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  • Google designers tasked to revamp search experience

    How Google’s Designers Are Quietly Overhauling Search By Sarah Kessler, fastcodesign.com Google Search’s designers are treating what was once just an ugly list of links like a software application. On the same day that Larry Page became Google’s CEO for the sec­ond time, he ordered a redesign of all its prod­ucts. Which came as a……

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  • The iPhone 5 Is the Best Smartphone

    Brian Lam, thewirecutter.com It’s the most bor­ing thing a tech writer can write, but the best smart­phone is still the iPhone. It’s the truth. (Last Updat­ed Octo­ber 29, 2012: The Google Nexus 4 was unveiled today. Win­dows Phone 8 also launched today. The iPhone is st… The iPhone 5 Is the Best Smartphone | The…

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  • Lifehacker: best computer monitors

    Five Best Computer Monitors Alan Henry, lifehacker.com Upgrading your computer’s hardware isn’t the only way to feel like you have a new machine. A new monitor can go a long way towards making your computer more fun to use and more functional. At the same time, there are hundreds of displays out there… Five Best…

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  • Goodbye Sparrow: 8 Alternatives to Sparrow for Email

    lifehack.org So, you were look­ing for a great alter­na­tive to Apple’s Mail.app on OS X and iOS and stum­bled upon Spar­row. It was fast, han­dled mail in a com­fort­able and famil­iar Gmail fash­ion, and was full fea­tured. It was all good until you heard th… http://flip.it/WU03e Goodbye Sparrow: 8 Alternatives to Sparrow for Email Related…

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  • Why the resume is dead and profile pages are the new standard

    Your Online Bio, Supercharged Jennifer Alsever, inc.com Inc. magazine The skinny on three services that help you create personal webpages to encompass your entire online life. Chances are good that your bio on the com­pa­ny web­site includes lit­tle more than a head­shot, title, and career… RT @ashleycalloway: 3 sites to help you build your personal…

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  • Google cloud music match is free

    Google’s cloud-based music-matching service has arrived… and it’s free Cyrus Farivar, arstechnica.com This is what Ars editor Cyrus Farivar sent to Google Play this morning.Cyrus FarivarGoogle has announced its own music-matching locker service, but unlike Amazon’s Cloud Player and Apple’s iTunes Match, this new service is free. Google Play, in th… RT @arstechnica: Google’s cloud…

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  • Funf: computational social science in your pocket

    Open-source Funf platform taps into Android’s huge knowledge about you By Daniel Cossins, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Novem­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… http://flip.it/FiWXt Related articles Why…

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  • YouTube app lets you edit and record video easily on iOS

    YouTube launches Capture, a video recording and enhancing app for iOS By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com YouTube has just launched Cap­ture, a new app for iOS. It lets users take quick video, make minor adjust­ments, and upload that video to YouTube, Google+, Face­book, or Twit­ter. The app is built specif­i­cal­ly for iPhone and iPod touch and…

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  • Benchmarking cloud sync and storage

    Google Drive vs. Dropbox, SkyDrive, SugarSync, and others: a cloud sync storage face-off By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com Does Drive stand a chance against sync and backup veterans? Google’s very own “Loch Ness monster,” also known as Google Drive, has final­ly launched. It’s the new face of Google Doc­u­ments, and it’s also Google’s oft-rumored Dropbox-killer. It……

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  • The Evernote clipping obsession

    The Verge at work: backing up your brain By Thomas Houston, theverge.com How I use Evernote as a memory tool for deep reading, writing, and research The Verge at Work is a series about process. We’re not sci­en­tists, and we’re not gurus, we’re just try­ing to get some work done. The solu­tions pre­sent­ed here ar……

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  • Netflix is a good place to see how fast your Internet service is

    Netflix launches monthly ISP speed rankings, praises Google Fiber, and calls out AT&T By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Net­flix is wide­ly acknowl­edged to make up a large chunk of down­stream inter­net traf­fic, and the com­pa­ny is now using that posi­tion to start chart­ing how fast ISPs can stream movies to cus­tomers. Every month, it’s announced, it…

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  • ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs At Yammer, Box, Yelp And Dropbox

    Alex Williams, techcrunch.com Y Com­bi­na­tor com­pa­ny Zen­Pay­roll launched its cloud-based pay­roll ser­vice today with $6.1 mil­lion in seed fund­ing from Google Ven­tures and invest­ments from the CEOs at Yam­mer, Box, Yelp and Drop­box. It is the largest seed round ever … RT @TechCrunch: ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs…

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