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Now I know that everyone loves to get paid, but it gets even better if you’re being paid for what you love to do the best, because you won’t feel the time passing by while you’re having fun! If you happen to be a social butterfly, how does getting paid to date sound to you? Chief Executive Officer Leo Cono has announced the Beta launch of a new incentive-based social networking and free online dating site: www.YouLoveMe.com. For those who have given up on searching for their significant other in the real world and have turned to the solace of Internet dating, rejoice! YouLoveMe.com is a 100% Free Dating Site, so there is no worry about forking out a single penny to enjoy its social networking features.

So far extensive research by the founders of YouLoveMe.com showed that the cost associated with 4 dates a month average $345.00 dollars. That amount of money adds up courtesy of the dinners, movies, transportation expenses, the obligatory candies or flowers on the first or second date. As a member of YouLoveMe.com, you will be given space where you can place your own banner ad on the MyPage section. Each click would mean some dough rolling in your direction, so that those can be used to defray some of the more expensive dating outings. Just make sure you’ve got a marketable self lest you stumble in this area, leading you further down the wormhole of greater depression.

According to Cono, “YouLoveMe.com takes into account and encompasses the best elements of the dating scene. It highlights and amplifies what PlentyofFish.com has accomplished in the free online dating space. Furthermore; since YouLoveMe.com is mixing Free Online Dating with Social Networking, this model has the potential for greater membership growth because social networking sites have more members in comparison to dating web sites. An example is MySpace with 300 million registered members versus Match.com with 15 million members”.

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Who says you need stunning graphics and intense visuals to enjoy playing a game? Mike McCracken doesn’t think so. In fact, he is the inventor of a new Audio Ping Pong game thats uses only your ears and the tilting motion of your head play the game.

The way Audio Ping Pong works is that a sound comes out of earphones placed on your head that resembles a ball rolling towards one side of your noggin. The object is to tilt your head either left or right to get the ball to stay balanced. As the game progresses the speed of the audio ball increases, making it harder to play.

Now granted you won’t look like the smoothest person in the world playing Audio Ping Pong. In fact, McCracken admits you look like a dork playing it. It could, however, have its uses in entertainment for the visually impaired or perhaps people that want to try a different type of game. Just don’t go crazy and give yourself whiplash when Audio Ping Pong hits the streets.

Read more at Engadget or check out the video below.

Audio Ping Pong from loneconspirator on Vimeo.

Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo! is expected to enter a new round after this weekend. Microsoft has given Yahoo! until this weekend to accept its original offer of buying the company at US$31 a share. Yahoo!’s Board of Directors have already turned down the offer stating that they believe that US$31 a share undervalues the company. Microsoft has stated that it has no current plans to raise the offer.

According to a New York Times article, that leaves Microsoft with two possible alternatives. One possibility is that Microsoft will take its case directly to shareholders and initiate a proxy battle over Yahoo! to place its own directors on Yahoo!’s board. The second alternative is for Microsoft to simply walk away and expand its online services and advertising presence another way in order to compete with Google.

Some other possibilities floated by the New York Times article are that Microsoft could go after AOL or even Ask.com. A partnership with News Corporation and MySpace is not out of the question either. One thing that is definitely not expected as an outcome over the weekend is Yahoo!’s acceptance of the deal Microsoft currently has on the table.

I think there is probably a 50/50 chance Microsoft will initiate a proxy battle over Yahoo!. Really, it comes down to what Microsoft gauges as their chance of winning such a battle. The economic environment is right for Microsoft to have a chance at winning. The question is whether it’s really worth the cost. Of course, this may be Microsoft’s last chance to grab Yahoo! if the company is able to make a turnaround in the near future.

Read more from the New York Times article.

by Nilay Patel, posted Apr 24th 2008 at 4:18PMWindows XP has a date with destiny scheduled for June 30, but it looks like the plucky OS just isn’t ready to go: Ultraportable OEMs will be able to preload XP until “one year after the general availability of Windows 7,” whenever that is, and now we’re hearing reports that Dell’s telling customers it’ll sell XP on professional systems until 2012. The Dell thing is just a rumor for now, but what’s Steve Ballmer doing telling reporters that although XP is EOL, “if customer feedback varies, we can always wake up smarter” and extend XP sales? Um, Steve? Customers have been feeding back like crazy and Microsoft has kind of ignored them, remember? Maybe it’s time for a quick nap.

Update: That was pretty funny for a totally unintentional typo, wasn’t it?

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The one killer app I’ve wanted for a long time is the one where I can sync all my computers AND my mobile. There are plenty of services out there that let you sync multiple PC’s; and some even give you a web interface to access those files on a computer you haven’t synced.

But the one feature that is always missing is the ability to sync from your mobile phone to your other machines. SugarSync gives you all that and more.

The companies latest offering is a 45 day 10GB trial account. Once the trial is over the cost to keep your 10GB of storage is about $25 a year. Compare that to Apple’s 10GB .Mac service at $100, with single machine sync and no mobile access, it seems a good price.

How SugarSync Works SugarSync monitors files in specified folders on your computer and keeps an up-to-date copy of them on a secure, remote central server. It then automatically synchronizes these files to all the devices you specify. The downloadable SugarSync Manager software is required on each device that you want to sync

While having to install the client software on all the machines and devices I want to sync can be a hassle, it’s a small price to pay for the ability to connect everything.

Several months ago I was talking with a senior executive of an online storage company, and I told him one thing I would love to have is the ability to get to media files I store online so I don’t have to cary them with me. His comment to me was the amount of bandwidth needed to download the files was not cost effective. While I agree trying to download large music or video files doesn’t seem an effective use of bandwidth, my unlimited use account with T-Mobile allows me to download as much as I want.

I really like SugarSync. I think it has a lot of potential. I have accounts with Amazon S3, Mozy, Apple’s .Mac and several web hosts. But none of these services have the immediate sync capabilities nor the mobile access.

I’m going to sepnd the next several weeks using the sevice and I’ll write a follow up post. But for now, I recommend you try SugarSync.

Thom Allen is also the writer of Digital Thom.

In the UK, the BBC iPlayer is huge. Instant on, decent quality and free. In the first three months of the service, 42 million shows have been streamed or downloaded. So many, in fact, that British ISPs want the Beeb to cough up some cash to pay the bandwidth bills.

One of the problems with the iPlayer, for non-British residents at least, is that it is only available in the UK. I’m on a fleeting visit to Blighty right now, so I thought I’d test the service out.

I decided on Dr. Who, possibly the best thing from the BBC since, erm, the original Doctor Who. I pitted the iPlayer against my usual method of watching Brit TV; BitTorrent. Specifically, isohunt.com and the quite excellent software client Transmission.

I downloaded a recent episode. The BitTorrent file took around half an hour, but it was the first in the current series and therefore a few weeks old. The latest episode has many more seeds, and if I had a faster connection (I’m on neighbor-fi, but I waited until I saw them go out), experience tells me that I can pull down an episode in just fifteen minutes.

The iPlayer is instant on. I’m on a MacBook, so I had to use the web interface, but it works great. In fact, it is so responsive I’d be happy to always use that over software. The iPlayer is limited to shows which have aired in the past seven days, whereas BitTorrent is available as long as somebody is still seeding.

The quality of the BitTorrented file is way higher than the iPlayer. On a 13″ LCD, it is clear and sharp, at least as good as TV. The iPlayer, though, suffers because it streams, and the lower bit-rate means it’s a little fuzzy. In full-screen mode, though, it is perfectly easy to watch. Here’s the comparison chart:

iPlayer

BitTorrent

Time to start viewing

Instant

Around 30 minutes

Availability

7 days after airing on TV

Indefinite

Quality

Worse than TV

TV quality, but can vary

Easy to find?

Yes

Hell yes

Transfer to iPod

No

Yes

The winner? For convenience, iPlayer. For everything else, BitTorrent. And as I need to put some Doctor Who on my ipod Touch for a flight tomorrow, I pronounce BitTorrent the champion.

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I am happy to report that I didn’t personally test this product, a tobacco odor elimination product, because no one I know smokes. And that’s a good thing.

But Vamoose tells me: “Independent lab testing of the Vamoose 1808T Tobacco Fabric Spray demonstrated that when compared to other leading fabric sprays claiming ‘tobacco odor elimination,’ Vamoose was the only product that demonstrated no residual tobacco odors present in the fabric even several weeks after the application.” So there.

The power behind the permanent removal of tobacco odors is Novexium which “molecularly combines with the tar and nicotine molecules deposited by smoking and converts them into inert matter.” So you know it’s working, a scent is created (unless you get the fragrance free option) - Fresh Scent, New Car Scent, and Leather Scent.

If you need to spray someone who smokes, buy it for $29.99 for the 32 ounce size at Amazon. (Spraying people with the product is not recommened by the manufacturer however.)

Keep in touch with a friend in the neighborhood with the Walkie Talkie watch, as this new model boasts a stunning range of up to 1.5 miles. Hey, at least you get to save on your monthly phone bill, right?Each purchase comes with an earpiece for discrete listening without having any busybodies eavesdrop on you. Features of these wrist walkie talkies include :-

• 1.5 mile range
• Auto Squelch system - automatically cuts off weak transmissions
• Auto-off to save power
• Flex and Talk Operation
• Voice Operated Transmission (VOX)
• Digital volume control
• Backlight for LCD display
• 3.5mm jack socket for use with earphones

Gizoo is currently selling the Walkie Talkie Watches for £32.95 each.

The popular Cowon portable media player, the N3, recently underwent a major appearance change. Previously the N3 had a shiny aluminum casing, however it now has a wooden casing - Burl Walnut to be exact. Otherwise, it still comes with the same features as before, and it still remains a Portable Navigation Device.

The N3 runs on a sweet Alchemy AU1250 600Mhz CPU, comes with a nice, big 7-inch touchscreen, boasting 16.7 million colors, audio playback, video playback, and image viewing. Other features include an electronic dictionary, Picture-In-Picture, and GPS, hence the PND. No word on whether the pricing is going to be higher, but it makes sense that it would be higher due to the wooden casing, and it is only going to be available in the Korean market.

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