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- Cool Websites & Tools – Does My Hair Look OK, Contemporary Art, & Kickstarter Projects
- The Updated Gmail App For iOS Gives You More Room For Multitasking
- Electronic Dance Music: 15 Free EPs & Albums To Download [Sound Sunday]
- Amazon Makes Your Shopping Experience More Social By Teaming Up With Facebook
- The Pros and Cons of Dating a Programmer
- Day One Journal App Gets iOS 7 Update, Music and Activities Tracking, and 64-Bit Support
- Did You Ever Contribute To Wikipedia? [MakeUseOf Poll]
- Playing Video Games Will Make You A Better Person. Here’s How
| Cool Websites & Tools – Does My Hair Look OK, Contemporary Art, & Kickstarter Projects Posted: 17 Nov 2013 04:30 PM PST  World Data Finder – Discover data and charts relevant to the pages you visit. The World Data Finder extension is your “always on” companion helping you to find data and charts relevant to the pages you visit. It can be used for fact checking, data discovery and analysis by pretty much anyone like analysts, journalists, students and teachers. Does My Hair Look OK? – is a site that merely shows a frame, and inside that frame is your webcam, or front facing camera (if you are on a smartphone). This makes a mirror, in which you can look to see... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Does My Hair Look OK, Contemporary Art, & Kickstarter Projects |
| The Updated Gmail App For iOS Gives You More Room For Multitasking Posted: 17 Nov 2013 01:30 PM PST  Google gets an updated app for the iPhone and iPad. The latest design changes make it more suitable for iPad's expansive screen estate. As Google says, it gives you a more immersive experience but also extra room for serious multitasking. The Gmail app takes full advantage of the two orientations – landscape and portrait — to give you a smoother workflow. Holding the iPad in the landscape mode displays a new navigation bar on the left-hand side. The new navigation bar allows you to quickly switch categories as well as move between multiple Gmail accounts with a single tap on... Read the full article: The Updated Gmail App For iOS Gives You More Room For Multitasking |
| Electronic Dance Music: 15 Free EPs & Albums To Download [Sound Sunday] Posted: 17 Nov 2013 12:30 PM PST  Sound Sunday has been bringing you free and legal music downloads every Sunday since 2010. In this edition you’ll find dance-oriented electronic music, such as house, IDM (intelligent dance music), drum & bass, and dubstep. What all of these genres have in common is beats. House music, which emerged in the early 1980s, is characterized by repetitive 4/4 beats. IDM, a post-techno form of electronic music that came up in the early 199s, was influenced by various breakbeat styles, but remains more experimental and ambient in nature. Drum & bass, which followed in the mid 1990s, is characterized by fast... Read the full article: Electronic Dance Music: 15 Free EPs & Albums To Download [Sound Sunday] |
| Amazon Makes Your Shopping Experience More Social By Teaming Up With Facebook Posted: 17 Nov 2013 09:30 AM PST  It was bound to happen sooner or later. If any more proof was needed that Facebook is the more powerful thing on Earth since the invention of home-made hooch, then this is it. In a move to make your shopping experience “more social”, Amazon and Facebook have joined forces, by showing you your Facebook friends on Amazon who have left reviews and recommendations on items in your public Amazon wishlists. For those of you who are not so well versed with how Amazon wishlists work, it goes like this. There are two types of wishlist – public and private. Private lists... Read the full article: Amazon Makes Your Shopping Experience More Social By Teaming Up With Facebook |
| The Pros and Cons of Dating a Programmer Posted: 17 Nov 2013 08:30 AM PST  Programmers make the best partners, because they don’t have time to cheat on you — they barely have time for themselves. Unfortunately, that means they probably won’t have time for you either. Kind of a catch 22, really. Is anyone currently dating a programmer? via Koding Read the full article: The Pros and Cons of Dating a Programmer |
| Day One Journal App Gets iOS 7 Update, Music and Activities Tracking, and 64-Bit Support Posted: 17 Nov 2013 07:30 AM PST  Popular iOS journaling app, Day One, just got an iOS 7 update. The latest version includes an iOS 7 redesign, 64-bit support, and special features for iPhone 5s, iPad Air, and the new iPad Mini. Since its first release in the Spring of 2011, Day One has gained traction because of its attractive user interface and ease of use. The iOS 7 update includes redesigned icons, a navigation bar, and font style changes for menus. All users can now select to add the currently playing song on their iPhone to a journal entry, in addition to the current weather status and GPS... Read the full article: Day One Journal App Gets iOS 7 Update, Music and Activities Tracking, and 64-Bit Support |
| Did You Ever Contribute To Wikipedia? [MakeUseOf Poll] Posted: 17 Nov 2013 06:30 AM PST  Last week we asked you how many friends you have on Google+. Aside from giving us an insight into how many of you actually use Google+, the poll also turned into a discussion about the recent switch to Google+ comment on YouTube, which forced many people to start using Google+. We also wanted to compare the results to a similar poll about Facebook, but since Google+ attracted only about half the voters, it’s hard to get a clear picture. Out of 267 votes in total, 4.5% have 201-300 friends on Google+, another 4.5% have 301-500 friends on Google+, 7.5% have... Read the full article: Did You Ever Contribute To Wikipedia? [MakeUseOf Poll] |
| Playing Video Games Will Make You A Better Person. Here’s How Posted: 17 Nov 2013 06:00 AM PST  When people think of video games, they often think of it as a simple and fun pastime, but there is far more to it than that. Video games can actually teach you life lessons. As we play games we often find ourselves dealing with some of the worst imaginable situations, whether in the form of the single player stories or the terrible people we encounter while playing multiplayer. And that can make you better. Today, let’s take a look at some of the aspects of gaming that can actually make you a better person. If you can get through these... Read the full article: Playing Video Games Will Make You A Better Person. Here’s How |
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