Scrabble Helper helps you improve your Words With Friends gameplay

Scrabble Helper helps you improve your Words With Friends gameplay
Æsir's Yves Béhar-designed phone starts at just €7,250, plenty left for mortgage on the summer home
40th Anniversary of the Computer Virus
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Posted: 14 Mar 2011 04:00 PM PDT

If you play Scrabble (or a scrabble-like game) from time to time, you may want to check out Scrabble Helper. This simple website is a godsend when you're at a loss for words. Simply enter whatever letters you have, and the word you'd like to connect with. Scrabble helper comes up with a whole bunch of suggestions sorted by score.

The site lets you select one of five dictionaries - Scrabble International/US, Lexulous International/US, and Words With Friends. Some people might say this constitutes cheating -- I think if the other side knows you're doing it, it's definitely not cheating. And it doesn't take the challenge out of the game, because implementing Scrabble Helper's suggestions and deciding which words you'd like to connect with still takes a fair bit of thought.

Very handy, though perhaps not one for the Scrabble puritans in the crowd.

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Æsir's Yves Béhar-designed phone starts at just €7,250, plenty left for mortgage on the summer home

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 03:57 PM PDT

Okay, okay, €7,250 (about $10,150) sounds positively exorbitant for a phone with a microscopic 2-inch display that dares to boast of "200 calendar entries" as a "feature," but hear us out -- that's a drop in the bucket compared to the €42,000 ($58,800) you'll pay for the gilded version. That's right: for €7,250 you get nothing more than common stainless steel coating the front and rear of your Æsir Yves Béhar, the latest entry in the long-running luxury phone trend that includes Mobiado, Gresso, and Nokia subsidiary Vertu, among others. As the name implies, the phone -- which, we'll admit, is pretty gorgeous -- was penned by none other than famed designer Yves Béhar... but then again, so is the $200 Jawbone Jambox. Six of one, half-dozen of the other, right? Look for it to ship around the world in the summer and fall.

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40th Anniversary of the Computer Virus

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 03:56 PM PDT

Orome1 writes "This year marks the 40th anniversary of Creeper, the world's first computer virus. From Creeper to Stuxnet, the last four decades saw the number of malware instances boom from 1,300 in 1990, to 50,000 in 2000, to over 200 million in 2010. Besides sheer quantity, viruses, which were originally used as academic proofs of concept, quickly turned into geek pranks, then evolved into cybercriminal tools. By 2005, the virus scene had been monetized, and virtually all viruses were developed with the sole purpose of making money via more or less complex business models."

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Official LEGO Minifigs Get the USB Legs They've Always Dreamed Of [Lego]

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 03:40 PM PDT

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These star-cross'd doodads have hooked up before, but now it's official. USB sticks and LEGO minifigs have finally tied the knot, never to be separated again, til death do them part. They run a reasonable $25 for 2GB capacity, and you'll never have one of these two things without wanting both of them in one adorable keychain item ever again. [LEGO via Wired] More »

ASUS Eee Pad Transformer passes through the FCC

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 03:22 PM PDT

Well, it hasn't reached Eee PC levels of confusion just yet, but it looks like ASUS's Eee Pad line is well on its way to filling store shelves with numerous different models. One of those has now hit the FCC under the guise of the Eee Pad TF101, although it's also referred to as the EP101 in some of the documents. Assuming nothing has changed with ASUS' naming scheme (always a possibility), that would peg it as the Transformer -- a tablet / keyboard dock combo that we first got our hands on back at CES (and later at CeBIT). Unfortunately, ASUS wasn't able to give us a release date then, and that still hasn't changed, although the FCC certification does certainly suggest that it could be coming sooner rather than later.

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Bon Jovi Thinks Steve Jobs Personally Killed the Music Industry [Blockquote]

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 03:20 PM PDT

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The music industry is dying! That we know. But who's to blame? Shawn Fanning, the inventor of Napster? Countless millions of music downloaders? Soulja Boy? No! It's Steve Jobs. So says Jon Bon Jovi, a fellow whose songs I sometimes play in Rock Band. Here's what he told the the Sunday Times Magazine: More »

Net Sees Earthquake Damage, Routes Around It

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 03:15 PM PDT

davidwr writes "Japanese internet outages mostly healed themselves within hours. While some cables remain out, most computers that lost connectivity have it again. From James Cowie's blog: 'The engineers who built Japan's Internet created a dense web of domestic and international connectivity that is among the richest and most diverse on earth, as befits a critical gateway for global connectivity in and out of East Asia. At this point, it looks like their work may have allowed the Internet to do what it does best: route around catastrophic damage and keep the packets flowing, despite terrible chaos and uncertainty.' Let's hear it for redundancy and good planning." Reader Spy Handler points out another article about how redundancy and good planning are preventing disaster at Japan's troubled nuclear reactors, despite media-fueled speculation and panic to the contrary.