<![CDATA[Gizmodo: website]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: website]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/website http://gizmodo.com/tag/website <![CDATA[Do We Honestly Think People Like Those Below Would Join a Pet Mouse Dating Site?]]> And you thought your dating site was niche. This concept dating service for pet mice owners lets singletons meet other like-minded individuals, and if their mice "get on" then with any luck, so should the humans.

Presumably membership at this ultra-exclusive dating site would gift each user with the Rotastak-esque tubing device for transporting your mouse, which features a docking system for them to, ahem, meet formally. Don't get me wrong, I'm the last person to laugh at online dating, but this whole concept is one of the most hilarious things I've heard of. [Vanessa Harden via DesignBoom]

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<![CDATA[Website With 30 Videos of Japanese Girls Apologizing, Or CD With 600 Girls Saying "I Love You"?]]> Are you looking for something "different" in your life? Watching Japanese girls apologize or say "I love you" turn you on? Simultaneously? Then you're strange, but hey, there is something that caters just to your tastes.

For Japan's upcoming Apology Day, an interactive website by the name of Ayamari Bijin offers 31 different girls apologizing in video messages, along with stacks of photos of them looking "remorseful". You can even find out their blood types! The best thing is that as they're all speaking in Japanese, you don't have the flipping faintest idea what they're actually apologizing for. You could pretend it's for actually daring to ask for a cuddle after sexytimes last night. Or perhaps for squeezing the toothpaste from the wrong end.

Perhaps you're a more vanilla kind of guy, in which case you'd rather hear Japanese girls say how much they love you? Either way, if you can't speak Japanese, it's much of a muchness. For $25, the Hougen CD has 600 different girls saying "I love you" in their various Japanese dialects.

So what'll it be tonight, men? Apologies or confessions of love? [Japan Trends and CrunchGear]

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<![CDATA[Check iPhone 3GS Availability Online First Before You Waste a Trip]]> Save yourself some wasted effort by checking on iPhone 3GS availability online first before you get in your car and head down to the store.

There's no such centralized interface for AT&T, so who knows how many they have. For a place that sells phones, they sure don't like to answer them all that promptly (in our experience). [Apple]

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<![CDATA[Circuit City May Rise Again As CircuitCity.com]]> The brick-and-mortar Circuit City may be dead, but if the placeholder on their website is any indicator, its spirit may live on as a website-only business. Excited? Eh...[Circuit City via CrunchGear]

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<![CDATA[Computer Weather Error Shows Why Houston Is in Extra Trouble]]> Hath Hell frozen over, or hath an internth presseth the wrong buttoneth? [Thanks Dustin!]

Update: Readers are pointing out that it's probably due to the hurricane. Had no idea it was due to that, so we hope our Houston readers and their friends and family are safe. Here's to you guys.

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<![CDATA[Apple's Website Shows iPhone Stock For Retail Shoppers]]> Soon many of you are going to go absolutely nuts trying to track down an iPhone 3G at Apple's retail outlets across the country, and that sounds like fun, but what if you get to your local store and they're out of the model you wanted? That would ruin your iPhone day completely. Thankfully Apple's got a neat page of its site that works with the retail back-end that tells you what phones are in stock at which stores. Put in which state you're in and you can see if the 8GB, 16GB, or 16GB Black iPhone 3G is in stock at your local store, or, more likely, which store you have to drive to to find one. [Apple]

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<![CDATA[How to Check if Your ISP is Throttling Your BitTorrent Traffic]]> Our ISP is currently Comcast, which is probably definitely throttling torrent traffic in this area, but how can we know for sure? Here's how. There's now a website that runs a little test, determining whether your ISP is throttling all traffic, all traffic on well-known BT ports, only BT traffic on well-known BT ports, or nothing at all. The full test takes seven minutes, but it's seven minutes well spent to find out whether you need another ISP. Or if you need to cut down on your PureTNA downloads. [Max Planck Institute via TorrentFreak via LifeHacker]

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<![CDATA[D-Link's D-Life Manages All Your D-Link Hardware Online]]> The Pitch: A website (www.d-life.com) that lets you register all your compatible D-Link equipment online via 2 product ID numbers in order to manage all that stuff in one interface. Just connect the product to your network and you can change settings via the website.
The Catch: This probably won't make it easier for your mother to manage a home network, but will make things slightly more convenient by merging all your equipment management sites. [D-Life]

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<![CDATA[Best Buy Still Using Secret In-Store Website With Higher Pricing [Update]]]> Even after being slapped in the face with a suit by a Connecticut attorney general, Best Buy is still having an internal bestbuy.com website that offers higher prices than the actual bestbuy.com. The only thing Best Buy promised to do is place a notice on the website to indicate that these are in-store prices, which may not be the same as the prices seen online. The point? Bring a printout or a browser-capable cellphone (don't use their Wi-Fi) so you can show employees the price you saw online, which they're supposed to honor. [Consumerist]

Update: A Best Buy employee sheds light on why this is happening:

Our tipster says that the site is used to give employees "a place where they can order large purchases that are shipped to home and the sale shows up on the store's sales report." It's also used to honor in store only prices, and will let them ship stuff to customers without a raincheck.

However, the stores aren't obligated to match the online prices, because different regions have different pricing structures, whereas their website has one price for everyone. The only time they have to honor prices, he claims, is if it's in the weekly circular ad.

Thanks tipster!

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<![CDATA[Super Bowl Dolphins Stadium Site Hacked, Spreading Malware]]> dolphinhacked.jpgSuper Bowl fans who are looking up info on the Dolphin Stadium site from a Windows machine may want to make sure they're using Firefox instead of IE. Apparently the site's been hacked and is hosting two known Windows Security flaws.

If you're running an unpatched Windows machine, your computer will connect to some server in China to download a trojan, which gives some very nerdy dudes complete access to your machine. So those of you who want to fetch info from dolphinstadium.com, make sure you've got the latest patches or are running a Mac/Linux machine. Either that or your wife's going to be pretty peeved when she finds some actual dolphin porn on your computer. Poor Flipper.

Super Bowl stadium site hacked, seeded with exploits [ZDNet]

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<![CDATA[Find The Best Unused FM Radio Frequency]]> If you're DJing up your own tunes with one of those old iPod FM transmitters that doesn't auto-seek the best frequency, you're probably always fiddling with it to try to get the optimum sound while driving. Say goodbye to potential vehicular manslaughter charges by using this FM radio locator before you even leave the house.

Just plug in your zip code—and the zip code you're going to be driving to—and you can see what the radio frequencies and their distances/signals are for FM and AM stations around you. This lets you quickly eyeball a big enough gap for you to slide your transmitter into. Educational and useful.

Product Page [Radio Locator via Lifehacker]

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<![CDATA[Price Protectr Saves You Money]]> Have you ever purchased a gadget only to have it drop in price the week after? Now you can make sure you get a pricematch/refund with Price Protectr. Just plug in the item you bought online, start tracking, and get notified by email when something drops in price.

Price Protectr supports Amazon, Best Buy, Circuit City, Costco, Future Shop, Office Max, Target, and other shops. Kind of a fire-and-forget solution that saves you time and possibly cash if you shop online often.

Product Page [Price Protectr via Lifehacker]

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<![CDATA[Hotcaptcha: Hot Babes Eliminate Bots]]>

You've probably seen website sign-up forms with a graphic of some crazy-looking twisted alphanumeric characters that you're asked to type into a form. That's to ensure that an actual human being has to do the signing up. It's called text Captcha (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart).

A novel approach to this concept is to display a series of pictures and instruct the website visitor to click on the kittens, or in the case of Hotcaptcha, click on the three attractive young ladies (or men, your choice) in the picture. Even though looks are subjective, machines can't tell the subtle differences between a plain Jane and a hot babe, at least not yet. The code is available to use on your own website. Looks like more fun than just typing in text. Nice idea.

Product Page [Hotcaptcha, via Propellerhead]

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<![CDATA[Junk For Sale]]>
Let s face it, there s a lot of crap for sale out there. Especially in the consumer electronics world, there are more knock offs of legitimate devices than actual devices available. Don t Buy Junk is a website combating this problem by aiming to be a resource about worthwhile products to purchase. It operates the same way a friend might recommend something. So what happens when your friend recommends crap? The site's TotalRank system calculates advice based on natural adjustment factors used to normalize different types of opinions. By comparing reviews from over 200+ sources with user reviews, Don t Buy Junk gives you tips that are almost Gizmodo close friend worthy.

What Exactly is Don t Buy Junk [Digital Media Thoughts]

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<![CDATA[Gizmodo Japan: Mars Flag]]> The intarweb needs a new search engine like it needs another goatse mirror. While Mars flag is coming to an already crowded party, it shows up fashionably late and in style. It's killer feature: visual indexing. Enter a family-friendly search phrase like "college coeds," then watch in horror *cough* delight, as your search results display in all their visually indexed glory. -JM

Mars Flag: Gizmodo

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