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  • Why Panasonic Lumix GH3 will be the best video tool

    Panasonic Lumix GH3 launches on December 13th, but pricing remains a mystery Mat Smith, engadget.com Pana­son­ic’s forth­com­ing mirror-less mul­ti­me­dia won­der has been given a release date. Yep, the Lumix GH3, with its ‘unlim­it­ed record­ing time’ and mag­ne­sium alloy build, will arrive in the Land of the Ris­ing Sun just over a month from… http://flpbd.it/IcIl5 Related…

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  • Sony NEX-5R review

    Sony NEX-5R review: focusing and performance improvements make this cam a winner Zach Honig, engadget.com More Info Sony announces 16.1MP NEX-5R with Fast Hybrid AF, WiFi and downloadable apps • Sony Alpha NEX-6 sample shots and video • Sony NEX-6 mirrorless cam squeezes in between 5R and 7 with WiFi, EVF and dedicated mode dial…

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  • iPad Mini: To Doctors, Size Does Matter

    mobiquityinc.com Octo­ber 26, 2012 A stan­dard lab-coat pock­et is about 8.5 inch­es by 7.5 inch­es. An iPad mini comes in at 7.87 by 5.3 inch­es, mean­ing that it is the first pocket-sized iPad (at least, if you’re into wear­ing lab coats) to hit the mar­ket.… http://flpbd.it/fp9Fn iPad Mini: To Doctors, Size Does Matter Related articles…

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  • 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……

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  • Belkin’s NetCam WiFi Camera is Mac compatible

    Belkin’s NetCam WiFi Camera with Night Vision keeps an eye out for ghosts while you’re out, hooks up with iOS / Android Ben Gilbert, engadget.com Out of town for Hal­loween and wor­ried that your empty house is get­ting filled with ethe­re­al cat­bur­glars? You can’t even see what they’re tak­ing! Belkin’s got a solu­tion for you…

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  • HBS on why you must tell a story in presentations

    Structure Your Presentation Like a Story Nancy Duarte, hbr.org After studying hundreds of speeches, I’ve found that the most effective presenters use the same techniques as great storytellers: By reminding people of the status quo and then revealing the path to a better way, they set up a conflict that needs … http://flpbd.it/HmuZW Related articles…

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  • LinkedIn disrupts biotech pharma recruiting

    LinkedIn: The Quiet Force Transforming Biotech & Pharma Luke Timmerman, xconomy.com Luke Tim­mer­man Mark Levin’s busi­ness is biotech­nol­o­gy, so it’s no sur­prise he knew zilch about a tech com­pa­ny called LinkedIn as recent­ly as two years ago. But these days Levin sounds like he can bare­ly do his job with­out… http://flpbd.it/TIANz Related articles LinkedIn: Revolutionizing…

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  • Recruiters who know social media are in demand

    Recruiter Job Demand Remains Strong www.recruiter.com, recruiter.com Accord­ing to a new sur­vey by WANT­ED Ana­lyt­ics, there were over 14,000 jobs post­ed online in Sep­tem­ber for recruiters and other staffing pro­fes­sion­als. The num­ber rep­re­sents a 12 per­cent growth over Sep­tem­ber 2011, but a… http://flpbd.it/WuLdr Related articles Using Twitter As A Social Recruiting Tool (windmillnetworking.com) LinkedIn: Revolutionizing…

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  • Business Cards Do High-Tech Work

    wsj.com Many tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies and entre­pre­neurs that deal with most­ly vir­tu­al prod­ucts are embrac­ing the tac­tile busi­ness card. http://flpbd.it/Uigzi Business Cards Do High-Tech Work Related articles Bidding goes high-tech at MCHA fundraiser (heraldtimesonline.com) Superhero Business Cards – These Custom 3D Business Cards Will Make You Look Like a Superstar (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com) All You Need to…

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  • Knode attempts to compete with LinkedIn in biotech networking

    Knode: The Next Stage of the Internet is About What You Know Alex E. Weaver, bostinno.com Pre­dict­ing what’s “next” for the Inter­net can be a lot like surf­ing the web itself: daunt­ing, frus­trat­ing and often point­less. There’s a lot of infor­ma­tion swirling around out there, after all, and peo­ple are inter­act­ing with it in… http://flpbd.it/rXXmp…

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  • Why telecommuting saves costs, time and your health

    The Perks of Working From Home Jennifer Shore, mashable.com If you’re part of the 86% who drive to work every day, you can devise ways to lower your gas costs, save time and improve your health — by telecom­mut­ing. The cur­rent work­force totals more than 128 mil­lion peo­ple, and while eight out of 10… http://flpbd.it/nTXRQ…

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  • The anthropology of why constant contact makes you alone

    In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel ‘Alone Together’ Fresh Air from WHYY, npr.org In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel ‘Alone Together’ Fresh Air from WHYY As soon as Sher­ry Turkle arrived at the stu­dio for her Fresh Air inter­view, she real­ized she’d for­got­ten her phone. “I real­ized I’d left it behind, and I fel… http://flpbd.it/lzBmU…

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  • Hurricane Sandy: another climate wake up call

    Sandy Raises Questions About Climate And The Future Fresh Air from WHYY, npr.org Sandy Raises Questions About Climate And The Future Fresh Air from WHYY If you ask cli­mate sci­en­tist Radley Hor­ton, it’s dif­fi­cult to say that Hur­ri­cane Sandy was direct­ly caused by cli­mate change, but he sees strong con­nec­tions betw… http://flpbd.it/L0BSs Related articles Connecting…

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  • iPhone used for cover of Time magazine

    Cover for the new issue of TIME shot with an iPhone and Hipstamatic Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net Ben Lowy got the cover of TIME Mag­a­zine this week with an iPhone and the photo-filtering app Hip­sta­mat­ic. Not even for, say, a spe­cial tech issue or any­thing like that! Can’t say I’m sur­prised—I use Hip­sta­mat­ic with my iPhone5…

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  • The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100

    Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net I real­ly enjoyed read­ing a recent story in The New York Times Mag­a­zine about attempts to under­stand extreme longevi­ty — the weird ten­den­cy for cer­tain pop­u­la­tions to have larger-than-average num­bers of peo­ple who live well into their… http://flpbd.it/cEMb5 The infrastructure of longevity — a systems-level perspective of living to 100 Related articles…

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  • See what the world will look like without power

    New York City in post-storm darkness: photos by Randy Scott Slavin Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net NYC UNPLUGGED, a series by pho­tog­ra­ph­er Randy Scott Slavin doc­u­ment­ing the dark­ness in New York City after Hur­ri­cane Sandy caused wide­spread power out­ages: New York City is always bright. Street lights, business marquees, ligh… http://flpbd.it/4inHF Related articles A Study of Shadows…

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  • Upright sleeper: How to sleep on a plane

    $40 device keeps your head from falling off your shoulders when you sleep on a plane Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net I can’t sleep for more than 30 min­utes or so on a plane. After that, I’m awake for the dura­tion of the flight, no mat­ter how long it is. I won­der if this neck-propper-upper would help?…

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  • Learning a second language

    What’s the secret to learning a second language? By Bonnie Tsui, Pacific Standard, salon.com Studies reveal it’s more than just a matter of memory. A look at what the science of recall can teach us A FEW YEARS AGO, Cap­tain Emmanuel Joseph decid­ed to learn Ara­bic before his deploy­ment to Iraq. “At first it was…

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  • Why seeing death helps you to value life

    America’s next top mortician: “It really improves your life to be around corpses” By J. B. Staniforth, salon.com “Ask a Mortician,” Caitlin Doughty’s popular, droll web series, has an agenda: to get us to embrace our mortality When we think of mor­ti­cians, we cer­tain­ly don’t imag­ine a bub­bly, self-effacing 28-year-old woman like Caitlin Doughty. But……

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  • Scott Bernstein: move to the city and start walking

    Stop climate change: Move to the city, start walking By Jeff Speck, salon.com Climate change is helped along by suburban driving culture. We need to embrace cities — and walking In 2001, Scott Bern­stein, at the Cen­ter for Neigh­bor­hood Tech­nol­o­gy in inner-city Chica­go, pro­duced a set of maps that are still chang­… http://flpbd.it/KtKdq Related articles…

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  • How to Install Software from Unsigned Developers on a Macwikihow.com Whether it’s pro­tect­ing users from mali­cious soft­ware or sim­ply try­ing to push pur­chasers to the Mac App Store, the new Gate­keep­er fea­ture in Mac OS X Moun­tain Lion can get in the way when it comes to installing soft­ware. By default, a… http://flpbd.it/04twt

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  • Albert Epinosa learned how to live through cancer

    ‘Fighting cancer taught me how to live’ Homa Khaleeli, guardian.co.uk Albert Espinosa insists that his gruelling, 10-year battle against cancer was a happy time. Now he has written a book to explain why At 14 Albert Espinosa was a typical football obsessed teenager. He lived with his engineer father, housewife… http://flpbd.it/8PO8g Related articles Quotes to…

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  • Ikea concrete base lamp hack

    IKEA Hack: How to Make an Industrial Concrete Base Lamp curbly.com When I came across this light­ing project, I did a dou­ble take because I could hard­ly believe it was a DIY. It is so well done, the fin­ished project looked more like some­thing I could buy than some­thing I could make on my own.…

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  • Open structures parts kit lets you make anything from scratch

    An Open-Source Kit Of Parts, For Making Any Gadget From Scratch By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com At the Istanbul Bienal, designers used the OpenStructures system to build toasters, sleds, and vacuum cleaners from scratch. The move towards DIY dig­i­tal fabrication—from Maker­Bot to Fab@Home—is an undoubt­ed­ly great devel­op­ment for… http://flpbd.it/fOuI4 Related articles Dyson dc24 animal compact upright…

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  • 156 years of election data at your finger tips info graphic

    Infographic: 156 Years Of Election Data At Your Fingertips By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com An interactive chart visualizes party affiliations, congressional and presidential elections, and more, sorted state-by-state, year-by-year, since 1856. Prepare to lose an afternoon. Pol­i­tics are a game of strat­e­gy. And while we often think … http://flpbd.it/d0MWd

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  • Italians now buy more bikes than cars

    The Decline of the Car? Part 1: Italians Now Buying More Bicycles Than Automobiles core77.com Sur­pris­ing news: Italy, home of the mighty Fer­rari and the sprawl­ing Fiat empire, is now a coun­try where peo­ple are buy­ing more bicy­cles than cars. The num­bers are a lit­tle too round (and close) not to take with a grain…

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  • DRC 2012: Interactive Sessions on Understanding Data and Human Behavior

    DRC 2012: Interactive Sessions on Understanding Data and Human Behavior core77.com Pho­tos Cour­tesy of Paul Sheetz for DRC. After being greet­ed by the wel­com­ing com­mit­tee, check­ing in, exchang­ing my Polaroid photo for my nametag and tak­ing in the intro­duc­to­ry con­fer­ence expe­ri­ence I chugged my morn­ing c… http://flpbd.it/ewTdo Related articles VIDEO: Angelina Jolie visits the DRC…

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