Six secret features buried in iOS 8 to help you get more from the operating system keep you safe, and help you get more from your battery.
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Not Quite Smart, The Luminox ANU Chronograph Is At Least Quite Bright
This weekend’s watch review comes to us from Luminox, a manufacturer well-known for their amazingly bright luminescent hands and pips. Luminox uses small tubes of tritium coated with phosphor. As the tritium decays it excites the phosphor, allowing the tubes to glow for years without “charging” in sunlight. It’s a neat trick and it affords amazing readability in the dark. Read More
#Microsoft’s Outlook for #Android #app for phones and tablets now generally available
Microsoft has removed the ‘preview’ tag from its free Outlook for Android app, which is now available in the Google Play Store.
Eight #Google Chrome extensions to boost your privacy and productivity
Google Chrome is my browser of choice on both Windows and Mac, and all in all it’s a great browser. However, with the addition of a few extensions, a great browsing experience can be transformed into a superb browsing experience.
How One Developer Got the Internet To Watch People Code
blottsie writes: While Twitch TV is generally used for livestreaming gameplay, Alexander Putilin has other plans for the platform. Putilin and his girlfriend are using Twitch to build a community of software developers and students who broadcast complex floating point operations and algorithm design to the rest of the world. The community is responding and growing alongside its newfound popularity. WatchPeopleCode is now facilitating live hackathons (there was one this weekend), enabling programmers to meet and collaborate with people that they’d otherwise never be able to.
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Dell XPS 13 Linux developer edition available
Do you want a top-notch Linux developer laptop? Then Dell has several systems for you to consider.