Don’t know how to give good sext? Fleshbot ’s Lux Alptraum told me she’ll give a private lesson to everyone who leaves their name and phone number in the comments of her new howto . [ Fleshbot ; cc image ] (NSFW, naturally.)

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To think, it’s been over five years since we last tackled how to get music off your iPod , as opposed to the other way around. Back then, the classic model had only recently added the infamous click wheel (while still rocking the monochrome screen, mind you), iPod nano was still called the mini, and viewing photos was a brand new feature worthy of having its own line . It’s time to take another look at how to transfer media of all sorts — audio, video, and pictures — from a variety of iPods and iPhones back to your Windows or Mac OS X machine. Jump to: Windows | OS X How-to: get music, videos, and photos off your iPod or iPhone originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds

The Arduino board has been the engine of many wild and wacky projects over the years, from bakery tweeting to various musical instruments . For its next trick, our man Steve Hoefer has taken his microcontroller and, along with a piezoelectric speaker, a gear reduction motor, and some PVC pipe, programmed it to listen for a preset sequence of knocks — a secret knock, if you will — and unlock the deadbolt upon hearing the right combination. Although this might not be the security system you want to put in place for your home, this definitely looks like a fun weekend project. Check out the read link for instructions and schematics, but not before you see the video of the thing in action. It’s after the break

Nobody knows exactly what Google’s forthcoming Chrome OS will look or act like, but we’ve got a pretty good idea of what they’re going for. Here’s how to live out Google’s online-only OS vision, right now Before we dive in, it’s worth talking about exactly what we’re going for here. What “theory of Chrome” are we planning to adhere to? Or perhaps more to the point, what the hell is Chrome? From Google: ” Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks” and “most of the user experience takes place on the web.” That is, it’s “Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel” with the web as the platform. It runs on x86 processors (like your standard Core 2 Duo) and ARM processors (like inside every mobile smartphone).