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Google Releases Material Design Lite for Web Developers
Google has released Material Design Lite, which is just a few CSS and JavaScript files that enable deb designers to easily tap the looks and feel of Material Design.
I have just begun to poke around with it, but it seems like it's going to be a great tool for developers who are
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Blackberry Seriously has the Worst Smartphone Differentiator
Is this BlackBerry’s First Android Phone? - Techcrunch
Posted by the endlessly resourceful Evan Blass (aka evleaks), the photo shows a device that appears to have curves on both halves of its display — not unlike Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge. It’s said to be called the BlackBerry “Venice”, though that’s likely a codename.
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No, the Law Isn't Optional
Simon Maloy writing for Salon on some conservatives' claims that religion protects them from following the law:
“I was not elected Governor of Arkansas to surrender all our rights as citizens to an all-powerful federal autocracy,” Orval Faubus declared in a 1958 speech resisting the Court-mandated racial integration of public schools. “It
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The First 15 Minutes of Beats 1 Radio
In case like me, you missed the launch of Beats 1, this fine soul recorded the first few minutes. Zane did a really great job getting the station going.
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Apple Music 1.0 is Great, Therefore it Sucks
Apple Music's a Crushing Disappointment, But Not Because It’s Bad - Gizmodo
Apple Music does everything it’s supposed to: It plays music on demand for $10 per month. The app is fun to use, as Gizmodo’s Kelsey pointed out yesterday. You’re never at a loss for some inviting tile to
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General Grievous
via Star Wars
Yes, the Star Wars prequels were terrible, but they did have some talented artists working on them. It's a shame such stylish characters were wasted.
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Declaring App Bankruptcy
A Fresh Start (on my iPhone) by Rob Conybeer
Yesterday I returned from vacation, and went to sync my iPhone with iTunes on my desktop at home. I had about 250 application updates waiting for me, and between that and the volume of photos I took on vacation, the sync refused to finish. I thought
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Safari is the New IE...or it Isn't...Umm
Nolan Lawson made waves with this article on Safari lagging behind other browsers.
At this point, we in the web community need to come to terms with the fact that Safari has become the new IE. Microsoft is repentant these days, Google is pushing the web as far as it can go, and Mozilla is
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Lorenzo Pennati's Stunning Photography
I first saw Lorenzo Pennati's work last week and am extremely impressed with his work. He has a ton more on his site that you should take a few minutes and enjoy.
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Everybody Chill, It's Okay to Work for Someone Else
A Few Words of Explanation - Richard Anderson:
That’s one of the things that irked me the most, and lead to my piece, the one-size-fits-all advice of “WORK FOR YOURSELF OR BE A MISERABLE FAILURE” mantra that runs through way too much of the tech-focused media I consume. It’s in
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Barack Obama Interviews David Attenborough
Barack Obama turns tables in David Attenborough climate change interview
Challenged by the naturalist, Obama says: “We’re not moving as fast as we need to and part of what I know from watching your programmes, and all the great work you’ve done, is that these ecosystems are all interconnected. If just one country
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Privacy or Not
Dean Murphy on ad blockers:
Do I care more about my privacy, time, device battery life & data usage or do I care more about the content creators of sites I visit to be able to monetise effectively and ultimately keep creating content?
I'm with Dean here, it's a hard decision.
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iOS 9 Installs Should be Way Easier Than iOS 8's
66% of my customers on eligible devices have at least 1.3GB of free space [enough to install iOS 9]. This compares to just 37% of users who would have immediately had sufficient space at the old iOS 8 requirement.
via David Smith
Speaking as an owner of a 16GB iPhone, this is great news!
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Why Doesn’t Microsoft Just Give Windows Away?
Since Friday, the blog post describing the changes to the Windows Insider preview program has been silently updated. Previously it said that signed up members of the Insider Program running a preview version would "receive the Windows 10 final release build and remain activated." Now it says only that they will "receive
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Thinking About the Next Big Social Network
The next great social platform can’t be yet another centralized system. It has to be more distributed and more open even than App.net. It has to focus on writing and bloggers and embrace what is good about the web. Ello doesn’t do any of these things.
- via Manton Reece
I love Manton,
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Reddit, the Place Where Nobody Wins
Reddit has a problem. It’s a well-documented problem, which, oddly, is a big part of the problem. Every six months or so, from the depths of the sprawling site’s underbelly, a network of disparate communities which seem to feed off of bigotry and perversion rise into the greater public’s consciousness. For
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You Should be Watching FilmmakerIQ
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John Hess has an awesome video series going called FilmmakerIQ which covers all manner of things related to film. These videos are always fun and informative, and they’re a great way to geek out over movies for 15-20 minutes
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Inside Out Had a Massive Opening Weekend
What is startling about Inside Out's weekend is that it is the highest opening weekend ever for an original property (that is to say one that is not a sequel or a non-sourced work), passing Avatar, which made $77M on its December 18-20, 2009 bow.
- via www.boxofficemojo.com
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