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Ideal Gifts: Send your friends on a trip with the Timbuk2 Command backpack

Nov25
by on November 25, 2014 at 9:05 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Product Reviews

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In the Ideal Gifts series, The Next Web team shares personal recommendations for gifts to give this holiday season. I’m not a fan of giving technology as presents. At this point everyone has a smartphone, or computer, or a streaming media device that gives them access to everything from Orange is the New Black to the so creepy you can’t look away Too Many Cooks video. We already have it all and we never have to leave home! That’s the problem. I want my friends and family to get out of the house and explore. Of course most of us can’t afford…

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Facebook is no more a safe haven for terrorists than the post office

Nov25
by on November 25, 2014 at 8:35 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Fusilier Lee Rigby, Insider, intelligence report, UK

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What’s an easier sell for politicians? Criticizing the security services for failing in their investigations or placing the blame for not stopping an atrocity on an internet company, a foreign internet company no less. The British parliamentary inquiry into whether the horrific murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby by a pair of Islamic extremists was preventable has shifted the focus from MI5 and MI6 and onto Facebook. The Intelligence and Security Committee report says it found “only one issue which could have been decisive” in preventing the attack – an exchange between one of the killers, Michael Adebowale, and an overseas radical known as…

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Your developers aren’t slow, your process is

Nov25
by on November 25, 2014 at 8:25 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev

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Justin Jackson is a Product Marketing Manager at Sprintly. This post originally appeared on the Sprintly blog. “Why didn’t we ship last week?” As managers, it’s easy for us to blame our team for missing deadlines. But are slow developers really the reason you’re not shipping on time? At Sprintly, we have a lot of data on developer cycle time. We track how long it takes them to complete different types of tasks (Stories, Tests, Bugs), as well as different sizes of tasks (S, M, L, XL). What patterns have we seen? First: developers are remarkably average. Our ticket data…

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You can get a human to spell check your email for $5 a month

Nov25
by on November 25, 2014 at 8:16 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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A new service called eAngel brings human autocorrect to your Gmail outbox for just $5 a month. eAngel integrates by means of a Chrome extension, which adds a second ‘send with eAngel’ option to your Gmail compose window. To test the service, I somewhat cruelly wrote an email like a twelve-year old might and included an old middle-school “find the errors” paragraph. For context, here’s my error-riddled email sent to eAngel: Hye, Here’s a tset email with, some errrors, intentionally added 2 it to see how this service works. Here’s a paragraph with ten errors in it, jsut to try out eAngel for real: One of the…

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Typegenius online app shows designers the best font match

Nov25
by on November 25, 2014 at 7:22 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Most designers pride themselves on their ability to choose the font combinations they use in their projects, thank you — except for when they need a little help in deciding which fonts look best together. Luckily, there’s a quick and easy way to get some extra visual input. Typegenius is a Website app that picks the perfect font combo for you when you enter a main font choice. Typegenius, a project from Muno Creative, draws from a curated collection of Google Fonts and Adobe Typekit selections to offer that single match. Some selections offer several variations on the theme, combining both all-text and text plus…

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