Popular Path app revealed to secretly upload all iPhone contacts to its servers [updated]

Path, the popular social network that competes with the likes of Instagram, may be uploading your iPhone’s entire address book up to its servers. Arun Thampi from mclov.in noticed the Path app’s steal data dump while trying to create a Mac OS X application for the social network during a hackathon. “Upon inspecting closer, I noticed that my entire address book including full names, emails and phone numbers was being sent as a plist to Path,” Thampi said, noting that Path didn’t ever ask for permission to do so. It’s unclear why Path is uploading the iPhone’s entire address book, but Thampi noticed that the social network performs the action during an API call with basic HTTP authentication. It remains unclear if Path’s Android application is also guilty of uploading personal information. Thampi has instructions on how to catch Path in the action on his blog.

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Damn You Autocorrect founder posts favorite iPhone auto-correct fails

The founder of popular website Damn You Autocorrect has published a list of her 25 favorite auto-correct fails of all time. For those who somehow missed the phenomenon, Damn You Autocorrect allows users to upload screenshots of text message conversations that contain hilarious and often raunchy errors caused by Apple’s problematic auto-correct functionality. Jillian Madison, who founded the site after sending a text message with an unfortunate error to a friend thanks to auto-correct, compiled a list of her all-time favorites and posted them on the site this past Friday. The list contains plenty of NSFW language but they’re mostly hilarious, as is often the case with highlights from the site. Hit the break for a link to Madison’s top-25 auto-correct fails of all time.

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Random Thoughts

We all want the perfect life, perfect job, perfect relationships but they don’t exist. All these things depend on us and none of us are perfect. We can only strive to be the best that we can be and hopefully learn from the mistakes that we WILL make along the way. We can however then share those experiences with those who are willing to listen, but even if they don’t want to listen it’s OK we are all entitled to learn in or way and at our pace.

We are never done learning. We are never done teaching. We are never done living. We are all the sum of our experiences this is what makes us all who we are, not better not worst simply different. This is why we must all be open to learn form each other. Every single one of us has something to offer each other. This is what makes us all human. We just need to be willing to be open to the possibility that we don’t need to go through it alone. Everythig you are going through and are feeling, someone has felt and gone trough it before. We share this earth and this small moment in time but we must not forgoet that there have been many before us and there will be many after us.Respect each other, treat other as you would like to be treated, don’t be afraid to reach out for help and don’t be afraid to help those who reach out to you. Just my thoughts!!!

 

Todos queremos una vida perfecta, trabajo perfecto, las relacion perfectas, pero  esas cosas no existen. Todas estas cosas dependen de nosotros y ninguno de nosotros somos perfecto. Sólo podemos tratar de ser lo mejor que podemos ser y aprender de los errores que vamos a cometer en el camino. Sin embargo, si podemos compartir esas experiencias con aquellos que están dispuestos a escuchar, pero si no quieren escuchar no podemos obligor los,  todos tenemos derecho a aprender a nuestra  manera y a nuestro ritmo.

Nunca dejamos de aprender. Nunca dejamos de enseñanza. Nunca se nos hace vivir. Todos somos la suma denuestras experiencias es lo que nos hace a todos lo que somos, no mejor, no peor, simplemente diferente. Es por eso que todos debemos estar abiertos a aprender de los demás. Cada uno de nosotros tiene algo que ofrecer uno al otro. Esto es lo que nos hace a todos seres humanos. Sólo tenemos que estar dispuestos a la posibilidad de que no es necesario pasar por todo esto solos. Todo lo que usted está pasando y sintiendo  alguien lo ha pasado y lo ha sentido  antes. Compartimos esta tierra y este pequeño momento en el tiempo, pero no debemos olvidar que han habido muchos antes que nosotros y habrán muchos después de nosotros. Respetense uno al otro, y traten a otros como te gustaría ser tratado, no tengan miedo de buscar ayuda y no tenga miedo de ayudar a los que lleguen a ti. Apenas mis pensamientos!

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Corning looks to the future, mainly right through it video — Engadget

Need to take the edge off those winter blues? Perhaps Cornings, somewhat saccharine, vision of our technological future will be just the soporific tonic. Unsurprisingly, the Gorilla Glass maker sees a future where pretty much everything is a transparent touchscreen. While many of these ideas clearly appeal to our tech sensibilities, others are still very much high, high, up in the cloudy mists of concept land. Sure, a few of these ideas are starting to materialize back here in the present day, like large multi-touch panels, smart windows and of course communication displays, but for much of the rest, well just have to sit and wait. Or not.

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Mac OS X 10.7.3 hits Software Update, ready to plug bugs on your Wednesday — Engadget

How about a 700+ megabyte download to spice up your Wednesday? Apples just unleashed an update to Lion, bumping its feline all the way up 10.7.3. Those braving the rather portly update can look forward to a bevy of new languages, a new version of Safari 5.1.3 and a fix for a nasty WiFi reconnection bug upon waking from sleep. Also buried in the release notes are RAW support for “more cameras” and a bevy of tweaks for those sharing files with Windows machines. Dont believe us? Hit Cupertinos source link for the full rundown.

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Internet Essentials Home

How to qualify

 

To qualify for $9.95 a month Internet service and a low-cost computer, your household must meet all these criteria:

 

  • Be located where Comcast offers Internet service
  • Have at least one child receiving free school lunches through the National School Lunch Program
  • Have not subscribed to Comcast Internet service within the last 90 days
  • Not have an overdue Comcast bill or unreturned equipment

Internet Essentials Home.

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How-To: Set up a home file server using FreeNAS — Engadget

In today’s digital world we’ve all got data, and lots of it. Our libraries are also growing rapidly: where you used to get by setting aside a few bookshelves for your books, CDs, DVDs and VHS tapes, we now require untold server space to preserve our beloved media in digitized form. We also want our data to be itinerant, or at least seem that way. That is, if you want to take a book or disc to another room of your abode, you pull it from the bookshelf and take it with you. Similarly, if you’re working on a document upstairs on your desktop and you want to move to the den with your laptop, you’ll need the proper infrastructure working in the background to enable that kind of wizardry. So, how can we create this “digital bookshelf?” Can you go out and buy it now? Can you build it in your garage? As it turns out, the answer is “yes” on all counts. You could go out and buy a Drobo device but in this case, we’re going to assemble our own. And we’re going to do that with the help of an open source storage platform called FreeNAS. So how involved a process is that? Meet us after the break to find out.

via How-To: Set up a home file server using FreeNAS — Engadget.

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This Is NASAs Cancer-Sniffing Cellphone Sensor

What if you could use your phone to test the air for toxins? What if you could monitor your health simply by blowing on it? Sounds amazing, right? Nanosensor technology developed by NASA Ames is going to make that a reality.

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Amazonian Mushroom Eats Indestructible Plastics

We use polyurethane to make just about everything—garden hoses, furniture, the entirety of my local 99-cent store. Its easy to produce, durable, and dirt cheap. What it isnt is recyclable—there isnt a single natural process that breaks it down. That is until a newly-discovered Amazonian fungus takes a bite.

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Protect Your iPhone’s Glass Display With… More Glass?

Most screen protectors are just a thin layer of flexible plastic that do an adequate job at shrugging off scratches. But they’re no where near as tough as Spigen’s new GLAS.t which adds another layer of glass for maximum protection.

At just 0.4mm thick the chemically treated tempered glass adds minimal thickness to your iPhone 4 or 4S, and doesn’t affect its touchscreen functionality. It’s also three times harder than plastic, easily surviving an attack from scissors or a box cutter. And because it’s tempered, if you do succeed in shattering the GLASS.t protector it will break into thousands of little pieces, instead of a handfull of sharp glass daggers.

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