Gadget to help you type on iPhone

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If you’re holding out for an iPhone because you can’t type well on its touchscreen, an inexpensive overlay aims to help you out.

Lasers could replace spark plugs in car engines

(Two or three lasers are focused to ignite
 fuel in more than one place)

Car engines could soon be fired by lasers instead of spark plugs, researchers say.

A team at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics will report on 1 May that they have designed lasers that could ignite the fuel/air mixture in combustion engines.

Your iPhone is tracking your movements

Since iOS 4 was released, iPhones and 3G iPads have been recording their owner’s movements. At least, that’s what researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden claimed today at the O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference in Santa Barbara.

5 Marketing Jobs Worth Paying For

Imagine a really nice wedding cake. Are you imagining it? Good. Now imagine how that cake would turn out if you tried to recreate it in your own kitchen.

BeFunky Photo Effects

BeFunky Photo Effects allow everyday people to easily create photographically rich and artistic results from their digital images without the need for any technical knowledge.

Now you can select your own image as a background in Gmail

Ever since Google let us choose our own colors in the Gmail interface, we’ve been rocking a garish crimson motif, but there was something missing. Why couldn’t we choose our own photos as backgrounds? Now we can.

How to protect yourself from data brokers

Every day a collection of companies and individuals search the vast universe of public records and gather information about you. They’re the same companies, in many instances, that advertise that you can find out who’s looking for you or get information on other people.