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3 things any company can learn from Apple
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Yes, Apple is special. And no, not every company should emulate it. But here are key elements in its playbook other companies absolutely should adopt. FORTUNE -- The latest installment of Applemania debuts this Wednesday, when Apple is expect to unveil another wonders of consumer gadgetry. The Apple-obsessed world expects...
Develop Android apps from within Android using AIDE (video)
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Replication is a necessary survival technique in nature, and now Android apps have joined the self-preservation fray with a new piece of software known as the Android Java IDE (AIDE). An integrated development environment for -- don't you know it -- Android, the package provides would-be coders with a...
Fujitsu unveils two new LifeBooks, shows some Ivy Bridge zen
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Fujitsu's teased us before with Intel's hot new chipset, but now it's getting ready to actually ship two notebooks with Intel's third-gen Core i7 CPU. The first, like others before it, will be a refresh of an older model, the LifeBook LH532, with its last-gen i7 tech swapped out...
Update Your Draw Something App To Chat, Save Drawings, Share ‘Em To Facebook and Twitter
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Tell your friends to hit the App Store or Android market, there’s a new update for Draw Something out today with some cool new features. Now you can chat with friends while you play, save your drawings to your phone or tablet, and share those drawings straight to Facebook or...
Silence Spammy Apps And More With Facebook’s New Notification Controls
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If there’s something on Facebook that won’t stop pinging you with Notifications, tell it to shut up instantly with Facebook’s new granular, in-line notification controls. Hover over an alert in the Facebook.com homepage’s globe icon drop-down and click the ‘x’ for the option to turn off notifications from that app,...
How to Craft Your Own “Startup Legend”
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Tech startups are a dime a dozen, so how do you make yours stand out - to the media and to the public? You need a “hook” to attract jaded reporters, busy bloggers and seen-it-all journalists. In short, you need a “startup legend” -which may or may not be...
BodeTree Is A Financial Tool For People Who Hate Finance
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Today, a company called BodeTree is launching a new web-based solution to help small business owners make better sense of their financial data. Like another new startup in the SMB realm (that being InvoiceASAP), BodeTree is also leveraging QuickBooks to help import data into its service, but instead of focusing on online invoicing and...
Humble Bundle brings Canabalt and more to Android
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January saw the release of the first ever Humble Bundle for Android, and now the organization is back with a first of another sort for the platform -- five of them, in fact. The second mobile-focused Humble Bundle sees five games making their Android debut, including iPhone favorite Canabalt...
Le Web London Goes Faster Than Realtime – Grab Your TC Discount Here
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‘Allo my Breeteesh chums! If you have not been to Le Web before, zen zis is pour vous! Le Web is possibly Europe’s oldest, and certainly its biggest tech startup conference, running for many years in December in Paris. Because of organiser Loic Le Meur’s connections in Silicon Valley it...
Lay off the Social Media Experts
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Mr. Webb. Rick Webb was the co-founder of The Barbarian Group, a digital ad agency, and is now a writer and angel investor in the tech industry. It's happening again. While perusing the never-ending flow of tweets and Tumblr blogs that make up the collective consciousness of the internet, like I...
Weekend Time Waster: Solitaire Blitz brings excitement to lonely card clicking
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Digital forms of Solitaire have been included with Windows since it reached version 3.0, and they may well represent the most widely played video game series this side of Angry Birds, enjoyed by bored cubicle workers and bored, procrastinating students alike. While most serious gamers probably wouldn't put these games...
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Was Ripping Apple During The New iPad Event (AAPL, CRM)
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Here's an odd tidbit to come out of Apple's "new iPad" event. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff sat in the crowd and tweeted out a bunch of insults aimed at Apple. At first he was cordial and just live tweeted what was going on, but as he sat there longer,...
Check Out These 18 Unusual Hacker Workspaces
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Most programmers like to add a little bit of a personal touch when it comes to their coding workspaces. Sometimes that means finding a killer location, or building a fancy desk. Or just using a cardboard box, if you are feeling really minimalist. A bunch of programmers posted their workspaces...
Good Deal: name your price for five games from the Humble Bundle
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The Humble Bundle is back, this time with five new cross-platform games at the price of... well, whatever you want to pay. This time you'll get Canabalt, Zen Bound 2, Cogs, and Avadon, and you can pay as little as a penny. There are a few good reasons to...
Daily Crunch: Zen
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Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: The Zen Table Practices Mindfulness So You Don’t Have To The Wheel: What Is The Foxconn Debate Really About? iModela Adds CNC Milling To Your Home 3D Printing Arsenal...
Your moment of Apple zen: Remember the things that Steve told us
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We realize that some of you may have had your fill of Facebook news today, so this is a perfect time to break out some zen thinking thanks to the master of Apple himself: Steve Jobs. This cool site called SteveTold.Us depicts a very relaxed Steve Jobs with an overlay...
Apple’s inevitable path to a post-PC era
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There is definitely some sort of Zen that makes Apple, well, Apple. Taking something obvious, and making it somehow better, somehow cooler, somehow new. How do they do it? By observing how consumers interact with technology and experimenting ad nauseum internally, until they get it exactly the way they want...
Check Out These 22 Gorgeous Hacker Workspaces
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There's another new favorite site among the hacker community of Silicon Valley and around the world. It's a site called Coderwall, which came out of Y Combinator's most recent Winter 2012 startup class. On the site, hackers around the world leave "pro tips" that help out other programmers during their...
Blip Festival 2012 starts tonight in NYC, featuring Bit Shifter, Nullsleep, and many more
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Blip Festival, the three-day showcase of chip music that has been running since 2006, is back in New York City starting tonight. The entire lineup includes some two dozen acts, as well as visual artists and likely a few surprise team-ups. There's a wide range of styles represented, but...
An incredibly stupid blog post about going "Google free" from the usually useful Zen Habits - http://bit.ly/cE5Jed
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An incredibly stupid blog post about going "Google free" from the usually useful Zen Habits - http://bit.ly/cE5Jed
Kill Busywork: The One Skill to Focus On What Matters | Zen Habits
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Saying Yes More Slowly Here’s how it goes. Someone asks you to do something. And, while nodding your head, you say “Sure – and let me just ask you a few questions first.” And then you pick and chose from some of these questions. (Your goal is to ask...
The Hidden Art of Achieving Creative Flow | Zen Habits
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Just helped someone from McMinnville, OR with a question about *Zen* ...on Aardvark! http://vark.com/t/4f5c6e
Zen Bound 2 for iPad Officially Confirmed [iPad Zen Bound Sequel Promises to Bring iPad's Screen to Life with Enhanced Visuals & New Gameplay]
How Much Stuff Does One Man Need?
www.getrichslowly.org
It seems like every time I travel, I come home committed to win my war on Stuff. This time was no different. I lived out of a single carry-on bag while vacationing in Belize last week, and even that felt luxurious. Now I’ve returned to a house packed with doodads...
If you code HTML, Zen Coding will change your life
www.pheedcontent.com
Filed under: Developer, Productivity If you write HTML for a living, and you don't know Zen Coding yet, you are missing out big time. This is basically the coolest thing I've seen all week. I have been using it for a few days now; at first it seemed kind of...
February is fitness month at Mobile Nations!
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New Years is over, January has come and gone, and for many of us, our get fit and get healthy resolutions have come and gone with it. Rather than leaving them lying in ruin with what's left of our waist lines and good intentions, however, we want to do...
17 Examples of Great Presentation Design
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Last week we shared 10 rules to help instantly improve your presentations. While readers mostly agreed with the rules, they requested some examples of well-designed slides, so Dan and I did some digging. We gathered some of the best examples of slides and presentation design to help provide a clear...
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