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LIFX Is A Smartphone-Controlled Lightbulb

Here’s what it does: Control your lights from anywhere Choose any brightness for a specific bulb, a room or your whole house Create the colors to match any mood or decor Get notifications such as Twitter, Facebook, Texts and more Reduce your energy consumption and save money Visualise your music with animated colors Make an impression at your next dinner party Get creative with colors and effects Create a night light for your kids Security mode when you’re on holidays Create groups of lights Robot dance like it’s 1999

Amazing Idea!!!

Triggertrap: a remote shutter

On the face of it, this dongle and app combo is a remote shutter release for your iPhone – but that’s just the beginning of its capabilities.

First Canon EOS C100 Short Hits the Web

The Canon EOS C100 is almost “affordable”, and we should see lots of content from it. I’ll be buying one for my rental business, and hopefully I’ll learn something about shooting video. Film Information (By Sebastien DEVAUD) “Earlier this year, i was contacted by Canon Inc to create a new exclusive film for the worldwide launch of the new EOS Cinema camera : The EOS C100

iBookstore is a game changer for textbooks

After writing about how iPads and YourTeacher helped raise math scores by 49%, I decided to speak with YourTeacher CEO Charlie Hermes to find out more about his company, and what it’s like to publish textbooks on the iBookstore.

Wonderful Article!

Amazing animated optical illusion

Designer 'Brusspup' has created a number of animated optical illusions for us to enjoy. This latest video is the fifth in the series and as soon as we saw it, we just had to share it with you. During the video we see rotating cogs, a running leopard and even a pacman munching on bullets. It's incredible to think that each was created using a series of templates; simply glided across each other to showcase this amazing effect.

Harnessing the Power of Icon Standards

As effective as an icon’s metaphor may be, truly powerful icons get strength from their universal recognizability and conventional usage — a standardization of sorts. We’ll discuss icon standardization more in this article and then provide suggestions to a few current icon standardization movements which you can explore and incorporate into your own projects.

Apogee Officially Introduces 'Quartet' Desktop Audio Interface for Mac

Apogee has now officially introduced the Quartet, which arrives carrying four inputs and eight outputs for a significant boost in channel capacity. The Quartet can also be paired with Apogee's Duet 2 or Ensemble product to expand the number of channels even further.

Common portfolio mistakes (and how to fix them)

As the curator of Folyo, I see a lot of different portfolios go by. And I can’t help but notice the same patterns of bad design cropping up time and again. Being designers, we should be aware of how much look and feel can influence the way content is perceived. Yet for some reason we’re happy to forget all about this when it comes to displaying our own work.

Great Job,nice Article.

How Can I Build a Quiet, Low-Powered Home File Server?

A home file server can be extremely useful for backing up your computer, streaming media, and a lot of other things. If you have an old computer lying around, that'll work fine—but if you don't have one (or you want to build something more low-powered), you have a few choices.

How to set up two-step verification for Dropbox

Popular cloud storage solution, Dropbox has begun enabling two-step verification for their accounts, which means in addition to your password (something you know), they send an additional access code to your phone, or let you generate a time-based code with a mobile app like Google Authenticator (something you own). Although no security scheme is unbreakable, two-factor authentication is absolutely better than one. And if you keep personal data in Dropbox, you're absolutely going to want to use it.

Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?

As some of you may have already noticed the download link for the Tweetbot for Mac alpha no longer works. Twitter’s latest API Changes means now we have a large but finite limit on the number of user tokens we can get for Tweetbot for Mac. We’ve been working with Twitter over the last few days to try to work around this limit for the duration of the beta but have been unable to come up with a solution that was acceptable to them. Because of this we’ve decided its best for us to pull the alpha.

Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon, Dead at 82

Neil Armstrong, the first man to land on the moon as commander of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission, has died at 82 according to a report by NBC. Armstrong passed away due to complications of a heart bypass surgery he underwent just weeks ago. His 82nd birthday was on August 5.

Tim Cook tells Apple employees that today’s victory ‘is about values’

Following Apple’s big win in U.S. court today against Samsung, Apple CEO has sent a memo response to Apple corporate employees. The statement is reminiscent of Apple PR head Katie Cotton’s statement from earlier today, but adds some other new, personal touches as Apple’s CEO (who celebrates one year on the job today). Read more at http://9to5mac.com/2012/08/24/tim-cook-tells-apple-employees-that-todays-victory-is-about-values/#drRi9CpTt8YAKDei.99