December 2011
Arsenic in Apple Juice: A New Report Suggests...
Common brands of apple juice and grape juice, which American children swig by the gallons, may have levels of arsenic that are high enough to increase the risk of chronic illnesses like cancer, diabetes and heart disease over time, according to a new Consumer Reports (CR) investigation.
In the test of 88 samples of 28 brands of apple juice and grape ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
November 2011
Hiding behind a photoshopped image, not for long
‘Shoppin as they call it, or Photoshopping is all the rage these days. Manipulating images has become so easy with so many different free and paid programs. People have become so skilled at using Photoshop to alter images, it’s almost impossible to tell explicitly if an image has been altered or not. For example, look at how skilled this person ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
Enjoy a little bit more of your day with the...
I just added this to my Christmas list. This is the cutest mobile phone accessory I have seen. The Little Printer is a fun way to print out the small things in life that you might come across daily to give you a paper reminder, something to read or catch up on news and friends.
You can subscribe to your favorite feeds be it a daily puzzle, Foursquar ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
Take Google Maps inside IKEA
More info: http://maps.google.com/starthereFind your way around IKEA using Google Maps on your Android phone. The Google Maps indoor display details the store’s layout, from one floor to the next. Figure out how to get from home furnishings to Swedish meatballs, right from the palm of your hand. To learn more, Start here.http://maps.google.com/start ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
Facebook gets a slap on the wrist from the FTC for...
For the past two years, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has scrutinized and investigated Facebook over their privacy issues that have been voiced by millions of users for various reasons, which originally drew the attention of the FTC.
In a settlement today between Facebook and the FTC, Mark Zuckerberg agrees that Facebook must commit to user pri ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
A look at Apple’s website, from past to present
In modern design, less often times is more. Minimalism is finally making it’s mark and showing that simple and smart design will get you better results rather than being bombarded with clutter. Sean Nelson takes us back 15 years through all the versions of Apple’s website, since Apple is one of the leader’s in design and looked to by many for ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
The Best Time I Rapped on the Internet and...
This October, a social media contractor at my advertising agency was charged with making a viral video to acquire more Twitter followers for one of our clients. (For the record, that is the most 21st-century sentence I have ever written.) She decided to go the parody route and wrote a rap about the newly released Windows Phone, but was too shy to ac ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
How to add shortcuts to your most used iPhone...
Sometimes getting to certain iPhone settings buried deep into your phone when you use them often is a pain in the ass. Luckily for us, Jeff Broderick did something about it.
He created iPhone Shortcut Settings where you can add shortcuts to your most frequently used iPhone settings directly to your home screen.
For settings you use often, this can b ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
Time Lapse: Post-Apocalyptic illustration for...
Dei Gaztelumendi was commissioned to create the cover for Xabiroi Comic Book Magazine. During the process, he created a time lapse video. The details in his illustration are just remarkable. Dei had full creativity rights on what to make the cover about. So he did a spin on his Post-Apocalyptic Kids series. The end result is awesome. dwayneartz like ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
Ride the Lightning with the world's largest tesla...
There are many reasons that adults give to their children to comfort them during a thunderstorm as to what causes the flashes of bright lightning and the deep bass like booms of the thunder they are experiencing. Everything from Zeus hurling his legendary thunderbolts to heavenly beings playing a rather raucous game of bowling.
The truth of the matt ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
iPhone goes up in smoke on plane
Sometimes planes unaccountably drop out of the sky. And sometimes, when a plane comes in for a safe landing, an
iPhone might just begin to turn a strange hue of red and release dense smoke.
This, according to Australian airline Regional Express, is precisely what happened Friday on a flight between Lismore and Sydney.
The airline said that the plane ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
Rovio Said To Have Turned Down $2.25 Billion...
Greg Kumparak is the Mobile Editor at Techcrunch. Greg has been writing for the TechCrunch network since May of 2008. Greg was born just outside of San Jose, and now lives in the East Bay of California. → Learn More Ready for this week’s tale of someone turning down an absurd mountain of money in exchange for their company?
According to a report ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
Yves “Jetman” Rossy is a real life Rocketeer
If you grew up in the 80’s and 90’s, you may remember The Rocketeer. The superhero Rocketeer man was a stunt pilot that flew fast and high in the sky with his jet pack, something only thought of in sci-fi movies back then. Rocketeer man was later made into a movie, The Rocketeer in 1991.
Now many years later, a real life rocketeer is flying the ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
3D sneaker sculpture will have you wondering if...
This tall 3D sculpture of Nike, Adidas and New Balance shoes located in front of a city building will have any shoe fan excited to go see it in person. The sculpture looks amazing and pays homage to sneaker collectors all over the world. The only problem - it’s just a graphic design crafted by Chris Labrooy who is a graphic artist. The design is s ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
Google explains the evolution of search and gives...
Google’s main goal for search is to get end user’s to the answer their looking for as quickly and seamlessly as possible. In the evolution of Google Search, this hasn’t always been the case especially the early infancy of Google.
Google posted a timeline which highlights the universal search changes they have made over the past 14 years (1997- ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
Britney Spears knocks Larry Page off top of...
Google CEO, Larry Page might—at this very moment—be lying down, looking up, and whispering “Hit Me Baby One More Time.” This is not an excessively wishful and twisted thought on my part. Instead, it is an expression of how pleasing it must be for Google’s hierarchy to finally have some legitimacy for its social network, Google+.
For someone at PC ..read more.. ...
Fliers Still Must Turn Off Devices, but It's Not...
Millions of Americans who got on a plane over the Thanksgiving holiday heard the admonition: “Please power down your electronic devices for takeoff.”And absolutely everyone obeyed. I know they did because no planes fell from the sky. No planes had to make an emergency landing because the avionics went haywire. No planes headed for Miamiended up ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
Steve Jobs and NeXT: Rare PBS Documentary circa...
24 NOVEMBER, 2011by A startup sentiment sandwich from the master chef, or why “reality distortion” helps sales but hurts design.
In 1985, shortly after being fired from Apple, Steve Jobs founded NeXT, the somewhat short-lived but revolutionary company focused on higher education and business service. It was there that Jobs honed his visionary ap ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
Gulf Bloggers Sentenced to Prison
Today, the Federal Supreme Court of the United Arab Emirates, acting as the “State Security Court,” sentenced five bloggers to prison time. Pioneering Emirati blogger Ahmed Mansour received the harshest sentence, three years. The other four received sentences of two years each. Mansoor was charged in April with a very popular “crime” among the tyran ..read more.. Smartr...
Tackled Cowboys cheerleader forced off Twitter
Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Melissa Kellerman is reported to have had her Twitter account deleted in the aftermath of being accidentally tackled during a Thanksgiving NFL game.
(Credit:
Dallas Cowboys) It appears that the Dallas Cowboys don’t want their famous cheerleaders generating their own attention. And doing so can get them kicked off Twitter. ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
My 10 years of blogging: Reflections, Lessons &...
Ten years is a long time. Sometimes it is so long that one forgets a lot more than one remembers — like the fact that it I have been blogging for a decade. I would have totally forgotten about the amount of time that has passed, had it not been for (what else) a blog post from Fred Wilson, one of the more engaging and rigorous bloggers on the web. ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
Martha Stewart's Pepper Sprays Her Turkey (VIDEO)
No one doubts that Martha Stewart can cook a turkey. She’s a go-to source for quality Thanksgiving recipes — it’s obvious that the Today Show would have her as a guest this time of year. But that doesn’t mean she can’t have a little fun as the Thanksgiving queen bee. In the clip below, Martha explains that her newest idea for cooking a turkey was i ..read more.. ...
Could a Mouthwash Do Away With Dental Visits?
One dental researcher thinks he’s found a way to permanently stave off the cavity-causing bacteria that lead to expensive and costly trips to the dentist. Wenyuan Shi of the University of California, Los Angeles, has led efforts to develop a mouthwash with technology that kills Streptococcus mutans, the bacteria responsible for cavities. First, Shi ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
Man Dies on Black Friday; Shoppers Unfazed
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) — A man collapsed while doing some Black Friday shopping in a crowded store, and people nearby continued to shop. Witnesses tell WSAZ.com some shoppers walked around and even over the man’s body. Family members tell WSAZ.com that Walter Vance, of Logan County, W.Va., passed away after being taken to the hospital. It h ..read more.. Smartr - your...
U.S. executes another round of Web site takedowns
As Cyber Monday draws near and debate continues about the Stop Online Piracy Act, the U.S. government has again seized a bevy of domain names it says belong to Web sites that deal in counterfeit goods. Blog TorrentFreak ran a list of more than 130 domains it said were seized by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security’s Immi ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
Hitler Reacts to Pepper Spray Meme
Hitler is furious when he finds out there’s a new meme in town. ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
China's 'great firewall' creator pelted with shoes
A growing number of China’s estimated 477 million internet users are frustrated by curbs on their online activities. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images Chinese police are seeking a man who said he threw eggs and shoes at the architect of China’s “great firewall”, the world’s most sophisticated and extensive online censorship system.The ..read more.. Smartr -...
For This Mini USB Camera, Size Doesn't Matter
When it comes to cameras, it’s not the size that counts, apparently. These Clap Mini USB Cameras shoot photos and video, and are so small that you might lose them. Until you see the price, then you might find a way to keep tabs on one.
They come in three different colors; red, blue, and black, and have a price tag of $64.00. They’re pretty ‘Ja ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
How Free Software Revealed a Self-Portrait of...
In 2009, an Italian science journalist noticed what looked like a nose in Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex on the Flight of Birds. Further study revealed an image of a man beneath the text, later concluded to be a self-portrait of Leonardo himself. Today, Amelia Carolina Sparavigna re-examines the issue using only free software available online. She firs ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
First Person: Michael Holmes - FT.com
I shouldn’t be alive today, I know that. I jumped out of a plane without a working parachute. Just before I hit the ground I remember thinking that I was as good as dead. But I survived, and it hasn’t stopped me jumping again.
I was into adrenaline sports from an early age, growing up on Jersey in the Channel Islands. My father, a police surgeon ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
The madness that is Black Friday
Black Friday 2011 did not dissapoint. Just like every year, there are new tales of insanity and chaos at the Walmarts, Targets and Best Buys of the country. A new one this year would be someone taking a play out of UC Davis’ campus cop Lt. Jon Pike and pepper spraying a crowd of shoppers - I kid you not. On top of that you have additional voilence ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
Helicopter Crashes while setting up a Christmas...
A helicopter pilot involved in a dramatic crash on Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour this morning has told ONE News he “is doing fine”.Greg Gribble was using the helicopter to set up the Telecom Christmas Tree.The chopper had lifted a pylon into the air and was slowly descending when the crash happened.Gribble could be seen looking around the helicopter as ..read more.. Smartr - your...
外國人玩史上最難的山寨馬利歐 第二集 [完整翻譯] - YouTube
第一集: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbo3qa9qBMc第三集: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=debcU3CHd4I影片翻譯只作學習交流用途, 如有遺漏請多多包涵和指正 ^^ 影片來自Chonnygame 的Youtube channel:http://www.youtube.com/user/chonnygame版權屬原影片製作人Chonny擁有 ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
Occupy UC Davis Photos by the School Newspaper’s...
Jasna Hodzic, the photo editor of the student run newspaper at UC Davis, has been covering the Occupy UC Davis movement since its inception — before the pepper spraying incident became international news. Her photos are an interesting look at the movement even before the world’s eyes turned on it. Also, did you know that PetaPixel is based in Da ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
The Closed, Unfriendly World Of Wikipedia
Right now, Wikipedia is busy asking for donations to stay afloat. Here’s a thought. If it wants donations, maybe open things up so that outsiders feel like they can contribute expert knowledge without wasting their time.
Here’s a case in point. About two weeks ago, Jessie Stricchiola let me know that her Wikipedia page had been deleted. Apparent ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
3 Great iPad apps for Teachers and Students
Here are a few more apps you might want to give youself or students a chance to explore on as they offer some great learning opportunities.
Caster Free: This great free app lets you create, edit and publish podcasts in the simplest manner. Great app for students in the classroom.
Idea Sketch: Idea Sketch lets you easily draw a diagram - mind m ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
Rupert Murdoch Found Dead, According to Hacked...
The hacking group LulzSec appears to be back, with a very timely hack of Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid The Sun—the sister publication of the dead News of the World. And they warn, ominously, that they’ve got emails, too. The front page website of The Sun was briefly redirected to a hacked Times of London site (also owned by Murdoch’s News Inter ..read more.. Smartr - your...
How To: Photograph A Shattering Image
To try this yourself, get a box of ordinary lead pencils for practice. Breaking the points loudly and cleanly is easy—but all the sharpening gets old. Once you’ve got the hang of it, switch to pricier colored pencils, the more multi-hued the better. Shot with a Panasonic Lumix G1 with a 14-45mm zoom, plus macro lens. Photo: Mark Watson Photograp ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
How Link Placement Affects Clicks on Twitter
When it comes to crafting social status updates to ensure maximum exposure and click-throughs, many of the tried-and-true methods seem somewhat obvious. Posting at certain times of day, for example, can have a dramatic impact on performance. Makes perfect sense. Sometimes, effective optimization can come from places you didn’t expect, and the only w ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
Steve Jobs biopic offered to Social Network writer...
The book of Jobs … copies of Walter Isaacson’s Sony-optioned Steve Jobs biography, which Aaron Sorkin says he’s currently reading. Photograph: Jacek Bednarczyk/EPA Aaron Sorkin, who brought the story of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to the big screen in the Oscar-winning drama The Social Network, looks set to tackle another tech innovator with news t ..read more.. Smartr - your...
The Best Apps on the Planet for a Holiday Shopping...
I took a dive into the world of shopping apps to curate a list for you of what this experienced shopper (and self-professed Queen of Apps) thinks are the best out there.
I took into account the entire shopping experience, whether online or in the mall, in the neighborhood or on your phone, it’s all here.
This list is by no means exhaustive, as the ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
William Shatner has a special message for this...
William Shatner wants to share his story with you on this very special Thanksgiving holiday; to warn of the dangers of frying your turkey so that you in turn do not get fried. Thank you, Mr. Shatner! tradie-websites liked this thegirlwhothinktoomuch liked this jeannefrancoise reblogged this from bitshare dataanxiety said: Oh Dear Lord! I heard this ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
Forget Shopping, Friday Is Update Your Parents'...
Thanksgiving is coming up, that time when families gather together to share food, extend gratitude, and marvel at how Dad still uses Internet Explorer 6. No, seriously, Dad, how can you be using a browser developed during the Clinton administration? That was like 10 presidents ago.This year, though, do something different. Don’t just explain to Gran ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
Dear Steve Jobs: Apple Founder's Greatest Email...
A new ebook released on Tuesday takes an inside look at the email correspondence of Apple founder Steve Jobs. “Letters to Steve: Inside the Email Inbox of Apple’s Steve Jobs” ($2.99), by CNN technology writer Mark Milian, explores how the tech innovator fielded emails from fans — and how he handled the missing Apple iPhone 4 prototype dilemm ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
UC Davis English Department calls for chancellor’s...
Just hours after UC Davis placed its campus police chief on administrative leave for a pepper-spraying incident that happened at an Occupy protest last week, Occupy protesters set up a new encampment at the school and, on the school’s Web site, the English Department posted a message calling for Chancellor Linda Katehi’s immediate resignation. U ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
Apple announces Black Friday sale; Also, 6 best...
Black Friday — the Friday after Thanksgiving — is traditionally the biggest shopping day of the year, with retailers offering extrraordinary price reductions to help fuel holiday spending. Apple has posted a teaser on their website inviting shoppers to stop by for a one-day sale on Friday. The teaser reads: “Mark your calendar now, and come back ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
National Geographic’s 2011 Photo Contest
National Geographic is having their annual photo contest. Nat Geo sets the standard for photography as their photos have been used and revered world wide as the best of the best. Last year there were 16K contest entries submitted by photographers from 130 countries. The 2011 contest is underway and you have until November 30 to submit your entry. Un ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
The 2011 LA Auto Show concept design vehicles
It’s that time of year again where we get to see some radical new concept designs at the LA Auto Show exhibit. Last year’s concept vehicles didn’t disappoint and had some really nice designs like the Lotus Elise Concept. This year’s concept designs are different with my favorite maybe being the KIA GT, which I never thought I would ever say ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
According to Facebook, there is only four degrees...
You may have heard this before, that there is only six degrees of separation between you and anyone else in the world. Meaning, the separation between myself and some random person would be six people connections in between.
This philosophy comes from Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy back in 1929. The idea hit main stream media when the Six Degr ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
Siri Hacked to Control Home Thermostat
Following Applidium’s recent cracking of Siri’s security protocol, a developer called Plamoni has devised the first real-world hacks – a Siri plugin to control his thermostat! Siri Proxy is a proxy server for Apple’s Siri “assistant.” The idea is to allow for the creation of custom handlers for different actions. This can allow developer ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
