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• Red sky at night, and other mysteries solved

  By Shaun on July 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight – red sky in the morning, sailor’s warning.’ So the saying goes – but why? This occurs when the weather predominantly comes from the west, as it does in Britain. A red sky at… Read More ›

• Twitter to livestream Wimbledon

  By Shaun on July 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  This time around, Twitter’s Wimbledon deal is with the The All England Club, not ESPN, which is partnering with Twitter to live stream The Wimbledon Channel during the event. This coverage will include daily content, like news and interviews, behind… Read More ›

• Everything the iPhone replaced

  By Shaun on July 2, 2017 • ( 4 )

  I have written a few of these types of article over the years and suspect that the phone of today can replace hundreds of older products, maybe thousands.

• The Nokia Vision 2018 concept phone

  By Shaun on July 2, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Can I say, before the smartphone craze, Nokia was the Apple. Their phones surpassed everything we wished and hoped for. If you didn’t have a Nokia, you didn’t have a phone worth even talking about, or talking into. Now that… Read More ›

• A map that fills a 500-million year gap in Earth’s history

  By Shaun on July 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Based on an article by Alan Collins (University of Adelaide) and Andrew Merdith (University of Sydney). Very very interesting.

• Famous People Who Hated Each Other

  By Shaun on July 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Humans can be pretty petty to each other. But you would think that, with a sudden increase of wealth and fame, some people would find that type of behavior beneath… More at Cracked. Some surprises in this list.

• Shot on iPhone, with a lot of help

  By Shaun on July 2, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Anybody who knows about the technique and gear involved in capturing great photos and video knows to look at those ‘shot on *insert smartphone here*’ ads with a bit of skepticism. Yes, they were technically shot on those phones, but… Read More ›

• Mountain or Valley?

  By Shaun on July 2, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Our brains are wired to believe that light generally comes from above. This makes sense–here on Earth, light from the sun pretty much always is coming from either directly above us, or above us at an angle. This is such… Read More ›

• How Table Tennis Balls are Made

  By Shaun on July 1, 2017 • ( 0 )

  I had to watch the whole thing. Strangely riveting.

• Does Apple know what a 32-bit app is?

  By Shaun on July 1, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Apple often adds timely selections of new and old apps which makes a lot of sense and with Wimbledon just around the corner tennis games were chosen. One of the highlighted games was Virtua Tennis Challenge which I had bought… Read More ›