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- Cool Websites & Tools – Open Street Map, Tumblr Image Viewer, & Cycle Routes
- Medium Is Now Open To Anyone With Twitter & A Modern Browser
- 5 Sims That Really Deserve a Sequel Now
- Customize Your Phone Without Flashing a ROM With The Xposed Framework
- Vine Updates With “Sessions” Drafts And “Time Travel” Editing
- The Minimalist Gmail Cheat Sheet
- Tweetbot 3 For iOS 7 Gets Redesign, Background Updates & New Price
- How To Keep Your Files Synced With SkyDrive In Windows 8.1
- Aviate: A Unique Launcher That Changes Throughout The Day [Invites Inside!]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Open Street Map, Tumblr Image Viewer, & Cycle Routes Posted: 26 Oct 2013 03:01 PM PDT  OsmAnd Maps & Navigation – is a map and navigation application with access to the free, worldwide, and high-quality OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. All map data can be stored on your device’s memory card for offline use. Via your device’s GPS, OsmAnd offers routing, with optical and voice guidance, for car, bike, and pedestrian. All the main functionalities work both online and offline. ExplainShell – write down a command-line to see the help text that matches each argument (support for control flows (if/while/etc.) and command substitutions will be added later on). The site contains 29,761 parsed manpages from sections 1 and... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Open Street Map, Tumblr Image Viewer, & Cycle Routes |
| Medium Is Now Open To Anyone With Twitter & A Modern Browser Posted: 26 Oct 2013 02:45 PM PDT  When Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams first announced the launch of the new blogging/publishing platform Medium, it was open to only a select few. Sure, you could reserve a spot by putting in your Twitter id, but you had to wait to be invited to use the service. Well, there’s some good news: it’s now open to everyone. Through its selective invitations, Medium built kind of an aura. It’s also the platform of choice for several established writers, including the new longform journalism venture Epic. Medium recently announced the new change in a post where it said, “Anyone... Read the full article: Medium Is Now Open To Anyone With Twitter & A Modern Browser |
| 5 Sims That Really Deserve a Sequel Now Posted: 26 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT  While you bounced plumbers around collecting coins, I was constructing glorious empires, establishing global trade networks, and wrangling with the world of corporate financing. Yes – consoles were banned in our family, so any gaming fun I had was strictly through DOS and Windows 3.1. These 5 sims stand out as the greatest time suck of my youth. I really didn’t get out much, but that’s beside the point – they need a sequel. Theme Hospital Though at its core is a serious resource management sim, the ickiness of real world diseases were left at the sanitary hospital doors in... Read the full article: 5 Sims That Really Deserve a Sequel Now |
| Customize Your Phone Without Flashing a ROM With The Xposed Framework Posted: 26 Oct 2013 12:00 PM PDT  It is common knowledge that the best way to customize your Android device is to flash it with a new ROM. It is also wrong. It turns out there’s an easier way: If you have a rooted device, you can customize any ROM using a free and powerful app: The Xposed framework. Imagine being able to: Change the way your status bar looks (put the clock in the center, change the color of the icons) Force some apps to always start in full-screen Make it so the screen never turns off when you’re reading a long article on Pocket Enable... Read the full article: Customize Your Phone Without Flashing a ROM With The Xposed Framework |
| Vine Updates With “Sessions” Drafts And “Time Travel” Editing Posted: 26 Oct 2013 10:15 AM PDT  Vine, the popular social network that lets you share 6-second videos with your followers, has just got a new update on both Android and iOS, which brings a couple of much-wanted features — the ability to save drafts and video-editing before publishing. “Vine was built for one purpose: to make it easy for people to capture life in motion and share it with the world. That is the reason we built the Vine camera, and it’s why we continue to improve upon and build new tools for your creations, nurturing the balance between power and simplicity that you’ve come to... Read the full article: Vine Updates With “Sessions” Drafts And “Time Travel” Editing |
| The Minimalist Gmail Cheat Sheet Posted: 26 Oct 2013 09:15 AM PDT  How many Gmail keyboard shortcuts do you know? Is the option to use keyboard shortcuts even enabled in your account? Everyone knows that using keyboard shortcuts saves you time, so what are you waiting for? With the help of this cheat sheet from Visualeks, you’ll be a Gmail keyboard shortcut wizard in no time. Also available in black on white, and white on black. Read the full article: The Minimalist Gmail Cheat Sheet |
| Tweetbot 3 For iOS 7 Gets Redesign, Background Updates & New Price Posted: 26 Oct 2013 08:15 AM PDT  There are so many Twitter clients on the App Store that you’d be hard pressed to make a choice. But Tweetbot is the best in our books, and the app has just got a huge update for iOS 7, with a makeover and lots of new features. But if you are an existing Tweetbot user, there’s some bad news — you’ll have to pay to get the upgrade, just like a new user. Tweetbot 3 is remade from the ground up to take advantage of iOS 7, especially the physics and the multi-tasking. Because of the enhanced multi-tasking in Apple’s... Read the full article: Tweetbot 3 For iOS 7 Gets Redesign, Background Updates & New Price |
| How To Keep Your Files Synced With SkyDrive In Windows 8.1 Posted: 26 Oct 2013 07:30 AM PDT  Windows 8.1 includes deep SkyDrive integration, far beyond the simple SkyDrive Modern app included with Windows 8. SkyDrive isn’t just an app in the tiled interface; it’s also available from the desktop. Macs have iCloud, Chromebooks have Google Drive, and Windows 8.1 PCs have SkyDrive. Microsoft wants you to consider SkyDrive your new hard drive where you store all your personal files. Microsoft didn’t just include a Dropbox-style syncing solution. SkyDrive on Windows 8.1 is smart, offering a new way of syncing files that saves on disk space. It’s great for devices with small amounts of local storage. What Is... Read the full article: How To Keep Your Files Synced With SkyDrive In Windows 8.1 |
| Aviate: A Unique Launcher That Changes Throughout The Day [Invites Inside!] Posted: 26 Oct 2013 06:30 AM PDT  The Android launcher market has been heating up lately, and Aviate is looking to differentiate itself among a crowded group. Whereas most launchers seem to emulate the stock Android launcher while adding additional customization options, Aviate has reinvented the experience from the ground up. This launcher looks like something designed by Google with a lot of swiping and styling reminiscent of the Google Now cards. But its killer feature is that it changes throughout the day based on the time and your location. In theory, it should change to better suit your needs. I was skeptical of how well that could... Read the full article: Aviate: A Unique Launcher That Changes Throughout The Day [Invites Inside!] |
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