Mac: When Mountain Lion was released last summer it dropped support for older generation Macs from 2006-2008. There were workaround to get it to work, but they were far from user-friendly. MLPostFactor is a utility that makes the process of getting Mountain Lion installed on an older Mac a bit simpler. More »
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MLPostFactor Installs Mountain Lion on Older Macs
Facebook’s News Feed is a great way to get just the highlights from your social networks, but it never shows you everything—just the stuff it thinks is important. If you want to avoid that and see everything your friends post, you can enable a comprehensive, chronological view with the new News Feed design. More »
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How to Bring Back Facebook’s “Most Recent” View in the New News Feed
CloudKafé is a free, attractive webapp that helps you search through all the documents, photos, and videos you have scattered across the web. More »
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CloudKafé Indexes All of your Content in the Cloud
One glaring omission from Google+ was the lack of third-party app support, preventing you from sharing activity from certain apps and more. Today Google released sign-in for Google+ so developers can offer greater options. More »
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Google+ Adds Sign-In, Allowing Third-Party Apps to Integrate with Your Account
This week marks the rollout of the long delayed “Copyright Alert System” aka the six strike anti-piracy program. It’s a bit confusing at a glance, but it’s not nearly as powerful as you’d think. Here’s how the system works, how it’ll affect you, and everything else you need to know. More »
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The Copyright Alert System: How the New “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Program Works
ananyo writes “Transistors, the simple switches at the heart of all modern electronics, generally use a tiny voltage to toggle between ‘on’ and ‘off.’ The voltage approach is highly reliable and easy to miniaturize, but has its disadvantages. First, keeping the voltage on requires power, which drives up the energy consumption of the microchip. Second, transistors must be hard-wired into the chips and can’t be reconfigured, which means computers need dedicated circuitry for all their functions. Now, researchers have made a type of transistor that can be switched with magnetism. The device could cut the power consumption of computers, cell phones and other electronics — and allow chips themselves to be ‘reprogrammed” (abstract).” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Magnetic Transistor Could Cut Power Consumption and Make Chips Reprogrammable
We’re all so use to having our smartphones close at hand that we can occasionally tune out and miss a call or notification that’s right in front of our faces. So what’s the solution? Obviously an iPhone 5 case with a blinding 8×16 LED grid on the back that mirrors and emphasizes on-screen notifications. More »
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Endliss iPhone Case Adds an LED Disco Floor For Impossible To Miss Notifications
The essential vitamins your body needs can all be found in readily-available foods. This handy chart shows you which foods are rich in each vitamin, so you can plan your meals accordingly. More »
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Make Sure You’re Getting All Your Essential Vitamins from Food with This Reference Guide
If you work with electronic components on a daily basis, help run a makerspace and need to keep basic parts on hand, or just do a lot of hobby electronics projects consider using EMSecrets to get the best price on basic components like capacitors, resistors, and microcontrollers. More »
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EMSecrets Helps You Find the Best Price on Electronics Components
Google has added a new feature to Drive: You can now serve up web content from within your Google Drive folder, even ones that run JavaScript. All you need to do is upload your HTML files and assets (e.g., images) and make them public. More »
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