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• Narro turns your reading list into a podcast

  By Shaun on March 14, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Use Narro’s Android app, Chrome Extension, iOS app, or bookmarklet on any article. Don’t worry about ads or formatting – Narro filters out everything but the text. The extracted text will be transcribed to audio in a clear voice. You… Read More ›

• How A New Zealand Bug Collector Helped Make The World Lose An Hour Of Sleep

  By Shaun on March 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  You will sometimes read that DST was originally Ben Franklin’s idea. Franklin did publish an anonymous pamphlet, in 1784, suggesting that Parisians could cut the cost of lighting homes at night by getting up earlier as the days lengthen in… Read More ›

• Very High Precision

  By Shaun on March 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  High precision is, in fact, exactly what this new Longines Conquest VHP is all about: it is accurate to ± 5 seconds per year. Let’s keep in mind that COSC requirements for quartz movements are ± 0.07 seconds per day,… Read More ›

• The colourblind photographer

  By Shaun on March 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  I am colorblind. And I am a photographer. In my particular case, and in the majority of those that are “color challenged”, being colorblind doesn’t actually mean we cannot see colors. Or at least, without borrowing your eyes and brain… Read More ›

• Pandora Premium

  By Shaun on March 13, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  The first thing you’ll notice with Pandora Premium is that it takes fewer clicks to actually start playing music compared to Apple Music and Spotify. The app launches into My Music, which features a carousel of recently played albums and… Read More ›

• Uptime — Watch videos together

  By Shaun on March 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Uptime is a place to share and watch videos together with friends. Easily share your favorite YouTube video and bring friends together to watch, chat, and have fun. – Watch videos together with friends. – Interact and chat while watching… Read More ›

• Clear Knee Mom Jeans

  By Shaun on March 13, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Slick plastic panels bare your knees for a futuristic feel in tapered and cropped high-waist jeans… More at Nordstrom. Quick before they sell out!

• What apps should we be using?

  By Shaun on March 13, 2017 • ( 10 )

  

  I’d be interested in people’s daily/weekly/monthly used apps, but it’s a bit narcissistic for me to want to post my own, and I’m not sure if the results are all that interesting. Kirk Well, I think something like this could… Read More ›

• Will the next generation know what a file is?

  By Shaun on March 13, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Originally, computers were open. They had to be. And you had to know your way around in order to use them. By open I mean that you had access to everything and you had to know what used what. UNIX,… Read More ›

• I was an iPhone man once, like you. Then Shitphone changed everything.

  By Shaun on March 13, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  The overall experience was still acceptable, but had come to be characterized by delay. There were the long delays when you open Google Maps or refresh your Gmail inbox. There were the short delays while scrolling through Twitter or when the… Read More ›