Is Social Networking's Honeymoon Nearly Over?

The recent launch of Google+, which offers users a convenient way of managing who gets to see what, addresses the social networking privacy issue to an extent. However, the vast majority of Facebook's multitudes are still not terribly concerned -- they're having too much fun. There's a need to pay more attention to privacy, though, and technology analyst Scott Steinberg is confident that social networkers are awakening to that fact.

Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/73037.html

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Acer Aspire Ultrabook Has a Familiar Air About It

I can't quite place it, but these leaked photos of Acer's upcoming Aspire 3951 are curiously familiar. The ultrabook, which weighs just 1.4 kilograms and measures 13 mm at its fattest point, should hit stores in October.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/acer-aspire-ultrabook-has-a-familiar-air-about-it/

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Windows 8 getting a built-in PDF reader, Metro-style

For what seems like an eternity, Download Squad readers have reacted to news of security exploits targeting Adobe Reader with a common sentiment: why doesn't Microsoft build its own secure PDF reader into Windows? Apparently the Windows 8 team agrees, and they're working away at an application called Modern Reader which is exactly that.

From the handful of screenshots Paul Thurrott has shared, it's clear that Modern Reader has been built with Metro in mind. You can see the Reader back button in the top-left corner of the yellow image and the minimal page navigation bar on the right. We've posted some larger images we managed to scrape from Google's cache after the break.

Thurrott also mentions that Modern Reader is the first program spotted which is built using AppX -- a packaging technology that may allow developers to roll a single build to both Windows 8 desktops and Windows Phone 8 mobile devices.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/04/04/windows-8-getting-a-built-in-pdf-reader-finally/

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Gavin DeGraw Attacked, Hospitalized in New York City

Gavin DeGraw Attacked, Hospitalized in New York City

Singer Gavin DeGraw was brutally assaulted early Monday morning after a night out with friends in Manhattan's East Village.

According to the New York Post, DeGraw, 34, was attacked by a group of men sometime between 3:50 and 4:20 a.m. After escaping his attackers, he reportedly walked several blocks and was struck by a taxi, "although not seriously," police sources said.

Reps for the platinum-selling artist confirmed in a statement: "Gavin DeGraw was assaulted ... and was taken to the emergency room at Bellevue Hospital by ambulance. He is currently under observation. We have no additional information at this time."

Sources say the "I Don't Want to Be" singer, who lives in New York City and co-owns a bar with his brother near the site of his attack, had been out drinking with his pals but parted ways with them just before the "pack of thugs" outnumbered him, the Post reports.

Although his reps wouldn't comment on the severity of his injuries, police sources tell the Post he suffered a broken nose and cuts on his face.

The violent assault comes during a busy time in DeGraw's career. He has a new album debuting in September and has spent the summer touring with Train and Maroon 5. He was scheduled to perform Tuesday night in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Source: http://www.ivillage.com/gavin-degraw-attacked-hospitalized-new-york-city/1-a-371427

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Apple Launches Lion Recovery Disk Assistant

For Mac OS X Lion users paranoid about traveling without carrying an emergency boot disk for their computer, worry no longer. Even if you have already hacked your own installer on a USB thumb drive, you can now make an officially sanctioned one using the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant. It’s easy. Download the 1MB application (from [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/apple-launches-lion-recovery-disk-assistant/

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NASA x STEM | Pharrell Williams Teams Up With Leland Melvin For The Youth

'Hangover' Writers Skipping Threequel, Eyeing Fourth And Fifth Films?!

Despite the box office-melting success of "The Hangover" and "The Hangover Part II" the original film's writers, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, will be sitting out the third installment. "I think we're going to be involved in the fourth and the fifth [films]," Moore joked to MTV News at the premiere of their latest raunchy comedy, [...]

Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2011/08/08/hangover-3-writers/

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