Insight Sciences

Sign In

Tag: Google

  • Twitrcovers makes your Tweets a bit more tasty

    Beautify your Twitter Cover in One Click lifehack.org A few weeks ago, Twit­ter released new head­er image options for each user’s pro­file. As a result. users may now change their Twit­ter “cover” if they want. Twitr­Cov­ers has the best col­lec­tion of Twit­ter cov­ers avail­able that I’ve seen. … RT @lifehackorg: Beautify your Twitter Cover in…

    Read article →

  • Google gDrive and Gmail take on Dropbox

    Gmail Facelift: New Features of Gmail Steve Dotto, lifehack.org Google is taking dead aim at Web 2.0 services like Dropbox as they expand the capabilities of Google Drive and integrate it more tightly with their other services like Gmail. There is a new refined Gmail compose screen, which opens the door to… RT @lifehackorg: Gmail…

    Read article →

  • Soda stream disrupts beverage industry waste

    SodaStream’s Banned Ad Helps Home Carbonation Company Hit It Big Rachel Tepper, huffingtonpost.com An ad for SodaS­tream, a home car­bon­a­tion prod­uct, has been mak­ing the rounds world­wide. In it, bot­tles of soda seem to com­bust spon­ta­neous­ly every time some­one uses the SodaS­tream else­where in the world. The take­away: why pay for… http://flip.it/BgTFD Related articles 3…

    Read article →

  • Big ass fans: A cool breeze without the noise

    Big Ass Fans Haiku | Popular Science popsci.com A cool breeze without the noise. With its res­i­den­tial Haiku model, Big Ass Fans changed every con­ven­tion estab­lished by a cen­tu­ry of ceiling-fan design. That hot, loud, electromagnet-driven AC motor is now a cool, quiet, per­ma­nent­ly… http://flpbd.it/QWXuw Related articles How to Add Humor to Your Website (zemanta.com)…

    Read article →

  • Technology Is Useless If It Doesn’t Address a Human Need

    Technology Is Useless If It Doesn’t Address A Human Need BY MEAGAN FALLONE, fastcoexist.com Facebook is great for checking out photos of your exes and all, but for social innovators working in the developing world, there’s no point to new technologies unless they make life better for the people they’re trying to help. Editor’s Note…

    Read article →

  • Why we need better voting systems

    Shame on the Republicans Who Curtailed Early Voting James Fallows, theatlantic.com Hours-long election lines stretching many city blocks are a national embarrassment. And those responsible should be condemned across ideological lines. In 32 states and Wash­ing­ton, D.C., vot­ers are eli­gi­ble to cast their bal­lot early with … http://flpbd.it/6byNS Related articles From the Director of the…

    Read article →

  • Infographics Are Hot, Your Boring Data Is Not

    Janine Popick, inc.com BASEMENT TO BOARDROOM Turn your boring piles of stats, data and other information into an eye-catching infographic using these three steps. Last week my online mar­ket­ing com­pa­ny, Ver­ti­cal­Re­sponse, pub­lished a big social media… http://flpbd.it/ZcoB9 Infographics Are Hot, Your Boring Data Is Not Related articles Infographics Are Hot, Your Boring Data Is Not…

    Read article →

  • Visualizing how you will die

    (via What do people die of? Mortality rates and data for every cause of death in 2011 visualised | News | guardian.co.uk) Related articles Information is Beautiful on how we die (guardian.co.uk) How We All Die, Visualized (gizmodo.com) The visual system as economist: Neural resource allocation in visual adaptation (medicalxpress.com) Data visualization startup Visual.ly grabs…

    Read article →

  • Why you should not build expensive cities near salt water

    FYI: Why Does Salt Water Make Hurricane Damage So Much Worse? By Colin Lecher, popsci.com The white stuff can stick around and ruin, well, pretty much everything. That puts the officials trying to fix it on a ticking clock. Sandy crip­pled the NYC sub­way sys­tem this week, knock­ing out power, dam­ag­ing switch­es, and dump­ing… http://flpbd.it/udDia…

    Read article →

  • Stitcher is the best podcast app keeps the news flowing

    Stitcher keeps the news flowing for desktop users with new web-based app Zachary Lutz, engadget.com Stitch­er is already a heavy hit­ter in the world of mobile apps, but users will now find their favorite radio shows and pod­casts are acces­si­ble from the desk­top. Today, the com­pa­ny announced an HTML5 ver­sion of its pop­u­lar app that’s……

    Read article →

  • 50 Amazing Job Perks

    MoneyTalksNews, huffingtonpost.com Mon­eyTalk­sNews: Tech com­pa­nies will go to amaz­ing lengths to recruit tal­ent­ed employ­ees – and keep them from jump­ing to com­peti­tors. An increas­ing­ly impor­tant part of the equa­tion is ben­e­fits. A recent New York Times… http://flpbd.it/fG8hC 50 Amazing Job Perks Related articles Get Creative with Job Perks (business.time.com) Looking for a Lesson in Google’s…

    Read article →

  • Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education

    Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education bloomberg.com Cour­tesy of Udac­i­ty Udac­i­ty, the dig­i­tal uni­ver­si­ty co-founded by arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and robot­ics pio­neer Sebas­t­ian Thrun, has raised $15 mil­lion, join­ing a crop of online edu­ca­tion star­tups to attract ven­ture cap­i­… http://flpbd.it/1FyIx Related articles Google Launches HTML Game Development Course with Udacity (apievangelist.com) Is…

    Read article →