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• Cool Websites & Tools – Intelligent Time Assistant, Track Your Goals, & Record Your Family Stories
• The Ultimate Cheat Sheet To Becoming A Great Public Speaker
• Free iPhone Apps: Summary Pro, Unstoppable Gorg & Assassin’s Creed [iOS Sales]
• Your Town Has A Story, Here’s How Census Data Can Help You See It
• Here’s What Happens When Guns and Computers Collide
• Improve Search & Learning Skills In Kids From The Bing Homepage
• 5 Privacy Reasons Not To Buy An Amazon Smartphone
• Beautify Your Emails With Apple’s Mail Stationery
• The Tesla Theory: Who Will Win The Race For Wireless Power?
• 6 Gaming Kickstarter Campaigns That Should Have Been Funded
• Apple Improves iCloud Security, Twitter Kills Twitpic Over Trademark, And More… [Tech News Digest]

Cool Websites & Tools – Intelligent Time Assistant, Track Your Goals, & Record Your Family Stories Posted: 05 Sep 2014 09:31 PM PDT Timeful – Timeful is the first intelligent time assistant that gets things scheduled so you'll get them done. It brings your calendars and to-do lists together so you can see everything that's competing for your time. It uses algorithms and behavioral science to suggest – based on your own available time and location – the best times to schedule to-dos and good habits throughout your day. MailCharts – tracks over a thousand companies, bringing you actionable insights to help you improve your email marketing strategy, make data-driven decisions and gain design and content inspiration. Browse through thousands of email creatives,... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Intelligent Time Assistant, Track Your Goals, & Record Your Family Stories

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet To Becoming A Great Public Speaker Posted: 05 Sep 2014 07:30 PM PDT Whenever you get called to speak in public, do your palms sweat? Does your tongue get tied up — it’s embarrassing, isn’t it? Feel nervous? Not many people are natural public speakers — in order to impress your audience, you need practice and the right guidance. If you’re responsible for appearing in front of a large audience to deliver speeches or talks, then work your way through this cheat sheet. It’s a collaborative effort between London Speaker Bureau and datadial, and will certainly help you overcome your fear of public speaking. Click to enlarge. Read the full article: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet To Becoming A Great Public Speaker

Free iPhone Apps: Summary Pro, Unstoppable Gorg & Assassin’s Creed [iOS Sales] Posted: 05 Sep 2014 07:00 PM PDT This week’s app sales include not one but two premium-turned-free apps that are losing their price tags altogether. Don’t expect to see research and study tool Summary Pro or five-star tower defence title Unstoppable Gorg in these columns again as they join the swelling ranks of must-have freebies. In other news Apple’s free App of the Week hopes to nurture your culinary side and Assassin’s Creed Pirates is free again! Apps Summary Pro ($1.99, now free) Summary Pro is a formerly premium app designed with study and research in mind. Make summaries of text, images or both from a variety of sources including Dropbox, iTunes File Transfer or an in-built... Read the full article: Free iPhone Apps: Summary Pro, Unstoppable Gorg & Assassin’s Creed [iOS Sales]

Your Town Has A Story, Here’s How Census Data Can Help You See It Posted: 05 Sep 2014 10:00 AM PDT A coal miner earning $540 a year lived near downtown Boulder, Colorado in 1940. One of his neighbours, a cook at a frat house, earned a little more: $770. If you live in Boulder, as I do, you’d know that even adjusted for inflation that kind of pay wouldn’t cover rent here in 2014. Clearly this town has changed a lot – something any longtime local will tell you. I learned this, and a lot of other fascinating things, by exploring census data for my town. Here’s how you can do your own research – it’s easy, I promise. I’m... Read the full article: Your Town Has A Story, Here’s How Census Data Can Help You See It

Here’s What Happens When Guns and Computers Collide Posted: 05 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT Military firearms are a simple extension of previous technology; first we threw rocks. Then we used slings to send them further. We developed bows and arrows to deliver more force. Then we harnessed fire to make the first guns. Technology is ushering in the next phase, and it’s fascinating. Smart Guns In the long-running debate about gun control legislation (which I will not take part in here), guns have been characterized as “dumb” tools. They simply do what they are told. But as with smart lamps, smart TVs, and smart cars, technology is making guns a lot more intelligent. Take TrackingPoint,... Read the full article: Here’s What Happens When Guns and Computers Collide

Improve Search & Learning Skills In Kids From The Bing Homepage Posted: 05 Sep 2014 08:30 AM PDT The lineup of 21st Century learning skills is long – from critical thinking to media literacy, and tying them together is the now mundane task of Web search. That’s why both Microsoft and Google pay so much attention to young learning minds: if there's Google for Education, there is also Bing in the Classroom. Without getting into the merits of using Bing for search purposes, let’s focus less on the company from Mountain View and see one of the latest initiatives coming out from Redmond. A recent post on the official Microsoft blog demonstrated the simple approach: The high-quality homepage image is connected to free lesson plans which... Read the full article: Improve Search & Learning Skills In Kids From The Bing Homepage

5 Privacy Reasons Not To Buy An Amazon Smartphone Posted: 05 Sep 2014 08:00 AM PDT Are you considering a new smartphone? If you are, Amazon’s Fire phone might be high on your list. But hold on a minute: there are five privacy reasons why this might not be a good idea… The Amazon Smartphone is likely to be ubiquitous this Christmas, pushed every time you order gifts on Amazon. It’s likely to end up in the hands of older relatives and kids, too, providing the company with a vast new customer base. But what else will Amazon get out of it? There is the very strong possibility that one of the new features introduced on the Fire,... Read the full article: 5 Privacy Reasons Not To Buy An Amazon Smartphone

Beautify Your Emails With Apple’s Mail Stationery Posted: 05 Sep 2014 07:00 AM PDT Take your emails from plain text to personal. Apple’s Mail includes often-overlooked attractive Stationery templates for making your messages stand out. Stationery has been a feature of Mail for several years now, but unless you’re a die-hard Mac user you might not know it exists. Like the greeting card and photo book features in iPhoto, Stationery allows you to spruce up and personalize your email messages using professionally designed templates and personal photos. Fortunately, Stationery will remain a fixture with the release of OS X Yosemite, so here’s how to use it. Create A Stationery Email The Stationery feature can be accessed by creating a new message in Mail, and then... Read the full article: Beautify Your Emails With Apple’s Mail Stationery

The Tesla Theory: Who Will Win The Race For Wireless Power? Posted: 05 Sep 2014 06:00 AM PDT When you think of wireless power, images of lightning bolts racing from one Tesla coil to another probably come to mind, or maybe images of the moment Frankenstein’s monster came alive. While the idea seems ridiculous and nearly impossible, you may be surprised to learn that wireless power is fast becoming a reality. There are a number of theories and proposals put forth to accomplish the futuristic feat of transferring electricity through the air to devices in your home – which we’ll get to in this article – but first, it’s important to understand both the potential and the limitations of the... Read the full article: The Tesla Theory: Who Will Win The Race For Wireless Power?

6 Gaming Kickstarter Campaigns That Should Have Been Funded Posted: 05 Sep 2014 05:00 AM PDT Kickstarter is a fickle beast. While it isn’t exactly rare to see games that are successfully crowdfunded, it’s still impossible to predict which ones will succeed and which will fail. It can be understandably annoying when a crappy Kickstarter succeeds, but it’s way worse when a great Kickstarter idea fails. Which interesting games would be on the market today had their Kickstarter campaigns gone a different way? Here are a few of them. Antharion By Orphic Software Raised $13,810 out of $15,000 by 456 backers Genre: Turn-Based RPG Veteran gamers are always clamoring for reminders of the past, and RPG... Read the full article: 6 Gaming Kickstarter Campaigns That Should Have Been Funded

Apple Improves iCloud Security, Twitter Kills Twitpic Over Trademark, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 05 Sep 2014 04:30 AM PDT Also, Rdio goes freemium, Facebook privacy checkups, free Xbox One game offer, iDiots queue for the iPhone 6, and why Google Glass sucks. Apple Ups iCloud Security Measures Apple is set to improve security measures on iCloud, the aim being the make it more difficult for hackers to gain access to people’s private files. This comes in response to The Fappening, which saw nude images of dozens of celebrities leaking online via 4chan. According to the Wall Street Journal, once these new measures kick in, iCloud users will be notified whenever anyone tries to “change an account password, restore iCloud... Read the full article: Apple Improves iCloud Security, Twitter Kills Twitpic Over Trademark, And More… [Tech News Digest]

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