Google announced their new app licensing system on July 27th. Less than a month later, on August 23rd, the system had been hacked and instructions on circumventing the security were posted online.

The Good: Rich video editing capacities let you create much more advanced videos than standard free or bundled video editors such as Movie Maker. Robust codec support lets you create h.264 1080i HD and Bluray videos. The Bad: Sluggish performance on older/budget computers, and poor performance on entry-level video cards

ADVERTISEMENTS If you own any Android phone, be it the great old G1, Nexus One, Droid or even HTC Wildfire the only thing constraining you from getting the most out of your smartphone is the battery life. Smartphones are hungry devices which crave for more and more owing to use of constant cloud sync, email, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and and yes talk-time too.

I love installing new themes on my phones, as they let me personalize them to my taste as well as change the look of my device much more frequently, instead of actually paying to buy a new device. Fortunately, Nokia & Symbian theme developers are abundant, and there are a lot of really great ones out there, some who offer their themes for free.

If you are working continuously on your computer monitor, your eyes get strained. It is necessary that you take short breaks at regular intervals on time. Eyes Relax is a freeware utility that helps avoiding eyes-related problems when working at a computer for several hours.  You can prevent this by taking regular breaks during the work and look at distant objects.

This week we learned how to record screen activity in Ubuntu, sync any folder to Dropbox with SyncToy, jailbreak an iPhone or iPod Touch with iOS 4, find the 3G or Wi-Fi speeds on Android phones, get rid of the annoying YouTube bottom bar, and more.

There’s around 1 day and 13 hours left for you to get your hands on a 3rd gen iPod touch with a built in camera on the back. It is believed that the actual product is real, in that Apple [AAPL] created it

Want to use live, updated data from the web in your spreadsheets?  Here’s how you can import data from the web into Excel 2010 to keep your spreadsheets up to date quickly and easily. Make a Webified Spreadsheet To add dynamic data from a website to a spreadsheet, click the From Web button under the Get External Data section of the Data tab in Excel

Motorola has launched yet another Android phone in India , this time the Backflip which features a unique reverese-flip design and the Backtrack feature.The company has also officially unveiled the Milestone XT720 Android Phone in India. Motorola XT720 Milestone Features 8 MP Camera with Xenon Flash and HD video Recording HDMI out 10.9 mm thickness Android 2.1 3G/ WiFi / Bluetooth Expandable memory upto 32GB 480X854 pixels Display Motorola Backflip Features Reverse Flip Design QWERTY Keyboard 3.1 inch HVGA Display Backtrack Touch panel 5 MP Camera with LED Flash aGPS Bluetooth 3.5mm Audio jack Expandable memory upto 32GB WiFi / 3G Android 1.5 “We are taking the Android experience to a whole new level in India with the launch of our two smartphones MILESTONE™ XT720 and BACKFLIP™,” said Andrew Morley, vice president for Marketing, EMARA (Europe, Middle East, Africa, Russia & Asia), Motorola Mobile Devices.

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