Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Handle is a one-stop Gmail, to-do and calendar manager

With so many productivity apps around, time management should be easy. But the reality can be very different, as key areas of your life -- email, calendar, lists -- are often split across several tools. Handle is a free Chrome extension and iOS app which takes a different approach, combining gMail, to-dos and your calendar in a single view. By default Handle stays out of your way, and you can browse the web or check your inbox as normal. If an important email arrives, pressing "t" turns it into a to-do. There are options to add reminders, text notes and… [Continue Reading]

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Sunday, 27 September 2015

New Trailer for Unreal Tournament Pre-Alpha Season

The Pre-Alpha season for Unreal Tournament started over the weekend and Epic Games hosted a live exhibition tournament at their studio and also released a brand new trailer for the pre-alpha season.

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Thursday, 24 September 2015

Selfies Kill More People Than Shark Attacks



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How to Create an Elastic SVG Progress Loading Bar

Codrops has published a tutorial of how to create an elastic SVG progress loader based on the Dribbble shot “Download” by xjw and implemented with SVG and TweenMax. The button starts as an icon with an arrow and once it’s clicked, it animates into a fun little wire and a label that indicates the download […]

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Ethics in Engineering: Volkswagen’s Diesel Fiasco

Every so often – and usually not under the best of circumstance – the field of engineering as a whole is presented with a teaching moment. Volkswagen is currently embroiled in a huge scandal involving emissions testing of 11 Million diesel cars sold in recent years. It’s a problem that could cost VW dearly, to the tune of eighteen Billion dollars in the US alone, and will, without a doubt, end the careers of more than a few Volkswagen employees. In terms of automotive scandals, this is bigger than Unsafe at Any Speed. This is a bigger scandal than …read more



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Capture, record and share your ideas with Microsoft’s Snip

Microsoft’s Garage division has released Snip, a simple tool for capturing, annotating and sharing screenshots. There are plenty of similar tools around, and Snip doesn’t begin to compete with the best of breed freeware, but it still has a few features you might find very interesting. The program is very easy to use. An auto-hiding toolbar lives at the top of the screen, and has three main buttons: one to capture your screen, another takes a webcam photo, the third displays a blank whiteboard. Screen capture types are very limited. There’s no scrolling windows or anything else advanced, just options… [Continue Reading]

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Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee is free on Steam today



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Photorealism in Metal Gear Solid V

In a panel at GDC, Hideki Sasaki the CG Art Director of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain talks about how to get physically accurate assets, techniques for lighting, and photorealism.

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Google Launches Cloud Dataproc, a Managed Spark and Hadoop Big Data Service



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Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Unity’s Cloud Build is coming to PC, Mac, and Linux — features now free for all

Unity is using the cloud to help game development. Cloud Build is a continuous build distribution service for the game-making engine Unity. It detects changes to projects and automatically delivers them to everyone in a development team via a cloud, speeding up development. Patrick Curry, Unity’s director of Cloud Build, announced during the Unite 2015

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Jobs, Gates and Al Pacino on "Me & My Other Me" Series of Illustrations

Jobs, Gates and Al Pacino on Me & My Other Me Series of Illustrations

An artist from Colombia, called Fulvio Obregon, created a funny series of illustrations showing some celebrities in the past and the present, side by side. But not just that, he puts all his talent to bring style and fun to every single piece.

This project is a series of illustrations of celebrities, where each occupies the same place in the 'I' past with its present 'I', each character has some detail of what has been essentially along their respective career, life or profession."

ME & MY OTHER ME

ME & MY OTHER ME

ME & MY OTHER ME

ME & MY OTHER ME

ME & MY OTHER ME

ME & MY OTHER ME

ME & MY OTHER ME

Don't forget to check more about Fulvio Obregon's work on Behance.



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Lattice – Running Containerized Workloads on a Cluster

Lattice is an open source project for running containerized workloads on a cluster. Lattice bundles up http load-balancing, a cluster scheduler, log aggregation/streaming and health management into an easy-to-deploy and easy-to-use package. The scheduler balances the allocation of container process resources across the infrastructure. The algorithm uses a distributed auction model based on the resource […]

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MariaDB, database cifrati senza costi aggiuntivi

Il sistema di database MariaDB, fork di MySQL, è quasi pronto per la pubblicazione della release 10.1, una versione che avrà tra le sue novità principali la possibilità di cifrare i dati in maniera nativa e senza conseguenze negative sul fronte delle performance.

Attualmente disponibile sotto forma di Release Candidate 1 e attesa all’arrivo della versione definitiva a ottobre, MariaDB 10.1 includerà infatti la tecnologia crittografica sviluppata e usata internamente da Google per codificare in maniera trasparente i database.

Nessuna necessità di sacrificare le prestazioni o di spendere risorse economiche aggiuntive per procurarsi estensioni di terze parti, promette …

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