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Google lets you rebuild Australia with Legos
Google’s big developer conference starts today, and as a part of it, they’ve announced a new toy you can play with in Chrome.
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The Rechner Calculator makes math beautiful for a buck
Every smartphone, no matter what the company, has a calculator on it. It’s a simple thing for even the worst smartphone to do. But is that all you want your calculator to do?
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OnTheBus: GPS for public transit
If you’ve ever been stuck in a city where you can’t rent a car, you’ve probably learned to hate their bus system. Fortunately, as with all things, there’s an app in development that allows you to navigate public transit without killing anybody.
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7 ways the Internet can get you fired
The Internet is a wonderful thing in many ways. It’s also a terrible, horrible thing in many other ways, not least the fact that it eradicates your privacy and ability to juggle your job and your personal life.
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MightyText ensures you never miss a text message
iMessage is incredibly useful…you know, provided you have an iPhone. If you don’t, you were up the creek. Until now.
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Cloth app uses weather data to tell you what to wear
You’ve never heard of Cloth; it’s an app for sorting your clothes and posting pictures of your outfit to Facebook. But it’s about to become incredibly useful for people other than your girlfriend; today the app will start incorporating weather data.
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Gogo signs deal to make in-flight WiFi more common
Really, there's no justification, at this point in human history, for the tubes of metal that we cram into to get around to not have WiFi access. If Greyhound can put a router in the back of every bus, the airlines can do the same thing with their planes.
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Songkick: Never forget a concert again
There’s nothing more frustrating than hearing about a concert you really wanted to go to…after it played. Fortunately, Songkick will ensure you never miss a band you want to see again, and does it really inobtrusively, to boot.
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Facebook wants your phone number: Don’t give it to them
Facebook will, in the next few days, be asking for your phone number to improve their security. This is what security professionals call, in their jargon, “a fat load of crap.”
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Remember Ping? In iTunes? It’s dead now
Just as important as the huzzahs heralding new toys are the quiet funerals for useless crap no one wanted. So it is with Apple, and with Ping.
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Mobile app Roqbot is the jukebox reborn
This morning Oakland based startup Roqbot announced their initial round of funding from Google Ventures to the tune of $1.2 Million, and in the process resurrected the jukebox as we know it.