New Design is Up.. Have a few Bugs, Comments are welcome!

So, after a few long hours of tinkering and layout headaches, the new design is up. Let us know what you think.  Making good on some new years resolutions here! 

Uncovered.

                

Shopping Lenovo in virtual space! Elounge

If you thought that your shopping on YoVille, Small Worlds or even IMVU wasn't costing you as much as you wanted it to... Why not head over to Lenovo and take a spin in the Lenovo Virtual space and take a shopper avatar for a spin around the "very much like star trek" shop. Go to the ELounge and go for your virtual walk today.

                

Finally -> Calvin and Hobbs on your iPhone

Uclick GoComics

Url: http://www.gocomics.com/

Finally the daily funnies are in one spot! It's probably why Uclick GoComics is the number 1 web app at Apple right now.

Who can resist a little Calvin over you morning coffee while at Starbucks. Or some Dunesberry with you having your morning constitution!

Information:

- 150+ Comic Strips including Calvin & Hobbes, Doonesbury, Garfield, Close to Home; new hits Cul de Sac, The Argyle Sweater and more.

- 60+ Editorial Cartoons from the Right, Left, and Middle - including Pat Oliphant, Ted Rall, and Glenn McCoy

- Dozens of New Apps - Including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Bone, web comics Basic Instructions, We the Robots, and Pibgorn

                

Lose it! Apple's App Store Pick of the Week

App Store Pick of the Week: Lose It!
January 28, 2009

Price: FREE

Like to shed a pound or ten? Try Lose It! With the free App Store fitness app, you can set weight loss goals and track your progress meeting them. The app’s searchable database lets you easily enter meals, track nutrients, and account for workouts. You can even add custom foods and exercises. Will a half hour on the elliptical help you atone for that extra slice of chocolate cheesecake? Lose It! will let you know.

Apple's pick of the week, seems to be running the wellness and fitness theme that January has sprung.

Earlier pick this month feature Yoga, but don't we all need to try and stick to a resolution once in a while.

Wonder what it would say after I plugged in the Taco Hell burrito and cheesy fries into it!!

                

Create CSS Templates inside your FireFox Browser!

If you haven't tried www.iStylr.com, and you are creating rich css templates, then you might be missing out on one of the coolest, easy to use web apps for ccs template creation. With only three image slices, you can create a custom template extremely fast. the WYSIWYG XHTML editor is integrated into your browser. It's free to use, the only catch is. It only runs in FireFox.

Features

• Make, Manage And Market Se Friendly Templates
• Syntax Highlighting On CSS And XHTML
• Drag And Drop Page Elements
• Integrated Image Makers
• Microstock At Low Prices
• Template Im- And Export
• WYSIWYG XHTML Editor
• Integrated Help-Area
• Visual DOM Tree
• CSS Wizard

                

Guitar Hero Controller Clearance

RedOctane has just lowered the price on all existing Guitar Hero guitar controllers and are looking to move all old inventory out before the end of the month. Sale ends 1/29/09.

Les Paul Wireless Guitars - As low as $19.99!

SG Wired Guitars - As low as $9.99!

Standalone Guitar Hero Wireless Les Paul controllers now in stock for all consoles. Shop Now

                

Lenovo's 48hr sale right now includes the IdeaPad Y530

Lenovo IdeaPad Y530 Laptop Computer - 40512QU
The IdeaPad Y530 Home Entertainment 15.4 widescreen laptop, with it's Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz is on right now for 599.00USD. The $100 savings is well worth it. It brings the Y Series to an even lower price point, the Y530 may not be a light weight, but it brings a solid multi-media experience at an amazing price point.

Even at the regular price of 699.00USD this laptop is one of the lowest priced media laptops on the market and has a sturdy, well constructed design, light-touch media controls, Dolby Home Theater sound in a 4+1 configuration

                

Protecting Yourself Online, The Internet tracks everything.

The importance of online privacy is not only about keeping personal information safe, it’s also about keeping your personal location, from prying eyes. It’s also about keeping you identity safe. Identity theft is one of the increasing problems with internet use. So what can you do.

1. Cookie Management, Cleaning Expired Cookies.

A cookie is information left on your machine from websites you visit, this information is not always harmful, but contains some information about your visit, this information can be cleaned up by finding the remove cookies option in each browser type, or you can try using a shareware tool like www.ccleaner.com which has built in support for most browser configurations, like Google Chrome, IE, FireFox, Optra and Safari as well as some Windows Locations that store your browsers surfing history.

2. Use a Browser with a built in Privacy Mode

A feature showing up in new Browser versions is a Privacy Mode, or incognito.
This mode makes sure that your browser doesn’t record any information or store any cookies on your machine, and removes anything in use after the termination of the browser process.

3. Make a DUMMY Email Address

Keep a dummy e-mail account for signing up to ANYTHING on the internet, that isn’t a brick a motor company. It’s suggested that giving out you email address to anyone that you don’t trust, is a bad idea. Creating a Hotmail account or a Gmail account for this will save your primary email address a lot of spam, and keep you’re mailbox identity safe.

4. Hide you’re IP address.

You can do this a couple of ways. Now you can jump to any site using a free proxy server, which can be done by configuring a Proxy in your browser config. Or by using a site like www.hidemyass.com, or you can install a VPN program like http://www.hotspotshield.com that will automatically switch your IP address through the VPN.

The issue with these FREE services is that they come with banner ads.

Pay for a VPN service with an anonymous credit card (Visa Cash Card), and you’ll be banner free.

                

Pirated iWork infected with Trojan. Nothing like iWarez! and iAdware oh and iBugs!

I recently checkout an Engadget story, about the Pirated iWork download. Which infected a reported 20,000 Macs.

See Engadget Post

First off - I’m guessing from the commentary on the post, the Mac users at engadget have a little issue with under standing what a virus is. What Trojan is, and what malware and adware are! Probably because up to now, the lower amount of user base in the Apple camp made it less of a target, for people trying to make money off you.

So.. What is a Trojan.. Wiki says:
In the context of computing and software, a Trojan horse, also known as a trojan, is a form of malware that appears to perform a desirable function but in fact performs undisclosed malicious functions that allow unauthorized access to the host machine. As such, a computer worm or virus may also be classed as a Trojan horse if they display these characteristics.

Is it a Virus. Is it Adware. Is it Malware… Well all the above could be true.

Since the term is coined of the battle of Troy, and the Trojan horse was used as a gift to infiltrate the enemy camp… The term Trojan, is simply that. A vessel to transport a piece of code to do something you are unaware of, ie. Infect you with a virus. Install Malware or Adware on your machine. In this case. The iWork Trojan was to install OSX.Trojan.iServices.A on your machine. To enable remote access to the people that wrote the service.

Now most of you have a great understanding of Parallels or other such virtualization software, if you are going to try a pirated copy of something. Try it on your test OS first. Make sure no new services are running, and so on. Or just go buy a copy.

Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac - Free 15 day trial version! Download now!

                

Roxio Releases Toast Titanium 10

Toast 10, Toast 10 Pro



The Toast family grew this month with the introductions of Toast 10 Titanium and Toast 10 Titanium Pro, perhaps the hottest pair of apps on the Macworld show floor. The crowds were deep around the booth watching demos of amazing new features like Web video and audio capture, one-step AVCHD camcorder backup, and video streaming from your Mac to your TiVo. Don't miss the chance to save $40 in Roxio's limited-time upgrade offer.

Get NEW! Toast 10 Titanium : USE 10ROXIOSAVE coupon to save 10%  - tested Mar 10 2009.

Why you need it:

• The easiest way to burn CDs, DVDs or Blu-ray discs
• Copy discs with one click, compress & convert video
• Expand your iTunes library with web audio capture
• Watch your video, movies and TV shows anywhere
• Convert your media for iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, Xbox 360, PS3 & more
• List price: $99.99

Your price: $79.99 (after $20 mail-in rebate)

Burn

Toast has been the standard for burning and ease of use for over 10 years. It’s the easiest and fastest way to burn your music, video, photo and data files on to CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc™ for both Mac and PC.

Copy

Toast makes copying discs a snap. With one-click disc copy, you can copy** CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Even copy dual layer DVD-Video discs on to affordable 4.7 GB single-layer discs.

Listen

Expand your MP3 library. From LP and tape conversion to streaming Internet audio capture, Toast 10 helps you automatically capture, tag and add streaming music tracks to your iTunes® library

Watch

With just a few clicks you can locate, convert and burn your favorite shows, music and data to CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs, or sync to your iPhone™, iPod® and other mobile devices

Get NEW! Toast 10 Titanium

What's new in this version?

• Extract clips from any DVD-Video and convert to the format of your choice**
• Save web video to enjoy on TV and on-the-go
• Archive AVCHD camera footage to disc with one step
• Build your MP3 library with automatic capture and tagging of Internet audio
• Convert audiobook CDs for playback on your iPod®
• Transfer video from your Mac to your TiVo DVR to enjoy on your TV
• Enjoy over 20 new stunning DVD and Blu-ray Disc menu styles
• Sync up folders bi-directionally - between multiple computers, folders or external drives

Features

Toast 10 Pro

Toast 10

Toast 9

Toast 8

High-Def/Blu-ray Disc Plug-in

Author HD video to standard DVDs for playback on Blu-ray players*	•	Plug-in required	Plug-in required
Author HD video to Blu-ray Discs*	•	Plug-in required	Plug-in required

Sonicfire® Pro

Create professional custom soundtracks for movies and slideshows	•
Easily find musical styles and variations to fit the mood of your movies	•
Customize the length, arrangement and instrument mix	•
Change the tempo and pitch	•
Bonus - mood configurable music tracks	•

SoundSoap™

Remove noise from analog or digital recordings	•
Remove hiss, room noise, rumble, electrical hum, & other background noise from most digital media files	•
Solve most simple noise problems with the Learn Noise button	•
Powerful fine tuning offers even better sound results	•

FotoMagico™

Turn pictures into a spellbinding stories and present them in stunning HD	•
iPhoto library integration	•
Export to Toast	•
Drag & drop slideshow authoring	•

LightZone™

Create dramatic, impactful photos with professional quality light and color balance	•
100% non-destructive editing	•
Supports RAW, JPEG, TIFF and PNG formats	•
Change exposure without changing color and vice-versa	•

Burn

AVCHD™ Archive makes it one-step simple to back up an entire camera of HD video to disc	•	•
Sync up folders bi-directionally - between multiple computers, networks, or external hard disks	•	•
Automatically catalog your discs as you burn them - now with photo thumbnails saved on your PC for easy browsing	•	•	•	•
Easily schedule backup sessions to any hard drive or network or burn to CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc	•	•	•	•
Media Browser with file browsing, data filters and Spotlight search	•	•	•	•

Copy

Extract clips from DVD-Video discs and convert to the format of your choice**	•	•
Preview video quality for selected encoding settings in seconds	•	•	•	•
One-click copy of CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc**	•	•	•	•
Fit-to-DVD™ compression technology lets you fit a 9 GB DVD-Video onto a 4.7 GB disc	•	•	•	•
File recovery for damaged discs	•	•	•	•

Listen

Convert audiobook CDs for playback on your iPod-complete with chapters and pause/resume	•	•
Automatically capture & tag streaming Internet audio	•	•
Remove unwanted sections of audio from within audio tracks for quick editing	•	•
Send captured audio to iTunes as AAC, Apple lossless, or MP3	•	•
Convert audio from vinyl LPs and tapes to CD, DVD, iPod and more	•	•	•	•
Capture streaming Internet audio - or any sound - as you hear it with one click	•	•	•	•

Watch

Save web video from your favorite web sites to view on TV or on-the-go	•	•
Over 20 new full screen and widescreen DVD and Blu-ray Disc menu styles	•	•	•	•
High-def to DVD: author HD video to standard DVDs for playback on Blu-ray players*	•	Plug-in required	Plug-in required	•
Capture, convert, and burn directly from AVCHD high-definition camcorders	•	•	•
Easily remove unwanted segments from AVCHD video and EyeTV recordings	•	•	•
Author HD video to Blu-ray Discs*	•	Plug-in required	Plug-in required	•
Stream TV and video from your Mac to your iPhone, Mac or PC over the Internet	•	•	•	•

• = New Feature • = Improved Feature • = Available Feature

* HD video authoring functionality for DVD and Blu-ray Discs™ requires the purchase of High-Def/Blu-ray Disc Plug-In. Internet connection is required.

** Does not copy encrypted or copy protected content.

Get NEW! Toast 10 Titanium

                

Looking for a few good bloggers! Write for UNCOVERED!

Do you have the spare time, want to make a little extra money on the side.  Please Contact US, send 2-3 examples of you're style of writing and what payment you expect on a per-post submission. 

Uncovered is looking for people interested in writing how-to's, reviews, news commentary, emerging technologies, and generally anything that is tre'cool!

Submissions need to be sent to us, by no later than Jan 30th.  We will be picking 2 new writers to join the Uncovered Team. 

Thank you. 

                

Lenovo's Coupons and Deals - Up To 20% off 48hr sale

Lenovo's current 48 hour sale has the U110, last years CES winner at an amazing price.

U110 Sale: Orig 1899.00 Sale 1399.00 $500 savings
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This is the official list of the 48hr sale on right now!
Notebooks
Additional discount with eCoupon
ThinkPad R Series notebooks 15%
ThinkPad SL Series notebooks 10%
ThinkPad T Series notebooks 20%
ThinkPad X Series notebooks 15%
ThinkPad X Series Tablet notebooks 15%
ThinkPad W Series notebooks 15%
IdeaPad U Series Notebooks 15%
IdeaPad Y Series notebooks 15%
Lenovo N Series notebooks 10%

Desktops
ThinkCentre desktops 15%
IdeaCentre desktops 8%
Lenovo H Series desktops 8%

Workstations
ThinkStation workstations 15%

Accessories & upgrades
Lenovo accessories 20%
Lenovo monitors 10%
Non-Lenovo accessories 10%



Or Shop Lenovo Canada.

                

Put your MacBook to REST in it's PINE BOX!!

From posts on SlipperyBrick, Geeky-Gadgets.com
Complaining about a dead tree and a dead cow is kind of pointless.. How many plants died to make a polyurethane case that most Mac books are shoved into! Environmental concern my ass, but a hand-crafted wooden box, kind of kool.. think about a engraved or burned graphic mod on top of it! Hand Crafted by Rainer Spehi, it's also probably never going to hit an IKEA near you.

                

Oh how the BlackBerry Browser Does Suck -- O but wait!!

OPERA

Mini.Opera.Com Version 4.2

Your browsing on the Blackberry just got a whole lot nicer.

Point you Blackberries current brower to mini.opera.com and run the setup.

Accept Opera access to your network and continue through install.

Now many things i just love about this.. the maximized view gives you a zoom box to zoom in on content.

You will also notice that content is formatted nicely to fit your phones windows, making it easy to scroll through.

Bookmarks are nicely done, showing up on entry to Opera Mini as well as a Google search bar.

It may not be as cool as Safari on the iPhone, but it's leaps and bounds ahead of the defualt on the Blackberrys OS.

                

A new year.. A new Domain Name

    One of my new years resolutions was to re-format Uncovered, and with that said. www.Uncovered4you.com is now live.  Over the next few months,  a total re-design will take place to try and make Uncovered easier to navigate. 

Also a tip line will be setup, to allow submissions for our Uncovered readers. Please feel free to direct any news and information to Uncovered4you@Gmail.com

Lets make 2009 an Uncovered year!

                

How Do I Say I Love You! A NANO - Apple's v-day is in gear.

It didn't take the folks at Apple long to switch gears from Holiday shopping promotions, to the How many ways do I love you, let me count the nano's, promotions. Well after a small break ( MacWorld 2009 ) and yes that's all I'm going to comment on a very disappointing show, in my opinion. It's like Microsoft holding an event for Office 2010 and eveyone getting excited.. The Valentines day deals are starting to pop up at the Apple Store. Nothing says "loving" like it printed on the back of an iPod Nano.

                

USB Silly Award... Ladies Accessorie Bracelet.

I do have to say, that the strangest things come out of Brando... Buy if you want to move the pocket usb key to a whole new level while out on the town. http://lady.brando.com.hk has your fashion needs covered.  $33.00 USD get you a 8GB model.  Yipee!

Features:

USB 2.0

Portable and easy operation

Plug and play

Support Windows XP/Vista, MAC OS and Linux

Dimension: 212 x 12 x 14mm (approx.)

Weight: 34g

Package Content:

USB Jewel Bracelet Thumb Drive

                

500 million app downloads for iPhone - Really?

Ok, so the iTunes app store has had 500 million app downloads so far! But does it really mean anything, considering that the Top app in iTunes for the iPhone and the iPod Touch is iFart, a completely useless application, that sends gaseous sounds out it's speakers. It would be more impressive if Apple promoted the iTunes app store with a press release that read, 400 million iFart downloads, and 100 million meaningful application downloads so far. Tongue in cheek, the App store has enable developers the distribution platform to reach it's users. Hopefully 2009 brings 500 Million ground breaking applications this year, oh and a iFart version 3.0.

App Store Pick of the Week: iPump Pilates
January 14, 2009
Resolved to get — and stay — in shape this year? Then you may want to try out iPump Pilates. The app guides and inspires you through a strength training and body toning fitness regimen and makes it easy to log and track your progress. Developed by fitness pros, iPump Pilates is one of 20 fitness apps from iPump on the App Store.Filed under: iPhone, iPod+iTunes. Read more: App Store in iTunes

With a Apple App Store Pick of the week like this.. I'm thinking, it's going to be a long year.

                

Free Video Search for iPhone - Truveo

Truveo Video Search

Free Get App

With a bunch of different video content sites out for the iphone, what Truveo does is brings them all together in one search tool. It's quick and simple to find the content you are looking for. From professional video to YouTube content.

Truveo boasts todate 700,000 videos streamed and 1.4 million search from its tool.

Free at the iTune App Store - Get App

                

WEB P2P - Does LittleShoot make the grade.

What is LittleShoot? Well it's a new tool which has been developed by the folks who brought us Limewire, the popular P2P file sharing client.

LittleShoot takes concepts of LimeWire one step further. It can be basically described in as P2P sharing through a browser, or it's self declaration of “P2P 2.0”.

While using LittleShoot you can share files using your browser and stream P2P downloads while searching services like YouTube and Flickr.

The three main functions of LittleShoot can then be defined as downloading, searching and publishing in a browser-based setting.

The ultimate goal of LittleShoot is to conjure up a tool that can contribute to the welfare of the public, by taking into account both its opinion and its input.

Now will LittleShoot be the next destination of PirateWare and Warez alike? Will It provide the same type of content and speeds as LimeWire.. Let hope not. In my opinion Limewire is slow, full of garbage and laced with adware and spyware trojans. Hopefully LittleShoot can provide some sort of content rating systems that allow the community the ability to rate submissions. Giving a voice to the community. Unlike LimeWire.

http://www.littleshoot.org/

                

Huge Price Drops On Apple AIR Refurbs.

Apple Refurbished MacBook Air 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - Apple Store (U.S.)

Apple Refurbished MacBook Air 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - Apple Store (U.S.)


Apple Store just announced price drops on Apple-Certified Refurbished MacBook Air! Refurbished MacBook Air 13/1.6/2GB/80GB Was $1,149 Now only $999! Refurbished MacBook Air 13/1.8/2GB/64GB/SSD Was $1,699 Now only $1,299!

                

SpellGaze for your iPhone or iPod Touch

SPELLGAZE

Url: http://www.spellgaze.com/

Spellgaze is a puzzle game RPG, Match gems and do battle against multiple opponents. Be the master of this mystical world.

Company: Under Cloud Games

                

The first week of Jan 2009, What will it bring? iPhone Nano -OK I'm Bored.

Ok.. I'm sleep deprived, that I know! it's Jan. The kids schedules are all messed up due to the holiday bussel and hussel. Working on 4 hours a sleep a night, I'm hoping that Mac World 2009 is going to bring a little joy to my other wise busy life right now. 

The rumors, well it doesn't take a big search to find them.. and since my little blog, means nothing to anyone.. It's probably not going to be the first time you hear that a iPhone Nano is on it's way.

Now I ask my self this, why do I want a iPhone nano.. I don't!  What is the niche for such a gadget.

Well I'm guessing it's going to be a purse phone, for the girly girls that are heading out for a night on the town.  They better ship it in HOT pink. It's the only color I see being a hit out on the market. 

Ok, Maybe the iphone Nano, might hit a different price point.. iPay as you go... Maybe. 

Or, Maybe the iPhone Nano - $99.98 4GB available at Walmart. 

Ok - I'm bored already.  I'm sure every pre-schooler is counting thier pennies right now!

                

Hands Free for your CAR and Your iPhone goes SOLAR!

Iqua Vizor SUN Bluetooth Car Kit combines a solar pannel, speaker and all the controls you need to operate your iPhone from your cars visor. Tired of driving looking like your on a combat mission with your Bluetooth headset clipped on. Iqua has a new option for you. Only thing is, you have to lay it out flat or flip the visor out to the windshield to allow the solar panel access to the sun, or you'll have to connect it to the car charger shipped with it.

Features
Answer/end/reject call
Last number redial
Voice dial activate (when supported by mobile phone)
Call waiting
Volume control, mute
Fast call function (save and dial to your favourite number)
Auto reconnection at power on and disconnect at power off
Pairing/memory erase

Available at:

                

Black, Siver and Metalic RED! This speakers a PILL for your iPhone! - iHOME

Ok, So it's a little bit bigger than a pill, and it packs a fairly decent punch for it's size. It's fairly close to being pocket speakers for the travelling sorts. iHome capsule speakers split into two small units with pop-up tops to deliver directional sound.

Overview

The iHM77 speakers attach to each other magnetically in a capsule shape for the ultimate in portability. They separate and extend for surprisingly big stereo sound that must be heard to be believed. The iHM77 includes two amplified speakers with built-in rechargeable batteries, vacuum bass expansion, and USB charging, along with a protective carrying case.

Features

Plays all iPod/iPhone models and other audio devices with 3.5 mm audio jack
Perfect for enhancing the movie/music experience on notebooks
Custom-tuned vacuum bass design for low frequency response and sound beyond size
Each speaker contains built-in amplifier powered by rechargeable battery
Two collapsible speakers attach magnetically for ultimate portability
Long-lasting built-in li-ion rechargeable batteries
Cable for charging speakers and audio output
Rubberized paint texture for amazing look and soft feel
Convenient protective carry case and cord wrap.

Specifications
Impedance: 4 Ohms
Power: 1.75W x 2
Frequency response: 218Hz-20kHz
Signal-to-noise ratio: 52dB
Dimensions for each speaker (WxHxD): 1.42 x 1.42 x 0.63 in./3.6 x 3.6 x 1.6 cm
Weight: 0.56 oz./16.0 g

What’s in the Box
iHome iHM77 speakers
Cable for charging/listening
Carrying case

Available at: