Utilities
- Clavier+ – this handy utility allows users to create keyboard shortcuts using any key combination, including the Windows key. The shortcuts can be used to launch programs or paste in frequently used text.
- Google Code University – a collection of tutorials on languages like Python, Java and Go for relative beginners.
- Mappiness – a free iPhone app that allows you to keep track of your happiness. It’s also a research tool for London School of Economics scholars Susana Mourato and George MacKerron, who are using it to learn “how people’s feelings are affected by features of their current environment—things like air pollution, noise, and green spaces.”
- Photovisi – a free and easy to use online tool to create photo collages. Select one of the many collage templates, add your photos and then customize by dragging items around.
Tutorials
Tech News
- Apple launches social network for music called Ping
- It turns out that Intel pays Dell a whole lot of money to prevent them from using chips made by rivals.
- Japanese man has broken the world record for calculating the value of Pi, reaching 5 trillion digits on a computer that he built himself
- Obama administration: “Piracy is flat, unadulterated theft”… so, it looks like the lobbiest’s check cleared.
- Plan for nationwide free wireless broadband has been shot down
- Tea Partiers Take a Stand Against the Internet by opposing Net Neutrality
- Five-Nanometer Silicon Oxide Switches Could Create Terabyte Chips
Gadgets
- This looks like a fantastic idea. Sena, who is known for the quality of their cases, has developed an folio case for the iPad that includes a bluetooth keyboard.
Entertainment
- 4chan Decides to Do Something Nice For a Change
- Lots of people remember the Cray-1A. And how could you not, it was a supercomputer with built-in seats. But Chris Fenton has done more than just reminisce, he he built his own 1/10 scale Cray-1A. It’s not just a model, it actually runs Cray software.
- PopSci has posted a gallery of 30 Awesome College Labs.
- The Programmer Hierarchy demonstrates the superiority of programmers.
- The Tragic Death of Practically Everything
- Vintage calculator museums
Discussion / OpEd
- Alan Jacobs laments the Hobbesian reality that is modern Internet discourse in his article “The Online State of Nature” at Big Questions Online.
- Ben Kunz at Bloomberg Businessweek has an interesting post on Apple’s pricing practices. Kunz posits that Apple uses psychological pricing tricks such as reference prices and price “decoys” to boost sales of more expensive items.
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt has suggested that in the near future every person might be entitled to change their name on reaching adulthood, in order that they can live unhindered by the online record of their youthful indiscretions
- Google’s Earth by William Gibson
- Some lesser-known truths about programming
- The Promise and Peril of ‘Smart’ Keyboards
- Why the use of unmanned drones should be considered a war crime.
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