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How an iOS app and IFTTT channel could help secure your home

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by on July 8, 2014 at 11:01 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Manything, a cloud-based video monitoring service that allows you to use old iOS devices as security cameras around your home, has released a new version of its app today which brings new functionality and support for its freshly-launched IFTTT channel. Announced today, the new app allows users to set motion sensitivity, define motion detection zones and directly view a live stream or recorded footage from an iPhone. And if your power or WiFi connection fails you, there’s a continuous recording fallback mode that can be activated. You can either watch live streams in real-time or replay a recording by jumping to key…

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Leaked render reportedly outs Samsung’s Oculus-powered Gear VR headset

Jul08
by on July 8, 2014 at 10:46 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets

Samsung and Oculus VR are believed to be working on a virtual reality headset together, with Oculus providing the software and Samsung producing the hardware. SamMobile has obtained a reported render of the headset, which is said to be called the Gear VR and could launch at the IFA 2014 trade show in September. From the looks of it, users will plug in their own Galaxy smartphones to use the device, relying on the phone’s sensors to power the head-tracking system. The headset also appears to have a trackpad on top and a “see-through button” for activating a camera to view…

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Do you use LinkedIn?

Jul08
by on July 8, 2014 at 10:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

Why not? You could be getting helpful notifications like this one:

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Now, what kind of skills can I endorse former Brazilian football manager Luiz for? Excel skills? Dunno. Ball skills? Maybe. Management skills? Pah!

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Where to find ideas and inspiration for a blog post

Jul08
by on July 8, 2014 at 8:57 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, LifeHacks

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Belle Beth Cooper is a co-founder of Exist, a personal analytics platform to help you track and understand your life. This article originally appeared on her personal blog. One of the most common questions I get asked as a writer/blogger/content marketer is where I get my ideas from. Publishing as often as I do (multiple times per week, up to every weekday sometimes), ideas are certainly something I need a lot of. Since people seem interested in how this works for me, I thought I’d share some of the ways that work best for me (so far—it’s always a work in progress!). TED talks…

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Lyft to launch in New York, but just Brooklyn and Queens for now

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by on July 8, 2014 at 7:24 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Ridesharing service Lyft just announced that it will enter the New York City market on Friday at 7pm Eastern, but it’s avoiding Manhattan in favor of the Brooklyn and Queens boroughs. Lyft noted that it is launching first in the areas of New York that are “vastly underserved by public transit options.” The company claims to have undertaken a screening process for all NYC drivers that is more stringent than the city’s taxi companies. New passengers can enjoy two weeks of free rides in New York as a launch promotion. In somewhat related news, the New York Attorney General announced…

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