Don’t expect Google to remove apps that help users avoid DUI checkpoints — the company says it is leaving the controversial apps on its Android Marketplace.
A source said the company only removes apps that violate its Android content policies and the apps in question do not appear to violate these policies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than half of second-hand mobile phones still contain personal information of the previous owner, posing a risk of identity fraud, CPP has warned — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Microsoft appears to have turned off the always-use-HTTPS option in Hotmail for users in more than a dozen countries, including Bahrain, Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Hotmail users who have set their location to any of these countries receive the following error message when they attempt to turn on the always-use-HTTPS feature in order to read their mail securely:
Your Windows Live ID can’t use HTTPS automatically because this feature is not available for your account type
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a customized trials motorcycle before. And they don’t come with a much better pedigree than the Montesa Cota, the machine that won the 1968 Championship in trials-mad Spain. The bike in the images is a 1974 Cota 247 model, but it can trace its lineage back to the first Montesa trials bikes of 1967. More to the point, this bike looks a little different to the machines that rolled off the factory floor in Barcelona. It was restored and customized by the Dutch designers Studio RAAR for their client Buddha to Buddha, a company that’s just released a line of motorcycle helmets and leather gloves — via Bike EXIF
This is the new and very cool watch Le Temps Suspendu
watch, or Time Suspended
watch from Hermes. The wearer can literally suspend time… and return to it whenever he wishes! Works like this: Pressing the button on the nine o’clock side of the watch brings both the hour and minute hands to noon and hides the retrograde date hand (the one on the lower right quadrant of the watch). ?? The movement, however, continues running so that when the button is pressed again the hands fly back to their rightful position, taking into account the period that has passed — via Perpetuelle.com Blog
our vinyl wall decals are a a quick, affordable way to individualize your home, office or business without the hassle of painting. they are easy to apply, last for many years and can be easily removed from most painted surfaces — via Etsy
If I had to make a list of the most iconic racing motorcycles of all time, the Honda CR 750 would be in my top ten. Not only for its achievements, but also for its aesthetics: to my eyes, it’s one of the most beautiful bikes to ever roll down a pit lane. This particular bike might only be a replica, but it’s the closest thing to owning one of the original four Honda factory racers. It was built in Minnesota by Mark McGrew and M3 Racing in 1996, and over the next eight years racked up an impressive classic racing pedigree — via Bike EXIF
Fabric design community Spoonflower has posted the top 10 entries in their Squid Themed Fabric of the Week Contest.
The winner was Wondersquids
by Melissa Wang — via Laughing Squid
James Roper-Caldbeck runs Customs From Jamesville, a small Harley workshop in Copenhagen, Denmark. We’ve featured his flatheads before, but none can top the story attached to this army-spec WLC 750, the latest machine to roll out of his shop — via Bike EXIF
This newest Richard Mille creation is designed to go deep and to offer a range of functions along the way. While exploring the depths, you have at your disposal hours, minutes, seconds, 60-minute countdown, 12-hour totalizer and flyback chronograph, annual calendar with oversized date, and a month indicator — via WatchTime.com
Vintage sewing machines always intrigue me, but also kind of scare me. I’m never quite sure what to check for if I find one for sale, and I’m not sure what models might suit my needs. Thankfully, Pete Lappin has a very handy column full of tips and advice for purchasing vintage sewing machines over on Burda Style. If a vintage machine has caught your eye, be sure to read this first — via CRAFT
Shut the fuck up — via @IsaacFitzgerald
Surprise! a little late but I made some Valentine Cards for everyone to share — via deviantART
The main chemical in the curry spice turmeric could be the basis for cheap explosives detectors, say researchers.
The curcumin molecule is already well-known in medicine for its anti-cancer and anti-oxidant properties.
Now, research presented at the American Physical Society meeting suggests it could replace more complex solutions to spot explosives like TNT — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The incoming all-new 2011 Rolex Explorer Orange Hand
really is Night and Day compared to it outgoing predecessor as you can clearly see in the photo comparison below. Rolex changed the dated Logan’s Run
typeface on the bezel and made it smaller and bolder, which gives the watch a much more streamlined look — via Jake’s Rolex World
Reading University researchers are taking part in a multi-disciplinary effort to develop a robotic octopus.
The biomimetic cephalopod is being designed to match a real octopus in terms of speed, dexterity and flexibility — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I don’t know. Another long cephalopod experiment. This time with gold gouache. Until recently, I didn’t know they made gold gouache. It is awesome. But it does not scan well — via CrashOctopus Blog
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