Month: January 2013

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Ask Siri for Directions “via Transit” to Use Google Maps Instead of Apple Maps

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Adam Dachis We’re happily using Google Maps on our iPhones, but find it frustrating that using Siri to find a route with anything other than Apple’s default app requires a bit of work. Software blog Addictive Tips found a clever workaround: you only need to say “via transit” after your request and Siri will offer other routing options. A simple, but not entirely hands-free, way of making Siri display Google Maps directions…

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Video Resumer Picks Up YouTube Videos Where You Left Off

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Whitson Gordon Chrome/Firefox: Ever start to watch a long YouTube video, only to come back later and completely lose your place? Video Resumer is a simple extension that will remember where you stopped and pick up those videos where you left off. Video Resumer takes almost no setup. Just install the plugin to Chrome or Firefox and start watching videos. If you stop one in the middle then leave the page,…

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What Do I Do When One of My Favorite Apps Gets Pulled from the App Store?

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Alan Henry Dear Lifehacker, I just got a new phone, and I went to go download an app that I’d previously purchased, only to find that it was no longer available! I paid the developer good money, but it looks like they’ve taken the app down for some reason. So I can’t install the app, and I can’t get a refund. What can I do? Sincerely, Buyer’s Remorse Dear Buyer’s Remorse,…

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How I Cleaned 1,328 Emails Out of My Inbox in an Hour

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Angus Kidman I’m generally pretty organized with my email, and I like to have nothing in my inbox except stuff I haven’t acted on yet. However, a spurt of recent travel and work commitments meant I’d fallen into a familiar but dangerous pattern: grabbing information from emails I needed (and replying when necessary), but not filing or deleting them, and not checking out stuff that didn’t look urgent. The end result:…

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Why Fringe’s Finale Marks the Decline of Sci-Fi on Network TV

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As reported on Wired. BY GRAEME MCMILLAN When Fringe airs its series finale tonight (8 p.m. EST on Fox), it won’t just mean a conclusion to the five-year run of stories about Olivia, Peter and Walter’s Weird Science Adventures; it’ll mark the end of an era for science fiction on broadcast television — for the foreseeable future, at least. While the close of the series doesn’t mean an end to openly genre shows on the Big Five…

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How Art Can Bridge the Digital ‘Divide’

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As reported on Wired. BY DRUE KATAOKA Consisting of paintings, brainwave recordings fed into smart glass, and a live tree in a box, this art installation is an attempt to bridge the digital art divide — inviting new ways to “think, see, and filter affect.” The piece is called “The Tree of Pascal” by Drue Kataoka and will be exhibited as part of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos this week.…

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A Cheap, Rugged Tablet Is Your Kid’s Next Fixation

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As reported on Wired. BY CHRISTINA BONNINGTON Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired   Forget phablets. Touchscreen Android devices designed expressly for kids with bright colors, durable cases and rubberized surfaces are making a big splash in the tablet space. Tablets certainly are a hot-ticket item. Apple was projected to sell 62 million iPads in 2012, and Android tablet sales were up 177 percent this holiday season. But while some parents are only too happy to share their $500-plus tablets with the kids…

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Hacking your body: Lance Armstrong and the science of doping

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As reported on The Verge. By Tim Carmody Athletes use drugs, transfusions, and science to perform better. But how do they do it, and how are they caught? By now it’s widely known that Lance Armstrong finally admitted to doping in an interviewwith Oprah Winfrey that will air tonight and tomorrow. Armstrong’s confession is notable in part because no athlete has fought charges of doping as hard as he has, from public denials to libel suits as…

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Student expelled after exposing security flaw in college computers

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris Last fall, Ahmed Al-Khabaz and a fellow student discovered “sloppy coding” in their college’s computer system that jeopardized the security of over 250,000 students’ personal information. After testing to confirm the issue was real, Al-Khabaz was congratulated for raising the issue with the relevant authorities, but has since been expelled from Montreal’s Dawson College with failing grades.   MINUTES AFTER TESTING THE FLAW, AL-KHABAZ WAS ACCUSED OF LAUNCHING…

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Eric Schmidt’s daughter reports on creepy North Korea trip, says the country is like ‘The Truman Show’

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As reported on The Verge. By T.C. Sottek After returning from a private mission to North Korea, Eric Schmidt says he sternlywarned North Korean officials that their country risks falling further behind economically without a connection to the global internet, but didn’t elaborate much further on the trip. Schmidt’s daughter Sophie was also with the delegation, and in a lengthy Google Sites post titled “It might not get weirder than this,” she describes a trip full of “highly staged…

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