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Switched Roundup: Top Posts This Week

Here are the top 10 posts on Switched from this past week: Dangerous 'LOL is this you?' Spam Hits Facebook Chat Eager Juror Removed from Jury Over Facebook Posting NASA Launches Photo Archives on Flickr's Commons College Kids in Colorado Crash NASA Satellite Austin's Recycled and ... Read more »

Craig Henderson's Canada to Mexico Drive on One Tank of Gas Sets World Record

A guy named Craig Henderson recently drove from Canada to Mexico in a car that got a Guinness World record-breaking 119.1 miles-per-gallon. More impressive, though, is the fact that he never once had to stop to refuel. That's right, Henderson made it all the way from Blaine, Washington to Chulla ... Read more »

Neal Stephenson Launches Serialized Digi-Novel, 'The Mongoliad'

The book business is changing, or better yet, it has changed. Kindles are outselling hardcover books for crying out loud! The next step, sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson hopes, could be using an online platform to sell digital books with material contributed by a team of writers and readers. According ... Read more »

Twitter iPad App Review: Multi-Panels and Multi-Functions

The new official Twitter client for the iPad just landed this week, and it's offering some of the most interesting mobile app design ideas we've seen this year. The iPad offers more screen space than cellphones, and the Twitter team fortunately didn't simply port over a bigger version of the wildly ... Read more »

Google Prepping iTunes Competitor, Reuters Reports

It should come as no shock that Google wants to take on the iTunes ecosystem directly. As our portable devices continue to converge, smartphones are increasingly performing music playback duties. Whereas Apple has a tightly integrated iTunes store and app package, Google has... well, nothing ... Read more »

Rupert Murdoch Tabloid's Celebrity Phone Hack History Uncovered

In 2006, a U.K. investigation revealed that employees at Rupert Murdoch's 'News of the World' tabloid had successfully hacked into the cell phones of three aides to the royal family. A few months later, Scotland Yard discovered that reporter Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire had ... Read more »

How to Fix iTunes 10's Vertical Close/Minimize/Maximize Buttons

If you're scratching your head over the new vertical orientation of iTunes 10's close/minimize/maximize 'traffic light' buttons -- which diverts from years of Apple design history -- there's a quick fix on the Mac (sorry, Windows users). Boot up the Terminal app (in your Applications folder), and ... Read more »
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