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Snooperscope iPhone night vision lens

Posted on December 7, 2013December 26, 2013 by timbatchelder

Hunt ghosts with Snooperscope smartphone night vision lens
by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com

This magnetic device lets you act like a creepy spy, observe nocturnal wildlife, or see Kinect infrared dots.

Maybe you want to check out whatever it was that just went bump in the night. Or maybe you just want to see things in the dark. Here’…

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Turn your smartphone into night vision goggles with Snooperscope (mnn.com)
Snooperscope: Night Vision for Your Smartphone (freshnessmag.com)
Take that selfie in the dark! Night vision is coming to smartphones (digitaltrends.com)

Gmail now allows you to designate trustee after you die

Posted on May 18, 2013July 2, 2013 by timbatchelder

Act Now Or, When You Die, Your Secret Love Letters Will Belong To Google
BY STAN ALCORN, fastcoexist.com

Gmail’s recent policy changes that let you designate someone to control your account after you’re gone is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the confusing issues around who can access your online life once you pass away.

After you die, the…

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Google’s Response to Glass Privacy Concerns Disappoints Congressman (hngn.com)
Secret warrant used to access WikiLeaks volunteer’s Gmail account (theverge.com)
Google handed over years of e-mails belonging to WikiLeaks chatroom admin (arstechnica.com)
New Gmail app adds a touch of color — and frustration – Computerworld (computerworld.com)

Collabfinder: make hackathons a part of college life

Posted on April 9, 2013June 21, 2013 by timbatchelder

CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons A Part Of College Life
By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com

A growing list of schools are turning to the “serendipity engine” to help students find cross-discipline collaborators for passion projects.

After he graduated from UCLA with a degree in philosophy, Sahadeva Hammari emailed one of his…

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Living the Lockout Hackathon (dublintenementexperience.wordpress.com)
Shrinivasan: Chennai Geeks June Hackathon on Android apps development. (goinggnu.wordpress.com)
Just re-launched: Collabfinder (swiss-miss.com)
Let’s enjoy the backlash against hackathons (mathbabe.org)
New York Hosts Music Research and Music Education Hackathons (hypebot.com)

Cultivate your power users if you want to succeed

Posted on March 27, 2013June 20, 2013 by timbatchelder

If You Want Your App To Take Off, Learn To Reward Your Power Users
By Lars Albright, fastcompany.com

Yikes: 70 percent of the people who download your app will never, ever look at it again. So you better learn how to create and coddle power users.

Mobile apps are booming by all the basic measures, like downloads and total users. It’s the…

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Digg Reader ready to save power users from Google Reader shutdown (geek.com)
Zemanta Power User – Stephanie Bernaba at Momma Be Thy Name (zemanta.com)

How trapped are your digital movies and TV shows?

Posted on January 31, 2013February 12, 2013 by timbatchelder

How trapped are your digital movies and TV shows?
by Danny Sullivan, cnet.com

Buying films or TV episodes from a digital media outlet may be great if you watch though one particular device. But what happens if you change from iOS to Android? From a PC to a Mac? From a Roku to Apple TV? We chart it out.

Have you decided t…

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How trapped are your digital movies and TV shows? (timbatchelder.wordpress.com)
FBI Employees Download Pirated Movies and TV-Shows (theintelhub.com)
Tesco Launches a Free TV and Movie Streaming Service to Take on Netflix, LoveFilm and Now TV (gizmodo.co.uk)
Apple TV vs. Roku LT: Which streaming box should you buy? (reviews.cnet.com)
Apple TV vs. Roku: Which streaming box should you buy? (reviews.cnet.com)
TorGuard Launches VPN Router and HDTV Box Online Store (prweb.com)

Lumoback Posture-Monitoring

Posted on January 11, 2013April 23, 2013 by timbatchelder

Start-Up Behind Lumoback Posture-Monitoring Gadget Raises $5M
Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com

Lumo BodyTech, which makes a wearable waistband that tracks posture and movement and vibrates when the wearer slouches, has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Madrona Venture Group.

The Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up double…

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Posture Police (wired.com)
LUMOback Posture Sensor (werd.com)
By 2020, You’ll Own 50 Internet-Connected Devices (huffingtonpost.com)
Home and health devices controlled by apps on the rise (reuters.com)
SXSW: Use big data tools to chart your own data (zdnet.com)

Why Apple, Google and Microsoft are not doomed

Posted on December 30, 2012January 3, 2013 by timbatchelder

Contrary to media frenzies, Apple is not giving up on innovation (it is actually becoming a more efficient, responsible, transparent and happier place to work).

Image via CrunchBase

The Year of Doom For Microsoft, Google and Apple
Haydn Shaughnessy, forbes.com

2012 was the year of the doom merchant in business. In the fantasy world of dying planets earth survived but if you listen to the doom mongers, Microsoft, Apple, Google and a whole lot of other companies are on their death bed.

There a…

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Microsoft renews plea for crackdown on Google (thehimalayantimes.com)
Microsoft trumps Apple and Google, buys R2 Studios (slashgear.com)
Microsoft Just Bought a Company That’ll Help the Xbox Win Your Living Room (gizmodo.co.uk)
Microsoft Says Google Trying To Undermine Windows Phone (tech.slashdot.org)
Google Executives Told YouTube Not To Enable A First-class YouTube Experience On Windows Phones (wmpoweruser.com)

Location based culture data app

Posted on December 28, 2012January 3, 2013 by timbatchelder

Sitegeist: mobile app mines public data to tell you about the spot you’re standing in
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net

Nicko sez, “Sitegeist is a free Android and iPhone app from the Sunlight Foundation that helps you to learn more about your surroundings in seconds. Sitegeist takes public data about the people, housing, history, environment and thing…

Sitegeist: mobile app mines public data to tell you about the spot you’re standing in – Boing Boing http://flip.it/tQRnP http://flip.it/Fe1ZG

Sitegeist: mobile app mines public data to tell you about the spot you’re standing in (boingboing.net)
Sitegeist: A mobile app that tells you about your data surroundings (flowingdata.com)
iPhone Apps Of The Week: Sitegeist, Flickr, and More (gizmodo.co.uk)
Infographic your world with Sitegeist (tuaw.com)

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Dashcam: iPhone black box app for car

Posted on December 28, 2012January 6, 2013 by timbatchelder

(via DashCam: The iPhone BlackBox App For Your Car – Mobile Magazine)

30 Best iPhone and iPad apps this week (guardian.co.uk)

Funf: computational social science in your pocket

Posted on December 19, 2012April 17, 2013 by timbatchelder

Open-source Funf platform taps into Android’s huge knowledge about you
By Daniel Cossins, wired.co.uk

Magazine

This article was taken from the November 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing…

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Why Google just hired the Behavio Team (glass-apps.org)
Silicon Alley Insider: Google Just Bought A Cool SXSW Startup, Behavio (GOOG) (businessinsider.com)
Knight Foundation-Backed Mobile Sensor Startup Behavio Shuts Down As Founders Join Google (rosevilleitconsult.wordpress.com)

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