Monday, September 23, 2013

Evernote Web Clipper's new Gmail function saves copies of emails and attachments

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DNP Evernote Gmail clipper

Keeping your Gmail account organized isn't that hard when you can tag and star emails. Evernote Web Clipper's new function, however, promises easier access to missives you deem particularly important. Once the Chrome extension is installed, it saves any message you want along with its attachments in just one click. One note, though: you'll need a premium account to search through any attached documents. Note that the Gmail clip will look like a garbled mess (especially if it's a lengthy thread) on Web Clipper's preview screen, but on the Evernote app or web portal it will appear nicely formatted. If you think this new function can help you wrangle an increasingly unruly Gmail account, hit the source link below for more info or look for the extension on the Chrome Web Store.

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For Women, Is Masturbation the Last Sex Taboo?

“Tonight is the night I’m gonna celebrate,” sings Sarah Silverman in a new music video, which features a guest appearance by Will.i.am. “Stay at home,” she continues, “order in, watch a movie, then masturbate.” She smokes some weed. She waters her plants. She follows a few B-list celebs on Twitter. She gets stoned again. She watches some YouPorn on her iPhone.

What’s brilliant about the video is that, despite Silverman’s reputation, it isn’t audacious raunch-comedy. It’s a depiction of self-love fitting into normal, everyday life. This is how we all assume any man masturbates. Not because someone’s watching him. Not because he’s in a particularly sexy mood. Not as a performance for his partner. Just as something he’s doing when he’s got a little downtime.

This attitude is apparently all too rare among women, 46.6 percent of whom say they masturbate less than once a month, according to a forthcoming new app called HappyPlayTime. The app encourages women to touch themselves more often by providing anatomy lessons and techniques — “This is the clitoris. Make a circular motion here.” — all courtesy of anthropomorphized vagina that looks oddly like a Kewpie doll. As designer Tina Gong explains her motivations, “The fact remains that many women and girls don’t masturbate at all and may not even know how to.”

We expect boys to start playing with themselves while they’re still in utero and continue until they’re old men. But decades after the sexual revolution, in our supposedly post-feminist era, cultural ideas about women and masturbation remain much more complex. On the one hand (er, “with one hand?”), a full 92 percent of women say they’ve touched themselves. On the other, I know some adult (feminist!) women who never masturbate or claim they don’t enjoy it. Yet, vibrator sales have soared, with the devices now mass-marketed by condom companies. Trojan’s fingertip massager and Durex’s vibrating bullet are both available at that bastion of mainstream American values, Walmart. Still, apparently it’s still taboo enough that women need a new app to encourage them not to be grossed out by their own genitalia.

iPhones or not, we’ve come a long way. In 1953, only 62 percent of women admitted to sex researcher Alfred Kinsey that they had masturbated — in contrast with 92 percent of men. Playgirl launched in 1973 but bills itself as “Entertainment for everyone.” Cyndi Lauper’s 1984 hit “She Bop” and accompanying video, which features the singer perusing a Beefcake magazine and suggestively touching a vibrating motorcycle, was named one of the “Filthy Fifteen” by Tipper Gore’s Parents’ Music Resource Center. (The song, by the way, is the namesake of a woman-friendly sex shop in Portland.) At a 1991 concert in Austin, the Divinyls were forced to stop performing their self-love anthem “I Touch Myself” mid-song. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders was fired from the Clinton White House in 1994 for suggesting that masturbation "is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught." (Elders recently endorsed legalizing marijuana, which I’m taking as tacit support for the Silverman-articulated combo of smoking and self-love.) These days a Google search for “porn for women” is as likely to return jokes about men cleaning the bathroom as it is pictures of them naked, and a Christian group called Dirty Girl Ministries crusades against “the evils of female masturbation.”

This backlash against onanism is odd, because research says that, overall, women are more likely than men to discuss sex — but not self-sex. When it comes to talking about masturbation, it’s more acceptable in certain liberal, educated circles to make jokes about women getting themselves off. Male jack-off jokes? Kind of gross. Or juvenile. But my female friends and I still text each other things like, “Have fun at Sarah’s party. I’m staying in to give myself a HJ.” One friend told me about how she was “going manual” for a few weeks because she was worried she liked her vibrator too much. (She’s back on the batteries now.) Another refers to Father John Misty, one of her top celeb sex fantasies, as “Father John Masty.” Men, apparently, exhaust their capacity for masturbation humor while still in high school. The upside about the taboo of female masturbation is that jokes about women and self-sex are transgressive well into adulthood.

After reading Daniel Bergner’s new book on female desire a few weeks ago, one idea has stuck in mind: The notion that women enjoy sex has not yet achieved scientific or cultural acceptance. To social conservatives, it seems downright dangerous. What’s left to hold our society and nuclear family structure together if even women like sex more than they like babies? There’s no purer example of this than a woman enjoying the pleasure of her own company. And so it remains taboo. Bergner reports on an Ohio State University study in which female college students were more likely to admit that they masturbated if they had a guarantee of confidentiality. It’s not hard to understand why; Pop-culture depictions of women touching themselves are still overwhelmingly porny. It’s something bad girls do, not something every girl does. Sure, maybe a friendly, step-by-step app will help alter this. But broader change will probably come once we get used to the idea that many women are doing what Sarah Silverman is — just touching ourselves as part of a low-key Saturday night on the couch.


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Gwyneth Paltrow Wore a Silk and Ruffle Halter Top

Yesterday, the mother of Apple and Moses appeared in the desert (a.k.a. Las Vegas) to deliver a keynote address at the Licensing Expo 2013. While the Goop founder looked classy in a black-and-white outfit from Prabal Gurung's fall 2013 collection, she added a touch of Sin City flashiness with her top, an ivory silk halter with ruffles (or oranganza wings) fluttering out near her arms. She wore tight-fitting, high-waisted black pants and gave off a Gwyneth glow — a byproduct of her diet, obvs.


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Netflix streaming is coming to the Netherlands later this year

Netflix To Launch In The Netherlands In Late 2013

Dutch To Get TV Shows And Films Anytime, Anywhere, On Any Device For One Low Monthly Price From Netflix

LOS GATOS, Calif., June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), today announced it will expand into the Netherlands later this year, offering a wide-range of great TV shows and films for one low monthly price.

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Upon launch, broadband Internet users in the Netherlands can subscribe to Netflix and instantly watch Hollywood, local and global TV series and films, including critically-acclaimed Netflix Original Series such as "House of Cards" and "Arrested Development" whenever and wherever they like on tablets, phones, TVs, game consoles and computers.

Since launching its streaming video service in 2007, Netflix has revolutionized entertainment, putting consumers in charge of how they enjoy their entertainment, all for one low monthly price. Members can play, pause and resume watching series and films across devices, always without commercials or contractual commitments.

Netflix is the world's leading Internet television network with more than 36 million members in 40 countries enjoying more than one billion hours of TV shows and movies per month. Using the unique Netflix recommendation engine, each member is presented a personalized list of TV and movie titles to enjoy from Netflix.

People interested in becoming Netflix members in the Netherlands can go to www.netflix.nl and sign up to receive an e-mail alert when Netflix has launched. Further details, including pricing, content and supported devices will be available later.

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Netflix is the world's leading Internet television network with more than 36 million members in 40 countries enjoying more than one billion hours of TV shows and movies per month, including original series. For one low monthly price, Netflix members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any Internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments. Learn more about how Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is pioneering Internet television at www.netflix.com or follow Netflix on Facebook and Twitter.


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PS3 users report 4.45 update locks up systems, may be tied to large HDDs (updated)

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Planned to turn on your PS3 for some The Last of Us action tonight? According to a thread on the PlayStation Support forums, if you're prompted to install the latest firmware update version 4.45 then you may want to hold off for the moment. A number of owners are reporting their systems will no longer fully boot up after the update, although the problem may only affect users with hard drives installed that are 500GBs or larger. According to the changelog, it was supposed to allow users to select whether or not they want an in-game notification when a trophy is earned. If it is tied to user-replaced hard drives, then it wouldn't be the first time -- v3.41 resulted in a few corrupted PlayStation 3 drives a few years ago. Check the thread for more details, if we hear anything from Sony then we'll let you know when it's safe to press OK.

Update: It appears the update has been pulled and users are no longer being prompted to download it, but we still haven't received any official response from Sony on the situation.

Update 2: According to the PlayStation Europe Twitter account, Sony is aware of the problem, and has taken 4.45 offline to investigate the issue.


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Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MDP benchmarks: prepare for ludicrous speed

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MDP benchmarks prepare for ludicrous speed

Today we had a chance to play with Qualcomm's latest MDP devices (tablet and phone) which pack the company's mighty Snapdragon 800 SoC (MSM8974). The tablet is slightly larger than than last year's and features an 11.6-inch 1,920 x 1,080-pixel display, 2GB of LPDDR3 RAM, 32GB of built-in flash storage (with microSD expansion), USB 3.0 support and a 12 megapixel AF rear camera with flash (2MP fixed-focus in front). All of this is crammed into a slim (0.46 inches / 11.7mm) chassis that's powered by a 3,400mAh Li-ion battery and incorporates a bevvy of radios (LTE band 17, WiFi ac, Bluetooth 4 LE, GPS, NFC) and sensors (including pressure and humidity).

The phone shares most of the tablet's specs but swaps the screen for a 4.3-inch panel (1,280 x 720 pixels) and the battery for a smaller (1,500mAh) pack. We put these Snapdragon 800-equipped MDPs through their paces by running our usual suite of benchmarks (plus a few more). The results? Prepare for ludicrous speed! More after the break.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MDP tablet screenshots See all photos 14 Photos

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MDP phone screenshots See all photos 14 Photos

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MDP devices See all photos 21 Photos

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As you can tell from the numbers, the Snapdragon 800 certainly smokes its predecessors and even Samsung's zippy Exynos 5 Octa. Still, Nvidia's Tegra 4 put up a decent fight and even managed to beat Qualcomm's processor in a couple of tests. It'll be interesting to see how the SoC wars shape up as these chips make it into consumer devices later this year. We're certainly looking forward to it.

S800 MDP tablet (MSM8974)S800 MDP phone (MSM8974)S4 Pro MDP tablet (APQ8064)Samsung Galaxy S 4 (Exynos 5 Octa)Quadrant 2.020,76222,0227,69813,326Vellamo 2.02,9972,9142,5381,977AnTuTu 3.x35,78333,82813,82628,167SunSpider 0.9.1 (ms)5435661,227732SunSpider 1.0 (ms)657674N/AN/AGLBenchmark Egypt 2.5 Offscreen (fps)6968N/A41CF-Bench36,74433,87618,21920,800AnTuTu 3D (on-screen)10,14310,923N/A8,1443DMark (Ice Storm)13,73814,371N/A10,179Google Octane3,2543,292N/A3,730Linpack (multi-thread)819937N/A563Smartbench (productivity/gaming)10,377/4,28810,068/4,548N/A6,884/3,700AndEBench (native)17,69715,086N/A12,600SunSpider: lower scores are betterSamsung Galaxy S 4 (S600)HTC One (S600)HTC First (S400)HTC Droid DNA (S4 Pro)Quadrant 2.012,68412,4955,9528,028Vellamo 2.01,9032,4292,2391,752AnTuTu 3.x26,14325,14011,26714,474SunSpider 0.9.1 (ms)7729911,9951,150SunSpider 1.0 (ms)N/AN/AN/AN/AGLBenchmark Egypt 2.5 Offscreen (fps)39341431CF-Bench28,11125,26711,26718,386AnTuTu 3D (on-screen)5,6186,099N/AN/A3DMark (Ice Storm)11,14511,495N/AN/AGoogle Octane2,2651,524N/AN/ALinpack (multi-thread)655567N/AN/ASmartbench (productivity/gaming)7,265/2,7027,136/2,851N/AN/AAndEBench (native)14,2286,808N/AN/ASunSpider: lower scores are betterSamsung Galaxy Note II (Exynos 4 Quad)Nvidia Tegra 4 ref deviceQuadrant 2.06,81916,436Vellamo 2.01,831N/AAnTuTu 3.x13,53936,305SunSpider 0.9.1 (ms)1,023499SunSpider 1.0 (ms)N/AN/AGLBenchmark Egypt 2.5 Offscreen (fps)17N/ACF-Bench15,26741,325AnTuTu 3D (on-screen)N/AN/A3DMark (Ice Storm)N/AN/AGoogle OctaneN/AN/ALinpack (multi-thread)N/AN/ASmartbench (productivity/gaming)N/AN/AAndEBench (native)N/AN/ASunSpider: lower scores are better

Nicole Lee contributed to this report.

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