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Make It Fast brings 140-second video chats to Chrome

Jul13
by on July 13, 2015 at 11:53 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, chrome, extensions, Make It Fast, Social Media

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It’s hardly tricky to organize a video chat with someone. Besides Skype, Google Hangouts and FaceTime, there’s an ever growing (and usually quite irritating) army of options. If you want to keep it quick, here’s an interesting alternative: Make It Fast is a Chrome extension that lets you video chat with friends straight from any tab. It limits you to 140 second chats and only lets you speak to the same person twice an hour. I love those constraints – it means you stick to the point and aren’t tempted to keep bugging the same people – but right now, you’re restricted…

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Make It Fast brings 140-second video chats to Chrome

Jul13
by on July 13, 2015 at 11:53 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, chrome, extensions, Make It Fast, Social Media

Screenshot 2015-07-13 12.15.20
It’s hardly tricky to organize a video chat with someone. Besides Skype, Google Hangouts and FaceTime, there’s an ever growing (and usually quite irritating) army of options. If you want to keep it quick, here’s an interesting alternative: Make It Fast is a Chrome extension that lets you video chat with friends straight from any tab. It limits you to 140 second chats and only lets you speak to the same person twice an hour. I love those constraints – it means you stick to the point and aren’t tempted to keep bugging the same people – but right now, you’re restricted…

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Jewelbots is a smart bracelet designed to get girls coding

Jul13
by on July 13, 2015 at 10:43 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

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Jewelbots hopes to bring the old-school friendship bracelet into the iPhone age and teach girls to code with its smart jewelry. The team behind the Kickstarter project — which has already raised double the $30,000 goal — has built an open-source wearable for teen and tween girls to encourage them to learn coding through basic logic. The bracelets have four LEDs, a vibration motor and Bluetooth connectivity. They connect with each other to form a mesh network, which means a phone isn’t required to communicate with friends. Out of the box, a Jewelbot can detect nearby friends and send secret messages,…

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Top tools to get your startup off the ground

Jul13
by on July 13, 2015 at 9:45 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, startup tools

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Which comes first – the apps or the business? It might sound like a dumb question, but the consequences of building a business on the wrong software tools can be serious. What if your customer database can’t talk to your accounting system? Or your resource planning is in chaos because everyone’s using different project management systems? You really don’t want to be recreating core systems while your team is trying to build the business. It’s easy to just grab the cheapest or simplest solution when you need to get a business function going. But investing a small amount of time…

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NASA is almost at Pluto and you can follow along with this app

Jul13
by on July 13, 2015 at 8:39 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft blasted off in 2006, with the objective to perform the closest flyby of Pluto ever performed and it’s about to reach its destination. You might not realize it, but most pictures you’ve seen of Pluto in the past is simply an artist’s impression of what the little blue planet might look like. We’re about to get our first ever detailed, color images of the planet after a long wait. An app for Mac and PC from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab called “Eyes on the Solar System” lets you watch a live computer simulation of New Horizons’ approach. You can watch…

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