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iOS 6 to Add Safari iCloud Tabs, VIP Mail Recipients, 'Do Not Disturb' Mode?
www.macrumors.com
Back in March, we noted that Apple had activated Safari tab syncing through iCloud in OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2, with the feature designed to allow users to sync open browser tabs across Macs and presumably iOS devices. Now in a new report from 9to5Mac outlining several OS...
VLC 2.02 adds Retina display support, ditches font cache interruptions
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The latest version of everyone's favorite file-type-friendly media player has been updated on both Windows and OS X, although the Apple iteration gets the most major addition -- playback support on the new MacBook Pro's Retina display. Alongside sharper menus, VLC's latest update extends functionality to the video itself,...
Google Now Warns Chinese Users When Their Searches Go Out Of Bounds
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Those who don’t live or haven’t recently traveled to China may not have experienced this first hand, but Google Search has been known to be “inconsistent and unreliable” in mainland China — to use Google’s words. Error messages like “This webpage is not available” or “The connection was reset” are...
Google Compute Engine: Computing without limits
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By Craig McLuckie, Product Manager, Google Compute Engine Over the years, Google has built some of the most high performing, scalable and efficient data centers in the world by constantly refining our hardware and software. Since 2008, we've been working to open up our infrastructure to outside developers and...
Google To Chinese Searchers: Your Search Interruptions Are Not Our Fault
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Google announced on their blog that they have noticed an increase in complaints from searchers in mainland China. The issues they are reporting is that Google.com and searchers are not coming up, as if Google.com is down. So Google investigated their servers and operations and noticed no issues... Please visit...
TiVo Stream brings streaming to iOS devices with no interruptions
9to5mac.com
As noted by The Loop, Tivo has announced a new service called TiVo Stream that will allow TiVo Premiere or Premiere Q DVR customers to access content on their iPhone and iPad. The company made the announcement alongside a new “IP set-top box” that delivers content to secondary TVs....
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 31, 2012
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google To Chinese Searchers: Your Search Interruptions Are Not Our Fault Google announced on their blog that they have noticed an increase in complaints from... Please...
Should Twitter charge users, or pay them -- or both?
gigaom.com
Twitter’s emerging business model continues to be a hot topic in social-web circles, including the debate over whether the company is taking the wrong path by trying to control more of the content that flows through the network in order to monetize it through advertising. Entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell is busy...
DARPA dreams of authentication using the way you type
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In DARPA’s vision of the future, you won’t be typing passwords anymore—because typing is the password. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is investigating the feasibility of developing software that can identify a user based purely on the style and speed of his or her typing. “What I’d like...
XBMC audio engine gets big rewrite, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio hit your media hub
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Fans of XBMC who've wanted their HTPCs to replace the higher-end components of a home theater setup, like Blu-ray players and higher-end receivers, are having their wishes fulfilled through a completely reworked sound system. AudioEngine, as it's called, can processevery stage of audio encoding and decoding, even with 7.1-channel...
Google Cryptically Alerts The World That It Will Nudge Chinese Searchers Away From Censorship
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It's no secret that Google has a troubled relationship with China: at one point leaving the market entirely, and later going back but with significant limitations, though where Google tried to be as transparent as possible about when information was being censored on behalf of the Chinese government. Last week,...
How To Turn Instagram Photos Into Your Facebook Timeline Cover (FB)
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Instagram is a great medium for a lot of cool things. We've seen ways to turn Instagram photos into calendars, magnets, and iPhone cases. People have also used Instagram as a place to post their resumes. It only makes sense that if you can turn a Facebook Timeline profile...
Productivity Porn: 7 tips to make yourself more efficient right now
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Set your clock earlier if you want to get more done. Photo: Alan Cleaver You’re busy and don’t have time to read a lengthy intro (especially in a piece about productivity). So let’s get right to it. Plenty of productivity gurus recommend an entire, complicated system to get yourself organized and...
Verizon's LTE network experiencing sporadic outages, yet again
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It sounds like Verizon is continuing to struggle with reliability problems surrounding its LTE network. We're seeing sporadic reports on Twitter that the company's LTE network is down, and we also have a source who tells us that Verizon is aware of the issue and currently diagnosing this outage....
Augmented Reality Glasses Could Be an Awkward Person’s New Best Friend
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Mr. Starner (cs.uoregon.edu) In this month’s MIT Technology Review, journalist Farhad Manjoo got a chance to talk with a technology lead for Google’s Project Glass, Thad Starner. An associate professor at the Georgia Institute for Technology, Mr. Starner has been experimenting with wearable technologies since the mid-90s, and was tapped by...
Google now warns Chinese users certain queries may interrupt connection
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In a blog post on the official Google Search blog, Google’s Senior Vice President, Knowledge Alan Eustace today provided some insight into ongoing issues Google Search users in mainland China have been experiencing. As highlighted in the video above, we can see Google observes specific search queries appear to...
Social marketing tech startup Bread Labs slices $4.3 million funding round
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Bread Labs, a San Francisco-based social media marketing technology startup, is raising a $4.3 million round of which $3.3 million has already been secured, according to a regulatory filing that surfaced earlier this week. The funding round comes at a time the startup is fleshing out its commercial social marketing...
Productivity Porn: 7 specific ways to achieve better work/life balance
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Photo via Bigstock Productivity too often can become more than a means to an end. If left unchecked, being more productive can simply make you feel compelled to fill additional time with more work. That’s a fine outcome if you need to (or want to) get more done. But balance...
'One Sense' headphones block out the world, use spikes to ward off interruptions
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Sometimes it seems like the only way to escape the bombardment of information from the digital and physical world is to flee into the countryside, far from the reach of broadband lines or cell signals. Apparently designer Joe Doucet isn't satisfied with the idea of holing up in the...
Why performance will help Google steal cloud customers from Amazon
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This week’s announcement by Google of its new Google Compute Engine cloud offering is a big deal, and GigaOM’s coverage to date has been pretty spot on. However, having read the excellent coverage by Om Malik and Derrick Harris, as well as some interesting analysis on other sites (like here and here), I’m stuck with...
VPNs reportedly blocked in Iran, with yet another crackdown on Internet access
thenextweb.com
Last week, Iran’s Internet usage saw several interruptions. On the eve of the anniversary of Iran’s 1979 revolution, Google and all SSL sites were blocked in Iran. A couple of days later, Google confirmed that Gmail and YouTube had, in fact, been blocked in the country. Restored after a four day...
Patent spat forces Apple to take iCloud, MobileMe push email offline in Germany
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Apple has been forced to take its iCloud and MobileMe push email services offline in Germany as a result of a recent ruling in a patent lawsuit filed by Motorola Mobility against the technology giant, German blog Macerkopf reports. Late last year, a German court ruled against Apple in...
9 Ways To Handle Interruptions Like A Pro
www.lifehack.org
Are you easily distracted? I bet you are. If I told you this link led to a list of funny pics of deranged kittens, you’d likely click through and quickly forget our conversation.That won’t happen this time!Interruptions do the most damage when we allow their appearance to affect us long...
Windows 8 Will Resume Copy on Wake, Bring Less Operation Interruptions
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The process of copying files in Windows 8 will be much improved starting with the beta release, when compared to the developer preview and with other flavors of Windows. Microsoft designed the platform to handle duplicate files differently than before and to eliminate the need of copying identical files...
For Facebook, infrastructure concerns loom large
gigaom.com
Beneath all the Zynga games, timelines, likes and pokes, Facebook’s business relies on fast, reliable infrastructure. And infrastructure concerns figure heavily in the risks it faces as it goes public, according to Facebook’s newly released S-1 filing. To put it plainly: Facebook’s and ability to attract, retain and serve users is dependent...
listening to Low Battery Tones Pt. 1 (No Interruptions) by Simulache - http://www.thesixtyone.com/simulache/song/lEKzLZsA8Qm/
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listening to Low Battery Tones Pt. 1 (No Interruptions) by Simulache - http://www.thesixtyone.com/simulache/song/lEKzLZsA8Qm/
Making flying easier
www.somebits.com
Flying airplanes is hard, but pilots do learn to fly planes safely. How do we manage all the complexity? By managing our attention, by using checklists, and by taking advantage of simplifying technologies. Some of these techniques are applicable to other complex tasks, like cooking or software engineering. Attention training....
21 Time Management Tips For Bloggers
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Underlying the constant search for tactics by bloggers out there, there is a huge perceived lack of time. You’ve got a day job. A family. A life. How are you supposed to have enough time to create a successful blog? Personally, I think our perceptions of time are completely arbitrary...
“Geofencing” enables new location-based apps, raises privacy concerns
venturebeat.com
A coffee shop pinging your cell phone with a deal for latte when you’re 300 feet away? A mother alerted when her child leaves the school grounds? All this is done with “geofencing“, the latest thing in location-based services, according to some proponents and users. Geofencing means setting up a...
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