Saturday, April 30, 2016
Batch Resize Images in OS X With This Automator Script
If you need to resize a ton of images on your Mac, Automator is the way to do it in one fell swoop. 9to5Mac shows off how to quickly make your own Automator service for doing just that.
While Automator might be a little intimidating for new users, it’s pretty easy to get the hang of it. For this one, you’ll just create a new service, use the scale images action, and set it up to scale to whatever size you need. This is handy if you’re bringing in photos from a camera that need to get resized for a web site, or if you’re just looking to cut down on hard drive space. Head over to 9to5Mac for the guide.
How-To: Quickly resize images on OS X using a Service with Automator | 9to5Mac
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Friday, April 29, 2016
Make Homemade Mandarin-Style Orange Slices With Pectinase
Everybody loves the sweet flavor and gem-like appearance of mandarin oranges, and this video will show you how to make your own at home. You can even use this same technique to make fruit gems out of almost any citrus fruit.
In this video from the ChefSteps YouTube channel, Chef Grant Crilly shows you how to turn some orange slices into mouthwatering citrus gems with a little pectinase. Pectinase is an enzyme that breaks down, well, pectin, or the white stuff that’s all over your orange slices once you remove the peel, and it’s easily available at Amazon, or any restaurant supply store.
If you want to remove that white stuff and make some mandarin-style orange slices, dump your peeled orange segments in a bowl of water and add a few drops of pectinase. Let it sit for a few hours at room temperature, or overnight in the fridge, and you’ll be left with great looking, super tasty orange slices you can serve at a party or use as a garnish for fancy cocktails.
ChefSteps Tips & Tricks: Perfect Citrus Gems | YouTube
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Screengrabber Warren G Performs Incredibly Bad Rendition Of “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” | Jezebel
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Build a Low-Light Streaming Video Baby Monitor With a Raspberry Pi
If you’re looking for a DIY way to keep an eye on your baby, Element 14's put together a guide that shows off how to build your own night vision camera with motion detection using a Raspberry Pi.
The project here uses the Raspberry Pi 3 alongside the NoIR camera adapter. From there, the Raspberry Pi runs a live video stream that can send you a notification any time it detects motion. It might seem a little stressful to use a DIY system for something as important as a baby monitor, but the live stream makes it so you can check in as often as you like to make sure it’s always working. Still, you might want to use it in addition to a more traditional audio monitor. Either way, head over to Element14 for the full guide to make it for yourself.
NoIR V2 Video Streaming Baby Monitor | Element14
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Teach Your Kids to Stop Interrupting You with This Technique
Kids are impatient little buggers who don’t realize they’re being rude when they interrupt you when you’re having a conversation. Here’s an easy technique that will teach children a better way to get your attention.
Mom coach Kirsten explains the four steps in the video above.
- Teach your child to place his or her hand on you when they want to speak to you while you’re talking to someone else.
- Put your hand on top of theirs to acknowledge they want your attention.
- Politely excuse yourself from the conversation.
- Thank your kid for waiting and give him or her your full attention.
You might need to practice this a few times to establish it as a new good habit, but if you’re tired of always saying “wait a minute” or “I’m talking over here,” it’s definitely worth a try.
Teaching Your Child to Stop Interrupting: M #1 | YouTube via Kids Safety Network
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Facebook told to hand over all data on user, including fake account set up by extortionist
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This rule change just made it easier for the government to hack you, wherever you are
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The Psychological Factors That Cause Food Cravings
We all get cravings for specific foods every now and then, and those cravings can be so strong, they almost feel involuntary, like your body is missing some nutrient it can get from a Cinnabon. This isn’t typically how cravings work, though.
As SciShow explains, cravings are a lot more psychological than they are physiological. Host Michael Aranda says that they’re usually tied to different emotional triggers, like stress. He explains:
Eating a butter frosted cupcake or a bag of salty fries releases an opioid typhoon that lights up the brain’s pleasure center and makes us feel awesome...cravings are also tied to your brain’s memory center, which explains why you might also crave a food that isn’t full of fat or sugar. Your brain could be tying that food to a happy memory or a reward, and thinking about the memory associated with that food can make you crave that food.
Marci Pelchat of the Monell Chemical Senses Center told Smithsonian magazine that there are indeed some extreme deficiencies that cause cravings, but generally, cravings aren’t our body’s way of telling us we need something. For more detail, check out the full video.
What Causes Food Cravings? | YouTube
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US Supreme Court approves expansion of FBI hacking powers
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Is that a VPN I see before me? [Chet Chat Podcast 239]
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Tinder Social tells your Facebook friends that you’re on Tinder
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Documenting the Chilling Effects of NSA Surveillance
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Screen overlay Android malware is on the rise
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Suspect refuses to decrypt hard drives, is detained indefinitely
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US House unanimously passes Email Privacy Act
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Defend encrypted data from quantum computer threat
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Thursday, April 28, 2016
Pro-ISIS hackers: Tactics, methodology and tools
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1 in 10 people have posed as someone else online
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The challenges of controlling IT complexity
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Modify a Kitchen Cabinet So You Can Kick to Open It
If you have one of those kitchen setups where your trash cans are inside a cabinet, you know it’s always gross to have to open up that drawer when your hands are dirty. Instructables user homesteadonomics came up with a solution to open the cabinet with a kick.
The solution here doesn’t require rocket science. It’s essentially a block of wood connected to a spring and bolt that pushes the cabinet open. Kick the block of wood, and the mechanism pushes the cabinet open. You won’t need much to take this project on for yourself, so head over to Instructables for the full guide.
Cabinet Opener - Kick to Open | Instructables
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Google's OnHub Router Adds Support for IFTTT
Google’s OnHub router is a pricey, but it’s still a handy smart router. It’s getting even smarter with integration with the automation service, If This Then That.
Like any other service, the OnHub hooks into IFTTT through channels. The options are a little limited right now. The OnHub recipe options are mostly useful for hooking into connected devices like Wi-Fi lights or cameras, so you can automate things when you connect or disconnect from your router. Still, it’s a handy addition for OnHub users and worth exploring some of the recipes to see what you can come up with.
OnHub Keeps Getting Better - Now Supports IFTTT | OnHub via Android Police
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Deadspin Eli Apple’s Mom Might Be The Best Sports Mom In The Game | The Muse USA’s Olympic Uniforms
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Strike a Match On Other Matches If You Don't Have the Strike Anywhere Kind
If you don’t have strike anywhere matches, and the striking surface on your matchbox has worn out, this last resort trick can help you get a fire going.
This video from youtuber MrGear shows you a clever option if you can’t get your match to light in a pinch. You can try places like your pants zipper or other abrasive surfaces, but they won’t always work. This striking technique, while a bit wasteful overall, will get the job done. Pull five matches from the box and hold four of them together so the striking ends are in a square or box shape. Take the fifth match and stick the striking end in the divot between the striking ends of the other four matches. Now twist the the single match and flick. After a few tries, the match—and the other matches—will light. You might be able to do this with fewer matches to reduce waste (some say it’s possible with only two), but your mileage may vary. Of course, you could also turn your regular matches into the strike anywhere kind if you have the time.
How to Light a Match Against Another One | YouTube
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Make Your iPhone's Folders Round with a Special Wallpaper Glitch
Ever wanted round folders instead of the squared off ones on your iPhone? Youtube user videosdebarraquito shows off how to do that by using a special wallpaper image.
To do this, you’ll need to download one of these tiny, 3x3 images, then set it as your home screen wallpaper (Settings > Wallpaper > Choose a New Wallpaper > Camera Roll). Once you do, you’ll notice that all your folders on the main page turn into circles. This doesn’t work with multiple pages, but it’s a fun little trick nonetheless.
Round Folders Glitch | YouTube via Cult of Mac
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How to prevent snoops from stalking you in Waze with “ghost” drivers
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Gamekeeper turns poacher? The ex-Tor developer who unmasked Tor users for the FBI
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The flaw that left .as websites and owners exposed for at least 16 years
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Learn How to Weave Bacon With This Video
Weaving bacon strips together is the best way to get more bacon flavor out of every bite of your BLT or burger. If you’ve never woven bacon (or a basket) before, this video will show you how to do it.
First, you lay a row of thick-cut bacon strips in the same direction. Fold back every other strip and lay a strip of bacon across horizontally. Flatten out the strips you folded back. Then fold back the opposite strips and lay another strip of bacon across horizontally. Well, just watch the video.
This isn’t a new or novel way to bake a rectangle of bacon, but the video does a good job of showcasing just how it’s done, along with essential tips like making sure you keep the bacon strips close together for a tight weave. Bake for about 15 minutes at 400F and enjoy.
Quick & Simple Bacon Weave | YouTube
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Suspect who won’t decrypt hard drives jailed indefinitely
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Former Tor developer helped the FBI unmask Tor users
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Why Fad Diets Don't Work, and How to Spot Them
Fad diets come in many different forms. Some are straight up weird, and some are less crazy than others, but pretty much all of them share a few key characteristics. This video shows you how to spot health industry snake oil from a mile away.
We’ve been fed appetizing solutions to quick and easy weight loss for centuries, with diets like the vinegar diet and history’s first recorded low-carb diet, the Banting diet, tracing back to the Victorian era. Today we still see updated, new-age science fad diets because many of us still fall for them. This video by TED-Ed suggests looking out for these red flags:
- The diet focuses on intensely cutting back calories or entire food groups (like fat and carbohydrates).
- You’re allowed to only eat very specific foods with very specific instructions.
- Most of the foods they recommend you eat are expensive proprietary bars, powders, drinks, and other products.
Another red flag that isn’t mentioned is endorsement by a celebrity or a self-proclaimed “health guru” who makes a living not treating patients, but selling books and going on speaking tours.
Admittedly, fads like the blood-type diet, alkaline diet, lemonade diet, and so on could all work...for a while. In fact, any diet could “work” if you manipulate calorie reduction through strict rules, elaborate rituals (no carbs after 8pm!), and eliminating entire food groups and sources of high-calorie junk. In the end, you’re eating fewer calories, which means you’ll lose weight. Whether that lost weight is water, muscle, fat, or your sanity is another thing though.
Still, what works in the short term doesn’t translate to long-term success or even good health—mainly because for most people these diets aren’t sustainable. The video does touch on a fair point that sometimes rapid weight loss may be warranted in very specific medical circumstances. For everyone else, the real methods for the most rewarding and lasting changes to your mind and body are unsexy.
How to spot a fad diet | TED-Ed
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PCI DSS 3.2 is out: What’s new?
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App Volume Control Lets You Change Your Phone's Volume Per App
Android: Google has improved Android’s handling of volume controls, but it’s still a hassle to change volumes every time you change apps. App Volume Control lets you change volumes based on which app you’re in.
App Volume Control lets you adjust each of the various types of volume in Android, including media volume, your phone’s ringer, alarm volume, notification sounds, or system volume. Tap the app’s entry to enable volume control, then set the levels where you want them. Any app you don’t enable will use whatever the system default is like normal.
App Volume Control | Google Play Store via MakeUseOf
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Gold-mining firm Goldcorp hacked, its data leaked online
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German city embeds traffic lights in sidewalks to protect texters
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Do you have what it takes to be an independent security consultant?
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Fake Chrome LastPass extension leads to unwanted installs
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Attackers use open source security tools for targeted cyberespionage
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Most users limit personal info on social media due to hacking fears
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016
The inherent problems of the detection paradigm
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Cybersecurity insurance: A global perspective
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Make a Temperature Indicator for Your Faucet With Thermochromatic Pigment
It can take a while for water running from the faucet to get hot. Yeah, you can wait around with your finger under the water, but it would be a lot easier if you could see when it’s finally hot. This clever DIY temperature indicator does just that.
This video from the Shake the Future YouTube channel shows you how to create a simple temperature indicator for your faucet that doesn’t require any special tools, batteries, or electronics. All you need is some clear nail polish and some thermochromatic pigment that loses its color when it gets heated up. Remove the nozzle from your faucet, paint it red, and let it dry. Then mix the thermochromatic pigment with the clear nail polish, paint it over the red, and let it dry. The nozzle should now look blue in its neutral state. When you attach it back on your faucet and try to run some hot water, the nozzle will turn red when it finally heats up. Now you can do other things in the kitchen while you wait and know exactly when it’s ready. If you don’t have a nozzle on your faucet, you can do the same process by making a dot somewhere on your faucet instead.
Battery-less Temperature Indicator for the Faucet | YouTube
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Ummo for iPhone Analyzes Your Speech to Help Improve Your Public Speaking
iPhone: Public speaking is always a bit terrifying, but one of the best ways to get over that is to prepare as much as possible. Ummo is an app that helps you prepare by analyzing everything you say.
To start, just tap the mic in Ummo and then practice your presentation. Ummo then listens to you and will send a small audio alert when you use filler phrases like “uh, um, like, you know,” and others (you can turn off this alert if you find it annoying). When you’re done, Ummo dishes out a lot of different stats to help you analyze your speech, including your words per minute pace, the overall clarity, how many words you’re using, and where you’re pausing. You can create your own list of filler words too, which is helpful if you know that you have a particular phrase you use that’s not that common.
This isn’t going to help much with the anxiety of public speaking when you’re in the moment in front of a ton of people, but it can help you improve you pacing and make you aware of what your filler words are. They’re working on a web demo if you’re interested in testing it out, otherwise the iPhone app comes in at just $1.99.
Ummo ($1.99) | iTunes App Store
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Kids as young as 11 are targets of revenge porn
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Dating site that once faked being hacked is breached for real this time
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Facebook made to serve phishing forms to users
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Deadspin Reporter Who Asked Draymond Green That Odd Question About The Houston Floods Gets Fired | J
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7 million users affected by Minecraft community Lifeboat data breach
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Two Good Readings on the Encryption "Going Dark" Debate
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How one man became the perfect match for 30,000 women on OKCupid
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Info of Qatar National Bank customers, Al Jazeera staff, others, leaked online
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
DDoS aggression and the evolution of IoT risks
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Cybercriminals increasingly exploiting human nature
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How the biometrics market is entering the evolving IoT ecosystem
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Deadspin Man Discovers Hockey, Loves It | Jezebel ‘I Hope You Get Raped Again’: Women Sportswriters
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Make Sturdier Wood Joints by Using Hot Glue as a Clamp for Wood Glue
Wood glue is designed to hold strong and create long-lasting wood joints, but it takes awhile to dry. Hot glue, on the other hand, hardens almost instantly. The combination of the two makes for a perfect method of building sturdy wood joints.
In this video from the Woodomain YouTube channel, Jeremy Broun reveals some clever ways to use a hot glue gun in your workshop. In fact, you can use hot glue as decent method for clamping two wood joints together while wood glue dries. Add wood glue along the edge of the surface you want to join and leave a dry spot in the center. Dab some hot glue in the dry center, then attach the the two pieces of wood together. The hot glue in the middle will keep the wood clamped together while the wood glue dries to create a nice, sturdy joint.
What You Can Do With a Gluegun | YouTube via Make
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This Video Series Explains How to Use Drafts for Text Automation on iOS
We have long been fans of Drafts on iOS. It makes it possible to link together all kinds of text with different programs. Drafts is such a powerful program that it’s a little difficult to wrap your head around what you’d use it for. Thankfully, the developer’s teamed up with MacSparky’s David Sparks for a series of how-to videos.
Put simply, Drafts is a kind of launcher for text. You type whatever you want in Drafts, then you can instantly send it to other programs without launching them. This makes it easy to compose emails, send out tweets, or adds notes to a variety of apps without juggling between them. The first video in this series walks you through the basics of how you can use Drafts. The second video digs into adding text to Dropbox files. More videos will arrive on a weekly basis. If you’ve been intimidated by Drafts, this should make it a lot easier to wrap your mind around how to use it.
Getting to Know Drafts with David Sparks | YouTube
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Control a Kodi Media Center From an Amazon Echo
Kodi is a fantastic little media center. The Amazon Echo is a surprisingly excellent voice control device. Jam those two things together and you have a pretty great way to control your movies. How-To Geek shows you how to set it up.
The set up process here is pretty complex, requiring you to turn Kodi into a web server, create your own app with Heroku, then dig into Amazon’s Alexa voice server menus. The end result of your hard work is a means to control your Kodi media center with your voice from your Amazon Echo, which is a pretty worthwhile little addition. Head over to How-To Geek for the full guide.
How to Control Your Kodi Media Center with an Amazon Echo | How-To Geek
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Alarm Systems Design
With more alarm companies offering Do-It-Yourself (DIY) alarm system options, a topic in need of attention is designing the level of protection that is right for your home. The best DIY alarm companies work closely with you, and make recommendations based on the layout of your home and the way you will be using your...
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People Trust Robots, Even When They Don't Inspire Trust
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Spotify denies hack; users subjected to weird music beg to differ
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Why cybercriminals attack healthcare more than any other industry
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Review: The Car Hacker’s Handbook
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Deadspin Brandon Phillips Got Hit By Three Baseballs In One At-Bat | Jezebel A Timeline of the Never
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Facebook vulnerability allowed access to personal and payment information
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Presidential primary election apps may expose sensitive data
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Police seize network behind encrypted BlackBerry PGP devices
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Shopware update fixes RCE bug that affects both shop and target system
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The economics of hacking: Change your thinking
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Monday, April 25, 2016
Who’s next? Shift focus and detect network attackers
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Worldwide IoT security spending on the rise
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Ransomware in your inbox: the rise of malicious JavaScript attachments
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Fittish Kid Pretends To High-Five Marathoners, But They Are All Too Slow | The Muse Lemonade Is Beyo
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Microsoft's Word Flow Keyboard Brings Easier One-Handed Texting to iOS
Microsoft released its popular Windows Phone keyboard, Word Flow, for the iPhone today, which lets you easily type texts with one hand and swipe to spell out words.
Word Flow’s “Arc mode” moves the keyboard to the corner of the screen so you can easily reach all of the keyboards buttons with just your thumb (you can see it in action in the video above). You can tap or swipe to spell things out, and Word Flow will predict what you’re trying to type and auto-correct mistakes. The more you use the keyboard, the more it learns and gets better at predicting text over time. It also looks at your phone contacts so it can try to predict names even faster. You can also customize the keyboard background with an image of your choice or one of the images that comes with the keyboard. You can download the keyboard for free at the link below.
Word Flow Keyboard | iOS App Store via The Verge
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Clean and Extend the Life of Sandpaper With an Old Tennis Shoe
The sandpaper on belt sanders, orbital sanders, and other powered sanders can get gunked up with sawdust and become less effective unless you clean it. If you have an old tennis shoe around, you can refresh your sandpaper in a jiff.
In this video, from YouTuber izzy swan, you’ll learn a simple trick for cleaning sandpaper of all types. Normally, to clean sandpaper you would use a sanding belt cleaner or “sandpaper saver.” Cleaning the sandpaper on your sanders increases its abrasive life, improves its finish quality, and reduces the likelihood of your sandpaper causing any burns or markings on the things you sand. If you don’t have a sandpaper saver, however, or don’t feel like paying for one, you can just use the bottom of an old tennis shoe. Apply the shoe’s rubber sole to the sandpaper while the sand is running and it will clean out all the gunk to make it almost brand new again.
How to clean sandpaper using an old shoe! | YouTube
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Man arrested after tweeting bomb threat to Donald Trump
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Exploit kit targets Android devices, delivers ransomware
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Bangladesh Bank hackers compromised SWIFT software with bespoke malware
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Open365 Is An Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Office 365
Windows/Mac/Linux/Android: One of Microsoft’s Office 365 program chief advantages over open source alternatives is the ability to sync documents via the cloud so you can edit them everywhere. Open365 has stepped up to finally match this feature set.
Open365 works a lot like Office 365 does. The suite builds on LibreOffice Online to let you open your documents in the browser, or use any of the client apps for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android to open them. Open365 also gives you 20GB of cloud-based storage to store your files on that will be synced across your devices.
Currently, the service is in beta, however the developers also plan to release tools to allow you to host your own servers. This helps it stand out from services like Office 365 and Google Docs by giving you a comparable feature set without sacrificing control of your data.
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Deadspin Johnny Manziel Indicted | Jezebel Is Fashion Designer Rachel Roy ‘Becky With the Good Hair’
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Make Three Full Meals from One Roast Chicken
We’re no strangers to cooking one chicken and eating it over multiple meals, but this video from our friends at Epicurious takes things up a notch. You’ll see how to make three meals: a chicken salad sandwich, a roast chicken dinner, and a seriously upgraded chicken soup.
The first is the first in Epicurious’ Mega Bites series, which is—if you can’t tell—video game themed. Whether you love that or hate it (and we love it) the recipes and instructions are still good, and you can do everything here without using a real recipe. Eyeballing is enough, as long as you taste as you go. The chicken salad sandwich is easy enough, and uses some of the chicken breast from your roast chicken (or rotisserie chicken, if you want to grab one from the grocery store—that’ll make all three meals even cheaper, frankly), and the roast chicken dinner uses the legs as the primary protein on the plate.
The chicken soup is amazing though, and definitely not something you’ll probably just be able to whip together unless you have stock, jalapenos, squash, cabbage, bok choy, and lime lying around your kitchen. You can sub in for some other crunchy greens you might actually have though, and the best part of the recipe is that it actually uses that chicken carcass to extract as much flavor into your stock (and soon to be chicken soup base) as possible, a sentiment I can completely get behind.
How to Turn 1 Rotisserie Chicken into 3 Dinners | Epicurious (YouTube)
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Info on 93 million Mexican voters found on an Amazon cloud server
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Opera adds a (sort of) VPN to its browser
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Critical flaws in HP Data Protector open servers to remote attacks
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Sunday, April 24, 2016
Most organizations still lack visibility into database assets
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Saturday, April 23, 2016
Build a Twitter-Based Home Automation System with a Raspberry Pi
There are all sorts of variations on Raspberry Pi-powered home automation systems, but ARM Tutorials shows off a pretty simple project that uses Twitter as the backbone.
The Pi is hard wired into a home automation board that controls a fan, light, AC, and the temperature. It’s then controlled over Twitter direct messages so it’s super easy to check the status or flip the toggle on any of the connected devices. The Twitter link is a pretty handy way to get around some of the programming requirements that would otherwise be required here, so it’s worth taking a look at how it’s done here if you’re making your own home automation controller. Head over to ARM Tutorials for the guide.
Pi Buddy - Twitter based automation | ARM Tutorials
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Friday, April 22, 2016
The Benefits of Scaring Yourself for Fun
Whether it’s a roller coaster, haunted house, or horror movie, people love to scare themselves for entertainment. It might seem odd, but it turns out making yourself feel fear actually comes with some decent perks.
In this video from the TED-Ed YouTube channel, Margee Kerr, a sociologist who studies fear, explains what happens to your brain when you scare yourself for fun. Fear, as it turns out, is actually pretty good for you when you can control the dose. Here’s a few reasons why:
- Fear feels pretty good: Your brain’s fight or flight response system puts you in an energized, pain-free state of total mental presence. Because you know you’re not in danger, you can enjoy the “high” of being scared. It’s similar to being really happy, excited, or even sexually aroused.
- Fear can boost your self-esteem: Getting through something you think is scary does the same thing to your brain as when you finish any other type of challenge, like running a race or finishing a long book. You did it, you survived, and you feel accomplished.
- Fear brings people together: We make sense of what other people are experiencing in high emotional states by recreating the experience ourselves. If you’re friend is scared and screaming, you’ll want to match their mental state and scream too, and that can create bonding experiences.
So there you have it. Not only is being scared in a controlled environment a lot of fun, it’s actually good for you and your relationships.
Why is being scared so fun? | YouTube
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The Best Way To Quickly Cover a Shop Table
Depending on the type of project you’re working on, the easiest way to prepare for a quick cleanup in a workshop is by covering your work table with a giant sheet of paper. Over on Tested they walk you through a variety of tips for doing so.
First up, don’t overcomplicate this. Find a thick roll of paper as wide as your table, grab some masking tape, then tape the corners down. Once the corners are down, tape the rest in a straight line. If you’re working with anything that might soak through the paper, place a garbage bag over the table first, then cover it with paper. It’s one of those stupid simple solutions that’s easy to forget about if you’re not in the shop too often.
Shop Tips: Covering Your Work Tables | YouTube
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Curt Schilling fired by ESPN over offensive Facebook post
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A password for your eyewear computer: The sound of your skull
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Thursday, April 21, 2016
TeslaCrypt: New versions and delivery methods no decryption tool
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The Perks of Lifting With Free Weights Instead of Machines
You walk into the gym for a weight lifting session and you’re immediately given a choice: do you grab the free weights or hop on one of the machines? Here’s an explanation for when you should use both.
This video from the PictureFit YouTube channel explains the major differences between pumping up with free weights and machines. Most of the time, free weights (barbells, dumbbells, kettlebells, etc.) are going to be your best option for a few reasons:
- The instability of free weights helps build stabilizing muscles. This improves your balance, athleticism, and coordination. Machines remove the instability from the equation.
- Free weights let you move the bars in a natural bar path, or in a way that comes natural to you. This lets your lifting replicate real-life movements. Machines can restrict this type of motion.
- You can do just about any type of lift with free weights. Not so with machines designed to do a few particular lifts.
Still, there are plenty of scenarios where lifting machines are a much better option:
- The stability of lifting machines makes them a great option for those going through rehab after an injury.
- Lifting machines have a much lower learning curve, making them perfect for lifting beginners and the elderly.
- You can isolate specific muscle groups a lot easier with a machine.
Overall, free weights are better for building general strength and working the muscles you use naturally. If you can manage it, learn how to properly lift with free weights. That said, lifting machines aren’t useless. If you’re working your way up to free weights, or need the extra stability, machines are the better choice.
Free Weights vs. Machines | YouTube
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Teamviewer for Android Adds Wake-on-LAN SD Card Support and More
Teamviewer’s Android Remote Contol app now lets you wake up a sleeping computer, an important feature for connecting to a remote PC.
The computer will need to support and have Wake-on-LAN enabled, of course, but otherwise, this is a welcome feature to the remote control app. Other updates include remote control in full screen (no navigation bar in the view), SD cards support, speedier mouse navigation, and connections not requiring a password. Update the app or download it from the Play store to start waking computers from afar with your phone or tablet.
TeamView for Remote Control | Google Play
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Opera Introduces a Free VPN Built Right Into Its Web Browser
Windows/Mac/Linux: Opera users just got a free, unlimited VPN you can use to encrypt your data or get around location-based restrictions on content. It’s currently in the dev version of Opera, but turning it on is as easy as flipping a switch.
The latest versions of Opera are built on Chromium, so you can expect a similar browsing experience, but today’s big change is the introduction of that free VPN service. Once you’ve updated, all you need to do to enable it is toggle it in the toolbar. Once enabled, you can set your location to exit servers in the United States, Germany, or Canada, and use it as much as you like. More specifically, from Opera’s blog:
To activate it, Mac users just need to click the Opera menu, select “Preferences” and toggle the feature VPN on, while Windows and Linux users need to go to the “Privacy and Security” section in “Settings” and enable VPN there. A button will appear in the browser address field, from which the user can see and change location (more locations will appear later), check whether their IP is exposed and review statistics for their data used.
Once enabled, all of your browsing data (and without getting into the distinction between a true VPN and a proxy—or the web browser tools call themselveds VPNs) is encrypted and sent through Opera’s VPN concentrators. This gives you most of the benefits of a good VPN.
Of course, Opera’s VPN dservice only encrypts and protects traffic inside the browser. That means you don’t get encrypted data in all of your apps, across your entire system. You also don’t get the sheer number of exit servers and protocols that most other VPN providers offer you (Opera currently offers three, and hopefully there’ll be more soon.) Similarly, we also don’t know Opera’s stance on data privacy and logging, which are important to be transparant about if you want to be a trustworthy VPN provider.
Opera’s new VPN is great for people who want to make sure their data is private on coffee shop, hotel, airport, or library Wi-Fi, who just don’t like the idea of sidejacking attacks stealing their credentials, or who want to stream a movie, YouTube video, or audio track that’s not available in their country. It’s more of a replacement for browser-based tools than a fully featured, system-wide VPN, and certainly no match for some of the best full-service VPNs you can choose from. Even so, it’s a step in the right direction, and we can’t argue with free and unlimited use.
If you’d like to give it a try, you’ll need the dev version of Opera to do so, which you can grab here. If you’d like to read more about it (and Opera’s recently introduced ad-blocker), hit the link below.
Free VPN Integrated in Opera for Better Online Privacy | Opera Blog via The Verge
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Shop at Thrift Stores Near Design Schools for Barely-Used Unique Finds
Thrift stores are great, but if you want to find unique items, shop at stores that are near design, fashion, and art schools. The students there are likely to sell or donate their hardly-used wares at those stores closest to class.
If you live in a major city, there are probably a good number of design or art schools nearby. Search online using terms like “design school”, “fashion institute”, and “art academy” to find specific schools and then look for stores in the same area.
Of course, people tend to sell clothes after the season is over, so you may not find spring clothing in the spring, or winter clothing when it’s getting cold, but you will still have better selection at good prices for next year when the weather changes.
Thrifting Tips for Accessories with Kaileemckenzie | Refinery20 (YouTube)
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