If you want to add books you don’t purchase from Apple into your iBooks library, you have two main methods: sync with iTunes or sync with the iBooks app in Mavericks. They’re both not the most intuitive things in the world though, so if you’re sick of bothering with them, Cult of Mac points out that sending an email with an Epub attachment does the job. Read more…
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Skip iTunes and Add Your Own Books to iBooks with an Email
From the audience, this instrument looks like a typical grand piano. Then the maestro takes his seat and begins to play. It’s a sound nobody has heard before, because this instrument, designed by Leonardo Da Vinci five centuries ago, has just been built for the very first time. And it sounds heavenly. Read more…
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Listen to Da Vinci’s Genius Piano-Cello Played for the Very First Time
Home security and automation are rarely mentioned in the same sentence as the word cheap, but it’s totally possible if you’re willing to do a few things yourself. We checked out a $200 DIY kit called Ninja Blocks , and were able to get a home automation and security system up and running in about 10 minutes. Read more…
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Make Your Own Cheap Home Automation in 10 Minutes with Ninja Blocks
Now that tattoos are mainstream and piercings passé, America’s youth have taken to some extreme measures to make a statement. And for Lucy Luckayanko of New York City, that statement comes in the form of a permanent, platinum twinkle implanted smack-dab onto her eyeball. Read more…
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Woman Has Heart-Shaped Twinkle Surgically Implanted on Her Eyeball
Have you used Paper by 53 Design? It’s that iPad drawing app that is so decked out in pretty, design-y, feel-good-ness that it makes all who use it feel like Matisse. Well, now its creators have put out an equally gorgeous stylus. Read more…
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The Prettiest iPad Drawing App Now Has the Prettiest Stylus Companion
In perhaps the most counter-intuitive scientific finding of recent time, researchers have discovered a volcano lurking beneath Antarctica . [ Nature Geoscience ] Read more…
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In perhaps the most counter-intuitive scientific finding of recent time, researchers have discovered
The CIA is quietly trying to stop Russia building a series of monitoring stations—devices that form part of Moscow’s version of the Global Positioning System—on US soil. Read more…
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The CIA Is Trying to Stop Russia Building Monitoring Stations in the US
This is a great idea: buy a landscape at a thrift shop and add in a monster. Make sure you use the same kind of materials as the original landscape! Read more…
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Spice up Goodwill paintings by adding monsters
People have been working on video and explorable environments for the Oculus Rift, but Condition One , the immersive videography group, is upping the ante with a complete 20-30 minute movie all in 3D. Read more…
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Zero Point Is the First 3D, 360 Degree Movie for the Oculus Rift
thomst writes “The Washington Post’s Jerry Markon and Alice Crites report that ‘The lead contractor on the dysfunctional Web site for the Affordable Care Act is filled with executives from a company that mishandled at least 20 other government IT projects, including a flawed effort to automate retirement benefits for millions of federal workers, documents and interviews show. CGI Federal, the main Web site developer, entered the U.S. government market a decade ago when its parent company purchased American Management Systems, a Fairfax County contractor that was coming off a series of troubled projects. CGI moved into AMS’s custom-made building off Interstate 66, changed the sign outside and kept the core of employees, who now populate the upper ranks of CGI Federal.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Lead Contractor On Health-Care Web Site Led By Execs From Troubled IT Company