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Nikon now has a selfie stick for its line of point-and-shoot cameras

Apr07
by on April 7, 2015 at 1:11 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Launches

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Nikon has announced its own branded selfie stick for its Coolpix point-and-shoot camera line. The N-MP001 (Selfie Stick) is targeted to the following Coolpix models: S6900 (aka Selfie Ready), L32, AW130, S33, S7000, S3700 and S9900. The device measures 7.28 inches in length when collapsed and 28.54 inches when fully extended. It weighs 6.56 ounces and can carry cameras weighing up to 14 ounces. It connects to the tripod socket of your camera and also has a tripod socket at the bottom of the handle for attaching to a tripod or monopod. It has a foam grip and a hand strap for easy carrying when…

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Twitter is finally fixing the quote tweet button

Apr06
by on April 6, 2015 at 11:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Twitter (by Owen Williams)
Twitter is finally fixing one of the worst things about its services: the “quote tweet” button. In an update that’s rolling out today, the button now embeds the tweet instead of just quoting it as text.   Previously, when you hit “quote tweet” on mobile, it just loaded the text of the entire tweet into the compose window. From today for iOS users, it’ll embed the tweet instead. There are so many reasons to be excited about this change: quoted tweets looked messy in the feed, didn’t retain the full context and meant that you didn’t have much space to reply.…

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Watch your browser code Darth Vader and Reddit automatically

Apr06
by on April 6, 2015 at 11:29 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Anyone who’s ever built a website knows just how much hard work goes into writing the CSS and HTML to make it look just right, but those who haven’t might not understand just how much work is involved. Now you can experience that labor for yourself even if you’re not an ace coder. Watch these two amazing sites build themselves, in real time, right in front of you.   On the first site, you can watch your browser construct the HTML and CSS behind Reddit’s community, showing the results in real time alongside the code. You can adjust the speed to be faster or slower if you…

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Watch your browser code Darth Vader and Reddit automatically

Apr06
by on April 6, 2015 at 11:29 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Code (Owen)
Anyone who’s ever built a website knows just how much hard work goes into writing the CSS and HTML to make it look just right, but those who haven’t might not understand just how much work is involved. Now you can experience that labor for yourself even if you’re not an ace coder. Watch these two amazing sites build themselves, in real time, right in front of you.   On the first site, you can watch your browser construct the HTML and CSS behind Reddit’s community, showing the results in real time alongside the code. You can adjust the speed to be faster or slower if you…

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