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Although you still can’t get your Beatles fix through the iTunes Store, Apple Corps has made a license agreement with MusicSkins, the maker of music-related vinyl skin products for electronic devices. As a result, you can now purchase Beatles personal device skins featuring the Beatles logo and cover art from “Abbey Road,” “Yellow Submarine,” “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” “Rubber Soul,” “Let It Be,” “With the Beatles,” and “Hard Day’s Night.”

We have something completely different we’d like to give away to one lucky TUAW reader — a limited edition (one of only 250) Beatles Album Jacket set with MusicSkins for the iPhone (2G, 3G, 3GS), iPod touch (1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation), iPod nano (5th Generation), and iPod Classic (80GB, 160GB). This features the full set of album cover art from the Beatles, and there are two MusicSkins for each of the iPod / iPhone types noted. If you don’t have all of the devices, you can give some away to your friends as gifts!

To enter this special giveaway, just leave a comment below with the name of your favorite Beatle (and no, Pete Best, Stu Sutcliffe, and Brian Epstein don’t count). Here are the details of the giveaway:

• Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older.
• To enter, leave a comment with the name of your favorite Beatle — John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, or Ringo Starr
• The comment must be left before Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 11:59PM Eastern Standard Time.
• You may enter only once.
• One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
• Prize: One Limited Edition set of MusicSkins featuring The Beatles (Value: US$120.00)
• Click Here for complete Official Rules.

Good luck!

TUAWWin a limited edition set of Beatles MusicSkins from TUAW originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Humor, Odds and ends, iPhone

TeleNav is known for its phone-based GPS navigation products, particular the AT&T Navigator app for iPhone. The company has over 11 million subscribers to its services, so it has a lot of data to sift through to find interesting location search trends.

That data showed that GPS location searches helped a lot of guys keep from getting in deep trouble with their significant others in the period surrounding Valentine’s Day. Mark Burfeind of TeleNav tells us that they put together all the florist and flower-related GPS searches in their products around Valentine’s Day, over 11 million users total, and “found that GPS may have come to the rescue for last minute shoppers.” Among the interesting finds:

• During Valentine’s Week (Feb. 8 – 14), searches for flowers increased more than 5.5 times over the previous, non-holiday week of Feb. 1 – 7.
• In fact, searches on Valentine’s Day alone outnumbered searches for the entire week of Feb. 1-7.
• It looks like GPS may have helped some people get out of the “doghouse” following Valentine’s Day. Searches for flowers by TeleNav’s users the Monday following Valentine’s Day were twice as high as those on an average Monday.

How about you, TUAW reader? Did you use your favorite iPhone navigation app to find flowers, candy, or an available restaurant reservation for Valentine’s Day? Leave us a comment and let us know if your iPhone’s GPS saved the day.

TUAWTeleNav: GPS helped guys get out of the Valentine’s Day doghouse originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HP just dropped five new cameras and three new camcorders at , including a few with touchscreen controls and revamped UIs. The $109 CW450t (pictured above) and $149 CW460t cameras have 2.7- and 3-inch touchscreen, respectively, and 4x optical zoom, while the $169 V5061u and $199 V5560u camcorders have 3-inch touchscreens shoot full 1080p — the V5560u adds in a 5x optical zoom. That’s not all for HP’s low-end imaging assault: there’s also the $99 CW450 and $129 SW450 cams with 4x zooms, the $149 PW550z with a 5x zoom, and the $109 V1020h camcorder that shoots 720p. Yes, it’s a confusing mish-mash of letters, numbers, and bargain-basement prices — isn’t the low-end point-and-shoot market just delightful?

HP kicks out new touchscreen cameras and camcorders originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve already seen the Motorola Devour in the wild once, but with the official Verizon launch right around the corner and pre-sales underway, it looks like at least one more unit has made it out into the world. Great — but we’d like a video of this thing and its mid-range processor running Flash, please.

[Thanks, Zach]

Motorola Devour in the wild once again originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Chrome OS. Man, seems like Google has gotten its hands into quite a few things since we last heard of that, but the underground is keeping things lively with new builds of Chromium OS — you know, to keep us satisfied while we wait for the real deal. Hexxeh has just unleashed its latest build, dubbed Flow, which makes a few critical improvements, particularly if you’re planning to install the system onto an Ion-based rig. Flow includes full NVIDIA Ion acceleration, and it also “improves battery life” while making the automatic update… um, work. Hit that source link to get your download on, and if you’ve been holding out for fear of trying something new, you’ve got your whole weekend to fix things should things go terribly awry.

[Thanks, Amrita]

New Chromium OS build brings full NVIDIA Ion acceleration, hope for the future originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Wow, some nice gadget fairy has just made our wish come true! Soon after our Dell Mini 5 impressions post went live, eagle-eyed reader unclepain reported that the phone’s docking station has made a quiet appearance in T3 Greek Edition’s bizarre hands-on video (seriously, we get the “DELLICIOUS” joke, but does that poor bloke really have to stand like that throughout the video?). According to the tiny bit of English we heard, the dock will have HDMI output and a USB port (for connecting to the computer, we presume) on the back. You can also see the short transparent back support when the presenter undocks the phone. Now, bundle this with Mini 5 or throw it à la carte at a reasonable price and we’re sold. Eccentric footage after the break.

[Thanks, unclepain]

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Dell Mini 5 docking station with HDMI port spotted in bizarre Greek video originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nokia cancels NFC-equipped 6216 handset originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Here’s hoping you didn’t pay your British bud to bring you one of those fancy Tenori-On Orange music makers over the holidays, ’cause if so, you just paid an absurd premium to get it a few months ahead of time. Oh, and now you’ve got an AC adapter that’s bigger than your face. Nice. At long last, experimental musicians here in America are being treated to a native version of the Tenori-On O, which is the “more affordable” sibling to the also-shipping Tenori-On W. Functionally, the new O model is exactly the same as the original W model, except it can’t be operated with batteries, its 256 orange LEDs are only visible on one side of the unit and it’s encased in plastic; Yamaha’s marketing the O to producers and studio hounds, whereas the W is made more for live performances. Whatever your fancy, the O should be available in a matter of moments for around $699.99 on the street, while the W can be had for around $300 more.

Yamaha brings Tenori-On Orange to US soil for $700, dares you to rock your own socks off originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You know what’s better than a new solid state drive? An Olympic gold medal. You know what else? A USB 3.0 SSD, of course! Active Media Products has just dished out details on its latest device, the Aviator-2 external USB 3.0 solid state drive. Available in case-only, 64GB and 128GB flavors, this one promises transfer rates as high as 4.8Gbits/sec (that’s ten times the rate of USB 2.0, just so you’re well aware), and considering the 3- x 5-inch size, you should have no issues slipping this into the chest pocket of your Members Only jacket. We’re in no place to comment on the difficultly of slipping $34.95, $259.95 or $449.95 (in order of mention) out of your wallet, though, which is essentially required in order to take one home. That’s the breaks, kid!

Active Media Products serves up Aviator-2 external USB 3.0 SSD originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Macworld, Video, Interviews

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a week since I left Macworld Expo 2010 to head home. Last night, I finally went through the last snippets of video from the Expo and put together this short compendium of three interviews.

The first company I talked to was Telnic.org, a group which champions the use of the .tel top level domain as a type of global address book. There’s a free iPhone app available for updating your .tel domain information from anywhere.

Next, I visited shortly with John from Agile Partners, the developers behind GuitarToolkit. TUAW’s resident musician, Mat Tinsley, reported on this app last September and it’s quite impressive.

Finally, I talked with the folks from myRete, who have created an interesting social networking app called WhosHere. There are over one million users of WhosHere, and with the free texting and VoIP capabilities of the app you can ask the locals in cities around the world for travel tips or a date. Want to perfect your language skills with a native speaker? WhosHere is an easy way to find someone to chat with.

As with several earlier videos, this suffers from a bit of mic noise. Our apologies!

TUAWMacworld 2010: A few more video tidbits originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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