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How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything - Alexis C. Madrigal
An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world's best accurate maps. Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep map contains the logic of places: their no-left-turns and freeway on-ramps, speed limits and traffic conditions.
Dear Lifehacker, I just got a new smartphone and don't need my old one. It isn't worth much money, so I'd like to put it to good use. I'm just not sure what I can do with it.
What Can I Do With an Old Smartphone (Besides Sell It)?
Downwind Faster Than The Wind Cart
This instructable will take you through the construction of a working model of the wind powered cart that answers the question that sparked so much controversy across dozens of internet forums. It resulted in tens of thousands of posts of heated debates, on-line and print articles in Make, Popular Science, Wired, Der Spiegel, and many other magazines and blogs around the world, and has appeared on the Discovery Channel's "The Daily Planet". My buddy and I built a full-sized manned version of the vehicle (see the video of the "Blackbird" above) and established a world record for direct downwind speed of a wind powered vehicle.
If you’re a blogger, the chances are that you use WordPress, a powerful solution that is the engine behind many popular websites.
A Step-by-Step MySQL Tutorial For Self-Hosted Wordpress Bloggers
As a part of Google's quest to be the undisputed overlords of the Internet, they've made a lot of quality services available for free. Gmail, Google maps and Google Docs are all famous examples, but one of the search giant's coolest free offerings, Sketchup , flies under a lot of peoples' radars. Sketchup is a free 3D modelling tool developed based on the philosophy that by giving people a small set of powerful, intuitive tools, you can lower the barrier of entry to 3D modelling, so that almost anyone can make quality 3D models with just a couple of sessions of practice.
7 Surprising Kick-Ass Things You Can Do with Google Sketchup
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364 pages | PDF | 13,12 MB Are you looking at new ways to write better, more efficient tests? Are you struggling to add automated testing to your existing system? The Python unit testing framework, or...
I had previously produced a guide to build a handset to connect to the phone via cable, but then I withdrew after discovering that they had several different connections from other terminals. With this model eliminates these problems.
How to make a bluetooth handset.
4 Sites To Find Interesting New Startups & Betas To Join
Through the caverns of the Internet, I’ve managed to get put on rather quickly to some of today’s hottest Internet startups such as ifttt , Instagram , and turntable.fm . Startups and betas are as popular as they’ve ever been, and I can promise you that every single day a brand new startup is launched that will garner attention and is probably worth joining. Until recently, it’s been pretty tough finding these little guys in the wide space of the Internet.
I have spent endless hours searching for the best and most reasonably priced components from around the world. I ordered many different components to test out and compare, most of them were rubbish and were not used in project. Here is the list of the best stuff I found.
A Framework For Making Affordable & Stylish Modular Controllers
If you're upgrading to a faster, stronger wireless router, don't chuck your older Wi-Fi box. With the magic of DD-WRT , you can turn your older wireless router into a range-expanding Wi-Fi repeater to cover everywhere you need a connection.
Turn Your Old Router into a Range-Boosting Wi-Fi Repeater
How To Turn An Old Router Into A Wireless Bridge
You may some day encounter a situation in which you will require a wireless internet connection for a desktop computer.1 x 100nF Capacitor (C5) 1x 10nF Capacitor (C6) 1x 10k Pot(PCB mount) (VR2)
StyloBuzz - Synthesizer
We have featured quite lot of online and offline ways to brainstorm and mindmap . But when you want to jot down your ideas quickly then there’s nothing quite like a simple piece of paper and pen…or its digital equivalent – a document processor.