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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity Dropbox is one of my current top 5 favorite apps. It's an extremely useful utility with a few, very powerful, easy to use features, and now they are looking to expand. With Votebox (must be signed in to see the page), they are letting the user base vote on which features they work on next. Thousands of votes have already been cast. Here are the top 5 at the time of this writing. 1. Selective sync. Ability to choose which files or folders get sync'd to which computers. 2. Watch any folder. Sync folders outside the My/Dropbox folder (thus essentially replicating the functionality of SugarSync). This would be sweet, though I wonder how it would affect the current simplicity and performance of the app. 3. Share folders without forcing other members to lose space. I'd be interested to see how they handle this one. It could open up loopholes for vastly expanded storage space for groups of people. 4. Email files to Dropbox. Use... - vijay

Next time you compliment a woman at a party that’s she glowing, it may literally be so. Two London-based designers have created a dress embroidered with 24,000 full color LEDs . - vijay

Filed under: iTS, Multimedia, iTunes, Apple, Music This is the kind of thing that probably should have been done a long time ago, but Macworld is reporting that Apple has launched iTunes Preview, a page that appears when you click an iTunes link (like this one) and your browser sends you over to iTunes. Previously, you just got that placeholder page that said "One Moment Please" and asked if you wanted to open the link in an external application, but with iTunes Preview, you get a nicely laid out page with information and reviews (and your browser still opens up the iTunes store). Currently it only seems to work with music -- movies and television only get a small thumbnail, and applications get the same old gray page. But that'll probably change before long -- it's much smoother to see what you're clicking through to, and of course there's the added bonus for people who don't actually have iTunes installed. As MacWorld points out, there are actually no "preview" buttons on the page... - vijay

People have been trying to turn cellphones into medical and atmospheric scanners for some time now, but when it's NASA stepping up to the plate with a little device to monitor trace amounts of chemicals in the air, it's hard to not start thinking we might finally have a use for all those tricorder ringtones. Developed by a team of researchers at the Ames Research Center led by Jing Li, the device is a small chip that plugs into the bottom of an iPhone and uses 16 nanosensors to detect the concentration of gasses like ammonia, chlorine, and methane. To what purpose exactly this device will serve and why the relatively closed iPhone was chosen as a development platform are mysteries we're simply not capable of answering. Damn it, man, we're bloggers not scientists! Gallery: NASA iPhone sensor [Via Gizmodo] Filed under: Cellphones, Science NASA turnes iPhone into chemical sensor, can an App Store rejection be far away? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:36:00 EST.... - vijay

The MPAA has successfully shut down an entire town's municipal WiFi because a single user was found to be downloading a copyrighted movie. - vijay

ナタリー - HANGRY & ANGRY、エレクトロな進化を遂げた1stアルバム - vijay

Saw them at Sakuracon - they rocked - too funny. - Comics Forge

http://video.google.com/videose... video of them at Sakuracon - Comics Forge

ナタリー - HANGRY & ANGRY、エレクトロな進化を遂げた1stアルバム - vijay

Cute - Shevonne

Cheryl Roberts, 61, suspected her husband David was accessing chatrooms to lure young girls into sex and then caught him in the act. - vijay

Sick! - Shevonne

a small win. but want MOAR. - vijay

Apple has teased Microsoft for years, saying that Windows was easily more trouble than OS X. But given the raft of issues that we're seeing with Snow Leopard, iTunes and Apple TV, are these claims still legitimate? - vijay