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When it makes sense not to upgrade to iPhone 5: Not everyone upgrades to the latest model of a mobile device as soon as it’s released. In the case of Apple’s iPhone, users can currently choose between the iPhone 5 and earlier models like the 4S and the 4. Apple even lets you compare the specs of the various models. – by Cesar Torres – http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/01/when-it-makes-sense-not-to-upgrade-to-iphone-5/

How to use your iPhone, iPad or Mac to borrow ebooks from the library — Tech News and Analysis: You may be familiar with purchasing books and magazines for your iPhone and iPad, but have you ever borrowed an ebook or digital edition of a magazine from your local library?  As more and more local libraries are adding online digital catalogs of books for borrowing, it’s a great — and cheape – by Geoffrey Goetz – http://gigaom.com/2013/01/26/how-to-use-your-iphone-ipad-or-mac-to-borrow-ebooks-from-the-library/

‘Deaf People Will Hear Again:’ How ViviTouch and Able Planet’s Haptic Technology Will Change The World: For the past 8 years, Dirk Schapeler and his team at Artificial Muscle, Inc (a division of Bayer MaterialScience) have been toiling away on something special: Electroactive polymer-based actuators, with applications for sensors, pumps, valves, and robotics. – http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2013/01/25/how-vivitouch-and-able-planets-haptic-gaming-technology-will-change-the-world/

FaceWash Makes Sure Your Facebook Profile Is Clean and Interview-Ready: If the prospect of going back over years of Facebook posts to determine whether some of them should be hidden or photos untagged is daunting, webapp FaceWash can help. – by Alan Henry – http://lifehacker.com/5978872/

Five “Good Habits” You Need to Unlearn: Productivity is an ever-evolving study of what works and what doesn’t. The way we work can change at a rapid-fire pace and what was accepted as a best practice in years past, can now do more harm than good. – http://lifehacker.com/5978685/

What does MEGA mean for cloud storage and the mobile industry?: It’s no secret that the amount of storage a smartphone offers plays a key role in the success of a device’s release. With the Nexus 4, customers were caught off guard by the lowest capacity option of 8GB. – by full profile – http://www.phonedog.com/2013/01/20/what-does-mega-mean-for-cloud-storage-and-the-mobile-industry/

Speed Up Your IKEA Visits By Going In Through the Exit Doors: Ikea is a great place to snag cheap, useful furniture, but it’s designed to keep you in the store browsing showrooms for hours. If you follow the path laid out for you, you can lose a whole day inside. If you need to get in and out quickly, just go in through the exit doors. – by Alan Henry – http://lifehacker.com/5977586/

Bring us the features! An Ars staff wish list for iOS 7: It’s 2013, which most likely means another major iOS update will soon come down the tubes from Apple. iOS 7 has already begun popping up in some server logs—no huge surprise, since Apple is constantly working on its next big thing(s). – by Jacqui Cheng – http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/01/bring-us-the-features-an-ars-staff-wish-list-for-ios-7/

The World’s First 3D-Printed Building Will Arrive In 2014 (And It Looks Awesome): Sure, 3D printing is fun and cute. And products like the Makerbot and Form 1 will most certainly disrupt manufacturing, even if it’s only on a small scale. But the possibilities of 3D printing stretch far beyond DIY at-home projects. In fact, it could entirely replace the construction industry. – by View Staff Page – http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/20/the-worlds-first-3d-printed-building-will-arrive-in-2014-and-it-looks-awesome/

Eric Schmidt’s daughter reports on creepy North Korea trip, says the country is like ‘The Truman Show’: After returning from a private mission to North Korea, Eric Schmidt says he sternly warned 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. – by T.C. Sottek – http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/20/3896570/sophie-schmidt-reports-on-north-korea-trip

Switched On: Compromising positions: Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Windows powers tablets and PCs. It supports desktop and “Windows 8-style” apps using touch and keyboard / mouse and can run on x86 and ARM CPUs. You can even get it on hardware from Microsoft and third parties. – by Ross Rubin – http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/20/compromising-positions/

5 Reasons China Won’t Take Over The World: It’s a story that needs no repeating – the definitive economic, financial, and political issue of our time. The United States is fading into obscurity. Despite the fact that the country’s GDP totals only ½ of America’s, China’s taking over the world. – by LeBron James – http://www.businessinsider.com/5-reasons-china-wont-take-over-the-world-2013-1

Barack Obama vs. John Roberts, round 2: Barack Obama and John Roberts were all smiles when the chief justice swore in the president on Sunday — a cordial performance they’ll likely repeat during the public swearing-in on Monday. – by JOSH GERSTEIN – http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/obama-vs-roberts-round-two-86451.html

My links of the week

Lance Armstrong May Have Lied to Winfrey: Investigators: Lance Armstrong may have lied to Oprah Winfrey during his so-called confession Thursday night about his doping during the Tour de France bicycle race, investigators told ABC News today. – by NEAL KARLINSKY – http://abcnews.go.com/US/lance-armstrong-lied-oprah-cover-crimes-investigators/story?id=18245484

The “10 Rule” Helps Keep Your Spending In Check: When you’re trying to save money, it’s often hard to figure out what expenses really matter to you. You might even spend more time rationalizing the expense than you would just buying it. To keep that from happening, financial blog Budgets are Sexy shares the “10 rule.” – by Thorin Klosowski – http://lifehacker.com/5976707/

Build Your Own Adobe Creative Suite with Free and Cheap Software: Adobe’s Creative Suite is one of the best software packs out there for professionals, but the suite is prohibitively expensive for most people. If you can’t drop the cash, you can still get a similar experience with free or cheap software. Here’s how to build your own Creative Suite. – by Thorin Klosowski – http://lifehacker.com/5976725/?post=56313779

Some around Lance Armstrong view TV confession with skepticism: If Lance Armstrong’s mea culpa to Oprah Winfrey is being done as a bid for forgiveness, Kathy LeMond will be watching with deaf ears. – by Lance Pugmire – http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-lance-armstrong-20130117,0,2327102.story

Tissue Boxes, Quiet Ringtones, and Secret iPhone Emoticons: Readers offer their best tips for fixing tissue box annoyances, making your ringtone louder, and unveiling a secret iPhone keyboard full of emoticons. – by Whitson Gordon – http://lifehacker.com/5976615/

If you can’t get into a top-five MBA program, don’t even bother: Last week, the Wall Street Journal wrote an article questioning the value of an MBA but I could have already told you that. – http://qz.com/42233/if-you-cant-get-into-a-top-five-mba-program-dont-even-bother/

My 2012 in Links

Low-cost iPhone might use plastic body, report claims: Citing the usual unnamed supply chain sources, Taiwan-based DigiTimes said the plastic body would be designed to cut costs on the cheaper iPhone. – by Lance Whitney – http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57564006-37/low-cost-iphone-might-use-plastic-body-report-claims/

What to Do Before Bed and After Waking Up for More Daily Energy: Getting a good night’s rest and starting your day with energy is about the best thing you can do for yourself, but it’s a tall order. With a few small adjustments to your morning and nightly routines, however, you can feel more awake and active each day. – by Adam Dachis – http://lifehacker.com/5969513/

Cobook for iPhone Combines All Your Social Networks Into a Powerful Address Book: iOS: Cobook is smart address book for iPhone that combines your default address book with Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to provide you with all the information you want to have in an address book without cluttering up the interface. – by View Profile – http://lifehacker.com/5966193/

TNW Pick of the Day: Tweetary isn’t just an iOS Twitter client, it’s a diary for all your tweets: We first got wind of Tweetary a few months back while it was still in development, but a couple of days before today’s launch we managed to get a hands on with the app to see what all the fuss is about. In its most simple form, Tweetary is a pretty sexy twitter client for iOS devices. – by Paul Sawers – http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/12/06/tweetary/

Roast Your Turkey Upside Down for the First Half-Hour to Ensure Juicy White Meat: Even the best of us can play our cards right and still wind up with a turkey that’s moist in some places and dry in others. This one simple tip from the folks at CHOW can yield rich, juicy white meat without sacrificing delicious, crispy skin. – by View Profile – http://lifehacker.com/5962416/

Tumblr for iOS goes native: now with redesigned Dashboard, improved notifications and more: Just as Facebook did a while back, Tumblr, too, has decided to rebuild its iOS application from the ground up. Inside this new version (3. – by Edgar Alvarez – http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/08/tumblr-for-ios-app-update/

Stitcher keeps the news flowing for desktop users with new web-based app: Stitcher is already a heavy hitter in the world of mobile apps, but users will now find their favorite radio shows and podcasts are accessible from the desktop. Today, the company announced an HTML5 version of its popular app that’s optimized for all of the major browsers. – by Zachary Lutz – http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/31/stitcher-introduces-web-app/

Google’s iOS App Gets Smart : Google updated their iOS app today to include their new “Knowledge Graph” search that offers you intelligent, spoken answers to all your questions—not unlike Siri. Android users have had this feature for a little while, but now iOS users can get in on the fun too. – http://updates.lifehacker.com/post/34647381220/googles-ios-app-gets-smart-knowledge-graph-results

How Can I Be Productive Without Everyone Else Piling On More Work?: Dear Lifehacker, I’ve noticed that the harder and smarter I work, the more work I get! I want to be productive, but I also don’t want to burn out. How can I be good at what I do without encouraging my boss and coworkers to add their crap to my plate? – by View Profile – http://lifehacker.com/5955775/

Advice on feeding a family of four with just $50: The problem of tracking down healthy, filling food for a relatively small amount of money is a perennial one. If you stick to the basics you can probably keep your costs down. But anyone who’s ever tried that knows that you often end up sacrificing two key ingredients: variety and taste. – by Tess Vigeland – http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/food-and-drink/advice-feeding-family-four-just-50

TheBrain :: Mind Mapping Software, Brainstorming, GTD and Knowledgebase Software: There’s a lot of connections in your head, but unfortunately sometimes they don’t last. With TheBrain, your digital Brain captures all that intelligence for playback just when you need it. With TheBrain you’re never more than a few seconds away from any piece of digital information. – http://www.thebrain.com/

How to Change Your Spending Habits when Your Salary Goes Up (or Down): Few people go through their whole life on the same salary. Things change—you get a new job, get married, divorced, or laid off—and when that happens you need to recalibrate your spending habits. Here’s how to do it without throwing your life into turmoil. – by Thorin Klosowski – http://lifehacker.com/5954824/

Ease into Windows 8 with My Passport Enterprise portable drive: Wondering if you should upgrade to Windows 8? WD has teamed up with Microsoft to offer a quick solution for business users. The company announced today that its My Passport Enterprise portable drive is now Windows To Go-certified and will be available on the same day as Windows 8, which is Friday. – by Dong Ngo – http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-3132_7-57537532-98/ease-into-windows-8-with-my-passport-enterprise-portable-drive/

On the Job: You need more than skills to get ahead: Sir Richard Branson, the British entrepreneur who has made billions, is a prime example of knowing how to sell yourself. – http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/bruzzese/2012/10/21/on-the-job-sell-yourself/1638209/

Reuse an old router to bridge devices to your wireless network: Many smart or connected devices come with wired-only connections (Ethernet), like your TV, game console, DVD player, TiVo, or other streaming-media device. – by Ed Rhee – http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57529336-285/reuse-an-old-router-to-bridge-devices-to-your-wireless-network/

Recall Is a Reminders App for All Your Media: iPhone: Keeping track of movies, books, tv shows, apps, and music that you want to check out is tough. While any to-do list can help do just that, Recall is an app built specifically for media, and includes thumbnails, ratings, and reminders for when media is released. – by Thorin Klosowski – http://m.lifehacker.com/5950857/recall-is-a-reminders-app-for-all-your-media?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_twitter&utm_source=lifehacker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Top 10 Ways to Make Yourself Look (and Be) Smarter: Whether you’re trying to survive an intensive college schedule or just want to seem smarter in front of your friends, you can do a lot of things to both look and be smarter. Here are ten simple tricks for boosting your real (and perceived) brain power. – by Whitson Gordon – http://lifehacker.com/5949532/

Sprint Launches StarStar Me To Replace Your Phone Number With Your Name: Capitalizing on our increasing loss of memorization skills, Sprint is today launching a new product that will let users replace their usual phone number with their name. And the product has perhaps the best brand name ever: StarStar Me. – by View Staff Page – http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/08/sprint-launches-starstar-me-to-replace-your-phone-number-with-your-name/

Go Paperless This Weekend: Paper is becoming more and more irrelevant as technology evolves and finds better ways to replace it. While the physical stuff still has a place in our hearts, going paperless saves trees, reduces clutter, and makes things easier to find. – by Adam Dachis – http://lifehacker.com/5948991/go-paperless-this-weekend

Break Your Workday Into Four-Hour “Work Flows”: The modern workday is rarely structured in a way that you can completely concentrate on a task. It’s easy to get distracted or lose track of what you’re doing. One method to fix this suggested by the Harvard Business Review is to schedule in four-hour long “work flows” every week. – by View Profile – http://lifehacker.com/5948175/

Best Budget Pen?: Pen enthusiasts will tell you that you can never spend enough money to get a quality writing instrument, and bargain basement shoppers won’t think twice about buying a $2 bag of Bics and walking away. – by View Profile – http://lifehacker.com/5947093/

ChefSteps Offers Free Online Culinary Lessons from Modernist Cuisine Alumni: Modernist Cuisine is a revered cookbook and encyclopedia, but at $625, the six-volume (52 pounds!) collection is out of reach for most of us. That’s ok. ChefSteps, run by creators of Modernist Cuisine, will teach you the art and science of cooking—for free via online courses. – by View Profile – http://lifehacker.com/5946934/

Photography app Avatr* makes self-portraits social, updating your Twitter avatar instantly: What’s the most important part of social networks? According to Noiselab‘s co-founder and Mexican digital pioneer, Hector Mijangos, the answer is simple: You. – by Anna Heim – http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/09/17/photography-app-avatr-makes-self-portraits-social-updating-twitter-avatar-instantly/

CaptureNotes Offers Audio Recording and Flagged Notes, Syncs with Dropbox and Evernote: iOS: Taking notes on the iPad can be a pretty painful process, but CaptureNotes 2 makes it much easier. – by View Profile – http://lifehacker.com/5942886/

PopCal Is the Fastest and Most-Efficient Calendar App for iPhone: iOS: PopCal is a simple, fast, and attractive calendar app for iOS. It’s interface is also fun and easy to use. It draws from your calendar so there’s nothing to set up, and the app is intuitive so you won’t even have to learn how to use it. – by View Profile – http://lifehacker.com/5942382/

This App Knows More About Your Facebook Account Than You Do: All this information I now know thanks to a new “Facebook Report” by Wolfram Alpha, which will gift you with more knowledge than you could possibly ever want to know about yourself and your Facebook profile. – by Emily Price – http://mashable.com/2012/09/03/this-app-knows-more-about-your-facebook-account-than-you-do/

NOTE’d Clips Every Kind of Notes into Beautiful, Custom Notebooks that Sync with Dropbox: iPhone: If you’ve used an iPhone before, you’ve probably used one of the many note apps available for it. Some sync, some are focused where others are feature rich, and some are just pretty. NOTE’d manages all three. – by Adam Dachis – http://lifehacker.com/5938344/

Insert Coin: Instacube is a hip, Android-based digital photo frame for your Instagram feeds: In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you’d like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with “Insert Coin” as the subject line. – by Joe Pollicino – http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/21/instacube-instagram-digital-photo-frame-kickstarter/?a_dgi=aolshare_twitter

My Rules for Consistent Happiness: Buffer founder Joel Gascoigne discovered that his productivity habits were best when he was happy. It sounds simple, but faced with multiple projects, deadlines, and personal stress, maintaining positivity can be difficult. Here, Joel shares the habits that keep him consistently feeling good. – http://lifehacker.com/5936319/

How to Get Automated Alerts When Your Favorite Artists Release New Work: Sick of missing out on your favorite author, director, or musician’s new work? Just because you like entertainment doesn’t mean you can keep track of every single release. Thankfully, it’s easy to automate so you don’t miss a thing. – by View Profile – http://lifehacker.com/5936151/?comment=52008100

Make a Smarter Notification System for Your Phone or Tablet with Pushover: No offense, but your phone’s notification system sucks. With a clever app called Pushover, you can create your own custom notification system that’s a heck of a lot smarter, so your phone only bothers you with notifications you want, when you want them. – by View Profile – http://lifehacker.com/5935792/

The Interview Question That’s Always Asked (and How to Nail It): “Do you have any questions for us?” As someone who regularly conducts interviews, I find it staggering how many interviewees are not prepared for the one question that you can be absolutely certain will be asked. In some ways, it is the most important question of the entire interview. – by Jefferson McDowell – http://m.lifehacker.com/5935550/the-interview-question-that-is-always-asked-and-how-to-nail-it

Berg’s Little Printer up for preorder at $259, ready to churn out smiley news and gossip in ’60 days’: Just when RSS needs a lift amid all the growing competition, here comes a gadget we’ve been waiting for since last November. – by Sharif Sakr – http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/14/berg-little-printer-up-for-preorder/

Carry A Tripod On Your Keychain With The Tiltpod Mobile From Photojojo: Photojojo is back with another interesting accessory for the photo taking iPhone user. Since the start of the year, the company has already introduced the iPhone Scuba Suit waterproof case and ioShutter camera remote. – by Brent Dirks – http://appadvice.com/appnn/2012/08/carry-a-tripod-on-your-keychain-with-the-tiltpod-mobile-from-photojojo

Trapit Promises Better Browsing And Targeted Content On IPad: Until tablets hit the market, browsing on a mobile device, while possible, was hardly ideal. Small screens and a miserable user experience meant phone-based browsing failed to fulfill the promise of mobile news reading. Then the iPad changed all that. – by Rae Ann Fera – http://www.fastcocreate.com/1681437/trapit-promises-better-browsing-and-targeted-content-on-ipad

Create a Binder for Instruction Manuals and Receipts: You can look up just about any instruction manual online, but since many products come with a printed copy consider keeping them in a binder for easy reference when needed and in case you ever want to sell the item. – by View Profile – http://lifehacker.com/5933951/

Ask an Expert: All About Productivity Systems: Hello! I’m Graham Allcott, founder of Think Productive and author of How to be a Productivity Ninja. I specialize in personal organizational systems, strategies to deal with information overload, and ‘action management’. – http://lifehacker.com/5931970/

Brewster Beefs Up Your iPhone Address Book with Search Powers, Social Networks: iOS: Brewster is a beautiful address book app that syncs tons of information with your social networks, gives you multiple ways to contact your friends, and helps you organize everyone by location, workplace, and more. – by View Profile – http://lifehacker.com/5932212/

Make Your Own Chick-Fil-A Sandwiches at Home: Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwiches are renowned for their juiciness and crisp, perfectly seasoned crust. However, Chick-Fil-A the establishment has also recently become notorious for making offensive anti-gay remarks. – by View Profile – http://lifehacker.com/5930789/

10 Ways to Relive the ’90s Online: “Exciting. Confrontational. Visually interesting. Action-oriented. And capable of producing emotional moments.” These are the lines from a script for an American Gladiators commercial from the early ’90s. It’s also a great way to describe the ’90s themselves. – by Brandon Smith – http://mashable.com/2012/03/25/10-ways-to-re-live-the-90s-online/

How to Get Messages to Properly Sync with Your iPhone: One of the more interesting features of OS X Mountain Lion is the ability to synchronize messages between iMessage on your iPhone and Messages on your Mac. This means you can start a conversation on your Mac and continue it on your iPhone. Set up for this feature is pretty simple. – by View Profile – http://m.lifehacker.com/5929206/

The Monoprice 8320s Are the Best Earbuds You’ll Find Under $10: Picking the perfect set of headphones can be hard, especially if you don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars. If you have a small budget but still want some good sound, look no further than the Monoprice 8320 earbuds. – by Whitson Gordon – http://lifehacker.com/5927570/

Hire people for any Job – Find freelancers & freelance jobs – PeoplePerHour.com: Get Started Post Hourlie Sell your Services Post Job Get your job done Welcome to PPH! Post in seconds. Done in hours. – http://www.peopleperhour.com/

The Mojo Treble Keychain Combines Tons of Tech Tools into One Tiny Package: We’ve shared numerous cables and tools you should have in your go bag, but the last thing you want is to root through piles of stuff just to find one charger. The Mojo Treble Keychain combines an iPhone charger, Android charger, SD card reader/thumb drive, and SIM-ejecting pin into one, tiny tool. – by View Profile – http://lifehacker.com/5924947/

Readability Introduces Curated Reading Lists Plus Various Enhancements: Readability, my read-later app of choice, has just received a substantial update. The update improves its core functionality and enhances its capacity for quality content discovery. The new version of Readability promises faster syncing of bookmarked articles. – by Aldrin Calimlim – http://appadvice.com/appnn/2012/07/readability-introduces-curated-reading-lists-plus-various-enhancements

Indulge Your Curiosity to Stay Ahead in Your Career: We all know jobs aren’t easy to come by these days, but a vague reference to “the economy” isn’t enough to explain the problem. One major issue is the constant change surrounding the tools we use to do our work every day. – by View Profile – http://lifehacker.com/5923191/

What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain: For all of its wild popularity, caffeine is one seriously misunderstood substance. It’s not a simple upper, and it works differently on different people with different tolerances—even in different menstrual cycles. But you can make it work better for you. – by Kevin Purdy – http://m.lifehacker.com/5585217/what-caffeine-actually-does-to-your-brain

I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years: Here’s How: Lifehacker reader Gabriel Wyner was tasked with learning four languages in the past few years for his career as an opera singer, and in the process landed on “a pretty damn good method for language learning that you can do in limited amounts of spare time. – by Gabriel Wyner – http://m.lifehacker.com/5903288

Liveblog with G-Snap!: An Interactive Liveblogging Platform: Sign up in minutes and create your own live event now! G-Snap! is an interactive liveblogging platform that gives publishers of real-time content a better way to connect with their audience. – http://gsnap.com/

‘House’ series finale: Cast, creator explain why it’s time for the end — EXCLUSIVE: After eight dark and twisted seasons of House, Fox’s beloved medical drama hangs up its cane tonight with an hour-long retrospective and series finale (8-10 p.m. ET) entitled “Everybody Dies” — a tweak to one of Dr. House’s famous lines, “Everybody lies.” – by Annie Barrett – http://t.co/xl3FItT9

How low will Facebook’s stock go?: (Money Watch) COMMENTARY If Morgan Stanley (MS) hadn’t propped up Facebook’s (FB) stock on Friday it would have easily closed below its $38 IPO price. – by Constantine Von Hoffman – http://tpt.to/a2vF12j

Do You Have These 8 Qualities Needed to Manage your Brand Online?: 1 888 672 3426 How We HelpListen Millions of conversations are taking place online. Whether these discussions are around your brand, your competition, or your industry, you should be listening. – by Trish Forant – http://t.co/3LU9QArS

Zuckerberg Receives Hoodie, Says “Our Mission Isn’t To Be A Public Company” In Pre-IPO Remarks: Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg received a commemorative hoodie from the NASDAQ CEO Bob Greifeld and thanked his site’s users in opening remarks recorded before he rang the NASDAQ opening bell this morning. – by Josh Constine – http://t.co/7x1zD26G

Comcast Turns the Broadband Meter On, and Moves to Usage-Based Billing: Important for people who stream a whole lot of Internet video, or think they might one day, or would like to make money by streaming a lot of Internet video: Comcast is overhauling its rules which limit the amount of data its broadband subscribers can use. – by Peter Kafka – http://allthingsd.com/20120517/comcast-turns-the-broadband-meter-on-and-moves-to-usage-based-billing/

Everyme, the truly private social network, arrives on Android and the web: Sitting at the intersection of group messaging and social networking is Everyme, a startup so zeroed in on private communication that it prevents sharing beyond its walls. – by Jennifer Van Grove – http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/17/everyme-android/#s:2-7

5 Crucial Tips for Editing Your Own Writing: Measure the effectiveness of your writing. Get free analytics on traffic and shares when you use Shareaholic for your blog. – by Ali Luke – http://blog.shareaholic.com/2012/05/5-crucial-tips-for-editing-your-own-writing/

[Deal] Get the Logitech Revue from Newegg for $73.99: With Google continuing its push into the TV market and not letting Google TV die it’s hard being an early adopter of new technology. The Logitech Revue is a prime example of an early adoption device that didn’t receive much fanfare. – by Jack Holt – http://www.talkandroid.com/112338-deal-get-the-logitech-revue-from-newegg-for-73-99/

ssLauncher Android App Review by AndroidTapp.com: ssLauncher is an original and innovative “magazine style” homescreen replacement app. Featuring a unique format, a wide variety of themes and plenty of intuitive features, the app is a refreshing alternative to the extremely familiar launchers we see elsewhere. – by Paul Wilks – http://tpt.to/a2vhwj6

“Appreciate” is your personalized app market for Android: Today we stumbled across a neat app called Appreciate-Personal App Market. We’ve seen similar apps before for Android but what this does is exactly as it’s titled. Shows you apps and games that you’ll like, personalized by what you’ve already got installed, and your interests. – by Cory Gunther – http://tpt.to/a2vhD2x

Balloonduck: Where Pinterest Meets Twitter To Sate Your Curiosity: We first wrote about Balloonduck back in March. At the time, the social network was accepting invite requests prior to a full launch, so as to avoid empty room syndrome. But today is the big day: Balloonduck has hit 1,500 invite requests and is now officially live. – by View Staff Page – http://tcrn.ch/J38Kvq

Facebook’s Fools: 15 Who Missed Out on the Big Payday: In music, it was Pete Best, the original Beatles drummer who was replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962, just as the band was taking off. – by Todd Wasserman – http://on.mash.to/Lg3bz0

Internet Troll with Patton Oswalt: Facebook’s social sharing is on and this video will be automatically added to your Facebook Ticker, Timeline and News Feed. – http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/11ebe4bace/internet-troll-with-patton-oswalt

7 Ways to Ignite Fierce Loyalty in Your Community: So often people ask me how to kick-start a fiercely loyal community. Sometimes they already have a community up and running. Sometimes they sort of have a community. And sometimes they are starting from scratch. – by Guest – http://www.v3im.com/2012/05/7-ways-to-ignite-fierce-loyalty-in-your-community/#axzz1urWZQRvV

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Google’s Project Glass Glasses May Not Be as Advanced as We Had Hoped: While Google went out and patent protected its Project Glass Glasses a little bit of news has been discovered by the folks at CNET. According to them we may not see everything that the promo video has shown us. A Google spokesperson had this to say: – by Jack Holt – http://www.talkandroid.com/112070-googles-project-glass-glasses-may-not-be-as-advanced-as-we-had-hoped/

Free Icons: Apple Icon Devices: We have a gorgeous set of icons made by IconShock where you can find thousands of amazing icons in a variety of themes. Today’s freebie is brought to you exclusively via our sister sister site, MightyDeals. – http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2011/11/free-icons-apple-icon-devices/

Use a Rolling To-Do List to Keep Things Flexible: Regardless of your productivity method managing and checking off items on a to-do list is always difficult. If you dislike the strictness of a traditional to-do list, Stepcase Lifehack recommends trying out a rolling list to keep things flexible. – by Thorin Klosowski – http://lifehacker.com/5910745/use-a-rolling-to%20do-list-to-keep-things-flexible?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_twitter&utm_source=lifehacker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Radical! 12 Tumblrs for ’90s Nostalgia: If you’re a fan of ’90s music reviews, this site features write-ups on all of the biggest celebrities via hundreds of scans from magazines like Spin, Q, Rolling Stone and Select. The 1990s were a decade of polyester, denim-short overalls, skorts, JNCOs, puff paint and stupid hats. – by Christine Erickson – http://mashable.com/2012/05/15/90s-tumblrs/

Most Popular Online Custom Clothing Store: Indochino: You’re a busy person, and taking time out to shop in a brick and mortar store for clothes is a hassle. – by Alan Henry – http://lifehac.kr/qjiy

How Do You Adjust and Perfect the EQ on Your Music?: Whether a song is mixed well or not, the speakers you own may not represent that mix perfectly. To fix that problem, many of us use the equalizer (EQ) in our music players to automatically adjust base, treble, and everything in between. How do you adjust your EQ to get the best sound? – by Adam Dachis – http://lifehac.kr/HyWy

Historic photos of New York City released by Municipal Archives: The New York City Municipal Archives has released 870,000 photographs documenting life in the Big Apple during the 20th century. Full story at Lost at E Minor. – http://holykaw.alltop.com/historic-photos-of-new-york-city-released-by?tu4=1

600M Processor Launched, Tested: 33049707 story MojoKid writes “AMD lifted the veil on their new Trinity A-Series mobile processor architecture today. – by Soulskill – http://bit.ly/K3iA0J

EXCLUSIVE: How Mark Zuckerberg Booted His Co-Founder Out Of The Company: Ahead of Facebook’s $15 billion IPO later this week, Billionaire Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has renounced his US citizenship in order to avoid a boatload of taxes. One reason this is possible: Saverin no longer works at Facebook. – by Nicholas Carlson – http://read.bi/JHEpnq

Get Started Investing with Very Little Money: With many mutual funds requiring initial investments of thousands of dollars, it might seem like you have to be rich to start investing. If you know where to look, though, you can get started building wealth with just $50 to $200. – by Melanie Pinola – http://lifehac.kr/THqj

Am I Oversharing?: Dear Friends,This study suggests that nearly 90% of you think people share too much information about themselves online. On the other hand, apparently oversharing on Facebook is as satisfying as sex, so it’s no surprise that we keep doing it. – by Thorin Klosowski – http://lifehacker.com/5910364/am-i-oversharing?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_twitter&utm_source=lifehacker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

From Saucy Pics to Passwords: How to Share Sensitive Information Over the Internet: Raise your hand if you’ve shared a username and password with someone over IM? Ever share a document with your SSN or other extremely sensitive information without protecting it? How about if you’ve sent, erm… – by Whitson Gordon – http://lifehac.kr/95nm

Wearable Photos : A DIY guide: Ever had the urge to wrap your body in photographs? Yes? Well, today, all of your dreams can come true! Follow this guide to learn how to turn your photos into wearable photo fabric — that’s right fabric. – http://content.photojojo.com/diy/wearable-photos-a-diy-guide/

Make Your Own Cocoa Powder for Fast Chocolatey Drinks Anywhere You Go: If you love chocolate milk, or just a little chocolatey flavor stirred into your coffee from time to time, there’s no reason to go buy an overpriced box of desiccated powder when you can make your own cocoa mix at home, ready for mixing, with higher quality cocoa. Here’s how. – by Alan Henry – http://lifehacker.com/5910002/make-your-own-cocoa-powder-for-fast-chocolatey-drinks-anywhere-you-go?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_twitter&utm_source=lifehacker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Build Your Own Reminder Notifications with Tasker and Ditch Your Nagging To-Do App: If you handle your to-dos mostly on your Android phone, you may have a to-do app with timed reminders. – by Alan Henry – http://lifehacker.com/5909999/build-your-own-reminder-notifications-with-tasker-and-ditch-your-nagging-to%20do-app?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_twitter&utm_source=lifehacker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Alarm Clock Ultra Brings Power-User Features to a Beautiful Alarm Clock App: Android: Alarm clock apps are typically bare bones affairs, but Alarm Clock Ultra manages to pack in a shocking number of features into a beautifully-packaged Android app. Each alarm you create comes with a huge array of customization options. – by Shep McAllister – http://lifehac.kr/Cp4x

How to Add Google AdSense to Your Tumblr Blog: Would you like to make a bit of revenue from your blog? Here’s how you can make your content work for you by adding Google AdSense to your Tumblr blog. Blogging can be serious work, and with your easy-to-use Tumblr blog, you might be posting more than ever. – by Matthew Guay – http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/22559/how-to-add-google-adsense-to-your-tumblr-blog/

Google+ Hangouts on Air Lets You Broadcast Live to the World: A handful of content creators have been testing out the service for the last several weeks, and it is just now beginning to roll out to the public. Setup couldn’t be simpler: just check the box to broadcast the Hangout before you begin, confirm your YouTube credentials, and start recording. – by Shep McAllister – http://lifehacker.com/5909796/google%2B-hangouts-on-air-lets-you-broadcast-live-to-the-world?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_twitter&utm_source=lifehacker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Ask Slashdot: How To Secure My Life-In-A-Briefcase?: An anonymous reader writes “I used to travel with a book and some clothes in a backpack, and now my entire life fits into my briefcase. I have a laptop, a tablet, and a cell phone with access to all of my documents through Dropbox, and all the books I own are on my kindle. – by timothy – http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/05/13/1828220/ask-slashdot-how-to-secure-my-life-in-a-briefcase?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=twitter

Five Best Online Custom Clothing Stores: Shopping for clothes in brick and mortar stories may give you instant gratification and the chance to try them on, but why bother when you can online, get bigger discounts, and have your clothes tailored to fit before they even get to your house? There are plenty of online clothing shops that will – by Alan Henry – http://lifehacker.com/5909754/five-best-online-custom-clothing-stores?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_twitter&utm_source=lifehacker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Amplify Your Phone’s Speakers with a Glass Vase or Pitcher: Smartphone speakers are bad enough in a quiet room, and basically worthless with any ambient noise. An empty pitcher or vase though can amplify and direct the noise surprisingly well. – by Shep McAllister – http://lifehacker.com/5909761/amplify-your-phones-speakers-with-a-glass-vase-or-pitcher?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_twitter&utm_source=lifehacker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Facebook Is Killing Text Messaging: An anonymous reader writes “We’ve heard many times and from multiple sources that text messaging is declining. There are multiple reasons for this (BlackBerry Messenger, Apple’s iMessage, and even WhatsApp), but the biggest one is Facebook (Messenger). – by timothy – http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/05/13/1245244/facebook-is-killing-text-messaging?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=twitter

Best Degree For a Late Career Boost?: Qbertino writes “I’m in my early 40s, and after a little more than 10 years of web, scripting and software development as a freelancer and some gigs as a regular, full-time employee, I’m seriously considering giving my IT career a boost by getting a degree. – by Soulskill – http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/05/12/2010248/ask-slashdot-best-degree-for-a-late-career-boost?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=twitter

Adobe LiveCycle Mobile ES3: Adobe® LiveCycle® Mobile ES3 helps organizations increase employee productivity, improve brand equity, lower costs, and improve engagement across screens and devices, anywhere, anytime. – by Editors’ Choice – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.livecycle

Use the Template Cooking Method for Stress-Free Meals: While many of us create obsessive shopping lists or flip through entire cookbooks to make a good meal, it may be simpler to rely on a standard template and basic cooking instincts. Sarah McColl at Pink of Perfection was eager to ditch the stress of finding the perfect recipe. – by Shep McAllister – http://lifehacker.com/5909736/use-the-template-cooking-method-for-stress%20free-meals?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_twitter&utm_source=lifehacker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Top 10 Ways to Supercharge Your Favorite Webapps and Services: We all have webapps and services that we love, but that doesn’t make them perfect. If you want to do more with Gmail, remove annoying parts of Facebook, connect two webapps you love, automate tedious actions, and more, you can do all this with a few clever scripts, extensions, and services. – by Adam Dachis – http://lifehacker.com/5909747/top-10-ways-to-supercharge-your-favorite-webapps-and-services?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_twitter&utm_source=lifehacker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Put Your Phone in a Drinking Glass to Boost Its Alarm Volume and Avoid Oversleeping: If you’re a heavy sleeper and have trouble waking up in the morning to your phone’s alarm, Redditor tribalwombat discovered you can boost its volume by sticking it in a drinking glass. This works because the sound will reverberate inside the glass. – by Adam Dachis – http://lifehacker.com/5909651/put-your-phone-in-a-drinking-glass-to-boost-its-alarm-volume-and-avoid-oversleeping?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_twitter&utm_source=lifehacker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Chinese Physicists Achieve Quantum Teleportation Over 60 Miles: 32910565 story Chinese Physicists Achieve Quantum Teleportation Over 60 Miles Posted by from the just-keep-the-shields-up-and-you’re-fine dept. – by Soulskill – http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/11/1830216/chinese-physicists-achieve-quantum-teleportation-over-60-miles?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=twitter

Upgrade Your Memory: How to Quickly Memorize Lists: The key to remembering things is to make them memorable. Turn names, numbers, and abstract words into images that are gross, funny, or absurd. In this video, Nelson Dellis, USA Memory Champion, demonstrates how to do this—using an example list of random words. – by Melanie Pinola – http://lifehacker.com/5909575/upgrade-your-memory-how-to-quickly-memorize-lists?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_twitter&utm_source=lifehacker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

First Amendment Protection For Search Results?: 32907547 story First Amendment Protection For Search Results? Posted by from the don’t-search-for-fire-in-a-crowded-theater dept. – by Soulskill – http://search.slashdot.org/story/12/05/11/1641217/first-amendment-protection-for-search-results?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=twitter

DualWeb gives Android Honeycomb a 2-for-1 split-screen web browser [App Reviews]: Tabbed browsing is one of my favorite things about Android Honeycomb, and that’s because switching between tabs is so much easier than switching between windows on the phone. – by Andrew Kameka – http://pulse.me/s/de14

Starbucks for Android now serving in the Android Market: Sweet mother of all things caffeinated — the Starbucks Android app is finally in the Android Market. And it’s everything our jittery hands could have dreamed of. When you first launch the app, you’ll be asked if you want to log in, sign up for an account, or continue without an account. – by Phil Nickinson – http://pulse.me/s/cksW

$99 Etymotic mc2 earbuds claim market-beating noise isolation, full platform ambivalence: CHICAGO, June 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Etymotic Research (www.etymotic.com), an innovator in hearing wellness solutions and the inventor of in-ear technology, today announced the launch of the mc2 universal noise-isolating headset + earphones. – by Sharif Sakr – http://pulse.me/s/bb9W

Judge Prevents 23,322 Filesharing Does From Being Sued For Now: An anonymous reader writes “The Judge overseeing the US Copyright Group’s lawsuit against 23,000 individuals sharing ‘The Expendables’ has shut the door on progress. – by timothy – http://bit.ly/mSiIUW

Secret Features of Apple’s New Headquarters: Secret Features of Apple’s New Headquarters June 10, 2011 at 3:56 pm PT Tweet Share Print Tagged with: Apple, Geek Culture, Joy of Tech, Nitrozac and Snaggy – by Nitrozac and Snaggy – http://pulse.me/s/8BcO

Could Apple Kill Off Mac OS X?: Barence writes “When Steve Jobs announced last night that he was ‘going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device,’ it was the clearest indication yet that Apple is phasing out Mac OS X, argues PC Pro’s Barry Collins. – by timothy – http://bit.ly/jqN43L

Gartner identifies cloud security risks, opportunities: Organisations migrating applications to externally-hosted services face security challenges well beyond fears around data sovereignty, according to analyst group Gartner. Traditional IT security processes inside the LAN, he said, are no longer key concerns for CIOs. – by Brett Winterford – http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/238774,gartner-identifies-cloud-security-risks-opportunities.aspx

Xoom Owners, Check out the New Keyboard Folio: Posted by: I can almost hear all of you readers that are lucky enough to own a Xoom breathing the word “Niiiiiiiiiiice” right now, and I would have to agree.  Pictured to the left is the newly released “Keyboard Folio” for the Motorola Xoom tablet. – by Ray Walters – http://pulse.me/s/6jMy

All grown up

So Peter got his braces removed today.

 

And now that it’s alter and this idea is more fleshed out, I have to say. His teeth look freaking awesome.

 

I’m thinking of doing some writing on the setup I have for my network. Although it isn’t very complex, it has been able to suit my needs pretty well. So if I can help others, why not?

Amazon cloud services

So this whole blog is hosted on an amazon virtual server. It’s actually quite impressive that I was able to do so in literally moments.

I’m trying to get back into technology, and setting my blog back up was an important step in that.

Hopefully I’ll be developing soon, although I’m not sure what Ill be working on.

Maybe a guide or two, or something like that.

I’ve got way too many blogs.

Desktop setup

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I love my workstation setup

Hello world!

I was going to delete this.

I honestly thought it stupid. Until I remembered that its the only post I have with a comment. :D