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WiFiMapper comes to Android with a few new tricks the iOS app doesn’t have

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by on July 15, 2015 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

After a successful iOS launch, WiFiMapper is coming to Android. Created by the OpenSignal team with the popular app of the same name, WiFiMapper lets users find nearby hotspots and see Foursquare ratings of the location — but the Android app has a few tricks its iOS counterpart doesn’t. In addition to finding hotspots, WiFiMapper for Android will allow you to connect to your newfound link within the app. You’ll also have the ability to view a history of Wi-Fi hotspots you’ve linked to, and stats like how much data you used or total connected time while on those networks.…

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Apple unveils new iPod Touch along with new colors for iPod Shuffle and Nano

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by on July 15, 2015 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets

Apple has refreshed its iPod line. The iPod Touch getting the most love with all new insides and there’s a fresh coat of paint for the iPod Shuffle and iPod Nano. The updated iPod Touch has a better camera – jumping from 5 megapixels to 8 megapixels – which puts it in line with the iPhone 6/6 Plus and iPad Air 2. There’s also a new 64-bit chip under the hook for better graphics and gaming. Fitness fans will be pleased to find the ‘M8′ chip, which tracks fitness data, steps and elevation in the current generation of iPhones, has made its way…

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JotForm adds encryption option to online drag-and-drop form creation platform

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by on July 15, 2015 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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JotForm, the drag-and-drop online form creation tool, now lets users create encrypted questionnaires. The information is encrypted using the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) public key-private key method, which asks for an authentication key before any info is decrypted. When a form is filled out, users will get a notification that the answers are available online. Once a user logs in, a private key is needed to access the information. JotForm tells us all information is encrypted; it can’t even see the encrypted data as it never reachers servers in a readable format. “A lot of JotForm users share our views…

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Apple News is seriously good and might become your only news app

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by on July 15, 2015 at 2:32 pm
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While everyone’s panicking about Facebook Instant Articles, I’ve seen something much more terrifying and exciting: Apple News. The app, which will be installed on every iPhone that upgrades to iOS 9, is a new centralized home for content. Publishers can input their content via RSS feeds or, if they’re willing to go all-in, add special HTML markup that allows their content to be presented in interesting ways with custom branding in Apple’s app. Apple News is fast, responsive and enjoyable to use. It puts everything I want to read in a single place, without the need to download a third-party app and it loads incredibly fast,…

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Use Javascript to trick irritating commenters into talking to themselves

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by on July 15, 2015 at 2:20 pm
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Comment threads can become the toilets of the internet. A number of prominent websites have ditched them entirely – including Recode, Reuters and Fox News – often because dealing with them has become too much trouble. If you’ve considered killing them on your own site, but haven’t yet, here’s a devious solution: Tricking visitors into releasing their rage in comments that appear to save, but only show up for them. An interesting Javascript library called ‘Echo Chamber‘ promises “all of the commenting, none of the comments.” Comments submitted to a site using it remain stored in the visitor’s browser rather than…

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