Dodge is a space-shooter in which you have no weapons

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Space-shooters are usually a fairly fiery affair, with many types of guns, weapon upgrades, power-ups and more. Dodge does away with all of that, while keeping the very essence of a space shooter: Dark background, fast action, and stuff blowing up all over the place.

Your vector-looking spacecraft is the fastest thing on the screen, most of the time. And as the header implies, you have absolutely no weapons; you can't get any, either. All you have is agility and maneuverability.

Your opponents shoot heat-seeking missiles at you; the missiles lock on and start tracking you. The trick is to dodge the missiles while putting them in the path of one of your enemies, thus letting them have a taste of their own medicine.

There are three types of enemies, at least in the first few levels: "simple" spaceships which fire slow projectiles, "tanks" which seem to be more serious and take more hits to destroy, and "circles." The circles simply explode, spewing twenty or thirty very fast projectiles. This sounds dangerous, but is actually great once you learn to use them; they are very destructive for tanks, and can even blow up other circles.

The soundtrack is very techno, but it meshes very well with this type of game. Intense fun!

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How to send a Voice Memo from your iPhone via iMessage or SMS

How to send a voice note from your iPhone via iMessage or SMS

The iPhone and iPod touch have a built-in Voice Memo app that can be handy for recording lengthy thoughts or instructions. After finishing your Voice Memo you can easily share it with someone else as an iMessage or SMS. Once they receive it they'll be able to play it directly through the Messages app.

  1. Launch the Voice Memos app from the Home screen (by default it will be in the Utilities folder on the second page.
  2. Tap on the Voice Memo you'd like to share.
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  • Tap the Share button in the bottom left corner and then choose Message.
  • Send voice note from iPhone in message or e-mail
  • Choose the recipient you'd like to send it to and then tap the Send button.
  • Choose recipient to receive voice note
  • The recipient will receive an iMessage or text just like they normally would but the file will be attached.
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    If the recipient isn't using an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, but another smartphone like Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, or even a feature phone, they won't be able to receive an iMessage but might get the file anyway as an MMS message. If they do, whether or not they can play the audio will depend on what kind of file formats their device supports. (Voice Memo files are in .m4a -- or mp4 audio format.)

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    3 Million Surface Tablets in 2012 Means What, Exactly?

    Just imagine this, multiplied by hundreds of thousands. Image: Alexandra Chang/Wired

    Microsoft is set to build slightly more than 3 million Surface tablets by the end of 2012, analyst Bob O’Donnell told CNet. That’s a larger-than-expected number for Microsoft’s entry into the tablet market, especially in light of the company’s plan to sell Surfaces only through its official retail and online stores. But it’s by no means aggressive.

    “To put in context, Amazon sold almost 5 million in the last quarter of last year,” Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps told Wired. “3 million, if it’s correct, is honestly sort of a conservative number. That would mean that they are expecting to sell more than Windows Phone. So Microsoft is expecting the Surface to sell better than Windows Phone but not as well as the Kindle Fire? That’s sort of pessimistic.”

    Still, building 3 million tablets in 2012 doesn’t really gel with what the company has publicly stated. At the Worldwide Partner Conference in July, CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees that Microsoft planed to sell “a few million Surface PCs” in the next 12 months. The statement suggested that Microsoft saw itself as only a small part of the Windows ecosystem, which Ballmer estimated would sell 375 million PCs in the coming year.

    So how well does Microsoft really want Surface to do? ”I see that less as reversing his words as [it is] making sure to under-promise and over-deliver,” Epps said.

    But the numbers might suggest that the company has bigger plans for Surface than it initially let on.

    “If they build a few million units there’s no way they can sell it through Microsoft store only,” O’Donnell told CNet. “So I think that they’ll sell it through traditional retail also. You can’t build that many products without having a much wider distribution strategy. They just haven’t shared that [strategy] yet.”

    For comparison, Apple sold 1 million iPads in the first month of sales back in 2010. But today’s market is an entirely different landscape, where consumers have a much higher demand for tablets. Apple sold 17 million iPads in Q3 2012 alone. Compared to these numbers, the 3 million Surface tablets starts to look small. But Apple is a special case in the tablet market. A more appropriate comparison might be Google, which sold an estimated 1 to 1.5 million Nexus 7 tablets in that device’s first five weeks and is expected to sell 6 to 8 million by year’s end in the first year.

    Against those numbers, and after Balmer’s statements from July, 3 million would seem just about right.

    Microsoft is expected to launch the Surface RT on October 26, while Surface Pro will go on sale three months later.

    Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/report-microsoft-building-3-million-surface-tablets-in-2012/

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    Parrot Zik Headphones are Loaded with Tech

    2012 has been an interesting year for headphones, but things just got a whole lot more interesting with the release of the Parrot Zik headphones designed by French product designer Philippe Stark. No other headphones look like them and no other headphone has as much techie goodness crammed into them.

    The Zik headphones have wireless Bluetooth along with active noise canceling and a mic for phone calls. Not unique. What is unique is that the earcups are touch sensitive. Slide your finger up and down on the ear cup to change the volume or forward and backward to skip music tracks. Plus touching the earpad allows you to receive a call.

    And if that isn’t cool enough, the Zik headphones have near field communication (NFC) built-in. With NFC,  just tap an NFC-enabled smartphone to the headphones and they’re paired.

    But wait, that’s not all! The Zik phones have an accelerometer which pauses the music when the phones are removed from your head. Put the phones back on, and the music picks up where it left off.

    All this cool tech comes at a price: $400. Of course, none of this means a thing if the sound quality doesn’t measure up. Only a thorough review can determine that. There is a free app available to fully customize the sound.

    The Parrot Zik headphones are available now.

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    Parrot Zik Headphones are Loaded with Tech originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on August 18, 2012 at 9:05 am.

    Honda's Miimo robotic lawn mower beats the heat, won't pour your lemonade

    Honda's Miimo robotic lawn mower beats the heat, won't pour your lemonade

    If you're looking to plan ahead for next summer's grueling yard chores, Honda has something that will help you sweat a bit less. The company has unveiled Miimo, a robotic lawn mower that trims 2-3mm of grass in several shifts during the course of a week. The green-thumbed robot navigates with a combination of controls, timers and sensors while working inside the constraints of a buried boundary wire. As you might expect, you'll be able to ditch the gas can as well thanks to a lithium-ion battery and docking station (similar to a Roomba). If you're worried about adjustments, cutting height can be set between 20mm (0.79 inches) and 60mm (2.36 inches) with three operation modes will suite the size of each job. When the unit arrives in Europe in early 2013, 300 and 500 models will be available sporting monikers that indicate their respective maximum cut perimeter in meters (about 328 yard for the former and 547 yards for the latter). For a few more details, head on past the break for the full PR.

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    NASA Discovers Proof of Ancient Life—In Their Own Backyard [Science]

    NASA has found proof of ancient life from 110 million years ago—when "the bright, barred spiral galaxy NGC3259 was just forming stars in dark bands of dust and gas." No, the proof is not on Mars. The proof is right here on Earth, in their very own backyard. More »


    Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Zf--VCTLuCw/nasa-discovers-proof-of-ancient-lifein-their-own-backyard

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    Deal of the Day – 13.3″ Dell Vostro 3360 Core i3 Laptop With Free $100 Gift Card

    Saturday’s LogicBUY Deal is the rarely-discounted 13.3″ Dell Vostro 3360 laptop starting at $599.  Eligible to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for a $14.99 fee.  Purchase also includes a free $100 Dell eGift card.  Features:

    • Three USB 3.0 ports
    • Bluetooth 4.0
    • HDMI
    • Fingerprint reader
    • HD webcam
    • Wireless-N
    • 4-cell battery
    • 8-in-1 card reader
    • Waves MaxxAudio
    •  Second generation Core i3 or 3rd generation “Ivy Bridge” Core i5 / i7 CPU
    • Up to 8GB memory
    • optional 3G / 4G LTE

    Vostro 3360 Core i3-2367M 1.4GHz, 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD:  $649 –  $50 savings = $599 with free shipping.  Other models at similar savings.

    This deal expires August 20, 2012 or sooner. Check the above link for more details on this deal, and check the LogicBUY home page for other deals.

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    Deal of the Day – 13.3″ Dell Vostro 3360 Core i3 Laptop With Free $100 Gift Card originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on August 18, 2012 at 7:00 am.

    A sneak peek at the next version of Android Market and Music app

    Android Honeycomb'ish smartphone Music appUpdate: Tech From 10 seems to be offline -- but we have lots of images and a hands-on review if you want to see what the new Music app is like.

    In what is probably a bit of a big-G whoopsie, the folks at Tech From 10 woke up to find a new, test version of Android Market installed on their Galaxy S.

    Visually, the new version is almost identical. The carousel of featured apps has been updated slightly, and apps now have a 'Content rating,' but that's it (image after the break). The interesting bit, however, is the inclusion of alpha and beta apps -- most notably, there's a new version of the Music app, which looks like a scaled-down version of the Android 3.0 Honeycomb Music app (see right).

    Also available from the test Android Market is 'Google Gallery 3D New 10.2', 'Google - Camera v12' and 'Google Desk Clock 10' -- but, curiously, all of the apps refused to launch on Tech From 10's Galaxy S (Vibrant) smartphone. Are they Honeycomb apps? Or, more likely, are they destined for the next Android smartphone OS, Ice Cream?

    If you want to try out the new Honeycombish Music app, Tech From 10 has made the APK available for download. You can also download the three Google apps, if you want to have a poke around.

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    A sneak peek at the next version of Android Market and Music app originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 05 Apr 2011 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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    Woz: HTC Thunderbolt among worst gadgets he bought

    HTC ThunderBolt

    Normally I don't care about what other people think, especially when it's not on Android Central. I'm funny like that. But I'm also easily baited by Jerry Hildenbrand. And that brings us to the following: Gizmodo in its "Chatroom" feature today asked "What's the worst gadget you actually paid for?" We've all got one, of course. But one comment in particular stood out, for a couple reasons. It was from Steve Wozniak. Perhaps you've heard of him. And his poor purchase? The HTC ThunderBolt.

    That's my HTC ThunderBolt you see up there. OK, maybe not exactly "mine." But until last Friday, it was still active on our company Verizon account -- and sitting on a shelf here in my house. We got it the day it (finally) came out, and for months it served as my Verizon LTE line. That mucked up display was but one problem. I'm a little rough on phones. I get that. But I've never had a display get that bad on me. And I have a few phones going in and out of my pockets. Then there's the kickstand, which for some reason decided to shed its skin on more than few of us. And then there are the legendary battery issues. Don't even think about using a ThunderBolt without one of those ridiculously big extended batteries. A year and a half ago, you'd have been relatively proud to take this thing out of your pocket. Now? You don't dare do so, but you also risk funny looks and "just happy to see me?" jokes.

    HTC rebounded, of course. We hemmed and hawed and said "Hey, it's the first generation of LTE phones." And the 'Bolt indeed was one of those first phones. But that doesn't change the fact that what showed promise and power at the beginning turned into a lemon for many of us.

    Woz, you're in good company.

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    Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/3BCb66tesr4/story01.htm

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    Apple v. Samsung Heading to Jury, Unless CEOs Can Settle

    Just a portion of the verdict form jurors will need to complete for Apple v. Samsung.

    With Apple v. Samsung heading into its last hours, the two companies’ CEOs were expected to speak directly on Monday in an attempt to reach a settlement before jurors begin deliberating over a sprawling verdict form for the multifaceted intellectual property case.

    Judge Lucy Koh began reading the jury instructions Monday afternoon. Absent a mutual settlement, it would then be up to the jurors to decide who’s owed what, and the companies are still scheduled to give their two-hour-long closing arguments on Tuesday. But Bloomberg reported that Apple CEO Tim Cook and his counterpart at Samsung, Kwon Oh Hyun, were going to speak via phone before then to discuss the suit.

    If they can’t come to an agreement, jurors will begin deliberating on Wednesday, which would mean tackling a 22-page verdict form containing 36 questions jurors will (ideally) need to come to unanimous decisions upon. Much of the questionnaire is in the form of charts, with product names along the Y-axis, patent numbers and specific claims across the top, and cells where jurors can mark if the product is in violation of said patents. Not every mobile product violates every patent on the forms, so in many cases, squares are greyed out.

    In other situations, the verdict form asks yes or no questions, such as, “Has Apple proven by clear and convincing evidence that Samsung’s asserted utility patent claims are invalid?”

    You can check out the proposed jury form in its entirety on SlideShare below. This morning, each party’s lawyers were fighting over last-minute changes to the form and to the 100-plus page jury instructions for completing it.

    Today marks the start of the fourth week of Apple v. Samsung. On Friday, Apple and Samsung finished up witness testimony in the trial. Each party had 25 hours to convince jurors of their side of the case.

    Samsung and Apple have been duking it out in courtrooms across the globe for more than a year now. Apple claims Samsung is infringing on intellectual property covering the iPhone and iPad’s designs, as well as utility patents covering UI features like the “bounce-back” effect when you reach the end of a list. Samsung is claiming Apple is in violation of its essential 3G transmission patent holdings. The case is expected to wrap up by the end of the month.

    Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-samsung-jury-deliberation/

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