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Control your MakerBot with the new MakerBot Mobile iPhone app

Jun10
by on June 10, 2014 at 12:47 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

If you have a fifth-generation MakerBot Replicator 3D printer and an iPhone today is your lucky day. MakerBot announced the availability of MakerBot Mobile for the iPhone. The app gives you access to your 3D printing library and Thingiverse via the cloud. In addition to accessing all of your files, the app lets you control all aspects of the printer from the palm of your hand. Now you can start and monitor a 10 hour print job without getting off the couch. The app works with the MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printer and Compact 3D Printer. The Z18 3D Printer will also…

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Everything Ubisoft announced during its E3 press conference

Jun09
by on June 9, 2014 at 11:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Ubisoft held its E3 2014 press conference today, revealing a bevy of titles for video game enthusiasts to get excited for. If you missed the presentation, here’s everything the mammoth publisher had to show attendees at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Far Cry 4 Ubisoft kicked things off with Far Cry 4, a new instalment set in the snowy mountains of the Himalayas. An initial CG trailer showed the main protagonist travelling in a rather worn down bus, while clutching a passport and avoiding the stare of a creepy and quite aggressive monkey. The narrative-focused footage was pretty high calibre…

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Tell Microsoft what to do with the new Xbox via its Feedback site

Jun09
by on June 9, 2014 at 10:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Xbox

You know what people love? They love a good listener. Well, Microsoft wants to be a good listener and today it announced the Xbox Feedback site as its way of telling gamers, hey guys, we totally value your input. Now you have a place to post even your most insane ideas for the Xbox. Fellow gamers will vote on those ideas and Microsoft will present the best ideas, highest voted ideas, and comments to the Xbox design, engineering and operations teams for consideration. The company says it will do this on a “very regular basis,” whatever that means. Why wait until…

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Facebook takes another crack at ephemeral messaging with Slingshot [Update: app pulled off iTunes]

Jun09
by on June 9, 2014 at 8:26 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Facebook is trying once again to enter the increasingly crowded ephemeral messaging app market with Slingshot, a photo sharing app. But unlike Snapchat and other services, before you can see a photo, you need to reply with a photo of your own.  The app is the social network’s second attempt to take on Snapchat. The company’s Poke app launched to much fanfare only to fizzle out quickly and get pulled from the App Store. Unlike Poke, which was pretty much a Snapchat clone, Slingshot adds another element to the mix. By forcing you to send a picture (or “sling” as Facebook…

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The art of live tweeting: How to provide value without annoying your followers

Jun09
by on June 9, 2014 at 8:12 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, How-To's, Social Media

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Matthew Capala is the author of  “Away with the Average,” an NYU Professor, and Founder of SearchDecoder.com. This post originally appeared on Matthew’s Medium blog. You’ve heard this before: live-tweeting can increase your social media engagement, expand your network, build brand awareness and position you as an industry authority. The list goes on. I’ve live-tweeted every conference I’ve attended for the past couple of years. I thought I followed the best practices. I would take a picture of the panel, tag speakers, use the event #hashtag and post it on Twitter. Over the course of the conference I would get a…

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