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Is DoubleTwist a Real iTunes Alternative?

13 Tuesday Oct 2009

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doubletwistiTunes has managed to become the de facto standard for desktop music organizers, leaving those with non-Apple devices in the cold. DoubleTwist syncs, shares, and converts your media quite handily, and has a built-in Amazon MP3 store, but can it really replace iTunes?

DoubleTwist (technically capitalized as doubleTwist, as is the fashion at this time) does a lot of neat things that iTunes will never do:

* It recognizes and synchronizes with a ton of devices, and otherwise works with any device that your computer recognizes as a storage space.
* Converts music and videos back and forth from device-specific formats, with quick upload links to Flickr and YouTube.
* Makes it super-easy to send music, video, or pictures from your desktop to anyone, whether or not they’re using doubleTwist.
* Downloads videos from YouTube for local viewing or listening, or converting to your phone or player.
* With the latest Windows update, due today, both versions of doubleTwist have a slick-looking Amazon MP3 Store integration.

Double Twist - Amazon Store

Double Twist - Amazon Store

Does that make it a free, and DRM-free, iTunes replacement? Not exactly—at least when it comes to playing and organizing your music on your computer. In fact, doubleTwist seems to have been built as a complement to the libraries and playlists set up in iTunes or Windows Media Player, and doesn’t currently have much in the way of playback functionality beyond, well, “Play.” But if you’re not a hyper-organized music fan and just want a simple, no-nonsense tool to transfer some great tunes, pictures, or video to your phone, PSP, or other device, doubleTwist is a great option.

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Source: Lifehacker.com

The 10 most potentially hazardous smartphones

15 Tuesday Sep 2009

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Radiation threats: The 10 most potentially hazardous smartphones

“Based on new research, learn the 10 smartphones that emit the most radiation, the 10 that emit the least radiation, and a few quick safety tips.”

One of the scariest unknown technology risks of this decade is the issue of radiation from cell phones. There’s still an open question about whether long term exposure to these mobile devices will cause damage or disease to human beings.

The Environmental Working Group has a comprehensive new study (download the full report as a PDF) that surveys the scientific research on cellphone heath risks and provides radiation data for most of the current cellphones in use. Here’s how the EWG explained the mission of its study:

“We at Environmental Working Group are still using our cell phones, but we also believe that until scientists know much more about cell phone radiation, it’s smart for consumers to buy phones with the lowest emissions. The U.S. government ought to require cell phone companies to label their products’ radiation output so that consumers can do the numbers at the point of sale. It doesn’t, so EWG has created this user-friendly interactive online guide to cell phone emissions, covering over 1,000 phones currently on the market.”

– Author of article Jason Hiner

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