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5 Myths Haunting Your Healthy Foods
Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life3 Feb 2012 | 8:03 amThese days, eating healthy has become a curiously difficult task. Despite the fact that the canons of healthy eating have not changed in centuries, the proliferation of health food products has continued unabated for years. It’s become a crisis of abundance.However, just because a product occupies shelf space in a boutique food store doesn’t mean it’s any better for you than its generic counterpart. Advertisers are very aware of the powers of “mood affiliation”, which is the tendency to associate familiar claims with one another. For example, consumers are very likely to believe a… -
Timeline of the Ancient Origins of Plastic Surgery
Stories9 Feb 2012 | 8:54 amWhile it is common to write about the newest technology used in Plastic Surgery; a laser that will zap away your double chin, a wand that uses radio frequencies to take years off your face, what you don’t see is any discussion of the origins of Plastic Surgery. -
Google Revamps its Navigation Bar...Again [Google]
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17 Most-Popular Photos From Flickr Commons
Mashable!9 Feb 2012 | 3:36 pmFemale Aircraft Worker "Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies." Image courtesy of The Library of Congress, Flickr.Click here to view this gallery.Flickr Commons, a collaboration between the photo-sharing site and the Library of Congress that began in 2008, has released 17 of its most-popular photos to celebrate its fourth anniversary. The project began as an effort to increase exposure to some of the world’s historic photographic treasures and to crowdsource public knowledge about the archives. The Commons has a “no…
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What’s the future of virtual sex?
9 Feb 2012 | 6:15 amThe future is bright for virtual sexuality. After all, we're human beings. Think of any great artistic or technological achievement and chances are it winds up in the bedroom. Will it end up in yours? -
5 Tips for Getting Organized at Work
9 Feb 2012 | 6:15 amWhether you're fresh off the job hunt or a seasoned employee, a little organization can go a long way. Here are five tips for keeping the piles at bay. -
5 Tiny Countries With Big Space Dreams
9 Feb 2012 | 6:15 amDo you know what that spacecraft is? It's one of the old Soviet space shuttles, and it never would have gotten built without the help of one the tiny countries on our list. Can you guess which one? -
Costumes 101 Pictures
9 Feb 2012 | 6:15 amThey're at every sci-fi convention and Halloween party -- those people who always have the most amazing original costumes. Learn the basics of building a costume and find out what it takes to do well in costume competitions. -
How Airplanes Work
9 Feb 2012 | 6:15 amToday in 1969, the Boeing 747 made its first commercial flight. But it was more than 100 years ago that the Wright brothers made their historic first flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C. Even after all these years, their creation still boggles the mind: How can something so heavy take to the air?
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5 Myths Haunting Your Healthy Foods
3 Feb 2012 | 8:03 amThese days, eating healthy has become a curiously difficult task. Despite the fact that the canons of healthy eating have not changed in centuries, the proliferation of health food products has continued unabated for years. It’s become a crisis of abundance.However, just because a product occupies shelf space in a boutique food store doesn’t mean it’s any better for you than its generic counterpart. Advertisers are very aware of the powers of “mood affiliation”, which is the tendency to associate familiar claims with one another. For example, consumers are very likely to believe a… -
Four Steps To Rescue Stray New Year Resolutions
2 Feb 2012 | 6:55 amLooks like it is that time of year when many New Year resolutions that people set have already strayed. Attempts to kick a smoking habit for example, might have seemed successful for a few weeks but once the realities and stresses of coming back from the holidays have resurfaced, some people may have caved into the nicotine again.Of course there is the usual health promises that get broken too. According to the fitness industry, a lot of gym memberships are sold from December to February but gym attendance significantly drops shortly afterwards when people realize that working out involves a… -
Finding the Courage to Stay the Course
30 Jan 2012 | 10:06 amAnytime you decide on the pursuit of an important goal, you’ll be faced with a series of challenges. Peaks, valleys and plateaus are par for the the course. But the thing that separates the people who make it from the ones that don’t is the courage to stay the course.At the start of any new endeavor most of us look forward to every single day with a child like excitement. We see infinite possibilities and the future appears bright. It seems as though there is absolutely nothing that can get in our way. We feel almost invincible and the possibility of failure doesn’t even occur to us. We… -
How to Deal with Difficult People and Have Constructive Conflict
28 Jan 2012 | 8:32 amLife and relationships aren't always perfect. Take a minute to think of some difficult people you have to deal with in your life? These may be people you work with, the in-laws that come to town throughout the year, or your neighbor who can’t seem to take a hint. For whatever reason, you're just not jiving with these people.Do you flee? Or, do you get flexible and learn to interact?When we encounter these extreme personalities it can feel like they are trying to make our life miserable, but more often than not, it’s simply learning about these peoples’ tendencies and how to interact in… -
7 Habits of Highly Excellent People
27 Jan 2012 | 2:16 amAre you driven in life? Do you love to excel? I believe all of us do. We are born to be the best we can be and to make the best out of our lives.When I was in high school, I wasn't exactly the kind of student teachers would like. I was truant, didn't do my homework and did badly on my examinations. I was lazy and unmotivated in school. However, after a while I realized that this wasn't who I wanted to be. This wasn't the life I saw myself leading. People around me were judging and negative, and I had enough of all of that crap. I had enough of being discriminated against and I decided to turn…
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Timeline of the Ancient Origins of Plastic Surgery
9 Feb 2012 | 8:54 amWhile it is common to write about the newest technology used in Plastic Surgery; a laser that will zap away your double chin, a wand that uses radio frequencies to take years off your face, what you don’t see is any discussion of the origins of Plastic Surgery. -
Researchers create 3-D laser maps that show how earthquake changes landscape
9 Feb 2012 | 12:19 pmGeologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape down to a few inches, and it's giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave. In the Feb. 10 issue of the journal Science, a team of scientists from the U.S., Mexico and China reports the most comprehensive before-and-after picture yet of an earthquake zone, using data from the magnitude 7.2 event that struck near Mexicali, northern Mexico in April, 2010. -
Megaupload Founder’s Home Seized, Co-Defendant Bailed
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To the BBC and others: Twitter is not your competition
9 Feb 2012 | 11:57 amThe BBC has issued a new directive to its journalists telling them they must post updates to editors first rather than breaking news on Twitter, another example of how traditional media entities are struggling with their relationship to Twitter in an era of real-time, distributed news. -
Oracle to buy Taleo for $1.9 billion
9 Feb 2012 | 10:58 am(Reuters) - Oracle Corp said it will buy web-based recruitment software maker Taleo Corp for about $1.9 billion to expand its line of cloud computing products, one of fastest
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17 Most-Popular Photos From Flickr Commons
9 Feb 2012 | 3:36 pmFemale Aircraft Worker "Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies." Image courtesy of The Library of Congress, Flickr.Click here to view this gallery.Flickr Commons, a collaboration between the photo-sharing site and the Library of Congress that began in 2008, has released 17 of its most-popular photos to celebrate its fourth anniversary. The project began as an effort to increase exposure to some of the world’s historic photographic treasures and to crowdsource public knowledge about the archives. The Commons has a “no… -
How Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Lays the Smackdown on Social Media
9 Feb 2012 | 3:04 pm“Can you smelllllll….What the The Rock! Is cooking?!?” That became a ubiquitous catchphrase when Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was a Worldwide Wrestling Federation megastar around the turn of the millennium. Unlike most wrestling-ring bruisers, however, Johnson has done a lot more than just “lay the smack down” on hapless “jabronis,” as he was fond of saying. He won a college football national championship as a hard-hitting defender at the University of Miami in 1991. He’s become a bona fide movie star too, appearing in action hits such… -
Type This Into Google for a Valentine’s Day Surprise
9 Feb 2012 | 2:25 pmRomantic math geeks, your moment has arrived. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, go ahead and type (or paste) this into Google search: sqrt(cos(x))*cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5 Twitter user @Huckberry tipped us off to the fact that typing in the algebraic equation plots several different functions on a graph that forms the shape of a heart. The series includes various square roots, absolute values and cosine functions — mathematical functions often taught in high school math courses. The plotted lines change direction due to… -
Microsoft: You’ll Never Turn Off Devices Running Windows on ARM
9 Feb 2012 | 2:02 pmMicrosoft described in detail Thursday exactly how Windows will work on ARM devices. The new strain of Windows, retooled from the ground up for low-power devices like tablets, will be identical to the regular desktop version in many ways, and Microsoft says it’ll ship some test units to developers by the end of February. Actual products are planned for the general release of Windows 8. In a departure from traditional Windows machines, ARM-based devices running Windows will be complete “end-to-end” products, meaning you won’t be able to buy Windows as a piece of… -
When Should You Go All-In on Your Startup? [VIDEO]
9 Feb 2012 | 1:47 pmFrom bootstrapping his company, to raising a seed round last year, to his company’s recent $8 million A round, Neil Capel exemplifies the grit and hustle typical in successful entrepreneurs. Capel founded Sailthru, an enterprise software-as-a-service company that uses clickstream data to individually tailor marketing emails to each user, which Capel says will exponentially increase the lifetime value of a customer email address. Check out our interview with Capel to find out how he went from a consultant at Morgan Stanley to founding a company that will soon be expanding globally and…
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NCAA Weighs Changes to $2,000 Stipend Based on Financial Need - Players - The Chronicle of ...
9 Feb 2012 | 12:31 pmRT @BryanDFischer: RT @bradwolverton: Fewer athletes may qualify for $2,000 stipend, under new need-based proposal: http://t.co/2eLIvBxH0 comments -
Zotero Roundup: Zotero 3.0 and ZotPad for the iPad - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
9 Feb 2012 | 11:04 amNew post by @samplereality: "Zotero Roundup: Zotero 3.0 and ZotPad for the iPad" http://t.co/ZKUzohm30 comments -
Dividing younger pupils by ability can entrench disadvantage, study finds | Education | The Guardian
9 Feb 2012 | 8:30 amRT @GuardianEdu: Dividing younger pupils by ability can entrench disadvantage, study finds http://t.co/HlSR8WeR0 comments -
Young British students dodging debt by going Dutch at Maastricht University | Education | ...
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Teaching News Literacy in the Digital Age - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
9 Feb 2012 | 7:57 amRT @chronicle: If the Facebook and Twitter era has made everyone a journalist, let's make everyone a better journalist: http://t.co/T9tquKmu0 comments
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Twitter Takes to Satellites for SMS Access
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Twitter to Get First Look at Several New York Fashion Week Collections
9 Feb 2012 | 5:36 amIt worked for Burberry, so why couldn’t it work for us?So seems to be the thought process of several prominent U.S. fashion labels during New York Fashion Week, all of which are planning their own takes on the “Tweetwalk” Burberry debuted at its womenswear show in September 2011.The London-based fashion house made headlines when it posted photos of every look from its Spring/Summer 2012…0 comments -
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Tips for writers « nevfountain
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#Lowerthanasnakesbelly | Auld Acquaintance
9 Feb 2012 | 11:13 am#Lowerthanasnakesbelly http://t.co/KT2t4JEc via @wordpressdotcom #MUSTREAD ...For the sake of Scotland & your own health!0 comments -
Smashing Special: WordPress Theme Trends For 2012 | The Best SEO Blog
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The complete list of organisations against the Government’s NHS bill « The ICB
9 Feb 2012 | 10:22 amThere is no single list of every organisation against the Conservatives NHS Reform bill which is currently making its way through parliament. The ICB decided to make one.Here is the complete list of professional bodies against the bill (so far):The Faculty of Public HealthThe Royal College of NursesThe Royal College of MidwivesThe Royal College of GPsThe British Medical AssociationChartered…0 comments -
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9 Feb 2012 | 9:25 amWordpress website design and build by bill9700 http://t.co/gLmbyAQJ #creativejobs #jobs0 comments
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You just don’t need a magazine theme
9 Feb 2012 | 10:14 amMagazine themes are quite alluring. Sliders, pictures, columns, unique blocks of different content on demos. But beyond the perfectly crafted demo marketed to entice you to purchase what you’ve convinced yourself you must have, you probably don’t need it at all.I’m willing to bet almost no content driven website actually needs a “magazine” layout. In fact, for those that utilize them, it may hurt what’s most important to their bottom line — me, the reader. My page views and my time on their site.By design, the traditional magazine theme I’m writing… -
WP Late Night 002: The Usual Suspects
8 Feb 2012 | 4:45 amPrepare your earholes for the second-ever episode of WP Late Night, the WordPress podcast from Brad Williams, Dre Armeda, and Ryan Imel (that’s me!). This episode we discussed a number of recent events in the WordPress community, and even tried (kind of) to deduce the identities of the WP Honey Badger and PinkPonyPress.You can read the episode breakdown and listen to the audio itself just after the jump.Episode 002: The Usual SuspectsIn this episode (audio below), Brad and Dre and I discussed:Jetpack defaults to automatically enabling new featuresKevinjohn’s blog post and ensuing… -
Internationalization should be common practice, not a feature
6 Feb 2012 | 9:21 amA subject finally getting some attention in the WordPress community is i18n, or internationalization.Internationalization is the process of making an application ready for translation. Often this gets confused with localization, which is the process by which the text on the page and other settings are translated and adapted to another language and culture.Both internationalization and localization are equally important within WordPress, but there cannot be any localization if the theme or plugin has not been internationalized first. Therefore it is of utmost importance for WordPress theme and… -
The Quarterly Magazine’s design process, sped up on video
6 Feb 2012 | 8:21 amThe first issue of The WPCandy Quarterly is in the printing queue as you read these words. Exciting, right? Since there’s nothing I can do to speed up the process (believe me, I would if I could) I’ve taken some time and looked back over the first issue’s development.One thing I did, while the design process of the Quarterly moved along, was save several drafts. There were nearly 50 individual design drafts of this issue, actually (we drafted articles separately with the individual authors).Since the drafts were interesting, I put together a quick video showing a few stages… -
How to query by “standard” post format
6 Feb 2012 | 7:52 amEver find yourself wanting to query the “standard” post format within WordPress and not having much luck? It turns out there’s a Trac Ticket for this very subject But for now, Alex King came up with a way for it to work with WP_Query calls. Go have a look at his code.You just finished reading How to query by "standard" post format on WPCandy. Please consider leaving a comment!
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How to display your latest tweets on your WordPress blog without any plugin
7 Feb 2012 | 10:44 pmSimply paste the following code anywhere in your theme files, where you want the tweets to be displayed. Don't forget to update the code with your username on line 3. Max items to display can be defined on line 4. <?php include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/feed.php'); $rss = fetch_feed('https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=catswhocode'); $maxitems = $rss->get_item_quantity(3); $rss_items = $rss->get_items(0, $maxitems); ?> <ul> <?php if ($maxitems == 0) echo '<li>No items.</li>'; else // Loop through each feed… -
WordPress tip: Use shortcodes in theme files
27 Jan 2012 | 5:41 amAssuming the want to use a shortcode named [my_shortcode], you'll have to do the following and use the do_shortcode() function: <?php echo do_shortcode("[my_shortcode]"); ?> Easy and super useful. Thanks to WP Snippets for the tip! -
WordPress tip: Speed up your blog by caching custom queries
24 Jan 2012 | 7:09 amNothing hard here: simply paste the following code where you need to execute a custom query to the database. Don't forget to update the query on line 5! <?php // Get any existing copy of our transient data if ( false === ( $special_query_results = get_transient( 'special_query_results' ) ) ) { // It wasn't there, so regenerate the data and save the transient $special_query_results = new WP_Query( 'cat=5&order=random&tag=tech&post_meta_key=thumbnail' ); set_transient( 'special_query_results', $special_query_results ); } // Use the data like you would… -
WordPress tip: Show admin bar only for admins
17 Jan 2012 | 7:35 amSimply paste the following code into your functions.php file. Once saved, only admins will see the admin bar. if (!current_user_can('manage_options')) { add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false'); } Thanks to Jeff Starr for the tip! -
WordPress: Improved the_excerpt() function
12 Jan 2012 | 6:45 amThe first thing to do is to create the function. Open your functions.php file and paste the code below in it. // Variable & intelligent excerpt length. function print_excerpt($length) { // Max excerpt length. Length is set in characters global $post; $text = $post->post_excerpt; if ( '' == $text ) { $text = get_the_content(''); $text = apply_filters('the_content', $text); $text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text); } $text = strip_shortcodes($text); // optional, recommended $text = strip_tags($text); // use ' $text =…
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7 Benefits of Blogging with WordPress
2 Feb 2012 | 7:20 amOne of the most popular blogging platforms out there is WordPress — and for good reason. WordPress offers a flexible platform that is easy to use. You can get started blogging with a few minutes, and be well on your way to blogging success. If you are trying to figure out which blogging platform is right for you, here are 7 benefits to blogging with WordPress: 1. It’s Cost-Efficient One of the great things about WordPress is how cost-efficient it is. You can start blogging for free. WordPress is a free, open source platform that allows you to reach your audience free of charge. -
How to Monetize Your Blog Without Selling Your Soul
30 Dec 2011 | 8:11 amSellout….It is the ugliest word that’s routinely hurled at creative individuals of all types. This goes for writers, artists, musicians and anyone else who makes a living (in part or in whole) on the back of their creative endeavors. That being said, money and art have to mix at some point. You need your money to support your art, whatever it may be, and that is equally true for bloggers and other authors online. So how do you make money from your WordPress blog without selling your soul? There are many different ways you do that, but it’s important to find the right model that… -
3 Reasons Mobile WordPress Themes Trounce Mobile Subdomains
19 Dec 2011 | 6:36 amMaking your website mobile-friendly isn’t just a good idea – it’s a necessity. With more people accessing the Web via smartphones and tablets these says, any site administrators who haven’t “mobile-equipped” their online real estate are well behind the curve. In 2011, do you really want to miss out on a substantial chunk of traffic just because your site is hard to read on an iPhone? Of course not. That’s why many sites direct mobile traffic to sub-domains (e.g. “example.com” becomes “mobile.example.com”), a workable solution if… -
Don’t Build WordPress Plugins Into Your Themes
5 Dec 2011 | 5:25 amA couple of weeks ago, I read a post on WPLift “Build A Plugin (Twitter Widget) into your WordPress Theme)“ which in turn was inspired by a post on WPCandy from a couple of months ago “How to create your own WordPress functionality plugin“. The WPCandy post was advocating that theme designers should stop bundling WordPress plugins and other functionality which limits how easily users can switch themes, something which I feel is absolutely a good idea. But that’s not what I want to talk about in this post — I want to focus specifically on the issue raised… -
Build Custom Facebook Page Themes Using a WordPress Plugin
31 Oct 2011 | 4:36 amOver the past couple years it has been impressive to see Facebook craftily grow its influence beyond the Facebook.com domain and expanding all throughout the internet. For example, it seems just about every major website now allows you to login using Facebook. With Facebook’s growing influence over the internet it isn’t surprising many WordPress developers have really stepped up, providing a number of great free and premium WordPress plugins to help improve WordPress and Facebook integration. Once of my most recent Facebook plugin discoveries came from the developers…
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TakeLessons Reveals Fool-Proof Methods to Avoid a Creative Slump
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The National Posture Institute (NPI) Launches the andquot;2012 International Perfect Posture Person of the Year Competitionandquot;
6 Feb 2012 | 11:00 pmThe NPI will be conducting a competition (Feb. 1-July 1, 2012) to award one individual with the best posture. The winner will win a Certified Posture Specialist Program or Public Posture Program, an NPI Posture Grid with Grommets, and more.
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Avoid a Watery Grave
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Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Troll's Claim to Own the Interactive Web
9 Feb 2012 | 2:26 pmAfter threatening web companies for more than a decade, Michael Doyle and his patent-holding company Eolas -- named after the Irish word for knowledge -- may be finished. -
Protesters Crash Apple Stores, Demand Apple 'Manufacture Different'
9 Feb 2012 | 2:12 pmToday at Apple Stores around the globe, users gathered to deliver a petition calling for Apple to make its next iPhone model "ethical." The petition's more than 250,000 signees want Apple to respond to allegations of worker abuse in its Chinese factories, and dedicate itself to developing ethical products in the future. -
Dell Puts Crosshairs on World of Storage
9 Feb 2012 | 1:56 pmDell has a lofty goal in mind: to become the world's number three storage vendor, and the first step is to surpass the number five player: the Sunnyvale, California-based NetApp. -
Built to Last
9 Feb 2012 | 12:56 pmMotorola's newest Droid Razr is just like its predecessor in almost every way -- except for the addition of a positively huge battery.
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Avoid a Watery Grave
9 Feb 2012 | 3:12 pmSummary: New page: [[Image:Waterygrave.jpg|630px|thumb|left|Don't become a shark snack! Photo by Leonora Enking/[http://www.flickr.com/photos/33037982@N04/4369475039/ Flickr]/CC]] Using snakelike agility to... [[Image:Waterygrave.jpg|630px|thumb|left|Don't become a shark snack! Photo by Leonora Enking/[http://www.flickr.com/photos/33037982@N04/4369475039/ Flickr]/CC]] Using snakelike agility to yank open the car door and slither through 10 feet of water towards fresh air; Outmaneuvering a barrage of bullets with a simple front crawl; Fending off deep sea predators — Stars of our favorite… -
Figure Out Where a Photo Originated
8 Feb 2012 | 3:14 pmSummary: /* Stock images */ [[Image:Imageuse.jpg|630px|thumb|left|Don't let n00b image crediting tactics ruin your geek cred online. Photo by Mike Darnell/[http://www.flickr.com/photos/israeli-art/5257451898/ Flickr]/CC]] That image you found on the Internet looks so good. You want to post it to Twitter, placard it across your blog, and 'Shop it into the sickest rock show flyer anyone has ever seen. But wait. Are you certain you have the rights to use it — even if a website states that you can? Verifying the original source of an image that you want to publish to the internet — and by… -
Decipher Specs When Buying a Computer
6 Feb 2012 | 3:52 pmSummary: [[Image:GamingPC.jpg|630px|thumb|left|Photo by blakdeth/[http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakdeth/6008179531/ flickr]/CC]] It's not hard to get tangled in technical jargon when buying a new PC, especially if it's your first. You ask the [http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/meme-alert-geek-squad-gus vacant-eyed tech salesperson] to help you, only to be assaulted by convoluted descriptions of RAM, quad-core processors, solid-state drives and OLED screens at best, and underwhelmed with misinformation at worst. Why get involved with trying to understand all that geek talk when all you want is a… -
Hide From Google
3 Feb 2012 | 2:08 pmSummary: [[Image:Googlecookie.jpg|630px|thumb|left|To increase your online security, don't put all your cookies in one basket. Photo by Chris Wetherell/[https://secure.flickr.com/photos/massless/8182590/]/CC]] ''"If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold." —blue_beetle, [http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#3256046 Metafilter discussion].'' Google started off the new year by announcing that they will be [http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/01/google-streamlines-privacy/ changing their privacy policies] so that they… -
Survive Deep Snow Immersion
1 Feb 2012 | 3:18 pmSummary: spelling and punctuation [[Image:Avalanche0.jpg|630px|thumb|left|In deep snow, nobody can hear you scream. Photo by Andrew Charland/[http://www.flickr.com/photos/doglotion/63969660/ flickr]/CC]] Few things look more inviting to a skier or snowboarder than a mountain blanketed in soft, deep snow. But like most beautiful things, powder has a hidden, dangerous side — especially because it’s so easy to go off the trail and fall into trouble. Most SIS (snow immersion suffocation) accidents happen in crowded resorts in off-piste areas (areas outside the designated runs of compacted…
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A GeekDad and Son Make the Ultimate Star Wars Fan’s Pilgrimage
9 Feb 2012 | 8:30 amPhoto: Matt Blum I’ve been hooked on Star Wars for nearly as long as anyone could have been, and on science fiction movies in general since I was very young. It’s been incredibly gratifying to me as a parent to see both of my kids embrace many of my geeky interests, and doubly so in the case of Star Wars– three Halloweens ago, without any prompting, they decided to go as Darth Vader and Princess Leia, and the geek-fatherly pride I felt nearly made me tear up. So you can imagine how I felt when I received an invitation to visit Skywalker Ranch and Lucasfilm’s… -
Soul SL300 Headphones: Definitely Noise-Canceling
9 Feb 2012 | 6:30 amSL300WB noise-canceling headphones from Soul by Ludacris I’m not enough of an audiophile to desire expensive headphones to listen to music. But I do have a son on the autism spectrum and that started me on a search not only for well-built headphones with good sound but with excellent noise-canceling features. So when the SL300 headphones by Soul were offered for review, I accepted. My son is extremely sensitive to noise and can easily be over-stimulated, especially in loud school classrooms. He currently has permission to use his iPod touch and play soothing music to drown out the… -
Revisiting The 7th Guest: A Classic Re-Released After 19 Years
9 Feb 2012 | 6:00 amThe 7th Guest © Trilobite Games Many, many years ago when I was about seven years old, I went on a trip with my mother to visit my uncle and aunt who lived in the countryside about an hour’s drive from us. Whilst we were there, my uncle told us about a new video game he had recently bought and we all ended up playing it on the TV in the living room. That game was The 7th Guest and it would come to haunt me for many years to come. Released in 1993 by Trilobite and Virgin Games, The 7th Guest would become something of a classic. One of the first games ever to be released only on CD-ROM,… -
Microsoft Student Developers Showcase Their Work at the White House Science Fair
9 Feb 2012 | 5:00 amHannah Wyman at the 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup in New York City Over the past year, I’ve covered a few Microsoft-sponsored competitions that focus on various kinds of software development across all ages. From teaching programming concepts in a game environment in the Kodu Cup to creating world-changing software in the Imagine Cup, Microsoft’s events challenge and reward competitors through the act of participating and can help the winners economically as they take their projects to market. Most recently, two of these winners got to spend the day at the annual White House Science… -
Ascension: Storm of Souls Is Event-Filled
9 Feb 2012 | 4:30 amAscension: Storm of Souls is a stand-alone expansion to the deck-building game. Photo: Jonathan Liu Overview: The Ascension saga continues in this second expansion. Storm of Souls is a stand-alone expansion, with its own set of basic cards so you don’t need the base set to play it. Two new types of cards enter the game, but otherwise the rules are similar to the original. Players: 1 to 4 (or up to 6 when combined with previous sets) Ages: 13 and up Playing Time: 30 minutes Retail: $39.99 Rating: Better than the original; still not my favorite deck-builder, but definitely one of the…
