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- 5 Cool & Useful Google Maps Mashups
- Internet Worst Case Scenarios And Who’s Protecting Us
- Follow World War I, Week-By-Week, For The Next Four Years [Stuff to Watch]
- Screen Sharing 101: Share What’s On Your Desktop Using Native Windows Tools
- Learn To Program In Processing: A Language For Visual Designers
- Boost Your Productivity With Windows PowerShell Scripts
- How To Get Android Lollipop On Your Nexus Device Right Now
- 5 Disruptive Technology Breakthroughs That Will Shock The World
- Facebook Photo Privacy Settings You Need To Know About
- 3 No-Frills Solutions To Open Power Point PPT Presentation Slides
- Telegram Provides A Secure & Fast-Growing Alternative To WhatsApp
- Google Glass Going Cheap, Share Your Kindle Books, & More… [Tech News Digest]
| 5 Cool & Useful Google Maps Mashups Posted: 17 Nov 2014 08:30 PM PST  Google Maps is generally considered the best online mapping app, and rightly so. Apple Maps’ reputation suffered a serious setback in iOS6 when it started sending people down roads that didn’t exist, and giving you driving directions that landed you in the English Channel. It got to the point where they had to recommend that their users use rival services. Bing’s maps and Mapquest are fine, but they still pale in comparison to Google Maps. One of the reasons is that lots of people use Google Maps to make “mashups“. A mashup is a map which shows certain information pinned to a geographical... Read the full article: 5 Cool & Useful Google Maps Mashups |
| Internet Worst Case Scenarios And Who’s Protecting Us Posted: 17 Nov 2014 06:30 PM PST  If things really went bad on the Internet, and we’re talking catastrophic failure, what would happen? The world relies on the Internet for all kinds of things, from finance to knowledge, and if it went down, things would be bad. But we do have some fail-safes in place in the event that things go bad, and that’s what the infographic below explains. Via WhoIsHostingThis Click To Enlarge Read the full article: Internet Worst Case Scenarios And Who’s Protecting Us |
| Follow World War I, Week-By-Week, For The Next Four Years [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 17 Nov 2014 05:30 PM PST  In 1914 the first shot of the Great War rang out with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. For the next four years one of humanity’s bloodiest wars raged, with more than 16 million civilian, combatant and animal deaths. One hundred years later and we have reached a point in our history where we can dissect, reflect and revisit a conflict in startling detail. The Great War is a YouTube channel that promises to follow the conflict for its entire duration, in great detail. In a new video every week, Indiana Neidell follows the progress of the conflict with stunning archive footage from... Read the full article: Follow World War I, Week-By-Week, For The Next Four Years [Stuff to Watch] |
| Screen Sharing 101: Share What’s On Your Desktop Using Native Windows Tools Posted: 17 Nov 2014 10:00 AM PST  Windows has many hidden features for power users. Although you might be the only person physically in front of your screen, that doesn’t mean the view on your monitor has to be limited to yourself. A number of great native Windows tools allow you to share what you see. This guide will explain how you can share exactly what’s on your screen. The time to show off your monitor may come if you’re giving or receiving technical support, want to perform a demonstration, or want a record of how something appeared – and a whole host of other reasons! Let’s get down and... Read the full article: Screen Sharing 101: Share What’s On Your Desktop Using Native Windows Tools |
| Learn To Program In Processing: A Language For Visual Designers Posted: 17 Nov 2014 09:00 AM PST  If you’re an artistic person in the 21st Century, you probably know that there’s a lot of potential for creativity with digital skills and programming. Would you be surprised to learn that there’s a programming language out there designed for you? If you’re thinking, “But won’t I have to learn math and text manipulation before I can do anything visual?” Well, banish the thought! Today I’m going to introduce you to a programming language that was created in 2002 with visual designers in mind: it’s called Processing. This is just one beautiful example of 3D art made by using Processing to create a... Read the full article: Learn To Program In Processing: A Language For Visual Designers |
| Boost Your Productivity With Windows PowerShell Scripts Posted: 17 Nov 2014 08:00 AM PST  What if you could bring the productivity of Linux over to Windows? One of the main differences between Windows and Linux is that most Linux distros come packaged with the powerful Bash shell; by comparison, the command prompt in Windows is barebones. What if Windows had an equally powerful terminal? With PowerShell, that dream could become reality. Disclaimer: PowerShell is not “Bash for Windows” nor is it meant to be. Yes, both are command line environments that can greatly improve your productivity, but that’s where the similarities end. You should view PowerShell as its own separate approach to creating a powerful... Read the full article: Boost Your Productivity With Windows PowerShell Scripts |
| How To Get Android Lollipop On Your Nexus Device Right Now Posted: 17 Nov 2014 07:30 AM PST  The final release of Android 5.0 Lollipop has finally arrived for Nexus devices! If you’re an owner of a stock Nexus device (such as the awesome Nexus 5 or useful Nexus 7), you can expect to receive an OTA (over the air) update within the coming weeks. However, Lollipop is a spectacular release with plenty of new goodies, so we don’t blame you if you’re a bit impatient. Can’t wait for the OTA update to arrive? We’ll show you how to get Lollipop on your Nexus device right now via flashing. Why Do You Have To Wait For The OTA?... Read the full article: How To Get Android Lollipop On Your Nexus Device Right Now |
| 5 Disruptive Technology Breakthroughs That Will Shock The World Posted: 17 Nov 2014 07:00 AM PST  “Disruptive” technologies – technologies that rapidly obsolete entire well-established industries overnight – are powerful things. Disruptive technologies, like the Internet, industrial agriculture, and aeronautics, have profoundly shaped the world and our daily lives. For example, if the smartphone revolution hadn’t happened, numerous aspects of culture, politics, and the economy would look wildly different than they do today. In this article, we’ll look at five technologies that are on the cusp of having a disruptive impact, and how they’ll affect your life over the coming years. 5. Autonomous Vehicles As one Google engineer put it, “One point two million people killed every year... Read the full article: 5 Disruptive Technology Breakthroughs That Will Shock The World |
| Facebook Photo Privacy Settings You Need To Know About Posted: 17 Nov 2014 06:00 AM PST  If you use Facebook there’s a strong chance the social network has more photos of you than your mother or father. Some users upload so many photos that they forget what they’ve posted, which can lead to awkward moments or even lost jobs. A picture is worth a thousand words, as the old saying goes; one photo can be enough to create an erroneous impression or let slip personal information you’d rather not share. Facebook does offer privacy settings that give you significant control over how photos are shared, but it doesn’t enable many of those settings by default. You must... Read the full article: Facebook Photo Privacy Settings You Need To Know About |
| 3 No-Frills Solutions To Open Power Point PPT Presentation Slides Posted: 17 Nov 2014 05:00 AM PST  You’ve been sent a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, one that you have to view for work, for an introduction to a course, or for some other important reason. Problem is, you don’t own a current copy of Microsoft Office. So how are you going to view the file? I Need To View This Slideshow Now! Microsoft Office has been released in several versions: 97, 2000, 2003, XP, 2007, 2010 and most recently Microsoft Office 2013 (the version that is available on disc and with an Office 365 subscription). As a result, there is a strong possibility that the Office suite or... Read the full article: 3 No-Frills Solutions To Open Power Point PPT Presentation Slides |
| Telegram Provides A Secure & Fast-Growing Alternative To WhatsApp Posted: 17 Nov 2014 04:00 AM PST  Earlier this year we detailed some secure alternatives to WhatsApp, and one option was Telegram. Since then, it has seen a lot of growth — fuelled in part by Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp and receiving a further five million signups during a four-hour WhatsApp outage in February. Telegram is becoming a serious contender for the title of best free messaging app, but what sets it apart from other apps and why are more users picking it up? Security The app’s website states that it’s “taking back our right to privacy,” and the security specs show that it means business. Telegram offers two different types of security for two different... Read the full article: Telegram Provides A Secure & Fast-Growing Alternative To WhatsApp |
| Google Glass Going Cheap, Share Your Kindle Books, & More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 17 Nov 2014 03:30 AM PST  Also, Skype For Web, Spotify kills App Finder, Flickr Wall Art goes global, and the alternate ending to Far Cry 4. The Future Of Google Glass Serious questions are being asked over the future of Google Glass, with early adopters rapidly losing interest in Google’s wearable device. The most damning evidence Project Glass may not be the future of computing Google once imagined it to be is the fact that Google Glass can be bought on eBay for as little as half the price originally paid. In investigating the supposed death of Google Glass, Reuters also finds that app developers... Read the full article: Google Glass Going Cheap, Share Your Kindle Books, & More… [Tech News Digest] |
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