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Monday Lunchtime News (26 Comments) (link)
 Monday, 21-March-2011  13:05:41 (GMT +10) - by Sciby

There's apps for everything on the iPhone app store, and apparently now there's an app to "cure" homosexuality. "Truth Wins Out, an organization that uncovers the fraudulent tactics and research of the "ex-gay" movement, was one of the first to point out that Exodus International, an outfit that promotes and endorses "conversion therapy" for gay people, launched an iPhone app earlier this month. The Exodus app is intended to reach tech-savvy young adults, and deliver this dangerous message: you can be "freed from homosexuality" and have your sexual orientation "cured" if you're LGBT." It honestly boggles the mind how some people get to that sort of end result in their head.

While we're talking about iPhones, there's been rumours that the iPhone 5 (or whatever the next model is called) will contain NFC (Near-Field Communcation) technology, that will allow for situations such as swipe-payments, etc. Cult of Mac have heard that it may go one step further, in the direction of remote computing. "... when a NFC-equipped iPhone is paired with a guest machine, part of the user’s profile includes the apps they’ve purchased through the Mac App Store. The icons for their apps appear on the remote Mac, but aren’t downloaded ... But if the user opens an app, it is downloaded temporarily to the computer for use. When the NFC connection is broken, the apps are deleted and the computer returns to its previous state." Sounds cool... but only for Mac users. Will there be a similar system in place for PC users? I wonder if Android will develop something for the corporate/enterprise environment that's much more flexible?

It admittedly happened a couple of days ago, but Nasa's "Messenger" probe has entered a stable orbit around Mercury preparing for a year-long study of the planet closest to our sun. "... Messenger rotated to face the Earth by 9:45pm, and started transmitting data. Engineering and operations teams confirmed the maneuver went according to plan. The event marks the end of a 6.5-year journey for Messenger, which has made 12 laps around the solar system, two flybys past Earth, one past Venus and three past Mercury before since launching in August 2004."

Heading into popular software development, Ars Technica have reported on Mozilla having released a roadmap regarding their developement process of Firefox for 2011: "The document describes a 16-week development cycle in which software improvements will flow down through several tiers. The tiered model appears very similar to Chrome's channel system. New code will initially land in mozilla-central, the repository that hosts the tip of the code base. As new features solidify, they will roll through "experimental" and "beta" channels before arriving in a stable release." It does sound a little dry, but it's still an interesting look into where they're heading after the impending release of Firefox v4.

Microsoft are really pushing cloud connectivity behind Windows 7 and Windows Live via TV adverts, but is it that easy to work out? Computing.on.Demand have whipped up some step-by-step instructions to let you do what the ads say you can.(Unless you don't use Windows 7)

This video did the rounds a little while ago, but it's still great (and makes me cringe from time to time): Crazy Moscow motorcyclist's high-speed commute. He *had* to scrape some paint of some of those cars. Please don't copy that guy, we want you to stay healthy and un-embedded from some random bus. :)

Finally, it looks like all the fuss over the Fukushima reactors in Japan has disappeared - when the media coverage stops, that's a sign that there's no outrage or scandal to be squeezed out. XKCD, a very clever web-comic, have published a handy guide to radiation doses and what's healthy. Thank god, because I was just about to eat a banana... that was close.

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