O'Reilly helps Japan, offers entire e-book catalog for 50% off, today only

O'reilly make some of the best computer books in the world. They also sell them as DRM-free e-books in a bunch of formats, including PDFs and Mobi for Kindle.

They usually offer one "Deal of the Day", which is a 50% discount code for a book chosen for that one day. But just for for today, they've created a discount code -- DDJPN -- that gives you a 50% discount on their entire catalog, and they give a part of the proceeds to aid Japan relief efforts.

So far they've raised over $60,000, and the day is still young. So if you've been recently hankering after some nerdy book (or three), now would be a great time to grab one.

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Military Meltdown Monday - Not Just a Catchy Name

The Antisec hacker movement, which targets the websites of governments and their agencies worldwide, on Monday hacked into the website of defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. The group posted a 130 MB file of data stolen from Booz Allen's servers on the Pirate Bay BitTorrent website.

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Colorado Woman Flips the Script and Molests TSA Agent [Tsa]

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Being Green and Beautiful

London brand Hulger and designer Sam Wilkinson have designed a CFL bulb named Plumen 001, the world’s first designer low energy light bulb.  Plumen is a bulb that finally doesn’t need to hide behind a lampshade.   This bulb consumes 80% less energy than incandescent bulbs and life expectancy is eight years.  Plumen 001 can [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/07/17/being-green-and-beautiful/

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Deal of the Day ? VIZIO Active Noise-Cancelling HD Home Theater Headphones with Wireless Dock for iPod

Today?s LogicBUY Deal is the VIZIO XVTHP200 active noise-cancelling high definition home theater headphones with wireless dock for iPod for $199.99.  This is $28 lower than any other price found by LogicBUY for these headphones. $249.99 – $50 off = $199.99 with free shipping This deal expires July 16, 2011 or sooner. Check the above [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/07/16/deal-of-the-day-%e2%80%93-vizio-active-noise-cancelling-hd-home-theater-headphones-with-wireless-dock-for-ipod/

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Daily Crunch: Check-In Edition

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Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/06/30/daily-crunch-check-in-edition/

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Chocomize personalized chocolate: giveaway and discount code

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Okay, I know what you're thinking: chocolate on Download Squad? That's right! That's because Chocomize is one of the nerdiest ways to get chocolate online: it's a website where you customize your own bar using a multi-step process.

We've covered Chocomize before in our holiday gift guide, so when they reached out to us offering to do a giveaway, we really couldn't resist.

Chocomize is giving away ten gift certificates, each worth $50, for you to create your own customized chocolate. They sent us some pictures of their recent creations, which you can find in the gallery below.

Regardless of the giveaway, you can use the discount code switched to get 10% off any Chocomize order. The code is valid through April 20th - just in time for Easter!

To participate, simply leave a comment. Fine print is after the jump.

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Tablet Buzz Blog Presenting: Hand crafted ipad2 case

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Nikon Shows Off Rather Dull Future Camera Concepts

Nikon is showing off a few of its own concept cameras on the I Am Nikon blog. These prototypes were on display at La Cité des Sciences in Paris, and are now conveyed across the world in photographic form for your titillation. First up is the Multi-Ball (above), a camera with many, many spherical eyes arranged [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/07/nikon-shows-off-rather-dull-future-camera-concepts/

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Apple orders iCab iOS browser to cripple JavaScript modules

The developer of iCab Mobile, a feature-rich alternative to the Safari Web browser on iPad and iPhone, has been ordered by Apple to remove its ability to download and install JavaScript modules.

Presumably it's not the fact that iCab can execute JavaScript that's causing Apple to apoplectically puff and splutter, but rather its ability to download modules. Both Apple and Google frown upon apps that contain market-like functionality, and someone at Apple probably thought that iCab's JavaScript modules looked like a bit too much like discrete apps.

Alexander Clauss, iCab's developer, has rather a lot to say on the matter. "Maybe if I would have called the modules 'smart bookmarks' and would have made installing them much more complicated, Apple would have never asked to remove the ability to download them from the internet. The great user experience of installing modules has probably created a suspicion that these modules are more than just a piece of JavaScript code. From a pure technical point of view, if Apple does not allow to download modules (JavaScript code), Apple would also have to disallow to load web pages in general, because these do also contain JavaScript code."

In conclusion, to circumvent Apple's draconian decree, iCab Mobile now simply comes bundled with some 20 JavaScript modules. The ability to download modules made by third-party developers has been disabled, however -- but even then, Clauss says that you can simply contact him and ask for your module to be bundled with the next version of iCab.

Download iCab Mobile for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch ($1.99)

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