Netflix has experimented with its interface a lot over the years, but there’s always been a bit of a disconnect between how the service looks in your browser and your various apps. Now, the company is updating its web site with a huge UI change to make it more app-like. Read more…
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Netflix is Getting Its First Big Web Interface Update in Four Years
iPhone users will be able to block ads in Safair running on iOS 9 . Read more…
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iPhone users will be able to block ads in Safair running on iOS 9.
The Guinness World Records says that Catalina Alexandru Duru just pulled off the farthest flight ever traveled on a real life hoverboard: 905 feet and 2 inches. You can see him rise up 16 feet in the air on the hoverboard and then start cruising through the air over a lake with nothing but invisible underneath him in the video below. Read more…
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Watch the furthest flight ever flown on a real life hoverboard
Android: Adblock Plus is a great browser extension, and the company has tons of useful other services . Today, it gets one more. The company has announced a new, standalone browser—based on Firefox—that has ad blocking built in. Read more…
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Adblock Plus Releases Standalone Browser That Blocks All Ads
Windows: Last year, Microsoft announced an app that would allow you to have real-time conversations with people who spoke different languages, built on Skype. While the service was only available to a small group of testers, it’s now open to everyone. Read more…
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Skype Translator Preview is Now Available to Everyone
The interactive Homicide Monitor allows you to click on a country and see its murder count in a specific recent year, and the rate the number represents per 100, 000 people. For some countries, you can also see the weapon most commonly used. (No surprise, the good ol’ USA has some of the more terrifying stats.) Read more…
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An Interactive Map Of Murder Rates Around The World
Windows/Mac/iOS/Android: Flickr has rolled out a ton of updates and new photo tools to make organizing and accessing your entire photo collection much easier. Flickr Uploadr sends selected folders to Flickr from your desktop, and Flickr Camera Roll lets you mass edit photos in your collection. Read more…
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Flickr’s New Tools Automatically Upload and Organize All Your Photos
iOS/Mac: In an odd move, the original version of the non-jailbreak version of Popcorn Time required a Windows computer to install it. Thankfully, Mac users can get in on the fun now with a new Mac installer. Read more…
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You Can Now Install Popcorn Time for iOS from Your Mac
Today at Microsoft Ignite, the company released a preview of Office 2016. The preview is free for Office 365 users, and a trial is available to everyone else. The new suite can edit or attach files directly from OneDrive. You can also try out collaborative editing in Word 2016, allowing you to edit documents others are working in simultaneously using every version of the application, including Word on the desktop. Read more here or get started downloading the preview here . Read more…
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Microsoft Office 2016 Preview is Now Available for Download
When you’re building your own custom electronics projects, a simple power switch isn’t always easy to find. If you have some DIY projects that use 9V batteries , this super small power switch is fairly easy to build and is mostly made from an old 9V battery. Read more…
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Make a Tiny 9V Battery Power Switch From Parts of an Old 9V Battery