dispenser at your dispense [Gizmodiva]
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Nowadays its pretty easy to find an LCD monitor that rotates and pivots, but if you don't have the cash to spend on a new display (or if you just like building things on your own), a user by the name of odrarek has posted up instructions on how to build your own rotating/pivoting LCD stand. The materials needed are pretty simple and it's only a five-step process. Not a bad way to give your monitor a quick and painless upgrade. – Louis Ramirez
Rotate or Pivot LCD Monitor [Instructables via Make]
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For many men, giving up smoking holds all the appeal of being asked to put their genitals in a meat-grinder.
The mere thought of no, regular nicotine fix via their tobacco sticks induces wide-eyed panic, regardless of the buckets of tarry phlegm they manage to hawk up from their lungs every year. With the smoking ban looming like some dark - yet revoltingly healthy - cloud, it's possible some will opt for a healthier option.
Now, there is a real alternative to the fag that doesn’t involve 14 patches, a bank loan, kicking the cat and chewing special gum for 16 hours a day. Meet the battery-operated, eCigarette, which looks kind of like the real thing and acts as a nicotine delivery system without all the other toxins that go into your typical cigarette. You even get to hold something between those now naked fingers.
However, that smoke you see is vapor created by the eCigarette so that you don’t look like a total wuss down the boozer. Be warned though that they might catch on when they see there’s none of the usual ash floating on the top of your pint and your fag never shrinks.
Chinese company Gloden Dragon is selling this for £105 and plans to market it overseas soon.-Martin Lynch
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That’s the claim of a new study, presented to heart specialists by a bright 17-year a schoolkid in the US.
In a study of 100 patients with pacemakers, Jay Thaker - with some help from a leading cardiologist - said that electrical interference occurred half the time when an iPod was held a few inches from the patient’s chest for just 5-10 seconds. It also occurred sometimes at distances up to 18in away. The result was that the pacemaker’s telemetry device misread the heart’s pacing and, in one case, stopped a pacemaker altogether.
Considering that the mean age of these patients was 77, I’m not sure Apple will be all that worried about losing a key customer segment. As for you old timers, beware all hugs and embraces from nieces and nephews.-Martin Lynch
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Microsoft hit London a few days back to let gamers frolic with the latest Beta of Halo 3, which goes into a bigger public beta test real soon.
The result, according to the trigger-happy crew at Gamespot is: ‘wow’. Unlike many betas which display clunky frame rates, unfinished backgrounds and slow loading, Halo 3 played almost like the finished article in glorious high-def and with solid frame rates.
The three levels on offer were Snowbound, High Ground, and Valhalla – the same as the forthcoming public beta - with new weapons adding long awaited variety while existing weapons, like the Needler, getting a power boost.
The matchmaking facility is easier and one of the best bits – apart from the gorgeous new HD eye candy – is that you can film your games and replay them later, or upload them for friends. When it arrives later this year, Halo 3 will the ‘big’ Xbox 360 event of 2007 and keep the pressure on the troubled PS3.-Martin Lynch
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