60 Creative Examples Of Infographics <A HREF=" Widgets</A> Collected by noupe Today we have an exciting and enticing post which covers handy and innovative infographics. Infographics is basically derived from two words: ‘information’ and ‘graphics’, and it stands for the graphical representation of data and information. have been often used in modern maps to incorporate variety of information, for instance for network designs, destination points, and local landmarks. Stunningly Creative Infographics The Most Dangerous Cities for Walking What People are Doing Online Glass Half Empty: The Coming Water Wars Which Countries Have the Most Vacation? Bank Infographic Where Will the Next Volcano Erupt? On Driving: Automobile History The Current State of Twitter Software Wars Who Has Given the Most to Haiti The Social Media Effect SSSMOKIN! Resume Infographic
Featured IPhone Application: Make Skype Calls with Fring on Your iPhone Heres my review on Fring: "I tried out Fring with Skype and Gizmo SIP; there is a noticable 5 second lag between people talking, also there is echoing. I am right near my wireless router, and skype on the computer works fine. Also note that Truphone does not have lag (or as bad as 5seconds) when I tried it out on this same setup. To get skypeout calls to work, you have to enter 001 before the 9/10 digit number (001-800-342-3543), otherwise itll bring you to terminated call right away. Also, after adding Skype addon in fring (which takes awhile to log in), it dials out fine. Another big bug is the "no .' I would love for skype to work with minimal lag - Ive tried out truphone and that works semi-well - but expensive per/min I was ecstatic when I heard fring was on the appstore. I hoped this version would AT LEAST fix the voice lag, thats the whole point of VOIP, but it is EXACTLY the same as it was in the old version (except adding skype and menus). To sum it up:
100 Incredibly Useful & Free iPad Apps If you just dropped a few hundred dollars on an iPad, you might not have much left in your budget to fill it up with apps. Fortunately, app developers have already stepped up and created a huge collection of completely free iPad apps. Below you’ll find over 100 free iPad apps to help you get started. Many of them are only free for a limited time as an introductory special so you’d better grab them fast! If you like this roundup, it’s definitely worth taking a look at our all-new roundup of The Top 100 iPad Apps, in addition to our collections of 100 free iPhone apps, and 100 free Mac apps, both of which contain some brilliant software that doesn’t cost a dime! Utilities Air Video Free – Watch your videos anywhere! Alarm Clock with Tunes Free – A state-of-the-art Digital LCD Alarm Clock for your iPad with built-in Alarm Sounds & Buzzer. Choices – Have you ever been in a situation where you can’t make up your mind on something? Tabulous – What is Tabulous? Business Finance Lifestyle
R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me Social bookmarking service Delicious announced five years ago last Thursday that it had been acquired by Yahoo The first comment posted on the blog entry announcing the deal was from TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, saying "Congratulations! Yahoo sure does get tagging I see." When I heard the news, I felt very differently. It's a loss not just for the many people who used Delicious to archive links of interest to them around the web, it's a loss for the future - for what could have been. Update: 24 hours later, Yahoo! Above: A leaked slide from the internal deck shown today at Yahoo, listing a host of services Yahoo will sunset, merge or turn into features of other services. How ReadWriteWeb Used Delicious For the past several years, ReadWriteWeb has been using Delicious in a way that I think points to the potential the service truly had. Thanks for All the Bookmarks, Folks angusf - Angus Fraser, Experience Architect at News Digital Media f_david - Félegyházi Dávid geneboy - Ling Yi
Freakonomics: What Went Wrong? Examination of a very popular popular-statistics series reveals avoidable errors Andrew Gelman, Kaiser Fung The nonfiction publishing phenomenon known as Freakonomics has passed its sixth anniversary. The original book, which used ideas from statistics and economics to explore real-world problems, was an instant bestseller. By 2011, it had sold more than four million copies worldwide, and it has sprouted a franchise, which includes a bestselling sequel, SuperFreakonomics; an occasional column in the New York Times Magazine; a popular blog; and a documentary film. The word “freakonomics” has come to stand for a light-hearted and contrarian, yet rigorous and quantitative, way of looking at the world. The faces of Freakonomics are Steven D. As the authors of statistics-themed books for general audiences, we can attest that Levitt and Dubner’s success is not easily attained. may be bad news if you are a rabid soccer mom or dad whose child was born in the wrong month. A U.S.
Wired 13.09: The Super Network Why Yahoo! will be the center of the million-channel universe. By Josh McHughPage 1 of 3 next » Returning home after a vacation in 2004, Andy Volk dumped his luggage in the hallway and settled into an armchair for an evening of his favorite shows: The Simpsons, Futurama, and The Streets of San Francisco. Story Tools Story Images Click thumbnails for full-size image: Every so often, Volk would find that his TiVo had recorded another obscure gem. Now, 14 years after Horowitz began investigating video search, a tsunami of video is bearing down on all of us, and his once-obscure quest has become urgent. This onslaught is already turning the entertainment business inside out. For its part, Yahoo! Watching whatever you want (or didn't even know you wanted) wherever you are whenever you feel like it has been a fantasy since the early days of the Internet. Of course, Yahoo! These days, the company has two distinct faces. Braun is shaking up Yahoo!'
There’s more to progress than biology Certainly there is plenty of anecdotal evidence to support such a proposition. As Patrick Hayes pointed out late last year , the reason so many people were recently up in arms about a drunk and possibly mentally ill woman’s racist diatribe on a tram is because racist diatribes are no longer commonplace. Going back somewhat further in time, whatever one makes of modern city life, few think it worse than the world presented in Hogarth’s ‘Gin Lane’. article continues after advertisement But are things really getting better? And, if they are, is it because we are developing socially or because we are simply hiding the darker sides of our nature? Starting with the Stone Age, Pinker hits the fast-forward button on human history to get us to the present day. Perhaps the most depressing sentence in the book, however, is in the preface: ‘A large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit there is anything good about civilisation, modernity and Western society.’ Enter the media.
You're Reading the Wrong Vonnegut: Or, why authors' best known books are often not their best books Posted by Patrick on July 20, 2011 Yesterday, in the Guardian, John Self wrote a very entertaining post about why it seems that so many authors' best known works are not their best works. He writes, "If someone reads Kurt Vonnegut's most famous book, Slaughterhouse-Five, and doesn't like it, I'll want to shout to them, "But it's rubbish! This is the sort of argument that used to be unwinnable -- you'd say Slaughterhouse-Five is the best, I'd argue for Cat's Cradle, and in the end, after some fisticuffs, we'd agree to disagree and go have a beer. To start with, Self suggests that Louis de Bernières should be remembered not for Captain Corelli's Mandolin (despite the Nicholas Cage movie adaptation) but for the superior Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord. How about the rest of Self's list. Still, it's fairly consistently true that an author's most read book will not be her most highly rated. This trend holds even for more contemporary authors.
50 Cool Search Engines for Serious Readers | Online Colleges The Internet has proven itself as a valuable resource for all types of readers, from collectors of rare books to tech-minded readers who shop, network and download books online. But if you’re having trouble finding exactly what you need, whether it’s a book review, a book by a certain author, or a digitized anthology for your class at an online college for creative writing, you’ll want to use sophisticated tools that direct you to high-quality resources. Here are 50 cool search engines for serious readers and students. For even more great search engines, read our updated list. eBooks When you want to read books online, use these search engines to find free versions, PDF files and .doc formats. Books to Swap, Sell and Buy Use these search engines when you need to swap, sell or buy a book over the Internet. Rare Books Collectors of rare, signed, and out-of-print books can use these search engines to help them complete their libraries. Book Reviews and Community Libraries
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Just how easy is phone hacking? | Need to Know Amid reports of the News of the World cell phone hacking scandal, many mobile users might be wondering if their own phones are vulnerable. How easy is it to hack someone’s phone? Despite the recent hubbub, the news is pretty heartening: with advances in mobile technology have come advances in mobile security. “No system is 100 percent foolproof,” said John Walls, vice president of public affairs with CTIA, a non-profit advocacy organization that represents the interests of the wireless communications industry. But why would anybody hack someone else’s phone? But this is not the only way to hack voice mail. But there are other ways to hack voice mail. One involves accessing a person’s voice mail through another person’s voice mail. The second involves caller ID “spoofing,” which uses a trick to make a cell phone carrier think that an outside call to a phone’s voice mail is actually coming from the phone itself, as in dialing *86 on your own device to get your messages.