Daily Archives: August 14, 2012

9 More Cool Tricks You Should Try With Apple’s New Mac Operating System (AAPL)

August 14, 2012
9 More Cool Tricks You Should Try With Apple’s New Mac Operating System (AAPL)

Email More Eric Kilby via Flickr See Also This Could Be What Samsung’s Next Smartphone-Tablet Hybrid Will Look Like Take A Look At The Slick Interface On The Pebble Smartwatch Everyone’s Talking About This Adorable Smartphone Printer Today We’re still learning more and more tricks and tweaks in Apple’s latest operating system for Macs. ...

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Microsoft SkyDrive gets new Android app, facelift

August 14, 2012
Microsoft SkyDrive gets new Android app, facelift

Making good on promises to make its SkyDrive cloud storage service ecumenical across clients, Microsoft has added a new Android app. It also updated user interface to mimic the “tiled” look of the upcoming Windows 8 operating system. The company announced the SkyDrive facelift, which will take place over the next 24 hours, on...

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Man Gets Jail Time For Linking To Illegal TV Streams

August 14, 2012
Man Gets Jail Time For Linking To Illegal TV Streams

Anton Vickerman is the first British man to be jailed for linking to illegal films and television shows. Be careful what you link to online, because you may get jailed for it.   38-year-old Anton Vickerman has been sentenced to four years in prison after linking to illegal television shows and films on his website,...

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Klout Fixes Its Scoring, Redesigns Its Site, Makes Itself A Lot More Useful

August 14, 2012
Klout Fixes Its Scoring, Redesigns Its Site, Makes Itself A Lot More Useful

Courtesy of Klout Don’t say “Bieber” around this guy. See Also Klout’s New COO Proves The Kleiner Perkins Network Is Alive And Well Klouchebag Measures How Much Of An Asshat You Are On Twitter Klout CEO Joe Fernandez Never Stands Still Klout, the social network service that ranks people based on their influence, is...

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OrderAhead Nabs $2.3M From Adam D’Angelo, Matrix, Eric Schmidt For Ordering On The Go

August 14, 2012
OrderAhead Nabs $2.3M From Adam D’Angelo, Matrix, Eric Schmidt For Ordering On The Go

You know what’s not fun? Ordering takeout from your favorite restaurant over the phone — actually planning ahead instead of just showing up — only to wait in line like a schlub once you get there to pick up your order and pay. If you’re anything like me, this has happened enough times that...

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Boxfish Launches An iPad App To Help You Find What’s Hot On TV

August 14, 2012
Boxfish Launches An iPad App To Help You Find What’s Hot On TV

There’s no shortage of video discovery apps out there. There are some, like Showyou, which aim to usual social signals to tell you what videos are worth watching online; and there are others, like Fanhattan, which are designed to aggregate information across multiple video apps. But few apps are focused on highlighting what’s actually...

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Fifth Graders in 1995 Video Predicted the Things We Love About the Web

August 14, 2012

A 1995 public service announcement created by 5th graders to tout the brand-new Internet is making the rounds online, and for good reason: Their predictions all came true. These Ray Bjork Elementary School students living in Helena, Montana produced a video answering the question, “Why should I be on the Internet?” Their answers, describing...

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Blippar lets you watch Will Ferrell’s ‘The Campaign’ trailer on a dollar bill

August 14, 2012

We’ve covered augmented reality app Blippar a fair few times in the past, most recently when it partnered with Walkers Crisps to provide weather forecasts, which followed its victory at Le Web’s startup competition. Now, the London-based startup has reeled in Warner Bros as the latest big-name brand to tap Blippar’s technology. This link-up...

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Why Microsoft’s Windows Phones Don’t Copy the iPhone

August 14, 2012
Why Microsoft’s Windows Phones Don’t Copy the iPhone

On Monday, a key Apple executive revealed why Microsoft’s Windows Phone designs don’t mimic the iPhone: because Microsoft is contractually prevented from doing so. According to reports from The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and others, Microsoft was one of the only companies to license the few, prized Apple design patents at stake in the...

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YouTube’s Revamped Removed-Video Notice Delivers Blast From the Past

August 14, 2012

YouTube has taken down the video you want to watch – a virtually inevitable occurrence, given the site’s automatic response to claims of copyright infringement. Instead of showing you the clip you chose, YouTube wants to ease your disappointment by entertaining you with a classy animated graphic.  Instead of looking at a plain black...

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