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10 weird iPhone attachments

There’s more to the iPhone than the App Store. Chances are, if you eat, sleep, or sweat with an iPhone at your side, there’s an attachment that will make your life easier -- or at least more entertaining.
iPhone 5? The 11 best uses for your old iPhone

Here are 11 good ideas for an 'obsolete' iPhone:
5 top childcare options: costs and value, from day care to nanny

Which childcare option is right for you?
'Drop Dead Healthy': 8 of A.J. Jacob's unusual get-fit regimens

From a working at a treadmill desk to practicing extreme chewing, here are 8 strategies A.J. Jacobs tried as part of his quest for perfect fitness.
Switching from a Mac to a PC: Five lessons from an Apple fanboy

The Internet is filled with testimonials of people ditching their PC for a hip new Mac. Where once they trudged through stodgy spreadsheets, they now write screenplays and edit flashy videos (if the ads are to be believed). But there's almost no material documenting the opposite experience. Most of the personal switching-to-Windows stories are many years out of date and center around now-obsolete "But you can't play games and none of your software will work!" arguments.So, here are the top five things an Apple fanboy learned from two months using Windows.

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Yearning for the Golan Heights: why Syria wants it back

The disputed territory is key to the broader US goal of Arab-Israeli peace. On Monday, Washington hosted the first high-ranking Syrian official in five years.
Net neutrality: FCC proposes three new rules

The FCC's net neutrality guidelines would be a bill of rights for Internet users by prohibiting providers from blocking legal content or cutting connection speeds without explaining why.
The next frontier for Google? Books on demand.
Report: FCC chair set to defend Net neutrality
The Kepler mission: A 60-second primer
Yoostar: Your favorite movie, starring you
Regulators drawing a bead on Yahoo, Microsoft partnership
On the block: A vintage Mac, owned by Gene Roddenberry
Coming soon: Facebook Voice Chat
Vonage makes free international calls standard

Vonage will include unlimited calls to more than 60 countries in a new standard plan that costs $25 per month, replacing a plan of the same price that included unlimited calls to just six countries.
Want cell service abroad? Try a cheap local phone

Not all phones will work abroad, and even if yours does, you could end up with roaming charges unless you sign up for an international calling plan before you go.
Skype is in danger, owner says
View from Paris: A puzzling tragedy dawns slowly

President Sarkozy calls Air France Flight 447 an unprecedented "catastrophe."
How to make a Klingon forehead in 7 easy steps, and other Trekkie news
For laid-off IBM workers, a job in India?

An IBM program offers some incentive to relocate. Americans who have migrated overseas find less pay – but a good lifestyle.
Google Voice: what all the talk's about
Why don't people act their age?

I don’t want to Twitter and Tweet. I want to play bingo and enjoy the early bird special.
The worldwide jam session

Musicians turn to new software to teach and collaborate over the Internet.
Wireless-only households multiply
Cellphones and Internet help us stay in touch, not necessarily connected

Column: Pew study shows families lean heavily on tech tools.
Opinion: Who else reads your e-mail?

Your employer and the government can snoop legally.
Communities plan for a low-energy future

‘Transition initiatives,’ begun in Britain, aim to empower people to tackle effects of climate change and decline of oil.
For kids: The grunion are running

A cooperative effort between two aquariums allows people in France to watch in real time as grunion spawn on southern California beaches.
Mom turns up in the world's messiest places

How does a daughter live up to a mother whose globetrotting jobs take her to the most dangerous corners of the globe?
Serbian signs of the times are not in Cyrillic

A symptom of Westernization: Serbs read and write as well with the Latin alphabet.