How to transfer your Facebook friends to Google+

Sign up for Yahoo. Go into Yahoo mail, Contacts tab, import contacts. Click Facebook logo, OK to share contacts.

Select all your contacts, export all, export as a Yahoo CSV file. Go to gmail, contacts tab, and create a “Facebook” group for your new contacts to land into. Then “more actions” “import” then import the Yahoo CSV file.

Go to Google+ and Circles tab, then “Add and Invite” and they’re all there! It’s like magic that you performed yourself!

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iPeep – Artist controls iMacs remotely – People staring at screens

25-year old artist Kyle MacDonald installed some rogue software on 100 computers in two Manhattan Apple stores. The software allowed the computers’webcams to take a picture every minute, and upload the picture to Kyle’s server if there was a face detected. He then started a Tumblr blog with some of the choicer pictures. Unfortunately, nobody was picking boogies.

Over the course of the project, McDonald set up roughly 100 Apple store computers to call his servers every minute. That’s a lot of network traffic, and he learned that Apple monitors traffic in its stores when he received a photo from a Cupertino computer of what appeared to be an Apple technician. The technician had apparently traced the traffic to the site McDonald used to upload the program to Apple Store computers — and installed it himself.
McDonald figured that Apple had decided the program wasn’t a big deal. That was until four Secret Service men in suits woke him up on Thursday morning with a search warrant for computer fraud. They confiscated two computers, an iPod and two flash drives, and told McDonald that Apple would contact him separately.

Whether you side with Apple/the government (which are practically the same!) or Kyle, you have to admit it’s a shame more people don’t flash their tits at random computers. Haha! *moons laptop forgetting I have a Skype window minimized*

People Staring At Computers Tumblr
and
Apple Store Sets Secret Service on Spy Camera Artist [mashable]

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Get Google+ invites here!

What is Google+? It’s the super top-secret social project that Google has been working on for the past year. You know, the one being led by General Patton (Vic Gundotra) and General MacArthur (Bradley Horowitz). Yes, the one Google has tried to downplay as much as humanly possible — even as we got leak after leak after leak of what they were working on. Yes, the one they weren’t going to make a big deal about with pomp and circumstance. It’s real. And it’s here.

Sort of.

In order to keep in touch with my readers i’m offering out Google+ invites for free, all you need to do is comment on this here blog post using your @gmail address and i’ll invite you to test out this awesome beta!

Looking forward to adding you guys to my circles.

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Every 60 seconds on the internet, these actions take place!

Let’s say that it takes you exactly one minute to read through this post. In that time, over 6,600 photos will be uploaded to Flickr, about 70 new domains will be registered, over 1,200 new ads will be created on Craigslist, and more. Here’s what happens on the Internet every 60 seconds.

Now keep in mind that the data below and the infographic above come from the Shanghai Web Designers team. We have done our best to confirm that the statistics provided line up with known data, but you should still take everything with a hefty serving of salt.

That disclaimer aside and without further ado, here’s what’s happening each minute:

• Search engine Google serves more that 694,445 queries
• 6,600+ pictures are uploaded to Flickr
• 600 videos are uploaded to YouTube, amounting to 25+ hours of content
• 695,000 status updates, 79,364 wall posts and 510,040 comments are published on social networking site Facebook
• 70 new domains are registered
• 168,000,000+ emails are sent
• 320 new accounts and 98,000 tweets are generated on social networking site Twitter
• iPhone applications are downloaded more than 13,000 times
• 20,000 new posts are published on micro-blogging platform Tumblr
• Popular web browser FireFox is downloaded more than 1,700 times
• Popular blogging platform WordPress is downloaded more than 50 times
• WordPress Plugins are downloaded more than 125 times
• 100 accounts are created on professional networking site LinkedIn
• 40 new questions are asked on YahooAnswers.com
• 100+ questions are asked on Answers.com
• 1 new article is published on Associated Content, the world’s largest source of community-created content
• 1 new definition is added on UrbanDictionary.com
• 1,200+ new ads are created on Craigslist
• 370,000+ minutes of voice calls done by Skype users
• 13,000+ hours of music streaming is done by personalized Internet radio provider Pandora
• 1,600+ reads are made on Scribd, the largest social reading publishing company

Impressive? Scary? Overwhelming? We’re not sure. But we do know that a lot happened in the few moments it took to look at this blog post — so you better rush to catch up.

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Japan Earthquake Live HD Footage and other usefull links

If you have any other links or recommendations about things i should add to this post, please post them in a comment and i’ll get onto it straight away.

The town of Minamisanriku. The hospital is the only building left standing.

A MAJOR 8.9-magnitude earthquake has struck Japan.

• Latest disaster updates on Twitter
• Japan’s earthquake on Facebook
• Donate to the Save the Children quake appeal
• Latest travel advice from DFAT

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Billionaires pledge to give away half of wealth

Gates, Buffett lead campaign to persuade America’s wealthiest to donate their fortunes

Nati Harnik / AP

Bill Gates, left, and Warren Buffett, seen in this 2007 photo during the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha, are trying to persuade other American billionaires to give at least half their wealth to charity.

A little over a year after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett began hatching a plan over dinner to persuade America’s wealthiest people to give most of their fortunes to charity, more than three-dozen individuals and families have agreed to take part, campaign organizers announced Wednesday.

In addition to Buffett and Gates — America’s two wealthiest individuals, with a combined net worth of $90 billion, according to Forbes — 38 other billionaires have signed The Giving Pledge. They include New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, entertainment executive Barry Diller, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens, media mogul Ted Turner, David Rockefeller, film director George Lucas and investor Ronald Perelman.

“We’re off to a terrific start,” Buffett, co-founder and chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, said in a conference call also attended by Bloomberg and San Francisco hedge-fund manager Tom Steyer and his wife Kat Taylor, founder of OneCalifornia Bank.

Buffett said he and Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, and Gates’ wife Melinda made calls to fellow billionaires on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans — in many cases, people they had never met — to try to persuade them to join the giving pledge.

“We contacted between 70 and 80 people to get the 40. A few were unavailable. We don’t give up on them. Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future. We’ll keep on working,” Buffett said.

Bloomberg, who made the bulk of his estimated $17.5 billion fortune from financial news and information services company Bloomberg L.P., said it didn’t make sense to leave everything to his children and have them go through life as members of “the lucky sperm club.”

“You don’t want to leave them so much money that it ruins their lives,” Bloomberg said. “You want kids who can look back and say, ‘Yeah my family helped me but I did something on my own.’”

Added Steyer: “We need to support each other. I look at this as replanting your garden so that future generations will have a full bounty of crops.”

The United States has roughly 400 billionaires — about 40 percent of the world’s total — with a combined net worth of $1.2 trillion, according to Forbes. If they all took the pledge, that would amount to at least $600 billion for charity.

The 40 names that have pledged to date have a combined net worth surpassing $230 billion, according to Forbes. Several of them have said they plan to give away much more than 50 percent of their wealth. Buffett has promised to donate more than 99 percent of his wealth.

The pledge is a moral commitment to give, not a legal contract. It does not involve pooling money or supporting one cause or organization. It’s up to each person who signs the pledge how to divvy up their wealth.

Read more…

Tags: about time you rich bastards, bill gates, bloomberg, charity, donations, thepledge

How to Jailbreak the iPhone 4 and iOS 4.0.1 and under!

This guide will show you how to jailbreak your iPhone 4 using the new JailbreakMe.com. In case you actually need a guide.

Using FaceTime over your 3G network!

The guys at Intelliborn have just released My3G version 4.14, which now supports FaceTime over 3G. Or, as they put it: “Facetime over 3G!!!”

This app, which convinces other apps that they’re on WiFi instead of 3G, is a big one that will probably attract a lot of first time jailbreakers. Like 3G Unrestrictor, it works around iOS’s 3G/EDGE restrictions, allowing you to download files bigger than 10MB, play full-res YouTubes and use apps like Sling Player and FaceTime. Can’t wait to see how the video performs over 3G… and how long it takes to crash AT&T’s network.

It’s available on Rock now and it should be up on our repo shortly, we’re getting hit pretty hard today. Be sure to let us know how it works in comments.

- In-App popup request to enable/never ask for My3G to be enabled for that app
- In-App indicator when My3G changes the network from 3G to WiFi
- Ability to select which apps are My3G enabled and not.
- Default Apps – no configuration for the most popular apps!
- SBSettings Toggle! You can temporarily enable My3G for all apps or toggle back using your defined Apps list
- Dynamic enablement – Higher successs rate (near 100%) then 3G Unrestrictor (which does one off solutions for apps). My3G enables 3G indicators more dynamically.

4.1 Updates
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- Facetime over 3G!!!

American Love – It’s so beautiful

Here’s a random image I’ve found whilst drunkenly navigating the internet!

It’s sad to see these two riding dirty around wallmart, but it’s good to see that love still exists even if it’s sweaty and smells of bacon grease.

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America, this is you!

This graphic, from Visual Economics, breaks down the elements of our diet in pounds. The quantity of fruits and vegetables we eat is actually a little higher than I’d expect, though we still consume more sweets and sodium than we should. The chart also doesn’t expose the extent to which corn goes into other foods. If you want to find out your own recommended daily caloric intake, by the way, here’s a calculator.

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