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We’ve collected the top four reviews, roundups and how-to articles from across the AppStorm network in February. Whether you’re interested in Mac , iPhone , Web , or Android apps, there’s bound to be something you didn’t spot over the course of the month. Now would be a good time to explore a part of the AppStorm Network you’ve never seen before! Thanks for reading AppStorm, and I hope you enjoy looking over some of our favourite posts from last month!
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Best Apps Of 2011: Vote For Your Favourite + A Huge Giveaway
iOS and Mac apps are the cornerstone of what we cover on MacStories, we love trying new apps, sharing news about them and then reviewing them for you all. The past 12 months have been a spectacular year for new apps and big app updates that have seen both the diversity and calibre of iOS and Mac apps increase significantly. It is with this in mind that we want to recognise the very best apps that were released or received major updates in 2011. The whole team at MacStories has worked together to come up with a short list of iPhone, iPad and Mac apps as well as a short list of games that we believe were the best to come out in 2011. Now we need your help to decide which of these apps are the best from each category.
This Is What the Desk of the Future Looks Like [VIDEO]
EXOpc has posted a video of its EXOdesk — an interactive desk environment that lets you do all sorts of tasks on a virtual space on your desk — in action and it looks amazing. The actual device is a tabletop computer, somewhat similar to Microsoft Surface, offering 40 inches of high definition space, where you can manipulate virtual objects by touching them and dragging them around. The video offers a taste of what you can do with EXOdesk: add a virtual keyboard, an RSS feed stream and apps to your tabletop surface.
So you've got an iPad 2, and now you need to fill it with lovely iPad apps. But with 65,000 apps available just for the iPad what are the best ones to get and are there any that take advantage of the new features of the iPad 2. We've scoured the massive collection of iPad apps available (mid March) on iTunes to see what's on offer and what you should download. We've tried, tested and reviewed all of the following free iPad apps ourselves, rather than just guessing whether they're good or not. READ: Best new iPad apps to show off the Retina Display GarageBand
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<img src="http://timenewsfeed.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/nwsfd_dandelion.jpg?w=480&h=320&crop=1" alt="nwsfd_dandelion" title="nwsfd_dandelion"/> Scientists are breaking new ground in the eternal quest to create ever lighter materials – this time forging a metal so weightless it can sit atop a dandelion. Yahoo News reports that the team of U.S. researchers from University of California at Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology has developed the metal, which is about 100 times lighter than Styrofoam. They constructed a metallic lattice of hair-thin pipes to show off their latest creation, beating out the previously lightest substances in the world, aerogels.
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@ phoghat : My point is I was giving a real analogy to the Singularity. I was saying that any human-human comparison is nothing like us pre- and post- the Singularity. The jump to a post-a singulaity is far, far, incredibly far bigger. ANY human, from 20,000 years ago, maybe even 100,00 or 200,000 ago, if brought into our societry could learn it. And a human can actually go from newborn baby, who can't do anything for itself, to a fully-functioning person on the world in only 18 years. Add the 9 months since conception, and in 18 years, 9 months humans can go from sperm and egg to fully-functioning humans in the modern world.
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