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Taylor Swift Shows Off Her Bikini Bod

6/22/2010 12:39:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Swift is looking super sleek!

On Saturday, Taylor Swift hit the beach at Atlantis in the Bahamas. The 20-year-old singer showed some skin -- but not too much -- in a high-waisted, polka dot bikini as she dipped her toes in the surf.

The tall, naturally svelte star's beach day was her way to relax before a show at the nearby Paradise Island resort. Swift has said that she keeps in shape through jogs outside or on the treadmill inside her tour bus.

"Basically, if I'm indulging too much and not exercising enough, I can feel that," she told Allure magazine last year.

"I can feel a change before I see it. For me, working out is not so I can get skinny. It's so that I can keep up my endurance so I'm not panting on stage. Heavy breathing is the worst when you’re in concert. You don’t want to see that if you’re going to see a show."

Heidi Montag: Coming On to Justin Bieber, Moving in With Former Hugh Hefner Plaything

6/22/2010 12:39:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

We were astonished to read it, but Heidi Montag is apparently serious about divorcing Spencer Pratt - and she's already playing the field again ... sort of.

For the first time since the separation rumors started, she took to her Twitter and openly said she's getting divorced, then promptly hit on Justin Bieber.

She may rue the day once his fans get wind of it.

The Hills star wrote: "@justinbieber now that I am getting divorced I think you and I should do a photo shoot together! Cutie ;) ! I'm closer to your age."

Closer than what is not clear. She's 23 and he's 16. That is minimum security prison territory for the 'Tag. Still, who can resist that bowl cut? Yummy ...


In addition to salivating over the Bieb online, Heidi also Tweeted some interesting information pertaining to her upcoming new reality show with Jen Bunney.

Apparently, she and the former Hills co-star will be welcoming a third roommate to their Malibu girls' pad (allegedly owned by Spencer's pal Cougar Zank):

Former Hugh Hefner girlfriend Karissa Shannon!

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Lindsay Lohan to Pose Nude -- With SCRAM Bracelet?

6/22/2010 12:39:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Lindsay Lohan is ready to take it all off again for the cameras -- with or without her booze bracelet.

The 23-year-old star will pose nude in print ads for her 6126 line of handbags, LAmag.com reported Monday. Richard Luna of The California Bag (which licenses the 6126 totes) told the magazine that Lohan will doff her clothes and roll around in a bed for a photo shoot in L.A. next month.

Luna wasn't sure whether Lohan's court-mandated SCRAM bracelet would be part of the racy pictorial. "We're thinking of having police on hand so we can remove the ankle bracelet for the pictures."

He then noted that the actress might be photographed both with and without the alcohol-monitoring device -- or the accessory might be airbrushed later on.

Hitting pricey department stores this fall, the 6126 (named after Marilyn Monroe's birthdate) handbags will retail for $200 to $600; a cheaper line, 7286 (Lohan's birth date), will sell for under $200 at lower-end stores such as Macy's.

Apple’s Small Problem: iOS 4 And iPhone 4 One-Up The iPad

6/22/2010 12:38:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , , 0 Comments

The tech world is buzzing about iOS 4, the latest version of the iPhone operating system that Apple released today. And rightly so — it’s an improvement over the previous version in every way. In fact, once you’ve been using it for a while, it’s hard to go back to using iPhone OS 3.x. And there’s an unfortunate casualty there: the iPad.

I’ve been using developer builds of iOS 4 (then called iPhone OS 4) for weeks now. I’ve grown very used to using things such as the new app switcher and folders. In fact, I’ve grown so used to using them that when I switch back over to the iPad now (running iPhone OS 3.2), I can’t help but feel that it in some ways seems antiquated. Yes, I know that’s ridiculous for a device that’s not even three months old yet. But the feeling lingers.

I keep double-clicking the home button to bring up the app drawer, and nothing happens. And I’ve grown weary of navigating through pages and pages of apps when on my iPhone now, thanks to folders, I only have 3 pages (holding many more apps than I have on my iPad).

Obviously, this is a temporary problem, since iOS 4 is coming to the iPad. But it’s one many of us are going to have to deal with for months, since iOS 4 isn’t due on the iPad until the Fall (and there isn’t even a developer release available yet).

In some ways, this is reminiscent of the problem the Android platform has been having with regard to fragmentation. Some Android-powered phones can run the latest version of the Android software. Some can’t just yet (and some won’t be able to ever). I’ve had Android 2.2 on my Nexus One for weeks, but the EVO 4G still doesn’t have it. At least partially as a result, I find myself using the Nexus One a lot more. It’s just a better device, thanks in no small part to the better software.

There is some of this fragmentation in the iPhone line itself. For example, iOS 4 will not run on the original iPhone. But that device is also three years old. Most iPhones and iPod touches will be able to update to iOS 4 if the user chooses to do so. That’s not the case right now with the iPad — which again, is a little odd because it’s less than three months old. It seems almost as if Apple just decided to suck it up and launch the iPad knowing it would be upstaged by this new OS it can’t yet run, just a few months later.

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iOS 4: Smooth as silk or buggy as hell?

6/22/2010 12:38:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 1 Comment

It looks like the rollout of iOS 4 isn’t going as smoothly as Apple would like. Even though the majority of comments we’ve come across have been positive, we’ve been getting a steady stream of bug complaints from readers ranging from extremely trivial to very serious. Many of the bugs remedied easily enough, but some of them seem to have no workaround. Here are the most pervasive complaints:
  • Photos synced with iPhoto turn are extremely blurry
  • Gmail ActiveSync is no longer functioning (no syncing of email, calendars and contacts) Update from BG: This probably has nothing to do with iOS 4.0 and more to do with Google being overwhelmed.
  • Update deletes all contacts, and backups will not restore them
  • MMS no longer works
  • Push notifications not functioning
  • Auto-lock is set at one minute and the option to change this is greyed out
  • Update fails and device reboots endlessly

Have you experienced any of these bugs? If so, then we’d love to hear from you. And while you’re at if, if you know any fixes, don’t be shy to help out your fellow man.

iPhone 3G, iOS 4, and you -- what's missing (spoiler: multitasking)

6/22/2010 12:37:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments


While iOS 4 is delivering on every promise for the iPhone 3GS users out there, as we were all told up front, the iPhone 3G would be missing some of those touted new features. Granted, we knew such disparities would exist but were never given the finer details. Now that the final build is percolating through the internet, we decided to take a look at what features are and aren't working on the earlier year's model.

What's there
  • Folders
  • Threaded mail
  • iTunes playlist creation / editing
  • 5x digital zoom: just tap on the display near the capture button, but be warned, it doesn't paint a pretty picture
  • iBooks: we were having issues with the earlier build, but it seems to be running fine after today's official download -- PDFs work, too.
  • Photos: you can now sort by albums, events, faces, and places
  • Game Center: the icon is present, but as of this writing we're unable to connect to the servers. (Update: a number of readers saying it didn't come with today's download. We nabbed ours as a gold build, which might explain the discrepancy despite still being considered "up to date" by iTunes.)
  • Spell check has been updated
  • Spotlight search: you can search the web and Wikipedia from the home screen search bar. That said, not all our queries -- "Engadget," for example -- weren't offering the option. [Thanks, jkane08]

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Taeyang unveils tracks 7 & 8 of SOLAR album, Dara teases with photo…?

6/22/2010 12:37:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments

Taeyang set the ball rolling last week with the official announcement regarding his SOLAR album, and once you start gaining momentum it’s hard to stop – after revealing the first six track titles, YG Entertainment has got everyone holding their breath for the next two titles of this thirteen-song tracklist.


After a day of waiting, it was revealed just now via Taeyang’s official webpage that tracks 7 & 8 will be titled BREAK DOWN and 니가 잠든 후에 (After You Fall Asleep). With this announcement, it’s also been stated that BREAK DOWN is composed, arranged and written by hitmaking wonder Teddy. Alternatively, After You Fall Asleep is a collaborative work by G-Dragon, Choice37 and Swings, as G-Dragon & Choice37 composed, Choice37 arranged, and G-Dragon wrote the lyrics while Swings wrote and featured in the rap portion of this track.

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Charlene Choi tired of comedies

6/22/2010 12:36:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Hong Kong singer-actress Charlene Choi revealed that she is tired of doing comedies and hopes to some day do a romantic tragedy, reported Chinese media.

"A lot of people approach me to do comedies and I generally don't turn them down, but I hope a director will ask me to do a romantic tragedy," she said during a promotional event for her new film "Jade Pearl" - yet another comedy - in Shanghai on Sunday.

When asked if this preference was due to her own 'romantic tragedy', her very public divorce from singer Ronald Cheng, Choi quickly denied it.

"You are too sensitive. It just made me become more mature," the actress told reporters, before explaining that her relationship with Cheng had allowed her to understand the different facets of love.

During the event, the 27-year-old who is one half of the now defunct Canto-pop duo Twins, also complained that she is being asked to crossdress too often in her films.

"Jade Pearl" was no exception.

"In almost every film, the director asked me to dress like a man," Choi lamented. "Maybe I just look like one."

Super Junior to end ‘Bona Mana’ promotions and proceed to promote followup hit ‘No Other’

6/22/2010 12:36:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Super Junior will end promotions for ‘Bona Mana’ and will proceed with promoting of the followup hit.


SM Entertainment announced, “Super Junior will reveal their followup hit ‘너 같은 사람 또 없어/No Other’ on online music sites like Melon, Dosirak, Bugs and Cyworld etc on th 25th.”

The song ‘No One’ will be included in the group’s 4th repackaged album and is a synth pop dance song with trendy hip hop beat. The producers to the song are Reefa and C-2, who have produced for singers like The Game, Fabolous and Ludacris, as well as Ryan Jhun. And the lyrics are written by Kenzie.

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Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Now Available for Mobile Platform Partners

6/22/2010 12:35:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

One of the bigger features of the upcoming Android release, 2.2 (better known as Froyo), is the fact that there’s integrated Flash Player. While many think that Flash isn’t optimized for proper mobile use, Adobe begs to differ, as they point out in the first paragraph of their press release that 10.0 for mobile devices has been redesigned from the ground up, with performance in mind, which also includes mobile-specific features. It’s already available on desktop clients, like Linux, PC, and Mac, but we’re all waiting for the official release on mobile devices. Now that we have the official announcement from Adobe, 35 companies ready to jump on board, we don’t expect it will be much longer to wait.

Of course, the argument is this: while Flash lets you display the “full web,” does it do with by sacrificing the speed and performance of your mobile device? While we’ve seen Flash on other devices, like from HTC and Nokia, these have all been variations of Flash Lite. This time around, we’re getting the full experience, optimized for the mobile platform. Therefore, there’s still just as many questions lingering about its ability to provide the full web, but at the same time keep our devices working in a proper fashion.

Michael Gartenberg, a constant columnist here at SlashGear, even mentioned his usage of Adobe’s Flash Player 10.1 on his Nexus One, which he updated to Froyo, and subsequently began using the pre-releases of the Flash Player as they were released. As he said, in his column “Flash Goes Mobile — First Take“:

“Overall, my experience with Flash on Android was pretty good. Sites that did use Flash loaded relatively quickly and effortlessly. It was fun to surf to a site and not get an error message because Flash was being used,” said Michael Gartenberg in his blog posting. ““Performance worked well and sites loaded quickly and fairly complex animations and user experiences worked quickly and looked good. Adobe has done a good job making the case that Flash is viable for mobile.” – Michael Gartenberg, Partner, Altimeter Group.

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