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The Upgrade by Lifehacker

Vibration Syndrome, Life in Hackerspace, and Free Wi-Fi for All

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

Lifehacker

Tech News, News, How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.6688 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2012

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast we’re learning about phantom vibrations in your pocket, free Wi-Fi for everyone (with cable internet), and life at your local hackerspace. Also, we’re solving Apple TV jailbreak problems, speeding up slow Windows boot times, and getting Chrome to keep your activity a secret. For more information and links about the topics in this episode, check out the show notes at http://lifehacker.com/theshow. Show notes for every episode are posted on Mondays at 12:00 PM PT. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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That's audible.com slash Wondery UK. Hey everybody, welcome to LifeHacker for the week of May 28th.

1:18.7

With me is Adam Dachis.

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Hello, Whitson Gordon.

1:22.0

Hi.

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Alan Henry is going to be joining us for a little bit, and I am Adam Pash.

1:27.3

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1:38.7

Okay, so first thing, there's a post on Macworld slash computer world that I found kind of interesting about cell phone vibration syndrome, which is apparently a thing now that we call a syndrome.

1:52.3

Actually, it sounds silly and it sounds sort of like trend PC, but it's actually like a real thing.

1:58.9

And I think most people who have a cell phone have experienced this before.

2:03.4

It's basically the sensation where you think that your phone is vibrating, say, in your pocket.

2:09.3

It is not.

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