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• Cool Websites & Tools – Android Gestures, Screen Area Pinning, & Haiku Deck Presentation Software
• Dropbox Updates With Notifications & Sharing on Android, Redesign & AirDrop on iOS
• A Quiet Thanksgiving Long Weekend Soundtrack [Sound Sunday]
• The Geek’s Holiday Gift Guide (Under $50)
• Google Play Newsstand Launches On Android To Combine Magazines & Currents
• Roam The World One Pin At A Time With Place Pins On Pinterest
• What Do These Common Symbols Mean?
• Did Your Facebook Account Ever Get Hacked? [MakeUseOf Poll]
• The Smithsonian’s X 3D Project Brings Rare Artifacts To Life, In Your Browser

Cool Websites & Tools – Android Gestures, Screen Area Pinning, & Haiku Deck Presentation Software Posted: 24 Nov 2013 03:30 PM PST Magus Free – is an Android application which allows you to control your device by making simple gestures, such as Face Up, Face Down, Right Side Up, Left Side Up, Top Side Up, and Bottom Side Up. You can make various combinations consisting of two, three or four gestures. Snappy – is a free Mac app that enables you to capture a screen area and automatically pins it above all windows, always on top, and always visible. You can think of it as a visual memory you want to keep around. And just like a memory, you can share it... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Android Gestures, Screen Area Pinning, & Haiku Deck Presentation Software

Dropbox Updates With Notifications & Sharing on Android, Redesign & AirDrop on iOS Posted: 24 Nov 2013 01:30 PM PST Dropbox is one of the must-have apps on iPhone and it's just gotten a whole lot better with Dropbox 3.0, which is redesigned for iOS 7 and brings a bunch of new features like AirDrop support. And it's not ignoring Android either, bringing a new notifications feed and enhanced sharing options. The app looks cleaner and simpler with its new iOS 7-inspired redesign. "We considered every aspect of the app, took the time to make sure we did a thorough job, and simplified a whole bunch of stuff," Dropbox said in a blog post. Dropbox 3.0 for iOS also includes... Read the full article: Dropbox Updates With Notifications & Sharing on Android, Redesign & AirDrop on iOS

A Quiet Thanksgiving Long Weekend Soundtrack [Sound Sunday] Posted: 24 Nov 2013 12:30 PM PST Sound Sunday brings you 10 free and legal album downloads from The National, Turin Brakes, The Oh Hellos, and many other talented independent artists. Whether you’re celebrating Thanksgiving or just feel in need of unwinding from a stressful week, these albums will bring you much needed calmness. Kick back and enjoy your weekend with relaxing folk, pop, and instrumental music. EP: Observer Drift – Colored My Heart Red Genre: alternative, indie, dream, pop, lo-fi, shoegaze From the album page: “A scrapbook collection of my earliest songs. Mostly all recorded before I even started using the name Observer Drift.” The Oh Hellos –... Read the full article: A Quiet Thanksgiving Long Weekend Soundtrack [Sound Sunday]

The Geek’s Holiday Gift Guide (Under $50) Posted: 24 Nov 2013 11:00 AM PST Holidays are coming and there’s never been a more exciting time to be a geek. The next-generation of consoles are arriving, but not everyone can afford the $400 price tag this Christmas. So here’s my selection of fantastic geeky gifts for under $50 – gadgets needn’t be expensive. MyLight.me Motion Activated Floor Lighting ($50) Anything motion-activated is generally guaranteed to be awesome on at least some level, but these under the bed light bars serve a useful purpose as well as just being cool. As geeks, we often fill our bedroom floors with all manner of power cables and other... Read the full article: The Geek’s Holiday Gift Guide (Under $50)

Google Play Newsstand Launches On Android To Combine Magazines & Currents Posted: 24 Nov 2013 10:30 AM PST On smartphones and tablets, reading is big business. And Google was already catering to those needs with its Play Magazines app for subscriptions to popular magazines, and the Currents app for free feeds from famous websites. Well, it's now rolling the two into one experience. Meet the new Google Play Newsstand. Newsstand takes articles from over 1,900 free and paid magazines, newspapers, websites and blogs and reformats them to make best use of your touchscreen interface. So you can read The New York Times, Forbes and The Huffington Post in one app without having to switch between their individual apps—although... Read the full article: Google Play Newsstand Launches On Android To Combine Magazines & Currents

Roam The World One Pin At A Time With Place Pins On Pinterest Posted: 24 Nov 2013 09:30 AM PST Visualizing your dream vacation just got easier with the introduction of “Place Pins” by Pinterest. Pinterest boards around travel were already quite common throughout the social medium. Place Pins are just an improvement with a more finished approach. Pinners can create travel focused Place Boards with the help of Place Pins on an interactive map. Apart from the maps, Place Boards can include images and other relevant information like addresses and phone numbers. Place boards combine visual imagery with the usefulness of placemarkers on a map. Creating a Place Board starts with adding a map to a new board. Then,... Read the full article: Roam The World One Pin At A Time With Place Pins On Pinterest

What Do These Common Symbols Mean? Posted: 24 Nov 2013 08:30 AM PST Most of us will instantly recognise these symbols immediately, but we know little of how they came about and who thought of them. Thankfully, a collaboration between 500 Startups and Visual.ly breaks down these enigmatic user interface symbols that we see almost every day. Perhaps it’ll help you appreciate them more. Click to enlarge. Read the full article: What Do These Common Symbols Mean?

Did Your Facebook Account Ever Get Hacked? [MakeUseOf Poll] Posted: 24 Nov 2013 06:30 AM PST Did you ever contribute to Wikipedia? This was our question to you last week, to which we got some interesting answers, and even more interesting comments. You can (and should) read all the comments by clicking through to last week’s poll. If you only want the results, here they are in front of you. 234 readers voted on this poll, out of which 11% used to contribute to Wikipedia but don’t any more, 29% still contribute regularly, 23% only contribute rarely, and 38% never contributed even a single word to Wikipedia. Full results and this week’s poll after the jump.... Read the full article: Did Your Facebook Account Ever Get Hacked? [MakeUseOf Poll]

The Smithsonian’s X 3D Project Brings Rare Artifacts To Life, In Your Browser Posted: 24 Nov 2013 05:00 AM PST Amelia Earhart, the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, wore a flight suit specifically designed for women (a rarity at the time), with a wide belt and three buttons that closed diagonally across the front. The belt was 2 inches wide, to be exact, and the whole suit was made of tan leather. I know this not just because I read up on the suit, but because I saw an incredibly accurate scan of the suit, and measured the width of the belt on my own. In fact, here it is: And if you’d like to... Read the full article: The Smithsonian’s X 3D Project Brings Rare Artifacts To Life, In Your Browser

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