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With its  latest firmware update to webOS 1.3.5, Palm included a software library called SDL (or Simple Directmedia Layer) which grants low level hardware access to developers – which is perfect for accelerated 3D graphics.

Super-spoddy webOS hacker zsoc was quick to see the potential, and swiftly put  together a working port of the legendary shoot em up Doom, which runs within a card in Palm’s multi-tasking webOS.

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We’re big fans of Radiohead, and we loved the disturbing yet beautiful video to ‘House of Cards’ when it came out last year.

The video was created using cutting edge data visualisation techniques, and the folks at Indestructibles.com have produced a guide to creating your own video using the same effect.
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He’s an incredibly versatile actor who has mastered the Shakespearian classics and played a vast array of roles on stage and screen, but the 69-year-old Yorkshire actor Patrick Stewart is perhaps best celebrated for his role as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in the ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ series.

In a move sure to please Trekker fans, Stewart will soon be upgraded from a Starfleet captain to a ‘Sir’ as he’s just  been awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours List.

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We’ve already published YouTube’s list of their most watched videos of 2009, but social bookmarking site AddThis has chipped in with their own list of their most-shared articles from sites using their service.

Their listing shows something called ‘Santa Yourself’ at the top of the list (sorry, but we couldn’t be bothered to look it up), followed by a thigh-slapping musical rendition of a thunderstorm from the  Kim Komando Show (whatever that is).

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Their App Catalog is still trailing a considerable distance behind Apple’s bulging App Store, but US Palm Pre and Pixi users should soon have over a thousand apps to download on to their devices.

If you include the 380+ apps bubbling away in the HomeBrew community, it all points to healthy growth for Palm’s innovative webOS operating system.

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Brought to you by the company that created the legendary Gorillapod bendable tripods, the new Gorillacam app introduces a slew of useful tools to improve your iPhone snapping.

The free app adds a ton of nifty improvements to the iPhone’s basic snapper, including timed shots, time-lapse, burst mode, grid overlay and more.

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If Santa slipped a shiny new Blackberry into your festive sack and you haven’t had time to enjoy a good rummage through the offerings in BlackBerry App World, we’ve hand picked a selection of four top apps to get you started:

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We reported back in October that the Finnish mobile giant was suing its rival Apple for infringing their mobile phone technology patents with the iPhone, and things seem to be heating up to a true Battle Royale.

Apple slammed Nokia’s claim right back into their quid pro quos, swiftly firing off a countersuit claiming that Nokia was infringing 13 of their patents.

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Google’s futuristic mobile image recognition  feature — Google Goggles — has been demoed on the Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10.

Although the Xperia is yet to be released, you can see the impressive technology in action, with the phone’s camera being used to scan an object and return search results based on what it can ‘see.’

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A report a while back reckoned that getting on for a million mobile phones are sent crashing down UK toilets every year, at a cost of £324 million.

With the festive season in full swing, we reckon there’s a good chance several more phones will also be U-bend bound, and if you’re unlucky enough to send your handset in the direction of the lapping waters below, don’t panic – all is not lost!

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Rumoured to be in response to poor sales, the Carphone Warehouse is giving away two free airline tickets to anyone who buys a Palm Pre before the end of January.

Although the Palm Pre won widespread rave reviews, with many declaring it to be a worthy challenger to the iPhone, sales have apparently failed to match up to expectations.

We can’t say we’re that surprised, to be honest.

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Created by a family business in Brooklyn, USA, Grado’s philosophy is to simply create the best sounding headphones they can, with sound quality being placed far ahead of streetwise looks and funky features.

That’s the kind of philosophy we like when it comes to audio products, and the Grado SR60i’s are certainly gloriously untroubled by the vagaries of fashion, looking look like something WW2 pilots might have strapped on to their heads before going off for a dogfight.

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First off, we’d like to wish a Happy Christmas to our readers! Thanks for sticking with us. We’re well chuffed with the speed that the site is growing and we hope to have lots more for you in the new year.

Now that it’s Christmas, folks often choose to spread the festive cheer by firing off some SMSs to their chums, so here’s some stats we thought you might be interested in.

Festive texting

Not surprisingly, the holiday period is one of the busiest texting periods, building up to a veritable frenzy on New Year’s Day.

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Based on the number of streams each track received in their six launch countries, music streaming site Spotify have released a listing of their most listened-to tracks of 2009.

if you’re a Spotify users, you can listen to the top Spotify tracks playlist featuring the top tracks of the year.

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Google  have emailed its users this morning to thank them for the “time, energy, commitment, and trust” they’ve shared with the company.

The email – presented in the form of a wrapped Christmas present – goes on to say:

“With sharing in mind, this year we’ve decided to do something a little different. We hope you’ll find it fits the spirit of the Christmas season.”

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