How to DIY replace the vibrator assembly in an iPhone 3G & iPhone 3GS

If your iPhone 3G or 3GS isn't vibrating even when it silent mode, the vibrator assembly motor may have burnt out. Lucky, it's a quick and easy DIY repair that most users can handle on their own. Here's how.

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Tech Jobs And Airbnb Are Squeezing The SF Housing Market ? Here?s What To Do

Have you been searching for a place to live in San Francisco lately?�You?re not the only one thinking @$#%&! on a daily basis. Forget the speculation about a tech bubble.�This is a real estate bubble. It?s a common scene on a weekend morning: A line of people waiting for an open house at an apartment that just hit the market, with rental applications, credit reports, and certified checks in-hand.�The first one who qualifies wins the prize.

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Google Is Now a Graphing Calculator

Google has decided to make its simple search box into yet another thing. It's now a WebGL-powered 3D graphing calculator. If you type in a two-variable function, Google's search box on the desktop will graph an animated, interactive, 3D plot right in your browser.

Google is moving increasingly toward providing answers when they're faster than Web results. But putting an advanced graphing calculator into search is an obvious defense against Wolfram Alpha, which is notably Apple's Siri partner for math and science questions. Google search is fighting a two-front war, with Facebook and social search on the other side. How many things can Google search be at once?

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Google has had Universal Search for five years, but the landscape has shifted drastically. When Google added images, videos, maps and places to search results, it only secured its dominance over those verticals. Google's competitors freaked out, but Google pressed ahead.

This ill will is coming back to bite Google now. Yelp, the highest-profile company that objected to Google's Universal Search practices, is now going public and hitching its wagon to Apple. When iPhone 4S users use Siri to search for a restaurant or gas station, it will bypass Google altogether and use Yelp.

Likewise, Siri uses Wolfram Alpha for math and science questions. It's a "computational knowledge engine" built on the theories and proprietary programming language of Stephen Wolfram. Graphing isn't just built into it; it's a primitive concept of the language underlying it. Can Google compete with that?

Well, not until WebGL works on phones. But at least on the desktop, Google is still devoted to the idea of using search as a starting point for everything on the Web. It's contending with Wolfram Alpha on the side of computed answers, and it has Facebook's dominant social graph on the other side in personalized search. Facebook is reportedly building new search technology, too.

Time will tell whether the convenience of having all these disparate services in one place will win out, or whether Google's notion of search will be stretched too thin.

The new graphing capabilities work internationally on modern desktop browsers like Chrome and Firefox, as well as Safari, which Google's blog post unsurprisingly neglected to mention - if, that is, you don't have a "low-end" system like the most recent MacBook Air.

You can try it out by pasting this function into Google on your desktop:

sqrt(cos(3*x))*cos(100*y)+1.5*sqrt(abs(x)) + 0.8 x is from -1 to 1, y is from -1 to 1, z is from 0.01 to 2.5

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Inky Poster Can Actually Lay Down the Funk

A poster at this year's SXSW could play music with just a touch.

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Kindle Fire 6.3, Viewing files on SD Card [From the Forums]

We're getting set to kick off the world's great Android podcast and this week we're changing it up for you all. While you're waiting for us, take a stroll through the Android Central forums. We'll all meet back here for the podcast.

• HTC One X Forums - Next phone for AT&T?
• HTC Thunderbolt Forums - Issues with the Google Play Store
• HTC Rezound Forums - How do I look at files on my SD Card?
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?Girls Around Me? Creeper App Just Might Get People To Pay Attention To Privacy Settings

Cult of Mac has a great write-up of an app for iOS called Girls Around Me, which essentially displays check-ins and public profiles of girls around you. With a little shift in context it could easily be confused for a hot new startup (discoverability meets speed dating!), but no, it really is just a way for guys to creep on nearby girls who have failed to lock down their info. It's sad, but maybe something like this is what people need to shock them into understanding just how much information they put online.

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Foxconn's Overtime Reduction Will Not Affect Product Prices, Analysts Say

Apple supplier Foxconn's newly announced reliance on automation and efforts to reduce overtime for employees has no effect on product prices, according to analysts.

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Creepy But Cool: Artist Turns Old Software Manuals Into Skulls

Other than being a big door stop, there's not much you can do with old computer manuals. How about carving skulls into them instead?

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