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By (author unknown), MacOSXHints.com – December 28, 2010 at 10:30AM

Currently if you do not have a password on your device a thief (or child) could deactivate Find My iPhone. However most people don’t know that you can prevent this by using a passcode. (This might require iOS 4.2 or later; I didn’t have an earlier version to test it.)

To prevent anyone from turning it off you can do the following steps:

• Open Settings and go to ‘General.’
• Scroll down and tap on ‘Restrictions.’
• Turn on restrictions and enter a four digit passcode and repeat to turn on.
• Under ‘Allow Changes:’ turn both of the switches Location and Accounts to Off.

Now you cannot disable find my iPhone without the passcode. This also prevents changes to anything related to location services and changes made to your email accounts.

[crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described. Since it’s only a four digit passcode this isn’t super secure, but it may give you time to locate and/or …

By Jason Kottke, kottke.org – December 27, 2010 at 03:09PM

A 20-hour span of blizzard in about 40 seconds. There are several points at which it seems the snow should stop accumulating on the table, but it never does.

Tags: time lapse   video   weather

By Kyle VanHemert, Gizmodo – December 27, 2010 at 02:20PM

How much snow has really piled up in the last 24 hours? Michael Black left a camera, a clock, and a meter stick in his backyard to find out. Watch it reach snowglobe status in a matter of seconds. [GawkerTV] More »

By Sheila Ryan, clusterflock – December 27, 2010 at 01:03PM

In the summer of 1956, an amateur filmmaker named Robbins Barstow made a record of his family’s trip to the Magic Kingdom, “Disneyland Dream,” that was recently admitted to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

Robbins Barstow died in November at the age of 91. You can view “Disneyland Dream” either on YouTube or the Internet Archive.

Watching “Disneyland Dream” reminded me of a friend’s discovery of a Flickr stream that included photos of the library in the town where he lived until he was four. He said looking at those photos was “like looking into a dream.” “Disneyland Dream” feels a bit like that for me, too, but not because I ever visited Disneyland. The Barstow family lived in Wethersfield, Connecticut, my parents’ hometown and the site of our annual summer pilgrimage. I returned to Wethersfield a couple of times as an adult, but in my mind it remains as it was in the 1950s and 1960s, when I was a child.

By Ben Blanquera, TechLife Ohio – December 27, 2010 at 12:05PM

Recently this question was asked on twitter:

What are the tech startups from Columbus, OH – Quora https://b.qr.ae/g7Ou7s #fb #in

Here’s a quick list top of mind list

OnTime – Your mobile calendar – powered by GPS. OnTime is a powerful mobile productivity app for your iPhone, BlackBerry or Android phone. More than just a mobile calendar, the OnTime application keeps track of your meetings, tasks, to-do-list – even local traffic patterns. All to keep you more productive and always OnTime.

FlyMuch.com – personalized travel intelligence while surfing travel sites

Mobilexpeditions – MobileXpeditions helps companies and organizations bring visitors to destinations — and helps keep them there. By providing unique, media-rich experiences on smartphones and tablets, the MX platform…

Janova- wed based automated testing tool

ResortGems (fka Vacationview) – resort vacation marketplace

Sparks – Campfie for ipad

eproximiti – interactive mobile technology

Not startups but relatively early stage and are kicking butt

e-cycle –  market leader in wireless recycling

CallCopy – innovators in call recording and contact center solutions

FreshBox Catering – Feed Your Appetite. Nourish Your Community.

links to more lists from Dave Hunegaw, and Brian Link

 

By matthew.lasar@arstechnica.com (Matthew Lasar), Ars Technica – December 27, 2010 at 11:56AM

The Federal Communications Commission’s new net neutrality rules are now almost a week old, and the fighting over them has just begun. Republicans vow they’ll kill the FCC’s
move in Congress, calling it a blow to personal liberty and small government.

Meanwhile the reform outfit Free Press has dubbed the Commission’s Order “Not Neutrality” and a “textbook example of industry capture of a federal agency.” The group is particularly disappointed that the rules exempt wireless broadband from its unreasonable discrimination ban and is lining up supporters for a new battle to get stronger regulations.

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By Sam Biddle, Gizmodo – December 27, 2010 at 11:39AM

Northeastern Giz readers—your house is very possibly buried underneath a considerable amount of snow. But don’t worry—housemaster extraordinaire Bob Vila has some handy tips on picking out the right snowblower. Time to liberate that front yard. [Bob Vila] More »

By Joshua Topolsky, Engadget RSS Feed – December 27, 2010 at 11:33AM

We’re not sure how many more times it must be said, but seriously people — stop texting on your cellphone while operating a gigantic vehicle at high speeds. If you’re not already convinced that driving a car and trying to tap out a message on a tiny keyboard (or heaven forbid, no keyboard at all) is a poor match, perhaps the short documentary AT&T has just released will convince you otherwise. The carrier is launching a campaign geared towards teens over the holidays leading up to New Year’s Eve in the hopes that the youth of the world will be slightly less sure of their invincibility — at least where car driving and text messaging is concerned. Sure, the video (located after the break) borders on sentimentality at times, but we’ll take a little heavy-handedness over the injury or death of human beings simply because someone couldn’t wait to tell someone else that they’d be there soon. Trust us, your friends aren’t that worried about punctuality.

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By Ben Blanquera, TechLife Ohio – December 27, 2010 at 08:28AM

Winners

You can view the 2010 winners of the Centurion, Upstart, or Weatherhead 100 awards.
Rank	Company Name	Sales Growth %	Description
1	TOA Technologies	1144.12%	TOA Technologies provides cloud-based, predictive mobile workforce management solutions to improve efficiency and customer service.
2	Fathom SEO, LLC	1017.48%	Fathom SEO offers results-oriented SEO, PPC, Internet video marketing and opt-in email marketing services.
3	Findaway World	906.63%	Findaway World is dedicated to delivering simple and immediate access to content listeners want or need.
4	SageQuest, Inc	644.62%	SageQuest provides GPS vehicle tracking solutions to improve the efficiency and productivity of mobile workforces.
5	DVUV HOLDINGS, LLC	601.71%	DVUV HOLDINGS, LLC is the global leader in UV-curable powder coating chemistry and application technology.
6	E-merging Technologies Group	599.40%	Professional services firm serving the National Defense Agencies; the Intelligence Community; state, local governments; and private sector companies.
7	SecureState	551.87%	SecureState helps their clients obtain and maintain their desired state of security through advisory services, audit and compliance, profiling and penetration tests, risk management, and business preservation.
8	Knotice	541.16%	Knotice maximizes the ROI of direct digital marketing through process automation, increased relevance, and improved performance.
9	Wellington Technologies, Inc.	493.14%	Wellington Technologies provides comprehensive lifecycle services for mission critical environments, including Hewlett-Packard enterprise-level servers.
10	Moscarino Outdoor Creations, INC	471.24%	Moscarino is an industry leader in landscaping design, maintenance and snow removal in Northeast Ohio.
11	Military Products Group, Inc.	460.37%	Manufacturer of hardware products used to secure, lift and tow military transport equipment and cargo.

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By timothy, Slashdot – December 26, 2010 at 08:11PM

MarkvW writes with this welcome bit of Schadenfreude: “People are finally starting to use the anti-spam laws in the malevolent manner in which they were intended — unlimited consumer lawsuits from unlimited plaintiffs!” The story’s protagonist is my hero for the season.

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