Ready or not, you're getting Facebook Timeline

Facebook announced in a blog post Tuesday that Timeline will be coming to all users in the next few weeks.

According to a Facebook blog post Tuesday -- or rather, an update to the post published when Timeline became available to all users -- you will have seven days to preview your Timeline and hide content you don't want out in the open.

Facebook says you'll receive a notification at the top of your home page when Timeline has landed in your account. That seven-day preview period is the same for users who activate Timeline and those whose accounts are activated automatically.

Those particularly eager for the new Facebook could first access Timeline in September 2011 by creating developer accounts.

The new interface and features have been opt-in, until the roll out becomes universal. Beginning in December 2011, users couldenable the new look with one click, and then publish their Timelines for their friends to see.

If you're confused by the new look, Facebook describes its new product, "Timeline gives you an easy way to rediscover the things you shared, and collect your most important moments. It also lets you share new experiences, like the music you listen to or the miles you run." Facebook's Introducing Timeline page walks new users through the new features, such as covers, stories and app integration.

Learn more about filling in your timeline here

Have you been holding out hoping this Timeline thing would never become universal? Are you upset to be forced into the new look? Let us know in the comments.

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Study: Multitasking hinders youth social skills

FaceTime, the Apple video-chat application, is not a replacement for real human interaction, especially for children, according to a new study.

Tween girls who spend much of their waking hours switching frantically between YouTube, Facebook, television and text messaging are more likely to develop social problems, says a Stanford University study published in a scientific journal on Wednesday.

Young girls who spend the most time multitasking between various digital devices, communicating online or watching video are the least likely to develop normal social tendencies, according to the survey of 3,461 American girls aged 8 to 12 who volunteered responses.

The study only included girls who responded to a survey in Discovery Girls magazine, but results should apply to boys, too, Clifford Nass, a Stanford professor of communications who worked on the study, said in a phone interview. Boys' emotional development is more difficult to analyze because male social development varies widely and over a longer time period, he said.

"No one had ever looked at this, which really shocked us," Nass said. "Kids have to learn about emotion, and the way they do that, really, is by paying attention to other people. They have to really look them in the eye."

The antidote for this hyper-digital phenomenon is for children to spend plenty of time interacting face-to-face with people, the study found. Tweens in the study who regularly talked in person with friends and family were less likely to display social problems, according to the findings in the publication Developmental Psychology.

"If you eschew face-to-face communication, you don't learn critical things that you have to learn," Nass said. "You have to learn social skills. You have to learn about emotion."

The Stanford researchers were not able to determine a magic number of hours that children should spend conversing per week, Nass said. Social skills are typically only learned when children are engaged and making eye contact, rather than fiddling with an iPod during a conversation, he said.

FaceTime and Skype are not replacements for actual face time because other studies have found that people tend to multitask while on video calls, Nass said.

Nass is a self-described technologist of 25 years, who has worked as a consultant with many major electronics firms, including Google and Microsoft. He said the findings disturbed him.

A few years ago, Nass worked on a study about how multitasking affects adults. He found that heavy multitaskers experience cognitive issues, such as difficulty focusing and remembering things. They were actually worse at juggling various activities, a skill crucial to many people's work lives, than those who spent less time multitasking, Nass said.

Free iPhone 4S in China

The second largest wireless carrier--and only official iPhone carrier--in China is offering the iPhone 4S for free when customers sign up for a multiyear contract.

According to a report by Bloomberg, China United Network Communications Group (China Unicom) is offering monthly rates for as low as $45 USD in an attempt to get customers locked in to a three-year service commitment.

Of course, adding iPhone users is no walk in the park; recall the issues experienced by AT&T after the release of the original iPhone stymied its network on a regular basis.

China Unicom found that adding iPhone users has quadrupled 3G subsidy costs since the first half of 2011.

While the promise of increased users looks good in the press, China Unicom's stock took a 1.3 percent hit, most likely reacting to the huge subsidy costs and associated costs with maintaining a network carrying the iPhone.

Given the current mobile climate, it doesn't seem as though we can expect anything close to this kind of deal here in the U.S., though I'm sure it would be more than welcome. As wireless carriers continue to build next-generation networks, their costs continue rising.

If anything, I'd expect data rates to hold or rise in the next few years. Would you commit for three years at a rate of $45 per month? Let me know your thoughts in the comments!

Read more: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-57354273-233/get-a-free-iphone-4s-in-china/#ixzz1iyMZlswr

Unofficial Steve Jobs action figure is so realistic it's creepy

I adore action figures and I respect Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs, but the Steve Jobs action figure that's supposedly becoming available in late February makes me want to run away screaming.

Just look at it! It's so realistic that it's genuinely a little bit unnerving.

The Verge's Joseph L. Flatley seems to agree with my assessment — though he prefers to describe the action figure as "pretty awesome" yet almost "Uncanny Valley-creepy."

Am I the only one shuddering? Must be all those creepy beady-eyed dolls I encountered as a child.

Flatley reports that the 1:6 scale figure will be distributed by a company called DiD Corp., cost a hundred bucks (plus shipping) once it becomes available in February, and have some remarkable characteristics. Creepily remarkable characteristics, that is:

It's worth noting that DiD Corp.'s figurine isn't the first of its kind. Toward the end of 2010, Steve Jobs action figures were sold through and by a website called M.I.C. Gadget. The fun didn't last long though, because a law firm representing Apple quickly requested that the company cease marketing and selling the action figure.

Will the (far more realistic) action figure offered DiD Corp. suffer the same fate? We'll just have to wait and see.

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The company wants you to take note of [the action figure's] "piercing eyes of soul" that will "always remind you to stay hungry, stay foolish and to follow your heart in the limited life."

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How to hack website

Hack instructions:

1. Go to www.myspace.com, www.microsoft.com or just about any other website you like
2. Wait for the page to fully load
3. In your browser’s address bar, enter the code below (copy and paste all in one line)
4. Hit enter
5. Wait a second
6. See what happens 

Code:

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24;x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length;function A(){for(i=0; i<dil ; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style;DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5;DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++ }setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

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How to Hack wifi

You don't have to be an IT expert to be able to make use of your neighbour's security enabled Wifi network. Just watch one of the dozens of online videos that explains how.

Despite most of them being fitted with some kind of password (WEP, WPA etc.), Wifi networks are still relatively vulnerable. And by using another person's network, hackers can illegally download documents or attack websites without being traced.

If pirates should download paedophilic pornography, it's the owner of the home network, the person who pays the monthly wireless fee, who will find himself in court. In France, an anti-piracy law called Hadopi 2 enforces this by making it impossible to sentence a home network owner for having a poorly protected network.

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