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Kid President Sends Heartfelt Mothers Day Salute to Moms [VIDEO]
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Extraordinary 28-Hour Dubai Timelapse Makes The World Seem Magical
Back in 2011 when Gerald Donovan filmed Dubai for 28 hours he made an incredible timelapse of it. But he couldnt leave well enough alone. After the limitless potential of the footage nagged at him for a few years he came back to it and made another beautiful version.
via Extraordinary 28-Hour Dubai Timelapse Makes The World Seem Magical.
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Living with WIN 8
I have recently switched fully over to win8 and I can see how it takes getting used to, but I find myself thinking less and less about the interface. It’s becoming more and more transparent. I find its more about making a break with win7 and less about finding where the moved everything to, plus remember this is the first leg of an evolution that’s its just beginning. In a few months Microsoft will be releasing an update that will bring back some legacy functionality but the concept of win8 is here to stay and will evolve even further. Especially as we begin to transition from a stationary work environment into a more mobile one. Furthermore as our hardware also evolves the old keyboard and mouse scenario will also need to evolve. Unfortunately there are 2 ways to move things forward gradually providing less pushback from users or a more radical faster pace model forcing users to sink or swim. Both have pros and cons, and both have advocates but they both have something in common both will produce change. However, it is important that we are open to change but provide a path for those that require or prefer the slower more evolutionary path as opposed to the faster paced sink or swim method.
This is water: please watch
People have told me I have an unique way of looking at the world. This video does a good job of explaining my way of looking at things. True there are exceptions but if you make an effort to think this way it really does help to keep your sanity and generally be a better person. Note I said better, not perfect. This is a video worth watching
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Dear Microsoft, Dont Bail on Windows 8
The sheer audacity of Windows 8 was enough to set it apart. It was startling, the kind of uncompromising upheaval you almost never see from a frontrunner. Despite obvious missteps—big, idiotic, self-inflicted ones, more often than not—it always gave the sense that it was just wrong-footed, correctable stuff, never cause for a total retreat. Except, if recent reports are to be believed, that’s just what Microsoft seems to be doing. Retreating. And we really hope it doesn’t.The next update for Windows—codename Windows Blue or 8.1— is due at the end of June. It should be major, retooling a lot of what Windows does, or at least how it does it. But theres been at least some talk that its going to go beyond that, and pull back from the deep end of next level UI that Windows 8 airdropped its users into.Its almost certain that the Start button is coming back, and that you’ll be able to launch into the regular old desktop. On their own, these are actually actually great changes. And frankly, that’s probably all they are. Hopefully. Because Microsoft can’t afford to reverse course at this point. And we shouldn’t want it to, either
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McCain Introduces Bill for ‘a la Carte’ Cable TV
Hate having to pay for hundreds of cable TV channels when you watch less than a dozen? How about those blackout rules that make it so you can’t watch your favorite NFL team when a home game isn’t sold out?
If Sen. John McCain gets his way — and that’s a big “if” — those two annoyances could be a thing of the past.
Sen. McCain introduced a bill Thursday in Congress, the Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013. The act would “encourage the wholesale and retail unbundling of programming by distributors and programmers.”
That means if you want to subscribe to a single cable channel, such as ESPN, you would be able to do that without subscribing to any others.
Here’s how the senior Senator from Arizona introduced his bill: “For over 15 years I have supported giving consumers the ability to buy cable channels individually, also known as ‘a la carte’ — to provide consumers more control over viewing options in their home and, as a result, their monthly cable bill.”
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New Bill Legalizing Cellphone Unlocking Introduced in House
A new bill making it legal to unlock your cellphone or other mobile device has arrived in the House of Representatives.The Unlocking Technology Act of 2013 would also make it legal to circumvent digital rights management DRM locks to use protected content in a way that doesnt violate copyright law and to develop and sell cellphone unlocking software. It was introduced Thursday by Rep. Zoe Lofgren D-Calif. and backed by co-sponsors Jared Polis D-Colo. and Thomas Massie R-Ky.. Lofgren and Polis in particular have earned a reputation for being closely involved in technology policy issues.The Unlocking Technology Act comes after an intense lobbying effort spearheaded by copyright activists Sina Khanifar and Derek Khanna. Their campaign to legalize unlocking began in January, when the Librarian of Congress failed to include unlocking in an updated list of exemptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act DMCA.Written in 1988, the DMCA made it illegal to create or sell software for circumventing anti-piracy locks on digital content. It also made it illegal to circumvent those locks to use protected content regardless of whether the intended use was a violation of existing copyright law. The Librarian of Congress is authorized to update a list of exemptions to the DMCA once every three years.
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Roku can now tell you how to get, how to get to Sesame Street with new PBS channels
Big Bird or “Big Yellah,” as we like to call him and his Sesame Street cohorts are now available for streaming on your Roku box. Not just that, but his non-avian colleagues from PBS and PBS Kids are also making the trip, arriving today in new PBS and PBS Kids Roku channels. The two new channels offer more than the on-demand access to PBS programming youd expect; PBS Digital Studios work is also available to stream were quite fond of it, if you couldnt tell.
via Roku can now tell you how to get, how to get to Sesame Street with new PBS channels.
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How Ultraviolet Light Will Sterilize Super Bugs
Hospital infection rates are on the rise with 1 in 20 Americans already being admitted to the hospital this year, according to CDC estimates, and in some instances, winding up more sick than when they arrived. These infections kill around 100,000 vulnerable patients and cost the healthcare industry $30 billion annually. To combat hyper-infectious agents like Clostridium difficile C-diff or Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus MRSA, doctors are turning to a different method of disinfection to destroy bacteria by tearing their DNA apart with UV light.
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PC Cleaning Apps are a Scam: Here’s Why and How to Speed Up Your PC
PC cleaning apps are digital snake oil. The web is full of ads for applications that want to “clean your PC” and “make it feel like new.” Don’t pull out your credit card — these apps are terrible and you don’t need them.
If you do want to “clean your PC,” you can do it for free. Windows includes built-in PC cleaning tools that can do almost all of what the average PC cleaning app will do for you.
Let’s Investigate a PC Cleaning App
So what do these apps do, anyway? To investigate, we ran MyCleanPC — don’t try this at home; we installed this bad software so you don’t have to. MyCleanPC is one of the most prominent PC cleaning apps — it even advertises itself with television commercials.
First, let’s look at its Frequently Asked Questions to see what it promises:
“The full, paid version of the MyCleanPC software will attempt to remove issues found with your PC’s registry and hard drive, including removal of junk files, unneeded registry entries, Internet browsing traces, and fragmented portions of your hard drive.”
We’re already on thin ice here — Windows can remove junk files, clear Internet browsing traces, and defragment your hard drive without installing additional software.
MyCleanPC offers a “free diagnosis,” which is little more than an attempt to scare people into thinking their computers have thousands of “issues” that can be fixed for an easy $39.99 payment.
After running a scan, you’ll see an alarming count of the number of problems on your computer. It found 26267 issues on our computer.
That’s an extremely alarming number — but what exactly is an issue? [read more below]
via PC Cleaning Apps are a Scam: Here’s Why and How to Speed Up Your PC.
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