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Aug 10, 2012 6:00 PM   It's time for another edition of best iPad apps. This week we've got a whole slew of great stuff coming your way. From a Full Metal Jacket diary to a Cartoon Network streaming app, you'll like what you see. Full Metal Jacket Diary : Matthew Modine, a.k.a. Pvt. Joker, kept a diary at the request of director Stanley Kubrick during the filming of Full Metal Jacket in 1985. And we maybe would never have known about it had it not been slapped on this app. Here you'll see text from Modine's journal, thousands of photos, and details about the making of the Vietnam War movie. $14.99 Clap Box : Here's another synth app for you to play with. This one is an iPad version of the Simmons Clap Trap, a synth you might recognize in a lot of 80s-era electronic music. Free Cover Orange HD : If you don't guard your oranges from acid rain they are going to die! Ahhhh! In this game, you play the protector of your sweet fruits in 360 different levels. Fre...

Jul 30, 2012 12:00 PM   We've all gotten ourselves so immersed in using an online service and social network, that we continued to use it even when we knew it was on the way out (stop pretending like you weren't checking your Myspace last year). Digg, post-acquisition, has now fallen into this group. When you know a social network you use is likely on the way down, how long do you hold on to it before letting it go? A month? Six months? A year? View the original article here This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org This line will not appear when posts are made after activating the software to full version.

Jul 24, 2012 5:00 PM   As part of their senior design project at Northeastern University, Glen Chiachhieri and seven other computer and electrical engineering students built this Wi-Fi repeating robot that's designed to make it easier to deploy a wireless network in dangerous or hazardous places. The 150-pound treaded behemoth is actually strong enough to carry a 200-pound human passenger, but instead it's chock full of wireless internet gear including a Wi-Fi router, a pan-and-tilt webcam with night vision, GPS hardware so it's location can always be tracked, and enough rechargeable batteries to let it operate for up to 12 hours. What's even more impressive is that the bot can be used to deploy a wireless network with a range of about one kilometer using a couple of self-contained long-range repeaters that can be dropped anywhere it roams. It can even be controlled and configured from a browser-based interface, so it's not dependent on a single laptop or device ...

Jul 23, 2012 9:00 AM   What looks to the layman like a chunky under-the-desk computer power strip is actually a full-fledged hacking tool designed to let white hat hackers (aka the 'good' guys) test the security level of a given computer network, wired or wireless. With Wi-Fi, ethernet, Bluetooth, and an entire suite of hacking software tools built-in, the Power Pwn can let anyone put an office's computer network to the ultimate security test. And with an optional 3G/GSM adapter, they don't have to be anywhere near the facility being compromised. Not surprisingly, the development of the Power Pwn was partly funded by DARPA, which has a vested interest in protecting the government's networks, but with a pre-order price tag of almost $1,300, it might just push some non-government types into a life of hacking crime to afford it. [Pwnie Express via BoingBoing] View the original article here This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org Thi...

Facebook engineer Carlos Bueno posted a note to the official Facebook Engineering page detailing exactly how one should prep for an interview there. He admits that an interview for a technical job is difficult for both the interviewer and candidate.  Skills on your resume are fair game. If you say you're an "expert in X," Facebook will try to schedule you with a proven expert in that subject, so be prepared. If you are not, leave it off your resume. The interviewers would rather have a short list of the things a candidate is awesome at than pages of everything you've ever done. Keep reading for an inside look at what Facebook technical interviewers are looking for. Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Kevin Smith on Twitter. x To embed this post, copy the code below and paste into your website or blog. View the original article here This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org This line will not appear when posts are made a...