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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/wifi_pornblocking.jpg" width="494" height="393" style="display:block;" /The cockamamie plan to devote a chunk of AWS-3 spectrum to free w-fi can a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081229-no-more-porn-filtering-on-fcc-free-wireless-broadband-plan.html"eliminate one enemy/a from its massive cadre of detractors: people who would use the bandwidth for streaming MegaPorn videos at 10kbps./p pIn an interview with a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081229-no-more-porn-filtering-on-fcc-free-wireless-broadband-plan.html"Ars Technica/a, FCC chair Kevin Martin confirmed that the latest iteration of the proposal has eliminated the smut filter:/p blockquote pWhy the change? "I'm saying if this is a problem for people, let's take it away," Martin said. "A lot of public interest advocates have said they would support this, but we're concerned about the filter. Well, now there's an item in front of the Commissioners and it no longer has the filter. And I've already voted for it without the filter now. So it's already got one vote."/p p"Got anybody else?" I asked him./p p"Not yet," Martin admitted with a chuckle./p /blockquote pMore relevant, however, is that last tidbit: this thing ain't never gonna pass. Despite being a a href="http://gizmodo.com/381878/free-wireless-internet-for-the-masses-another-dumb-scheme-from-washington"poorly planned scheme from the very beginning/a, its list of enemies is pretty much everyone whose approval is needed to get this through—the Bush Administration, cable companies, congressional leaders, and on and on. So despite being a good move for removing censorship and all, this plan still needs quite a bit more drawing board time. [a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081229-no-more-porn-filtering-on-fcc-free-wireless-broadband-plan.html"Ars Technica/a via a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/30/2335200"/./a]/p br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/
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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/IMG_0025.PNG" width="320" height="480" /While everyone else is getting drunk, doing all kinds of exotic drugs and making out, you could ring in the new year with a breath-powered virtual new year's horn for your iPhone. But don't./p pI'm all for iPhone apps a href="http://gizmodo.com/5027936/iphone-apps-we-want-to-like-a+level-could-replace-the-floating+bubble-level-soon"replacing real-word objects and tools/a that I would then no longer have to purchase, carry or dispose of. But festive New Years Eve blowers is where i draw the line. The countdown sure is handy though, if you can't operate a digital clock. At least it's free. [a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=299741520mt=8"NYE Countdown - iTunes/a via a href="http://cultofmac.com/turn-your-iphone-into-a-nye-noisemaker/6514"Cult of Mac/a]/p br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/
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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/dealzmodoroundup_1230_800.jpg" width="800" height="296" style="display:block;float:none;" /Christmas has been over for what, five days now? What do you think you're doing, taking a break from buying new things? Put that holiday cash to work: it's the gadget deals of the day./p pstrongComputing/strongbr • a href="http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=208410820"Cavalry Pelican 32GB SATA II USB SSD for $79.99 plus free shipping/a (normally $170)./p pstrongFlash Memory/strongbr • a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233037nm_mc=AFC-Bensbargainscm_mmc=AFC-Bensbargains-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA"Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB Flash Drive for $9.99 plus free shipping/a (normally $20 - valid until 1/15. Use a href="http://images10.newegg.com/UploadFilesForNewegg/rebate/SH/Corsair8MIRsDec1608Jan1509ez21.PDF"rebate form/a).br • a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233059nm_mc=AFC-Bensbargainscm_mmc=AFC-Bensbargains-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA"Corsair 16GB Survivor Ultra Rugged Flash Drive for $29.99/a (normally $55 - valid until 1/5. Use a href="http://images10.newegg.com/UploadFilesForNewegg/rebate/SH/Corsair8MIRsDec1608Jan1509ez21.PDF"rebate form/a and coupon code EMCBCDADK for $5 off)./p pstrongHome Entertainment/strongbr • a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16889253161nm_mc=AFC-Bensbargainscm_mmc=AFC-Bensbargains-_-NA-_-NA-_-NA"Toshiba 40RV525U 40" Widescreen LCD HDTV for $749 plus free shipping/a (normally $850. Use coupon code EMCBCDADC for $50 off).br • a href="http://www.shopdigitalonline.com/productdetail.asp?productid=2668"Panasonic TH46PZ80U 46" 1080p Plasma HDTV for $949/a (normally $1,200)./p pstrongMiscellaneous/strongbr • a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Quinn-Medicine-Woman-Complete/dp/B00197POXG/ref=xs_gb_A2Z45KRGX5049J?pf_rd_p=441937901pf_rd_s=right-1pf_rd_t=701pf_rd_i=20pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DERpf_rd_r=0YP2D21E31P9RQ6CFSJN"iDr. Quinn, Medicine Woman/i: The Complete Series Megaset for $89.99 plus free shipping/a (normally $230 - valid today only)./p pstrongNetworking/strongbr • a href="http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=204389929"Belkin MyEssentials Wireless G Router for $14.99/a (normally $30 - valid until 12/31. Use a href="http://ak.buy.com/buy_assets/retail/pdfs/08Q4/1201-1231dw-rg_15belkin2.pdf"rebate form/a. Use price in upper right hand corner)./p pstrongPortable Devices/strongbr • a href="http://sellout.woot.com/Default.aspx?WootSaleId=7725ts=1230659090sig=7378be6015586ce4"Slacker 2GB Radio/MP3 Player for $39.99/a (normally $200 - valid today only)./p pstrongHobomodo/strongbr • a href="http://www.frys.com/product/5640541"Pinnacle Studio Plus for $0 plus free shipping/a (normally $70 - valid until 12/30. Use a href="http://images.frys.com/art/rebates_pdf/5640541_1230.pdf"rebate form/a).br • a href="http://www.bariatrics4diabetes.com/bariatrics4diabetes/pagebuilder.aspx?page=Main:CampaignSignUptopicID=174996"Pedometer for $0/a.br • a href="http://www.duetdha.com/just_moms/index.asp"iWhat to Expect When You're Expecting/i Book for $0/a.br • a href="http://www.ereader.com/ereader/eBooks/eBook78249.htm?cache"E-Book: iCaught Stealing/i by Charles Huston for $0/a.br • a href="http://www.ereader.com/ereader/eBooks/eBook78248.htm?cache"E-Book: iA Dangerous Man/i by Charles Huston for $0/a.br • a href="http://www.ereader.com/servlet/mw?t=bookbi=78250si=59"E-Book: iMurder List/i by Julie Garwood for $0/a.br • a href="http://www.ereader.com/servlet/mw?t=bookbi=78251si=59"E-Book: iPrague/i by Arthur Phillips for $0/a.br • a href="http://www.ereader.com/servlet/mw?t=bookbi=78252si=59"E-Book: iSix Bad Things/i by Charles Huston for $0/a.br • a href="http://www.ereader.com/servlet/mw?t=bookbi=78253si=59"E-Book: iThe Foreign Correspondent/i by Alan Furst for $0/a.br • a href="http://www.ereader.com/servlet/mw?t=bookbi=78254si=59"E-Book: iThe Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death/i by Laurie Notaro for $0/a.br • a href="http://www.ereader.com/servlet/mw?t=bookbi=78255si=59"E-Book: iFree-Range Chickens/i by Simon Rich for $0/a.br • a href="http://www.ereader.com/servlet/mw?t=bookbi=78256si=59"E-Book: iThe Whiskey Rebels: A Novel/i by David Liss for $0/a./p br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/
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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/IDF_youtube.png" width="800" height="608" style="display:block;float:none;" /a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/idfnadesk"This/a is the Israeli Defense Force's official YouTube channel, where they are posting several gun camera videos per day of bombs falling on Gaza. That is, until Google temporarily shut it down./p pIt's back up now, but a message on the a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/idfnadesk"idfnadesk/a channel's profile (Age: 60, the wit) explains:/p blockquote pWe were saddened earlier today that YouTube took down some of our exclusive footage showing the IDF's operational success in operation Cast Lead against Hamas extremists in the Gaza Strip. Fortunately, due to blogger and viewer support, YouTube has put back up some of the footage they removed./p /blockquote pNaturally, the comments sections turned into a firestorm of hateful back-and-forths before they were disabled, which was probably a condition for re-upping the censored videos./p pIt's a propaganda campaign, pure and simple. Even though you can see far worse in the chillingly note-perfect AC-130 stage in fucking emCall of Duty 4/em, there are people dying in those buildings, and no, not all of them are terrorists. No war in history has been fought without the warring parties attempting to control the story with info dissemination. But using a forum like YouTube, a public community where smartbombs destroying buildings in a populated city are adjacent to sleeping kittens and 12 year olds' rants on why homework sucks, and where said 12 year olds (literally, and those of 12-year-old intellect) can fill the comment sections with racist hate-spew—is this where we draw the line? [a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/idfnadesk"idfnadesk - YouTube/a]/p pemOh, and any of said hate spew in the comments here will be grounds for an immediate banhammer. And it has a gun camera and its own YouTube channel too./em/p br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/
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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/speeek.jpg" width="496" height="363" style="display:block;" /Speeek is an app that can recognize up to 1,500 spoken Japanese phrases and translate them into either English or Chinese. Pocket Babel Fish? Yes please./p pThis is, of course, only for Japanese speakers, and it only covers basic hello/goodbye/where is the bathroom type phrases, but this doesn't seem like too far of a leap for Google's voice search app, which would be pretty exciting. Even if it didn't read the words back to you—seeing your jibber jabber translated in close to real time into any one of Google Translate's 34 languages, well, sign me up. The app costs around $20 in Japan, and the English and Chinese versions are separate. [a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=enie=UTF-8u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbss.co.jp%2Fnews%2Fnews_20081219.htmlsl=jatl=enhistory_state0="BBSS (translated)/a via a href="http://dvice.com/archives/2008/12/softbank_releas.php"DVICE/a]/p br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/
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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/Picture_1_03.png" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="400" height="299" style="display:block;" /The international team of code-monkeying playboys known as the iPhone Dev Team gave a talk at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin recently, where they a href="http://hackaday.com/2008/12/28/25c3-hacking-the-iphone/"presented/a a comprehensive history of iPhone hacking to date./p pembed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=713763707060529304hl=enfs=true" style="width:506px;height:412px" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"br Yes, all we have here is an annotated hour-long PowerPoint, and yes, almost all of the content is of interest only to the actual haxxors that gathered at a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/"25C3/a to watch, but for me, it's a thrill to hear these guys talk about the software that a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/iphone-dev-team"we've covered and used ourselves/a for so long. It's also a thrill to hear little tidbits like the 180 IP addresses inside apple that the Dev Team guys have tracked as frequent updaters of Pwnage and Quickpwn./p pUp until this weekend in Berlin, most of the iPhone Dev Team had never met each other in person. And I only wish we could have gotten a quick camera pan over to the guys identified as the team members who wish to remain anonymous—in the corner, wearing "PwnApple" t-shirts, speaking Russian. [a href="http://hackaday.com/2008/12/28/25c3-hacking-the-iphone/"hackaday/a via a href="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/12/28/a-brief-history-of-h.html"BBG/a]/p br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/
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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/android_collage.jpg" width="804" height="322" style="display:block;float:none;" /Following only two months behind iPhone 2.0 (but at a significant installed-base disadvantage), Android still has a long way to go. But there is definitely some early potential. Here are our favorite apps of the year./p div style='float:right; margin-left:-9px;'script type="text/javascript" digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/The_10_Best_Android_Apps_of_2008_2'; /scriptscript src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript" /script/div pI a href="http://gizmodo.com/5056476/why-android-will-soon-kick-ass"still think/a Android, and its openness toward developers, can do some magical things and give iPhone a run for its money. But as we stated before, a lot needs to happen first—Android devices need to be a lot more numerous in consumers' hands, numerous enough for third-party developers (along with Google's first-party talent as well) to have a major incentive to drive the platform forward. It also has some major network power-management issues to overcome; the G1's battery never makes it through the day for me, and while that may just be because it's a shitty battery, Android's always-on approach to network access and background processes surely plays a part./p pThe Android Market is not yet the iPhone App Store, but here is a taste of what is, hopefully, a lot more to come./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/anycut.png" width="320" height="480"strongAnycut/strong: Anycut takes advantage of one of Android's fundamental strengths—the distillation of every possible event your phone can do—send a text message, go to a specific URL in a browser, etc—into a system-wide Intent, which any app can in turn access. Anycut allows you to take any intent and create a desktop shortcut for it—say, opening all of your Gmail messages labeled with a specific tag, or sending an SMS message to your most-texted contact.br clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/compareanywhere.png" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="480" height="320" style="display:block;" /strongCompare Everywhere/strong: Like a hybrid of Japan's QR codes and Google SMS's UPC price check feature, Compare Everywhere reads barcodes (of just about everything, from a Criterion Blu-ray of iThe Man Who Fell to Earth/i I just watched to the stick of Right Guard sitting on my desk) and gives you a list of best prices—from online sources as well as physical brick-and-mortar shops near your GPS coordinates. The haptic buzz indicating a successful scan is unbelievably satisfying, and saves you money.br clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/shazam.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="640" height="480" style="display:block;float:none;" /strongShazam/strong: Shazam's same great song identification skills—able to snatch notes from the barroom's speakers and pick the song in seconds—here on Android, co-existing with its identical iPhone version and similar ones for dumbphones. It's an amazing trick, regardless of the platform, and good to see one of the bigger hits on the iPhone quickly and smoothly ported over.br clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/tunewiki.png" width="320" height="480" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="2"strongTuneWiki/strong: Still jailbreak-only for the iPhone since apps can't access your iPod music, TuneWiki can show its full potential on Android, grabbing lyrics (that scroll karaoke style) and videos for all of your music as it plays.br clear="all"/p pstrongVideo Player:/strong Video player plays H.264 MPEG4 clips, making up for a glaring hole left open in Android's first release: no video player. It gets the job done, and is a prime candidate for something to get sucked back up into the core Android distribution, as is an open source project's frequent wont.br clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/power_monitor.png" width="320" height="480" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2"strongPower Manager/strong: Another necessity that's both a blessing and a curse, Power Manager lets you take limited control over the things that influence how long your battery will live—turning on/off all the radios, GPS, adjusting screen brightness, etc according to your current power level. It shouldn't be a necessary app for G1 owners, but it is; on the other hand, it shows how easy it is for a developer to fill a need and access hardware directly without having to ask permission. System-level functions like this, in large part, are not available to iPhone developers, and that's notable.br clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/wikitude_01.png" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="480" height="320" style="display:block;" /strongWikiTude/strong: One of the apps we were a href="http://gizmodo.com/5053280/androids-10-most-exciting-apps"most excited about at launch/a, WikiTude could still use some polishing, but it shows just how cool augmented reality apps can be. Overlaying link to geo-tagged Wikipedia articles on your camera's live view image utilizing the G1's built-in compass and accelerometer, it's an amazing thing to fire up on my roof in Brooklyn. Not so useful in the living room, but it's a great proof of William Gibson's classic notionmdash;overlaying data from the web onto our live view of the world.br clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/12/custom_1229996034854_visualvoicemail_android2_01.jpg" width="340" height="227" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="2"strongPhoneFusion Visual Voicemail:/strong Solid visual voicemail support for Android. Another example of something other platform/carrier combos make you pay for (ahem, Verizon) or don't let you access at all.br clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/chompSMS_01.png" width="320" height="480"strongChomp SMS:/strong Well, what do we have here. This looks familiar. Chomp is a replacement SMS app that mimics the iPhone's iChat-inspired text interface, and also happens to include a great soft keyboard looking exactly like the iPhone's, but adding haptic feedback—something coming to future Android distros. It also ties into Android's system-wide notification services, so if you want to drop the default SMS app altogether, you can.br clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/locale_01.png" width="320" height="480" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="2"strongLocale/strong: In early versions, Locale was cool: it changed your ringtone or a few other phone settings based on your GPS location. Then, the features started coming, like the ability to send Tweets or use several other of Android's Intents, and it became clear exactly what Locale is—a framework (like Applescript, essentially) for triggering anything on your phone according to your location. When I'm at the office, set Facebook status to frowny face. When I get home and it's before 4PM, tweet "meet me at the bar" and start playing "O Happy Day."/p br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/
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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/appreview_mega_bestmodo_30_best.jpg" width="807" height="661" style="display:block;float:none;" /Only five months since Apple launched the App Store, and there are now over ten thousand apps. Don't worry, we did the hard part, trying them out and picking the year's best:/p div style='float:right; margin-left:-9px;'script type="text/javascript" digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Gizmodo_s_Best_iPhone_Apps_of_2008'; /scriptscript src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript" /script/div pWe already selected our a href="http://gizmodo.com/5084887/gizmodos-20-essential-iphone-apps"20 essential iPhone apps/a not too long ago—November 14, to be exact. That's recent enough to still be fresh, but to those 20, we're adding 10 more, several of which have debuted between then and now. As a package, they're 30 apps every iPhone owner should take a close look at. They're what we use every day, and many of them are free./p pThe complete selection of our previous 20 essentials plus the 10 new apps can be viewed in our special a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/app-directory/"Bestmodo Phone App directory/a. If you'd like, you can peruse all of our first 20 a href="http://gizmodo.com/5084887/gizmodos-20-essential-iphone-apps"here on one page/a, and also, see the new additions to the list separately here:/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/itunesstore_icon_easywriter.png" width="110" height="110"a href="http://gizmodo.com/5116199/easywriter"EasyWriter/a: It seems simple—you can type URLs in landscape mode with its larger, more luxuriously spaced keyboard. Why not emails? EasyWriter solved it. iFree; $2.99 for Pro edition/ibr clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/itunesstore_icon_facebook.png" width="110" height="110"a href="http://gizmodo.com/5116193/facebook"Facebook/a: For Facebookers (um, everyone, right?) it's essential—a beautifully designed, uber-functional implementation that's always with you. iFree/ibr clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/itunesstore_icon_evernote.png" width="110" height="110"a href="http://gizmodo.com/5116235/evernote"EverNote/a: Already a popular web service and found on other devices, Evernote does something that every location-aware cameraphone should be able to do: quickly take and store geotagged photos so you can remember stuff. iFree/ibr clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/itunesstore_icon_googlemobile.png" width="110" height="110"a href="http://gizmodo.com/5116240/google-mobile"Google Mobile/a: Google Mobile was a solid app (but not particularly essential)—and then came voice search. iFree/ibr clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/itunesstore_icon_rjdj.png" width="110" height="110"a href="http://gizmodo.com/5116246/rjdj"RjDj/a: A totally unique music application that processes sound from your environment and replays it according to a set program, creating a trippy, always-evolving soundscape. iFree to try; $2.99 expanded version/ibr clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/itunesstore_icon_vlcremote.png" width="110" height="110"a href="http://gizmodo.com/5116251/vlc-remote"VLC Remote/a: One of the first apps we loved was the iTunes Remote—now, the Swiss army knife of media players VLC has one of its very own. iFree ad-supported simple version; $1.99 for more controls and no ads/ibr clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/itunesstore_icon_wikipediamobile.png" width="110" height="110"a href="http://gizmodo.com/5116262/wikipedia-mobile"Wikipedia Mobile/a: Finally, the definitive Wikipedia reader for the iPhone. i$2.99/ibr clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/itunesstore_icon_nightcamera.png" width="110" height="110"a href="http://gizmodo.com/5116268/night-camera"Night Camera/a: Thanks to its accelerometer, your iPhone knows when it's being jiggled. Night Camera, simply and ingeniously, uses this data to make your low-light picture clearer. i$0.99/ibr clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/itunesstore_icon_tweetie.png" width="110" height="110"a href="http://gizmodo.com/5116270/tweetie"Tweetie/a: Twitter apps: there are a lot of 'em. Tweetie, though, is the closest you'll get to the Twitter desktop experience, and therefore our best of. i$2.99/ibr clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/itunesstore_icon_recorder.png" width="110" height="110"a href="http://gizmodo.com/5116272/recorder"Recorder/a: While not the sexiest apps, a good solid voice recorder can be incredibly handy—especially if you are a handsome FBI investigator in the town of Twin Peaks. i$0.99/ibr clear="all"/p piBe sure to check out our a href="http://gizmodo.com/5117906/the-only-10-games-your-iphone-needs"10 best iPhone games of 2008/amdash;if you haven't already./i/p br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/
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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/ITPgallery_14_02.jpg" width="800" height="532" style="display:block;float:none;" /NYU's ITP program is technology meets art, and good things (like this DIY Surface table) tend to happen at that intersection. Why didn't I go to school here?/p pCheck out each photo's caption for more on these great projects:br script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" galleryPost('itpwinter2008', 15, ''); /script/p pAnd be sure to see our other posts from this year's semester-ending classes:/p p• a href="http://gizmodo.com/5113749/reedbox-recreates-enos-bloom-iphone-app-with-magnets"ReedBox Recreates Eno's Bloom iPhone App With Magnets/a/p p• a href="http://gizmodo.com/5113686/channel-jackson-pollocks-drunken-splatters-with-a-wiimote"Channel Jackson Pollock's Drunken Splatters With a Wiimote/a/p p• a href="http://gizmodo.com/5113631/accelerometer-headphones-control-music-via-headbanging"Accelerometer Headphones Control Music Via Headbanging/a/p p• a href="http://gizmodo.com/5110633/120-feet-of-video-art-final-exams-at-nyus-big-screens-class"120 Feet of Video Art: Final Exams at NYU's Big Screens Class/a/p p[a href="http://itp.nyu.edu/itp/"ITP/a]/p br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/
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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/Picture_1_01.png" width="314" height="100" /Hertz is jumping into Zipcar's territory with its new Connect service, offering short-term rentals via membership for young urban folk to load up on gourmet groceries or Swedish particle board furniture. /p pZipcar users will be familiar with the process: book any available car at any time, get its location via text or email, wave your RFID membership card by the door to unlock it. Inside you'll find iPod connections and GPS standard, with a variety of fleet options to choose from ranging from "Personal" to "Jet Set." Fees break down with a monthly contract commitment of $50 a month, with per-hour rates anywhere from $8.50 to $12 depending on your plan. /p pIt's only starting in NYC this week (and also running in London and Paris), but expansion is in the cards, of course. The Hertz folks also say they're working on one-way rentals that allow you to drop off the car at your destination, which is something Zipcar can't do. [a href="http://www.connectbyhertz.com/home.aspx"Hertz Connect/a]/p br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/
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