Rhapsody for Android updated with personalized recommendations

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Rhapsody's subscription-based music app for Android has been updated with personalized recommendations on the home screen based on what you've previously listened to and what time of day it is. That last part is very reminiscent of what Songza's offering, though the update also includes a UI overhaul, and some performance improvements for offline playback. 

As always, Rhapsody offers the usual streaming music features, including creating playslists, sharing tunes out to Facebook, and offline caching.

Any Rhapsody subscribers out there, or are the existing free streaming alternatives good enough for you? What's your favorite on-demand mobile music app? 

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Daily Crunch: Mainframe

1396Here are a selection of yesterday’s Gadgets stories: Video: Lockheed?s ?Samarai? Drone Spins Like A Maple Seed Skimming Jonathan?s Card For Fun And Philanthrophy Review: Audyssey Lower East Side Speakers Japan To Invest $1.3 Billion In New Supercomputer 1DollarScan Scans And Digitizes Your Books For You ?For A Dollar?

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Kobo Mini review: does the world need a smaller e-reader?

Kobo Mini review reading the fine print

While tablet and smartphone manufacturers battled it out over screen sizes, e-reader makers seem to have settled on an industry standard of 6-inch displays. It's a trend that Kobo, at least, is trying to buck. The company is supplementing its flagship device with a smaller model, the $79 Kobo Mini, which has a more diminutive 5-inch screen, and weighs less, to boot. But how much of a difference does an inch really make? Is smaller necessarily better on an e-reading device? And with so many options for consuming e-books, does the world really need a different, slightly altered form factor? We'll tackle all of these burning questions and more after the break.

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Save your tabs and Panorama tab groups in Firefox 4

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When Firefox 4's tab grouping tool, Panorama, had its keyboard shortcut changed to the finger-breaking combo of Ctrl+Shift+E, we thought Panorama would get dropped before FF4's final release -- but, thankfully, it made the cut!

If you've used Firefox 4 and Panorama, you might have noticed that Mozilla's new browser doesn't always save your tab groupings when you close the browser -- a bit of a pain, if you spend a long time setting up the perfect groups! This is tied into the removal of the 'Save and Quit' dialog box -- and enabling Panorama tab group saving is just a matter of re-enabling the Save and Quit dialog.

Open a new tab and head to about:config. Click through the warning and type 'quit' into the filter box. Double click browser.showQuitWarning to change its value to true (see image after the break). That's it -- now you'll have the option of saving your tabs, and thus tab groups, when you close Firefox.

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Tasty Planet is a fun flash game where you eat everything in sight

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So this professor comes up with a new toilet cleaner that works by "eating" the dirt; or so he thinks. That's how the plot starts for Tasty Planet. You play the role of the toilet cleaner, but you're not really a toilet cleaner after all -- you're a blob of gray goo that can eat anything that's smaller than yourself.

As you chomp away, you grow -- and as you grow, you can eat bigger and bigger stuff. The first level pits you against microscopic particles; by the time I stopped playing, I got all the way to eating cats and dogs. I know that sounds disturbing, but it's a really cute game, and there's no gore or anything like that.

Supposedly you keep growing and growing until you're able to eat whole planets (hence the name). The challenge factor comes when you realize you can't touch any critter larger than yourself - you'll get "bitten" and become smaller. In the beginning you're so small, that a single touch can kill you. Later on, you're big enough that touching larger animals doesn't kill you on the spot, but it does reduce your size. Each level is timed, so if you're not large enough by the time your clock runs out, you need to start again. As long as you don't touch the larger animals, you should be fine.

All in all, a fun, addictive little game. It's available for iOS, too.

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Deal of the Day ? 12.5? Lenovo ThinkPad Twist Core i3 Multi-touch Ultrabook

LogicBUY’s Deal for Tuesday is the 12.5″ Lenovo ThinkPad Twist Multi-touch Ultrabook, with the Core i3 starting at $799.  Available with Core i3, Core i5, or Core i7.  There’s a coupon code for up to $50 off, depending on the model purchased.  Shipping is free.  Features: Four usage modes: laptop, a tablet, a stand for sharing presentations,and bent [...]

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Use These Apps To See Which Friends Live In Swing States And Remind Them To Vote

Remind Friends To VoteThanks to the "genius" of the electoral college, if you live in a sure-fire red or blue state you might feel like your vote doesn't matter much. You can still have an impact, though, by reminding friends in swing states to vote. But which of your friends live in swing states? Obama's "Remind Friends To Vote" app and Romney's "Commit To Mitt" show you who to make sure made it to the polls.

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Apple, publishers, reportedly ready to settle EU ebooks probe

Apple, publishers, to settle EU ebooks probe

Regulators in the European Union are reportedly ready to accept the offer made by Apple and four book publishers, bringing an end to an antitrust probe regarding ebook pricing. Apple and these publishers made the offer back in September, and regulators are expected to announce their acceptance of the deal next month. The deal with European regulators addresses aspects of pricing and contracts that prevent lower pricing at rival retailers. Foo Yun Chee of Reuters reports:

The case underscores the battle between retailers and publishers over pricing control of e-books, which publishers hope will boost revenue and increase customers.

Apple and the publishers have offered to let retailers set their own prices or discounts for a period of two years, and also to suspend "most-favored nation" contracts for five years, the sources said.

Previously, publishers have sought to increase their control over ebook prices, trying to prevent retailers, like Amazon, from setting lower prices on ebooks. For a long time, Amazon ebooks usually sold at a maximum of $9.99, until publishers started demanding higher prices to increase profits. Apple?s issue in this is that it had these so-called ?most-favored nation? contracts with publishers, preventing publishers from negotiating lower ebook prices with other retailers. The antitrust issue here is not one of monopoly, but of collusion. Specifically, did Apple and the book publishers conspire to break Amazon?s hold on ebook pricing? In Europe at least, the answer seems to be ?Yes?. The US Department of Justice settled a similar case with publishers last month, which resulted in publishers agreeing to pay a certain amount of credit per ebook to Amazon customers who payed higher prices for books than they would have without publishers interference.

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Opera 12.10 browser hits desktops with Windows 8 touch, Retina display, SPDY support

Opera 1210 browser hits desktops with Windows 8 touch, Retina display, SPDY support

Opera has just released version 12.10 of its browser for Windows, Linux and Mac with some significant touch-ups, considering it's a point release. Building on the recent 12.0 launch, the desktop browser now has OS X notifications, Retina support, pinch zoom and inertia scrolling for touch-friendly Windows 8, better color rendering, SPDY support for faster page loading and built-in page sharing to Twitter or Facebook. Along with a bump in speed, some of those new treats might tempt desktop users to make a switch, though it's got an uphill climb. You can grab it at the source.

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