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• Sony hand-cranked USB charger replenishes energy without an outlet

  tags: gadget

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• 11 “Modern Antiques” Today’s Kids Have Probably Never Seen – Mental Floss

  I’ve seen only no 9 (no draft window) thanks to my grandfather’s Fiat. I doubt most of the others were even seen in India.

  tags: history design antiques

• What Amazon’s ebook strategy means – Charlie’s Diary

  Very interesting outlook – the book publishers seem to have painted themselves into a corner here. It’s not very different from what happened between Apple & the music industry.

  tags: ebooks amazon monopoly publishing drm future

• iTextEditors – iPhone and iPad text/code editors and writing tools compared

  That’s a lot of text editors for a platform not conducive to content creation

  tags: ipad ios apps writing text

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• 93-year-old lens hacked onto a Canon 5D Mark II with amazing results | The Verge

  93-year-old lens hacked onto a Canon 5D Mark II with amazing results http://t.co/WvljfnTS

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• Your Old iPad Will Suddenly Feel a Lot Smaller – The Next Web

  Suddenly, the storage on your old iPad or iPad 2 is going to feel a lot smaller (@martinsfp /… http://t.co/DMTkwgIJ http://t.co/yhMbydDk

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• Transparency Life Sciences | drug development you control

  Interesting idea, but will it fly?
  “Transparency Life Sciences is the world’s first drug development company based on open innovation. Our goal is to develop medicines for significant unmet medical needs by acquiring promising drug compounds, designing studies via crowdsourced methods, and conducting those clinical studies with unmatched productivity.”

  tags: transparency development medicine opensource

• Comparing today’s computers to 1995′s | Relatively Interesting

  My first PC was a 286 with 1 MB RAM, a 40 MB HD, 5 1/4″ floppy drive, CGA monitor, no mouse, no sound, no CD-ROM.
  Also used a dB Spectrum before that – it used a cassette recorder for storage, had 64K memory, and used a TV as display.

  tags: computers history technology

• Start 2012 by Taking 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions

  Handy website that provides you with links to the app settings pages of different online services like facebook, Google etc. Good to visit these pages from time to time & revoke access of any suspicious or unwanted apps.

  tags: privacy permission socialmedia apps tool web

• Right versus pragmatic – Marco.org

  Well summed up:
  “Relying solely on yelling about what’s right isn’t a pragmatic approach for the media industry to take. And it’s not working. It’s unrealistic and naïve to expect everyone to do the “right” thing when the alternative is so much easier, faster, cheaper, and better for so many of them.”

  tags: copyright Business piracy

• The Death Star Is a Surprisingly Cost-Effective Weapons System | Mother Jones

  Turns out that it is indeed very cost effective, given the size of the empire. Also, don’t miss out on the comments picked out by the author.

  tags: weapons economics starwars

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• #A VC: The Management Team

  Particularly for knowledge centric organizations:
  “For every Steve Jobs, there are a thousand leaders who learned to hire smart people and let them build great things in a nurturing environment of empowerment and it was AWESOME. That doesn’t mean lowering your standards. It doesn’t mean letting people do bad work. It means hiring smart people who get things done—and then getting the hell out of the way.”

  tags: management startup leadership

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• 8-bit Prince of Persia takes on the real world | The Verge

  Prince of Persia in real life… easily the best thing I’ve seen all week. Video: http://t.co/EKsPzMfw

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• Weekend Diversion: Fighting on the Internet : Starts With A Bang

  Quite a lot of interesting graphics, and as Calvin said ”As far as I’m concerned, if something is so complicated that you can’t explain it in 10 seconds, then it’s probably not worth knowing anyway.” – explains trolls pretty well.

  tags: internet argument comics

• Mobile Sites vs. Apps: The Coming Strategy Shift (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)

  Interesting piece on usability & situations in which each is applicable:
  “Apps may remain better for tasks that are intensely feature-rich applications, such as photo editing — whereas mobile sites will be better for design problems like e-commerce/m-commerce, corporate websites, news, medical info, social networking, etc. that are rich in content but don’t require intense data manipulation.”

  tags: mobile apps html5 design usability ios android

• Will Deaths By Social Network Spur Calls To Ban Facebook? – Forbes

  Will Deaths By Social Network Spur Calls To Ban Facebook? http://t.co/itSuSL64

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• Microsoft was running Windows on ARM two years ago | The Verge

  Microsoft was running Windows on ARM two years ago http://t.co/EvzAVxAh

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• Eric Cantor, Science, And The Central Planning Fallacy – Forbes

  Eric Cantor, Science, And The Central Planning Fallacy http://t.co/6i0Qhnak

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• The Corner: How Amazon’s KDP Select Saved My Book

  An excellent demo of how authors can leverage Amazon to publicize their work. Also highlights the way in which the long tail can go mainstream using the power of free. Chris Anderson would be really proud.

  tags: amazon book publishing longtail

• How to name a web browser (by those who have) – thebeebs – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

  Interesting post on how the browsers have been named – not all are from direct sources though.

  tags: web browser naming

• Bill Gates: ‘I wrote Steve Jobs a letter as he was dying. He kept it by his bed’ – Telegraph

  Bill Gates: ‘I wrote Steve Jobs a letter as he was dying. He kept it by his bed’ (@maryriddell… http://t.co/WOqWTR9k http://t.co/tue24U6A

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• Bustling Movement of Megacities – My Modern Metropolis

  Through long exposures, photographer Martin Roemers captures the hustle and bustle of megacities. http://t.co/iEjxSQB2

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• How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep: Grooming + Health : Details

  For the weekend: Steps on how to get a good night’s #sleep http://t.co/KNks1KOo

  tags: sleep twitterfav

• Your Own Evil Lair, Available Immediately! : Discovery News

  A real steal at $3m – comes with a 20,000 sq foot building, 2 bedroom house, helipad, wells & the ability to withstand a 5-megaton nuclear blast

  tags: discovery news facility

  • 20,000-square-foot building, basketball court, three-bedroom house, helicopter landing pad, two wells from which to draw water and a barn
  • Fiber Optic OC-48 cable
  • the facility can withstand a 5-megaton nuclear blast.
  • rock bottom price of $2,950,000.

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• For $2 a Star, a Retailer Gets 5-Star Reviews – NYTimes.com

  This is how you game the review system it seems, till the systems games you.

  tags: reviews nytimes ethics amazon

• Art masterpieces drawn on an office whiteboard by Bill Taylor – Telegraph

  Art masterpieces drawn on an office whiteboard by Bill Taylor http://t.co/AVxGPm5q

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• The Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights in Britain – Telegraph

  Pictures: The Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights in Britain http://t.co/htVP0Vyx

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• A Healthy Information Diet: The Case for Conscious Consumption – Maria Popova – Health – The Atlantic

  RT @TheAtlanticHLTH The case for conscious information consumption: http://t.co/RCSpBmg7 by @brainpicker

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• Rare Pictures From the Dawn of NASA Spaceflight

  Rare photos from the early days of NASA spaceflight: http://t.co/XQFXNh1a

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• Retro Future Ads For Facebook, YouTube & Skype

  Quite creative for sure

  tags: facebook ads twitter retro skype humour youtube

• Does Online Piracy Hurt The Economy? A Look At The Numbers – Forbes

  Does Online Piracy Hurt The Economy? A Look At The Numbers http://t.co/bBgWNhVD

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• Amazon setting up first fulfillment center in India| Reuters

  Amazon setting up first “fulfillment center” in India (@rtrswalibarr / Reuters) http://t.co/nbqdaAhR http://t.co/MtW4JwxQ

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• Fantastic Fireballs Frozen in Mid-Air – My Modern Metropolis

  Have you ever seen a fireball frozen in mid-air? http://t.co/yJj69oCk

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• Famous Photogs Pose With Their Most Iconic Images | Raw File | Wired.com

  You’ve seen their photos. Now check out this gallery of famous photographers posing with their iconic images http://t.co/Qw3CmS1r

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• I Won a Samsung Galaxy S II – My Review | cek.log

  From a WP7 user’s perspective (also don’t forget that he actually developed the WP7 platform). Not flattering at all.
  Summary:
  “A typical non-geek consumer would be absolutely-fraking-crazy to pick an Android phone over a Windows Phone. Windows Phone is vastly more refined, cohesive, and easy to use. Period.
  People who enjoy “managing” their phone might enjoy “managing” their Android smartphone. Those folks will probably forget how much fun “managing” a smartphone was after they’ve used Windows Phone for a while. Instead they’ll see how much fun it is to “use” a smartphone.”

  tags: samsung galaxy review android

• Observations on film art : Pandora’s digital box: From the periphery to the center, or the one of many centers

  A very interesting look at the way home video technology, particularly the VCD has evolved. A pretty lengthy read.

  tags: film art vcd technology evolution

• [Updated] The rise and fall of personal computing | asymco

  A very pertinent way to look at the shipment of true personal computing devices that includes tablets & smartphones. The traditional PC shipment is stagnating while the portable devices are seeing explosive growth. It is more of a case of market penetration & expansion rather than actual death of the traditional PC.

  tags: computing devices market smartphones tablet shipment

• Fragmentation Is Not The End of Android | cek.log

  As an open source project, Android couldn’t have asked for more success. However, the primary backer – Google – is in a very unenviable position given the kind of returns it is getting for the efforts put in.

  tags: android fragmentation

• OK, MG, I Take It Back | TechCrunch

  Google is really following in Microsoft’s footsteps with their very own version of IE6\WinXP in the form of Android 2.X. Honeycomb was kind of like Vista (lots of hype, with little market impact) while ICS shows signs of being like Win7.
  Also, the fact that Amazon has based the Kindle Fire on Android 2.3 is going to guarantee even more headaches for developers (unless Amazon beats other OEMs to the ICS upgrade)

  tags: techcrunch android ios development fragmentation

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