For Those of You with Zero Self-Control, the Phone Prison

For Those of You with Zero Self-Control, the Phone PrisonYou just cant help yourself, can you? After a night of ruinous drinking, you come home and dial that ex, wailing for them to take you back. Or maybe you need to kick the Angry Birds addiction. Lock er up!Or, as the Cell Phone Lock Ups sellers envision, torture your friends with the thing: “Youll really get em when you lock up their precious cell phone in this confounding wooden contraption! Watch as they flip, shake and even beg as they try to free their phone.” This situation sounds really pathetic and uncomfortable and not very prank-like. Mostly just sad.The site doesnt explain how the trap actually locks—is there a key? Magnets? But it could be the niche item the smartphone sadomasochist in your life is missing. [Cell Phone Lock Up via Random Good Stuff]

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Microsoft releases OneNote app for iPhone, free for a ‘limited time’

Well, here’s something of a surprise — Microsoft has just brought its OneNote app to the iPhone, and it’s made it available as a free download “for a limited time” to boot. As with the Windows Phone 7 app (previously the only mobile version), the iPhone app will let you manage notes and shopping lists (and even add pictures taken with the iPhone’s camera), and then sync those with Windows Live SkyDrive so you can access them in either the Windows desktop application or its web-based counterpart. As ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley notes, however, perhaps just as interesting as the app itself is the question of what else might follow — a native OneNote app for iPad, perhaps, or even iOS versions of other Office applications? Microsoft unsurprisingly isn’t commenting on those possibilities, but it did note that the OneNote app is the culmination of some 18 to 24 months of development from a team of Microsoft Mac Office and OneNote engineers, which is either a sign of some serious slacking or a fairly significant commitment on Microsoft’s part. No word on when the “limited” free period will run out (so you’ll probably want to grab it while you can), nor is there any world on a worldwide release — it’s currently only available to US users, unfortunately.

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One-Year-Old Boy Drowns in Bathtub As Mother Plays Games on Facebook

One-Year-Old Boy Drowns in Bathtub As Mother Plays Games on Facebook34-year-old Shannon Johnson has been arrested after telling police officers that the reason her one-year-old son drowned in a bathtub several months ago is because she was busy playing a game on Facebook and left him to bathe unsupervised.According to the arrest affidavit for this incident—which you can find below—Johnson was playing a Facebook game called Cafe World as well as browsing her news feed and uploading videos during the time her son was in the bathtub. She apparently only checked in on him once over the course of a ten-minute period and justified it by saying that she felt “her son was preternaturally independent, and simply wanted to be alone.”

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Third-Party Facebook Apps Could Have Access to Your Address and Phone Number

Third-Party Facebook Apps Could Have Access to Your Address and Phone NumberStarting now, you better pay pretty close attention to the dialog boxes that pop up when you try add third-party apps to Facebook. If you dont, you might end up giving them your address and phone number.Facebook, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to allow third-party apps access to contact information that is, whatever address and phone number youve put in your profile, so long as you click “Allow” in the permissions dialog box. But since this dialog box doesnt look substantially different from the basic permissions dialog—and since no network-wide announcements been made that this is now an option—its pretty easy to just click “Allow” and give Farmville or any number of third-party app scammers your cell number.

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Girl Falls into Mall Fountain While Texting

Girl Falls into Mall Fountain While Texting The scariest part about this security camera video is the proof that security guards are not only watching the stupid things you do, but theyre sharing it on the internet with multiple angles.

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Victim Claims Stolen Laptop Contained Possible Cure For Cancer

Victim Claims Stolen Laptop Contained Possible Cure For Cancer window.onload=WorldNowRenderEmbedVideoPlayer Ordinarily Id assume this victim was pulling our leg, but Sook Shin just doesnt look the type. The university researchers laptop contained years of work in the cancer field—and nope, she didnt back it up. Doh! [CNET]

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The Hilarious Agony of Watching a Computer Illiterate

Theres not much worse than sitting on the sidelines, watching someone stumble through basic computer interactions. And what was a hilarious Reddit comic explaining that bone-gnawing frustration has become an even funnier animation by Guy Collins.”The Scrollwheel” pretty much perfectly captures the experience I have every time Im home for the holidays. Although Im afraid my poker face may not be quite as good. [Reddit: Video; Original Comic]

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Watch the iPad’s New Secret Tricks

 discovered a little gem in the iOS 4.3 beta: Four and five finger multi-touch gesture support for the iPad. Here’s how it looks in action.

Each of the new gestures can be done with either four or five fingers—your choice—and they all work smoothly. A pinch brings you to the Home Screen, a swipe up or down reveals and hides the multitasking bar, and swipes left or right allow you to switch between apps.

All the gestures feel natural—particularly the Home Screen pinch—and at no point during my testing did I feel like I would accidentally trigger one of them.

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How to Cancel Your AT&T Contract

Choice is now here when it comes to U.S. iPhone service providers, so if you’ve decided that you’ve had enough of AT&T, there are a few options available. But keep in mind that since AT&T put up some serious cash subsidizing the iPhone to get you to sign that two-year contract, it’ll probably do its best to get some of that investment back.Avoiding the Early Termination FeeIn most cases, you will not be able to avoid paying AT&T the early termination fee ETF of $325 minus $10 for each full month of your Service Commitment that you’ve already completed. Before you do anything, be sure you read the terms of your agreement, as each situation is unique and options may be available to you that are not available to others. Limitations aside, there are some options:Within the first 30 days. If you’re within the first thirty days of your contract, you can likely cancel the contract. You’ll still be liable for any usage and fees that were incurred during that time, but you won’t have to pay the ETF. You will have to pay an equipment fee if you don’t return the …

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