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May
30
2012

With the release of Ubuntu 12.04 and many changes to the look and feel of the Unity interface, Ubuntu Vancouver decided a new guide is in order.

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May
19
2012

When Tim Sweeney is out in the world discussing pedestrian things—the sweet tea at a particular barbecue restaurant, say, or the irony of having a hockey team in North Carolina, a place without much naturally occurring ice—part of him seems to be missing. It’s as if some roped-off area of his parietal lobe is back in the office, mulling over whatever conundrum is plaguing his graphics guys: how best to digitally re-create the diffusion of light through skin maybe, or how to show the world reflected in a character’s eye.

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May
8
2012

Since the Hangouts feature has been extremely popular among Google+ users, Google is taking the next step by offering the ability to live stream events.

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Apr
12
2012

There are endless ways to kill time on the Internet, but we can all agree that discovering new music is never a waste of a time. After all, it's music. It makes the bourgeoisie and the rebel... whatever that means. Here are the best ways to discover new music on the internet.

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Mar
28
2012

Armchair travellers can now journey by train through the Swiss Alps thanks to Google Street View.

The internet search giant's online service that lets users explore places around the world through 360-degree street-level imagery has captured vistas for the first time by train.

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Mar
7
2012

iOS has been crafted into the ultimate mobile work station, especially with the addition of the iWork mobile suite for the iPad. You can create and edit documents in Pages, make a slideshow for an important meeting in Keynote, and put together graphs and stats with Numbers. When you're finished, you can print everything out with AirPrint. Clearly, you don't need your Mac with you to get work done on the go.

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Mar
6
2012

Most of us think of the Finder as just another part of OS X; the window that pops up to help us find our files. But it's definitely got more use to it than just a file browser. Read on for a few tricks you can learn today to help you utilize Finder's hidden features.

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Mar
1
2012

A number of the survey respondents who are young people in the under-35 age group—the central focus of this research question—shared concerns about changes in human attention and depth of discourse among those who spend most or all of their waking hours under the influence of hyperconnectivity.

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Feb
24
2012

The Apple TV and iPad work beautifully together. While we all wish the Apple TV had more apps and features, pairing it with an iPad 2 makes the device infinitely more feature rich. By turning on AirPlay Mirroring, anything you can do with your iPad 2, you can do on your television. Here are 10 ways to put that perfect pairing to good use.

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Jan
5
2012

Edina Public Schools is rolling out Google Chrome as a browser option for our staff and students.  I have created a website that helps teachers learn about Chrome and the benefits of Apps and Extensions.

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Dec
23
2011

Remix streams of your favorite content from the Web, and view it any way you want: newsreader, slideshow, magazine, and more!

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Oct
24
2011

You may think that Twitter is just good for following celebrities and swapping tweets with friends. But the social network is capable of a lot more. Specialized services have tweaked it to turn ordinary Twitter accounts into robots that can carry out helpful tasks.

Twitter bots, as they're called, can help manage your calendar, tweet reminders, and even warn you--via a tweet--of an earthquake. Here's a look at some of the most interesting and useful Twitter bots.

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Sep
12
2011

Are you this addicted to your gadgets and the Internet?  Which part of the infographic do you identify the most with?  Are you guilty of having an affair with your phone?  Let us know in the comments. Oh and if you want a bigger version of the infographic, just click on the one below.

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Jun
19
2011

Life isn't a beauty pageant, but that doesn't mean your app collection shouldn't be spiffy looking. When an iPad app blows us away with its graphics or interface it quickly becomes one of our most used apps. After toiling in the App Store for days, we're proud to offer our roundup of 50 of the most beautiful apps available for the iPad. 

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May
31
2011

Not sure that I like this, as much as I like the types of technology.

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May
17
2011

Ever since the success of "Dragnet," other television shows throughout the decades have attempted to imitate it, dramatizing stories that are "ripped from the headlines." What makes fictionalizations of real stories so popular? Well, for one, many of the true stories are fascinating and hard to believe. They represent the limits of what human beings are capable of -- both for good and for evil -- even more that pure fiction can.

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Apr
13
2011

In a fast-changing world, where industries are being overturned, the only certainty is doing what you believe in.  You may not succeed–you could even fail miserably– but at least you would be able to look at yourself in the mirror and say, “Oh, what the heck, at least I tried.”

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