Autocorrect and autocomplete can be very helpful and very funny features in iOS, but you can take control over both by adding your own custom words and terms to the dictionary. Here’s how to do it — via Lifehacker
But were the site’s users all criminals hell-bent on destroying the movie industry? According to a report from Telepolis, a recent study found the reverse was true.
The study, which was carried out by Society for Consumer Research (GfK), found that users of pirate sites including Kino.to did not fit the copyright lobby-painted stereotype of parasites who take and never give back.
In fact, the study also found that Internet users treat these services as a preview, a kind of try before you buy
.
This, the survey claims, leads pirate site users to buy more DVDs, visit the cinema more often and on average spend more than their honest
counterparts at the box office.
The users often buy a ticket to the expensive weekend-days,
the report note — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In a shed in Richmond, surrounded by grazing cows and green pastures, police crime scene investigators are searching for murder weapons in an upturned lounge room.
Next door, Senior Constable John Smallgood is dusting for fingerprints in a child’s blood-spattered bedroom.
The crime scenes are both simulated, part of Australia’s first and only specially built forensic science facility. The joint venture between NSW Police and the University of Western Sydney was unveiled at the university’s Hawkesbury campus yesterday.
The centre has a classroom and five scenario rooms
. It will be used to train police officers and UWS forensic science students to navigate crime scenes ranging from backyards to illegal drug labs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There will be no storybook ending for Borders. The 40-year-old book seller could start shuttering its 399 remaining stores as early as Friday.
The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based chain, which helped pioneer the big-box bookseller concept, is seeking court approval to sell off its assets after it failed to receive any bids that would keep it in business. The move adds Borders to the list of retailers that have failed to adapt to changing consumers’ shopping habits and survive the economic downturn, including Circuit City Stores Inc., Blockbuster and Linens ‘N Things — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has paid about $655 million ($A617 million) to make embarrassing charges of corporate espionage and anticompetitive behaviour go away.
It spent $500 million just days before a case against News America Marketing, its obscure but profitable in-store and newspaper insert marketing business, went to trial. Valassis Communications, had already won a $300 million verdict in Michigan, but dropped the lawsuit in 2010 in exchange for $500 million and an agreement to cooperate on certain ventures.
That single payout to Valassis represented one-fifth of the company’s net income that year and matched the earnings of the entire newspaper and information division of which News America was a part — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Deeanne Gist stood in a packed hotel conference room wearing nothing but her underwear.
For most people, giving a presentation in skivvies to 100 professional peers sounds like a bad dream. But Ms Gist was giving a workshop on Victorian clothing at the Romance Writers of America’s annual convention this summer. The romance novelists had gathered in New York to learn how to dress—and undress—heroines in their novels.
It took an hour for Ms Gist to squeeze into a dozen layers that a lady would have worn in the 1860s—stockings, garters, bloomers, chemise, corset, crinoline or hoop skirt, petticoats, a shirtwaist or blouse, skirt, vest and bolero jacket. By the end, workshop attendees were sceptical that seductions ever occurred, with so many sartorial barriers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Like, I suspect, many journalists in Australia, I spent last night on the sofa.
(I did briefly retreat to bed but after ABC News Radio took an urgent pontification break and missed the moment when Rupert Murdoch was attacked, I was back out of bed to watch it on TV.)
It’s just the latest in a fortnight when anybody interested in the media has had to check the news just before going to bed, and as soon as they wake up. The more obsessive among us have also been sleeping with the radio on.
There has never been a more dramatic moment in the history of global media — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Reclaimed and blown-down local timber come back together in this eccentric, organic and playful home — as its lead architect David Rasmussen jovially puts it: There is always a place for fun and frivolity in architecture!
Green Line Architects specialises in rural retreats that respond to nature in terms of both environmental sustainability and physical context — this work is no exception — via Dornob
It’s not every day that a convicted murderer sues the jail that he is being imprisoned in for saving his life. But, Daniel Self is no ordinary inmate.
Self, a convicted murderer currently serving time in Colorado, has a signed DNR (do-not-resuscitate) order — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you live in Europe and you’re a Triumph fanatic, the biggest event on the calendar is the giant Tridays festival. Every June, it draws hundreds of motorcyclists to the picturesque village of Neukirchen in Austria. The Tridays is organized by the Tyrolean screenwriter Uli Brée, who must be an extremely busy man. This year, Brée increased his workload even further and unveiled a custom bike, the Tridays-Eleven—a high-performance machine that bears the stamp of some of central Europe’s top builders — via Bike EXIF
Stick insects have lived for one million years without sex, genetic research has revealed.
Scientists in Canada investigated the DNA of Timema stick insects, which live in shrubland around the west coast of the US.
They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects’ lengthy history of asexual reproduction.
The discovery could help researchers understand how life without sex is possible — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The sound of padded feet is once again being heard at Perth Zoo in Western Australia following the arrival of two Dingo pups. The pups, named Daku and Mirri, are pure-breed Alpine Dingos born on March 13, 2011 at the Australian Dingo Conservation Association in New South Wales. They were then sent to their new home at Perth Zoo — via ZooBorns
Hackers who broke into the News Corporation network and forced its British websites offline claim to have stolen sensitive data from the company including emails and usernames/passwords.
All of News Corporation’s British websites were taken offline today following an attack on the website of tabloid The Sun, which earlier today was redirecting to a fake story about Rupert Murdoch’s death — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Naming your new bundle of joy Lucifer has been effectively banned by New Zealand’s names registrar after three parents had the odd request knocked back.
The country’s Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages has been cracking down on mums and dads getting too creative with their children’s names, ruling out punctuation marks such as . (Full Stop), * (Asterisk) and / (presumably Slash
).
The list of 102 names rejected in the past two years includes Baron, Bishop, Duke, General, Judge, Justice, King, Knight and Mr, all deemed too similar to titles.
Messiah was also turned down, as was 89, and the single letters, C, D, I and T, although q and J were accepted after being queried — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Forty years ago a small labourers’ trade union executive made a decision that was to change the face of environmental activism around the world and save Sydney from much of the massive over-development of the 1970s.
In prosaic fashion the executive minutes for 4 June 1971 of the NSW Builders Labourers’ Federation record an unremarkable resolution: Moved Bro. Owens, seconded Bro. T Hogan that R Pringle investigate a report next Tuesday on Kelly (sic) Bush
.
Thus the first green ban was born. Brother Pringle came back from his inspection and recommended that the union place a ban on building activity at the Bush. Kelly’s Bush, the last remnant of natural bushland on the Sydney Harbour foreshore was being threatened by a large housing development. The now famous Battlers for Kelly’s Bush, the middle class women of Hunters Hill had asked the Builders Labourers to place a ban on building the development — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It would be technically possible for the National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) to filter internet websites, according to Mark Riley, chief technology officer of internet security company ContentKeeper Technologies, based on technology that the company already has in place — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A survey of 8000 Australian commuters has revealed a high demand for Wi-Fi and contactless ticketing options when using public transport in major cities around the country.
Results published by the Tourism and Transport Forum this month show that while commuters were keen for wireless internet access on trains, buses and trams, many of them wouldn’t be willing to foot an increase in their ticket price. Instead, many would be happy to use a service supplemented by advertising — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A house with a stunning exterior and an interesting past, although this 1930s six-bedroomed art deco house in Luton, Bedfordshire doesn’t quite have the inside to match.
The house was originally designed in 1934, then exhibited at the Daily Mail Home Exhibition at Earls Court in the same year, subsequently built in 1935, along with only two others, one in Hendon and one in Bognor, to the same design.
If you fancy a ’30s-style existence in Luton, £465,000 is the asking price. Find out more at — via WowHaus
The British House of Lords has taken the extraordinary step of publishing an open letter reiterating that high-profile climate change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton is not a member of the UK’s Upper House — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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